It was a male ant who came to report it, not a worker ant or a soldier ant.

He was excited, his head shaking, and a pair of tentacles swayed. It wasn't until the Divine Messenger King appeared that he hurried over, intersecting his tentacles, and delivering the message.

"Found copper?"

When the protagonist receives the information, he understands why the male ant is so excited, and why he actually comes to report it himself.

On weekdays, males don't do the work of working ants, it's not something their status or class should do.

But today can make an exception, as a commander, this male ant naturally knows the combat effectiveness bonus of the soldiers under his command after equipping the bronze jaw knife. Ants are still martial, and things related to Rong are worth making an exception.

The protagonist hurriedly asked him to lead the way to see, and he didn't even bother to check the specific information packet, anyway, it was said that the location of the discovery was not far from [Xinyang City], so it would be good to take a look for himself.

As a result, the protagonist ignores the message from the male ants, showing the finished image of the discovery of "copper", rather than images such as "copper ore" and "malachite".

The site where the team found copper was on a river beach.

Qinghe made a big turn here on the [Xinyangcheng] Peninsula and turned back to its original direction. Due to inertia, the western part of the peninsula was washed away by the fierce current for a long time, and cliffs appeared.

On the east bank, the water rushes to the opposite bank, and here is the area where the river backfills, the water is relatively gentle, and the sediment carried by the river water leaves a pale yellow beach after the flood water recedes year after year.

Some shellfish and small shrimp can often be found on the river beach, and they are also an important source of food for the Divine Envoy King Legion in [Xinyang City].

This beach is not confined to the eastern shore of the peninsula, but stretches intermittently, following the direction of the river, hundreds of meters or more to the east.

The protagonist didn't pay much attention to this direction when he looked out over the poplar tree, but in retrospect, he only remembered that the beach was still at the end until his vision was disturbed by fog and obstacles.

It was on the beach about 100 meters to the east that the ants found "copper".

There is "copper", this kind of metal that can be smelted by the Divine Envoy King Legion at present, and the importance of the Divine Envoy King Legion naturally does not need to be mentioned.

The protagonists know that their final destination, the swampy area, is devoid of copper, at least not yet. Copper was found here, and it was possible to smelt a batch of copper weapons and tools, breed some more ants, and bring them all back to the swamp to increase the stock of copper.

Once you return, with the transportation capacity of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and the complex terrain and ant forces along the way, it will be as unrealistic to come back to dig copper ore as it is to mine copper ore within the control of the destroyer of the homeland!

The protagonist follows the male ant and his subordinates, and they don't even bring the immortals, who themselves suffer some minor injuries in the struggle because they are glued.

They walked all the way to the edge of the beach, where there was not much vegetation in the way, and it was not easy to be swept into the occasional big wave in the river.

When we finally arrived at the beach, there was still some distance to go, and you could see the golden light on the beach, and the yellow river sand seemed to be mixed with a large number of golden particles.

Now that the rainy season has passed, the weather in early summer is sunny, and the beach that shines on it is like a "golden beach"!

The protagonist's heart moves.

When he picked up the first metal pellet with his big jaw, he couldn't laugh or cry.

This is indeed a kind of metal particle, golden in color, shining, very "valuable".

But these are not copper, and the particles of copper are very likely to grow patina in this humid environment, which should be greenish and will never remain yellow like they are now. Ninety-six flavors

These metals are gold!

A metal that, in the human world, can cause fanatical worship, but also can cause killing and fighting. It is a metal that has been given different meanings by humans.

But what is the use of this gold for ants?

You can't eat or drink, and the ants in this world don't need general equivalents to exchange and trade with each other, and it's okay if the two races don't fight each other.

The protagonist is a little crying and laughing, and he has to drop this gold.

This gold was also brought by the water of the Qinghe River. However, when I was adrift on the boat before, I had never seen such a golden sand beach on the bank of the river.

It is believed that a nearby tributary was brought by the flow into the Golden River.

If you look southwest, there are mountains with towering peaks that almost reach into the sky.

If you look at the direction of this mountain range, it is likely that it is one with the hills to the south of the homeland and the mountains near the marshland.

There was gold in the mountains, and maybe it came from where he wanted to go back!

Although he thinks that the gold is useless, the protagonist also lets the accompanying ants collect a little bit. He wouldn't be averse to making something for himself out of gold, which is a natural gold particle that looks like there are very few impurities.

Although it is difficult for ants to melt these metals with high melting points in their combustion chambers, forging alone is enough to process soft gold!

This is the little bit of gold that remains of humanity in the protagonist's heart.

Instead of Golden Beach, the protagonist is interested in a small grove of trees not far north of the beach.

He had seen these trees before, in the leaf-cutting ant territory by the river.

These are several metasequoias, water pines and ash, the same main tree species as the water forest where the barchet leaf ant lives. It's just that there are one or two weeping willows here and there.

On a nearby ash tree, he could see with the naked eye the brown helmet wax scale, the sweet excrement of the insect that could be used as a substitute for aphid honeydew.

If the metasequoia trees are also home to coffee codling moths, leaf wasps and green leafhoppers, this is a great hunting ground.

Compared to gold, these insects are more valuable.

Seeing the Brown Helmet Wax Scale, it suddenly occurred to the protagonist that it was time to hatch a batch of aphids and scale insects, grazing on the useless weeds nearby, and producing honeydew.

It's best to suck some of the stout weeds on the peninsula to death!

The protagonist wants to reclaim a piece of farmland on the peninsula and plant crops that collect grass seeds.

Most of the vegetation on the peninsula can be cut and cleared with a copper-jaw knife, but there are some weeds that are so tough that it's not worth the risk of damaging the already small copper artifacts.

It's a wet and rainy season, and there's no way to set fire to the open space.

If the aphids can suck the plants to death, it would be the best of both worlds, and the withered plants would be well cleaned up.

The protagonist didn't think about this stubble before, this is the disadvantage of only him making decisions, but he really doesn't have a male ant who is smart enough to assist him, and the ant's IQ level is still far inferior to the protagonist himself after all.