Chapter 269: After the Return

It will take half a day for Xiaoqing II to be brought back to "Waterfront City", and the protagonist can only wait patiently first.

At this time, Rambotu reported to him another interesting news: two days ago, a paving ant queen landed near the "bridgehead" and wanted to build a nest, and was discovered by the patrol. The Fourth Legion of the Divine Envoy King stationed here quickly dispatched and killed three of the queens, and because they suspected that there were still queens nearby, they had recently stepped up their patrols.

The protagonist thinks that after the wedding ceremony, nearly half of the queen ants choose not to return to the nest, but to scatter away. The protagonist of the harm is chased by the wasp is such a stray paving ant queen.

According to the practice of the ant ancestors, all the queen ants after marriage will leave their original nest and find a suitable place on the earth, independently develop a new ant community, and also spread their own color genes.

However, with the development of ant civilization, large kingdoms consisting of several or even hundreds of secondary nests have become more competitive, gradually replacing small, individual communities.

For the sake of generational change, these kingdoms began to restrict the free movement of the queen ants after marriage, and instead required them to return to their nests and become the kingdom's fertility machines.

However, the power imprinted in the genes is powerful, and many queens are still willing to wait for the opportunity to leave the kingdom and leave the nest, and take great risks to raise a new tribe on their own.

In the wedding flight ceremony of the paving ant barbarians, it is common to see the queen ant who does this, because the territory of the paving barbarian country is too large, and the wedding flight ceremony is held in a scattered manner, which leads to the weak control of the main nest of the paver ant main nest over these wedding and flight ceremonies far from the position of the main nest, giving the queen a chance to escape.

Especially at the scene of the wedding flight ceremony observed by the protagonist, it is very close to the actual control border of the paving ant barbarian country, and the paving ant queens can get rid of the control of the paving ant barbarian country whether they fly into the woods or fly across the big river.

Of course, the woods are full of dangers, and the south bank of the Great River is the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and it is extremely difficult for the Paving Ant Queen to secretly develop a new colony.

About more than ninety percent of the queens who do this do not survive to raise the first batch of worker ants, and the paving ant queens who are lucky enough to successfully breed offspring are also very weak and in danger of being wiped out by the enemy at any time.

The Big-Headed Ant Kingdom has a stronger control over the queens who participate in the wedding ceremony. Since the wedding ceremony is held in the main nest located in the hinterland of the kingdom, the escaped queen flies to the territory of the big-headed ant kingdom wherever it flies. In addition, the ground security force of the big-headed ant kingdom is strong, and the big-headed ant queen will be taken away by the patrol team soon after landing on the ground. Therefore, in the marriage ceremony of the big-headed ant kingdom, no more than one percent of the queens can leave, and it is basically impossible to develop their own tribe.

It is said that within the Council of the Great King, there are different opinions on this practice of strict control of the queen ant. One of them was the missing king, who had always believed that according to the oldest traditions, the queen was the most noble of the whole race, and the mother, who had the right to choose their own future and that of their children, and that the king and the king should not interfere.

It's just that this kind of thing involving class interests, even the oldest king can't shake the entire male ant class's desire to control the kingdom.

Hearing the news that a paving ant queen landed near the "bridgehead", the protagonist's eyes lit up, these should be the independent ant queens who broke away from the paving ant barbarian country after the wedding flight ceremony.

The protagonist tells Rambo to send more men to search for the lone queen, and then not kill them, but to capture them alive, for his own purposes.

Rambo leads the way, and the protagonist crosses the river with the newly tamed "Tempeste" and returns to "Waterfront City".

There was also a small episode in between, when "Tempest" always refused to climb the rope across the river, and his posture seemed a little water-phobic.

I can only blame the flies and tigers for their good eyesight, and they can see the flowing river under the ropes, and they feel fearful. If this is an ordinary ant, it can't see what is under it at all, so it crawls over according to the instructions in a daze. However, due to the lack of awareness of the danger, many ants are not cautious when crossing the river, and are blown away by the wind and fall.

In the end, the protagonist can only carry the timid "Tempest" across the river......

- I'm the dividing line -

In the afternoon, the flying knight sent out by the protagonist rode Xiaoqing II back to "Waterfront City".

As expected, Xiaoqing II flew back to "Dongyang City", where it was born and raised, so after the protagonist fell, it naturally chose to return there.

When Lan Bofei saw Xiaoqing II who came back alone, he realized that something was wrong and sent a messenger to "Linshui City" to inquire about the news.

It's just that Rambo Fei is the immovable flying knight, and the messenger he sent on foot has not yet arrived, and the protagonist has returned.

The protagonist can't cry or laugh at Xiaoqing II, and with the IQ of the fly, it is unlikely that he can expect it to be in danger of being the savior, and it is better to count on the much smarter "Tempest" in the future.

Speaking of which, as a mount, flies have too many shortcomings.

As a scarce air force, the protagonist envisions that flying knights riding flies should be able to do a lot of things, but in reality they are not ideal.

For example, flies fly fast, and the Flying Knight can be used as a scout. However, the eyesight of the male ants as flying knights is not very good, and when the flies fly high in the air, these male ants can only see some markers on the ground roughly, and cannot see the details at all. During reconnaissance missions, the Flying Knights must fly very low, which greatly increases the danger of them being attacked. While spotting parasitic ants, several flying knights were ambushed and killed.

The protagonist wants the Flying Knights to be heralds, but the Flying Knights are reluctant to do the work of messengers, so the protagonist can only change the way to make them reluctantly obey. The other kings did not move them at all.

In terms of aerial combat, not to mention the low combat effectiveness of the male ants themselves, there are no hostile ants that have an air force to deal with......

As for other tasks that should be undertaken by the Air Force, such as transport, the protagonists cannot expect much of a role from these flies with limited load capacity.

The biggest role that the Flying Knights can play now is precisely the messaging function that they look down upon...... For example, to deliver a message from "Dongyang Castle" to "Linshui Castle", it takes three days for messengers to walk on foot, while the flying knights set off in the morning and arrive at noon, which is very efficient and ensures the timeliness of information.

Overall, the position of the flies and flying knights is now awkward, and the effect is not obvious, but it needs to consume a lot of resources.

At this moment, the protagonist has the idea of reforming the flying knight.

- I'm the dividing line -

I'm busy with errands today, it's not going well, my writing is affected, I'm not inspired, I'll change it first! Sorry!