Chapter 62: September
The protagonist flies alone in the valley, lonely and dazed in the direction of [Xinyang City].
Under the midsummer sun, he only felt a chill coming, and he didn't feel the warmth at all. Only the lonely wind surrounded him, and the shadow of the trees clung to his heart.
Last night's action is over, and the protagonist learns the truth from the tongue he grabbed, as well as the ending he least wants to accept. There was nothing he could do, anger but no avail, and he was dazed but could only move forward.
Although this tongue is not high, it has experienced the complete incident.
The protagonist never thought that within the Divine Envoy King Legion, the small hidden dangers he didn't pay too much attention to actually brought a series of internal and external troubles, bearing the consequences of today's evil.
It's too late to regret!
It's all gone, and the protagonist can only comfort himself that it's all over.
At least there are still seeds, and [Xinyang City] still retains the seeds of the Divine Envoy King Legion, and he is not really defeated.
He wants to go back, go back to [Xinyang City], and then let the seeds germinate again, and he must also deeply learn a lesson and clear those hidden dangers.
Although there is a new goal, the protagonist temporarily forgets about the failure in the swamp, but this is also a failure, a huge and painful failure!
The swamp area is no longer the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and the protagonist can't forget the tragic situation of the corpses everywhere he reads, and he can't forget the ruins of the neat nest, even when the battle with the Destroyer is the most unfavorable, he has never seen so many Divine Envoy King warriors die.
O homeland, homeland has been taken over by the Destroyer!
The swamp, the swamp that was originally planned to hibernate, the swamp that can easily fight back against the homeland, has also been lost!
Before the protagonist leaves, he takes one last look at the swamp, at the direction of his homeland hidden by the mountains, leaving everything here behind and embarking on a lonely return home.
- I'm the dividing line -
On August 7, the protagonist finally returned to [Xinyang City].
Upon hearing the news, the spade elephants, beetle oxen, and centipedes that remained behind immediately rushed to meet them, and also asked about the situation of the large army in the swamp by the way.
The protagonist simply tells them that the main force has been wiped out, and leaves them without revealing much information.
Compared to the Divine Envoy King, who later locked himself in the palace and slept for a day and a night, the spade elephants did not react too much, and after leaving, they returned to their posts.
For them, although they are not the older generation of male ants who grew up in the era of the old big-headed ant kingdom, they are also accustomed to seeing the life and death of ants, and they do not have much empathy for the tragedy of their companions that happened in distant places and have not been seen for half a year.
At least, they're still alive, aren't they, the unique realism of ants makes them quickly accept this reality, in the ant world, life and death are so common, they can't be too sad.
They continued their lives in [Xinyangcheng].
At the very least, they still have a place to stand, and a lair that is not too big or in good condition, but it is enough to shelter them.
- I'm the dividing line -
When the first leaves fall to the ground, autumn declares its arrival unstoppable.
Although the weather still seems to be very hot at this time, it seems to be indistinguishable from the height of summer.
Cicadas and crickets still chirp tirelessly day and night, and the earth is dusty from the long hours of rain and scorching sun, and the dryness and scorching heat never seem to fade.
But change is always quietly and slowly sprouting.
It's the beginning of September, and the protagonist is standing on the tall city wall, looking at the construction site as hot as the weather.
This is the construction site of the wall system expansion project of [Xinyangseong].
After returning from the swamp, the protagonist sinks for a short time, and when he heals the wounds in his heart, an even more powerful protagonist leaves the dormitory and stands in the sunlight again to begin his revival project.
The Legion of the Divine Envoy King is no longer the Legion of the Divine Envoy King of their homeland, they do not have hundreds of nests, they do not have millions of ant mouths, and they do not have dozens or hundreds of regular legions.
Now, they only have one [Xinyang City], their territory is narrow, their products are barren, and they are surrounded by powerful forces such as red fire ants and leaf-cutting ants.
But the protagonist is convinced that this is just a test on the road to the revival of the God-Ordered King's legion.
Back then, he could rely on a [Dongyang City] to counterattack and seize the entire big-headed ant kingdom, and now he can rely on [Xinyang City] to achieve hegemony again.
Then, he wants to go back, to his homeland and swamps, to take revenge on the destroyer and the parasitic ants!
For a month, the protagonist has presided over a large-scale project, and he wants to build [Xinyangcheng] into a base like the original [Dongyangcheng], a base for revival.
When he returned to [Xinyang Fortress], the planned project of covering the entire hinterland of the peninsula with a long wall was nearing completion, and now the protagonist has expanded the scale of the project.
He planned a small fort every two meters on the wall (previously it was written as five meters...) It can't be changed, it is corrected here), all of them have been converted into larger ant mound nests, there are a total of four ant mounds, each of which is nearly a meter high.
These mounds will be used as nests for the four subordinate races of paving ants, hunting sickle ants, belly-raising ants and leaf-cutting ants, and will live separately from the big-headed ants in the [Xinyangcheng] nest to avoid some conflicts.
The eggs of the four servants are already hatching, and the protagonist knows that if he wants to revive, the power of the big-headed ant clan alone is not enough. He not only needs big-headed ant soldier ants as infantry, but also paving ants as doctors and winter special forces, sickle hunters as scouts, leaf-cutting ants as food, and belly-lifting ants as auxiliary ranged troops.
This project not only expanded the fortress, but also connected the different fortresses, and the fence wall that shielded the peninsula was also heightened and widened, and there were wide ant tunnels inside, which made it easier for troops to move quickly between the different ant mounds.
Today, the project is nearing completion, and a massive [Xinyang City] is standing tall on the banks of the river.
The protagonist looks up at the sky, there are no clouds, and even the air by the river seems to have a dry and devoid smell.
What a dry summer, the protagonist thinks to himself.
There was very little rain this summer, and there was an occasional drizzle, and it ended without even getting wet.
Fortunately, [Xinyangcheng] is on the bank of the Qing River, although the water level of the Qing River has also dropped slightly, but after all, it can still nourish the land along the river.
The farmland [in Xinyangcheng] is still green, and the grass seeds are already taking shape, and it won't be long before they can be harvested.
Relying on the abundant and fertile weeds along the river, the Divine Legion of the King continuously harvests a large amount of honeydew, which is sold to the belly ants and then resold to the Red Fire Ants or other subordinate ant tribes of the Red Fire Ants, so that the Divine Legion of the King can continue to exchange for various materials that are not available or lack in the territory.
However, the butterfly effect caused by the recent drought has also brought a new crisis to the belly-raising ant clan as middlemen, as well as the trade lines on which the Divine Envoy King's legion is highly dependent!