The protagonist rides Tempeste, surrounded by the First Legion, and returns to "Dongyang City".

They were accompanied by four insect trainers from the "remnants" of the big-headed ants, two red-footed green beetles and ten different types of beetle eggs.

The red-footed green beetle is a small to medium-sized beetle with an adult body length of 18-26 mm, green elytra, and a purplish-red ventral surface with a metallic luster. Antennae gill sheety.

The reason why these insect trainers, beetles, and insect eggs came to "Dongyang City" was based on the result of a secret agreement.

After several days of tripartite meetings between "Stone Pillar City" and the queen of the queen of the queen inheritance faction and the "remnant of the big-headed ant", the three parties reached a series of treaties.

In accordance with the provisions of the treaty, the three parties reached cooperation and maintained peace with each other.

And in the three types of two-sided relationships between the three parties, there are many more specific contents.

For example, the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction reached an agreement to jointly deal with the King's Council faction in "Qingqiu City".

Based on the strength of the Divine Envoy King's legion, the protagonist has the initiative in this alliance. According to the terms of the secret agreement between the two sides, the two sides are now not allowed to take action against the factions of the King's Council, so as to avoid the other side discovering the alliance between the two sides.

Only with the consent of the Divine Envoy King's legion can the two sides proceed to the next step. And this timing, the protagonist thinks that it is after the King's Council faction and the Paving Ant Barbarian have been fully weakened.

In return, the Legion of the Divine Emissary will continue to provide food to the barren Pillar City, help the Queen Ant Inheritance faction survive the winter, and expand the ant colony.

The secret agreement between the queen ant inheritance faction and the big-headed ant "remnant" is relatively simple, that is, they promise to maintain peace with each other and not invade each other.

What the protagonist values most is the secret covenant between the Divine Envoy King's Legion and the big-headed ant "remnants".

In this bilateral secret treaty, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King promised to protect the "remnants" of the big-headed ants. It is "protection" rather than "peacekeeping", which means that the Legion of the Divine Envoy King is responsible for the safety of the "remnants" of the big-headed ants. The treaty stipulates that when the "remnants" of the big-headed ants face an irresistible military threat, the Divine Envoy King's legion must rush to support as soon as possible.

In addition, the protagonist also promises to assist the "bereaved family" of the big-headed ant to return to their homeland.

After learning that the big-headed ant "Remnant" came here from the upper reaches of the river with the help of wind and water, the protagonist thinks that if the "Remnant" wants to go back, they can travel all the way west along the riverbank. Although the journey will be difficult, there is still a chance to go back to that "world" where civilization is highly developed.

The protagonist is also full of interest in this "world", and if the conditions are right, he is also willing to travel to this "world" and escort the return of the big-headed ant "remnants", which is obviously a good opportunity.

In return, the Big-headed Ant "Remnant" promised in a secret covenant that they would unconditionally provide all the technologies they had mastered to the Divine Envoy King Legion.

The first technologies offered were beetle domestication and rearing.

Due to the complexity of beetle domestication and rearing, the queen of the big-headed ant "Relic" gives the protagonist four trainers as a gift, along with some beetles and beetle eggs. These beast trainers have mastered the complete beetle domestication technology, which can help the Divine Envoy King's legion to cultivate more related ant talents.

As for other technologies such as fermentation and weaving, the protagonist plans to send the ants of the scientific research group such as Xiao Mi to study abroad in the nest of the "remnants" of the big-headed ants in order to master these techniques.

After returning to Dongyang City, the protagonist quickly pulls out places and ant hands for the use of domesticated beetles.

A newly built mealworm farm was requisitioned to hatch the ten beetle eggs that had been gifted. A group of veteran mealworm breeders were recruited to learn to domesticate beetles.

There is also a search team of elite veterans who will go out into the field to search for beetle eggs in order to expand the protagonist's beetle team.

The collected eggs will be placed in an incubation room filled with fermented wood chips, as requested by the insect trainer.

Beetle eggs in the wild do not hatch until the following spring. But in an underground hatchery heated by the heat of a fire, it can be hatched all year round.

When the temperature is right, it takes about two months for a beetle to break from egg to pupa, and it can reproduce for six generations in a year.

The elytra of adult beetles that have just broken their pupae are white and soft, and after a few hours they turn dark and harden. Newly emerged adults do not feed or move, and will continue to lie dormant in the pupal chamber for more than ten days, and then emerge from the soil to begin feeding and mating.

Mature male beetles have a strong desire to mate and will try to mate whenever they encounter an adult female. However, females are more resistant to mating, especially females who have already mated, and will desperately flee from males.

At this time, ants need to create a suitable mating environment for the beetle in order to increase the number of eggs laid as much as possible. Generally, a well-lit, safe and quiet nest is needed, and the female has nowhere to escape, so the male will use his hind and middle feet to cling to the bark of the tree, and hold the female with his forefeet for mating. It would be better if some food was provided, as the females would be too busy eating and would often not pay attention to the males behind them, in which case the mating would be smoother. The mating process of adult beetles can last from a few minutes to tens of minutes, after which the female can lay eggs.

After the three secret agreements between the two sides were reached, the Divine Envoy King Legion, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, and the Big-headed Ant "Relic Clan" formed a loose alliance.

The protagonist has human experience and is accustomed to the alliance as a form of cooperation. And the big-headed ant "remnants" come from a more advanced civilization and have also seen alliances and betrayals.

Only the Queen Ant Legacy faction is a little unclear about the meaning of "Alliance". In their view, in the face of another race, there is only the brief coexistence of conquest and unconquest, these two ways of getting along.

The reason why he coexisted peacefully with the big-headed ant "remnant" before was mainly because the strength of the queen ant's inheritance faction was too weak. Once they become stronger, they are more willing to start from the "Stone Pillar City" and sweep across the south bank of the Great River, as their ancestors did, to be the only overlord and destroy those enemies who resist. Only after the territorial borders reach the barren regions will the expansion stop, and a balance of power will be reached with the barbarian tribes outside the borders, and the borders will be maintained in the face of constant incursions and counterattacks.

But now, the more powerful Divine Envoy King Legion is clearly trying to protect these alien races, which makes it difficult for the Queen Ant Inheritance faction to understand, and they challenge the protagonist that protecting an alien race is against the traditions of the Big-Headed Ant Clan.

But after the protagonist is noncommittal, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction also apparently understands that they can't help this strange god king and the alien race he protects.

As a result, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction could only endure and focus on Taoguang Yanghui.