In March of 2018, it turned warm and cold, and the new grass turned green.
After a winter, various lairs in the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion began to gradually emerge from the ground, and the small area on the ground near the lairs gradually became bustling with people.
Even if the late spring cold occasionally occasionally isolates various places temporarily, the pace of spring, just like the blooming of early spring flowers, is approaching step by step.
After the beginning of spring, the activity range of other ants is still limited. Only pavement ants are still diligent. As long as the conditions are not too bad, they will go to work and fight on the front line of canal construction.
Since the gunpowder liquid can be used as an asset, the Mysterious Balls are no longer a non-renewable resource for the Angel King's Legion. Therefore, the Mysterious Balls in stock are used as explosives on construction sites.
The soil in this section is relatively solid and difficult to dig? Blow it up!
There is a stone blocking the road here. How about going around it? Don't go around, blast it!
The root system of the weeds here is so dense and dense that even a jaw knife can't cut it? Blow it up and set it on fire.
The construction team suddenly felt extremely wealthy. The mysterious ball bomb was really open to use. The scene of "exploding it" happened almost every moment.
But this scene was limited to the canal construction sites around [Xinyang City], because other construction sections did not reserve the mysterious balls in advance, and the winter weather conditions made it impossible to transport them over long distances.
After the beginning of spring, taking advantage of the rising temperature, the protagonist ordered the pavement ants to organize several batches of transportation teams to deliver the mysterious ball bombs to other construction sites. Only then did other construction sites use this killer weapon.
Relying on the hard work of the pavement ants and the power of the mysterious ball bomb, the canal excavation progress has exceeded one-third over the winter, far exceeding the original plan.
At this rate, the canal may be completed by early summer.
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After the beginning of spring, ant nests in various places slowly return to normal. By the end of March, the remaining power of winter has basically worn off. The ants have forgotten the deadly cold and embraced warmth again.
After a winter, the magical ant flying knights have expanded to six teams. In the spring, these six teams of flying knights began to adjust their locations and clarify their respective airspaces.
Team 1 is stationed in [Hematite City] and is responsible for the investigation of the northwest forest area. The key targets of investigation include the leaf-cutting ant country and the red fire ant army occupying the eastern part of the forest.
Team 2 is stationed near the main nest of the Red Fire Ant Country [Hive City] and is responsible for investigating the Red Fire Ant Country. Because the Red Fire Ant Nation has lodged a protest, Team 2 is currently restricted from entering the territory of the Red Fire Ant Nation, so as not to irritate the current nominal suzerain country. For the time being, it is only conducting reconnaissance along the border.
Team 3 is stationed in the territory of the original forest ant clan, and is also responsible for investigating the red fire ant country, as well as the vassal forces of several nearby red fire ant countries.
Team 4, Team 5 and Team 6 are mobile forces stationed in [Xinyang City]. At the same time, these three teams were also responsible for taking turns to conduct reconnaissance on the south bank of the river.
Although the south bank of the river is close to [Xinyang City], due to the wide Qinghe River, the two banks of the river face each other, but have never been in contact, and have always been ignored.
After the beginning of spring this year, there was a commotion different from the past on the south bank of Qinghe River, which attracted the attention of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
The ant forces on the south bank of the Qinghe River are complex, with numerous small countries and they are constantly attacking each other. Just within the sight of [New Yang City], there are 6 forces.
Across the Qinghe River, facing the [Xinyangcheng] peninsula is a tribe of burrowing ants, living in a bush; to the west of the burrowing ant tribe is a tribe of pavement ants, living on the grass; to the east of the burrowing ant tribe , scrub quickly transitions into woods, home to a tribe of leaf-cutting ants. In addition, there are scattered tribes of big-headed ants, corn hairy ants, and hamster ants nearby, and perhaps some small tribes that have not been discovered in previous cursory surveys.
These forces on the south bank of the Qinghe River are generally small countries with few people. The largest pavement ant tribe has three or five sub-nests, with a total ant population of no more than one hundred thousand. The smallest Tripod ant tribe is estimated to have only a few thousand ants. If they weren't so big and so conspicuous from the air, the Flying Knight might have missed them.
The small country on the south bank of the Qinghe River has few people, no important resources have been found, and there is no threat to [New Yang City]. Even the protagonist has always ignored this place.
Previously, the protagonist still thought about leading the army across the river, and then returning to the swamp area by land to join the large army there. He was also somewhat interested in the south bank.
However, the Legion of the God Envoy King in the swamp area was destroyed by the frenzy of parasitic fungi that broke out both inside and outside the area, and the protagonist also lost interest in the south bank of the Qinghe River.
After the spring of this year, the south bank of Qinghe River turned into a mess, so the protagonist couldn't help but pay attention.
First, the leafcutter ant tribe eliminated the burrowing ant tribe, and included the small patch of shrubs in its territory. It appeared on the other side of [Xinyang City], which attracted the investigation of the Flying Knight.
Later, the flying knights discovered that the small but numerous pavement ants launched an offensive against the ant tribe. The ant tribe was defeated and the remnants fled into the distance.
Forget it if it was just an attack between these small tribes. Winter came early last year, and many ant forces did not stock up on enough food. It is estimated that the entire winter will be difficult.
Therefore, after the beginning of spring, when there is not enough food, ants are in urgent need of military means to plunder the enemy's food, or simply consume the ant colonies that they cannot support.
But amid the chaos on the south bank of the Qinghe River, the flying knights discovered an important piece of information.
When the Camponotus ant tribe was attacked by the Pavement Ant tribe and forced to flee upstream of the Qinghe River, their remnants got into a wilderness with dense weeds in summer, alarming the ants here.
A group of big-headed ants lived here, and they quickly gathered their forces to eliminate the tribe of bow-backed ants that was at the end of their strength.
The flying knights noticed the fighting here. In the past, a large amount of thatch grew here, almost completely covering the ground. In previous investigations, the flying knights ignored that there was a powerful big-headed ant force here, or they discovered it. Didn't notice anything unusual.
But now, the weeds have not yet grown tall, and the fighting on the ground is exposed under the eyes of the flying knight.
On the ground, this army of big-headed ants does not fight purely on instinct like other uncivilized ant tribes.
This big-headed ant army has a complete military organization of legion and squad, and has the tactics of concentrated use of soldier ants in the legion. It has too many characteristics that are familiar to the legion of the God Envoy King.
After learning the information, the protagonist guessed the identity of this group of big-headed ants.
I really didn’t expect that after several years, I could still be here, in this foreign land, meeting the old ants I knew before!
