After the flames approached the riverbank, not only did the flying knight not stay in the sky, but the protagonist couldn't stand the scorching air current, and was forced to hide inside the relatively cool "Waterfront City".

Inside the city, the protagonist has absolutely no idea what is going on in the outside world, he can only imagine.

It's not just imagination, before hiding inside the banyan tree, the protagonist has already seen the cruel scene of some of his ants being burned by the approaching fire.

Only then will he feel that having too good eyesight is not all good, and he can clearly see that his people are struggling, fleeing, but they can't escape, and there is nothing he can do.

Under the heat and flames, these industrious peasants, or brave warriors, brilliant hunters, could only curl up in pain, allowing the red-yellow flowers of death to lick their shells and burn their souls together.

The change in the outside temperature is not felt in the banyan tree, and only when you are close to the entrance of the cave can you feel a noticeable increase in temperature.

The ants don't dare to go out, and the outside world must be like hell at this moment. Although wildfires spread quickly, the line of fire will cross the border in a short time. But that high wall of fire was not the whole story of the disaster, and the endless ashes and remnants of the flames that followed were just as terrible, and no creature could stay on the scorched earth that had just been burned.

There was a feeling of suffocation in the city, which was a sign of a lack of oxygen.

Wildfires consume a lot of oxygen, and the unextinguished sparks in the ash heaps are still competing with the surviving creatures for the remaining oxygen.

The protagonist is powerless and can only endure the uncomfortable low-oxygen environment with his subordinates. Fortunately, this is just a wildfire, not an incendiary bomb or a cloud burst bomb, and it will not let everyone die of suffocation together.

Maybe God had mercy on the surviving creatures, or maybe it was the scorching flames that stirred the air currents and steamed a lot of water vapor into the sky. After being trapped in the city for a few hours, the protagonist seems to hear the sound of dripping rain.

So, a scout was sent out, and he quickly reported that it was indeed raining outside.

The majesty and thoroughness of this rain also made the ants experience the ordeal of cold rain again after experiencing the flames.

Although it was daytime, the ants could not go out, count the damage, or find the bodies of their dead companions.

It is not until sunrise the next day that the intermittent rain finally stops completely, and the protagonist comes to the banyan tree and sees a completely different world.

On the south bank of the river, there was already a gray-black land, all the ground was soaked with black ash and mud, and only a few trees still maintained a trace of greenery at the top. Weeds, farmland, and shrubs were all spared, with the exception of a few black debris that showed they had ever existed.

The ground was full of puddles, and the puddles were also dyed gray-black, and there was a murky flow of water.

The ants began to go out, and after a day and a night of rain, the ground was muddy, but there was no heat.

They need to find the bodies of their dead comrades for burial, but that's not the point. In wildfires, there are sure to be a lot of insects killed, and these insect carcasses will be important food.

The ants need to hurry up to bring the food back, dry it, and store it.

Such a large-scale wildfire must have burned a lot of creatures, and the amount of prey that can be caught in the second half of the year will be greatly affected, and some losses must be made up for now.

The protagonist sees that the leaves of the banyan tree near the south bank of the river are also a little burnt, which is scorched by the scorching air.

Fortunately, the island where the "Waterfront City" is located is all stone, and there are no flammable materials, otherwise the wandering sparks would probably cross the river and ignite the place.

Even the north bank of the Great River has not been spared, and the river is only a dozen meters wide in total, which cannot completely block the flight of Mars.

Now, both sides of the river are scorched earth, and if the protagonist hadn't sent a flying knight to inform the "bridgehead" to be on guard, the "bridgehead" would have suffered heavy losses if it was unprepared.

The protagonist rides on Xiaoqing II and makes a tour around the banks of the river.

The situation on the north bank of the river was slightly better, and the fire area was only about 10,000 square meters, after which the fire stopped due to the rain. The approximate range, that is, the area of the "bridgehead" and one or two nearby paving ant barbarian secondary nests.

The south bank of the Great River is different, the protagonist flies several meters in the air, and everything is black as far as the eye can see.

The protagonist flies all the way and finds that there is scorched earth within a radius of several kilometers, and these burned areas are the hinterland of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, which was originally a fertile and anointed land.

It seems that the impact of this wildfire will last for a long time, and it will have a huge impact on the internal and foreign affairs of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

Back in Waterfront City, the protagonist has once again postponed his plan to go to the main nest, and now the post-disaster reconstruction work is even more important.

Later in the evening, Banyan and Rambotu sent messengers to report the situation.

In the "bridgehead", dozens of worker ants and soldier ants died, and the loss was not large, but the ecology around the nest has been completely destroyed.

Waterfront City lost more than 300 worker and soldier ants, mainly from farming. The farmland has been completely burned down, and the nearby vegetation has been largely burned to the ground.

Fortunately, after a fire, there is always tenacious vegetation that survives and brings hope for new life. Fire is sometimes just a natural force of nature that renews itself.

Some species of trees are able to re-germinate and grow in burned ground, especially aspen, birch, leaf pine and Korean pine. All of these species need full sunlight to thrive, and the land after a fire is uncovered by vegetation, so the sun is abundant, making it ideal for new trees to grow.

Aspen and birch trees germinate and grow rapidly from stumps and burned roots, and seeds of these species can be scattered by the wind and drifted far away to re-germinate.

The cones of short-leaved pine and black pine trees are hard and have a waxy protective layer on the outside, which allows them to survive the fire and continue to germinate. The fruit of black spruce is also a semi-hard species, and it will sprout into a forest in the years after it has been overfired.

The soil is rich in ash and is rich in nutrients, the mineral soil is exposed, the weeds and shrubs that used to compete for nutrients are burned, and there is plenty of sunlight to help these trees regenerate.

In addition to the trees, the vitality of the weeds is even more surprising and tenacious, and while the trees are still germinating, the weeds can sprout from the roots of the grass that do not die in the ground, from the surviving seeds that are buried deep and not roasted, and become the main vegetation in the space where competitors are sacrificed.

Even insects, despite heavy casualties, are able to reproduce and migrate to regain their populations within a few years.