The protagonist did not expect that mysterious ants also existed in the hometown of the Big-headed Ant survivors.
You must know that the hometown of the Big-headed Ant survivors is far upstream of the river. The Big-headed Ant survivors drifted along the river for several days before reaching their current place.
Although the water in the river does not flow very fast, a few days of drifting with the current is enough for a piece of floating rotten wood to travel several kilometers.
A few kilometers in the human world is equivalent to a thousand or even thousands of kilometers in the ant world. This is a very distant concept even after the emergence of modern transportation and communication tools.
Within a few years, mysterious ants appeared in the distant hometown of Big-headed Ant survivors and on the north bank of the river. Do the mysterious ants in the two places belong to the same kingdom or tribe?
If so, it would be terrible. A force whose territory spans several kilometers is equivalent to those top empires in the human world, such as the Mongolian Empire. Such a force is undoubtedly a great threat to neighboring countries. They have the speed of expansion across several kilometers in just two or three years, which is comparable to the speed of the Mongolian conquests in human history.
If they are not the same force, then their threat cannot be ignored. Such a race, with its strength dispersed, can still set off a "Rebellion of the Fugitives" in the hometown of the Big-headed Ant survivors, and quickly suppress the originally powerful and arrogant people on the north bank of the river. The ant barbarian country that paved the way has already demonstrated its horror.
Regarding this mysterious ant, the protagonist feels that he must understand its weaknesses as soon as possible, otherwise he will always have to rely on the river for defense, and it will be difficult to get access to the north bank of the river.
——I am the dividing line——
After the meeting with the Queen of the Big-headed Ant Survivor, the Queen was invited by the protagonist to stay in [Stone Pillar City] for one night.
According to the custom of the Big-headed Ant survivors, the queen should eat alone under the service of personal worker ants, so the protagonist had to give up the idea of inviting the queen to the banquet - now, gourmet banquets have become the favorite social activities of the male ants in the Angel King's army.
However, the delicacies provided to the queen will not be canceled just because the banquet is cancelled. Various foods are constantly delivered to the queen's temporary nest.
This is all due to the fact that after the protagonist obtained the right to rule the south bank of the river, he changed the old King's Council faction's policy of strictly controlling divine fire and used nut shells to transport fire to various sub-nests. It took more than a year to light fires everywhere. heap.
Sub-nests in various places were also modified to welcome the divine fire. A unified combustion chamber was built at the bottom of the nest, and air intakes and exhaust ducts were built.
Today, fires in sub-nests in various places allow almost all ants to enjoy cooked food, and can also use fire to process simple stone tools. Stone tool craftsmanship has become popular with the large worker ants that have settled in various places, making up for the shortage of copper tools.
The food eaten by the Queen of the Big-headed Ant Survivor is processed in [Stone Pillar City], although it is very simple roasted mealworm meat with salt, roasted grasshopper leg meat (this is today's fresh prey), and other types of barbecued meat. , as well as grass seed and wild vegetable soup, fruit and meat honeydew salad, etc., but the queen has obviously been completely conquered by the food.
As a queen, she must abide by a strict etiquette system among the Big-headed Ant survivors, such as wearing flower crowns and uncomfortable clothes. The queen sometimes envies those ordinary ants who can be naked and free.
After all, given the craftsmanship of the Big-headed Ant survivors, this suit of clothing cannot be said to be comfortable. The ants themselves do not need the function of keeping warm and keeping out the cold. The nest is the "clothes" of the ants.
This kind of clothing will only make it difficult to breathe in summer, and the fibers are rough, which often causes abdominal pain due to friction.
Wearing that corolla for a long time is also a big burden on the head and neck, and it will also affect the rotation of the antennae.
The same goes for eating. In order to maintain the purity of the queen and the supreme priest, the queen can only drink water and honeydew, and eat high-grade food fed back by the young ants brought by the personal workers. This food is rich in nutrients, but white and sticky. It's just a tasteless paste.
The queen, who has only eaten these things in her life, was helpless at first with the food in front of her. With the help of the personal worker ants, she finally took the first bite. As part of the diplomatic activities, the personal worker ants would not interfere with the queen at this time. Eat non-traditional foods.
Suddenly, the aroma of the oil, the tender texture of the meat, and the taste of the smoked salt made the queen almost doubt whether she had eaten something unique to the gods.
In the past, the Queen had some contempt for the allies of the Angel King Legion: Although you are very powerful, you are just militarily powerful and uncultured barbaric ants.
From many details, the queen judged that this ally was still in a very primitive stage. For example, the other party's rulers and high-ranking nobles were as naked as ordinary ants; for example, the other party could not even make the most basic stone knives at the beginning. Although I learned it later for some unknown reason, I am now using a "yellow stone" of unknown quality.
For barbaric races, the civilized side always has a natural sense of superiority.
Even though this ally has become the most powerful being on the south bank of the river and can eliminate the remaining people around her without much effort, it still cannot dispel the queen's sense of superiority.
Even not long ago, after moving into the temporary palace in [Stone Pillar City], the Queen of the Big-headed Ant Survivor also disliked the fact that there were no luxurious textile furnishings, no decorative paintings on the walls, and no beautiful flowers and plants stacked in the room. , the whole house was not smelled by the fragrance of flowers.
There were only bare walls in the house, exposing the dirty soil. There was a square space surrounded by wooden materials in the corner of the dormitory. It was filled with silk cotton and fine plant fibers. It looked no worse than the couch in his dormitory.
There were also some strange earth-colored containers that held water. The Queen also had water storage tools in her palace, but they were usually made of natural nut shells. She couldn’t figure out what material these containers were made of, but they were obviously not nut shells. .
The queen looked around the temporary palace with disdain until the delicious food was served.
The food of this savage race's allies is put in earth-colored containers or fresh and clean leaves, and placed on another wooden platform for consumption. This is more troublesome than feeding themselves mouth-to-mouth, Queen. They have to feed themselves with the help of personal worker ants.
However, after eating, the queen thought that this ally was not that backward. A race that could make delicacies that only gods could enjoy must no longer be classified as a barbarian tribe.
Under the invincible and invincible food strategy, the Queen silently raised her evaluation of the Divine Messenger King several levels.
