After the wildfires, the "Waterfront City" and "Bridgehead" began to enter the post-disaster reconstruction stage.

Since this fire also affected several secondary nests of the Paving Ant Barbarians, after investigation, except for the secondary nest closest to the "bridgehead" that was completely wiped out by the Divine Envoy King Legion in the first anti-encirclement and suppression, the rest of the nearby secondary nests suffered heavy losses due to lack of warning.

In this way, even if the Paving Ant Country still wants to take hostile actions, it will be impossible to prepare for a second attack in a short period of time because there is no starting base and it is difficult to raise food nearby.

The external environment has been improved, allowing the Divine King's Legion to devote itself to the recovery from the disaster.

"Waterfront City" and "Bridgehead", the main losses of these two territories in the fire are divided into two parts, one part is the loss of ant mouths, about hundreds of ants died; The other part is the long-term effects of the destruction of the surface ecology.

The loss of the ant population can be compensated, and there are now ant queens stationed in the "Waterfront City", as long as they are at full power, the same number of newborn ants will be able to replenish in a month.

The more troublesome thing is that the surface ecology has been destroyed.

Although nature has a tenacious ability to repair, and some of the thicker trees did not die in the wildfire, the vast majority of weeds, shrubs and small trees were burned.

It takes months to a year for weeds to recover, shrubs for years, and trees for years to decades.

Whether it is a shrub or a tree, the growth cycle is too long, which means that the main vegetation in the territory will be dominated by grassland for a certain period.

This change in the ecological environment will inevitably lead to changes in the insect communities that grow in it, which will affect the food source and food composition of the ants.

The protagonist is also powerless to change this situation, and the ants obviously do not have the ability to plant trees on a large scale. What the protagonist can do now is to use the power at hand as much as possible to improve the external ecological environment as much as possible.

Under the orders of the protagonist, all the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King's legion were devoted to the exploration of the south bank of the river, except for half of the legion that remained in the "bridgehead".

A large number of ants carried freshly harvested weed seeds from the granary and began to sow them on the burned land on the south bank of the river.

The seeds harvested in these fields are originally weeds, and after being sown, they can quickly germinate and grow under the conditions of sufficient water, temperature and light.

The ants sowed seeds at a more appropriate density, which was sparse than the plants that normally grew and squeezed each other's living space, and denser than the weeds that recovered sporadically after the fires, so as to maximize the planting area while taking into account the future unit yield.

This fire is equivalent to accidentally helping the gods to expand the area of farmland many times more than the king army.

You know, in normal times, opening up farmland takes up a lot of labor. Cultivating farmland is not a simple task, ants have to use their small bodies and rudimentary tools to cut down the tenacious weeds on the ground, cut down the shrubs with strong roots and trunks, and remove large and small stones.

Clearing a 10-square-meter piece of farmland requires thousands of strong laborers to work for two or three days.

Now, after a wildfire has completely destroyed the vegetation on the ground, the ants have little to do with less labor, just sow the seeds, and a natural flat farmland has emerged.

The ashes left behind after the flame will also become a natural fertilizer for the new farmland.

As a result, on the south bank of the Great River, near the "waterfront city", an "oasis" of thousands of square meters will soon appear, where lush grasses have appeared while the vegetation is still slowly recovering elsewhere.

Maybe the farmer under the protagonist doesn't have the energy to take care of so many fields, and they can only put their limited energy and ant manure fertilizer into some of the farmland, but these farm crops are weeds, and even if they don't have a farmer to take care of them, they can live very well, at most the yield is slightly lower.

And such an oasis is bound to attract the surviving insects to come to feed, which is conducive to ant hunting.

- I'm the dividing line -

After making a plan and watching the post-disaster reconstruction get on track, the protagonist crosses the river for the first time and arrives at the "bridgehead".

Although the "bridgehead" was also damaged, the protagonist did not start a reconstruction plan here.

This is because the "bridgehead" may be reduced to a war zone again in the future, and the protagonist does not want the crops he has worked so hard to grow end up as military rations for the enemy to eat on the spot.

In this way, the area around the "bridgehead" was left untouched, a scorched earth, and it was extremely difficult for any creature to forage for food.

Only the Divine Envoy King Legion stationed inside the "bridgehead" can have no worries about food and clothing, and receive continuous transportation and supply on the south bank of the Great River.

The protagonist comes to the "Bridgehead" because the Floating Leaf King, who was previously captured and imprisoned here, asks to see him.

After the victory of the first anti-encirclement and suppression, the "surrendered" Floating Leaf King actually wanted to make the protagonist accept the "peace" conditions he proposed on behalf of the Paving Ant Country in an extremely unfavorable situation.

The protagonist didn't accept it in the end, but he moved to ambush the other party, but at that time, the proud Floating Leaf King naturally couldn't agree to "commit to the thief".

So the protagonist imprisons him in the "bridgehead", and orders several soldiers to watch over him closely, and only allows him to operate in the inner area of the "bridgehead".

And this time, the Floating Leaf King asked to see him, obviously loosening his attitude.

In fact, during the detention of the Floating Leaf King, the entire Three Views suffered a huge impact.

At the beginning of his captivity, the Floating Leaf King was still very worried about his personal safety, but after a few days, the Floating Leaf King confirmed that the other party had no intention of killing him for the time being. At least, the other party gave himself a good amount of food, and in the Paving Ant Kingdom, he would not be so merciful to the captives, either kill them directly, or treat the raised young ants as slaves.

The Floating Leaf King's initial impression of this place where he was held was that the food was very good.

God is above, and there is meat in the food he eats every day, although these meat are dry, like the smell of earthworms that crawl out of the ground on a rainy day, and then fail to hide back into the ground after the weather is clear, but it tastes good.

To the surprise of the Floating Leaf King, he found that most of the ants in the entire nest, including lowly worker ants and soldier ants, could also eat meat every day, albeit in slightly smaller amounts.

You must know that even in the fertile Paving Ant Country, only the king and the queen can ensure that they eat meat every day! Most of the untouchables' food consists of plant seeds, roots, flowers and leaves.