But it's not just a harvest that farmland can bring.

In the past few days, under the hard work of all the ants in the "Waterfront City", a large amount of grass seeds have been dried and stored in the underground granary, which is enough to support the Divine Envoy King's army stationed in the "Waterfront City" and "Bridgehead" until autumn.

Messengers reported that "Dongyang City" also had a bumper harvest, with larger farmland and more harvests.

Since the beginning of the year, the food problem that has been plaguing the Divine Envoy King's army has been alleviated.

The protagonist even had the heart to expand a few more legions, but this crazy idea was quickly overcome by the protagonist's own sanity. Supporting a new legion for a long time still consumes a lot of resources, and there is no shortage of troops in the Divine Envoy King's legion at present.

After the last anti-encirclement and suppression, the Divine Envoy King's Legion paid the price of hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded, and some disabled veterans were dismissed from the legion and returned to the people to continue to contribute their residual energy.

In order to replenish the shortage of the legion, the protagonist transferred some strong men from the garrison legion of "Waterfront City" to each legion, and then let the queen ant of "Waterfront City" give birth to hundreds of soldier ant eggs, which can be replenished into the garrison legion in the future.

Excess food will be hoarded for emergencies, and it will not be consumed to feed the new legions without leaving a little rich.

After the grass seeds are collected, the rest of the work is to collect fresh and delicate stems and leaves, which are dried and stored as winter fodder.

All that remains are grass roots, thick stems, and dead leaves. These half-dead weeds occupy the space of the farmland and are not conducive to the next crop.

Therefore, the ants have to work hard to cut down these weeds, pull out the grass roots, and dry them thoroughly to avoid affecting the next sowing and harvest.

This work requires the use of sharp pottery and stone chips provided by Dongyang Castle, which can easily cut through tough grass stalks, and if the same work is done with ant jaws, it would take several times more effort.

These tools were developed by the scientific research team led by the secretary, and after the protagonist provided ideas, they quickly mastered the method of roasting the gravel near the fire, then watering it to make it expand and shrink into pieces, and then obtain suitable sharp stone chips, and then polish them.

Pottery shards, on the other hand, are made by firing and polishing, and the pottery shards are not as sharp as gravel shards, but they are easier to prepare, and the two can be used together.

So in the farmland, you can often see such a scene: several worker ants bite the grass stem with their big jaws, firmly fix the vertical grass stalks from several directions, and one or two soldier ants hold pottery shards or gravel shards in their large jaws, and cut off the grass stalks little by little along the roots of the grass stems.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist plans to leave for the main nest tomorrow, but that night, something big happens.

These days, it has not rained for a long time, and the weather is getting drier.

At nightfall, the sky was not heavy with clouds, and the thunder kept rumbling and roaring, but not a drop of rain.

Even in the "Waterfront City", through the thick bark and fibrous tissue, the protagonist can clearly hear the thunder.

This is a dry thunder, that is, as the saying goes, "light thunder does not rain", is a cloud discharge phenomenon, often because there is no water vapor enough to form rain between the clouds, but only a large number of positive and negative charges, so the formation of dry thunder.

The protagonist falls asleep soundly to the sound of thunder, not at all aware of the impending danger.

- I'm the dividing line -

The next day, the protagonist didn't get up early, and when he got up, he ate breakfast slowly.

Breakfast was more hearty, and I drank a multigrain porridge made after fresh grass seeds soaked in a clay pot overnight, a few slices of roasted fresh mealworm jerky, a little salt ground into powder, and a little berry jam just collected yesterday.

After having a certain status and resources, the protagonist is also doing his best to live according to the behavior and habits of the original world, especially in eating. His eating habits have also sparked a wave of imitation within the territory.

But before breakfast was finished, Da Rong had already run in in a panic.

The protagonist just felt funny at first, these male ants, especially the male ants from the main nest, are particularly concerned about their status, and they must pay attention to their prestige all the time.

But Da Rong only passed on a piece of news, and the protagonist couldn't sit still.

"Skyfire !!???"

The so-called skyfire is a wildfire, a fire that burns on its own in the open field.

There is a fire in the main nest of the big-headed ant kingdom, which is considered a gift from the gods, and although it is not of much use except for winter heating, it is also a sign that the big-headed ant kingdom is favored by the gods.

And the fire that occurs in the wild, which is considered by the ants to be the fire of punishment, means death every time it appears!

The protagonist guesses that the wildfire may have been caused by yesterday's thunderstorm.

He immediately climbed outside the big banyan tree and condescended to understand the situation.

I saw that on the south bank of the river, there was already a thick smoke billowing on the skyline in the distance, and a red line of fire was running across the entire field of vision, rapidly approaching the direction of "Waterfront City" from south to north.

This line of fire inexorably devoured everything it encountered, and the dry weeds and tender green trees all turned into a pitch-black scorched earth after the firelight.

Countless insects only realized the disaster at the moment when the fire was imminent, some tried to fly high, but were quickly dried in the scorching updraft, and some staggered to escape, only to be caught up by the flames and burned themselves.

Only a lucky few were able to fly away in time or escape by hiding in an underground cave.

This fire was discovered by the Flying Knight Patrol, who found the scorching heat in the distance during their routine patrol, and hurried back to report it without daring to get close to the line of fire.

If it weren't for the Flying Knight, perhaps the ants of Waterfront City would have been like other insects, only realizing at the last minute that disaster is coming.

The protagonist assesses that there is still a water barrier between the "Waterfront City" and the south bank of the river, and the island is basically full of stones, so it should not be damaged by fire.

But in the farmland on the south bank of the river, where there are still a large number of ants working, the dense and dry farmland weeds are simply a reservoir of natural fuel. And the ants there don't know that death is approaching.

The protagonist immediately orders the Flying Knight to go to the farmland and nearby to convey the command to all the ants they encounter to withdraw to their nests.

Dozens of flying knights led the way, and in addition, the protagonist had no way to deal with this natural disaster, so he could only watch the fire approach the river little by little, approaching the "Waterfront City".