Although the protagonist has made up his mind to complete the construction of the suspended rope bridge in winter, and is ready to continue to take the training team to the field to train and work, it is impossible for the protagonist to let them go out without any preparation. This is not training, but letting his subordinates lose their lives in vain in the harsh environment of the wild.

On the one hand, the protagonist continues to adhere to the previously effective distribution method of a group of three ants, asking the three ants to act together and help each other in time. Although this may reduce some work efficiency, it can effectively reduce attrition.

On the other hand, it is constantly adapting to changes in practical work.

On the first day, the protagonist leads his men to successfully open a path from the entrance and exit of the lair to the surface.

The road winds its way along the folds and crevices in the bark of the banyan tree, with the protagonist taking the lead and the other ants following behind, clearing the road of snow little by little. The snow seeds that were cleared out were thrown directly to the ground.

Since the entrance to the nest is located on the south side and does not face the north wind, there is not much snow on the trunk. The team soon reached a position close to the ground.

Near the ground, there is a clearing, which was originally a three-sided sheltered basin surrounded by two tree roots protruding from the ground.

This terrain, on the day of the snowfall, formed an air whirlwind in the basin, and a large number of snowflakes were carried here by the air current, accumulating a thick layer of snow in the basin.

The main character chooses to settle in the basin, where the snow is deeper, but it has the resources that the protagonist needs.

The protagonist takes the lead, and he is ready to clear the snow at first. But when I tried it, I found that it was like a punch on the cotton, and although the snow was splashing everywhere, the collapsed snowdrifts around it quickly filled up the hollows that had just been cleared.

The protagonist shook his head, it seems that there are no professional tools, and the protagonist has no strength to quickly clear the snow here.

Then the only way to do this is to use a stupid method, and the protagonist begins to take his subordinates to make holes in the snow layer along the outer skin of the tree roots.

Digging holes is an ant's specialty, not to mention that it is still loose snow that is dug instead of soil. The difficulty lies in the fact that the snow can cause hypothermia and even death and injury to the ants.

Fortunately, the burrow is excavated along the surface of the tree roots, so the ants can stand on the roots of the trees without direct contact with the cold snowflakes.

As the ants dig forward, they try to beat the snow layer on the four walls to avoid avalanche collapse.

The work of flapping the four walls requires exposure to snow, and the ants engaged in this work need to be constantly rotated, and the replaced ants need to hurry up to recover their body temperature in the sun.

The protagonist does not personally descend into the excavated cave, but directs from the relatively warm ground.

This decision saved the names of many ants.

Despite extreme caution, in the afternoon, the tunnel under excavation suddenly collapsed for a long time, and more than a dozen ants were crushed under snowdrifts.

The protagonist immediately leads the team into the tunnel, using his strength to scatter the snow, pulling the frozen ants to the ground and letting them out into the sun.

Most of the frozen ants gradually regained their body temperature, and were then sent back to the "Waterfront City" by the protagonist to rest. But there were still three ants who did not survive and were killed by the winter.

The protagonist is not sentimental, and he immediately urges the other ants to continue to work. Finally, before dusk, the tunnel was completely opened, and the black surface soil appeared at the end of the tunnel.

It's a tunnel, and the "minerals" the ants need are tiny, black particles of soil.

After a night's rest, the protagonist continues to lead the group out.

A small group of ants are engaged in digging up the black soil, and they continue to throw the excavated soil onto the ground along the ice tunnels.

The other ants were construction crews, who first covered the walls of the tunnel with black soil to prevent the ants from coming and going from directly coming into contact with the snow particles.

Subsequently, the construction team began to spread the excavated black soil particles stored on the ground onto the snow layer that had not yet melted.

They soon made a black road about a centimeter wide on the white snow, and the road headed straight to the east-north.

If you pull a straight line, you can see that the line points to the tall tree that the protagonist has chosen on the north bank.

By spreading the black soil particles on the ice, the ants can move along the road without touching the snow with their limbs.

Since the progress of the hemp rope weaving work is fixed, the protagonist estimates the time and feels that he is still very rich, so he does not urge the ants to speed up the paving of the road. They basically work for one day and rest for a day, which can give the ants involved in the work enough rest time and effectively reduce the casualties caused by freezing.

In terms of food, the protagonist also provided convenience for the construction team. Not only is there enough dried meat and vegetarian food, but the protagonist also puts the clay pot brought from "Dongyang City" into use to make porridge and soup for the construction team, ensuring that they can eat hot food when they return from the field.

This kind of treatment is something that even the Divine Envoy King Legion does not enjoy. Even in "Dongyang Castle", only the main character, the male ant, and the female ant have the assigned pottery cooking utensils, and only they enjoy the overheated cooked food.

Even with the measures, even if there was no bad wind and snow in the next few days, after the completion of all the construction, the construction team in the field also paid the price of 10 dead and 17 injured, and the casualty rate reached an astonishing quarter.

Most of these casualties are due to hypothermia. Some unlucky ants will accidentally be blown to the ice by the wind, and if they can't come back in time to find the large army, they can easily lose their lives. Other ants inadvertently become contaminated with snow particles in unobtrusive locations, such as their abdomen, and are quickly frozen.

But fortunately, the overall progress of the project is going well. With the completion of the paving of the road, the hemp rope in the "Waterfront City" has also been woven, with a total length of 40 meters.

One day when the weather was clear, the protagonist took the ants who could move in the wild, carried the hemp rope in sections, and left the nest.

They climb along the trunk of the tree to the ground, and at this time the protagonist is guarding the hole**, constantly pulling the hemp rope so that the hemp rope and the carrying team do not fall to the ground due to the weight of the hemp rope.

After the hemp rope was successfully transported to the ground, the carrying team carried it along the paved black dirt road to the river.

These days, due to the energy-absorbing effect of the black soil, the snow layer of the black soil has melted to varying degrees, resulting in the road height being lower than the surrounding snow layer, and the high snow wall also acts as a wind shield.

The next step is to build a suspended rope bridge.