For several days, the protagonist looks at the surface of the Qing River, which flows eastward, and thinks about how to build a transportation system that can cross the river.

The rope bridge is not good, the surface of the Qinghe River is too wide, such a long rope bridge because of gravity, the middle of the fall will be very powerful, even if the rope bridge is built at both ends is very high, barely ensure that the middle of the rope bridge does not fall into the water, and it may not be able to guarantee that it can be the same during the flood season.

Once the rope bridge is submerged in the water, it is not only a matter of temporary unusability, but also the added weight after soaking, the growth of microorganisms and fungi on the wet rope, and the fact that the water in the rope freezes and expands or even splits the fibers in winter, all of which can shorten the life of the rope bridge.

Also, such a long rope bridge, a little wind is easy to drift more than once, the longer the rope bridge is affected by the wind, the wind speed for most of the year, will make the rope bridge shake to the extent of impassability.

Rope bridges are obviously not an option to solve the traffic on both sides of the Qing River.

Rope bridges don't work, and neither do pontoon bridges. The protagonist thinks about building a pontoon bridge with a walnut boat, but is also afraid that the current will cause the pontoon to shake too much. Moreover, during the flood season, the pontoon bridge will be destroyed if it is not put away, which is equivalent to three months of the year when the pontoon bridge cannot be used, and the pontoon bridge must be rebuilt once a year.

Ordinary bridges are even worse, ordinary bridges need piers, and the ants simply do not have the technology to build piers underwater.

Now the only people who can freely cross the river obstacles are the flying knights, but the transportation capacity of the flying knights is very limited, and it is simply unrealistic to rely on the flying knights to ensure the transportation of ants and materials on both sides of the river.

However, the Flying Knight has a small amount of transportation, but the protagonist knows that there is a flying vehicle that has a large transportation volume.

In previous diplomatic communications and military conflicts, the protagonist learns that the leaf-cutting ants have domesticated the insect Star Beeral, which is mainly used as a war beast.

But the star beetle can also be used as a short-distance transport, a star beetle is saddled, and can carry up to dozens of leaf-cutting ants at a time.

This is also because the leaf-cutting ants are crowded into the saddle on the back of the head of the star bull, and the space is relatively narrow. If a "cabin" is hung under the Star Bull, the powerful Star Bull can fly with hundreds of ants or a comparable amount of supplies at a time.

Due to the short range of the cross-domain river flight, it is most economical to fly at full capacity and then rest for a while.

The protagonist feels the need to form a transport team of Star Bulls, which can be used for short-distance transportation across rivers, and can also be used as a new channel for long-distance rapid transportation.

The protagonist has the ants search for eggs and larvae in the territory.

The star beetle is actually a very common insect, especially in the woods. These carapaces are black, can grow up to 5 cm long, 2 cm wide large ones are very eye-catching, there is a white spot on the left and right sides of the front and back plates of the starfish, and there are many white spots scattered on the wing sheath, some individual white spots look like dense stars, and some only have a few large white spots, but like the moon.

However, although the adults are common, especially in woodland, their larvae and eggs are hard to find.

The ants of the Legion of the Divine Envoy King searched around the Black Forest, the Leafcutter Ant Forest, and the Golden Beach Forest, but found nothing.

Later, I learned from the vassal forest ants and belly ants that the eggs of the starry beetle would hide under the bark of the tree, and the larvae would not climb up to the outside after hatching, but would hide deeper into the trunk, and the area where the eggs and larvae were located did not lead to the outside moth.

In the past, forest ants and belly-raising ants occasionally caught the larvae of the star beetle, but by chance they encountered a natural crack that could enter their cavities, so they had the opportunity to hunt.

Moreover, both the forest ant and the belly ant invariably said that the larvae of the star beetle are very short-tempered, and they will twist their bodies desperately when they are caught by ants, so they can only kill them on the spot and take them away, and it is impossible to capture them alive.

Under the leadership of experienced forest ants and belly raising ant guides, a group of Divine Envoy King warriors and worker ants who had domesticated beetles found three Star Sky Beetle larvae in the Golden Beach Forest, and they could not be subdued, but could only be killed.

As for the eggs of the starfish, they are hidden more than the larvae, and it is impossible for the ants to open the bark piece by piece to find it, and they cannot start domesticating from the eggs.

After failing to find the eggs and subdue the larvae, the protagonist is curious about how the leafcutter ants domesticated hundreds of them, and they must have a unique secret.

Seeing that the conference of the ancient god inheritance ant clan is about to be held, the protagonist is also ready to leave, and then go to the leaf cutting ant country to see if he can learn their domestication techniques.

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On April 24th, the protagonist sets off for the Leaf Cutting Ant Country to attend the next day's conference.

He took a squad of flying knights, rode the "little black" himself, and flew lightly to the north-west.

A few days earlier, a team of ground transporters had already arrived at the main nest of the Leafcutter Ant Nation with honeydew, crows, and other gifts, which the protagonist had prepared for the participating ants.

Flying in the air, the protagonist and his party who have just set off are basically moving along the planned course of the canal.

On the ground, some river channels have been formed, and the rest are basically paving ants and big-headed ants under construction, and a ravine slightly wider than the leaves of walnut trees has been spreading, and it looks very spectacular in the air - this is simply the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the ant world!

The protagonist and his party fly to [Red Iron City] first, and then send a messenger to the other side of the stream to report first.

After obtaining the permission of the other party, the protagonist took off with the flying knight guards, and there were already six Star Bulls waiting on the other side, and after seeing the protagonist's party, a Star Bull approached to confirm his identity.

When the female ant on the back of the Star Bull recognizes the protagonist by sight, she turns around and flies back, and the protagonist and the Flying Riders follow. The other five star longhorns accompany the front and back, left and right.

The mixed formation of the Star Celestial Bull and the Flying Knight maintained a constant speed, and after about an hour of flight, the magnificent main nest [Holy Tree City] of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country appeared in front of them.

The tall sacred tree has a verdant canopy that almost obscures the sky.

The flying knights were shocked by the aura of this huge ginkgo tree that stood up to the sky and was estimated to be thousands of years old, and the protagonist was okay, he had already been shocked once in advance in the information package of "Little Flower".

The ginkgo tree gradually split into two main trunks from the root upwards, and the Star Bull guided the flying knights not to land on the platform on the tree, but to go around behind the ginkgo tree and land on the ground in the shade of the tree.

At this time, the protagonist sees that there are many unnatural stakes on the ground, and many of them have some insects tied to them.

There were starry beetles, different bees, and a very large insect, a giant dragonfly the size of a human palm, which also stopped there.

The protagonist guesses that all the people who stop here are the mounts of the envoys of the ancient god inheritance ant clan who came to participate in the meeting!