After deciding on the order to leave the next day, the entire army of the Divine Envoy King was busy, and the battlefield veterans needed to start eating to cope with the wear and tear of the journey.

And the protagonist also has a lot of preparation to do.

The protagonist asks Mulan to take a few worker ants to various granaries to find some nuts for herself, as dry food on the road, and at least one car must be stuffed.

Mulan is then ordered to carry the protagonist's silk bed onto another car, which will be used as the protagonist's vehicle.

The protagonist himself went to find the king of public security. In the main nest, the protagonist catches a worker ant and asks her to take her to the police residence.

The kings live in the depths of the main nest, which is the core area of the main nest, surrounded by thick soil and countless soldier nests, and is the safest place in the entire main nest.

Each king has a larger, separate nest chamber. In addition to the king, there are soldier ants in each nest who are responsible for security work and worker ants who are responsible for service work.

From this point of view, there are still some privileges to be the king, which is much better than dozens or hundreds of soldier ants and worker ants huddled together. This also shows that ant civilization has entered a post-primitive society era of class and exploitation.

The protagonist quickly found the public security with the help of the guide worker ants, and the two ants simply touched their antennae and greeted them, and the protagonist asked straight to the point:

"Before, the divine decree asked you to place all the female ants who were disqualified from marriage and flight, and not to expel them from the kingdom, where are they now placed? The divine decree asked me to take them to "Dongyang City". ”

The police thought about it for a while, and it was he who was responsible for placing these poor female ants before the expedition.

He motioned for the protagonist to follow him, and walked a long way in the main nest.

Under the guidance of the police, the protagonist soon arrives at the nest where the female ants are placed, which is a small nest next to the granary, low and dim, similar to the accommodation conditions of ordinary worker ants, far inferior to the normal male or female ants' rooms. It seems that the main nest is still very mean to these losers in the wedding flight.

Seeing a king enter, the twelve females who had been housed (or bound) here cowered. The protagonist immediately recognizes one of them as a female ant from "Dongyang City" in the original rolling team. She once fought alongside Roll and defeated a fierce hand ant.

In the past, the police used their tentacles to convey information to them one by one. One by one, the females bowed their heads, showing their obedience.

Since there is no equipment for group communication, the protagonist has to go over to communicate with them one by one, sending comforting emotions and telling them to follow him tomorrow.

Since these female ants lost their qualifications to marry, they thought they were going to be expelled from the kingdom to fend for themselves, but now they were overjoyed that they could stay in the kingdom and be sheltered, and they immediately expressed their obedience. The protagonist asks the female ants in the former rolling team to be the captain of the female ant team, responsible for managing these female ants, and will go to the main nest on time at sunrise tomorrow to complete the assembly.

In the end, the protagonist gives the female ant captain the name "Gerou", because the female ant failed to participate in the wedding flight ceremony and is still a girl.

The protagonist remembers that the elder brother had told him that the infighting between the female ants was comparable to a palace fight.

For example, adult females secrete a hormone that prevents the ovaries of worker ants from maturing and deprives them of reproductive rights.

Females who have successfully participated in the wedding flight ceremony will attack the old and weakened females, expelling or killing them.

Some queens who fail in infighting will also organize a small group of worker ants to leave the nest on their own to open a new nest. Some of these nests will become independent from the original kingdom.

The protagonist doesn't want his plans to be ruined by the female ants. He issued a simple ban to the females: it was forbidden for the females to fight among themselves.

After the female ant is busy, the protagonist returns to the four-bedroom room to get ready to rest.

The next day, before dawn and before the team assembles and leaves, the protagonist gets up. He had one more important preparation that he had to do, and that he had to do before he set off.

The importance of this incident to the protagonist cannot be overstated. This thing is to bring the fire back to "Dongyang City".

The importance of fire to any civilization is self-evident, and now the primitive ant civilization has not fully explored the value of fire, but simply regarded it as a miracle and used it for heating in winter.

And for the protagonist who has crossed over from human society, there are too many things that fire can do. Whether it's cooking, pottery, metallurgy, or processing wood and stone, fire can play a big role.

But it is not easy to bring the flame all the way back to success.

The ants are so small that if they move with a burning stick in their mouth, the small stick will be the size of a toothpick at most, and it will be difficult for the ants to lift it. And what is the concept of a toothpick-sized torch, readers can imagine that a match will be burned out in a few seconds...... Even soaking in pine oil or insect fat won't prolong the burning time.

The feasible way is to bring back the smoldering charcoal, which can burn for a long time. But the charcoal can't be carried away by the ants in their mouths, it will be scalded to death.

It is necessary to transport charcoal, and the eight-lift sedan chair made by the protagonist comes in handy at this time. A layer of fine sand is spread on the bottom of the car, and the charcoal burns for several days without burning through the nut shells.

The disadvantage is that the volume of the car is a bit small, and a small piece of charcoal can barely smolder in it for more than half an hour, and new fuel has to be added to it from time to time.

However, this solution is already feasible. The protagonist's plan is to put fire in all three cars at the same time, so that each of the worker ants of the Divine Angel King's army will have a little charcoal in their mouths, and they will continue to refuel along the way.

The protagonist and some of his subordinates carry three eight-carrying sedan chairs to the location of the fire, and carefully pull out some burning charcoal from the edge of the bottom of the fire with a long wooden pole. The charcoal was moved onto a thin cobblestone slab, and several worker ants immediately carried the fire away and moved it into the car.

The soldier ants and worker ants who tend to the fire do not stop the protagonist's actions, and they do not understand the protagonist's intentions.

Later, the protagonist sends the worker ants to the garbage pile on the floor of the main nest to find a lot of discarded charcoal, which is a by-product of the burning of the fire, which is thrown away by the ants along with the burning ashes. The protagonist had already discovered this place when he was living in the main nest before, and at that time he thought that the ants were so violent and wasted fuel.

After completing the carrying of the tinder, the protagonist finally completes all the preparations. These palanquins carrying the tinder were lifted to the ground and joined the army of the Divine Envoy King, who had already assembled.

Knowing that the protagonist set off today, the elder brother, the public security and the king of the West came to the entrance of the cave early to wait, and after the protagonist said goodbye to several familiar male ants who came to see him off in the main nest cave, he led the army of the Divine Envoy King and the twelve female ants to embark on the journey to "Dongyang City".