One day in early August, all civilized ant tribes in the region received notifications from messengers from the Black Fire Ant Nation in the past two days.
The Black Fire Ant Nation claims that it will hold a civilized ant tribe conference in its own country [Sacred Monument City] on August 13th. It has particularly important things to announce and invites representatives of all races to attend the meeting.
The protagonist is very confused. The civilized ant clan conference has always been held in the sacred tree guarded by the leaf-cutter ant clan, and the leaf-cutter ant clan has always been the convener. This time, the black fire ant nation actually overstepped its authority. What is going on?
As for [Sacred Monument City], the protagonist has never heard of such a sub-nest before. There are so many nests in the Black Fire Ant Country. Apart from its main nest, the protagonist has no image of other sub-nests.
The envoy from the Black Fire Ant Nation arrived at [Xinyang City] this time. Although he still carried his tribe's unique arrogance and dissatisfaction with the Ant Alliance, he still truthfully provided the direction of [Sacred Monument City]. It seemed that he was sincere. invite.
The protagonist takes a look and thinks, come on! Isn't this [Divine Monument City] the excavation site of the black fire ants that I saw when I flew there a while ago!
Excavation, sacred monument... It seems that the Black Fire Ant Kingdom has made some great gains there! The holding of the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference is obviously related to this.
The Flying Knights were immediately ordered to send a small team to investigate [Holy Monument City], and soon secretly brought back the information package.
The protagonist took a closer look and saw that the original excavation site was gone, replaced by a square ant mound on the ground with a distinctive black fire ant clan style.
This ant mound occupies a large area, covering more than ten square meters, but its height is not very high. The current average is just over two decimeters. You can see that many black fire ant workers are still busy, building and raising the mound. An ant mound.
The original excavation site has been completely obscured by ant mounds, and the protagonist cannot see what the black fire ants have dug up. Combined with the half of the sign with human heritage that he saw above the ground last time, the protagonist guessed that the black fire ants seemed to have a big plan this time.
It's a pity that the black fire ant clan strictly protects this place, and the surrounding area is full of black fire ants and their vassal troops. The flying knights can only overlook it from a high altitude, and cannot get a closer look.
In view of the current tense relationship between the Black Fire Ant Nation and the Ant Alliance Nation, this civilized ant clan conference seems to be of great importance. The protagonist does not plan to attend in person, but plans to send a special envoy to see what is going on so that he can be informed as soon as possible.
However, the next day, things changed again.
The special envoy of the leaf-cutter ant clan came to the Ant Alliance again. Her purpose was very clear, which was to prevent the Ant Alliance from sending representatives to participate in this civilized ant conference held in [Shenmonu City].
The Leafcutter Ant Clan stated that the Civilized Ant Clan Conference can only be convened by the Clan in [Holy Tree City]. The behavior of the Black Fire Ant Clan violated the code of conduct of the Civilized Ant Clan and should be boycotted by the Civilized Ant Clan.
The protagonist weighed it up and did not immediately agree to the leaf-cutting ant clan. Instead, he allowed the leaf-cutting ant envoy to stay in [Xinyang City] temporarily. Anyway, the messengers sent by the leaf-cutting ants to other distant places did not turn back so quickly, and the messengers still had time.
Afterwards, the diplomatic envoys of the Ant Alliance, escorted by flying knights, quickly went to other civilized ant tribes to find out whether these ant tribes were participating in the meeting. It was not until the 11th that all envoys returned.
Obviously, all civilized ant tribes have received notices from the Black Fire Ant Nation and the Leafcutter Ant Nation. In the end, only the three tribes of Hairy Forest Ants, Thin-footed Ants and Sharp-tailed Ants expressed their intention to participate in the meeting, and all other tribes agreed. Ye Yiguo advocated boycotting this meeting.
It seems that the leaf-cutting ants, as the guardians of the sacred tree, have successfully exerted their influence and basically prevented this "illegal" civilized ant gathering.
The Black Fire Ant Nation did not waver because of this, and had no plans to stop holding meetings, nor did it continue to invite those ants who refused to participate.
Seeing the general trend, the protagonist also told the envoy from the Leafcutter Ant Country that his country would not participate in the conference and sent him away.
But he kept an eye on it and negotiated with the Hairy Forest Ants. Finally, he paid a certain amount of honeydew in exchange for the Hairy Forest Ants sharing the meeting information immediately after the meeting.
It is also very interesting to talk about the hairy forest ants. They live in a huge barren swamp, which is much larger than the swamp outside the eastern border of the Ant Alliance's current territory on the south bank of Qinghe River, but they are also lacking in supplies.
But the hairy forest ants live a very prosperous life because they are very good at doing business.
Among the civilized ant tribes, only the insects domesticated by the hairy forest ants and bullet ants can fly long distances with heavy loads. The other tribes either do not have flying tamed animals, or they can only be used as mounts and cannot be used as transportation tools.
The giant dragonflies domesticated by the hairy forest ants have strong flying abilities, the ability to defend themselves, a large carrying capacity, and the ability to forage on their own, making them perfect "transport aircraft."
Relying on this advantage, the Maolin ant clan specializes in resale trade within the civilized ant clan. They make a lot of money by relying on the specialties of other ant clans.
In contrast, the bullet ants are very "simple" and will not take the initiative to participate in material trade and transportation unless their allies ask for help. Their life is far worse than that of the hairy forest ants.
Living in the water and having a talent for business, the protagonist even feels that the hairy forest ants are like the "Venetians" among ants.
In fact, they are also greedy and have no bottom line. They are willing to participate in meetings to find business opportunities regardless of the opposition of the leaf-cutter ants, but they are also willing to betray meeting information for honeydew.
But at least this is convenient for the Ant Alliance!
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On August 15, the Maolin ant clan sent the meeting information as promised.
The protagonist studied it carefully and didn't know what expression to use to reflect his mood at this time. Although his current carapace face couldn't express any expression, he could only express it vaguely with his eyes and twitching of his antennae.
From the perspective of the protagonist, this meeting is no different from "Dancing Master".
The representatives of the Black Fire Ant Nation and Flying Eagle hosted this meeting. They took the representatives of the three tribes participating in the meeting to visit the so-called "miracle" that was excavated. It was the metal nameplate left by humans (the protagonist saw The one that passed).
Then, Flying Eagle demonstrated what it means to misinterpret, what it means to make literal meaning, and what it means to use a tiger's skin as a banner...
He first pointed out the Vulcan talisman on the nameplate, then pointed out that the Arabic numeral "6" resembled the side of an ant's head and antennae, while "0" resembled ant eggs.
Therefore, Xiaoying pointed out that this means that this nameplate - which is the "god monument" in the eyes of the ants (this "monument" is a free translation in the protagonist's mind, the ants have no concept of "monument") - was descended by the god of fire. The oracle for the civilized ants!
Next, Flying Eagle's operation amazed the protagonist! Who said ants are a stubborn and conservative race? Isn’t this very imaginative!
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