The sickle-hunting ants can temporarily stabilize the front, and the protagonist is naturally optimistic about the success. This can buy more time for his fleet to take shape.
However, as the scale and frequency of parasitic ants' attacks increased day by day, it was like there was a white hole deep in the swamp, which was filled with endless insurgents of parasitic ants. Under such circumstances, it is still unknown how long the indigenous coalition of hunting sickle ants can last.
According to the legend about the "Doomsday War" circulated among the ant-hunting tribe, every certain year, sometimes hundreds of years, sometimes decades, there will be a major outbreak of parasitic fungi, and countless parasitic ants emerge from the swamps and sweep across the world. , triggering a "doomsday war." At this time, the hunting ants must abandon all internal disputes and unite to fight. But even so, most of the ant-hunting warriors will die in glorious battles, and not a single tribe will survive.
It has been a long time since the last "Doomsday War", and the oldest tribe of indigenous ant-hunting scythes cannot tell how many generations ago it was. Only legends have been passed down.
Judging from the legend, the current actions of the parasitic ants are very similar to the signs before the outbreak of the doomsday war, and the hunting ants in the hilly areas have obviously not yet integrated all their strength.
The protagonist does not know the outcome of every "Doomsday War" in the past, but parasitic bacteria still exist in this world, and the tribe of sickle-hunting ants also survives. Both sides have never been able to eliminate each other in history. This time, if there is no external intervention , it is estimated that this is still the result.
But this time the "Doomsday Battle" is too close to the territory of the Angel King's Legion, and it is very likely to pose a threat to the Angel King's Legion. The protagonist cannot let this threat disappear naturally.
In order to make the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, the protagonist is determined to solve the threat of parasitic ants once and for all, at least to eliminate most of the strength of the parasitic fungi, so that they will not be able to threaten their rear for a few years.
It was a risky attempt for Kite to lead his soldiers to join the indigenous ant-hunting coalition. If it failed, the protagonist could still afford the loss of dozens of ant-hunting warriors. But now it seems that the kite has been successful, and the protagonist can also use this channel in the future to quietly strengthen the strength of the indigenous ant-hunting coalition.
After all, the rich output from the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion is enough to supply thousands of scythe-hunting ferocious ant warriors. This scale is already comparable to the combined strength of a large number of indigenous tribes in hilly areas.
But this can only be used as a measure to prevent parasitic ants from threatening the protagonist's territory. If you want to completely eliminate the parasitic fungi, you have to enter the swamp area that the protagonist is highly suspicious of.
The ant-hunting coalition refuses to enter this forbidden area. From the kite, the protagonist roughly learns that this swamp is a forbidden area for the ant-hunting tribe, but the reason is unknown. Anyway, the ant-hunting coalition will only passively defend outside the swamp. , refused to enter.
In the end, the protagonist's hope is still on the walnut ship fleet, and he patiently waits for the fleet to take shape little by little.
——I am the dividing line——
On March 28, 2014, in the darkening spring season, the protagonist was sitting in [Dongyang City], running to [Great Lakes City] from time to time to inspect the progress of fleet construction.
But just today, a flying knight messenger from the main nest [Qingqiu City] delivered a message:
The envoy of the Big-headed Ant Survivor arrived and stayed in [Queen Ant City], proposing that the Queen of the Big-headed Ant Survivor wished to meet with the protagonist.
[Queen Ant City] is the nest that was originally occupied by the queen ant inheritance faction and called the [real main nest]. It is located on the southwest border of the territory of the Angel King Legion, bordering the territory of the Big-headed Ant survivors.
After the Divine Envoy King's army defeated the main force of the Ant Queen's inheritance faction last year, it occupied this nest and sent male ants to manage it.
The Queen Ant Heritage Faction suffered a disaster last year and was attacked by the Queen Ant Heritage Faction's army. At that time, the Queen Ant Heritage Faction's territory was divided by the God Envoy King's army, and the army trapped in the [real main nest] was extremely short of food. As a last resort, they chose the territory of the ant queen's inheritance faction as their target, hoping to seize a batch of food.
Although the Queen Ant Heritage Faction comes from a more developed area, after all, they have just settled down after a long journey. The territory is not large and there are not many ant colonies. Facing the large number of Queen Ant Heritage Faction troops, they can only passively defend.
Although the beetle troops fought hard, the big-headed ant survivors successfully defended their nest until the enemy troops learned that their nest had been destroyed and retreated on their own.
But this battle also greatly damaged the strength of the Big-headed Ant survivors. They had no income for more than half a month and could only sit and eat. The fierce battle also caused serious losses to a large number of elite troops, and more than half of the beetles were killed.
After the ant queen's inheritance faction army retreated, the big-headed ant survivors sealed the border and did not interact with the God Envoy King's army, silently licking their wounds.
The protagonist also forgot about this neighbor because of his busy schedule. In fact, even if he thought about it, he wouldn't have any bad thoughts towards this poor neighbor. After all, the Big-headed Ant survivors also taught some extremely practical technologies to the Angel King's Legion, such as beetle breeding, weaving, fermentation, etc.
The protagonist also looks down upon the pitiful territory of the Big-headed Ant survivors, and the Big-headed Ant survivors have no more skills to teach the God Envoy King Legion. For the sake of their past friendship, the protagonist does not want to treat them as enemies.
Of course, the protagonist has not forgotten that he promised to provide military protection for the Big-headed Ant survivors. In the protagonist's view, when the other party was besieged by the Ant Queen's inheritance faction, one's own side surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao and let the Queen's inheritance faction's army rescue the siege on their own, which was considered as fulfilling their obligations.
The protagonist also promised the Big-headed Ant survivors that he would help the Big-headed Ant survivors return to their homeland in the future - I wonder if the other party came here for this purpose.
The protagonist has a headache. Although he has unified the south bank of the river, he is already a very powerful country in the eyes of the Big-headed Ant survivors. But he knew that there were still many threats around his territory, and he was still unable to allocate energy to help the other party return to his homeland on the upper reaches of the river, and it was even more difficult to send a large army to help him regain his country.
However, the opponent's queen can still be seen. The protagonist likes to communicate with ants with a civilized atmosphere like the queen, while his subordinates are more like primitive people who have just escaped from the state of eating raw hair and drinking blood, and they have only made progress through their own hard work.
"It takes three generations to produce a noble." The civilized and noble behavior of the queen and noble ants (queen and male ants) of the big-headed ant survivors cannot be compared to Gun and his ilk.
Since there are no flying knights stationed in [Queen Ant City], the messenger who started from here spent several days trekking all the way to [Qingqiu City], and then the local flying knights reported to the protagonist. The other party's messenger has been waiting in [Queen Ant City] for several days.
The protagonist decided to return to the main nest [Qingqiu City] immediately, and after making some preparations, he led the guards to the [Queen Ant City].
