Of course, it may be that the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is unable to go out due to its own reasons, such as a famine in the territory, or an invasion from other places, etc.

If that's the case, it couldn't be better for the main character.

As long as it can be dragged out until the beginning of next year, the protagonist believes that the Beetle Legion after he becomes an army will completely subvert the military balance on both sides of the river, and the Divine Envoy King Legion will rise completely, and his future plans will also lay a solid foundation.

- I'm the dividing line -

Winter passes unusually slowly, but life passes very quickly.

Soon after the onset of winter, the health of the little secretary of the scientific research group was not very good, until fatigue and aging finally overcame this once intelligent body - she fell ill.

After the secretary is no longer able to work, the protagonist temporarily hands over the work of the scientific research group to two of the secretary's deputies, and the protagonist calls them "Xiaoju" and "Xiaoli" according to the names of famous female scientists in human history.

The little secretary, on the other hand, lay in a nest specially built for her to recuperate.

The protagonist visits the secretary several times, and the nest room for the recovery is also built especially for her by the protagonist, with a soft silk bed, two full-time worker ant servants, and an unlimited supply of honeydew and high-end food. This kind of treatment is usually only enjoyed by male ants and queens, and large worker ants are not eligible for this. But this time, the protagonist uses his position and majesty to forcibly arrange and suppress those who oppose it.

In the eyes of the protagonist, the qualifications and contributions of the little secretary are worthy of these treatments. He hopes that Xiao Mi can get better soon, as the first batch of ants he came to this world to know, Xiao Mi's bizarre life experience and intelligent mind left a very deep impression on the protagonist. was also given the important task of leading the scientific research team by the protagonist.

If these generals are the protagonist's right-hand men and thugs, then the little secretary's scientific research team and subordinate craftsmen are the protagonist's dexterous fingers and important arms and assistants.

However, contrary to his wishes, Xiao Mi's condition deteriorated day by day.

There is no medicine in the kingdom of big-headed ants, and there are no doctors, and ants rely almost entirely on their own immunity to fight off diseases. Although the ants also know to isolate the sick to ensure the safety of the colony in the face of the plague, their other medical knowledge is almost nil.

And the protagonist's poor knowledge of human medicine can't help Xiao Mi in any way. The protagonist can only watch as this ant, which has a place in his new life, weakens and languishes a little bit.

Now, Xiao Mi can only lie on the soft silk bed, his limbs and antennae are unable to hang down, and his big jaw is loosely opened, and he only reacts when the servant feeds him. She could only drink honeydew and very thin liquids, and she couldn't chew even the soft and nutritious fats.

At this moment, Xiao Mi was almost still for a long time, making people think that she was dead. In fact, she also had an aura of weakness and dying all over her body, only the huge abdomen, which showed a hint of life.

And in the previous visits, the protagonist, who lacked the common sense of the ant world, did not know what the bulging belly of the little secret meant, but he would soon know.

These days, the protagonist will go to chat with the little secretary, which is a rare opportunity for him to call communication a chat in this world.

The little secretary is an old and decrepit worker ant, and when the protagonist met her, she was already in the prime of life.

According to the ecology of ants, the egg stage is roughly equivalent to the gestation period of humans in the mother's womb; Larvae are equivalent to human infants; And when it is pupated, it is a teenager; From the moment the pupa breaks, ants enter the stage of adult youth, and then the inevitable stage of middle age and old age.

The life of an ant is so short that life and death are so quick and frequent. Xiao Mi has known the protagonist for two years, and in the past two years, she has gone through her youngest and strongest age, and has helped the protagonist a lot with her mind and diligence.

Now, although her physical strength and life are passing, experience and wisdom are still flooding her mind.

The protagonist will use his tentacles to place on the secretary's low-hanging tentacles, and this time he will no longer give orders to the secretary, but will exchange a lot of information with her that she would have been bored and useless before.

In the past, the little secretary was reluctant to waste time on this exchange of memories of common experiences, in her opinion, she still had a lot of experiments that the protagonist had ordered and had not completed to do, and there was no effort to waste these precious time, especially since she knew that her positive was very short, and time was precious.

But now, just like the elderly like to talk to people and reminisce about the past, Xiaomi, who is no longer able to work, also likes this way of communication, a way she rarely tried before.

The more intelligent the creature, the more there is the need for communication and communication, the little secret at the end of her life is when she is the smartest, experience and experience, especially the words and deeds of the protagonist, make her smarter than ever, and idleness and wisdom also make her have more emotional needs.

She will talk to the protagonist about her days with the eldest king, about the first time the protagonist went out hunting, but ran into a praying mantis and fled back in embarrassment, and about the companions who died on the way to the main lair with the protagonist. Along with the memories, there should be deep regrets that have not been expressed.

The word death passed from the tentacles of the little secret, causing the protagonist's body to tremble slightly, and he didn't want to talk about it at the moment. But the little secretary didn't care, as an ant, she had seen too many deaths, died in foraging, died in war, died in an accident where the nest collapsed, died in a summer rain.

Xiao Mi also knew that she was about to die, although she had not experienced it, but the inevitable decline before death had made her recognize the end. She does not shy away from death, the primitive religion of ants does not have the concept of death and the afterlife, she knows that death means the end, it means that it can no longer move, eat, look at the midday sun, and it also means that those familiar faces can no longer be seen.

So, although the secretary is sorry, she tells the protagonist that she can no longer help him solve some problems in masonry and pottery, and she will never see the protagonist again. But that's all, she didn't grieve, she didn't be unwilling, she just quietly let life and time flow in the conversation with the protagonist.

The protagonist cherishes his last time with Xiao Mi, and comes here every day to stay for a short or long time.

When the protagonist comes to the secret's nest one day and finds the body that was lying on the silk bed every day, but still with all six limbs facing the sky, he knows that the secretary is dead.