Under Mulan's sneak attack, the root of one of the mantis's wings is injured, and it can no longer maintain its flight attitude, and it falls from the air to the ground with a whirl, falling not far in front of the protagonist.

The protagonist was first confused by the sudden change, and he didn't even realize how Mulan climbed up when the praying mantis wasn't looking.

But seeing the praying mantis fall to the ground, the protagonist immediately reacted and rushed forward quickly.

The praying mantis landed on its back and was struggling to get up for a while. It was first thrown over the shoulder by the protagonist, and now it fell from a high altitude, suffering a lot of internal injuries, and it couldn't turn over for a while.

Mulan was thrown away by inertia, but she shook her head and stood up again, looking fine.

The protagonist has already run in front of the mantis in an instant, and he clenches the tarsal feet of his forelimbs into a fist and smashes them into the joints of the mantis's mid-chest and posterior thorax junctions.

Just listening to the "click", the carapace at the joints of the praying mantis was shattered inch by inch, oozing out a single green liquid.

The upper body of the praying mantis shook violently as if it had been electrocuted, and a pair of large knives swung aimlessly into the sky, but the midfoot, hindfoot, and abdomen below the chest did not move.

The protagonist injures the central nervous system of the praying mantis, and the lower half of its body is paralyzed.

The battered mantis's mouthparts are bleeding pale green tissue fluid and internal organ fragments. Although the antennae and broadsword of the upper body are still struggling to drive away the soldiers who surround it, and its wings are also trying to call out the fans, it can no longer fly, and it is powerless to parry more and more soldier ants.

The protagonist doesn't immediately end the mantis's life, he steps aside and watches his soldiers besiege it. The soldiers dodged the mantis's broadsword and attacked from all the weak points in its body.

Soon, the mantis's wings were dismantled, its pair of arthropods were dismembered, its abdomen was torn open one after another, and the ants had hollowed out the internal organs of its abdomen while the mantis was still alive.

Eventually, several soldier ants bit through the mantis's large compound eye and sucked the eyelash inside. The praying mantis finally stopped moving, and the former Grim Reaper returned to where it was supposed to be.

The ambush took a turn in a dramatic way. After losing three soldier ants, the protagonist successfully eliminated a major hidden danger near "Dongyang City", and also eliminated a period of demons in his heart.

The worker ants in the nest climbed back to the ground, and they helped dismantle the mantis' carcass, discarding the inedible chitin shells and carrying all the edible parts to the drying grounds. The place where the praying mantis used to be a canteen is now its home.

The protagonist sees the ants discarding the mantis' head and a pair of hollowed-out forefoot knives. After thinking about it, he ordered a few ants to carry the mantis's triangular head and a pair of large knives into the conference room, inlay them in the wall, and then fix them with ant glue.

In this way, a pair of broadswords pose an X-shape on the wall, and the mantis's eyeball-missing triangular head is fixed above the X-shape. It became a decoration of the conference room.

After the mantis was eliminated, the hunting team of "Dongyang City" never encountered the threat of fierce beasts again. The development of the whole nest is on track.

Every day, hunting teams were able to bring back dozens of mealworm carcasses and some mealworm eggs from the northern depression.

The scale of the mealworm farm has also gradually expanded, and hundreds of mealworm larvae of all sizes live in it, and are carefully cared for by ants.

Ten days later, the 43 paver eggs had broken out of the pupae and turned into adult workers. Since they have lived in "Dongyang City" since they were children, they have the same smell as other residents, and the big-headed ants and these paver ants regard each other as companions, and there is no problem of not being able to get along with each other, as the protagonist fears.

Instead, the males have found a protagonist for this, and they don't quite understand how the paving ants, who are clearly visually enemies, have become companions both in smell and in fact. The protagonist takes the opportunity to popularize some knowledge for them, and I don't know if they can understand it.

After another five days or so, the first batch of more than 7,000 eggs laid by the big-headed ant queens have hatched one after another, broken pupa and reached adulthood. Among them, there are fifty male ants that the protagonist specifically asks to give birth, and the remaining soldier ants and worker ants have a roughly 1:6 ratio. And after that, three to four hundred soldier ants and worker ants will reach adulthood every day.

"Dongyang City" ushered in the explosive growth of ant mouths, from more than 1,000 to nearly 10,000.

With a large number of laborers, the various infrastructure projects of "Dongyang City" were completed quite quickly, and more than half of the large combustion chamber was completed.

Others, such as the expansion of Dongyang Castle, have been completed. The expansion consisted of the construction of a new mealworm farm, the construction of a separate two-bedroom apartment for all males, and the renovation of a new rest room and granary for soldiers and workers.

After the large increase in soldier and worker ants, the food supply went from a large abundance to a balance of payments. The protagonist begins to organize the soldier ants and the worker ants again.

The grouping formulated by the protagonist is not limited to wartime, but can also be used in peacetime. The grouping is divided into five categories:

The first type is a standing army squad commanded by 31 male ants such as Roll, a total of 31 teams.

Each squad consists of thirty soldier ants and twenty worker ants. Compared with the previous regular combat squads, "Dongyang Castle" has more soldiers and ants in the standing army (the regular combat team consists of 10 soldier ants and 40 worker ants).

Moreover, the standing army squads are not temporarily formed when there is a combat mission, but also exist on weekdays, and are mainly responsible for hunting work. In this way, the tacit understanding between team members can be improved in daily training and work, and tactics can also be continuously trained. If there is a vacancy in the Standing Army, it will be filled in a timely manner.

The second category is the construction team, which has 30 squads.

The construction team is composed entirely of worker ants, one for every fifty workers, and is commanded by the oldest and most experienced among them. These commanders are actually the worker ants in the original Divine Envoy King's legion, and now they are engaged in construction work.

At present, the main work is to complete the construction of the combustion chamber. There is also the construction of the martyrs' cemetery on the ground and the construction and maintenance of the nest. When there are no construction tasks, other work is also assisted.

The third type is the grain collection team, each team has two soldier ants and 48 worker ants, a total of 100 squads.

These convoys were responsible for gathering food, grazing aphids, and assisting the Standing Army squad in hunting within the area of influence of Dongyang City. At the same time, it can be put into battle as a reserve.

The fourth category is the breeding team, which has five squads.

Four of the squads each had 50 large-headed workers, and the other team had 43 paver workers and seven big-headed workers.

Their job is to look after the mealworms on the farms, collecting organic matter that the ants don't need to feed the animals.

In addition, they are also responsible for planting and transplanting fluorescent fungi.

The fifth category is the miscellaneous service team, and the soldier ants and worker ants that have not been included in the previous four types of teams are counted as miscellaneous ants, responsible for taking care of ant eggs, larvae and ant pupa, taking care of the queen ant and male ants, cleaning up garbage and feces, etc.