Generations of queens who have survived this cruel ritual have successfully escaped the control of the nest, and they have chosen to follow their ideals and face the unknown future.

There are also some queens, for various reasons, they have not succeeded in breaking through, but have chosen to return to the nest.

Whether they are active or forced, they have become the inheritors of the queens, and it is the experience of generations of inheritors that greatly improves the chances of survival of young females who have learned these experiences, at least better than those who are unfortunate enough not to be exposed to the inheritance. They also protect the ancient secrets and inheritances that only a few queens know.

The young female now realizes that her life is not always safe, and a sense of being deceived haunts her.

The legendary wedding ceremony soon arrived, and thanks to the experience of their predecessors, the young females avoided predators and frantic males to mate in the relative safety of the ceremony site – a traditional one-on-one pairing.

Then, she decisively left the already chaotic and increasingly dangerous scene of the ceremony, and flew in the direction of the sun under the cover of grass and trees.

The reason why he decided to flee was not so much to inherit the tradition and the ideals of the queen ants, but to avoid danger.

According to the experience of the predecessors, the route to stay and return to the nest is no safer than escaping, and there are many cunning males lurking in ambush on that road.

And returning to the nest to stay with the power thief, with the secret of inheritance, this young female ant always feels very dangerous.

She just chose the path she thought was most suitable based on her instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. And very lucky, she made it all the way to a land where there was no visible activity of paving ants, and she was ready to settle here.

Instinct tells her what to do, and this is rarely recorded in the knowledge that has been passed down. Because none of the inheritors who returned to the lair had this kind of experience.

The young female ant found a suitable spot: a sunny, high-lying rock, and made a burrow at the junction between the stone and the earth, and stretched diagonally into the ground. She then expands the end of the passage into a nest chamber.

If all goes well, this nest will be her first dormitory and a nursery for her to raise her first offspring on her own.

At that point, the female ants bite off their wings and lay the first worker eggs. It wasn't until this group of worker ants grew up that the young queen ant was freed from the heavy work and became the ruler of the nest.

During the rearing of the first worker ants, the queen will plug the nest from the inside to prevent predators from coming in from the outside. During this period, the queen ant can only eat the wings that she has shed, and then rely on the reserves in her body. Many queens didn't make it through this time.

However, the queen apparently failed to establish her own colony as planned.

Before she could seal the entrance to the cave, she was discovered by the patrol of the Fourth Legion of the Divine Envoy King, and then the previous scene happened.

The protagonist receives this information from the mind of the paving ant queen, who knows that she has succumbed.

After the protagonist promises to ensure the queen's life and safety, the queen agrees to live in the location that the protagonist has placed her, and lays eggs as the protagonist asks.

For this queen, it is a very illusory ideal to establish a community that is in line with the tradition of being ruled by the queen.

It's best to be alive.

What difference does it make to be fed by big-headed ants or by self-born paver ants? You still only need to lay eggs.

Power? She has not been exposed to power, she has not tasted the temptation in it! Freely? Since birth, she has only experienced a short period of freedom after her marriage, living in the prison cell designated by the protagonist, which is no different from those inheritors of restricted freedom of movement who live in their original lair.

In this way, the protagonist successfully ambushes an alien ant queen, and if all goes well, it won't be long before he has warriors of both the big-headed ant and the paver ant.

It's not a deliberate plan, it's more like a whim for the protagonist.

In fact, in the protagonist's opinion, paver ants do not have much advantage over big-headed ants in addition to their high fertility rate. Especially in terms of single combat effectiveness, the protagonist still likes a unit composed of pure big-headed ants and soldiers.

However, since he was able to successfully ambush the paving ants, the protagonist began to wonder if he would be able to ambush the scythe ant colony.

The eyesight and individual combat effectiveness of the Hunting Scythe Ants can be said to be the best choice for the scout class, so that the protagonist can be liberated from a lot of strategic and tactical reconnaissance work, and it also makes up for the shortcomings of the current flying knights in reconnaissance.

The protagonist instructs Rambo to build a new dormitory deep in the "bridgehead" and place the succumbed paver ant queen (named "Black Pearl" by the protagonist).

The dormitory is surrounded by barracks on all sides to prevent the queen ant from escaping. Taken to take care of the queen ant were 20 loyal big-headed worker ants, led by a large worker ant who was transferred from "Dongyang City", and they were strictly forbidden to have any communication with the "Black Pearl".

The queen ant must produce eggs according to the requirements of the protagonist, and the first protagonist plan is to produce 500 paver ant worker ants for daily work in the "bridgehead" area. These paver worker ants will be forbidden to travel to the south bank of the Great River to avoid being spotted by the messengers of the main nest.

If the queen lays eggs without permission, the eggs will be eaten as food. At the same time, penalties should also be imposed on the queen ant who disobeys, such as reducing the supply of materials.

In terms of material supply, the protagonist gives the paver ant queen the same supply standard as the big-headed ant queen.

As a final precaution, the protagonist asks that any contact between the queen ant and her paver ants and the worker ants she gives birth to is strictly prohibited. The protagonist is afraid of when there will be some lurking queen guards in his territory......

After placing the "Black Pearl", the other party was very obedient and was taken away.

The protagonist is not worried about the main nest discovering the existence of the "Black Pearl", and the rope bridge is under his strict control, and no ants are allowed to pass except for the ants under the protagonist's command. This allows for maximum confidentiality.

The protagonist is now worried that there is a lurking inheritor among the queen of the paver ants, who seems to be quite powerful, and hates the male ant class, calling them "power thieves".

So, in the kingdom of big-headed ants, is there also such a group of queens and their followers?

What's even more dangerous is that the seemingly honest queen ant who is placed in the protagonist in "Dongyang City" is really as harmless to humans and animals as it seems?

- I'm the dividing line -

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