When the cold wave stops, the sun makes the earth gradually warm up again, and the temperature rises to freezing during the day, the protagonist orders the first paver ant team of ten paver ants to go north.

In this small team, each paver ant wore a cold-proof suit and went on the road with enough food and drink. Four of them carried a small nut shell with smoldering charcoal preserved, and four of them each carried a small net bag of dry food, enough for the team for three weeks. The other two paver ants are ready to take turns carrying the fire and dry food.

Since the other big-headed ants are unable to go out, only the protagonist and other paver ants in thick felt come to see them off.

Strange to say, despite being a big-headed ant, the protagonist feels so different - well-developed eyesight, the ability to breathe actively, and the ability to generate heat on their own in winter, all of which the big-headed ant does not have. Sometimes, the protagonist feels like he is still a mammal, a mammal with the appearance of an ant.

To get back to the point, for the next half month, this small team will trek through the treacherous wilderness, and if they fail to return, it means death.

But the ants never refuse the orders of their superiors, even if the order is to let them die, or most likely to die.

Not only this squad, but in the next few days, the protagonist will send a northbound squad every day, and a total of five squads will participate. As long as any of the squads succeeds in returning and bringing intel, the sacrifices of the other Paver Ants are worthwhile.

After sending off the last team going north, the protagonist returns to the underground lair alone.

The warmer it gets, the more noisy it gets, and even in the dead silence of winter for the insect world, there is still a shelter full of life.

For more than a week, the weather was beautiful, the weather was sunny and good, and even if there were occasional strong winds, there was no snowfall, and the hope of survival of the northbound team was a little more.

And the protagonist, day after day, looks forward to the news from the north.

- I'm the dividing line -

After sending off the North Bound team, the protagonist begins to run to the beetle stable every day.

There are now twenty hatched adult beetles, including three large beetles and seventeen medium-sized beetles. Large beetles have one unicorn fairy and two stag beetles, while medium-sized beetles are all kinds of beetles, including red-footed green beetles, patina beetles, etc., and there are also dung beetles, that is, dung beetles, commonly known as dung shells.

At the beginning, together with the gift of the big-headed ant relics and the army of the Divine Envoy King, they rummaged around in the wild, and collected a total of nearly 30 eggs suspected of being beetles, but in fact, after hatching, it was found that there were other insects such as the longhorn beetle.

The longhorn beetle is a general term for insects of the multiphagous suborder longhorn beetle, which has chewing mouthparts and is characterized by long antennae, often exceeding the length of the body.

The longhorn beetle is a herbivorous insect, some species are pests, its larvae live in wood, will harm plants, such as most of the pine, cypress, willow, elm, walnut, citrus, apple, peach and tea, etc., some cotton, wheat, corn, sorghum, sugarcane and hemp.

The strength of the heavenly cow is great and it is considered to be as powerful as an ox, hence the name. It is precisely because the longhorn has a handful of strength and is plant-eating, although it is not suitable as a war beast, but the protagonist feels that it can become a good service beast, and at first he wanted to domesticate the beetle to domesticate the longhorn.

However, it is clear that the beetle is different from the beetle, and this domestication method has failed. In addition, the Celestial Bull apparently disobeys the discipline and always wants to dig through the narrow passage of the beetle stable to escape, and in the end, the protagonist has to mobilize a team of Divine Envoy King warriors to kill the Celestial Bull and throw the edible part into the granary.

also suffered this fate, as well as the Gidding worm. Gidding insects, commonly known as popping skin insects and rusty skin insects, belong to the order Coleoptera and the Gidding family. Its adult insect bites the leaves, the larvae eat the cortex of the branches, and there is a flow of gum at the damaged place, and the bark bursts when the damage is serious, so it is called "burst skin worm", and even causes the whole plant to die. The size and shape of the adult gidding worms vary depending on the species, ranging from small ones of less than 1 cm to large ones of more than 8 cm, with small heads and short antennae and feet. The larvae are long, flattened, and milky white.

However, after killing the Gidding worm that cannot be domesticated, the protagonist has an additional bonus. Gidding insect is an extremely beautiful beetle, the general body surface has a variety of colors of metallic luster, most of the colors are gorgeous and abnormal, like a delicate and charming lady, also known as the "rainbow eyes". Some species of Gidding insects have metallic shades of blue, patina, green, or black. In the Victorian era, the metallic beetle was often used as living jewelry for women or men.

The protagonist discovers that these gidding beetle shells can be used as decorations for the dormitory, and when carved with a gravel knife, they are a beautiful work of art. The carapace crumbs that fall off during carving become a beautiful dye when added with water, which can dye felts or textiles in a rainbow of brilliant colors.

Except for the untamable beetle and gidding beetle, other beetles can be domesticated by the method taught by the big-headed ant remnants.

And the protagonist also discovers that none of the beetles in this world can fly. These beetles no longer have wings, and what was originally a pair of elytra has grown together, completely turning into a carapace similar to a tortoiseshell. Perhaps it's because the beetles in this world lack predators and no longer need to rely on flying to escape, and the sturdy and seamless carapace is more conducive to survival, so there has been such an evolution - the protagonist makes the same conjecture.

In order to prevent the beetles from being untamed in their underground nests in winter, the big-headed ant remnants also taught a technique that feeds the beetles the pulp or juice of some specific fruits, which make them drowsy and less active.

In this way, these semi-hibernating beetles only need to be fed food, water, and hypnotic fruit once a week to keep them in peace.

However, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King was not idle, and the legions that were planned to be organized with the beetles had already come to the beetle stables in batches to conduct adaptation training around the sleeping beetles.

It's okay to accompany the infantry, they just need to get used to the presence of beetles, and the way of fighting is still the same as they are used to on weekdays.

The infantry on the back of the beetle needs to learn to quickly get up and down on the beetle's back.

In order to make it easier for these infantry to get on and off, and also to give these warriors who throw slings a stable platform, the protagonist plans to install some saddles on the back of the beetle. The Big-Headed Ant Remnants do not have such saddles, and their warriors are accustomed to fighting on bareback beetles.

However, the protagonist believes that just as the saddle freed the cavalry, and the vehicle on the elephant's back helped the elephant knight, the right saddle can help the beetle warrior increase his combat effectiveness.

As a result, the research and development of beetle saddles was put on the agenda.