Chapter 43: Before the Northern Expedition (4)

I see, so everything makes sense. Only then did the protagonist suddenly realize that all the mysteries that had plagued him before seemed to be opened and suddenly opened.

From this message, the protagonist thinks of another ant, a paving ant, and a paving queen - Black Pearl.

Black Pearl grew up in the main nest of the Paving Ant Nation, but right under the nose of the Paving Ant King Conference, she was educated in the secret inheritance of the queen ant.

This inheritance believes that the entire ant world was originally ruled by the queen ant, who was the orthodox ruler, and the society at that time was orderly.

The current male rulers are a group of thieves who have usurped power, and their rule is not recognized by the queen's secret inheritance lock. Moreover, the queen secret inheritance believes that the evil male ants do not allow the young females to receive education in order to limit the queen and the female.

But the queen ants still secretly pass on the knowledge and experience from generation to generation, dreaming of reviving the tradition of the queen of the ant. They can even get some male and worker allegiance.

In retaliation, the Queen Secret Inheritance encourages young females to find an opportunity to escape and develop their own colony after attending the Wedding Flight Ceremony, following the ancient tradition, to establish a colony ruled by the queen. And it is said that there is already a precedent for success.

Now it seems that not only in the Paving Ant Country, this kind of queen is secretly inherited, but also in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

The protagonist had the same concern before, although considering that "Dongyang City" and "Linshui City" were both ordinary secondary nests in the past, and there was only one queen stationed all year round, it is unlikely that there will be a secret inheritor.

The current queen ants are all cultivated by the protagonist himself, and they should not be affected by foreign thoughts. Therefore, the protagonist does not take action.

But now it seems that at least in the main nest of the big-headed ant kingdom, the power of the queen's secret inheritance is still very strong, and even the oldest king with a high status in the king's meeting is also one of them.

Moreover, unlike the queen inheritors of the paving ant kingdom who tried to influence the young female ants and escaped from the restraints through the negative means of escaping after the marriage flight, the queen inheritors of the big-headed ant kingdom had more intense methods and fled en masse.

The protagonist sketches the faces of this group of inheritors in his mind.

This should be a small group centered on some queens, with some worker ants, soldier ants, and even male ants being loyal.

This small group is quite cohesive, and it has not revealed its existence for so many years, and the king meeting of the big-headed ant kingdom may not know anything about this force under their noses.

The small group of queen inheritors has been carefully and slowly gathering strength with the long history of the big-headed ant kingdom, and perhaps they have also adopted the same method as paving the ant kingdom before, hoping that the young female ants will leave the group after marriage and flight to establish the ideal kingdom.

However, there are always failed new queens who are forced to return to their main nest, and they are the inheritors from generation to generation.

However, these queen inheritors have been exposed to new ideas and the vast free world outside, and are they really willing to spend the rest of their lives in the darkness of the earth, making wedding dresses for the newborn female ants every year?

Now, at last, there is a chance to escape again - the eldest king of this generation has become a supporter of the secret inheritance of the queen ant.

The eldest king has a special status and noble status, because of his duties, he has a separate dormitory, located at the lowest level of the whole nest, far away from the bedrooms of other kings or kings, but very close to some areas where the queen can move.

Although the queen ants do not have enough freedom of movement in the main nest, the supporters of the worker and soldier ants around them are their eyes, antennae and arthropods.

With the help of these supporters who can move freely, the queen inheritors can not only keep in touch with each other, but also communicate with the eldest king.

Perhaps it was in this kind of communication again and again that they perfected the final plan with the most old Wang.

The eldest Wang announced the start of the retreat, temporarily free from the outside world.

Then, some of the Queen Legacy supporters began to come to the Oldest King's Bedchamber to dig a hidden passage to the free world outside.

The noises that the protagonist hears while resting in a makeshift room near the oldest king's bedroom are probably the noises of the lineage supporters' construction.

Finally, the passage was opened by the industrious ants, and the eldest king, three queens with inheritance, and a few supporters escaped from the main nest through the passage and headed south.

There must still be queen inheritors and their supporters who have not left the main nest. Because this operation is of the same nature as the previous encouragement of young female ants to escape after the wedding flight, it is only a means of realizing the secret inheritance of the queen, and it is not possible to bet all on a plan that may fail.

The inheritance in the main nest still needs to be continued by the queen inheritor, so there will be inheritance forces willingly dormant in the main nest.

As for the eldest king and the queen ant who went south, they would inevitably be discovered by the ants of the secondary nest who were foraging along the way, but with the identity of the oldest king and the main nest breath on his body, this line would not be intercepted.

They rushed to the south as fast as they could, and built a nest to practice their ideas, which they called the "real side nest".

The establishment of this nest may be difficult, after all, there are only a few dozen worker ants following the team, and there may be losses in the long journey in the wild.

With this labor, they need to build nests in the late autumn, stock up on food, and survive the first cold winter without fire.

No matter how hard it was, no matter how many companions they lost, they finally survived the first winter, and then after the beginning of spring they began to look for food and give birth to new kinds.

At first, everything went well, and there was even a secondary nest of the neighboring Big-headed Ant Kingdom that took refuge here, embracing the ancient tradition of honoring the queen ant.

However, the beginning of the year soon after, a cold spring occurred, which had a long-term negative impact on food resources everywhere.

The newly established "real main nest" is too weak, and it is necessary to hoard food and quickly expand the nest ant population to maintain the normal development of the nest. Their ability to cope with natural disasters is far weaker than other lairs.

As a result, after holding out for half a year, the "real main nest" still ran out of food, and it was not even enough to support them to survive until the next grass seed harvest.

Many of the food that can be provided by the secondary nest has been taken away by the pseudo-main nest, and the "real secondary nest" is in a desperate situation.

At this time, they can only seek new assistance, and the wealth of the "Dongyang City" under the command of the protagonist has become famous in the past two years.

The Queen Inheritors may have received news from their companions lurking in the False Lord's Lair, so they send messengers to get the protagonist's aid, or even ...... Allegiance!