Along the way, there are the guiding pheromones left by the envoy of the most old king, and the march of the protagonist and his party is very fast. The flavor of these pheromones has been told to the protagonist by the envoy, and the pheromones are only valid for about a week, so they are not afraid of being discovered by other big-headed ants.

In the afternoon, the protagonist leads his army to approach the destination, "Stone Pillar City".

The scenery here is very different from that of Dongyang Castle and most of the areas along the way, and the terrain is starting to become rugged, and the ants have to struggle to climb along the sloping ground. The ground beneath your feet is no longer fertile soil, but is dominated by loose gravel and gravel, with only a few vegetation growing tenaciously.

At this point, pheromones come to an abrupt end.

And not far away, a big-headed worker ant is wandering. The protagonist and her army are soon spotted by the worker ant, who first moves over, and when she reaches the field of vision, she is stunned for a moment, and then runs away - she may have mistaken it for an enemy attack and tried to flee back to the nest to warn her.

The protagonist grabbed the reins and patted Tempest's back gently, only to see Tempest's eyes light up after holding back for a long time, and after a jump, he began to accelerate, and quickly caught up with the fleeing worker ants.

The worker ant apparently thought that he would not survive, and despite his fear, he still grew a big jaw and wanted to make a last stand.

The protagonist makes a gesture of peace, and waits until the sensitive and loyal worker ant calms down before he shows his intentions.

The worker ant finally calmed down, stepped forward cautiously, and made a slight contact with the protagonist's tentacles before relieving his heart.

After confirming the protagonist's scent and identity, she motioned for the protagonist to wait and return to the nest to report the news of the protagonist's arrival to the leadership.

The protagonist also confirmed the identity information of the other party, and its smell was consistent with the oldest envoy Wang who was in contact with it the day before yesterday.

The army was stationed on the rocky ground that sloped upwards, and he commanded his men to begin building temporary camps.

The protagonist does not intend to bring the First Legion into "Stone Pillar City", and the Queen Ant Legacy faction will obviously not agree to him doing so, after all, this is a military force that can immediately wipe out the Queen Ant Legacy faction.

The protagonist has already let the most old Wang's subordinates see that his army is nearby, so that even if the other party has any thoughts that he shouldn't have, he has to weigh whether he can afford to provoke such a force.

Roll and the First Legion have been fighting outside for many years, and it is already easy to build a temporary camp.

There were no stout trees nearby, so they chose the sunny leeward south side of a boulder and began digging underground.

This kind of makeshift camp basically does not consider drainage and food preservation, and does not need meeting rooms and queen nest rooms, but simple passages and nest rooms are enough to accommodate more than a thousand warriors and the small amount of food they brought to the queen queen faction.

The excavated earth and stones were piled up at the entrance and exit of the temporary camp, and a wall of earth enclosed them, which was a simple defensive facility.

After the temporary camp was built, some of the fighters began to go out hunting in small groups, but the harvest was not much. Fortunately, the soldiers of the First Legion set off after eating and drinking, and they would not go hungry if they did not eat for three or four days, and the hunt was more about preparing for a rainy day.

The protagonist only gets a reply from the eldest king near dusk, and a messenger hurries in from the southwest, and is spotted by the first legion's vigilant scythe warriors and brought to the protagonist.

The protagonist of this messenger knows that he is the oldest Wang envoy he has communicated with the day before yesterday. She was clearly intimidated by the Scythe Hunter Scout Warriors, who were sturdy and burly, and although they had the scent of the Big-headed Ant family, they were different from their own ants.

The protagonist receives the messenger, who passes a packet.

In the information packet, the eldest Wang said: He is very happy that the Divine Envoy King came to the "true Lord's Lair" as promised, and the Divine Envoy King has made a correct decision, only the Queen Ant is the rightful ruler of the kingdom, and the two sides can cooperate under this premise. The messenger reported to me that the Messenger King had brought his famous legion, but the "true Lord's Lair" did not want this legion to enter, so he could simply come alone. The sun is about to set, and the Divine Messenger King can come as soon as possible, and we have food and a nest ready to welcome you.

Unsurprisingly, the Queen Ant's Legacy faction in Pillar City doesn't want the protagonist's legion to enter their territory. They use the ant's characteristic straightforward and not euphemistic language to tell the protagonist what they mean.

However, the protagonist can't go alone, and he has to spend the night there.

So, the protagonist asks the messenger to reply to the old king that his legions are here to escort him, and they will be stationed in the same place. The protagonist himself will lead a team of escorts to the "real main lair". Considering that it was getting late today, he would go tomorrow after the sun rose.

At the same time, the protagonist also asks the representative of the mysterious big-headed ant "remnant" if he has arrived here.

When the messenger returned, he returned when it was nearly dark.

She brings the latest news: the protagonist agrees to go to the "real main lair" with a squad of guards early the next morning. As for the big-headed ant "remnants", they have received the news that they have come here to meet, and with feedback, the queen of the "remnants" will come here in person to meet with the protagonist.

Well!? Queen, as the name in this packet, is a new word that mixes the queen and the king, and it is clear that the ruler of the mysterious big-headed ant "remnant" is the queen, or the queen is one of the components of its ruling class.

This verifies the protagonist's guess that the alien big-headed ant "remnants" have something in common with the local big-headed ant kingdom's queen inheritance faction: the queen rules the queen, so they can reach cooperation on this basis.

It's really interesting "remnants", the protagonist has lived on both sides of the river for more than a year, and has also learned about the social structure of different races such as big-headed ants, paving ants, and hunting sickle fierce ants.

This is also in line with the law of evolution of human society: with the progress of society, patriarchy replaces matriarchy.

But now, a big-headed ant "remnant" with an obviously higher level of civilization is very likely to be matriarchy, which undoubtedly subverts the protagonist's previous cognition. It seems that the inherent thinking of human civilization cannot be rigidly applied to the ant world.

After the exchange, the messenger stays in the makeshift camp for the night, and tomorrow morning, she will guide the protagonist to the entrance to the "real main nest".

Although, in fact, the protagonist already knows where the destination is.