Only then did Zhu Jue feel that something was wrong, and while reporting this information to the commanders of the civilized ant coalition forces that were already stationed in various places, he organized the third batch of envoys.
This time, he sent as many as 6 flying knights to act together, and had a team of combat flying knights escort them in the airspace, so that there would be no accidents in the air.
The commanders-in-chief of all clans were even less concerned about this and did not think there was anything unusual, but agreed that Zhu Jue would be solely responsible for the matter.
The third batch of messengers returned on the same day, and brought back the two flying knight messengers from the first and second batches, saying that they encountered them while flying in the air.
The first two groups of envoys stated that they had completed their missions, but their encounters made Zhu Jue even more suspicious.
In the nest of the bullet ant mother clan, the two groups of envoys were placed in the same nest room and waited for three days and one day respectively before they were received by the local ant leader. During this period, the ant slave guarding the gate prohibited the envoy from leaving the nest, but only brought him water on time, which was like house arrest.
Fortunately, the two envoys were not harmed and lived a life of "house arrest" eating and drinking. Forget about being ordinary ants, these two messengers are both highly intelligent worker ants. They also exchanged guesses with each other and noticed something was wrong.
Zhu Jue was just surprised by what happened to the envoy, but the news the envoy brought back forced Zhu Jue to make some guesses:
The mother tribe of bullet ants is the envoy sent by the male ant "glasses" to receive them. He said that the female ant "Doctor", the commander of the bullet ant parent clan's expeditionary force, had recently fallen ill and died. The specific cause was not disclosed.
The "doctor" just said that since there is only one female ant in the mother colony of bullet ants, there is still one female ant egg that is about to hatch. Until there are no female ants, "Doctor", as the male ant, will temporarily command this expeditionary force. Since the Bullet Ant Mother Clan has lost its commander and the first batch of warriors have not yet emerged from pupae, he has decided not to participate in this military operation to support the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation!
The death of ants is very common. Whether it is the previous war or the current ant mite disease, many deaths and injuries have occurred. In the face of the cruelty of nature, tiny individual ants are more powerless and unable to resist than humans!
However, Zhu Jue had only met the "Female Doctor" a few months ago. This was a very young, healthy, and even very strong female ant.
Over the past few months, messengers from the bullet ant mother clan have often presented information to Zhu Jue. The "female doctor" in the information package always looks energetic and does not show any signs of weakness.
Such an ant suddenly died! ? Died of illness? Died of injuries? Or is there something fishy?
Zhu Jue felt that he would not die of illness, or even a normal death. Because the "Doctor" was vague about the cause of death of the "Female Doctor" and did not record the appearance of the female Doctor's body in the information package, which was inconsistent with the rules of ants delivering information packages.
Generally, an information packet always contains two parts. One part is what the ant in question saw with his own eyes, and the other part is the ant's emotions and corresponding information at that time.
An information package like "Doctor"'s, which does not provide a single bit of personal experience, but only contains extremely calm emotions and simple information, is really inconsistent with common sense.
Moreover, the "female doctor" is the long-term spouse of the "doctor", and the "doctor" actually does not show any hurt feelings. Due to the way their tentacles communicate, ants are not good at hiding their emotions, which makes Zhu Jue even more suspicious!
"Doctor" didn't even send an envoy to inform the civilized ant tribe in the area about such a major matter, not even the local bullet ant tribe that belonged to the same tribe.
The more Zhu Jue thought about it, the more frightened he became. He always felt that the behavior of the male bullet ant "doctor" was very problematic. What was the secret behind the unusual death of the female bullet ant "doctor"?
Zhu Jue carefully interrogated the two envoys calmly. Later, Zhu Jue made an information package, which did not contain personal emotions and judgments, and sent it to the messenger to report to the main nest of the bullet ants to see their attitude.
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Zhu Jue felt a headache now. The original simple war against the parasitic army had been changed beyond recognition by various accidents:
With the discovery of "Gun"'s identity, Zhu Jue's desire to attack parasites has been greatly reduced.
The traces of parasitic organisms in the leaf-cutting ant country forced the civilized ant coalition to divide their forces, and even shook the leaf-cutting ant country's will to fight.
The large-scale outbreak of ant mites caused the civilized ant coalition to temporarily lose the opportunity to fight back.
It is difficult for Zhu Jue to guess what impact the possible internal problems of the bullet ant mother clan will have!
Fortunately, Zhu Jue's base, the Ant United Kingdom, is still thriving.
For a long time, Zhu Jue sat on the front line of the Black Creek Defense Line and spent very little time in the country.
However, with the support of the mature system of the United Nations Conference and the Ten Ministries, the Ant United Kingdom is still developing rapidly around the plan Zhu Jue formulated at the beginning of the year.
As large areas of undeveloped land on the south bank of the Qinghe River were developed, large areas of fertile land were turned into farmland and fallow pastures, a large number of blast furnaces and workshops were built in various nests, and many projects were completed. Ant Alliance's material reserves, production capacity, and transportation capacity are all increasing.
If it weren't for the rich production of the Ant Alliance and the overall good weather this year, I'm afraid that the civilized Ant Alliance on the front line would have collapsed due to lack of food, ammunition, and siege by powerful enemies.
Taking advantage of the temporary calm on the Black Creek front line, Zhu Jue also took the time to return to [Xinyang City] and [Tuohuang City] to deal with some backlogged government affairs.
Some government officials can review it on the front line and pass it back and forth through flying knights, or simply provide an opinion to various domestic departments.
But there are also some complicated government affairs. Zhu Jue needs to communicate in detail with the responsible ant tentacles. At this time, he needs to return to the country to take charge.
During this period, Zhu Jue inspected several places under the Scientific Research Department, including the insect beast domestication base and other places.
At the Insect Animal Taming Base, Zhu Jue was delighted to see that the Palawan giant stag beetle, the giraffe giant stag beetle, the giant forked mountain stag beetle, the giant stag beetle, the king dung beetle, etc. that were finally obtained last year have been cultivated into adults. .
The number of these adults is not large yet, but they are both male and female and can be used as seed insects to breed more next generations. Maybe next year, the tank troops of the King of Divine Envoys will be equipped with more powerful war beast mounts!
In another domestication base, wasps are being trained. Although they could not obtain the eggs of the wasp queen, the ant family provided domesticated wasps.
After several additional purchases, the Ant Alliance now has 72 Wasps, enough to arm two combat flying knight squads and more.
Some elite flying knights are currently experimenting with the power and specific tactics of this new aerial mount!
