After the protagonist returns to [Xinyang City] from Golden Beach, he doesn't say anything for a day.

In the next few days, [Xinyangcheng] was running, developing, and growing in an orderly manner.

At this time, the natural environment of the outside world has changed again - although it does not rain here, the water of the Qinghe River has become turbid at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in the next few days it has become the "Yellow River", which is completely unworthy of its name.

The water level on the river also began to rise rapidly, and half of the sandy beaches on the eastern side of the peninsula were soon flooded, including the anchorage of the walnut boats.

Looking from the big poplar trees, the river beaches on the north bank have suffered this fate, and the greedy and ferocious river water has recklessly devoured the land space.

Golden Sand Beach is the lowest, and at this moment it is completely submerged, and the glittering golden light is completely obscured by the turbid water. The terrain there is like the bottom of a funnel, so it's no wonder there's a lot of golden sand piled up there.

It seems that when the water level drops and the beach reappears, the gold content will only increase. If you put it in the human world, it is a natural gold rush mecca.

The river is turbid and the water level is rising, and all kinds of signs indicate that there is rain in the upper reaches of the main tributaries of the Qing River, such as the large river, which is a tributary of the Qing River, and this time of year also happens to be the rainy season.

The water flow carried the sediment and gathered together, shaping the Qinghe River with a completely different temperament during the flood period.

The flood season of the Qing River has arrived.

The protagonist can't help but be glad that he landed with the fleet in time, otherwise the river is so turbulent now, and it is easy to capsize once it encounters a dangerous shoal. Even if the boat does not capsize, it will be difficult for the ants to land at the current speed of the river.

The floods did not threaten the ants that had already come ashore to nest, but they still caused a lot of damage.

Just when the protagonist senses the coming flood and wants to strengthen the anchorage of the Walnut fleet, the river has already submerged all the stones and sticks of the flotilla cable.

The river is turbulent, and the protagonist can only stand on a high place, watching the walnut fleet sway from side to side as it is impacted in the rapids, the cables sometimes taut and sometimes loose, bearing the extreme force.

Under such conditions, the ants had no way to wade into the boat and try to reinforce the cables.

Even if the currents at the moorage are far less intense than the most intense parts of the river, the enormous impact force is not something that a slender cable can resist.

Only half a day later, all the cables broke, and the walnut fleet quickly left the river bank like wild horses, and soon disappeared from view along the muddy yellow rapids.

From the time the mooring was submerged, the protagonist expected this moment, and he could only recognize it at this moment.

Fortunately, all the materials on the fleet had already been transferred to [Xinyang City], except for the walnut fleet itself, the Divine Envoy King Legion did not lose anything.

And the walnut fleet itself is not irreplaceable.

Even if the Divine Envoy King's army wants to return to the lair, it will not be possible to take the water route next, and it will inevitably take the land route after crossing the river.

The only remaining role of the walnut fleet is to ferry the ants across the river, and in the dry season, the walnut fleet is not needed, and the raft is tied with branches or something, which can also be used as a ride.

There are many woods near [Xinyangcheng], and there are dead branches. And in the big forest to the north, the protagonist also finds a few walnut trees, and if he has the patience to wait until next spring, he can also rebuild the walnut fleet.

Of course, the protagonist is not that patient, and is still ready to cross the river on a raft when the time comes.

Thinking of this, his heartache was alleviated by seventy percent.

There are also thirty percent, because the walnut fleet also consumes a lot of ant silk, rope, and wood, and I knew that these useful things were removed. Bashan loves

- I'm the dividing line -

Good news is always hard to come by, but bad news is easy to follow.

After the walnut boat drifted away, the days were calm for a while, although the flood water rose sharply and much of the coastal ground was submerged.

But the ants still have enough hinterland to gather for food.

The exploration team successively took pictures with some indigenous ants in the vicinity, including belly ants and paving ants. However, the other party's range of activities is generally far away from the river bank, and there is also a long distance from [Xinyang City].

The exploration team simply killed the indigenous ants they encountered, and then tried not to go here, reducing contact with the indigenous people and not exposing their own existence.

The remaining territory is also very large, and the hunting and gathering alone is enough to feed tens of thousands of ants, which is more than enough to feed the current less than 10,000 Divine Emissary King warriors.

Not to mention that the ants have also built farms and farmlands one after another, and began to graze aphids, basically recreating the original economic model in their homeland.

At present, it seems that the only trouble is that after the flood rises, the humidity under [Xinyangcheng] has increased greatly, which makes the ants very uncomfortable.

Then, just when the protagonists were a little slacking off and waiting for the flood to pass, it was almost a month of boredom.

On this day, a baby ant came over to report bad news.

At the beginning of the landing, the protagonist uses some of the ant eggs to hatch and replenish the ant mouth.

By this time it had been a month, and the worker and soldier ants had broken out of their pupae and joined the army or the ranks of farmers, hunters, and craftsmen.

The two most precious ant eggs, one is the eggs of the future queen ant and the other is the eggs of male ants, which are the only pair of ants with reproductive ability currently bred in [Xinyangcheng].

These two eggs develop more slowly than the eggs of the working ants, and the female larvae have already formed a pupa and will break the pupa in a few days.

And the male larvae have just formed pupae, which is the time for vulnerability.

At this time, the worker ants who raised their babies found that unknown fungi had grown on the pupa of the male ants, and the green ones were very scary.

The protagonist is shocked, although there are still some male ant eggs stored in the warehouse deep underground, but it takes a month to hatch into adulthood, and if this male ant dies in a chrysalis, [Xinyangcheng] will have to wait another month for the lone female ant to pair up to impregnate, and it will also be a month late to have the ability to lay new eggs.

This can easily interfere with the protagonist's plans, and once the flood waters recedes, the protagonist plans to cross the river as soon as possible.

When the time comes, a large number of newborn ants will be needed to augment the army and the team of porters, so that they can carry as much supplies as possible and be safer along the way.

The protagonist immediately orders an all-out effort to treat the only male ant chrysalis so far, and the worker ants use their jaws to remove the hyphae from the surface and smear the affected area with saliva in an attempt to save the chrysalis.

But the mycelium is still germinating day after day, and its roots have been rooted in the pupae, and it cannot be eradicated without breaking it, but if it is broken, the pupa will die immediately, and the male ants inside are still in a paste state at this moment, and they are not formed at all.

After three days of delay, the male ant's pupae gradually dried up. On the day when the female ant successfully broke the pupa there, the nursery worker ant found that the male ant pupae had completely lost its vitality.

When the protagonist heard the news, he had no choice but to order another male ant egg to be hatched, which was delayed for a month.

And the death of the male ant pupae actually portends a huge crisis.