This huge ant is also very characteristic in appearance, and it is not any kind of ant that the protagonist knows, nor does it exist in the previous cognition of the three families of big-headed ants, paving ants, and hunting sickle ants.

These ants are huge, with large, round, and stout sickle-like jaws. This kind of jaw is unusual, and it is rare for ants to have such long, curved jaws as sharp as a scythe, which are perfect for combat and can easily pierce the carapace of enemies. But if it is used for labor, it will be a hindrance, and even from a structural point of view, ants with such jaws cannot forage for food on their own.

In the protagonist's memory, there is only one type of ant with this kind of jaw, and that is the Humber Ant, which is known as the "slave ant". The Warrior's jaws have become specialized weapons for combat, plundering slaves and relying on them for food and feeding. Without slaves, these ants would even starve to death because they couldn't eat.

So, could this giant ant also be a kind of "slave ant"? Did they attack the Paving Ant Barbarians just to get slaves?

The protagonist stops thinking about this, and he continues to observe the appearance and behavior of this mysterious ant from the information packet.

The carapace of these giant ants is a metallic color with a black and cyan glow, and the ant's carapace is chitin, which is smooth and shiny, but it is still different from the color of metal. But the ant's carapace color is the color of a vivid black metal.

In insects, the carapace of the beetle also has a metallic sheen, and its carapace does contain a higher proportion of metallic elements. If this is the case with this kind of ant, then the armor defense of this huge body must be very impressive.

In addition, these carapaces are also covered with spikes, which are distributed on the chest, back, abdomen, and even nodules, and there are more than a dozen thick and thin tooth spines on the upper and lower parts of the body. From this point of view, its carapace resembles that of the genus Spiny Ant.

The huge size of the Japanese humpback ant, the large jaws like the fierce ants, and the carapace like the spiny ants, just from the appearance, you can see the unusual nature of this ant, and its combat effectiveness is obviously good.

At first, the protagonist thinks that these ants are the enemies of the paving ant barbarians in the northern mountains mentioned by the Floating Leaf King. However, after sending the flying knight to consult the Floating Leaf King who was far away in the "Southern City", he gave a negative answer.

In the packet he sends back, the protagonist confirms that the giant ants on the mountain who have repeatedly fought with the Paving Ant Barbarian are Japanese humpback ants, not the mysterious ants that are currently attacking the main nest of the Paving Ant Barbarians.

Because it was first discovered and named in Japan, it is called "Japanese humpback ant", but in fact, it is also widely distributed in most parts of China, and the kind of black ant that is much larger than the urban ant encountered in the mountains is the Japanese bowback ant nine times out of ten.

Although these Japanese hunchback ants are similar in size and color to the mysterious ants, they do not have the terrifying jaws and barbs of the mysterious ants. The body of the Japanese humpback ant is black, the head is large, nearly triangular, the upper jaw is stout, the anterior and middle thoracic dorsal plates are flattened, the thorax and abdominal segments are sharply flattened, the head, abdomen, thorax and tubercles have fine reticulate carvings, with a certain luster, and the posterior abdomen is more finely inscribed. It is divided into two types: large and small. Large worker ants are 12-14 mm long, with 5 teeth on the upper jaw, and the anterior part of the cheeks, lip base, upper jaw and feet are reddish-brown in a few individuals; Small and medium-sized worker ants are 7-11 mm long, with smaller heads and longer than wide; The queen is about 17 mm long and has a wing base.

After understanding that these mysterious ants are not the old enemies of the paving ants, it becomes a mystery where these mysterious ants come from.

From the point of view of the marching route, the mysterious ants come from the north, but the northern mountains of the paving ant barbarian country are the territory of the Japanese bowback ants, these Japanese bowback ants according to the floating leaf king, although there is no unified kingdom, but divided into many tribes, but due to the size advantage, the combat effectiveness is amazing, every spring, summer and autumn will frequently go down the mountain into the territory of the paving ant barbarian country to plunder. The Paving Ant Barbarians had to cope with it, or preemptively organize an expeditionary force to invade the mountains to exterminate the nearby Japanese Bowback Ant Tribe.

If these mysterious ants are indeed from the north, then they must have defeated the large number of Japanese humpback ant tribes that the paving ant barbarians have been unable to pacify for hundreds of years, before they can safely go south.

This is not good news, the area on both sides of the river has formed a balance between different ant races for thousands of years, and the protagonist originally planned to use this balance to expand his power little by little, and eventually unify the two sides of the river.

But now a powerful mysterious ant force has emerged, and it has come up to get rid of the Japanese bowback ants, and then it is almost done with the once-prominent paving ant barbarian country, which is not the script of the protagonist's plan.

The Flying Knights didn't have much information to bring back, and they tried to stay on a bush close to the ground and observe the mysterious ants, but they were discovered by the mysterious ants.

Although ants have compound eyes, they do not have pupils, so they cannot judge the location of their gaze based on the focus of their pupils. But the compound eyes of ordinary ants have a kind of look, which belongs to the look of life, but this kind of look cannot be seen in the huge compound eyes of these mysterious ants.

As soon as the Flying Knights landed, they spotted a small group of mysterious ants quickly changing their target, surrounding the bush, and climbing upwards. It was apparently no coincidence, and the flying knights immediately flew away.

From this point of view, the eyesight of the mysterious ant is very good, at least no worse than that of the male ant of the big-headed ant, and at least he can clearly see moving objects within a distance of half a meter.

The Flying Knight carried limited supplies, and only stayed near the main nest of the Paving Ant Barbarian for half a day before being forced to return. In this short period of time, they did not observe the outbreak of a field battle between the Paving Ant Barbarian Army and the Mysterious Ants, nor could they observe the performance of the Mysterious Ants in the battle.

The Flying Knights observed the mysterious ants attacking the secondary nest of a paving ant, only to see that these mysterious ants burrowed into the ground while expanding the entrance and exit of the nest, and then kept pouring in and out, and the mysterious ants came out with all kinds of trophies in their mouths, including ant chrysalis eggs, dead paving ants and the corpses of their companions, some of which were intact and some of which had been mutilated.

If ant eggs and chrysalis are regular trophies that can be used as food or hatch as slaves, what does it mean for the mysterious ants to carry away even the broken corpses of both sides?

Generally speaking, ants do not use enemy corpses as trophies unless there is an extreme shortage of food. Could it be that this mysterious ant is short of food and wants to feed on the carcass of ants?