After the ant army invaded the hive, it did not encounter much resistance.

At this time, the smoke in the hole of the hive tree gradually faded, and the ants were able to endure it. However, the bees in the hive have basically fainted and are unable to organize resistance, allowing the ants to easily attack.

A handful of bees hovering outside the cave tried to save the nest and launch a counterattack, but the ant army was ready to leave no room for the stunned aerial warriors.

After the ants entered the hive, some loyal bees followed suit, but the fight in the hollow of the tree was in favor of the ant warriors, and the heroic bees were quickly killed.

The Divine Envoy Legion captured the hive with minimal casualties, and the battle was fruitful.

For most of the night, the ants were busy moving the loot from the hive back to Dongyang City.

First, bee pupae and eggs were collected, and some of them were destroyed by the smoke and could only be used as food. However, other pupae and eggs hiding in the inner layers of the hive are still alive, and as long as these pupae and eggs hatch, the protagonist can have bees.

As for domestication, that's a matter later, with the experience of domesticating flies and beetles, and bees are genetically close to ants and have similar behavior patterns, the difficulty should be lower.

Unfortunately, the protagonist fails to capture a living queen bee, and the queen bee of this nest chokes in the smoke before she can leave the nest, and these flying insects seem to have a harder time tolerating the poisonous smoke than ants.

However, the protagonist is not worried, he can hatch and raise a queen bee by himself. The eggs of ordinary worker bees and queen bees are the same, most of the young bees eat royal jelly for three days after hatching, and then change to honey and pollen, and eventually grow into worker bees, but if a larva is arranged to live in the royal platform, it will have royal jelly to eat for life, and it will become a queen bee.

This is also very similar to ants, whether they eat high-grade food, and whether they are suppressed by queen hormones, determines whether a female larvae will develop into a queen, a large worker ant, or a worker ant.

The protagonist has captured a lot of royal jelly this time, which is enough to raise several queen bees.

The larger ones were honey and beeswax, but the loot was difficult to carry, and the ants had to swim for a long time, leaving a force in the hollow of the tree to prevent the loot from being stolen by other insects.

For a long time to come, the ants had to use this tree hole as a mine, cutting off the honeycomb little by little, and sending it back to Dongyang City to separate the honey and wax.

As for the thousands of bee corpses, the ants did not let go, whether it was the corpses of the nest ** or the ground, as well as those bees that were lucky enough not to die and were mended, they can be used as food or mealworm feed.

The bee meat harvested by the ants this time alone was enough for the entire "Dongyang City" to eat for half a year.

In "Dongyang Castle", the protagonist arranges for the follow-up development of the bamboo hive, and instructs him to dig a new spacious ant nest next to the anthill to be used as a breeding farm for bees after domestication.

After instructing the members of the research team to use beeswax and the information package provided by the protagonist to experiment with the lost wax method of casting copper as soon as possible, he hurried back to the main nest "Qingqiu City".

- I'm the dividing line -

The reason why the protagonist rushed back was because he received important information.

According to the Centipeda's Flying Knights, when they were scouting Western Alliance territory, they discovered that the Western Alliance was at war with the forces of the Queen Ant's Legacy faction.

This is an unprecedented thing, the ants that originally belonged to the same big-headed ant kingdom broke out into a civil war without the participation of the protagonist, which was rare in the past. The actions of the protagonist have apparently flapped the butterfly's wings.

Although I don't know why the most old king and the Western Alliance have been attacking the Divine Envoy King Legion, the protagonist will not let go of this opportunity, and he soon mobilized ten legions to officially attack the Western Alliance.

Of course, the other reason is that the protagonist does not want the Queen Ant Legacy faction to take control of the territory of the Western Alliance and pose a threat to the main nest.

The main force of the Western Alliance was attracted by the Queen Ant Inheritance faction army, and the auxiliary nest troops facing the direction of the main nest were empty, and in front of the huge and elite Divine Envoy King army, they were quickly defeated and retreated, and it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed.

When attacking some of the Western Alliance's Vice-Hives, the Legion of the Divine Envoy sometimes encountered the armies of the Queen Ant's Legacy faction, and the warriors on both sides did not seem to see each other as temporary allies, and there were several skirmishes.

Armed to the teeth, the warrior of the god king gave the other party a good lesson, killed and captured a group of the opponent's ants, and then took advantage of the situation to occupy the target nest.

The protagonist interrogates the captive Big-Headed Ants, and soon learns about the message package that the Queen Legacy faction has to convey to their ants - apparently, it is not only the protagonist who sees the other party as a threat to the future, but the Queen Ant Legacy faction now sees the Divine Messenger King and his minions as heresy like the King's Council.

After gaining a large amount of territory and ant mouths, it is clear that the higher-ups of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction are no longer "compromised", but gradually reveal their true intentions.

This incident strengthened the protagonist's determination to eliminate the Queen Ant's inheritance faction together, and the two forces could not coexist on the south bank of the Great River.

The ten Divine Envoy King Legions instructed by the protagonist have attacked everywhere, and although they have not directly torn their faces with the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, they have already attacked the secondary nests that are still in a neutral state. The protagonist's calculation is that even if there are not enough males to control these secondary nests for the time being, they will not tolerate these secondary nests being controlled by the queen ant inheritance faction.

Of course, during this period, there will inevitably be further friction with the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, but the most old Wang's side has obviously issued some new orders, and most of the time the Queen Ant Inheritance faction army has retreated.

However, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction has expanded extremely quickly before, and has taken control of the southwest and west of the old territory of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom while the protagonist is still entangled with the old-fashioned king.

Now he took advantage of the opportunity to attack the Western Alliance and entered the middle of the kingdom, and tried to march along the river, but fortunately, the protagonist had already arranged and controlled the traffic arteries, so that the other party could not touch the richest riverside area.

The current situation is that the Queen Ant Inheritance faction controls about one-third of the old territory of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom in the western part of the south bank of the Great River. The eastern territory controlled by the Divine Envoy King's legion is also roughly one-third, and the other third is a neutral secondary nest.

The Queen Ant Legacy faction obviously doesn't want or dare to tear their faces apart yet, but the leadership of both sides knows that war is inevitable.

For the next period of time, both forces are fighting for control of the neutral sub-nest, and the situation is more favorable to the Divine Envoy King's legion. Previously, the protagonist ordered to occupy several secondary nests in the main transportation routes, cutting off the main roads of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction to the riverbank and the eastern part of the kingdom, and the neutral secondary nest gods in these places allowed the royal army to slowly digest without worries.

But unlike the Queen Ant's Legacy faction, which can concentrate on dealing with one opponent, the protagonist must also be vigilant about the movements on the north bank of the Great River!