On March 28, close to sunset, "Xiaohua" and the mission finally returned to [Xinyangcheng] and completed the mission.

The protagonist has long been looking forward to it, and when he learns that the mission has returned safely, he hurriedly puts aside the half-eaten dinner and summons the dusty "Little Flower".

"Little Flower" reports the mission to the protagonist 1510, which also gives the protagonist a deeper understanding of this mission and the Leaf Cutter Ant Country.

From the informative information package provided by "Little Flower", the protagonist reconstructs her experiences in the past few days in her mind.

It turned out that "Little Flower" was not negotiating with the other party in the nearby secondary nest of the leaf-cutting ant country, but was taken to its main nest, no wonder there were so many days of delay on the road.

Back to the day when "Little Flower" touched the mural...

After "Little Flower" touched the mural on the wall, she was pulled down by the excited big leaf cutter ant, and her pair of big jaws clamped "Little Flower" fiercely around her neck, causing pain.

"Little Flower" struggled, her strength was greater than that of ordinary large-headed ants, but she was still slightly inferior to the larger large leaf-cutting ants, and with the control of such a fragile part of the neck, her struggle only brought more pain to herself.

The desperate "Little Flower" thought she was going to die here, but the big leaf cutter only controlled her, warned her with her tentacles not to touch the red painting again, and let her go.

After that, "Little Flower" trembled and followed the big leaf-cutting ant forward, not daring to take the liberty.

They walked for a long, long time, all the way up a sloping and winding road that seemed to have no end.

Along the way, other leafcutter ants pass by from time to time, some large and some small, and these leafcutter ants always grin at the "small flowers" with the smell of foreign ants, and they are full of aggression. But the large leafcutter ants seem to have more status, repelling these ants and ensuring the safety of the "little flowers".

Little Flower didn't know how long she had been walking until she came to an empty nest.

One of the walls of this nest is made of wood, and the other walls, floor, and ceiling are made of ant-glue and sawdust similar to ant-concrete, which is the same material that "Little Flower" sees on the outside.

And, according to what "Little Flower" observed all the way, it seems that the entire ant nest is made of this material - this nest was built from these mixed materials in the hollow trunk.

The large leafcutter ant brought "Little Flower" into the nest room, and the floor of the nest was familiar to "Little Flower", which was paved with many small white pebbles, the same floor as the meeting room of the Legion of the Divine Envoy King or the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

The difference is that there are white pebbles on the floor of this room that extend in a line that leads to the other end of the nest room.

There are also frescoes on the walls of the nest chamber, not those that record things, but the almost circular patterns that are characteristic of the leafcutter ants.

(Haven't you guessed what this pattern is?) The last time I reminded you of it, it was obvious! The first friend to guess out, I'll add a more chapter for him! ）

The leafcutter ant motioned for "Little Flower" to lay down and put its tentacles against the white pebbles, and "Little Flower" knew that this was going to be a meeting, so she did so.

A message came from the pebbles, from the end of the line of white stones, and in a place where the "flowers" could not be seen, other leafcutter ants were communicating with the "flowers" through the white stone lines on the ground.

The complicated conversation in the middle is skipped, in short, "Xiaohua" is more confused throughout the whole process, and the other party seems to be very interested in "Xiaohua" and the Divine Envoy King Army, and asks a lot of questions, and "Xiaohua" answers them truthfully one by one.

From this point of view, "Xiaohua" is not a qualified diplomatic envoy, she does not know how to advance and retreat freely in negotiations, and is as honest as a schoolboy who is interrogated by a teacher.

But history is full of coincidences, and some characters are always lucky as if they were illegitimate children of God.

Little Flower's candid attitude won the favor of the leafcutter ants she talked to.

What's more, the leafcutter ants are very satisfied with the identity of "Little Flower".

In a series of conversations, "Little Flower" understands that she is talking to a female ant of a leaf-cutting ant.

The protagonist is surprised, but accepts this: the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom turns out to be the same as the queen inheritance faction of the old big-headed ant kingdom, and the system is ruled by female ants and queen ants.

The difference is that the females and queens of the Leafcutter Nation have more authority than the queen inheritance faction.

If you have to draw an analogy, the best authority in the Leaf Cutter Ant Country is similar to the parliaments of some human countries, divided into the upper and lower houses.

The "House of Lords" is a queen assembly composed of all adult queens, and is supreme in power and is responsible for deciding all major affairs of the country.

The "House of Commons" is a general assembly of female ants composed of all unmarried flying females, who are responsible for the management and execution of daily work, as well as the submission of bills on major matters to the queen assembly for approval.

Under the two assemblies, it is the executive class composed of male ants, who have no decision-making power, but only complete tasks under the command and supervision of the queen and female.

This unique political system, the protagonist is the first time to see it, although such a system seems simple, but it is very distinctive, and it is diametrically opposed to the domination of most male ants of the ant clan.

"Xiaohua" is a miracle worker ant, and she is also a female, and although she is a worker ant, in addition to her reproductive ability, her body size and intelligence level are more like female ants.

The female ant in charge of the negotiation of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country obviously misunderstood something, and perhaps in her opinion, a female like "Little Flower" can represent the Divine Envoy King Legion, which shows that the Divine Envoy King Legion is also a force dominated by the queen ant and the female ants.

Whether it is "Little Flower" or the protagonist of the scene through the information packet, they can detect the contempt, dissatisfaction and even hostility of the leafcutter ants against the forces ruled by the male ants from the other party's information.

Come to think of it, there are so many ant races and forces that the Divine Envoy King Legion has come into contact with, and the political system of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country is the only one led by a female ant and a queen, so I think they also feel very lonely.

Fortunately, the other party did not dig deep into the existence of the Divine Envoy King and the male ant class from the all-knowing "Little Flower", and the other party was immersed in this misunderstanding that was beneficial to the Divine Envoy King Legion.

As a result, the two sides also reached a trade agreement in friendship that satisfies the protagonist.

The leafcutter ants are apparently happy with honeydew and crow honey as well, and they agree to exchange hematite for honeydew and crow honey.

The leaf-cutting ants even happily said that the Divine Envoy King's army must also draw "runes" if they want hematite powder, and they are willing to become friends with forces that also have "runes".

"Runes"! The protagonist guesses what this word refers to, and it's not the pattern that the leafcutter ants draw on trees and nests with hematite powder!

The leafcutter ants seem to attach great importance to the "rune", they must know what the "rune" is, and the answer to the specific meaning of the seemingly familiar symbol that the protagonist thinks has been bothering him is in the mind of the leafcutter ant!