With the completion of [Xinyangcheng], the ants put an end to the lazy state of doing nothing most of the time when they were on the boat.

Some of the ants are engaged in the construction of the interior, some are carrying supplies back and forth from the boats, some are hunting on the peninsula, and some of the ants continue to explore the nearby lands, but all that is lacking is the ant hands.

The protagonist himself is not idle, he does not like to stay in the noisy and noisy lair, so he personally leads the Praetorian Guard team and joins the exploration army.

The exploration team is divided into several teams, most of them go to explore the northern periphery of the big poplar tree, and the protagonist takes the Praetorian Guard team to act alone, first walking around the peninsula where [Xinyang City] is located.

This was already a cursory exploration yesterday, but the protagonist's eyes are different from those ant scouts, and some things are worthless in the eyes of the ants, but the values of the protagonist's previous life may find their usefulness. So he plans to walk around himself and see if there are any resources that can be used.

The peninsula is roughly spindle-shaped, about thirty or forty meters long from north to south, and from seven or eight meters wide to ten meters wide from east to west. The two ends of the spindle are the narrowest, the end of the peninsula and the neck, and the widest in the middle.

In terms of topography, the peninsula as a whole is an undulation of high in the west and low in the east, with the west side rising an average of four or five meters above the water surface, and the highest boulder is six or seven meters above the water surface. To the east, there is a gentle sandy beach, which has been submerged in the river. The entire peninsula slopes from west to east, with almost no level ground, and an average slope of 30 degrees.

Plenty of wild grass grows on this small peninsula, and the island is lush and green, but the soil is actually very poor.

During the construction of [Xinyang Castle], the ants found that the soil here is shallow, and when digging down about half a meter from the root of the tree, there is a lot of sand mixed in the soil, and more and more sand is going down.

The ants used their previous experience in building a city on a sandbar to create a simplified version of "ant concrete" by mixing gravel, mud and their own feces to ensure the stability of the substructure. In the past, when they were in their homeland, they would not have chosen such a place to build a city!

Of course, the follow-up ants have to be continuously reinforced with real "ant concrete" to make this nest have a longer life and not collapse from time to time.

Especially on the eastern side of the peninsula, the soil layer becomes thinner and thinner the further you go, and when you reach the riverbank, it simply becomes a sandy beach composed of pure river sand.

With such a barren land, it is no wonder that only one tree grows alone near the mainland, and it can also be seen that the big poplar tree is not easy to grow up in such a barren place. The nearest of the rest of the trees is 100 meters to the north.

Elsewhere on the peninsula, only a few shrubs are on the west coast, and the rest are weeds.

There are not many types of weeds that can produce grass seeds for ants to eat, and most of them can only be used to make ropes from fibers, but they are not as good as vine hemp fibers, which makes the protagonist very disappointed.

Among the few shrubs on the west bank was a firethorn, long and malnourished, with sparse foliage. By this time, the flowers had fallen, and the fruits had not yet grown. But the protagonist recognizes that he has also seen firethorn in his homeland, and the fiery red clusters of fruits that bear in autumn are good fruits, sweet and sour, with a glutinous taste similar to snake fruit.

The other shrubs were of little use, all of them were holly and tung trees, and although the fruits were very beautiful, they were not satisfying.

There are a few insects on the peninsula, mostly common species such as crickets, rat women, and snails, which can also provide some prey.

Other than that, the protagonist doesn't find any other useful resources, which is basically the same as the information obtained by the other exploration teams yesterday evening - what a barren peninsula.

After exploring the peninsula, it was already noon, and the protagonist led the team back to [Xinyang City] and had a big meal. 918

The main course is roasted cricket legs, which are the freshest game that the hunting team has just brought back.

The whole cricket leg is set up next to the fire in the combustion chamber and matured, and when it is almost baked, the aroma of fat is already everywhere.

The protagonist picks up a leg and waves it in the air a few times to dissipate heat - the ant's respiratory system and digestive system do not share a cavity, and he can't use his mouth to cool down, and it feels weird to blow on the vents in his abdomen.

Feeling the heat from his forelimbs, he hurriedly switched his left and right hands again. When the temperature is cold enough not to be hot, the protagonist uses an obsidian jaw knife to pry open half of the crust on the leg, revealing the roasted brown leg meat, which feels the same as opening the crab's leg shell and eating the leg meat.

The protagonist is not in a hurry to eat, but from the small jar next to him, he crushes the large salt crystals and gets a little powder out.

He thought about it, and shook it back halfway - there wasn't much salt left, and it was still provincial. Then spread the minced salt evenly over the grilled meat.

The minced salt melts quickly under the heat of the meat, penetrating into the fibers, and an even more enticing smell spreads.

Only then did the protagonist take his leg over, tear off a piece of meat with his big jaw, gobble it up and chew it in his mouth a few times, and then swallowed it into his stomach, comfortable!

Although there is only salt as a seasoning, the advantage is that the ingredients are fresh, the protagonist has not eaten such good food for more than half a month, and the food on the ship is really indescribable, almost back to the point where he could only eat sunflower seeds when he first crossed.

The side dish also has a small amount of raw wild vegetables and a glass of water.

Although there is a large river nearby, the ants do not draw water directly from the river, preferring to dig a narrow well in the nest that can be up to ten meters deep to obtain clean groundwater.

This is the kind of water that the protagonist drinks, and now that there is no honeydew, he can only drink ordinary water like ordinary ants. However, it is also much better than the river water that seems to be clean, but in fact I don't know how many impurities there are.

After eating and drinking, the protagonist can't help but sigh that it's better on land.

But as the ants return to work after eating, the noisy construction movement is heard again, and the protagonist hurriedly flees from the underground and continues to explore the outside world with the Praetorian Guard.

This time, he set his sights on the north side of the big poplar tree, the interior of which he hadn't explored much yet.

In the morning, other exploration teams had already searched a small area on the north side of the big poplar, no more than thirty meters at most. It is also a land where wild grasses and shrubs grow predominantly.

Beyond that, there is a large forest, right in the north, which looks very verdant and full of life.

The protagonist thinks that there are more resources there, but it is also estimated that there will be more dangers, and it is likely that there are indigenous ants in the area.

The protagonist prepares to tentatively scout the outskirts of the forest, but since it is not a large-scale military operation, he still sets off with only the Praetorian Guard.

Come to think of it, even if there is any danger, there is no enemy here who can stop himself with the power of "Heavenly God Descending to Earth" from breaking through and running less than 100 meters away and returning to the place where the large army is.