The protagonist and his party hovered cautiously in the air. After repeated observations from a distance, they confirmed that there were no black fire ants and their slaves and vassals on a tall cypress tree overlooking the entire construction site before landing.
Fortunately, black fire ants and their slaves and slave ants are all ground-dwelling ants. There are no arboreal species and they rarely go up trees. Otherwise, it would be difficult to find an observation site with such a suitable distance and location.
Both the flying knight and the bee mount were hidden behind the dense cypress leaves. Only the protagonist and two guards untied the safety ropes binding the jointed limbs, handed the reins of the mount to the other flying knights, and descended to the trunk of the tree.
Walking from the trunk to the branch near the north, standing on an immature cypress fruit covered with white powder, and sticking his head out, the protagonist looked down at the ground from a height of about 3 meters.
On the ground, dug by tens of thousands of black fire ants and other ants, a pit the size of a round table suddenly appeared on the flat ground.
There are dozens of square meters of destroyed vegetation on the ground, and there are a large number of ants on the periphery trying to expand the area of the pit. At the bottom of the pit, a steady stream of ant colonies is making the pit deeper.
Among the densely packed ants, there was only one dug-out area in the middle where no ants dared to set foot. The few ants that climbed up quickly left after cleaning up the sand and soil, as if they were afraid of offending someone if they stayed too long.
From the position of the protagonist, you can clearly see the thing at the bottom of the pit. The pit is 3-4 meters deep. Counting the height and distance of the protagonist, it is nearly 10 meters away. This distance is not close. With excellent eyesight, the protagonist can still clearly see the half-dug-out object in the shadow at the bottom of the pit.
It was an object with half of it exposed, and half of it had been dug out. As long as the buried half didn't reveal anything, it would be an obvious rectangle. It can be seen that this object has a gray-white color, but the material cannot be clearly seen. It is full of traces of vicissitudes of life.
Although it is unknown how many years it has been buried underground, the protagonist is certain that it is a product of the era of human civilization.
In the center of this rectangular object, there is an Arabic numeral "6" and half of a "0", with the remaining half of the "0" still buried in the soil.
In addition to the legacy of human civilization, the protagonist does not think there is any reason for Arabic numerals to be preserved in this ant world where the hexadecimal system is the mainstream.
This seems to be some kind of brand, about 10 centimeters high, and the length, including the part that is not exposed, is probably 30 centimeters. I just don’t know its original purpose.
The protagonist noticed that there was a familiar symbol in the upper left corner of the brand:
A red circle and a pattern of flames, that is a pattern belonging to the god of fire.
In an instant, the protagonist understood why the Black Fire Ant Congress conducted excavations with great fanfare. The Black Fire Ant clan, which claims to be the inheritance of the Vulcan God, must have thought that it had discovered the miracle of the Vulcan God, so it organized so many ant forces at the same time as the war. Resources come to the excavation with great fanfare.
The protagonist is not surprised. He already understands that the so-called fire god, including other gods, may just be the vague memory of some supernatural phenomena left by ants in distant human civilization.
For example, this Vulcan Talisman looks like the simplified shape of a gas stove. This was what he had just had an idea of.
This world is not a world of swords and magic. I have never heard of any gods appearing or performing miracles. Regardless of whether they believe in gods or not, if they want to survive in this world, the ants can only rely on their own strength.
What is the practical significance of digging out a "talisman"! ?
Thinking of this, the protagonist suddenly felt a little bored, thinking that there was some big discovery in the Black Fire Ant Kingdom, but it turned out to be this?
For a moment, the protagonist feels unworthy. This is not as shocking as when the protagonist dug up a human skull full of technological symbols in the swamp area of his hometown, but it is a pity that the skull has been lost.
Fortunately, the protagonist had already recorded all the information about the skull in an information package. He handed it over to a specialized team of the Scientific Research Department for research, but no results were produced.
The protagonist was about to leave, but suddenly he noticed an ant, changed his mind, and continued to observe.
Among a group of black fire ants, a big-headed male ant was surrounded by the male black fire ants, occupying the most distinguished position and enjoying preferential treatment.
"Flying Eagle", the protagonist gritted his teeth!
Any ant whose tentacles intersect can be distinguished by their appearance. The protagonist's abnormal farsightedness recognizes this traitor who makes him want to eat his flesh and tear open his shell!
I don’t know why, but the Flying Eagle was surrounded by the black fire ants with respect. Many male black fire ants even knelt down and saluted him. It seemed that he particularly enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by them.
There are no other big-headed ants around the Flying Eagle, but there are some male big-headed ants and worker ants working at the excavation site. It doesn't seem like the status of the big-headed ants in the capital of black fire ants has suddenly improved.
Then only Tingying's status suddenly improved. The protagonist wonders, what happened in the meantime?
When the black fire ants who watched Xiao Ying and Gong Wei disappeared into a temporary camp not far away, the protagonist had no clue, but vaguely felt that it was related to the excavation site.
He no longer thought about it, returned to his mount, and called on the accompanying flying knights to take off.
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The protagonist and his party did not return directly to the Ant United Kingdom, but continued westward, stopping by the battlefield ahead to learn about the battle between the Black Fire Ant Kingdom and the invading termites.
The battlefield is about 2 days' walk to the west. It can be seen that the invading termites have been forced back by the assembled army of hundreds of thousands of black fire ants, and the black fire ant army has recovered most of the lost territory.
After discovering the weaknesses of the invasive termites in the field, the black fire ant army, backed by strong national power, has taken the initiative on the battlefield.
Nowadays, invasive termites are trapped in a small area on the western border of the black fire ant country, relying on the construction of three termite mounds to defend them separately.
The Black Fire Ant Nation's attack on these tall ant mounds was not very smooth, but time was on their side.
Even the protagonist who flew by in a hurry noticed that there were no large sources of lignin around the territory controlled by the invading termites, and the termites had no time to forage in the face of the siege.
Invading termites that lack food cannot escape the fate of destruction no matter how strong their mound is.
The protagonist does not care about the life or death of the invading termites. He only evaluates the military strength of the black fire ant country through this war that has nothing to do with him.
He had heard about it before, and based on the various intelligence collected before and after, he estimated that the military strength of the Black Fire Ant Country was still quite good, stronger than that of the Leaf Cutter Ant Country.
However, it is not the opponent of today’s Ant United Nations!
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