Within a few days, the underground part of [Sennan Castle] was quickly completed, and there were no facilities on the ground part, so there was no need to build an ant mound.

The new lair greatly expands the sphere of influence of the Legion of the Divine King. Soon, just in time for autumn, a large area of farmland was opened up near [Sennan Castle]. At the same time, the already crowded and incapable herds of aphids and scale insects on the peninsula have been divided.

The new nest has not yet been infested by alien ants, the red fire ants are far north of the forest, and the leafcutter ants have not invaded the area. Even the nearby bellied ants did not come here, they only arrived along the river beach [Xinyang City] when they needed trade.

It may be a matter of time before it is exposed, but the Legion of the Divine Kings is prepared to be as prepared as possible before this.

If it weren't for the unusually severe drought this year, even the wooded areas were affected, and the food stored by the Divine King's legion was always near a cordon, the protagonist planned to establish two or three small secondary nests in the open area in the woods before winter, and finally completely control the central and southern parts of the forest, and use the northern part as a buffer zone and isolation zone with red fire ants.

He even chose a nesting site.

However, because the forest was greatly affected by the drought, the income from obtaining food was reduced, and if it continued to expand within the year as originally planned, the resource pressure on the Divine Envoy King's army would still be quite large.

Although the forest is not very far from the river, the lack of rainfall throughout the summer has inhibited the growth of vegetation and weakened the growth of insects as the plants do not grow well.

While tall trees in the woods can also rely on deep roots and are less affected, herbaceous plants and ferns are much more distressed.

And precisely, ants rely more on low herbaceous plants for their daily food, such as grass seeds that can grow more in a year, such as some young leaves and shoots, such as insects in the grass.

Trees, on the other hand, provide less food and are mainly concentrated in autumn, mainly with various fruits. But at this moment, either it is not yet time to harvest the fruit of the tree, such as walnut trees, or some fruits are difficult to preserve and can only be tasted, such as some apricot trees.

Insects on trees are not as easy to find as in the grass, and ant hunting parties are not willing to hunt on the branches of the maze if they can't find their prey.

However, the demand for food from the Divine King's army has been soaring for a while. On the one hand, it is due to the increase in the ant population of the big-headed ant, on the other hand, it is due to the expansion of the ant population due to the fact that several subsidiary ant tribes have divided into nests and lived, and on the other hand, it is due to the increase in the individual ration needs of the Divine Envoy King warriors.

After the protagonist reluctantly becomes "Dad", his first and second batches of genetic offspring have reached adulthood, supplementing the number of Divine Messenger King warriors, but also bringing new problems.

When the first offspring reach adulthood, the protagonist is on his way to the swampy area. After he returned to [Xinyang City], he learned from the spade elephant that his descendants were abnormal.

This abnormality is very simple, that is, it is too edible...

The first offspring of the protagonist are relatively slow in development, and the other ants break their pupation in about a month, but it takes an average of 40 days for this batch of ants to break the pupae.

Moreover, after breaking the pupae, the food amount is twice that of other worker ants or soldier ants, and it is extremely edible. Since the big-headed ants are hungry and can go to the food warehouse to forage for food, at first the spade elephants only found that the food stocks suddenly did not increase, and even decreased slightly, and later investigated to find out the problem.

When the protagonist first learns about it, he wonders if his genetic offspring can inherit the characteristics of his body, which is obviously different from other ants, but after experimentation, he is disappointed.

Although the level of eyesight, intelligence, and strength is better than that of ordinary ants, it is not particularly exaggerated, and there is no genetic stunt such as "the gods descend to earth".

Needless to say, the soldier ants and worker ants of the protagonist's offspring are probably slightly stronger than the large soldier ants or large worker ants cultivated before, but the amount of food is correspondingly larger.

The protagonist was previously due to input-output problems, except for a few soldier ants such as "Tianxian", no longer cultivating soldier ants, and the number of large worker ants was also limited.

Unexpectedly, now, his offspring are all soldier ants and large worker ants, and they can only breed these ants in a short period of time.

The protagonist can only accept his fate, and he calls his offspring "Divine Soldier Ants" or "Divine Worker Ants", distinguishing them from the previous "Great Soldier Ants" and "Great Worker Ants".

Fortunately, later the protagonist found that the Divine Ant and Divine Worker Ants, which have higher intelligence, stronger strength, better eyesight, and can even see targets dozens of meters away, perform well in foraging, and the unit output is enough to offset their additional consumption. The protagonist was once very proud - sure enough, his genes are better!

However, during this dry season, the excellence of individual foraging ability is offset and the foraging opportunities are reduced, resulting in foraging now relying more on quantity than on individual excellence.

For example, in normal times, food is abundant and can be found casually, three divine worker ants can catch a cricket like ten ordinary worker ants, and its work efficiency is three times, while food consumption is only twice as much, so it is naturally earned.

But now, food is scarce, and finding food depends more on how to find food, which is hidden in the bushes and grass, which cannot be found with good eyesight, and needs to be detected at close range or even confirmed by tentacles. At this time, the detection range of ten ordinary worker ants is much larger than that of three divine worker ants, and there are more foraging opportunities.

Because, the current food income of the Divine Envoy King's army is declining, but the food consumption is increasing, and it has to rely on the resale trade of the bellied ants to import some food. But now all the ants are suffering from a food crisis, and even if their ruling class is willing to squeeze out some precious grain to trade in order to enjoy honeydew, the amount is limited.

The Divine Legion can only choose to hibernate through this drought year, waiting for a season of good weather and suitable for expansion!

- I'm the dividing line -

Recently, there have been some situations in the aphid ranch of [Sennan Castle], which were not taken seriously at first, until a group of "Shengong ants" joined the grazing team and discovered the abnormality, and then reported it to the protagonist.

It turns out that some of the worker ants who are responsible for grazing have recently shown symptoms of not wanting to return to the nest at night, being lazy and slow, but more irritable and aggressive, and even biting their companions who try to bring them back to the nest.

The culprit of this symptom is a caterpillar mixed with aphids and scale insects, a caterpillar that can also secrete honeydew and is adopted by grazing ants!