The next day was the day when the transport team arrived once every three days. They wanted to transport the specialties of this nest. Zhu Jue asked curiously but was unable to satisfy his curiosity. It was getting late, so he planned to stay until tomorrow.
So he spent the night in this simple nest, sleeping on a mat made of grass fibers.
This made him very emotional - even when he first crossed over, he slept on soft ant silk mats. There were only a handful of times when he slept on such straw mats, although sometimes he even lived in the open air. But after all, this is not an open-air environment. From time to time, tough filaments would poke into his breathing hole while sleeping, making the flesh inside feel itchy. It was not comfortable at all.
In this nest, a small amount of delicacies transferred from the ant alliance, such as felt, ant silk fabrics, and exquisite pottery, are monopolized by the two ant queens, and they obviously have no intention of asking this ant queen.
"Dear Guest" shares some. Zhu Jue was not angry and kept calm. His guards did complain, but Zhu Jue asked them to restrain themselves. In the end, the guards finally managed to get some stoneware for workers. Zhu Jue didn't want to use it, so the guards brought it themselves. Cooked some food.
In the evening, Zhu Jue ate the dry food he brought with him, but he declined the Japanese ant's offer of vomiting food to feed him.
You have to drink water by yourself. There will be clean dew dripping into the cracks in the rocks around early morning. Zhu Jue, his guards, and many Japanese ants are all here to get water. The local water source is scarce, so water needs to be used throughout the day. To get this dew, you have to go down to the valley to get water during drought.
Then Zhu Jue stayed bored all morning, waiting for the transport team that would arrive at noon. Zhu Jue was lazily basking in the sun on the rocks outside the lair. He felt the heat gathering in his body and felt quite comfortable. Such idle leisure made him feel a rare sense of comfort.
The guards stood guard, while Japanese ants were looking for food not far away and further away.
These big ants are very fast and nimble, but they startle when they encounter any disturbance, so their movements appear sneaky and have no majestic temperament befitting their size.
At noon, the transport team finally arrived. This was a small flying transport team composed of 6 migratory locusts. It is said that this lair is the last stop of their journey. After picking up the goods here, they will fly directly back to the nearby Big Chao City. .
The place where Zhu Jue was basking in the sun was the temporary take-off and landing point. He saw cages made of grass stems next to the locusts. Many of them were filled with goods, mainly various high-quality ingredients, and some unknown plants. But I think they are all precious items. Items with lower value will not be transported by air. They will be transported by ground or short-distance water transportation.
In addition to the loaded cages, there are also some other goods hanging directly on the side of the locust, and some jars and jars are tightly wrapped and placed on the abdomen.
The ant leading the team jumped down, it was a male ant that raised its abdomen. Zhu Jue's bodyguard came forward to negotiate, and the other party came to greet him soon.
Zhu Jue had a brief conversation with him, and the other party said that he had witnessed the honor of the Divine Envoy King, and when they met now, he was full of excitement.
Only then did Zhu Jue know that this male ant was quite old and was born in a place that had fallen into decline last year.
He was resettled to the new territory in the south as an evacuated refugee. Because the Belly Ant clan is a relatively submissive and peaceful ant clan in the Ant Alliance, most of the male ants were placed in jobs. He led this small-scale flying transport team, I pick up and transport goods every three days. I have been working for half a year and I am already proficient in the business.
After hearing the thought of the fall, Zhu Jue felt a little sad. Although the strategy on the north bank of Qinghe River, after the setback in the battle, had been decided to defend He and the two areas, other areas could be abandoned.
But after all, it is an important source of money, so the evacuation operation is ranked last. The alluvial gold that has been accumulated due to the occupied transportation capacity must be transported before being evacuated.
But I didn't expect that the destroyers came much faster than expected. Even with warning, nearly half of the gold sand was not transported away in time. Tens of thousands of ants were surrounded and died. This was the first time on the battlefield on the north bank of Qinghe River since the battle. Lose.
After the fall, the United Nations cut off the cable bridges across the river here. So far, there were once as many as 12 cable bridges on the Qinghe River, and only 2 of them remained.
The leader of the male ant group said hello to Zhu Jue and then went to work. The Japanese ant workers, who had been waiting for a long time, carefully took a pottery jar filled with a few drops of crow honey and gave it to the queen ants. .
Then they took out the fat, white worms one by one from the depths of the nest, and after counting them, they stuffed them one by one into the empty cage next to the locust.
This is the only living creature transported by the locust transport team. It can be seen that the cages are specially made. Not only are the holes small, but they are also padded with many moist leaves to provide shade and moisture. The big worms seem to like this environment very much and hurriedly get in to escape. The outside sun shines unobstructed.
These worms are wasp larvae, and they are the larvae of the golden-ringed wasp. They are the specialty of this nest and the basis for this tribe to stay in local autonomy.
Within the Legion of the King of Divine Envoys, combat flying knights are switching to wasp mounts on a large scale. Among the wasp mounts, the golden-ringed wasp mount is the most ferocious and noble. Only the flying knights with the highest status and the bravest can ride it.
Although the Ant Alliance has established many wasp breeding bases in China, many queens die every winter. The wasps bred by self-cultivated queens often show physical deterioration. Therefore, the wasp breeding industry still needs to capture new wild bees every year. Afterwards, the genes are improved, and the young bees are also captured to expand the bee colony faster.
It is not easy to catch wild bees. There are many bees in the plain areas of the mainland of China, but wasp colonies are rare. On the contrary, there are many types of wasps in the southern mountainous areas.
These Japanese humpback ants are better at catching wasps. Although they are not particularly good at fighting among ants, they have lived here for so long and have long adapted to the barren environment in the mountains. Wasps are common creatures here. Japanese humpbacks The ant tribe had long thought of wasps.
The Japanese ant's method is not to provoke mature swarms, but only to look for those lonely queens who build their own nests after the beginning of spring every year.
Now that it is summer, Zhu Jue has no way to witness the unique and witty bee-catching process of the Japanese Camponotus ant. Last night, the Japanese Camponotus ants were all too dumb to explain, but today’s action The leader of the abdominal ants had seen that scene with his own eyes.
He described it to Zhu Jue as follows:
