The life of ants is generally boring, except for foraging for food and labor to make a living, and the marriage and flying ceremony of male ants and queens only once in their lives for reproduction, the most important thing that most ants do in their lives is to fight, either fighting or waiting for war.

Although other creatures also have battles and wars, including humans, they are not peaceful creatures. But there is also a unique species like ants that are aggressive and spend most of their lives fighting.

Some even assert that if nuclear weapons were handed over to ants, they could destroy the planet in a single day.

And winter is one of the most boring seasons in the boring life of ants, in this season, the war is far away from the vast majority of ants, they can only shrink in the nest, dare not go out, do nothing, eat, sleep, sleep and eat, and survive until the spring of the next year, in order to continue to engage in their favorite war cause.

The protagonist is almost the same, he has been in this world for several years, and he has almost forgotten what humans can do in winter.

Since yesterday, the temperature has plummeted again with the arrival of cold air, and the early winter has turned into a cold winter.

This time, the ground was soon covered with snow. The last time it snowed, the ground was still warm, and the snow melted quickly, but it also took away a lot of heat. This time, the snowfall was no longer disturbed by the earth, and finally succeeded in turning the winter world into a snow-white place.

The main structure of the snow-capped Waterfront Castle is divided into two parts: the hollow under the skin of the banyan tree and the hole under the rock plate of the small island.

As the temperature plummeted, the temperature in the tree cavity dropped very low, and the ants moved to the warmest burrows and crowded together.

The combustion chamber, the farm, and most of the warehouses are also in the burrow area, where every nest is packed with ants, beetles, and supplies.

Although the protagonist has a separate small room, he is also confined to the underground of this small island with a radius of only a few tens of square meters, and he cannot go out.

Because of the lower temperature, the connection between [Waterfront City] and [Bridgehead] was also cut off. Before the snowfall, the Destroyer still did not attack, leaving the protagonist scratching his head.

But he couldn't get any new information, so he could only hope that the weather would be warmer, and then send the paver ants around him as messengers to learn about the latest war situation.

The protagonist now lives a regular life, waking up naturally around sunrise every day, which is a perfect sleep that is difficult for a workaholic to enjoy in the seasons other than winter.

After waking up, eat a simple breakfast, mainly porridge boiled with various grass seeds and boiled mealworm eggs.

Then, he would go to the underground training ground to watch the fighters train.

There are 5 Big-Headed Ant Legions, 1 Scythe Hunter Ant Legion, and 1 Paving Ant Legion stationed in [Waterfront City], and there is a garrison legion that is forming a new legion. With so many fighters nested together, it is necessary to be active.

The largest nest in the cave was emptied and used as a training ground, and with the exception of the Beetle Legion, which was unable to participate in training, the other legions took turns using it, and each legion used it for half a day.

But this nest can only hold a thousand ant warriors.

The protagonist struggles to squeeze into the nest, this morning is the training time of the Scythe Hunter Ant Legion, they like to fight alone, and there is a small open space in the middle of the training ground, where two Scythe Hunters are fighting.

Watching the scythes fighting is much more interesting than watching the rigid training of big-headed ants or paving ants.

The protagonist squeezes into a good position, and Kite the commander of the Scythe Ant Legion is also here. He is already dying, although he can still follow the troops, but he is not good at fighting, he is already clearly old.

The protagonist feels the need to find a candidate for the Legion Commander. But he didn't show it.

The kite saluted the Divine Envoy King with his antennae, and deep down he was afraid and grateful to the Divine Envoy King.

He had seen first-hand how the scythe-hunting coalition had been wiped out by the Divine Messenger King's legions, and his own tribe had been slaughtered. But he survived and was reused, and Stockholm Syndrome also applies to simple-minded ants, so he is grateful for all this. If he had been in his original tribe, he would have been a mating machine that could only eat scraps.

The kite stands with the protagonist and watches the gladiatorial fight.

In the middle of the arena, two scythe ants battled each other, and soon the stronger one overpowered her opponent, who bit her opponent's head with her jaws and pressed it down hard to the ground.

Then her body climbed up, pressed the opponent under her, and the big jaw took the opportunity to loosen, and then stabbed out like lightning, biting the opponent's fragile neck, and then moving away, using all her strength to raise the big jaw, lifting the opponent in the air.

According to the gladiatorial rules of the scythe-hunting ants, she was victorious.

Her opponent ran away after being put down, and another Scythe Ant Warrior hurried into the battle circle to challenge the victor who had just won.

The Scythe Hunters don't care that the defenders don't rest, their rules are simple: stay if you win, leave if you lose.

Because there is no rest system, even the bravest and strongest fighters can hardly cope with wheel battles, and they will be defeated if they hold the ring three times at most. But it also gives most of the Scythe Hunter Warriors the opportunity to participate in at least one gladiatorial fight, and to move their muscles during the boring winter months.

The defeated Scythe Ant Warrior left the nest, and there were many warriors outside who had not participated in the gladiatorial fight waiting to enter.

These originally scattered hunters and fierce ants are now gradually adapted to large-scale collective life under the organizational constraints of the Divine Envoy King Legion.

After watching the gladiatorial fight for a long time, the protagonist got bored and left the gladiatorial arena with the kite bowing his head respectfully.

There was still a short time before noon, and the protagonist simply put on his felt and went around the tree hole area of [Waterfront City].

Most of the tree cavity area was rebuilt by the original big-headed ants using the moth-boring tunnels, and some of them were carved out little by little by the ants with their large jaws.

Most of the tunnels and nests in the hollow area are close to the surface of the tree, separated only by a small layer of bark, so it is much colder than underground, but warmer than outside, after all, the tree itself maintains a certain temperature.

The other ants don't dare to come here when it's cold, but the protagonist is free to roam here in a piece of felt.

When I first moved underground, I was in a hurry, but at night, the ants felt the snow and moved in a hurry. The protagonist also has some small things left in the original nest room in the tree hole area.