Since the other secondary nests participate in the wedding ceremony held by the main nest once a year, the female eggs are only born at the beginning of spring each year.

If the protagonist wants to hold another temporary wedding ceremony, there is no suitable young female ant in either "Dongyang City" or other nests in the country of the big-headed ant king.

If the protagonist makes "Dongyang City" self-reliant, it is not impossible, as long as the queen ants lay another hundred female eggs.

Even if there is a fear of inbreeding, it can be avoided by having half of the queen dedicate to male eggs and half to female eggs.

However, after the wedding ceremony, a hundred adult male ants can come in handy, but a hundred queen protagonists can't handle it.

Even if these 100 queens are allowed to lay eggs at the lowest rate, they can lay thousands of eggs in that day, and it won't be long before the ant population of "Dongyang City" will exceed 100,000, and then it will be time for famine - relying on collection and animal husbandry alone will not be able to support so many ant populations.

The protagonist thinks about it and orders only one queen to give birth to three female eggs. During the wedding ceremony, simply let more than 100 male ants (including the male ants who failed in the previous wedding ceremony) compete for these three females.

Anyway, there is a newlywed flight ceremony procedure formulated by the protagonist, and it will not cause an ant to die because the competition is too fierce. Most failed males never have the opportunity to spread their genes in their lifetime, so it is better to be a good commander at the grassroots level of the army.

After planning this, the protagonist is ready to quietly wait for "Dongyang City" to grow stronger, and then set out again to fight for shame.

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Reality doesn't give the protagonist his wish.

In the afternoon of the same day, some worker ants operating in the south of "Dongyang Castle" fled back in a panic to report that they had been attacked by a large group of enemies.

South? Enemy? The protagonist immediately thinks of the parasitic ants in the south, is that them? Did they attack?

The plan made by the protagonist only thinks of trying to get back on his face and attack again in the future, but he does not expect that the enemy will also take the initiative to attack. The real world has never been a computer game, and any opponent is far superior to a high-IQ AI.

The protagonist hurriedly reads the worker ant's memory.

Through the eyes of the worker ant, he saw that the worker ant and his companions were collecting fallen flowers for food in a bush in the southern part of "Dongyang City".

Suddenly, a blade of grass not far away was removed, and countless parasitic ants with three silk threads on their backs suddenly burrowed into the grass, killing all the worker ants they encountered in "Dongyang City".

Seeing that the situation was not good, the worker ant hurriedly fled, but fortunately the enemy did not open the encirclement net, and after the pursuit was fruitless, he watched the lucky worker ant escape smoothly.

Soon, one after another, the worker ants and soldier ants rushed back to report back, and they all encountered the enemy.

The protagonist reads the information of some of the messengers, giving them a general idea of what is going on outside the lair at the moment.

About 7800 parasitic ants are infesting about 50 meters south of "Dongyang City", and among these parasitic ants are large worker ants who are in charge of command.

Because of this, this army of parasitic ants appears to be organized and targeted. Along the way, they attacked any members of the "Dongyang Castle" they encountered or saw.

Judging from the route they traveled, their goal was the entrance to the lair of "Dongyang City". At the speed at which the parasitic ant legion is advancing slowly, after about an hour at most, they will advance near the entrance to the nest.

The warriors of Dongyang City who encountered the parasitic ants along the way were very brave, except for a few messengers who fled back to report the news, the other warriors, whether they were soldier ants or worker ants, bravely rushed towards many powerful enemies.

The parasitic ants have an individual combat and numerical superiority, and these sporadic brave resistance does not cause much damage to them, but the sacrifice of the big-headed ants has succeeded in slowing down the enemy's movement.

How do these parasitic ants know where the entrance to the nest of Dongyang City is? They don't fly into the sky like the protagonist and then scout.

And the protagonist hasn't received any information about the appearance of parasitic ant scouts in the neighborhood in the past two days.,With the ant's poor eyesight.,If you want to investigate.,It's impossible not to alarm the nearby patrols and laborers.。

The protagonist thinks of two possibilities:

The first possibility is that these parasitic ants originally migrated from "Dongyang City", and it is natural that they know the way back.

But the protagonist refuts this speculation.

Although ants have a general orientation ability, if they want to find a target accurately, they still need to rely on pheromone guidance most of the time. The parasitic ants have been migrating for at least a few months, and the pheromones they left behind should have long since failed.

The second possibility is that these parasitic ants are tracking the pheromones and blood trails left by the Divine Envoy King's army when they retreated.

The more the protagonist thinks about it, the more it feels like it's possible. Since he didn't think of such a deep layer when retreating, the protagonist did not give orders to the troops behind the palace to clean up the traces of retreat.

And there were a large number of wounded in the army of the Divine Messenger King, and their blood and bodily fluids dripped all the way, dripping into a path of blood.

And the pheromones left by the Divine Envoy King Army, these parasitic ants that originally came from "Dongyang City" can naturally read and understand what they mean.

There is no longer much need to find the cause and hold accountable. The enemy has reached the doorstep, and the priority is to destroy or expel the enemy.

Although the intelligence gathered from the escaped ants shows that there are only about seven or eight hundred enemy troops outside the entrance of the nest of "Dongyang City", and they cannot capture the "Dongyang City" with tens of thousands of ants, the protagonist does not know whether there is an army of parasitic ants behind him, so he can only plan according to the worst expectations.

The protagonist immediately urgently informs all the adult kings that the conference room is in session.

Soon, the kings arrived, and the protagonist told all the kings the news of the attack on "Dongyang City", and demanded that all the kings except Lan Bofei immediately gather troops and go out to defend against the enemy.

And all the kings scattered to gather their armies. The protagonist also brings his own guards to the surface, which live near the protagonist's dormitory, and they don't leave the station easily unless ordered to do so by the protagonist, so they assemble very quickly.

The protagonist is the first to lead his subordinates to the ground outside the lair, and waits for a few more minutes before the other kings and their teams arrive in a hurry.

Due to the urgency of time, these kings did not only select soldier ants as their subordinates as they did last time, but caught all the worker ants and soldier ants they encountered on the road.

In general, in the team led by these kings now, the number of soldier ants and worker ants is roughly two to three, and the later the team comes, the higher the proportion of worker ants.

The protagonist also did not reprimand these kings for taking it upon themselves to recruit worker ants, and he did not give a specific order this time to require all the soldiers in the squad to be soldier ants.

After confirming that all twenty-eight squads have arrived, the protagonist leads the Divine Envoy King's legion south to face the invading Parasitic Ant Legion.