The military operation of the black-headed sour ant to raid the auxiliary nest of the paving ants came to an end, and the two sides evacuated.

In this battle, the loss of troops on both sides was not much, and the paving ants lost two or three hundred warriors, and the corpses of these warriors and the aphids, honeydew, and prey near the auxiliary nest were all reduced to the trophies of the black-headed sour ants.

And the black-headed sour ant only paid for the loss of more than a hundred fighters, which obviously took a big advantage.

The black-headed sour ant successfully achieved its strategic objectives and obtained a large amount of valuable food.

However, in the long run, it will take time to verify whether the black-headed sour ant's risky move to provoke the regional overlord will cause the revenge of the paving ant barbarian army, or even lead to the destruction of the entire community.

For the protagonist, there is also a reward after this battle.

On the one hand, he learned about the tactics of the black-headed sour ant army, and if he encountered it on the battlefield in the future, the Divine Envoy King army could also target it, so as to avoid being in a hurry due to lack of intelligence in the first battle. When the Divine Envoy King's Legion fought against the Scythe Hunter Ant for the first time, he suffered this loss.

In addition, the frequent wars between the Japanese black brown ant and the black-headed sour ant and the paver ant also make the protagonist aware of a weakness of the paver ant barbarian - the complicated diplomatic situation around the territory.

According to the protagonist's understanding, the territory of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom is surrounded by some natural terrain barriers, and the indigenous ants living outside the territory are generally not strong enough to threaten the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom. The big-headed ant kingdom was able to concentrate all its efforts on fighting for hegemony with the paving ant barbarians.

Although the paving ant barbarian has a vast territory and many ant populations, it is certainly not accidental that the eastern border area detected by the protagonist has observed frequent wars between the indigenous ant tribe and the paving ants. Especially in this year's bumper years, this conflict will only intensify under the pressure of food insecurity.

Moreover, the local indigenous ants, like the black-headed sour ants, have large colonies, prefer to wander around, and have unique tactics, which will bring a lot of defensive pressure to the paving ant barbarians.

As long as the Paving Ant Barbarians are restless, it will involve a large number of their troops and resources, creating opportunities for the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army and the Divine Envoy King Army on the southern front.

- I'm the dividing line -

After observing the battle between the black-headed sour ant and the paving ant, the protagonist leads the reconnaissance team to move on.

Until the sun went down, they passed by several secondary nests of paver ants and observed two small battlefields of paver ants and Japanese black brown ants.

Before the sun went down, the scout team found a suitable place to spend the night.

The site is located near a beehive, a small natural tree hole, perhaps eaten by silverfish, and there is a lot of space inside.

The bees showed no ill will towards the strange combination of flies and ants that approached, and the scout team was relieved to move in. The bees next to them played the dual role of bodyguards and bait, so the scouts slept peacefully that night.

The next day, the scout team continued on the road, having been on the road for more than two days and was about to pass half of the food they were carrying.

In order to ensure food supply on the way home, they had to go back for two days and one night at most.

The territory of the Paving Ant Barbarian is far larger than the protagonist previously expected, at least in the territory of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, which is enough time for the protagonist to fly back and forth in a straight line now.

And the territorial boundary of the paving ant barbarians has finally made a turn, from roughly north to roughly west.

The protagonist notices that a short distance north are the mountains.

This is a real mountain, not comparable to the rolling hills in the southern part of Dongyang Castle.

Today, the sun is good, there are no clouds at all, and the protagonist can see the towering mountain reaching into the sky, the lower part of the mountain has the trees that extend to the base of the mountain, but the upper part of the mountain is only stones and sparse pastures.

These mountains are so high that few insects seem to be able to fly over them.

The protagonist calculates that at least with the flying abilities of the Flying Knights' mounts, they will not be able to fly over these mountains. If you want to cross the past, you can only wind your way through the valley road between the mountains.

The border of the paving ant barbarians is the dense forests that extend from the foothills of these mountains, mostly drought-tolerant trees such as pine and birch.

Along the way, in addition to the side-nests of paving ants, the protagonist also observes a special nest.

The nest is large and sits on a natural hill, and in terms of size and shape, it resembles the main nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

This makes the protagonist very curious, and he stays over the lair for a while.

By estimating the number of ants in the vicinity of this nest, the protagonist believes that the ant mouth of this paving ant nest has exceeded 100,000, which is much larger than the other secondary nests.

Could it be that this is the main nest of the paving ant barbarians?

The protagonist thinks about it and dismisses the idea.

Through the interrogation of the captive paver ant queen "Black Pearl", the protagonist roughly knows that the main nest of the paver ant barbarian is not far from the river, and it is impossible to be located so far inland.

But this lair is so different that the protagonist can only guess that it may be a lair similar to a regional capital or a companion capital.

After all, the territory of the paving ant barbarians is too large, unlike the big-headed ant kingdom, which only needs one main nest to control the whole country, and it is bound to need some nests as regional centers.

The protagonist decides to name these nests as branch nests.

In addition to the huge scale of this branch nest, what makes the protagonist more concerned is that the land near the branch nest is densely populated with the same kind of plants.

It is a plant with beautiful purple flowers, and if it is seen alone in the wild, it does not attract special attention.

However, in the wild, all kinds of plants should grow together in a staggered manner, and unless they are extremely dominant in the competition, there will not be a situation where there is only one plant in an area.

But now, the purple flower occupies hundreds of square meters of land near the nest, and few other plants are seen in between. Moreover, at this distance and location, placed in other secondary nests, the worker ants of the paving ants will remove all vegetation so as not to affect the heating and lighting of the nest.

This kind of scene reminds the protagonist of farmland! Could it be that paving ants also have agriculture? You know, the paver ants haven't even mastered the use of fire!

The protagonist lowers his height and begins to look for clues in it.

Soon, he observed that in the sea of purple flowers, some paving ants that looked like farmers were eradicating other plants, but they were not touching the purple flowers.

This does not mean that the paver ant is plowing and weeding, or it may be that the purple flower plant reproduces quickly, but it happens that the paver ant is unwilling to touch it for some reason.

Judging from the distribution of purple flowers, it is still a natural law, and there is no sense of uniformity in farmland.

So, why do paver ants keep this purple flower near their nests? Was it intentional or unintentional?