Although the strains were obtained from the old deciduous balls that fell into the water, the big-headed ants, paving ants, and hunting sickle ants did not know how to grow the fungus, so they had to be stored in the cabin of the ship for a while, and these strains would not live long without the barchet leaf ants to provide the beds.

The protagonist vaguely remembers that the leaf-cutting ants chew plants to make fungus beds, but the specific method is unknown, and it seems that the ant's saliva is also needed as a medium, which can be described as a unique skill of the leaf-cutting ants.

So tonight's "egg stealing operation" is still going on as usual.

It was already dusk, and the leafcutter ants outside and in the leaf balls had returned to their nests.

In this world, ants are at the top of the biological chain, and like the characters at the top of the food chain in the world that the protagonist is most familiar with, they like to be active during the day, and only the weaker creatures like to haunt at night. In this world, the protagonist has not yet discovered a race of ants that are mainly nocturnal.

The nests of the Barcheleaf ants are scattered among several ash trees, and at dusk all the nests are full of prosperity.

Unbeknownst to these leafcutter ants, the companion who had fallen into the water and climbed up yesterday had reported the other ants that had invaded, that is, these alien ants, who had disappeared during the day, were now coveting their nests.

The protagonist personally leads the team, and the Praetorian Guards such as the Immortals and the elites selected from other legions, a total of 120 Divine Envoy King warriors participate in the operation - this operation is secretive and fast, and the soldiers are expensive but not too expensive.

Because of the need to climb up and down trees, to dig narrow tree holes, and to have difficulty moving with a mace, the protagonist does not carry a long weapon, and takes an obsidian jaw knife from the warehouse and hooks it in his hand, which is more suitable as a dagger than a hollow copper jaw knife. Before leaving, the protagonist also carefully polishes this weapon with a black glass texture.

The team climbed onto the metasequoia from the moored boat, ignored the green leafhoppers reporting from the trunk, and crossed the three trees to reach their target over the swarms of moon-leaf wasp larvae that cowered behind the leaves at night.

This is the outermost ash tree in the nest of the Barchet leaf ant, and there is a bug-eaten hole in the branch about 3 meters above the water, which is now the nest of the Barchet leaf ant.

The protagonist sends 20 warriors such as Tianxian to go to the leaf ball to get some strains and fungus beds, and it is estimated that there are no Bache leaf ants left in the leaf ball, and if there are any, there will not be many of them, this team can easily eliminate them, and its task is relatively simple.

The protagonist personally leads a large army to steal eggs, and there are no sentinels outside the nest and inside the entrance, so it seems that the defense is not tight.

But the protagonist doesn't dare to take it lightly, and there must be a different situation inside the lair. As long as you enter the nest, it is full of enemy ants, most of the ants do not rest even if they stay in the nest at night, but are working, like the Divine Envoy King Warrior who sleeps for many hours a day is really unique. Once you disturb the enemy, you will definitely be attacked by a group.

However, the protagonist has already planned, generally there are multiple nest chambers in the ant nest where ant eggs are stored, which are relatively scattered, and they only need to find the egg chamber closest to the mouth of the nest and grab some and run, so that the risk is minimal.

However, the queen ant's eggs are not necessarily placed on such a periphery, and the queen ant lives in the area, whether the queen ant or queen ant eggs can be captured, this protagonist is not sure, and the hope is relatively slim.

In order to settle for the second thing, as long as there are worker ant eggs, after hatching, the protagonist can let the big-headed ants or paver ants learn the technique of planting fungi, and the goal will be achieved.

The protagonist gives commands with scents and fricatives, and then leads the way into the lair.

As soon as you enter the cave, there is a right-turning pathway, and the sloping downward passage is xylem on the upper and lower left sides, and only the right side is bark.

There is no fluorescent fungus lighting in the hole of the Barche leaf ant**, and the protagonist suddenly thinks that in fact, big-headed ants also grow fungi, but fluorescent bacteria can't eat them. This made him more confident in the planting techniques of the big-headed ants to learn the leaf-cutting ants.

Although the cave is dark, the protagonist still sees it as day, and the other Divine Envoy King warriors rely on the touch and smell of their tentacles to be unaffected.

Darkness is a good cover, and the Bache leaf ant is also unable to use vision to detect danger, and only the protagonist can see farther, which is advantageous.

The passage turns down, and the protagonists burrow into the first nest almost vertically.

It was a clutter-stowed cabin, with some strange-smelling pieces of wood that looked like the inner layers of bark, and I don't know what it was for. There are still some dried plant fibers in the nest, and the striking black and white wings of a pair of brown helmet wax scale adults, and I don't know what to do.

There was a medium-sized ant in the warehouse, and it seemed that it had heard the "rustling" footsteps of the Divine Envoy King warriors climbing through the passage just now, and it was facing this side with its head waving its tentacles.

She couldn't see clearly in the dark, but her hearing let her know something was approaching. She was not guarded, thinking that it was mostly a companion, but instinctively wanted to touch the other party with her tentacles to confirm her identity.

But what she was waiting for was a cold, life-stealing blade. The protagonist uses the obsidian jaw knife as a dagger, and the extremely detailed blade is sharpened almost as sharp as iron. The blade, pushed by the protagonist's great force, effortlessly cuts off the head of the Barcheleaf ant.

The Bacheleaf ant did not wake up to the invasion until he died, nor did he sound the alarm.

After searching the small warehouse, nothing was found, and the protagonist left five warriors to guard the place, which is the only way to exit the nest.

The team then moves on, with the protagonist in front of them, killing a dozen or so Barcheleaf ants they encounter on the road, but none of them can warn them.

However, the protagonist also senses that the frequency of encounters with the nest's inhabitants increases rapidly as they progress deeper into the nest. Soon, they approached the second nest room.

This is a fork in the area, with the nest room on the right and another road on the left.

The protagonist probes into the nest room and takes a look, and is shocked: there are hundreds of Barcheleaf ants crowded inside.

However, these Barchet leaf ants are extremely small, much smaller than the small Barchet leaf ants seen before, and can be described as miniature Barchet leaf ants. These miniature ants are huddled together, motionless, and do not work at night like other large, medium, and small ants, as if they are resting.

The mini-ants were also indifferent to the noise made by the Divine Angel King's warriors, and did not look at the mouth of the nest.

Since the other party didn't notice it, and the protagonist didn't plan to enter this nest, so many mini ants can't be killed in a short time at all, but if you escape one, your side will be exposed.

The protagonist chooses to go the other way, but they also leave two warriors to guard the entrance to the nest, so that other Barcheleaf ants from coming through the back door and accidentally cutting off the back road.

A short distance away, two more Barcheleaf ants are killed, and the protagonist finally finds a nest room with ant eggs.