The protagonist does not recognize this purple flowering plant, and he can only try to record the characteristics of this plant, and his intuition tells it that these plants must have something special about them.

If a botanist were here, he would have recorded this:

The inflorescence of the plant is single or umbrella-shaped, born in the leaf axils, and has a stalk when solitary; bracts narrowly bell-shaped, 8 mm high, 4-5 mm in diameter, margins 5-lobed, lobes triangular; Glandular 4, yellowish-green, with white or pink appendages wider than the glands at the edges. male flowers 5-15; 1 female flower. with a long ovary stalk; ovary smooth, glabrous; columella 3, detached; Stigma 2 shallow fissure. Leaves opposite, elliptic, 1-2 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, apex obtuse, base oblique, asymmetrical, nearly rounded, margins sparsely obtusely serrate; leaf mask with several purple spots; The petioles are short, about 1.5 mm long, and the pedicles are flat-truncated, very short, and the apex is labial-toothed.

As for the morphology of the capsules and seeds, it is not yet observable.

The protagonist observes that the paver ant worker ants use their jaws to cut off the plant's purple petals and mature leaves, dry them and bring them back to their burrows.

Maybe it's a wild vegetable, with flowers and leaves to eat? But is it necessary to grow wild vegetables on such a large scale?

Or does this plant form a symbiotic relationship with the ants, where the ants eliminate its competitors, and the plants return the ants with food?

The protagonist doesn't recognize this plant, but if the name of this plant is announced, then the readers of this book will definitely suddenly understand.

This is a very famous plant, because of its unique effects, it has been known and used by people in history, and it has also appeared repeatedly in martial arts novels.

Before the results of the research can be found, the protagonist's observations are quickly drawn to another event.

At this time, from the nest of the paving ants, a large number of paving ant barbarian warriors suddenly poured out without warning.

These Paving Ant Barbarian warriors were clearly not doing general work (such as patrolling and foraging), but their formation consisted of a long marching column, with scouts at the front of the queue patrolling and spying around, as if they were going to launch a military operation.

The direction of this army of paving ants is north, which is exactly where the protagonist lands with the scout team.

The protagonist was taken aback, they weren't discovered by the paving ants and worker ants, how did they provoke so many enemies?

Fortunately, the biggest reliance of the flying knights is their flying ability, and the reconnaissance team took off urgently and hid in the safe air.

The protagonist takes a closer look and determines that the target of this army of paving ants is not himself, the scout team is safe, and they have not been discovered.

An army of paving ants poured out of the nests, and the protagonist hovered in the air, counting a total of six phalanxes.

If each phalanx is a legion, this nest has already dispatched 15,000 troops. That's one in six of the ants in the nest.

This is the rhythm of a big battle!

The protagonist keenly feels that the paving ant barbarians must be planning a large-scale military operation when they come out of the nest like this.

These Paving Ants are moving north, not south, which means that their opponents are not having crossed the river and established a "bridgehead" enemy Legion of the Divine King.

This means that there must be a strong force to the north of the Paving Ant Barbarian territory, and the Pave Ant Barbarian needs to send a large army to deal with it.

The protagonist orders the scout team to immediately change their aim, and instead of continuing along the edge of the Paving Ant Barbarian's territory, they begin to track the army.

Compared to the reconnaissance team flying in the air, the army of paving ants on the ground is not fast, and the reconnaissance team can easily tiptoe behind.

After not saying a word, the army arrived at a side nest that afternoon, and began to rest.

The protagonists also observe that there is also a considerable army of paver ants gathered here, and there are more than 10,000 paver ant warriors in terms of numbers.

It seemed to be a rallying point for the Paving Ant Army, and until dark, the Paving Ant Army gathered here showed no signs of moving, but was constantly joined by small armies that gathered from all over the place.

These small armies were as little as one today, and as many as two or three corps, converging here from the east, south, and west. It seems that the Vice-Nest in the vicinity has sent troops into this military operation.

This secondary nest can no longer accommodate so many troops, and many paving ant barbarian warriors are camping on the ground. Fortunately, the weather is good, and there is no danger in camping in the wilderness.

Seeing that it was getting late, the reconnaissance team found a tall tree nearby to rest.

They set up their camp as far from the ground as possible to avoid being spotted by the paving ant scouts on the ground.

Now there are more than 30,000 paving ant barbarian troops assembled on the ground, and once they are alarmed, it will be terrible.

There were no suitable holes or gaps in the bark of the tree, and the team had to camp on the leeward side of the branch.

When the other ants are asleep, the protagonist is calculating.

The Paving Ant Barbarian Army is obviously organizing a large-scale offensive campaign, and judging from the number of troops invested, it is no smaller than the battle that goes south to attack the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom every winter.

The scale of this battle shows that the strength of the enemy that the Paving Ant Barbarians have to deal with is not weak. The protagonist thinks it is necessary to understand this enemy of the Paving Ant Barbarians, maybe the other party can contain the Paving Ant Barbarian Army well and create fighters for the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom on the Southern Front.

But now the protagonist needs to worry about the food problem, and the food carried by the reconnaissance team can guarantee a week's supply, and now three days have passed.

For a day at most, the reconnaissance team would have to return to ensure that there was enough food on the way home.

But in just one day, with the speed of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, it may not have reached the established battlefield yet!

What can be done to extend the detection time?

If the reconnaissance team returns not in the same way as it came, but in a straight line, it will certainly save time. However, the route of the reconnaissance team is crooked along the terrain, without the aid of tools, and the protagonist is now unable to figure out which direction the "bridgehead" is located.

If they go straight south and return until they see a large river, then the reconnaissance team will need to decide whether to search for a target to the east or west, and if the wrong direction is chosen, it will definitely be a trouble.

The protagonist didn't dare to take too many risks, and the flying knights who had been formed with great difficulty suffered heavy losses.

After thinking about it, the protagonist finally makes up his mind.

The next day, the protagonist orders the seven flying knights in the scout team to return to the "bridgehead" along the route they came from, carrying only enough food for the return trip.

The Eagle and another Flying Knight, the Mantis Tiger, continue to follow the protagonist forward to investigate, and the surplus food that the returning scouts put together is enough for the three of them to eat for six days. In other words, they will be able to follow the reconnaissance for another two or three days.