The northern expeditionary army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom traveled day and night, quickly rushing in the direction of "Linshui City".

The next day, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered the area that had been ravaged by wildfires last time.

In these affected areas, the indelible traces left by the last natural fire disaster can still be seen on the surface: the blackened charred remains are still eye-catching, and some of the trees and shrubs that have survived are also full of smoky traces of fire—desolate, barbaric, and decadent.

But in the wreckage and scorched earth, fresh greenery is also sprouting, the buds of new weeds.

Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate. The poem is very apt to show the tenacity and tenacity of weeds, the grass life is cheap, but the grass life is the most vigorous.

As an important part of the ecosystem, the land can tolerate the temporary absence of trees and shrubs, but cannot tolerate the temporary absence of herbaceous plants, otherwise it will collapse.

While insects have suffered heavy losses in successive spring chills and summer wildfires, some species that excel at long-distance migrations have fled the unfortunate land.

But there are always some tenacious survivors who have survived a difficult year in this land that has come back to life, waiting for the vegetation to recover and for their communities to revivenation.

Many of the obstacles that are common in other parts of the scorched earth have been reduced to shards of char, so the terrain is flat and the army moves with great agility.

Before dusk that day, under the guidance of Rambo Fo, the liaison officer sent by the protagonist, the Northern Expeditionary Army camped in a sub-nest closest to "Waterfront City" to rest.

The army was intermittent, and it took half an hour for all of them to gather at the camp. The king and his guards were welcomed into the warm and comfortable underground of the sub-nest, while the common king led a large army and continued to spend the night in the wilderness.

Fortunately, the weather is hot now, and even at night, the temperature is not low, and the ants that have gathered in the clumps are not uncomfortable.

Under the bright moonlight, a small wriggling black shadow on the ground contained a huge power.

- I'm the dividing line -

Early the next morning, the Northern Expeditionary Army set off at the urging of the kings.

Because the messenger sent by the king of God sent a message packet with a clear message, saying that the river must be crossed today.

The Divine Envoy King did not explain any reason to these great kings, but the only means of crossing the river was in the hands of the Divine Envoy King.

Being able to complete the impossible task of crossing the river is generally considered by the kings to be a miracle, and in this major event related to the safety of the whole army and the great cause of the Northern Expedition, even if some kings look at the gods and make the king unpleasant, they will not be demons at this time.

The army was still lined up in a marching column half a meter wide and tens of meters long, all the way to the northeast.

As the "Waterfront City" gets closer and closer, a new and vibrant scene appears in front of everyone, which is very different from other disaster areas.

On the land near the river, there is abundant water and sunshine, and a large field of wild grass has a new young leaf stretching out, covering a large area of land.

These are the fields where the seeds of the weeds sown in the "Waterfront Castle" sprout.

Wildfires have completely destroyed the tangled natural grasslands and bushes, and when seeds are planted on flat land, they germinate and grow faster with the right light, heat and water, creating oases in scorched earth.

Although the grass seed harvest is still a long way off, this verdant "oasis" along the riverbank has already attracted many insects.

Snails and caterpillars prefer tender green leaves, aphids need fresh juice, and predators follow their prey.

However, the ruler of this oasis is the ants, and the farmland very close to the nest is full of ant hunting teams, they do not need to go far from the nest to hunt, and now the hunting ground in front of the house is the highest concentration of prey within a radius of several miles.

The route of the army avoided the farmland, so as not to disturb the abundant prey inside.

This route is planned in advance by the protagonist, relying on the guidance of pheromones, and the Northern Expeditionary Army, which does not know the path from the main nest, runs around.

The army soon gathered at the wooden bridge leading to the island where the "Waterfront City" was located, and in the face of this natural bridge composed of fallen tree trunks, the Northern Expeditionary Army was jammed at the bridgehead, and the half-meter-wide team obviously could not pass through the bridge at the same time, so they could only narrow the width of the march and slowly pass through the wooden bridge.

The Northern Expeditionary Army, which passed through the wooden bridge, was led directly across the rocky ground of the island to the position of the rope bridge and waited to cross the river.

They were not allowed to roam freely on the island, and the Legion of the Divine Envoy King was waiting for them on the trunk of the Great Banyan Tree (where the entrance to Waterfront City was located) and at the bottom of the ground.

The protagonist doesn't want those self-righteous and above-eyed kings to take the opportunity to explore the reality of their territory again.

In fact, there are indeed some kings with their guards who want to enter the "Waterfront City" to rest.

As the most noble and privileged class in the kingdom, the kings have always done whatever they wanted. This time, however, the Divine Envoy King's legion unceremoniously blocked out those who wanted to break into the lair, as well as the kings who demanded meat and honeydew.

Naturally, this also caused serious dissatisfaction among some kings. However, at the critical moment of crossing the river in the north, no king really opened his eyes and led the crowd to trouble the protagonist.

At the place where the rope bridge crosses the river, the congestion of the Northern Expeditionary Army is even more serious, after all, the wooden bridge has a tree trunk for passage, and the rope bridge is just a thin rope.

At the bridgehead, messengers constantly conveyed packets of information to the commanders of the regiments and squads to be crossed, who in turn relayed them to all the fighters.

The contents of the information packet are some requirements and know-how for crossing the river, which is the experience of condensing the blood of the Divine Envoy King's legion who has lost hundreds of members due to falling on the rope bridge.

The first group of Northern Expeditionary troops began to step on the rope bridge as required, and they walked on the rope bridge as much as possible, their limbs firmly hooked on the thick fibers on the rope, and crawled forward little by little.

The rope bridge is not motionless, although the long rope has been tightened as much as possible, but under the action of its own weight, it is still in the form of two ends high and low in the middle. Under the river breeze, the ropes swayed, sometimes gently, sometimes violently, greatly increasing the difficulty of crossing the river.

Even if the Divine Envoy King's legion had emphasized the difficulty of the transition river, it was inevitable that some ants would be thrown off the surface of the river by the constantly swaying ropes, and it would be difficult to escape death.

Fortunately, the rainy season has passed, and it has been somewhat dry recently. Some time earlier, the river was close to the lowest point of the rope bridge, and there were even serious incidents of aquatic dragon lice and other predators ambushing ants crossing the river.

Due to the limitation of passing capacity, it was not until the evening that all the Northern Expeditionary Army crossed the river!