The New Year is coming soon, and the protagonist and the God Envoy King Army are here to wish everyone an early New Year! I wish everyone can go home and reunite soon, and don’t be like the protagonist and still drifting on the boat!
In addition, we can only guarantee one update in the near future, and we will resume (irregularly) double updates after the new year!
——I am the dividing line——
Although there is no added salt, the flavor of this mosquito patty mixed with grease is still good.
This world lacks large animals. Creatures such as mosquitoes have lost their blood-sucking targets. The mosquitoes the protagonist has seen basically feed on plant juices and nectar, so the meat has a grassy fragrance, which is similar to the fishy taste of raised mealworms. The flavor is completely different.
Unfortunately, these mosquito meat cannot be preserved. Although mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are, the edible part of these mosquitoes is mainly the juicy abdomen after removing the outer shell. The protagonist tries to bake mosquito meat to make dry meat, but once baked, the mosquito belly dehydrates rapidly until it becomes a thin dry skin that breaks into pieces when touched.
In the evening, the dispatched scouts returned to the temporary camp that had begun to take shape - [Shazhou City]. They had already searched the sandbank and learned about the information about the sandbank.
In addition to Aedes mosquitoes, these scouts also found a few crickets living here, but no carnivorous insects. These only insects and vegetation together constitute a simple ecosystem on the sandbar. There are even predators here, which makes the protagonist a little strange.
From the only big willow tree, the scouts also collected some useful dry catkins and compressed them and brought them back. It's been a while since the catkins flying season, but there are still some catkins tangled in the grass under the big willow trees to shelter from the wind and rain.
The white fluff of these catkins is a substitute for ant silk. Although ant silk can still be produced by ants themselves, the output is ultimately very small and must be used first for important purposes such as repairing ropes. Even the cabins of many male ants in the walnut ship are not covered with soft mattresses made of ant silk. Now with these catkins, they can replace the ant silk as bedding material and improve the living environment.
The willow seeds inside the catkins can also be used as food and taste similar to grass seeds. Catkins are also flammable and can be used as kindling. It can be said that he is full of treasures.
In addition, the scouts also discovered a salt-alkali tidal flat covered with white crystals to the east of the sandbank.
This tidal flat is in the shape of a shallow bottom. The natural sand embankment on the outside allows the river water to overflow the sand embankment and enter the tidal flat only during the highest tides throughout the year. Then, after years of exposure to the sun, the river water evaporates, and some salt and minerals are lost. The material crystallized and remained on the tidal flats.
The ants tasted the salt and alkali, which had a bitter and salty taste, and returned with a few bitter salt crystals.
The protagonist is very interested in these salt-alkali crystals. Salt is a very important material. However, after the fall of [New Yan City], the Divine Envoy King's Army cut off the source of salt and could only use stocks and minimize consumption.
Most of the salt inventory has been taken away by the first batch of migrating troops. The remaining salt in the fleet is very limited and can only be distributed according to plans. Each ant can only get a little food soaked in light salt water every week to eat. It only tastes very bland and salty.
The salt produced in the saline-alkali land here can just fill the current salt gap.
Although the natural bitter salt crystals here contain too many impurities and are not suitable for direct consumption like the high-quality salt produced in [New Yancheng], the protagonist has a way to purify it.
Put the bitter salt crystals brought back by the scouts into a clean clay pot, add water to dissolve them, and then filter them through a relatively fine textile cloth to remove mixed sediment and some water-insoluble impurities.
The clarified salt solution is then stored in a clay pot and baked next to a fire. As the moisture decreases, salt crystals appear on the wall of the clay pot. Pour away the remaining waste liquid that has been condensed with many impurities, and the remaining crystals are coarse salt.
Although these coarse salts still contain a large amount of soluble impurities such as potassium salt, magnesium salt, and alkali, the content is much lower than before, and it is already edible. If the coarse salt is refined several times in the same way, purer salt can be obtained, but it is labor-intensive and labor-intensive, and the protagonist has no intention of doing so.
The experiment was successful, and the protagonist was very happy that his knowledge of chemistry had not been forgotten. Tomorrow, the Angel King's army can collect more bitter salt crystals while foraging for food, and make a batch of coarse salt to replenish the inventory. The mosquito meat cakes can also have more flavor!
——I am the dividing line——
That night, the protagonist fell asleep relatively late.
It has been two days since he left his hometown. In the simple and humid [Shazhou City], the protagonist misses the dry and comfortable palaces in [Qingqiu City] and [Dongyang City] very much.
Now both places have fallen and become the base of the Destroyer, a nest of evil.
The protagonist's hatred for the Destroyer becomes more and more concentrated. After traveling to this world, even if he has fought with many forces, such as the Pavement Ants, the Holy Alliance of the Scythe Hunter Ants, the King's Conference faction and the Queen's inheritance during the civil war, factions, but the protagonist never resents these opponents.
Fighting against these opponents is either due to the pressure of survival, unclear grudges between the forces, or different philosophies. Even after defeating the enemy, the protagonist can still treat them with tolerance. Only then will the big-headed ants, pavement ants and sickle-hunting ants serve under his command at the same time.
But the Destroyers are like plagues, wildfires, and famines. They come with the purpose of destroying all ants. The relationship between the God's Envoy King's Legion and the Destroyers can only end in an endless struggle, and it is impossible to coexist.
In the previous war, the protagonist knew that the God Envoy King's army had indeed failed, paid a heavy price, and was driven out of his homeland.
The protagonist has never been as thirsty for power as he is now. Only by strengthening his own strength can the Legion of the God Envoy King completely defeat the Destroyer in the next war.
The protagonist has a premonition that the war with the Destroyer will come sooner or later. The Destroyer is like the Mongols sweeping across Europe and Asia, or the Qin army that is sweeping the world. Sooner or later, they will conquer any ant forces they can see. This is not an angel. This can be avoided if the king's army retreats into the swamp.
The terrain of the swamp can protect the Angel King's army hiding in it for a while, but it cannot protect it forever. Only by strengthening one's own strength is the fundamental strategy to preserve the legion of the God Envoy King.
But, how can I strengthen the power of the God's Envoy King's army? With the loss of territory, sharp decline in ant populations, and the collapse of resource production areas, the Legion of the God Envoy King has fallen into a trough.
Only by regaining control of the huge territory, breeding many ant colonies, mastering more resources, combining the protagonist's knowledge, and developing new military technology can it be possible to fight the Destroyer again.
But where are the opportunities and resources to grow the God Envoy King's army again?
