In the golden autumn season, another autumn rain drifted from the north.

This autumn rain may not seem like a big rain, but it is a wake-up call for everything that winter is coming. The black clouds made all the creatures in heaven and earth feel a strong sense of oppression.

Autumn rain is not as gentle as the spring drizzle, not as treacherous as the summer thunderstorms, and not as manic as the winter blizzards.

The autumn rain is like an unstoppable time, Shi Shiran came, as if it had to be so, and it also carried with it a gradual chill to the bone, making all living beings stiffen with the rain. Then Qiu Yu Shi Ran left again, just like when he came, he couldn't stop it.

An autumn rain and a cold, an autumn rain, are the vanguard of winter, the outpost of cold, the forerunner of snow, and the fellow traveler of death.

Many lives destined to be short-lived, such as annual herbaceous plants and insects that do not survive the spring of the next year, gradually become as cold as the autumn rain in the autumn rain, gloom and haze.

Most creatures must be afraid of the autumn rain, just as they are afraid of death, behind which it portends a shadow from the north, a call from death.

But there are also tenacious lives that are suffering, waiting for the spring in a few months.

The borer burrows into the roots of the plant to escape the cold; The larvae of the stinging moth spit out a thick cocoon that protects them from the cold; Debt-avoiding moth larvae do not spit cocoons, but they make cloth-like bags that can also keep out the cold; Pine caterpillar larvae do not have cocoons and bags, they shrink, and the thick fluff is the fur coat; The butterfly larvae have become pupae and will be reborn after pupae in the spring; Ladybugs, whether seven-star or twenty-eight-star, began to burrow eagerly into the warm soil.

Ants are also one of the few creatures that are not afraid of the autumn rain.

The protagonist looks out from the ant mound in [Red Iron City], and the cold wind pouring in from the entrance and exit of the passage makes him feel that this is not like October, but like it is almost December.

This autumn rain carried a lot of icy energy, and the whole world became bitterly cold overnight, and perhaps the temperature outside was only a few degrees above zero at the moment.

Whether it is the Divine Envoy King Legion, the Red Fire Ant Country or the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, all military and production activities have been pressed at the same time, and Qiu Yu is like the most powerful referee, decisively blowing the whistle in the midfield.

The three days of this sparse autumn rain, even the occasional break in the rain, the sunlight shining through the clouds and shining on the earth, did not bring much warmth, and all the creatures were trembling and suffering.

By the time the autumn rains finally went away, winter was approaching. This winter came too early, and in the middle and late months of October, it was already like December.

During the day, when the sun is fierce, the ants have to overcome their fear of low temperatures to go out, and this year's climate is so abnormal that many ants simply do not have enough food to survive the winter.

At the moment, the outdoors is littered with frozen insect carcasses within a few steps, and the ants must take advantage of the cold wave that reigns even during the day to seize the last chance of harvest.

Otherwise, the entire ant nest will not survive the winter, and every year the hungry ant nest will become a purgatory in the world.

On the side of the Divine Envoy King's legion, the construction of the canal was also forced to be suspended, and the ants were also busy collecting food. However, the food supply of the Divine Envoy King's army is not tight, and their fields have been harvested; The underground farm is still operating, and there is enough feed for mealworms and maggots to eat for the winter; The leafcutter ant's nursery is also working well, but the lack of fresh leaves in the winter has reduced the size of the nursery.

Collecting food now is just a continuation of the habit, and no one will dislike the abundance of food, right?

The arrival of the autumn rain also temporarily interrupted the communication between the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Red Fire Ant Country. Since the last time the two sides fought, although the Divine Envoy King Legion temporarily settled the conflict with some honeydew and Raven Honey, in the places where the elders could not see, there were always unwilling ordinary male ants, often making trouble for the Divine Envoy King Legion in the border area.

This also annoys the protagonist, but fortunately, these troublemakers are now gone.

In fact, at this moment, the Red Fire Ant Nation itself is also facing trouble.

Although the Red Fire Ant Kingdom is rampant in this area, it has subdued many vassals and claims to be the suzerain.

But few ant forces know that in fact, the Red Fire Ant Country is also a vassal of another huge force... They are also nominally subject to the orders of their overlords.

It's just that, just like the Divine Envoy King Legion disobeyed the Yang and Yin of the Red Fire Ant Country, the Red Fire Ant Country did not bow down to its own suzerain. Perhaps it is precisely because of such a relationship that the Red Fire Ant Kingdom will empathize with the unruliness of the Divine Envoy King Legion, and become more dissatisfied and angry!

Today, the huge and advanced suzerainty in the north suddenly sent messengers and escorts, and actually safely passed through the cold temperatures, through the wide and barren ant-free area, trekked for several kilometers, arrived at the border of the Red Fire Ant Country, and came straight to the [Hive City].

Although the Red Fire Ant Nation has repeatedly rebelled against the suzerain, the bitter lessons of history have also taught them that when the suzerainty is serious, they must see the situation clearly.

In fact, if it weren't for the natural barrier between the Red Fire Ant Country and the suzerainty country, the Red Fire Ant Country felt that it would have been cleaned up a long time ago.

In the past, the suzerainty didn't seem to have much interest in the Red Fire Ant Country, which was far away from the mountains, and after accepting a small amount of tribute every year, it would let the Red Fire Ant Country be powerful on the north bank of the Qing River.

But this time, the suzerainty seems to be serious again.

The Red Fire Ant Country once again admitted that they had just won a big victory over their old enemy, the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, but they were sensible, knowing that their country's military strength was also at a low ebb, and they had no unruly capital.

The elders of the Red Fire Ant Country, braving the cold, all came outside. In the bleak autumn breeze, even if these elders were unwilling, they also knelt on the ground on all six limbs to welcome the arrival of the envoy of the suzerain.

Soon, there was a scout flying report, and the ambassador of the suzerainty country would arrive immediately.

In the distance, I saw a gorgeous Labu armor leading, followed by several spiral infantry armors, and then accompanied by hundreds of heavily armed suzerain-oriented ant infantry.

This group of ants from the suzerainty of the Red Fire Ant Country, like the Divine Envoy King Legion, can domesticate and control beetles, and are also equipped with armor and weapons.

It's no wonder that the Red Fire Ant Kingdom wasn't too surprised when they saw the various weapons of the Divine Envoy King Legion before, it turned out that they had seen something similar a long time ago.

It's no wonder that the Red Fire Ant Nation was hostile to the Divine Envoy King Legion from the beginning, and it was really the Divine Envoy King Legion that could always arouse their hatred and fear of the suzerain!

When the Sect Lord's ambassador's flamboyant Labu Armor mount arrived in front of the creeping Red Fire Ant Elders, a silk curtain was lifted in the sedan chair on the back of the mount.

The ambassador, supported by two worker ants, slowly walked down the open folding ramp ladder to the ground.