It's dusk, and the night breeze is blowing.

Most creatures lay dormant in the darkness and silence, waiting for the next day's sun. Some nocturnal insects begin to move, but they are also cautious and silent.

In this way, the world of night replaces the world of day, although the background is different, but it is just as primitive and wild!

At this time, the ruins of "Salt City" are bustling with activity, and it is a bustle again after a brief calm after the monsters raging during the day. Groups of well-ordered big-headed ants, pouring out of the various exits of the ruins, converge on the ground, ready for a citywide migration.

A small number of soldier ants and worker ants brought by the tumor from "Dongyang City" took on the task of scouting, and some of them were retired soldiers of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and they were relatively more experienced.

Under the protagonist's instructions, they move towards the southeast target. Being a scout in the dark is not an easy task, and ants still prefer to be active during the day. The darkness of the night limits their already poor eyesight, and they have very little to explore with their antennae alone.

Because the night is dark, the protagonist does not dare to ride Xiaoqing II to act, and can only crawl on the ground like other ants. Xiaoqing II is temporarily left in the ruins of "Salt City", when the protagonist returns early and rides it away.

The scouts toss around for a long time before discovering the boulder pile indicated by the protagonist, then return and leave wayfinding pheromones along the way, guiding the large army towards the area.

The large army had already assembled outside the ruins, and immediately set off after receiving the news of the scouts. The sturdy ants marched in the front and back of the team and on both sides, guarding the companions who carried ant eggs, larvae, ant pupae and food in the middle, and the only queen ant of "Yancheng" was also in the team.

The ants that move in a large group have pheromone guidance and will not get lost and confused, and the ant colony with a strict formation, even in the dark night, few insects dare to take the initiative to provoke.

On a late autumn night, the protagonist hears a handful of crickets and gnats still singing loudly, but the voice is desolate and lonely. At this time, those who are still insisting on speaking out are basically the losers of the courtship season, and they can't be out for a few days.

The colony arrived at its destination to the sound of insects.

The protagonist gives full control of the construction task to the tumor, and as the tumor gives the order, the ants are engaged in the construction of a new nest.

First of all, it was necessary to determine a major entrance, and after consultation with several experienced old worker ants, the tumor chose a joint joint at the top of the rock pile and the bottom of the sunny side of the boulder as the entrance.

Subsequently, a large number of worker ants burrowed into the crevices and began to build nests along the natural extension of the stone crevices. While other large groups are outside, guarding the queen, larvae, and supplies.

It is said to be a building, but building a nest in a rock pile is not like building a nest underground, where you only need to dig out passages and nest chambers from the soil. Here, the ants need to make use of the natural morphology of the rock crevices according to local conditions.

Some small rock crevices are used as passages, huge rock crevices are used as nests, and the worker ants remove the obstructive stones, and move some suitable stones to the corresponding positions to get stuck as the division of different areas.

Because the entrance and exit of the stone crack is too large, the ants have to use stones, soil, grass stalks, etc. to paste the entrance, leaving only a small entrance.

The construction of the new "Yancheng" is well underway, and the protagonist is preparing to return to find Xiaoqing II.

Before leaving, he instructed the tumor to concentrate on building a new "Salt City" to improve his defenses, and not to let the ants go out for the time being, so as not to provoke those river crabs again - although the terrain of the new "Salt City" is now easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the river crabs find it, it is difficult to climb or dig.

The protagonist tells Tum that he will bring some food from "Dongyang City" to meet the needs of the new "Yancheng" for the winter, and that Tum and his subordinates only need to pay close attention to the situation of the river crabs, and wait for a large number of river crabs to die before replenishing the production of salt and transporting it to various places.

In addition, the tumor needs to send messengers to inform them about the situation of the various nests, informing them that the old "Salt City" has been abandoned, the new "Salt City" has been built, and that the tumor has become the new king.

The convoys stranded in each nest are incorporated into the new "Salt City" by the protagonist to make up for the previous losses and prevent them from returning to their original nests.

After doing this, the protagonist returned to the ruins of the old "Yancheng" under the escort of a small number of guards, and when the sky was dark, he rode Xiaoqing II and flew back to "Dongyang City".

- I'm the dividing line -

In the next few days, the construction of the new "Yancheng" continued, and the grain delivery team promised by the protagonist also arrived here.

The ability of tumors is very strong, and even in a completely different environment, it has not stopped the pace of nesting of big-headed ants.

But in "Qingqiu City", something is happening.

After the Northern Expeditionary Army took away a large number of kings, including many army commanders who were friendly with the protagonist, the king meeting of "Qingqiu City" was composed of the remaining kings.

They all knew what had happened in Yancheng before, but they didn't pay attention to the difficulties of this remote and barren side-nest, and only gave a death order, demanding that the local king must ensure the supply of salt from all over the country.

The kings know the use of table salt, at least now that a large number of ants and supplies have been removed from the secondary nests everywhere, the queen must speed up the laying of eggs, and strive to hatch a batch of worker ants before the winter to collect as much food as possible for the winter. The queen ant needs a lot of high-grade food and salt to lay eggs, and the king must also ensure the stability of the salt supply.

A small secondary nest, even if all the ants in it are dead, is not a pity, but the salt must be sufficient. That's the idea of the King's Conference.

But when another news reached "Qingqiu City", the king meeting could not sit still.

The destruction of the old "Salt City", and the voluntary abandonment of it, has made the kings very unhappy, and in any case, the abandonment of a mature nest close to the salt marsh will affect the yield of salt.

What makes the king meeting even more dissatisfied is that the protagonist said through a messenger that he has taken over the new "salt city" in accordance with the authorization of the last king meeting, and due to the infrastructure and monster rampant, he will not be able to produce salt in the short term, but will make up for the salt gap before winter.

The king believes that now is the time when there is the greatest shortage of salt, and even if it is delayed until the winter to make up for it, it will be useless.

If the question of salt is concerned, it is only to make the king meeting dissatisfied. That other serious problem made the kings of "Qingqiu City" extremely vigilant and angry!

That is, the protagonist executed a king in the name of the divine envoy king!