Chapter 22: Food Tips

The protagonist does not expect that there are also mysterious ants in the homeland of the big-headed ant remnants.

You must know that the homeland of the big-headed ant remnants is far away from the upper reaches of the big river, and the big-headed ant remnants drifted down the river for several days before coming to the current place.

Although the water in the big river does not flow fast, a few days of drifting down the river is enough to make a floating rotten log travel for several kilometers.

A few kilometers in the human world is equivalent to a thousand or even thousands of kilometers in the ant world, which is a very distant concept even after the advent of modern means of transportation and communication.

Mysterious ants have appeared in the homeland of the remnants of the big-headed ants and the north bank of the Great River in a few years, so do the mysterious ants in the two places belong to the same kingdom or tribe?

If it were, it would be terrifying, a force with a territory of several kilometers is equivalent to the existence of the top great empires in the human world, such as the Mongol Empire. Such a force is undoubtedly extremely threatening to neighboring countries. They expanded at a rate of several kilometers in just two or three years, comparable to the Mongol conquests in human history.

If they are not the same force, then their threat cannot be ignored, such a race, in the case of scattered strength, can still set off a "rebellion of the fugitives" in the homeland of the big-headed ant remnants, and quickly suppress the originally powerful paving ant barbarian country on the north bank of the Great River, which has already shown its terrifyingness.

For this mysterious ant, the protagonist feels that he must understand its weaknesses as soon as possible, otherwise he will always have to rely on the river for defense, and it will be difficult to touch the north bank of the river.

- I'm the dividing line -

After the meeting with the Queen of the Big-Headed Ant Remnant, the Queen is invited by the protagonist to stay in [Stone Pillar City] for one night.

According to the custom of the Big-headed Ant Remnant, the queen is to eat alone under the service of the personal worker ants, and the protagonist has to give up the idea of inviting the queen to a banquet - the gourmet banquet has now become the favorite social event of the males of the Divine King's legion.

However, the food served to the queen is not canceled because the banquet is cancelled, and various kinds of food are constantly being delivered to the queen's lair for temporary residence.

This is all due to the fact that after the protagonist gained the right to rule the south bank of the Great River, he changed the policy of the old King's Council faction to strictly control the divine fire, and used nut shells to transport the fire to the sub-nests in various places, and it took more than a year to light fires everywhere.

The sub-nests in various places have also been renovated to meet the divine fire, and a unified combustion chamber has been built at the bottom of the nest, and air intakes and exhaust ducts have been built.

Nowadays, the fires in the secondary nests everywhere allow almost all ants to enjoy cooked food, and can also use the fire to process simple stone tools - stone tools have become popular with the large worker ants in various places, making up for the shortage of copper tools.

The food eaten by the queen of the big-headed ant remnant clan was processed in [Stone Pillar City], although it was very simple to roast mealworm meat with salt, roasted grasshopper leg meat (this is today's fresh prey), other kinds of roasted meat, as well as grass seed and wild vegetable soup, fruit and meat honey dew salad, etc., but the queen was obviously completely conquered by the food.

As a queen, in the regurgitated ant family, she must abide by a strict etiquette system, such as having to wear a flower crown and uncomfortable clothing, and the queen sometimes envies those ordinary ants who can be naked and free.

After all, with the craftsmanship of the remnants of the big-headed ants, this dress is not comfortable, and the ants themselves do not need to keep warm and cold, and the nest is the "clothes" of the ants.

This fabric only makes it difficult to breathe in the summer, and the fibers are rough, and it often rubs against the abdomen.

That flower crown, wearing it for a long time is also a big burden on the head and neck, and it will also affect the rotation of the antennae.

The same is true for eating, in order to maintain the purity of the queen and the highest sacrifice, the queen can only drink water and honeydew, and eat the high-grade food fed back by the larvae brought by the personal worker ants, which is rich in nutrients, but the white flowers and slimy are a lump of paste that has no taste.

The queen, who had only eaten these things all her life, finally took her first bite with the help of the personal worker ants after she was initially helpless about the food in front of her, which did not interfere with the queen's consumption of non-traditional food at this time as part of her diplomatic activities.

Suddenly, the aroma of the fat, the tenderness of the meat, and the taste of the smoky salt made the queen almost wonder if she had eaten the food of the gods.

In the past, the queen had a bit of contempt for the Legion of the Divine Envoys: although you are powerful, you are nothing more than militarily strong uneducated savage ants.

From many details, the queen judged that this ally was still in a very primitive stage, such as the rulers and high-ranking nobles of the other party were actually as unclothed as ordinary ants; For example, the other party didn't know how to make even the most basic stone knives at first, but later he learned it for some reason, and now he is using a "yellow stone" that he doesn't know what color he is.

For savage races, the civilized side always carries a natural sense of superiority.

Even if this ally has become the most powerful existence on the south bank of the river, and it doesn't take much effort to wipe out the remnants around him, it can't dispel the queen's sense of superiority.

Even not long ago, after living in the temporary dormitory in the [Stone Pillar City], the queen of the big-headed ant remnant clan was disgusted that there were no luxurious textile furnishings, no decorative paintings on the walls, no beautiful flowers and vegetation stacked in the house, and the whole house was not dyed by the incense of flowers.

The room was covered with bare walls and dirty soil, and in the corner of the dormitory there was a square space enclosed in wood, with silk cotton and fine plant fibers piled inside, which looked no worse than the couch in his own dormitory.

There were also strange earth-colored containers that held water, and the queen herself had water storage tools in her own bedchamber, but they were generally made of natural nut shells, which she couldn't understand what material they were, but which were obviously not nut shells.

The queen looked at the makeshift bedchamber with disdain, until the food was served.

The food of the allies of this savage race was served in earth-colored containers or fresh and clean leaves, and served on another wooden platform, which was more cumbersome than feeding herself mouth-to-mouth, and the queen had to feed herself with the help of the workers.

However, after eating, the queen thought to herself that this ally was not so backward, and that a race that could make delicacies that only gods could enjoy could no longer be classified as savage tribes.

Under the invincible and invincible food strategy, the queen silently raised her evaluation of the god envoy king by several levels.