These swamp-based insects are very different from the plains where the Legion of the Divine Envoy Kings used to live, but they have little effect on the ants for the time being, but maybe only temporarily.

After expanding the [Swamp City] inside the stump to the point where it cannot be expanded, the protagonist begins to organize the ants to expand their nests in other ways, as well as organize food production activities.

After all, the food brought by the walnut ship fleet is only enough to last for half a month, and the next time the fleet delivers supplies, it will take half a month if it goes well, and if it doesn't go well, I don't know what year and month it will be.

Moreover, as more and more troops are transported by the walnut ship fleet, the maintenance period of the grain will become shorter and shorter, and [Swamp City] cannot rely on foreign supplies forever, and self-reliance is the fine tradition of the Divine Envoy King's legion territory.

The protagonist sits here, and he also has this consideration - to make [Swamp City] a front-line base that is basically self-sufficient in food as soon as possible, and reduce the logistical burden.

Among the first supplies brought by the fleet were some crop seeds, mealworms, and fly eggs.

But now, [Marsh City] is just a stump and a fixed small amount of soil, and the whole island is too small and the soil moisture is too great to grow crops such as dogtail grass, tiger tail grass, and early maturing grass brought by the ants, and perhaps only the local calamus reeds can grow vigorously.

The interior of [Swamp City] is also extremely humid, and the lower part of the nest often seeps water, so the ants have to use the upper part of the relatively dry nest as a granary and dormitory, and the lower part is temporarily abandoned, making the already small nest ** even more crowded.

The breeding conditions for mealworm larvae and maggots should not be too humid, and there is a lack of suitable feeding conditions in the current [Swamp City], so breeding, a common means of obtaining food for the army of the gods, cannot be implemented for the time being.

Therefore, the protagonist deliberately expanded and raised the upper part of [Swamp City] to avoid the humid environment at the bottom, provide more space before the arrival of the next wave of troops, and also accommodate the farm.

However, at present, [Swamp City] relies on natural tree stumps, and the use of internal space has reached the end, and if it is to be expanded, it cannot be in the form of the traditional underground nests or tree nests of the big-headed ants.

The protagonist deliberately has an above-ground nest similar to an anthill built by African ants or termites.

These large and spectacular African ant mounds, known as "ant hills", are built by small ants or termites using saliva, secretions, and excrement mixed with soil, wood chips, and broken grass, which is very similar to the "ant concrete" often used by big-headed ants.

The protagonist has previously built fortresses in many places using ant concrete, a material that quickly becomes very strong and strong under the sun, proving its excellent properties. However, this ant concrete also has the disadvantage that like cement, its finished tensile and lateral stress resistance is relatively poor, which limits its use as a material for large buildings.

However, this is not an insurmountable flaw, humans have successfully overcome the shortcomings of cement with the combination of reinforced concrete, and African ants and termites have also deliberately mixed plant fibers into the construction of ant mounds to strengthen them, and the protagonist has already thought of this solution.

It's just that building such an anthill will consume a lot of labor, and when the underground nest can meet the demand, the protagonist is too lazy to build a large number of buildings.

But in an environment like a swamp, the advantages of above-ground nests are manifested. At present, [Swamp City] is relatively safe due to its distance from other lands, and the garrison has nothing to do for the time being, so it can be fully engaged in the work of building ant mounds on the ground.

The next day, the protagonist mobilizes all the ants to start expanding their nests upwards, first harvesting some of the weeds and vines that grow around the stump, and then waiting for them to dry. Due to the fog in the swampy area, the sunlight is very affected, and it will take a week for the stems of the plants to be combined.

During the week-long waiting period, the Divine Envoy King Legion did nothing, collecting other supplies, including dung, and hunting to replenish food as much as possible.

This small island is too small, and its prey is very limited, and at the beginning of the landing of the Divine Envoy King's legion, it has already swept through and captured a small amount of prey.

After the local prey is exhausted, the ants can only watch the sky for food, except for the occasional insects that can fly or jump and occasionally come to the island and become food.

The ants are now focusing on hunting targets in the waters. The swampy waters are actually full of life, and all kinds of aquatic insects are very active, and some will come to the shore from time to time to rest or hide from enemies.

In addition, the protagonist also accidentally finds fish and shrimp and other creatures in the water.

After confirming that the world is free of mammals, birds, and reptiles, most of the time the protagonist can only see insects and arthropods, which are new species that the protagonist discovers.

These fish and shrimp are small fish and shrimp that are disdainful of being eaten in the human world, but compared to ants, these fish and shrimp are already water giants the size of a great white shark.

Since there are so many creatures in the water, it is natural that the ants can "rely on the water to eat water". In addition to some prey that happened to come to the shore and were caught, the protagonist also took the ants to weave a fish cage using the sturdy hemp fibers they carried, which was no longer difficult for the ants.

Framed by a handful of sturdy plant stems and netted with hemp fibers, these cages have traps that can only enter and exit for fish, shrimp and aquatic insects, and are placed on the deep side of the stump of the island.

By this means, the Fourth Legion was able to harvest enough food to feed itself in [Swamp City], with a slight surplus. Now there is a shortage of materials, only enough to make this fish cage, and if you want to expand production, you have to wait for the next batch of ships to bring hemp fiber and other necessary materials.

After the collected plants have finally dried to the ground, with the help of the powerful protagonist, the ants weave the stems of the plants into a hemispherical frame, and then use finer plant fibers to weave the frame into a spiderweb-like structure, and finally apply ant concrete, and the appearance of an ant mound is formed, the size of half a basketball.

When the sun and summer heat dry the ant concrete, the ants can divide and decorate the space inside the new ant mound.