Until the north wind rose and winter came, the paving ant barbarian army did not make a comeback, and "Target A" survived the week without danger.

Due to its inland location, the basin on both sides of the river has a different time of year when winter falls, and the first northern blow is when winter comes.

The ants prepare for winter based on their sense of temperature and humidity, and when they sense the arrival of cold air, the whole area quickly falls silent.

This year's cold air came particularly violently and quickly, and the weather was still on the warm side, and many trees had not yet lost their leaves, and they fell to freezing overnight.

On the first day, ants can still drag their stiff bodies to collect supplies in the wild, and in just one night's work, some ponds, puddles and streams with less water flow are frozen tightly, and large areas of ice appear on the surface of the big river, and it is only a matter of time before it looks completely frozen.

The leaves were all blown away by the night's strong winds, and the insects that were lucky enough to survive without the ability to burrow died almost overnight, and the winter wind was like a grim reaper, harvesting most of the lives.

The cold wave was so violent that the warm, moist vapor mass that had been entrenched here was squeezed far to the south almost in the blink of an eye. Even the freezing rain or snowflakes didn't have time to fall, and the water vapor was completely blown away. It was a dry winter, very cold, no snowfall, and nothing but gloom everywhere.

The sudden cold spell also disrupted the ants' plans.

The Northern Expeditionary Army of "Target A" has just brought fire from the main nest "Qingqiu City", and lit a fire in the nest**. If there is no fire, then this winter will definitely be extremely difficult for the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

With a fire, even if the nest is not remodeled, and there are no new special heating pipes and smoke outlets, the room temperature of the nest can be significantly increased.

However, despite the fire, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not have time to stock up on enough firewood, which may have been a fatal mistake. Now, the Northern Expeditionary Army can only temporarily reduce the size of the fire and put in less fuel to keep the fire burning for as long as possible.

If this cold wave comes and goes quickly, then the Northern Expeditionary Army will need to send ants to continue searching for fuel when the weather warms up, even if it costs a lot of sacrifice.

Many of the protagonist's plans have also been disrupted, and he originally planned to go to the north bank of the Great River before the winter to understand the situation of "Target A" on the spot, and make suggestions for defense.

He also wanted to go to the "Waterfront City" and the "Bridgehead" to supervise and inspect the defense there. Although the Northern Expeditionary Army stood in the way, these two places should not be attacked by the enemy. But there is no need to be prepared, and the protagonist is also a little worried about the newly appointed garrison commanders in the two places.

But God doesn't fulfill people's wishes, and since they can't go, the protagonist can only stay quietly in the comfortable dormitory of "Dongyang City".

The worker ants in the stable report the news to the protagonist that Xiaoqing is dead.

Xiaoqing is a fly domesticated by the protagonist himself, and his first mount, but he was injured during a mission and can no longer be ridden by the protagonist. So the protagonist chooses Xiaoqing II as a mount, and puts Xiaoqing in the fly stable to continue raising.

Now, Xiaoqing has obviously reached the end of her life, and when this cold wave arrives, she quietly leaves this world.

The protagonist is a little sad, he suddenly thinks that the lives of insects and ants are so short, Roll and Rambo Fei have entered the prime of life, if calculated according to the average lifespan of other kings, they only have two-thirds of their lifespan left.

The protagonist can't help but worry about himself, he has been in the second year of coming to this world, and the life span of ants is too short, if in just a few years, he will be dying of old age, and he can't even move freely, what a terrible thing.

The threat of aging suddenly appears in front of the protagonist, making him palpitate, but there is nothing he can do. When there is no time to cross and be reborn, the protagonist is also a young man in his twenties, who has never thought about what will happen when he is old, let alone realized that death will be imminent.

But now, the scale of the ant's life makes him have to face up to this problem, the protagonist who has lost his life once, has an abnormal obsession with living - even if it is just to live with the humble body of an ant, that's fine!!

With great difficulty, the negative emotions about aging and death are removed, and the protagonist, accompanied by Mulan and other guards, goes to the fly stable and meets Xiaoqing for the last time.

The metallic green body had lost its luster, just as its body had lost its soul. After having Xiaoqing II, the protagonist never came to see this old fellow, because he didn't like this feeling of sadness.

Xiaoqing II is the same as Xiaoqing, both are red-headed and green-shelled, and the protagonist subconsciously treats them as the same, and deliberately ignores the injured Xiaoqing, who lives a dark life in the underground stable.

Maybe it should have been released in the first place, although it was basically impossible for it to survive with its injuries, but wouldn't it be better than spending more than a year of its remaining life in the dark underground? The protagonist feels like he's supporting it for the rest of its life, but does it feel like he's in captivity?

In fact, flies do not have complex brain tissue, and they do not have such guesses or complaints. But the protagonist can't help but fall into a complex emotion, and makes up a lot of his own brain.

It can only be said that the topic of death is too heavy, and it is difficult for anyone to be comfortable when it happens to them right next to them, and it may happen to them soon.

The protagonist orders Ao's body to be buried, and to some consolation, although Aoi is wounded, she has mated with a female fly that has laid a lot of eggs during her life in the stable. Xiaoqing has at least succeeded in leaving offspring in this world and inheriting his genes.

This can be regarded as "surviving" in another way. Whether it's a mayfly that dies in the morning or a turtle that has a decent lifespan, life will eventually end, but genes can always be passed on.

Thinking of this, the protagonist laughs at himself in his mind. Other ants can pass on their genes, but they can't.

I can't bear to mate with an "ugly" female ant, so the protagonist feels that his genes will not be passed on, and once he dies, the traces of his existence in this world will completely disappear.

In the human world, great people can also live forever in the memory of everyone through words, but in the ant world, there are no words, and any oral legend will eventually lose its original meaning, and will also distort and annihilate the original image.

"I really don't want to die!"