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- I'm the dividing line -

Paving the eastern border of the Ant Barbarian Country, at the foot of the towering mountain range, is a sparse forest that was originally silent.

The autumn woods are quiet, and in this world, there is no birdsong, no roar of large creatures, and the chirping of cicadas that used to be summer has stopped. In the woods, there was only the sound of the breeze blowing, the rustle of leaves rubbing.

However, if you listen closely, you will notice a cacophony of friction that slowly grows from small to large, and finally envelops this small piece of land.

Let's turn our gaze lower, through the still dense canopy, and dive into the underside of the shrubs and grasses to see beneath the dead branches and leaves.

In this litter, a group of gray-white ants is moving. There were many of them, as many as 10,000 of them, and they crawled forward in an orderly manner.

At the front of the line, there are scattered scouts, like branches that stretch out, constantly feeding back information from the front. And in the middle of the team is the old camp that protects the queen ant, which is surrounded by the strongest warriors with the most formic acid.

These are black-headed sour ants, ants with a relatively primitive organizational structure. During a long-distance reconnaissance of the north, the protagonist has observed these ants up close, and knows that although their tribe is large, it is basically composed of queens and worker ants, and there are few male ants.

These primitive ants had no commanders, and all the warriors acted according to instinct and took responsibility for themselves. The queen, on the other hand, only gives instructions in the general direction, such as when to retreat and when to move. Most of the time, the queen ant leaves the worker ants to take the tribe to potentially food-producing areas.

The black-headed sour ant is actually an ant that originally lived in the warmer regions of the south, and they did not like cold climates. But this black-headed sour ant tribe in front of me has somehow taken root in the north and adapted to the cold winter in the north after living for a long time.

Every spring, summer, and autumn, these black-headed sour ants roam around hunting, plundering all the food they come across. But when winter is approaching, they also choose a location to dig a temporary nest for the winter. This nest is deep into the ground and has a good thermal insulation effect.

In order to survive the winter, in late summer and autumn, black-headed sour ants will go crazy to plunder the grain and store it for winter consumption. At this time, the black-headed sour ants, who seemed extremely hungry and greedy, even dared to take the initiative to attack the territory of the overlord on the north bank of the Great River, the paving ant barbarians, just to plunder food or corpses.

The protagonist has witnessed such a battle, the black-headed sour ant relies on formic acid to constantly drive away the paving ant warriors, and the paving ant's hand-to-hand combat ability after forming a formation is far better than that of the black-headed sour ant. In the end, the black-headed sour ant paid for the lives of more than a hundred warriors and managed to plunder a large amount of food and enemy corpses, and then fled before the paving ant barbarian army could catch up.

This is the first time that the protagonist has seen the powerful Paving Ant Barbarian Army deflated in the face of the indigenous ants, and it also makes him realize that the ant colonies that can survive in this war-torn world have their own uniqueness.

Paving ants and big-headed ants rely on tight organization and a large number of ants, hunting sickle ants rely on extremely strong individual combat effectiveness and hilly terrain that is very suitable for them to play, black-headed sour ants rely on formic acid, and Japanese black brown ants are good at one-hit and go-and-go fighting.

Now, with the fighting raging on the north bank of the Great River and the protagonist's reluctance to join the Divine Legion prematurely, these native ants are a good help.

If you look closely, you will see that these moving black-headed sour ants are moving forward in an almost straight line.

This is uncommon, as the black-headed sour ant usually marches in front of the scouts like branches of a branch, while the main force chooses a route that appears to have food based on the information fed back by the scouts. The route of the march will be constantly adjusted according to the latest information, and the whole team will continue to change direction, and even have to go back to many times.

But now, as if they had been guided by something, the black-headed sour ants moved forward almost straight, turning only at a few key intersections.

If you mark their travel routes, you will find that these black-headed sour ants have crossed the border almost from the weakest connection of the border sub-nest of the paving ant barbarians, and they have penetrated deep into the hinterland of the paver ant barbarians, and along the flowing stream, without hindrance, towards the "target Ding" nest in the fierce battle.

The reason why the black-headed sour ants do this is not because the protagonist has made a pact with their queen, in fact, the protagonist has no contact with these primitive tribes at all.

Although the Flying Knights have been following the protagonist's instructions, searching for these primitive tribes on the north bank of the Great River, and locating the wintering camp of the three black-headed sour ant tribes. However, the protagonist never intended to communicate with these seemingly difficult ants.

With just a simple trick, he let thousands of black-headed sour ants from the three tribes move in the direction he directed.

This method is very simple, that is, let the flying knight put a small amount of food in the path of the black-headed sour ant in the path of the black-headed sour ant, and the black-headed sour ant who is eager to collect food for the winter will advance as the protagonist predicts under the guidance of the scout who found the food.

These three black-headed sour ant tribes have placed the queen ant and some worker ants in the wintering camp, while the few queen ants who have stopped giving birth have led the main force to attack everywhere in search of food.

The living environment of the black-headed sour ant tribe is relatively poor, and the rich areas are occupied by the paving ant barbarian nation, and the black-headed sour ant can only share the sparse forests in the east with the indigenous ants of other races.

This forest is located on the north bank of the Great River, on the east side of the plain, at the foot of the mountains in the east, very narrow from east to west, but only hundreds of meters wide, but very narrow from north to south, and extends to the north-west.

In the woods at the foot of the mountain, the black-headed sour ants are the overlords, but they are no match for the well-organized and multitude paver ants to the west, nor are they willing to provoke the huge mountain ants on the eastern hills.

And in this wood, food is really not abundant, which makes the black-headed sour ants sometimes have to take risks to prey on other ants. Compared to the barren mountainous areas and the tribes in the equally impoverished woods, the black-headed sour ants can only attack the paving ant barbarians living on the plains.

But in the past few days, the three black-headed sour ant tribes in the southernmost part of the forest seem to have suddenly handed in good luck.