After chatting with the "madman", Zhu Jue learned some information that had not yet been discovered by other investigation methods.
"Madman" said that after learning that the target of the civilized ants in this area has changed from fallen ants to little devil ants, the thief ants have already sent reinforcements, and more thief ants and beast masters will arrive in the near future. This is a good thing. Although these reinforcements do not listen to announcements, their combat effectiveness is not weak. Like the thief ants, they have special skills in controlling beasts, which can play a great role in the war against the Destroyer.
It is said that the Stone Desert Campoback Ant clan has also sent new reinforcements. The previous batch of reinforcements, led by "Baboons", "Lions" and "Ao", have abandoned the old colonies in the Black Fire Ant Kingdom, and the entire clan is traveling day and night. Head north. The habits of the rocky desert ant clan are quite special, and they must have a dedicated colony as a base in order to exert their strongest combat effectiveness.
"Crazy" also mentioned the bullet ant reinforcements that had disintegrated due to internal strife, saying that he didn't know whether the mother clan of the bullet ants would send new reinforcements. Hearing this, Zhu Jue's compound eyes flashed with a different light, but fortunately the "madman" was too slow to notice.
Afterwards, Zhu Jue said goodbye to the "madman", and the two flying teams departed, one heading north and the other heading south.
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Before nightfall that day, Zhu Jue and his party arrived at the bank of the Qinghe River and rested in the territory of the leaf-cutter ants on the east bank.
They temporarily parked on a medium-sized tree nest built by leaf-cutter ants, and the giant dragonfly mount was tied to the tree, perched on a wind-proof part of the tree trunk. The ants unload the cargo, tie it securely to the branches, and then rest in the spherical nest hanging under the branches, which is characteristic of the leafcutter ants.
The outer shell of the spherical nest is made of leaves and ant glue, which is very light. The interior is divided into large nest areas with ant silk and plant fibers. Zhu Jue huddled in a room with the ants from the flying team. The spherical interior is sheltered and warm, but the facilities are very simple, even simpler than most underground ant nests.
At night, when the breeze blows, the spherical nest gently swings with the wind, like a small boat drifting in the waves.
The leafcutter ant queen of this secondary nest sent a female ant "princess" as a representative to greet the envoy Wang Zhujue. The two parties had a brief exchange, but neither seemed willing to talk in depth.
Zhu Jue didn't know that the leaf-cutter ants, who claimed to be the guardians of the sacred tree and inherited from the tree god, originally claimed to be the representative of the civilized ant tribe in the region and considered themselves the most advanced civilization. However, in recent years, with the rise of the Ant Alliance, it has demonstrated much more advanced technology and abundant materials. Zhu Jue, as the God Envoy King, has actually become a symbol of the civilized ants in the region, making the Leaf-cutting Ant Nation His status and prestige have been greatly reduced.
The sensitive and arrogant leafcutter ants certainly cannot stand such a decline in status. In recent days, they have been expressing their dissatisfaction with a non-violent and non-cooperative attitude. Their refusal to send reinforcements to participate in the war against parasitic ants and destroyers is only symbolic. Provide a small amount of material assistance, and sometimes even do not allow air transport to and from the country to stop in their territory.
And even the "Civilized Ant Convention", which was originally used by the leaf-cutting ants to show their status, has not been held for a long time.
Previously, Zhu Jue had noticed the tricks of the leaf-cutting ants. He did not expect the warriors of the leaf-cutting ants to be able to go on expeditions or provide too much material assistance. Now the battlefield is still far away from the mainland of the leaf-cutting ant country. Until disaster strikes, this selfish ant clan will definitely continue to play with these series of tricks.
Instead, Zhu Jue took advantage of this opportunity to deepen cooperation with other civilized ant tribes, further weakening the voice of the leaf-cutting ant nation, and gradually isolating this ally that once stood at the center of the stage. Under such a background, no matter how dull the top brass of the leaf-cutting ant clan is, it will be difficult for them to have a favorable impression or a common topic of conversation with Zhu Jue.
However, the leaf-cutting ants are still allies after all, not enemies. When facing parasitic ants, Zhu Jue still has the ability to beat them. Now that the pressure brought by the Destroyer is too great, Zhu Jue needs to unite all forces, including the leaf-cutting ant clan, and the relationship between the two parties needs to be eased.
Therefore, Zhu Jue could actually spend the night in the territory of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom on the other side of the Qinghe River today, but he deliberately entered the Leaf Cutter Ant Kingdom, and the other party could not refuse him to stay overnight. Zhu Jue used this to test the attitude of the Leaf Cutter Ant Kingdom. He also expressed his goodwill.
At the same time, Zhu Jue began to repair the relationship between the two parties. In his opinion, simple ants are still easy to coax. In the past, the black fire ant clan yelled at him to kill him. After the war with the parasitic ants and the auxiliary strategic means, now the black fire ant nation does not say that it is submissive to him. From, it is also more docile.
The next day, Zhu Jue personally visited the main nest of the leaf-cutter ant clan [Holy Tree City] and had an in-depth and friendly exchange with the queen "queen" and female "princess" of the leaf-cutter ant clan. The outside world was not yet aware of this. We don’t know what was exchanged in this meeting and what Zhu Jue promised.
But 12 days later, the leaf-cutting ants announced for the first time that they would send an army of 100,000 people carrying a large amount of food to the territory of the Sanshi flat-headed ants. They would cross the river here and head to the Marching Ant Kingdom war zone, officially joining the civilized ant coalition fighting against the Destroyer. .
At the same time, a large number of transportation teams departing from the Ant United Kingdom continued to enter the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom to unload their goods.
And Zhu Jue, on the day when the meeting ended, was left to eat an unpalatable lunch feast of the leaf-cutting ants, and then returned to the mainland of the Ant Alliance!
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Zhu Jue did not follow the flying team directly back to [Xinyang City] or [Pioneer City]. He entered [Hematite City] on foot from the Leaf-cutting Ant Kingdom in a light vehicle.
After hearing the news, a group of fly tiger knights came to guard Zhu Jue's safety. At the same time, a group of teams mainly composed of magic worker ants and magic soldier ants received orders and were drawn from various nests on the north bank of Qinghe River. Gather at [Hematie City] and wait for Zhu Jue's latest instructions.
On the third day after returning to China, Zhu Jue suddenly left [Hematie City] and went directly to the largest purple gray butterfly larvae farm on the north bank of the canal to inspect the largest larvae farm of purple gray butterflies.
Underneath here, there is a closely guarded breeding farm. In addition to the male ant officials of the big-headed ant family, there is also a breeding team composed of big-headed ants, pavement ants, red forest ants and burrowing ants. They are raised at any time. There are more than 300 purple gray butterfly larvae.
According to the system, all crow honey produced here should be received and sent away by a special team, but Zhu Jue communicated with the management male ant tentacles and asked the other party to report the quantity of crow honey delivered each day in the recent past.
Zhu Jue felt uncontrollable doubts and fears from the other party's tentacles!
