Chapter 121: A New World (7)
In order to maintain Taoguang, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction is now unable to expand the number of secondary nests, so it wants to first increase the ant mouths of its four secondary nests to expand its strength.
The "real main nest" currently has less than 1,000 ants, and the other three secondary nests have an average of 4 to 500 ants each, which is obviously too small to be placed anywhere.
To increase the size of the ant population, it is easy to say, as long as the queen ants speed up the laying of eggs.
A queen ant can lay up to 200 eggs a day, but this speed can be very depleting and even shorten the life span of the queen, and it is generally only done as a last resort when the nest is under siege and there is an urgent need to replenish the warriors. Under normal circumstances, the queen ant can roughly guarantee a rate of 50 eggs per day.
There are now five queens in Stone Pillar City, and it is theoretically possible to add 7,500 ants in a month.
However, the ant population cannot grow indefinitely, and it needs enough food to feed it, which is precisely the biggest weakness of "Stone Pillar City".
The reason why the oldest king brought the queen and his followers from the queen ant inheritance faction to this desolate south is because it is remote enough to not easily attract the attention of those kings in "Qingqiu City", and secondly, because the legend says that the big-headed ant kingdom was born and rose here, and "Stone Pillar City" is the only territory of the earliest big-headed ant kingdom.
In the early days, the big-headed ant kingdom was ruled by the queen ant, so it was regarded as a sacred place for the queen ant inheritance faction.
However, hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and the vicinity of "Stone Pillar City" has become more and more desolate.
It is said that the kingdom of big-headed ants was forced to march to the plains because of the lack of vegetation and lack of food, and the desperate big-headed ants burst out with strong combat effectiveness, and slowly conquered a large area of land in the war and became the overlord of the south bank of the river.
Now, the most old king and queen ants who choose to return to the holy land "Stone Pillar City" and want to restore the tradition of the queen ant ruling the country are shocked to find that this holy place is even so barren that it is difficult to support a thousand ants.
Therefore, the queen council has discussed and has to ask the protagonist for help.
This is actually the idea of the most old king, the queen ants do not know whether this god envoy king can be trusted, they are afraid that after the matter is revealed, they will be discovered by "Qingqiu City" and be killed.
However, the eldest king believed that he was also a messenger of the gods, and that the king of the gods was born to be allies with him, so he was able to push forward this plan against public opinion.
The protagonist does come to the "real Lord's Lair" as he expected, although the motives are not as glorious as the oldest Wang imagined.
When the protagonist proposes during the meeting that he is willing to help the "real Lord's Nest" and has already brought the first batch of food, the Queen Ant Council is very happy.
But then the protagonist pours a basin of cold water on them, and the protagonist tells them that the amount of food he provides is only enough for a thousand ants to eat for four months, that is, enough for all the ants in "Stone Pillar City" to survive the winter.
One queen accused the king of bringing too little food, and that he should bring more food, for the sake of the "true Lord's Nest", for the sake of the noble queens, for the sake of God, even if the gods made the king's nest starve to death, he must provide enough food for the "true Lord's nest".
The protagonist is a little dumbfounded, these queens are only in the world all year round, and after they were suddenly put on the throne by the oldest king who believes in the inheritance of the queen ants, their emotional intelligence is still low, and they actually make such excessive demands.
For a moment, the protagonist feels that the Queen Ant Conference and the King Conference are all the way, completely self-centered, and take the objects they think are subordinates!
Fortunately, the eldest king saw some clues, and he expressed his gratitude for the first batch of assistance brought by the Divine Envoy King, and hoped that the Divine Envoy King would be able to provide more food as much as he could in the future to help the "true Lord's Nest" survive the difficult time. When the orthodox queen expels the kings who have stolen power, the gods and queens will naturally praise the kings.
This kind of empty check protagonist just listens, in fact, whether it is "Qingqiu City" or "Stone Pillar City", it can't give the protagonist what he wants.
When he first crosses over, the protagonist is completely unable to accept that he has become an ant. After adapting, he wanted to live well.
However, a series of experiences make the protagonist discover that a single ant is too weak, and wars, fierce insects and even accidents can die if they are not careful. Only by being strong and relying on a strong group can we better protect ourselves. So the protagonist established the Divine Envoy King Army, and continued to expand his power, wanting to have the strength to protect himself in the face of all crises.
At the same time, based on human instinct, the protagonist wants to change the current ant-like primitive life, and he has made a lot of efforts to do this, including making beds, pottery, and simple furniture for himself.
With the appearance of the mysterious big-headed ant "Relic", the protagonist guesses that it comes from a place with a more advanced civilization, and he is more eager to understand that civilization, and wants to raise the level of civilization under his command to a higher level, and then get closer to the human world.
This is the pursuit of the protagonist, "Qingqiu City" can't be satisfied, and "Stone Pillar City" can't be satisfied either.
The eldest king gives a step to stop the queens from complaining, and the protagonist does not speak again, but his dissatisfaction has been deliberately transmitted to the queen ants and the oldest king through the conference system. This also let the queen ants know that the divine envoy king in front of them is not as respectful and responsive to them as the oldest king.
The atmosphere in the conference room became awkward, and the queens did not yet know how to deal with the rebellious "subordinates". Perhaps their ancestors once controlled the entire kingdom from high above and knew how to use power and skill, but now the heirs of the queen ant inheritance do not have such ability.
Fortunately, at this time, the messenger reported that the queen of the ally "Remnant" of the big-headed ant had arrived outside the nest.
So the eldest Wang said that he was going out to greet him, and the protagonist immediately said that he would go too, taking the opportunity to get rid of the embarrassing conference room.
The eldest king and the protagonist drill up to the ground from the passage, and the worker ants and soldier ants sent out to greet the protagonist in the "Stone Pillar City" have already lined up, just like when they greet the protagonist, two rows are arranged in a herringbone shape, extending outward.
The protagonist looks ahead, and there is no ant, because there is a small slope in front of him, blocking the view.
The protagonist asks the king of the gods, what is the queen of the big-headed ant "remnants" like, and whether she is easy to deal with or not. The eldest Wang said that today is also the first time he has met the queen, and he has been contacted by messenger before, and he has not met in person.
At this time, there is some commotion at the front of the welcoming procession, and the protagonist looks over to see the figures of several ants appearing from the hillside, revealing their antennae and head first, and then their bodies.
Then, the protagonist grows a big jaw and is amazed.