The reconnaissance team took off from a tree branch near the entrance and exit of the "Waterfront City" and flew northeast.

When the protagonist is attacked by a wasp and falls into an unfamiliar wood, he first heads south to the river in the woods, and then follows the river west back to the "bridgehead".

The protagonist does not find the Paw Ant Barbarian in that wood, and considering the living habits of the Paw Ant, the protagonist believes that the edge of the forest in the northeast is the territorial boundary of the Paw Ant Barbarian.

In the ant world, the boundaries between communities are not obvious, unlike the human world, which is generally strictly divided by favorable terrain (e.g., rivers, hills) or latitude and longitude.

The boundaries of the ant community are more of the conventional ranges formed by the struggle between adjacent communities. This boundary is not mandatory, and worker ants and scouts in one colony will often invade the range of another colony until they are driven away.

If a colony declines to the point where it is unable to stop the invading enemy, it will soon be attacked by a large number of enemies.

There is relative peace at the border only between groups with different topographical preferences.

For example, the big-headed ant prefers the plains, while the hunting sickle ant prefers the woods on the hills, and the two have coexisted harmoniously in the vicinity of "Dongyang City" for a long time, until recently when a conflict broke out due to the establishment of the "Stump Fortress".

The protagonist and his scouts now fly low to the northeast along the edge of the dense woods on the border of what he considers to be the Paving Ant Barbarian Country.

No additional guidance was needed, and every half an hour or forty minutes, the scout team was able to spot a secondary nest of paving ant barbarians.

The secondary nests of the paving ant barbarians are easily recognizable, and they are always at the highest point of a nearby terrain, which is good for flood control. The entrances and exits of the secondary nest are built at the base of stones, dead wood, and trees, and there are striking ant seals in the shape of cones of earth and gravel.

Most notably, there is a vacuum of plants around the secondary nest – the worker ants have destroyed all nearby plants for safety.

Following these obvious traces, the scout team soon finds several secondary nests, and the protagonist takes the location information of these secondary nests into his mind and gradually piecs together a map.

After researching several secondary nests, the protagonist discovers that the size of the secondary nest of the paving ant barbarians seems to be about half the size of the secondary nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom: there are about 3,000 to 10,000 ants in the secondary nest of the normal Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and 30% of the ants will be active near the secondary nest on weekdays.

However, the number of active paver ants observed on the ground is inferred, and the size of the secondary nest of paver ant barbarians is about 5,000 to 15,000.

Moreover, the density of the secondary nest of the paving ant barbarian country is also higher than that of the big-headed ant kingdom. In the kingdom of big-headed ants, the protagonist usually needs to fly for about an hour to reach the next secondary nest. There is also a vacuum between the two secondary nests, where there is almost no ant activity and is a paradise for insects.

In the Paving Ant Country, the flight time between the two secondary nests is shortened to about 40 minutes, and the vacuum zone is also narrower, and some secondary nest dense areas do not even have a vacuum zone, and the activity areas between the secondary nests also overlap each other.

According to this calculation, the density of the secondary nest of the paving ant barbarian kingdom is more than twice that of the secondary nest of the big-headed ant kingdom.

Factoring in the difference in the size of the claws of a single secondary nest, if the territory of the paving ant barbarians is comparable to that of the big-headed ant kingdom, then the number of ants will be more than three times that of the big-headed ant kingdom.

In fact, according to the protagonist's previous reconnaissance experience, he feels that the territory of the Paving Ant Barbarian is far larger than that of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

The Council of the Great Kings of the Ignorant Big-Headed Ant Kingdom has always believed that as long as they can cross the river, they can completely destroy their old enemies.

This understanding is based on the fact that the Big-headed Ant Kingdom has been able to win in the reconquest war every year in the past, and that the Big-headed Ant Kingdom completely wiped out the power of the Paving Ant Barbarians on the south bank of the Great River hundreds of years ago.

But this is also due to the fact that there are three seasons of the year, when the great rivers become moats to stop the barbarian army of paving ants.

In terms of pure national strength, the big-headed ant kingdom is the weak side. If there is no barrier from the big river, it may be the side of the big-headed ant kingdom that will be wiped out in the end.

The only advantage that the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom has is that they are able to use fire, a strategic resource.

According to the information that the protagonist gets from the "Black Pearl", the main nest of the Paving Ant Barbarians has no fire source. Considering the time of the Queen's Inheritor, the protagonist believes that this information is reliable.

The protagonist didn't inform the king of these important information, and a big war is bound to break out this year, so let's make the fire between the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant barbarians more violent, so that the protagonist has time and opportunity to expand his power.

The scout team made its way along the edge of the woods, which were so large that they meandered roughly north. The protagonist looks far to the east, and can only see an endless sea of forests and swamps stretching to the end of the mist.

At the junction of the woods and the plains, there are often sparse woods with a few trees and many shrubs.

In these fringe areas, the team found paver ants fighting with native ants from the forest.

It seems that the Paving Ant Barbarian Army and the native ants from the woods often clash, at least at the edge of the woods.

Such battlefield reconnaissance teams found four or five, and there were two kinds of native ants in the woods.

An indigenous ant with a black, slender body, a dark and dull body, few erect hairs, and a dense pubescence on the hind abdomen. This is the Japanese black brown ant, which is generally two or three times the size of the paver ant, and the male ant is more burly.

Japanese black brown ant camps like to nest on the edge of the woods, in sparse surface vegetation, near water sources, and soft soil, so they fight with the nearby paver ants all year round.

They feed mainly on aphid honeydew and plant gland secretions, but also hunt prey such as small arthropods and pine caterpillar larvae.

Due to their small numbers, they are generally on the defensive against the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

There is also a species of indigenous ant that is the "notorious" sour ant.

These are black-headed sour ants that often nest in the roots of rotting trees, in shallow soil, and in crevices of stones.

The community of black-headed sour ant is large, and the number of queens can often reach nearly 100, and the number of colonies can reach tens of thousands. They love to migrate, and in the summer they march in lengths of tens of meters.

Black-headed sour ants reproduce and spread very quickly, move quickly, and usually feed mainly on honeydew and so on.

In battle, black-headed sour ants are not only numerous, but also shoot formic acid at enemies, and the paving ants that are hit will rub their antennae and limbs on the ground in agony.

These large-scale roaming sour ants have become a headache for the paving ant barbarian army.