Winter is the season of death and slaughter.

This winter, the protagonist has seen too much death and separation, first his first mount - Xiaoqing, and then the protagonist is a rare object to communicate with with a human mentality - Xiaomi.

Maybe there will be more deaths to come......

But the good thing is that life can always continue to some extent.

After Xiaoqing, the protagonist has a new mount, Xiaoqing II, although it is almost indistinguishable from Xiaoqing in appearance, both are mercerized green flies with large red compound eyes and bronze carapace. But the two are not genetically linked.

Xiaoqing also left behind her offspring, mating with a female fly, and the eggs produced were kept separately to pass on her genes and be used to expand the Flying Knights' team that the protagonist was preparing to continue expanding.

The protagonist once looked forward to the day when the mounts of the Flying Knight Legion under his command were all majestic mercerized green flies. Unlike now, there are all kinds of flies and fruit flies, which are not uniform and beautiful, and there are differences in load and speed.

And the little secretary also left his own offspring, although due to the big-headed ant kingdom and the army of the god king, the protagonist does not like but the constraints of the still strong conservative force, it is impossible for the little secretary to mate with a male ant and lay a fertilized egg.

However, an unfertilized egg that can hatch into a male ant is enough to perpetuate her genes and prolong her life.

Ironically, as the ruling class of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom and an important member of the Divine Envoy Legion, the male ants stubbornly adhere to the hierarchy that makes non-queen females like Xiao Mi unable to give birth, or can only give birth to unfertilized eggs. Male ants, on the other hand, hatch from unfertilized eggs.

How ironic it is that what the male ants are defending is, in a sense, the birth rights of the professional ants they rule.

And the unfertilized egg born by Xiao Mi, as a male ant, his future under the command of the protagonist will have a brighter future than his mother, a large worker ant.

The protagonist instructs the worker ants to take the egg to the male's special incubation room, to mark it so that it does not mix it with other males' eggs.

He had already thought that after this male ant broke the pupa and became an adult, he would give him the name of "Little Secretary II", as the second generation of the Little Secretary family, and reproduce forever under his command. This is a commemoration of the little secret, a commemoration of a smart but untimely worker ant.

The protagonist worries that the eggs of the little secret II will be mixed up with the eggs of other males, but it is unfounded. Winter is not the season for reproduction, and the queens of Dongyang City have stopped laying eggs and their abdomen has shrunk to normal size. In the entire male ant hatching room, there is only one lone egg, the little secret II.

- I'm the dividing line -

This time is also the time when the queen ant is the freeest.

Traditionally, when the queen ants begin to lay eggs in spring, summer and autumn, they rarely leave the dormitory due to their limited mobility.

Only those queens who are ordered to move to other secondary nests will control their endocrine secretions, stop laying eggs, allow their abdomen to shrink to a suitable degree, and then move farther away with the assistance of worker ants.

And throughout the winter, the queens are free to move around without the drag of their bloated bellies, and the males turn a blind eye to their behavior.

Therefore, winter is the most free season for the queen ant.

They will curiously wander around the nest, followed only by a few worker ants that serve them.

Dongyang Castle is changing rapidly, and compared to a year ago, there are more beetle stables, some workshops, and dormitories for the main characters and male ants, and more breeding farms and fly stables than two years ago.

For the queens, who "stay at home" most of the seasons, there will always be something unfamiliar about this familiar nest.

These queens weave around their nests, exploring places they are unfamiliar with and of interest, and they are the most vivid sight in the dead winter days.

The protagonist also did not interfere with the behavior of these queen ants, but during this time, Rambo Fei was very busy.

He's on a secret mission assigned by the protagonist.

The previous incident of the oldest king made the protagonist aware of some of the secrets of the queen ant's inheritance faction, and he was always wary of whether his subordinates were also hiding these forces.

In the past, the protagonist's time in "Dongyang City" was relatively short, and he didn't have time to explore the affairs of the Queen Ant's inheritance faction. And because the Queen Ant Inheritance faction is secretive and powerful in "Qingqiu City", the protagonist does not dare to easily fake others to investigate.

This time, the protagonist stays in Dongyang Castle all winter, and he finally has a chance to carry out his earlier plan.

This time, he personally took charge of the plan, and Rambo Fei was responsible for the implementation. There is only one squad of ants responsible for the specific execution, and the ants in this squad are all paving ants, and it is impossible for them to have anything to do with any faction of big-headed ants.

Following the protagonist's instructions, the paver ant squad is divided into two parts.

Some of them were sent out to follow the queens separately to find out where they went every day and which ants they communicated with. In particular, which males these queens communicate with.

As the absolute main force of the Divine Envoy King Legion, most of the warriors are big-headed ants, and the commander is also big-headed ants. The most intolerable thing for the protagonist is that there are supporters or participants of other forces lurking in the army.

The second part is arranged for the queen ant to leave the dormitory, waiting for the opportunity to enter the dormitory to probe and look for some evidence.

Although the ants have no written material, most of the information remains in the brain, and little physical evidence can be found.

However, the protagonist believes that if there are some secret factions among the queens, then there must be something unusual about their dormitories, which are rarely visited by outsiders.

For example, secret passages and the like. The oldest king escaped from "Qingqiu City" before, that is, through the secret passage dug in his private dormitory. Previously, he had also made contact with the queens of several queen inheritance factions through secret passages.

However, although the paver ants are more reliable and cannot be involved with the queen inheritance faction in the big-headed ants, their faces are different from the big-headed ants after all, and although they have the same smell, they will inevitably be a little inconvenient.

For example, when encountering some male ants, these male ants will often bully and make things difficult for these paving ants, and with their eyesight and intelligence, they know very well that these ants with the same smell have the body of their own enemy.

These paver ants, who are responsible for tracking the queen, also have a strong sense of hierarchy, and they do not dare to resist at all, so they often lose their targets.

Finally, after a Rambo Fei report that two paver ant worker ants were killed by several big-headed ant kings, the protagonist was furious!

Under the convening of the protagonist, a general meeting of male ants in "Dongyang Castle" was immediately held, and the protagonist's anger ignited the entire venue!