Even though this big-headed ant remnant is surrounded by the fragrance of the queen and looks aloof, one would think that she is a young lady among ants.
In fact, she is already five years old, which is a long life compared to ordinary ants. It has allowed her to experience the most difficult years of the big-headed ant family's homeland being destroyed, being displaced all the way, and then living in a foreign land to survive. time.
A five-year-old queen is equivalent to a middle-aged woman in her fifties or sixties in the human world. This queen can be compared to the Queen of England in the 1990s.
Human women at this age have lost their fertility, and although the ant queen can still have children, her production efficiency has been greatly reduced.
However, as the queen of a country ruled by ant queens, queens of this age are rich in experience and in the prime of life. They can completely help the race in other aspects besides laying eggs, and lead the race to survive and advance.
It is precisely thanks to the five years of experience and experience that the queen of the big-headed ant survivor still clearly remembers the scenes that happened in her hometown, and unlike the new generation of ant queens, she can only learn from the information packets recorded by the archive ants. Learn about history passively.
As a participant in history, the Queen has some indirect impressions of the mysterious ants mentioned by the protagonist, which dates back more than three years ago.
At that time, the remnants of the big-headed ants were still living in their homeland, and they were ruled by the previous generation of queens. The current queen was just one of several reserve queens who specialized in childbearing.
According to the tradition of the big-headed ant survivors, only after the death of the previous queen, the backup queen, that is, among all the queens in the main nest, will automatically elect the oldest one to take over the position of queen.
The Kingdom of the Big-headed Ant Survivors is a country with polytheistic beliefs. In addition to believing in the soft ant that lacks a pair of middle limbs and antennae as the supreme god, they also believe in many weird-looking gods.
For example, there is the tree god who is as flat as a leaf, the wind and water god who is like an asymmetrical board, the fire god who is in a circle with flames, and the rain god who is round and densely pitted. .
In the traditional system of the old kingdom of the Big-headed Ant remnant, the queen is not only the secular ruler, but also the highest priest, and must regularly preside over and hold sacrifices to various gods.
This type of sacrificial activity requires a lot of food consumption - each sacrifice ends with a feast for all the people to eat - but the old country of the giant-headed ant remnant, which was extremely powerful at the time, did not care about these sacrifices, nor did it care about the sacrifices. This is their devout belief in sacrificing national power and sacrificing everything in order to serve God.
The Big-headed Ant Remnant Kingdom has relatively developed productivity. Compared with neighboring countries, the Big-headed Ant Remnant knows how to domesticate and use beetles, so its military combat effectiveness and productivity are relatively high.
In terms of military affairs, the core is naturally the Beetle Legion, which can break through almost any enemy's defense line in the field. In production, beetles can serve as providers of animal power and have great advantages in transporting materials.
Therefore, although there are many races around the Big-headed Ant Relic, and there are also powerful beings, most races and countries are not willing to offend such a powerful kingdom easily.
If the Big-headed Ant remnants were not very motivated to expand externally, were content with their existing territory, and frequently used large amounts of materials for sacrifices, perhaps they would have become the most powerful country in the upper reaches of the river.
The countries and tribes surrounding the Big-headed Ant remnant also believe in different gods. Their legends of gods are highly similar, and their descriptions of the supreme god are also similar.
However, unlike the Big-headed Ant survivors who mainly worship the supreme god, other kingdoms and tribes prefer to worship gods at a lower level, such as the tree god, fire god, rain god, etc. mentioned above.
Similar beliefs cannot prevent the wars between kingdoms and tribes in this region, just like the city-states in the Greek world who share the same culture and beliefs and want to beat each other's brains out.
Fortunately, the old country of the Big-headed Ant survivors is in a favorable geographical location, with a large river to the south. The surrounding military threats and small-scale border battles that break out from time to time are all easily suppressed by the Beetle Legion.
About four years ago, the Big-headed Ant survivors learned through exchanges with surrounding kingdoms and tribes that there seemed to be a large-scale war in the far north. Countless defeated ant races rushed south in panic, and broke out because they broke into the territory of the indigenous people in the south. war.
Many of the ant races that fled south were wiped out, but there were also many escapees who broke through the indigenous defenses and drove the original defenders away to become members of the fleeing army. Then they themselves soon joined the other fleeers. Perish under attack or embark on the road to escape again.
As time goes by, the riots in the north tend to become more and more intense, and they are no longer just distant rumors. The next year, just six or seven days north of the Big-headed Ant's remnants, a kingdom had been overrun by a swarm of rebels.
These rebels develop and grow in a domino-like trend, and what drives them continuously southward, apart from the other rebels who attack them, is a legendary and incomparable ant.
These ants are dark in color, huge in size, and have triangular heads. They are very similar to the characteristics of the mysterious ants. Therefore, the queen of the Big-headed Ant survivors feels that the kind of ants in the protagonist's information package are the ones that triggered the "Fugitive War" in her home world. ants. Although she had never actually seen the mysterious ant in her homeland.
At that time, the distant mysterious ants were the source of the fugitives' rebellion. As the number of fugitives increased, although these fugitives were of many races and did not belong to each other, they had already caused the remnants of the big-headed ants and the surrounding settled kingdoms and The tribe ants were panicked.
Several kingdoms have tried to unite to deal with the threat, but years of feuding have left few willing, and the remaining kingdoms of the Big-headed Ants have refused to join the alliance.
As kingdoms and tribes were defeated one after another in front of the army of refugees, finally, the enemy came to the border of the old country of the Big-headed Ant survivors.
The elite beetle army attacks everywhere to eliminate the influx of refugees from all over the world.
But there are too many enemies, as if all the ants in the world are attacking the remains of the big-headed ants. The number of secondary nests in the big-headed ant remnant country is decreasing every day, and they are conquered or forced to abandon them.
When the Big-headed Ant survivors wanted to find support, they discovered that the familiar settled Kingdom River tribe around them had all been wiped out, and the Big-headed Ant survivors were the only remaining force.
It was precisely because of this painful lesson that the Big-headed Ant survivors were determined to find a reliable ally after wandering in a foreign land.
Finally, the remains of the big-headed ants huddled in the last sub-nest near the river were driven out of the nest, climbed onto a piece of driftwood, and struggled with the rough waves for a long time under the protection of the God of Wind and Water. The land survived.
