Chapter 220: Qingqiu City (2)
Looking at the messenger's corpse, the protagonist stared coldly at the males in front of him, and became murderous.
These male ants, even though they have been brought to the city, still dare to kill the messenger sent by the protagonist to report the news. This makes the protagonist feel a kind of humiliation.
A winner who has just won is suddenly slapped in the face, and this disparity can make the sense of humiliation especially strong.
What makes the protagonist even more angry is that although these male ants have been surrounded by groups, and some of the young male ants' bodies are trembling obviously, the protagonist can still see the recklessness and unwillingness in their eyes.
Yes, as the rulers of the kingdom, they have been proud for too long, and they have never known what it is like to fail, and they have never thought about the day when they will take what posture they should take as losers.
Perhaps, they still have the naïve illusion that the gods make the king a male ant after all, and sooner or later they will have to use them, and no king has ever been able to circumvent the Council of Kings and rule an entire kingdom.
Perhaps, they think that heretics like the king are like other male ants, who will die of old age within two years, and then everything will return to normal.
No matter what they think, at least for now, the protagonist is the one in control.
The protagonist makes a gesture to touch his antennae to the pebbles on the ground, and he is signaling the males to do so, he has something to say.
The males also happened to have something to say, so the protagonist and the males, as if they were holding an ordinary king meeting, entered the meeting mode. If it weren't for the Praetorian Guards around with "loaded guns", nothing would be the same.
The tentacles touch the pebble floor, and the protagonist just wants to send a message, but receives a bunch of noisy messages, and some male ants take the lead, accusing the god of acting against the king, although the ants don't have this word, but that's roughly what it means. The male ants demanded that the king should immediately throw himself into the fire to apologize.
Self-throwing on the fire? The protagonist then remembers that there is still this custom in the kingdom of big-headed ants. This practice is usually to throw some male ants or queens who have been chosen as scapegoats into the fire and burn them to death in the event of a major famine or military defeat, so that the gods can calm their anger or give psychological comfort to the other males.
This practice is not common, and the protagonist has only heard from the little secretary that not a single ant has died at the stake since he crossed over. Even last year, when the year was bad, the ants didn't seem to have the idea of burning a sacrifice or two. From this point of view, the big-headed ant kingdom is much more merciful than Yin Shangke.
This time, there are male ants who propose to burn the protagonist to death, not to mention the environment of the occasion and the stupidity of the proposer, you can also see how the male ants grit their teeth and hate the protagonist, wishing that he would die immediately.
Ants have the unique ability to know who is speaking from a group meeting without confusion, so the protagonist quickly locks on to several speakers. The protagonist's tentacles leave the ground and communicate with Mulan, and immediately the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard team take out the male ants who are clamoring to throw the protagonist into the fire, and escort them away.
The meeting continued, this time, there were no male ants rushing in a short period of time, and no matter how dull the male ants were, they could see that the fate of those stunned young men just now was not good.
The protagonist also didn't speak for a while, he was waiting.
Finally, a bold and old male ant tentatively inquired about the fate of the male ants by virtue of his identity and prestige.
"They have disobeyed God's will and will be thrown into the fire to appease God's wrath!" The protagonist's understatement answer made all the male ants' hearts feel cold, and the bloody aura on the king of the gods seemed to be a little thicker.
"I represent God, and my commands are God's will, and you must do them unconditionally, do you agree?" The protagonist continues to speak.
Some of the males immediately objected, and thousands of years of tradition made them hope for God's will on some illusory issues, but they were always a secular society, and the Council of Kings could decide everything.
The males are not stupid, and the long-term worldly experience, as well as the abuse of God's will by the Divine King, make them feel that the protagonist is just doing his own thing in the name of God.
They guessed right. But verbal resistance was ultimately futile
As soon as the protagonist signaled again, a Praetorian Guard stepped forward and escorted the most screaming male ants down, and what was waiting for them was still the fate of the fire.
The males finally got scared.
Seeing that the atmosphere has reached a level of satisfaction with him, the protagonist begins to speak again, reiterating that he represents God and will be the only decider in the future, and that the Council of Kings can still be kept, but no longer has the right to decide, and is only a senate body. The males can still enjoy the same benefits and privileges.
This is the result of the protagonist's previous deliberations, and he intends to use thunder to deter the males, and then to use such gentle tactics to make them agree and accept his new power structure on the condition that they retain the males' privileges.
In this way, the transition of power can be completed as smoothly and quickly as possible, and the protagonist can also find some suitable candidates who are willing to be loyal to him from among the male ants who are temporarily submissive, and to rule those secondary nests that he can't reach.
Otherwise, with the protagonist's own team, even if the commanders of the Divine Envoy King's legion are all withdrawn, there is no way to manage all the side nests.
Moreover, as long as the remaining male ant class can be temporarily appeased, the problem of the expeditionary force on the north bank of the Great River can be more properly solved. When the time comes, he can concoct the same method to pull all the males in the expeditionary force into the newly established King Senate, and peacefully incorporate the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
But the protagonist's vision is plump, and the response of the male ants is skinny. The successive killings made the ants silent, no longer speaking easily, and not expressing their approval, this is their attitude, in fact, they are saying that they will never be complicit in such a rebellion as the king of the gods.
The protagonist finally gets tired of it, and he can see that these males will not agree with the Divine Envoy King who has ascended to the sky from the "country" side nest at all, and will definitely not agree with the highest authority other than the King's Council.
The protagonist really wants to kill all these male ants.,Anyway, there are hundreds of male ants that died in his hands.,The butcher's notoriety has long been on his back.,It's a big deal to deal with domestic problems slowly in the future.,Military power in hand.,The protagonist thinks he has no opponent.。
But he can't do that yet, the living males can still come in handy, and the dead can only be used as fertilizer.
What's more, the protagonist feels that the Northern Expeditionary Army still has some use for him, and he doesn't want to get into too much trouble with friends like the public security king.
The protagonist then signals the guards to keep the males in a remote nest and guarded by the Praetorian Guards.
Then the protagonist also rests, the day is too tiring, and now, the protagonist wants to enjoy the wonderful night as a conqueror.