Chapter 20: The Queen's Visit (3)

The protagonist is unaware of the intentions of the queen of the big-headed ant remnant family, and has been self-righteously trying to avoid the so-called "negotiation trap".

The queen of the Big-headed Ant Relic Clan is completely unable to understand many of the protagonists' words, especially those fresh and rich words.

The two sides wasted time in a pleasant, friendly and adequate exchange.

In the end, the more patient protagonist is the better one, and after a meaningless exchange, the Queen's pragmatic true social insect genes as ants begin to dislike her, and she finally begins to throw out the purpose of her visit.

The Queen's expression has an ant-like euphemism, or a slight tactfulness, and if it were the males of the old King's Council to negotiate, it might take time to learn and master this ant-like art of language.

But for the protagonist, who has crawled through the countless subtle languages of the human world, he immediately captures the key information and understands the intentions of the other party.

The queen came on behalf of the Big-headed Ant Remnants for two purposes:

The first is to ask when the already powerful Divine Envoy King's legion will fulfill its promise to the Big-headed Ant Remnant to help restore the country.

The second is to hope that the Divine Envoy King Legion can provide a batch of food to help the Big-headed Ant Remnant Clan tide over the difficulties.

The first proposal is expected by the protagonist, and he envisioned the other party's request before coming to the negotiation, and he temporarily rejected the request as previously envisaged.

The protagonist points out that although the current Divine Envoy King Legion has inherited the law and territory of the old Big-Headed Ant Kingdom and has greatly improved its strength, the surrounding environment it faces is far more complex and dangerous than that of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom.

Through the information packet, the protagonist sends the situation of the parasitic ant and the mysterious ant, of course, he hides that the parasitic ant has not yet broken through the defense line of the indigenous scythe hunting ant, and the mysterious ant is far away on the north bank of the river.

Although she was able to understand the threat of these two types of ants, the queen was clearly not satisfied with this answer. In order to appease this rare friendly neighbor in the ant world, the protagonist also said that he had begun to research a technology to assist the Big-headed Ant Remnant to return to their homeland, and passed the Walnut Ship's information package to the queen.

The queen was very interested in this floating "boat", and when the remnants of the big-headed ants were cornered, they were lucky enough to climb a stranded piece of driftwood at the water's edge, and then drifted away with the help of the waves and tides.

The rotten wood carrying the remnants of the big-headed ants all the way ran aground near the western border of the old big-headed ant kingdom more than two years ago, and the remnants of the big-headed ants took the opportunity to land.

At that time, the western part of the landing site of the big-headed ant remnants was a barren and stony hilly area with sparse vegetation, and there were some indigenous ants who were extremely protective of food and valued their territory, and the east was the big-headed ant kingdom that was systematically ruled by the Great King's Council at that time.

The Big-Headed Ant Remnants tried to make contact with the Border Side Nest of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, but the male ruler of the Side Nest was unwilling to pass on the wishes of the down-and-out Big-Headed Ant Remnants to the King's Council, and refused to help the poor ants. That is, for the sake of the natural closeness of the same kind, there is no killing of the messenger who enters the country rashly.

The remnants of the big-headed ant who ran into the wall were weak at that time, and they didn't dare to offend the ants on both sides of the landing site, so they went all the way south along the relatively safe border of the big-headed ant kingdom, and finally settled in the current nest.

The vegetation here is relatively rich, and it is outside the border of the big-headed ant kingdom that cannot afford to offend, and the indigenous ants are not good at fighting, so that the big-headed ant remnants who only have more than a thousand ants can breathe.

Although the Big-headed Ant Remnants came to this land on driftwood similar to boats, as a civilized race, the queen also understood that it was not possible to return to her homeland by floating on the water, and that the river flow was fixed, and would only push the floating objects that followed the tide downstream to the east.

The protagonist shows her the walnut boat moving against the current with a simple sail, and the bee towing part is omitted, so even allies have to keep a hand.

The queen is eventually impressed by the unpredictable skill of the "sailboat", and agrees with the protagonist's speculation that it will take another two years to assist the Big-headed Ant Remnant in returning.

After all, in the past, the remnants of the big-headed ant considered the return journey along the river by land, which was difficult and dangerous, and the speed and difficulty were much greater than that of taking the waterway. As long as the Divine King's Legion can provide walnut ships, it won't matter if they wait two more years.

As for the second request for food aid, it was actually the main purpose of the queen's visit. The queen also knew that the first requirement would not be fulfilled in the short term, and the lack of food was already a short-term problem of life and death faced by the remnants of the big-headed ants.

It can also be seen from this that the negotiation skills of the queen of the big-headed ant relict clan, first put a request that is difficult for the other party to meet in front, and then put forward a second request, which will naturally be easier to agree to because of the compensation psychology.

This is a simple and effective experience that the big-headed ant remnants have summed up in the process of dealing with other races with the same civilization for a long time, as a civilized and civilized race.

Last year's war greatly weakened the strength of the Big-headed Ant Remnants, and throughout the autumn, the Big-headed Ant Remnants lacked the ant hands to collect winter food.

During the war, the remnants of the big-headed ants produced a large number of worker ants and soldier ants at any cost, and these young ants grew up to be close to winter, and they could not forage for food but consumed a lot of stored grain, resulting in a shortage of food for the remnants of the big-headed ants throughout the winter.

After the beginning of spring, the original situation has improved, but recently there has been a drought in the territory of the remnants of the big-headed ant, food production has declined, and the grain stock has almost bottomed out. The desperate queen of the Big-headed Ant Relic had no choice but to turn to her allies for help.

Speaking of drought, the protagonist only remembers that it seems that it has not rained for a long time, which is not a good thing for the season when "spring rain is as expensive as oil". Almost all of my territory is in the plains, and there are large rivers to moisten it, and there is no negative impact, and the terrain in the hills where the soil is shallow and cannot hold water is very prone to drought.

Now that the Divine Envoy King's Legion has abundant food in various places, the protagonist is also happy to do a favor, and immediately agrees to allocate enough food from several nearby secondary nests for 10,000 ants to eat for three months to give to the Big-headed Ant Remnants.

The queen immediately expressed her gratitude sincerely, this batch of grain is enough for the remnants of the big-headed ants to consume for half a year, and there is no problem in supporting it until winter if it is frugal, which can be said to solve the urgent need.

The subsequent exchange between the two sides is not a negotiation, but a polite greeting. At this time, the queen mentioned one more thing: when their race was in their homeland, they had also seen mysterious ants!