According to the information that the protagonist already has, the situation in the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom is relatively complicated, and the male ants think they have complete authority, but the queen ant still secretly maintains the inheritance and has her own power.

Is this true in the kingdom of big-headed ants?

Judging from the escape of the queen ant after the wedding ceremony, it seems that it is not as serious as the situation of the paving ant barbarians, but this does not negate this possibility.

Every year, a small number of big-headed queens still disappear. In addition, the protagonist has been here for a year, and knows that there are often some remote side nests that go missing. And within the male ant class, there is still a minority faction like the oldest king who sympathizes with the queen ant, and the oldest king has disappeared mysteriously.

These are all suspicious points, and they all seem normal on their own, but when they are combined, the protagonist feels that there is a connection between them.

The protagonist is also not entirely sure that there will be no dissidents among the queens under his command.

Fortunately, "Dongyang City" is just a secondary nest, and before the arrival of the protagonist, it is not special, unlike the main nest, which is rich in materials and has many queens, and there is only one queen, and the probability of the successor of the queen ant should not be high.

So, the protagonist simply doesn't take any precautions at all. Judging from the style of the inheritors in the paving ant queen, they are still relatively peaceful, just keeping the inheritance secret, and then pinning their hopes on the newborn ant queen to run outside to stand on their own after the wedding ceremony, and do not take the road of resisting the male ant class by force, and the harm is not great.

In this way, the protagonist doesn't need to worry too much for the time being, he still has to focus on the upcoming war with the Paving Ant Barbarian Army on the north bank of the Great River.

At first, the protagonist also thought about sending a messenger to "Dongyang City" to make Lan Bofei more vigilant. Eventually, though, he gave up, fearing that there would be so-called queen guards or sympathizers among the messengers......

Once this kind of thing is leaked, the harm is even greater, so it is better to put it aside first and wait for yourself to free up.

- I'm the dividing line -

The captive paver ant queen lays the first paver ant eggs as agreed with the protagonist. The protagonist also feeds her with good food and drink every day, and the cooperation agreement between the two parties is performed normally, and there is no abnormality.

A team of paving ants and worker ants who secretly trekked from "Dongyang City" have also arrived, and they will start a new life in the "bridgehead", and will no longer appear in the field of vision of the king meeting on the south bank of the river. Externally, they have already been "executed" in order to perfunctory the demands of the King's Council.

These paver ant workers and their cousins who hatched later did not know that there was a paver ant queen in the tightly guarded place inside the "bridgehead".

The protagonist is busy with another thing, and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army should have discovered the existence of the "bridgehead".

But now the Paving Ant Barbarian Army not only did not send troops to attack the "bridgehead", but even the scouts sent here began to decrease.

This action is unusual, and the protagonist deems it necessary to conduct a reconnaissance of enemy territory. Due to the visual limitations of the other males, this strategic scouting can only be undertaken by the protagonist.

The previous experience of being attacked by wasps in the air made the protagonist start to pay attention to the safety of the air. He decided not to set off alone this time, but sent ten flying knights to accompany him, and the Flyhawk was among them as the captain.

Considering that this reconnaissance can take days away, the protagonist also needs to prepare enough supplies for himself and the flying knights.

Eventually, after two days of preparation, the small reconnaissance team finally got into action.

The scout team consists of eleven horsemen, with the protagonist riding Xiaoqing II in the lead, followed by the other nine flying knights led by the Flyhawk.

Unable to command from the air, the Dragonfly Hawks are ordered to follow the protagonist at all times.

On the mounts of the flying knights, in addition to the knights, there is also a package made of ant silk, which contains a small piece of dried meat, enough for a knight to feast on. Counting the ants' hunger tolerance, this team could theoretically survive in the wild for a week without relying on extra supplies.

The Flying Knights didn't come out empty-handed this time, they carried weapons specially designed and manufactured by the protagonist.

The previous aerial battle with the wasp made the protagonist realize the shortcomings of the flying knights' lack of combat ability in the air. After returning, he sends a messenger to "Dongyang City" to ask the technical team of the little secretary to make some special weapons according to the plan provided by the protagonist.

The first is the sling, which is similar to the slings used by the Legion of the Divine Envoys on land, but with a sling fixed to each round of ammunition, instead of the type of slings that separate the slings from the ammo as in the Army.

A total of four slings hang from the left side of the mount, and the flying knights can reach it as soon as they reach out, grabbing the end of the rope and shaking it off. Flying knights have been trained to spin and throw slings while flying in the air.

These slings may not be lethal enough, and can only cause damage when they hit vulnerable parts such as the target's compound eyes and wings.

Insufficient Slings will spin around the target when it touches the opposing flying unit, and if properly positioned, it will even bind the target and prevent it from flying properly.

The second weapon is the spear, which consists of a wooden handle and a sharp spearhead held in place with ant glue and ant silk.

The spearhead is flint, carefully polished from sharp flint collected by worker ants. It can be said that these spearheads are condensed with a large number of man-hours, and they are by no means cheap from the perspective of cost.

Expensive things generally don't work badly.

After experiments, the flying knights were able to pierce the snail shell with their spears after accelerating their sprints, and theoretically the carapace of ordinary insects could not stop such punctures.

The fly in the ointment is that after each successful stab, the spear breaks. This expensive weapon is a disposable.

Due to the difficulty of carrying spears, the protagonist has designed a spear holster on the right side of the mount, and each flying knight can only carry one spear, otherwise it will significantly hinder the dexterity of the mount.

In this way, the flying knights finally have their own armament, and they have gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of being bare-handed in the past.

However, the flying knights such as the Flying Eagle also found a special protagonist for this purpose, and they thought that as a king, they should not personally participate in the battle.

And then scolded back by the protagonist.,These flying knights are getting more and more tired as the king's arrogance.,First I didn't want to be a messenger.,Now I don't want to be a warrior.,Do you want the protagonist to raise you for nothing?

This time, the protagonist is even more determined to reform the Flying Knights - a team that is troublesome, cowardly, disobedient and consumes a lot of supplies, must be completely purged.

Under the "obscenity" of the Divine Envoy King, these flying knights reluctantly carried weapons and set off together as the protagonist's guards.