In the far north, under a Potentilla with yellow flowers that is very common in spring, a lone "giant ant" is wandering.
This is a place on the alfalfa hills. The undulating terrain here is like the Creator throwing away a towel and spreading it fluttering on the ground. The naturally occurring wrinkles and unevenness form the topography here.
For ants, the slight unevenness here has broken up the terrain into fragments like the Loess Plateau. However, the relative heights between hills and valleys are smaller, and most of the fluctuations are only a few tens of meters.
But for ants, this height difference is no less than a peak and valley of several thousand meters. In such a complex terrain, it is not unusual for a few "ants" to get lost with the large army.
This "giant ant" is the so-called "giant ant" of the Pavement Ant Empire. If the protagonist is here at this time, he can immediately confirm that his guess is correct. The three kings and six kings of the Pavement Ant Empire The guess is not wrong.
Huge body, almost round head, huge sickle-like jaws, black and blue carapace with metallic luster.
This is a "giant ant", a mysterious ant, a tribe of little demon ants, or...a destroyer!
In short, they are all the gravediggers of this ant world!
The Destroyer wandered on the land, passing under one wild vegetable after another, passing between sunlight and shadow. Sometimes the carapace reflected the bright light, and sometimes it hid in the darkness and seemed to disappear without a trace.
Along the way, only the insects that were very close to it would jump or fly away. Other insects were indifferent to the approach of this destroyer, as if it was just a stone rolled down by gravity, not a terror. of living predators.
The Destroyer walked alone, his long tentacles constantly waving in the air, as if looking for something. They are different from ordinary ants. Instead of groping for traces of pheromones on the ground, they dance in the air.
Suddenly, the Destroyer stopped. He noticed the weak vibrations of the ground and air nearby, and the fighting instinct imprinted in his bones made it immediately alert.
More than 10 Ai's ants were ambushing two or three meters away from the side. They also noticed that the other party had discovered something abnormal and became vigilant. They stopped hiding and took the initiative to attack.
These Aiman ants are the scouts of their own tribe. With the help of their familiarity with the local terrain of the Alfalfa Hills, they are responsible for gathering intelligence for their tribe and the suzerain country before the arrival of the sea of "giant ants" coming in like waves.
Of course, the scouts of these Aiman ants would not be soft-jawed when faced with a lone "giant ant".
As the Aiman ants with the highest individual combat effectiveness in the entire ant world, fighting is a natural desire, no matter who the opponent is!
Under the sun, the bright red bodies of the Ehrlichia ants were approaching quickly. Even if there were only a dozen of them, they skillfully approached the target and formed a dense formation.
The lone Destroyer was not afraid at all. It rushed forward to meet the killing Aiman ants. These demons, who were born only to kill, showed their usual arrogance and power in this small battle.
The tight formation formed by the Eshiman ant warriors, which even the strongest and tallest leaf-cutter ant warriors could not shake, almost fell apart due to the huge impact during the Destroyer's first impact.
However, the knocked-out Aiman ants did not lose their combat effectiveness and quickly returned. Their numerical advantage and formation also absorbed the impact. A few Aiman ant scouts even took the opportunity to stab them with their stingers and rushed forward. The destroyer.
The Destroyer, who was stung by the poisonous sting needle, seemed to have no reaction at all, and started fighting fiercely with the surrounding Aiman ants with their mandibles!
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Alfalfa hills, to the south, across thousands of mountains and rivers, the first-class spring water with rippling blue waves is slowly moving eastward.
Along the bank of Qinghe River, all the way to the west, the scenery along the bank changes in many ways, and the ants that can be seen are also all kinds of strange.
This is a world with complex races, but overall it is a world belonging to ants. Ant civilization is the unquestionable ruler of this planet!
When looking upstream, Qinghe suddenly turned northwest at a certain point. From here, he left the river bank and landed, searching westward along the relatively flat ground until a mountain range appeared in front of him.
Here, it seems, there is something else mixed into this world dominated by ant civilization.
This is the border of the black fire ant country.
As the most powerful ant tribe in the area and the descendant of the fire god among the civilized ant tribe, the black fire ant tribe claims to have occupied all the fertile land between mountains and water.
Of course, this is an arrogant ant-style exaggeration, and the Black Fire Ant Nation has its own old enemies, although their leader does not consider the roaming savage ants of the north to be a real threat.
However, those ant tribes that are scattered among each other, but will unite once they encounter the pressure of the black fire ant clan, have used the forest terrain in the north to prevent the black fire ant country from making major progress for thousands of years.
Black fire ants don't like the woods, but the abundance of prey in the woods makes them lack the direction to expand and can only invest their national resources here generation after generation.
Recently, significant progress has been made in the arid South instead.
Originally, the Black Fire Ant Nation had little interest in this place, but during the "sweet period" with the United Ant Nation, in order to trade for more honeydew with coal that was not cherished by the Black Fire Ant clan, within a year they It quickly doubled its territory and completely opened up land transportation lines with the Ant Alliance. Trade no longer needs to rely on scarce air or dangerous and irregular water routes.
However, these occupied lands were too barren, and only a few indigenous ant tribes survived on them before, only a few hundred thousand in total. Even if the black fire ant country has been occupied, it will be difficult to develop it on a large scale.
The black fire ants did not come into contact with the fertile land until they discovered the remnants of the Big-headed Ant Clan's Northern Expedition. But most of this land will not belong to them, because the Ant Alliance has already occupied key areas first.
Perhaps, the desire for any fertile land is also one of the reasons why the Black Fire Ant Nation and the Ant Alliance Nation have rapidly turned against each other recently.
The north of the black fire ant country is a forest area with tenacious resistance, the east is a river, and the west is mountains. It seems that only the south can further expand its territory in the short term.
But just as the black fire ant clan was obsessed with the land that did not belong to them outside the southern border, they even discussed moving the main nest southward to better rule the newly conquered barren land and covet the fertile soil in the southeast more conveniently. hour.
In the mountains to the west, which were originally ignored by the black fire ants, some figures were eagerly and timidly poking their heads.
In the valley, in this valley road that the protagonist once flew through on "Xiao Hei", a large number of races that should not appear in the first place are traveling.
They are about to arrive at the border of the Black Fire Ant Country!
