After sending away the "old heart", in addition to taking advantage of credit transactions to raise transaction prices, the protagonist has other gains.
That's the opportunity for expansion.
As the forces of the Divine Envoy King's army in the swamp area were completely wiped out, there was no way to return to their homeland for the time being. The protagonist has no choice but to use [New Yangcheng] as a new base camp to develop the power of the Divine Envoy King's Legion in this new land.
With the development of [Xinyang City], the number of ant colonies in the city has increased sharply, and the affiliated ant tribes are about to branch out. The space pressure in the city is very high.
This is also related to the inherent shortcomings of [Xinyang City]. This nest is too close to the river. If the nest extends a little deeper underground, it will be flooded. Especially in the rainy season, there is a worry about waterlogging, so it can only be expanded as horizontally as possible. .
But [New Yangcheng] is located in the narrow neck of the peninsula, and there are crisscrossing roots of poplar trees underground, so the potential for horizontal expansion is limited.
It is such a space-constrained nest. Not only does it have to accommodate tens of thousands of ants, but it is also dotted with breeding farms, various workshops, warehouses and other nests. The potential for space expansion has basically been exhausted.
Compared with [East Yang City], which has vast land and is close to copper mines and salt marshes, [New Yang City]'s basic conditions are inherently deficient, with no space and lack of resources.
And even if the Divine Envoy King's army is temporarily in decline, there will always be a time when it will rise again. Revitalization requires space and resources, and such an inadequate nest is unable to become a base for rejuvenation.
So the protagonist's expanded vision is focused on the vast wooded area to the north of [Xinyang City].
Recently, the Divine Envoy King's Corps organized several explorations into the forest, and found that the forest is very vast, rich in products, and has no dangerous insects.
But what is strange is that in this forest with good conditions, the exploration team has penetrated very far, but has never found any trace of the existence of the ant race.
This makes the protagonist feel a little worried. Is there any danger in this forest that he doesn't know about? Make it impossible for ants to survive here? Otherwise, why can't we explain this phenomenon?
You know, ants are the most widely distributed insects, even in deserts and frozen soils!
It just so happened that "Old Heart" came to visit today, and the protagonist took the opportunity to inquire about the situation in this large forest. As the natives, the ants would definitely know better.
The protagonist, who learned the truth from "Old Heart", finally felt at ease.
It turns out that there are indeed no ants living in this forest at present, but it had an owner earlier, a clan of forest ants, who were once quite powerful.
But unfortunately, this forest became the fiercest battlefield at that time. The wood ants faced leafcutter ants on the west and fire ants on the back. Although they fought hard, they were still defeated.
In the end, compared to the leaf-cutter ants who do not accept vassal forces, the forest ants can only choose to become vassals of the red imported fire ants, using the power of the red fire ants to fight against the leaf-cutter ants who are trying to completely occupy the forest.
But the result was that the leafcutter ants were more dominant in the forest battle, and the forest ants were driven out of the forest. Under the protection of fire ants, they moved to another forest to survive.
The habits of wood ants and ants are somewhat similar. They used to be close to each other, and they were also oppressed by leaf-cutter ants, so their fate also made the ants feel the same. This is why the ants are very aware of what happens to wood ants, and why they will never leave them no matter how fiercely they are squeezed by red fire ants.
If there were no fire ants and they were still willing to take them in, the ants and forest ants would have been wiped out by the leaf-cutting ants long ago!
In the end, this large forest did not belong to the leaf-cutter ants. It was too close to the homeland of red imported fire ants. After a flood, the transportation between the large forest and the homeland of leaf-cutter ants became muddy and unfeasible. The red imported fire ants took the opportunity to organize a coalition of allied forces. Destroyed leaf-cutting ants in the woods.
Afterwards, the fire ants did not occupy this place because they did not like the terrain of the forest. The forest ants did not intend to return to this dangerous place. The leaf cutter ants probably also learned their lesson and stopped trying to occupy this place. The big forest became a no-care zone.
After learning about the history of the northern woods in [New Yangcheng], the protagonist pondered for a while.
If this forest is occupied by the God Envoy King's army, it can be said to have advantages and disadvantages.
The positive side can naturally be to greatly expand the land actually controlled by the God's Envoy King's army. It will not be a problem to support hundreds of thousands of God's Envoy King's warriors with the food output of this forest, not to mention the rich resources in the forest.
But there are also many disadvantages. Although this forest is currently a three-no-no zone, in other words, once discovered by fire ants or leaf-cutting ants, it will also be a four-war zone.
Judging from the descriptions of the Belly Ants, these two races are very powerful and extremely difficult to mess with.
When the ants were driven out of their home, it was said that the leafcutter ants mobilized an army of hundreds of thousands, and all the branches in the entire forest were densely packed with leafcutter ant warriors. These leaf-cutter ants are invincible in forest battles, and fighting in the woods naturally has attribute bonuses.
The fire ants, on the other hand, are invincible in ground combat. They also have many affiliated ant tribes and can form a multi-ant tribe alliance that is more complicated than the Angel King's army. They are also difficult to deal with.
No matter which race they face, the current strength of the God Envoy King's legion is not enough to compete.
This is as unrealistic as asking the Divine Envoy King's army in Dongyang City to fight against an entire Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom on the north bank of the river. The Divine Envoy King Legion in [New Yang City] does not have as good a development environment as it did in [East Yang City], and the Leaf Cutter Ants and Red Fire Ants are also stronger than the Pavement Ant Barbarians.
But just shrinking in a corner of [New Yang City] and relying on barren and small territory and unstable trade to develop is also a slow death.
It's also a knife to extend the head, and it's a knife to shrink the head. The protagonist chooses to die standing up.
The Divine Envoy King's legion quickly formed a pioneering detachment. Jianiu led his legion to escort tens of thousands of worker ants, crossed the lowlands in the north, arrived at the edge of the woods, and began to build a city on a hill.
Speaking of which, big-headed ants are actually a race that prefers open spaces, so their first secondary nest did not choose to go deep into the woods, but on the edge of the woods. In this way, part of the resources of the forest can be used, and the terrain is more suitable for big-headed ants. They build nests, and they are closer to [Xinyang City], so they can be each other's horns.
This new city was named [Sennan City] by the protagonist, which is the city in the south of the forest.
[Sennan City] has some broader hinterland that can be used as a new agricultural and animal husbandry production base. Considering that the terrain of this lair is easy to attack and difficult to defend, it will not be used as an industrial base. Once an enemy is encountered that is invincible, it can be temporarily abandoned and all personnel retreat to the [Xin Yangcheng] fortress, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. .
When tens of thousands of big-headed ants are busy building new cities on the hills in the past few days, the queens and male ants of the hunter ants, pavement ants and abdominal ants have also emerged from their pupae. The protagonist plans to organize a meeting in the near future. Wedding fly.
This will mark the official re-joining of the Affiliated Ant Tribe into the Angel King's Legion.
