It was only two days later that the expeditionary force returned to the main nest.

Despite the catastrophe in the territory, the main nest still held a routine triumphal ceremony for the triumphant expeditionary force.

The ant's triumphal ceremony is simple, but full of honor.

All the kings of the main nest, accompanied by the escorts, left the main nest and went out to welcome the return of the expeditionary force.

From the main nest to the meeting place, on both sides of the road dozens of meters away, there are teams of worker ants and soldiers.

The expeditionary force was disbanded on the spot in this kind of melancholy welcome, and the soldiers and workers merged into the ranks on both sides of the road.

Only the king, king, and permanent guards of the expeditionary force were not disbanded, and they exchanged brief exchanges with the kings who had come to greet them, and the triumphal ceremony was over, and then everyone returned to the main nest together.

The protagonist is in the greeting procession, and he has been in this main nest full of decay and backwardness for two days.

In the past two days, there is no need to deal with government affairs, and the protagonist who has nothing to do often goes to the senior brother to communicate with.

After the disappearance of the oldest king, the senior brother, as a disciple who had already left the school, temporarily assumed the duties of the oldest king.

However, the Council of Kings has not yet decided to let him inherit the title of the eldest king, because the life and death of the oldest king is still uncertain, and the reason for his disappearance is a mystery, and it cannot be characterized as a defection. In case the time comes for the elder brother to inherit the title of the eldest king, and the oldest king returns, and it is impossible to determine that he is guilty, then there will be an embarrassing situation of two oldest kings in the entire kingdom.

During this time, the senior brother did not receive any meaningful divine decree, and his more important task was to track down the whereabouts of the eldest king and find the truth about his disappearance according to the commission of the Great King Conference.

The protagonist is very interested in this topic, and he and the elder brother have been exchanging relevant information.

Before the protagonist set out to conquer the parasitic ants in the southern hilly region, he learned the news of the sudden retreat of the eldest king. In the past, the oldest Wang had never experienced such a retreat. However, at that time, it was generally believed that the most old Wang, as the person in charge of communicating with God, could not exaggerate what strange actions he made.

Further back, when the protagonist first comes to the main nest, he used to live in the opposite door of the elder brother before and after participating in the military operation to recover the secondary nest that had been overrun by the Paving Ant Barbarian army.

In retrospect, the main character lived at the top of the eldest king's bedchamber, and when he slept in his room every night, he often heard strange noises behind the walls, like the sound of a broom sweeping across the floor.

The reason for the disappearance of the oldest king is a mystery. The Council of Kings finally decided to freeze the title of the Oldest King, but not to declare him a traitor, and once the Oldest King was found, a Council of the Kings must be convened immediately to question and even try him. In addition, the Council of Great Kings decided to elevate the status of the elder brother from the king to the king, temporarily assuming the duties of the eldest king.

Finally, the King's Council also decided to announce the incident to all ants in the main nest and all the secondary nests, and the senior brother was responsible for setting up an investigation team to continue to investigate the cause of the disappearance of the eldest king and search for his whereabouts.

After the elder brother's investigation, he found two valuable pieces of information.

The first piece of information is a report of the worker ants who feed the queen ants inside the main nest, and at the same time as the oldest king is missing, three queens in the main nest are also missing.

In addition to some worker ants who are assigned to each queen of the main nest, there are also some worker ants who are responsible for transporting food for all the queens.

It was these worker ants that discovered the anomaly.

And the bedroom of the three missing queen ants is very close to the bedroom of the oldest king. Is there a connection between the disappearance of the three queens and the disappearance of the oldest king?

The second intelligence part solves the mystery of the first intelligence.

As the messenger of the main nest passed the news of the disappearance of the eldest king to the various secondary nests, several southern secondary nests soon sent back information.

These secondary nests have foraging worker ants, and a strange team from the main nest has been found in the territory.

There are males, queens, and some accompanying worker ants in this team. The pheromones on the party members indicate that they are from the main nest, and they themselves indicate that they have a mission to go out.

However, it is relatively rare to go out with the queen ant, generally only after the beginning of spring, the queen ant who originally returned to the main nest for the winter will set off to return to their respective nests, and the queen ant is basically in a state of snailing underground at other times. At that time, it was late autumn.

Naturally, these foraging workers did not stop the movement of the team from the main nest, but routinely reported the information to the local king.

After receiving a report from the king's meeting, the local king realized that the situation of the strange team he had discovered before was very consistent with it, so he immediately reported it.

The elder brother immediately organized an investigation team to go to the south.

However, in the territory where the traces of the oldest king were found, no new valuable information was found.

The elder brother could only roughly infer that the eldest king, along with the three missing queens and some worker ants, headed towards the southern part of the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and then there was no news.

As winter approached, the elder brother suspended the search. It was not until the beginning of the spring of the following year that the search resumed, but due to the interval of winter, no new valuable information was found.

The mysterious disappearance of the oldest king has become a mystery, but the protagonist doesn't think much about it, this is more of an internal matter of the big-headed ant kingdom, and it seems that it has not caused any substantial damage to the kingdom at present.

- I'm the dividing line -

On the afternoon of the day when the expeditionary force returned to the main nest, the meeting of all the kings could not wait.

All 500 kings attended the meeting, which was the most complete meeting in recent times, which shows the importance of the whole kingdom and the difficulty and complexity of the kingdom's need to solve the problem.

The first issue is, of course, the serious problem of the disaster in one-third of the country's territory.

According to the comprehensive information from various places, each secondary nest suffered heavy losses in the fire.

Due to the victory of the expeditionary force, reinforcements from various secondary nests were disbanded and returned to their original nests, and some of the troops on the march were just in time for the wildfire, and there was nowhere to escape, and the army was almost completely wiped out.

Combined with the loss of ants foraging outside, the most serious secondary nest lost almost eighty percent of its ant population, and all the affected secondary nests also lost nearly half of their ants on average.

More serious than the loss of ant populations is that most of the secondary nests do not have time to harvest enough food because the wildfire season is the harvest season.

These sub-nests are no more convenient than "Linshui City" and "Dongyang City", which have concentrated and contiguous farmland, and harvest grass seeds more quickly. Most of the secondary nests have to collect seeds from sporadic weeds in a vast territory, and the efficiency is low.

Now, these secondary nests are facing famine and are in dire need of the main nest's support.

But the main nest is now also short of food.