It's almost the New Year, and the protagonist is here to greet everyone in advance with the Divine Envoy King Army! I wish everyone a speedy home reunion, and don't be adrift on the boat like the protagonist!

In addition, in the near future, only one shift can be guaranteed, and work resumes (irregularly) double shifts after the year!

- I'm the dividing line -

Although no salt is added, this mosquito patty mixed with fat still has a good flavor.

There is a lack of large animals in this world, and creatures like mosquitoes have lost their blood-sucking objects, and the mosquitoes that the protagonist has seen basically feed on plant juice and nectar, so there is a fresh fragrance of plants and trees in the meat, which is completely different from the fishy flavor of the mealworms raised.

It's a pity that these mosquito meat can't be preserved, although no matter how small the mosquito is, it's meat, but in fact, remove the shell, the edible part of these mosquitoes is mainly the juicy belly. The protagonist tries to bake mosquito meat to make dried meat, but once baked, the mosquito's belly quickly dehydrates until it becomes a thin, dry skin that crumbles when touched.

In the evening, the scouts sent out returned to the temporary camp that had begun to take shape, [Sandbank City], and they had already searched the sandbar carpet to learn about the sandbank.

In addition to the Aedes mosquitoes, the scouts also found a few crickets living here, but no carnivorous predators, and these only insects and vegetation together form a simple ecosphere on the sandbar. There's even a predator here, which makes the protagonist a little weird.

At the only large willow tree, the scouts also collected some useful dried catkins and brought them back with compression. It's been a while since the catkins fly, but there are still some catkins wrapped in the grass in the shelter under the big willow trees.

The white fluff of these catkins is a substitute for ant silk, which can still be produced by ants themselves, but in the end, it is produced in small quantities and must be prioritized for important uses such as repairing ropes. In the cabin of the walnut ship, there are not even many male ant cabins with ant silk to lay soft mattresses, and now with these catkins, ant silk can be replaced as bedding and improve the living environment.

The willow seeds in catkins can also be used as food, and taste similar to grass seeds. Catkins are also flammable and can be used as ignitions. It's full of treasures.

In addition, the scouts found a saline mudflat covered with white crystals to the east of the sandbar.

This tidal flat is in the shape of a shallow bottom layer, and the natural sand bank on the outside allows the river water to overflow the sand bank into the tidal flat only during the highest tides of the year, and then after months of exposure to the sun, the river water evaporates, and some salt and mineral crystals remain on the tidal flat.

The ants tasted the salt, and with a bitter salty taste, they returned with a few bitter salt crystals.

The protagonist is very interested in these salt crystals, salt is a very important material, but after the loss of [New Salt City], the army of the god envoy king cut off the source of salt, and can only use the inventory, and minimize consumption.

Most of the salt stocks had been taken away by the first troops to move away, and the salt left in the fleet was very limited, and could only be distributed in a planned way, with each ant receiving a little food soaked in light salt water every week, and eating only a very bland, salty taste.

The salt produced in the saline-alkali land here can just fill the current salt gap.

Although the natural bitter salt crystals here contain too many impurities and are not suitable for direct consumption like the high-quality salt produced in [New Salt City], the protagonist has a way to purify it.

Put the bitter salt crystals brought back by the scouts into a washed clay pot, add water to dissolve, and then filter them with a relatively fine woven cloth to remove mixed sediment and some impurities that are insoluble in water.

The clarified salt solution is then stored in a clay pot and baked by the fire, and as the moisture decreases, salt crystals appear on the walls of the pot. Pour out the remaining waste liquid that concentrates a lot of impurities at the end, and the crystals left behind are coarse salt.

Although there are still a lot of soluble impurities such as potassium salt, magnesium salt, and alkali in these coarse salts, the content is much lower than before, and it is already edible. If you refine the coarse salt a few more times, you can also get a purer salt, but it takes labor and effort, and the protagonist doesn't plan to do it.

The experiment is successful, and the protagonist is glad that his knowledge of chemistry has not been forgotten. Tomorrow, the Divine Envoy King Legion will be able to collect more bitter salt crystals while foraging for food, and make a batch of coarse salt to replenish the inventory, and the mosquito meatloaf will also have some more flavor!

- I'm the dividing line -

That night, the protagonist falls asleep late.

It's been two days since he left his homeland, and in the shabby and damp [Shazhou City], the protagonist misses the dry and comfortable sleeping palaces in [Qingqiu City] and [Dongyang City] very much.

Now both places have fallen, and have become the chassis of the Destroyer, a nest of fish.

The protagonist's hatred for the Destroyer becomes more and more condensed, and after crossing into this world, even though he has fought with many forces, such as the Paving Ant, such as the Holy Alliance of the Scythe Hunters, such as the King's Council faction and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction during the Civil War, the protagonist has never hated these opponents.

Fighting these opponents is either based on existential pressure, an inexplicable feud between the forces, or a difference in philosophy. Even if the enemy is defeated, the protagonist can treat them with tolerance, which is why the big-headed ant, the paver ant, and the scythe ant will work under his command at the same time.

But the destroyers, they are like plagues, wildfires, famines, and they come for the purpose of destroying all ants, and the gods can only end up with the endless ending, and it is impossible to coexist.

In the previous war, the protagonist knew that the army of the Divine Envoy King had indeed failed, paid a terrible price, and was driven out of his homeland.

The protagonist has never been as hungry for power as he is now, and only strength, growing his own strength, can allow the Legion of the Divine King to completely defeat the Destroyer in the next war.

The protagonist has a hunch that sooner or later the war with the Destroyer will come, and the Destroyer, like the Mongols who are sweeping through Eurasia, or the Qin army that is sweeping Liuhe, will sooner or later conquer any ant force they can see, which is not something that can be avoided by the gods making the king's army retreat into the swamp.

The terrain of the swamp can shelter the legions of the Divine Envoy King hiding in it for a while, but not for a lifetime. Only by strengthening one's own power is the fundamental strategy to preserve the Divine Envoy King's legion.

But how do I strengthen the Legion of the Divine King? With the loss of territory, the sharp decline of ant populations, and the fall of resource sources, the Divine Envoy King's Legion has fallen into a trough.

Only by regaining control of the huge territory, breeding many ant mouths, mastering more resources, combining the knowledge of the protagonist, and developing new military technology, can it be possible to fight the Destroyer again.

But where is the opportunity and resources to re-energize the legion of the Divine King?