On a mission to the territory of leaf-cutter ants, the protagonist finally chooses a magical worker ant as the leader.
The mission has the task of negotiating, and it must have a leader who is smart enough to do the job. Ordinary worker ants or soldier ants cannot serve as the leader, and can only serve as a messenger to convey information packets.
And "Lao Xin" also introduced that this place has its own diplomatic rules.
If we talk about the homeland of the Divine Envoy King Legion, the diplomatic rule is that there is no peace between alien races. The international situation in this world is more complex, which also allows the ants to explore more diplomatic options besides war.
For example, the suzerain state and the vassal state are a win-win choice besides fighting life and death. The suzerain nation can obtain supplies from other ant tribes that they cannot produce themselves, as well as slaves. And the vassal country was saved from being completely destroyed by a more powerful alien race.
The "old heart" suggested that if only worker ants or soldier ants were sent out for this formal contact, it would be just a messenger to deliver a message. Only the suzerain country dared to do this to its vassals. The mission should be more formal.
The protagonist doesn't want to mess up the negotiation with the leaf-cutter ants. He wants to send a male ant to be the leader, but the number of male ants in [Xinyang City] is not large to begin with. Now that the army is expanding, even the unmarried male ants are flying. They are all included in the officer establishment, and the protagonist cannot spare any free males to join the mission.
The only ones left who are qualified for diplomatic tasks are the magic soldier ants, the magic worker ants, and the great worker ants. [Xinyangcheng] didn't cultivate a few big worker ants, but there were quite a few magic soldier ants and magic worker ants. Among them, the magic soldier ants also have military missions. In the end, the protagonist can only recruit a magic worker ant from the scientific research team of "Little Secret III" to complete the formation of the mission.
On March 23, the mission of the God Envoy King's Legion officially set off. A divine worker ant led 20 worker ants, carrying a snail shell of concentrated honeydew and a small clay pot of crow honey. 10 people equipped with gravel jaw knives Under the guard of soldier ants, head to the territory of leaf-cutting ants.
In the air, the three flying knights will always follow, paying close attention to the situation of this mission. If the leaf-cutting ants refuse to contact or even kill the envoys, the protagonist is mentally prepared to lose these ants and supplies.
——I am the dividing line——
After seeing off the envoy, the protagonist returns to the lair and begins hosting a wedding flight ceremony.
This is the first wedding flight ceremony of the Divine Envoy King Legion this year.
In the past, the wedding flight ceremony of the old big-headed ant kingdom had a fixed time, and the competition was cruel. Many male ants died in the ceremony every year.
It was the protagonist who changed the wedding ceremony so that it was merely ceremonial and no longer a bloodthirsty fight. Moreover, the time of the wedding flight ceremony is no longer fixed and can be held at any time as long as necessary.
In the second half of last year, the protagonist organized a wedding flight ceremony. [Xinyang City] welcomed a new batch of adult male ants and queen ants, and was also able to breed ordinary soldier ants and worker ants.
Otherwise, the original only queen ant could only give birth to magic soldier ants and magic worker ants.
The protagonist has discovered that the reason why the magic soldier ants and business have a long breeding cycle may be that they need to take in more nutrients before pupating. If the young ants are always provided with high-grade food rich in energy, protein and other nutrients, the cultivation period of the magic soldier ants and magic worker ants can be shortened a lot.
However, [New Yang City] has limited supplies, and the protagonist cannot afford to support too many magic soldier ants and magic worker ants. After all, they have the right to get a high-grade food every day as adults.
Moreover, the divine soldier ants and divine worker ants cannot do the foraging work of ordinary worker ants. That would be too wasteful. The Divine Envoy King's army still needs a large number of ordinary worker ants to provide food and supplies.
Last year's wedding flight ceremony allowed the Divine Envoy King's Legion to finally officially take root in this land and have the ability to reproduce normally.
This year's wedding flight ceremony was originally planned to be held at a later date. However, the imminent war with the red fire ant country forces the protagonist to expand the army. After the army is expanded, there are a large number of vacancies for squad commanders in the army, and this group of male ants that have emerged from pupae and are not yet married to fly are needed to fill them.
After emerging from pupae, these male ants have been learning necessary military knowledge under the leadership of several old male ants who have retired due to disabilities. At this time, the teaching has been basically completed, and early marriage and flight will not affect their command ability.
Today is the day for the Divine Envoy King's Legion to get married and fly ahead of schedule. Not only the big-headed ants, but also the young male and female ants of the four vassal ant clans are also getting married.
These young male and female ants of all races participating in the nuptial flight have been assigned to a team before. They only need to fly a few symbolic circles in the air before returning, and then their wings are bitten off and sent to the underground palace.
From then on, these young female ants will become queen ants. Some queens will see the blue sky and white clouds for the last time, and may never leave the underground palace for the rest of their lives. The male ants, after their coming-of-age ceremony, devote themselves to broader undertakings.
Perhaps from a human perspective, such a fate is unfair to the ant queen, but the protagonist has adapted to the rules of the ant world.
These queens themselves have no complaints. They trade reproduction and loss of freedom in exchange for adequate food and safe shelter. This is fair.
The oldest kings of the ant queen inheritance faction who rebelled against the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom did not change the main responsibilities and living environment of the ant queens in their own territories. They only made these ant queens shoulder the responsibility for some major policy decisions at the same time. Responsibilities.
However, the protagonist is not very optimistic about how much energy the queen ants have to participate in politics after almost non-stop childbearing, and how many correct decisions they can make based on their experience of staying at home.
During the wedding flight ceremony, the protagonists took turns going to the ceremony sites of different races, and one by one, they crossed their tentacles and expressed simple blessings to all the young male and female ants participating in the wedding flight.
This is an opportunity for the God-Emissary King to exert influence among the ruling classes of each race. It is also a necessary means for the God Envoy King to unite a multi-ant nation composed of ants of different races.
Looking at the young male and female ants flying freely in the sky, enjoying the freedom of flight, the protagonist felt a sense of envy - he had had such a pair of wings before!
But now, he had to use a mount to fly as a knight. Although he was still flying in the blue sky, it always felt different.
The wedding flight ceremony ended quickly. The young male and female ants could not enjoy the freedom of flying that the protagonists envied for too long, nor could they unscrupulously grab their partners and **** them on the spot like their ancestors did.
Now, they have to return to the starting point, find the person they have been designated in advance, go to the newly built small palace deep underground, and complete the last step of the ceremony.
Tomorrow, these male ants who participated in the ceremony will report to the army and serve as team commanders. Many of them male ants will never see their partner tonight again.
