The sacred tree guardian clan in the 22nd Contact Tree area is called the "Ginkgo Leaf-cutting Ant Country" because its sacred tree is ginkgo.
Its messenger, the female leaf-cutter ant "Green Leaf", is currently staying in [Holy Tree City].
"Green Leaf"'s mount, the Star Beetle, died of exhaustion when she managed to fly a long distance to the territory of the Thin-footed Ant Clan. She arrived here on the Giant Dragonfly, the caravan of the Hairy Forest Ant Clan.
Half of the 12 guards accompanying her survived. Due to the limited transport capacity of the caravan, they temporarily stayed in the territory of the Thin-footed Ants and had to wait until next time to come with the caravan.
Without an escort, even if the local leafcutter ant country promised to provide a star beetle mount, "Green Leaf" did not dare to return alone for dozens of miles and risk many risks, so he chose to stay temporarily.
Anyway, her mission was accomplished. She had already sent a warning to the civilized ants in the area, and she no longer even had to report back to the Queen Ant Conference, which had few remaining members.
But going home is what "Green Leaf" wants. It seemed as if the prosperous [Shudu City] was still yesterday, waiting for her to return.
Staying in [Holy Tree City], "Green Leaf" is not idle. In the past few days, queens and female ants from the local leaf-cutting ant country have been coming to her to exchange information that only leaf-cutting ants understand and are interested in. information.
In his spare time, "Greenleaf" likes to suck a drop of crow wine.
The crow wine diluted 3 times was placed in a small clay pot. "Green Leaf" held it up with his forelimbs, with the mouth of the pot facing down. Due to the combined effect of tension and gravity, the wine is hanging on the mouth of the jar, emitting an alluring amber light under the illumination of fluorescent bacteria.
Bring your jaw closer and suck hard, and the wine will automatically crawl to your mouth as if it comes alive.
Such a drop of mellow and pungent crow wine hangs on the jaw and is swallowed bit by bit. Because the esophagus and respiratory tract of the ants do not crowd each other, they can let the wine extend from the mouth to the stomach, like a trickle. The flow never stops until the wine is drained.
This is Green Leaf's favorite way of drinking, and it is also the most popular way of drinking in [Holy Tree City]. After such a drop of wine, a hot feeling extends from the mouth to the stomach, like a fire pushing forward. One part of pain is one part of intoxication, three parts of sweetness and three parts of strange fragrance.
As a distinguished guest, "Green Leaf" enjoys the treatment only a queen of ants can have in the local leaf-cutter ant country, but except for a drop of diluted crow wine every day, she disdains other treatment - this place is far less than the hometown she remembers.
This was the only drink that she couldn't give up. Every time she drank a drop of the drink, the groggy feeling quickly came over her, and she could forget all her worries.
However, when the drunkenness wears off, she will recall unbearable images in her sleep even more intensely, and must continue to numb herself with drunkenness.
That scene was too tragic to be forgotten, so it could only be suppressed temporarily.
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[Tree Capital City], this is the main military and political nest of the "Ginkgo Leaf-cutting Ant Kingdom" where "Green Leaf" is located.
Different from the single main nest of most ant tribes, the Ginkgo leaf-cutting ant country has two main nests. One is the "Sacrifice Main Nest" [Holy Ginkgo City] where the local sacred tree is located, and the other is the "Military and Political Main Nest" where the highest authority is located. nest".
In fact, these two main nests are together. The scope of the military and political main nest wraps up the area of the main nest of the gods. It can be understood as the difference between the outer city and the inner city (refer to Rome and the Vatican).
The main nest city of the Ginkgo leaf-cutting ant kingdom is very unique. Except for the main nest for worshiping gods, which is located in a narrow tree hole of the sacred ginkgo tree, all the structures of the main military and political nest are hung on the tree.
It was a kind of spherical tree nest made of plant tissue that the protagonist had seen while drifting, similar to the Bachie ant family. They were hung on the branches one by one, with different sizes and uses.
[Tree City] is a huge nest composed of thousands of spherical tree nests spread across dozens of trees.
This is the common home of millions of leaf-cutting ants and the capital of hundreds of millions of leaf-cutting ants. Every day, countless leaf-cutting ants come and go in this huge forest nest.
Even in winter, tunnels carved by countless generations of ants under tree bark and underground allow an ant to travel back and forth between any two spherical tree nests.
An ant walking around [Tree City] for six days and six nights would not be able to visit every nest in every tree ball.
This is a bustling main nest, where the materials produced by the tens of millions of ant colonies in the entire Ginkgo leaf-cutting ant country, such as precious spices, sweet nectar, miraculous medicinal materials, and beautiful insect carapaces, are all gathered here.
As a "princess" of a big country, "Green Leaf" has seen countless beautiful things in [Shudu City], which made her sigh countless times: There is nothing more prosperous than this among ants.
In her bedroom, the bedding was made from the entire carapace of a colorful scarab beetle. It was cool to sleep on in the summer, but it was covered with ant silk in the winter.
Her ceremonial attire is made of a pair of transparent insect wings with iridescent luster. During major sacrifices and ceremonies, she will wear this pair of back wings and an ant silk robe, as if she has transformed into a small dragonfly. Dress up and attend with thousands of ant queens and princesses dressed similarly.
"Green Leaf" has tasted mushrooms from the south, pickled insect eggs from the east, tasted wild rice donated by the bearded ants, and tasted the latest meat dumplings prepared by the pharaoh ants. During the ceremony to worship the gods, she drank the purest dew produced on the leaves of the sacred tree on the vernal equinox. During the banquet, she enjoyed endless amounts of various brewed honeys.
Every 36 days, a grand duel between insects and beasts will be held. As long as the queen ant and the princesses want to go, they will always have the best position near the fence waiting for them.
And 18 days after the insect beast duel, there will be a regular slave market. The princesses in charge of various institutions and workshops will choose from countless types of ant eggs that have been trafficked over long distances while listening to the introductions of the Argentine ant traders. The most suitable ant eggs are taken back and hatched into slaves.
The Ginkgo leaf-cutting ant kingdom is strong. Hundreds of representatives of allied tribes and foreign ant tribes often line up outside the conference tree ball, all the way to the trunk, just so that the queen ant conference can meet them and listen to their trivial requests.
When a savage ant tribe or a blind civilized ant tribe offends the Ginkgo Leaf Cutter Ant Nation, a military order can organize a huge army of millions of leaf cutter ant warriors and more slave warriors of various races. . The army roared like a tsunami, covering from one forest to another, conquering tens of thousands of trees and hundreds of ants.
In the most spectacular battle, the army of the Ginkgo Leafcutter Ant Nation killed millions of enemy ants and stuffed their corpses into every bark crevice of the largest tree in the area. Until many years later, the local ants did not dare to approach this corpse tree!
At that time, the Ginkgo leaf-cutting ant country was powerful, majestic, prosperous, and respected by all parties.
Until the moment the sacred tree collapsed...
