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- I'm the dividing line -

Shipbuilding is difficult to say for the current Divine Envoy King Legion, and it is easy to say that it is easy to say.

The reason for this is that the ants are too small after all, and it is still difficult to grasp the processing technology if they want to make a ship with advanced and mature technology that can be used for a long time by splicing wooden planks like humans.

It's easy to say, but also because of the size of the ants, they can completely abandon the human ship form, a piece of rotten wood, a piece of bamboo tube, and a hollow walnut can all be used as an ant boat.

Coupled with the large number of bronze artifacts that the Divine Envoy King Legion is now equipped with, it is completely possible to do some simple processing improvements, anyway, the things that can float on the water are not all ships in the original sense.

However, it is not enough to have a boat that can float, a qualified boat must have the power and steering ability to allow the boat to go to its destination according to the driver's wishes. Otherwise, it's not a boat, it's just a platform that goes with the flow.

How can you drive the ship to fight against the headwind and current, and move according to your will?

Before the invention of the steam engine, humans could only use the power of the wind and their own power to power ships.

Wind power is undoubtedly all types of sails, and the gradual progress of human sail technology, increasingly complex and sophisticated, has been used until long after the age of steam, showing great vitality.

However, sail technology is not as simple as it seems, and humans did not become proficient in using sidewind and reverse wind until much later, and for a long time, sails were only used when they were downwind. As for the design of the Chinese-style sail that can take advantage of the eight-sided wind, it is simply a black technology for the protagonist.

The ants also face the problem of overcoming headwinds, and the protagonist has no research on sails, he knows that there are square sails and spinnakers, but he himself is confused about how to sail with a tailwind.

But that doesn't stop future ships from having simple sails, at least when they're downwind.

In addition to wind power, human beings use manpower to drive boats the most, whether it is oars, oars or pennies that support boats, it is all human power that does the work.

But with the size of the ants, it is doubtful whether they can use such tools. First of all, don't think about the penny, even if it is a very shallow stream, the ants do not have the ability to use the long penny that reaches the bottom of the water. Oars and oars can be made, but with the size and strength of ants, the protagonist has no confidence in whether they will be enough to drive the ship against the current and headwind.

Although there are many difficulties, the protagonist also firmly believes that there are more ways than difficulties, so he simply mobilized a group of scientific research team members from [Dongyang City], with Xiao Mi II as the team leader, to build a small base on the shore of the Great Lake, specializing in research and development.

Before the onset of winter, the protagonist often stays here and directs shipbuilding work.

Before the winter, there was some progress in shipbuilding. After experimentation, the protagonist finally rejects the proposal to build plank boats and canoes.

The amount of engineering and processing difficulty of both are too great, which is not in line with the current low productivity level of the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Simple boats such as bamboo and wooden valves, which were too susceptible to water, and the slightest drop of water could be fatal to the ant passengers on them, and were not conducive to the transportation of supplies. What's more, these bamboo-wood valves are even more incapable of sheltering passengers in rainy days and windy waves, and no one can predict the weather, nor do they want the ship to become a coffin for water burial.

The protagonist eventually has an increasingly positive opinion of the plan to make a boat out of natural walnuts. Although a successful walnut ship has not yet been made, the research team has been working hard.

- I'm the dividing line -

With the advent of winter, the protagonist did not return to the main nest [Qingqiu City] for the winter, but came to [Linshui City], which had spent two winters.

In this year, the "world situation" on the north bank of the Great River is also changing dramatically, and even [Waterfront City] may once again become the front line, so that the protagonist has to move here to show his attention.

After the beginning of spring last year, the overlord paved ant barbarian country on the north bank of the river encountered a large-scale invasion of a mysterious ant, and it has been resisting with difficulty, and was once attacked near the main nest.

In the end, under the resistance of the whole country, the paving ant barbarian country with many ants still relied on the huge and strong main nest to successfully defend its base camp.

However, this war has also greatly depleted the national strength of the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation. Although the mysterious ants temporarily retreated, the paving ant barbarians were no longer able to regain the lost territory, so they could only give up the territory adjacent to the mountains in the northern part of the invaded barbarian country.

The Northern Expeditionary Army, the remnant of the old king's meeting faction of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, also took advantage of this opportunity to coincidentally capture a large area of the neglected territory in the south of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country, and then began to recuperate due to heavy losses and inability to attack.

If the situation on the north bank of the Great River only develops to this situation, then the protagonist is optimistic, several opponents are depleting each other, and the most powerful opponent is constantly losing blood under siege, which is extremely beneficial to the protagonist's future ambition to dominate the north bank of the Great River.

However, the existence of a variable makes the protagonist have to carefully consider the bad consequences of the north bank of the Great River if it is quickly controlled by an enemy more powerful than the Paving Ant Barbarian State.

This variable is the mysterious ant.

Although due to the numerical inferiority, the Mystic Ant was repelled by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army with heavy casualties. However, these ants, who came from nowhere, did not stop their military expansion.

After a brief respite in the occupied lands in the north of the Paving Ant Barbarians, the ants invaded again. This time, they did not target the Paving Ant Barbarians, but instead targeted some of the indigenous ant tribes in the dense forests outside the eastern borders of the Pave Ant Barbarians, including the Black-headed Sour Ant and the Japanese Black Brown Ant.

These two indigenous ants may be able to rely on small colonies and flexible tactics to give the advantage of the step-by-step paving ant barbarian army.

But in the face of the huge and fierce mysterious ants, the indigenous black-headed sour ant and the Japanese black-brown ant tribe can only be hated and destroyed.

The Mystic Ants are expanding very quickly, and by the end of autumn, their front is almost on the banks of the Great River. From the north and east, the paving ant barbarians formed a semi-encircled posture.

This arouses the vigilance of the protagonist. Because, the power of the mysterious ants is about to come into contact with the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and their own side.

What's worse is that this mysterious ant doesn't seem to have the idea of peaceful coexistence or counterbalance with other ants, and they constantly attack every ant race they care for, as if they are born to destroy other ants.

What makes the protagonist even more vigilant is that these mysterious ants reveal some characteristics that are even more terrifying than parasitic ants.