New Hive City.
This nest was previously a larger nest in the central region of the red imported fire ant country. The red fire ants have a set of rules for naming their nests according to the names of the male ant elders of the nest. When this nest was established, the "wisdom elder" was the oldest male ant in it, so it seems that this nest should be called a wisdom city.
However, the name of "Wisdom Elder" in his country does not have the meaning of "wisdom", but is a referent for the smell of a plant. Just like if a person is called "Liu Huaixiang", the city should be called Bad Fragrance City.
Because this nest is now the new main nest of the Red Fire Ant Nation, and it has gradually grown into an increasingly larger honeycomb-like porous ant mound on the ground. From the perspective of the Ant Alliance, it is still called a new hive. The city is suitable.
The flying knights discovered this place during a dusk reconnaissance, and also noticed that there were a large number of fire ants coming in and out, but there were no pavement ants or other ants.
New Hive City is now the only nest within the controllable territory of the Red Fire Ant Nation that does not have the overlord's army stationed there. In order to show basic respect for the red fire ant country, the army of the sovereign country did not enter this main nest.
This made the "wisdom elder" feel a lot more relaxed.
Since last year, the "wisdom elder" has been constantly contacting the male ants of the pavement ant empire on behalf of the red fire ant nation. The other party's condescension and contemptuous attitude exuded anytime and anywhere made the "wisdom elder" feel humiliated.
This is a humiliation that cannot be repaid.
In order to win the support of the suzerain, he was even forced to swear an oath in front of the "Six Kings" and ventured into his homeland to gather intelligence and set up secret sentries in advance for the suzerain's invasion. He even promised to cede a large territory in the north with the approval of the "Council of Elders". In exchange, the sovereign country sent troops to help.
In the northern border, there are 72 nests. At its peak, there were hundreds of thousands of ant colonies, and the territory covered nearly a quarter of the country. Within his own tentacles, he was promised to be ceded to the Pavement Ant Empire.
Even though the elders are meeting to discuss matters about themselves, the "wisdom elder" is still thinking about these thoughts. The humiliation of ceding territory was not strong before, but after he actually put it into practice a while ago, it made him unable to sleep or eat well. .
The young elder's accusation made the "wisdom elder" turn his mind back. He pressed his tentacles against the cobblestones on the floor of the conference room without sending a single message. He had nothing to argue with. Although he did everything to regain his country, there was no way to explain the young male ant's accusation that he had betrayed his country's interests.
He just felt sad that the red fire ant country had just recovered and was in dire straits. These elders discussed how to restore their vitality, how to breed more ant queens and warriors, and how to encourage the suzerain country to continue to help regain more lost land. But they are discussing their own titles...
Two elders who were more senior and more familiar with the internal affairs said a few words to the "wisdom elders". They knew that ceding land was a last resort. Otherwise, could the red fire ant country be restored today? However, their speeches did not gain the understanding of the young adults and elders.
This "Presbyterian Council" is too young and full of newly promoted male ants. Some male ants even emerged from pupae last year. There are not many male ants left in the red imported fire ant country. This kind of "Presbyterian Council" structure is also It is a last resort.
The "wisdom elder" did not want to resist at all, and withstood the attacks of the younger generation of elders. Later, the meeting announced that he would be stripped of his title of elder, and he became an ordinary male ant.
What is dramatic is that the day after the "wisdom elder" lost the title of "elder", the suzerain's messenger came to the new hive city and asked the red fire ant country to send a high-status envoy to the suzerain's main nest to participate in the victory sacrifice.
A group of young elders at this time showed no hatred and anger towards the suzerain country that had seized their land as they had shown yesterday. They all lowered their tentacles and were unwilling to travel.
Finally, the "wisdom elder" was called back to take orders in times of crisis, and was given the title of "quasi-elder" to lead the mission.
Everyone knows that dealing with the sovereign state is a thankless task. The "wisdom elders" have already taken the blame once and don't care if they do it again. This is the political skill of the "Presbyterian Church".
Politics is a common thing among intelligent biological species. The more developed a civilization is, the more political and sleight-of-hand it becomes.
The red fire ant elder who was named "Wisdom" by the God's Envoy King Legion seems to lack a smart political mind, or does he not care at all? He immediately accepted the appointment and set off.
After the restoration of the country, the red fire ant kingdom was even less respected by the suzerain. Representatives of both the Aiman ants and the yellow ants rode in armored carriages to the main nest of the pavement ant empire, Dead Tree City. The "wisdom elder" also used to sit there. However, this time he could only travel on foot day and night, and was treated the same as many small vassal messengers.
When the Dead Tree City was in sight, the "Wise Elder" remembered that he came here for the first time last autumn. In the chariot sedan on the back of the brightly colored armor, he looked at this "shabby" appearance of the nest strangely. , never would have imagined that this was the main nest of the powerful Pavement Ant Empire.
This is a huge locust tree with a breast diameter of several meters. It is unknown how many years it has grown before it grows into such a majestic body.
The locust tree has experienced wind, sun, rain, lightning and fire, and the inside of its huge trunk has long become hollow. This locust tree has been dead for hundreds of years, and now its branches have decayed and fallen off, leaving only its bare trunk. The main nest of the pavement ant empire is located in the hollow trunk of the locust tree.
This nest is not so much a tree nest as an ant mound covered in tree nest shell. The nest is like a skyscraper, repaired with ant concrete into a layer-by-layer structure, more than 40 stories high. There are also some nest structures under the roots of trees, mainly winter nests and warehouses.
The "Wisdom Elder" underwent several rounds of sentry interrogations, and with six guards, he entered the Dead Tree City through a small opening next to the main entrance at the root of the tree trunk.
After waiting for a while, a pavement ant male came over and asked the pavement ant guards to take the guards of the "wisdom elder" to the side of the nest to wait, while he himself walked up with the "wisdom elder".
It felt like I had climbed countless slopes. I didn’t know how high I had climbed, and the “wisdom elder” didn’t know where he was going to be taken.
Looking around, it was not dark in the lair. A strange fungus was placed on the wall, emitting a faint blue light. The "Wisdom Elder" had never seen this kind of luminous fungus, but he didn't care much about it. Red fire ants never cared about things that couldn't be transformed into combat effectiveness.
Under the blue light, the "Wisdom Elder" saw a symbol appearing repeatedly beside the passage, a symbol he noticed the last time he came here:
A yellow circle with a black origin in the middle and three black sectors inside.
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