The early autumn sun spreads like gold all over the earth, the still green plants are stained with a layer of sacred color, the breeze is calm, the blue sky is like a wash, and the towering snow-covered mountains in the distance can also be seen in the unobstructed view, which is a beautiful natural scenery.

However, only the protagonist can enjoy this view, and the other ants do not seem to have this leisure and aesthetic taste.

The protagonist rides on the furry Tempest, controls the mount with the ant-wire reins, and walks slowly forward.

This is hard for the lively and active Tampest, who likes to run and jump at high speed, and is unrestrained, that is its nature.

Moving slowly like this now seemed to it to be a kind of torture and torture.

But it can't help it, just behind the protagonist and Tempest, there is a long queue of thousands of warriors from a legion, and they can't march at high speed for long periods of time. Tempeste must follow his master's orders and act with the large army.

For this master, Tempeste would not dare to make a mistake no matter how naughty he was. It was once so bold that it wanted to take its owner as its prey, but it didn't want to be cleaned up by its owner, only to find that it was not an opponent at all, and it was captured by its owner.

But instead of killing or eating himself, the owner brought himself back to an ant nest. Every day, there will be a lot of delicious things delivered by small ants without hunting, which makes Tempest, who used to often eat and sleep in the open, have no fixed place, and eat the last meal without the next meal.

Under the double offensive of carrots and sticks, Tempest was very obedient, and even took the initiative to stay in this lair.

And that powerful master, although he doesn't appear often, will ride on the back of Tempest and go out for a wild run every time he appears.

This is the happiest day of Tampest, you can completely let yourself go, and the owner will not interfere with Tampest's free and easy fun, except for the last signal to go back.

After all, Tempest is not normally allowed to roam freely on the surface, and can only eat and sleep in the spacious nest chamber prepared for it underground. And it didn't have the courage to resist the ants that guarded it—they were all about the same size as their owners, and they might not be able to beat any of them.

Today, Tempest thought he would be able to run a lap on six legs again, but when he came out, he realized that he was wrong.

This snail-like movement speed made Tempest very depressed, but the owner on his back kept tightening the reins around his neck, and he didn't mean to let himself run away.

Having been in the ant nest for so long, Tempest has become familiar with his master's commands, he pulls the reins to slow down or stop, pulls his head in a certain direction to turn himself, and slaps on his back to accelerate and jump.

Although Tempest has no tentacles, the protagonist cannot send a packet directly like communicating with Xiaoqing II. But Tempest is indeed very smart, and after the protagonist teaches it a few times how to control horses in the human world, it quickly grasps it.

In this way, a strange procession of flies and tigers and a swarm of ants passed through the open land. Their figures, sometimes obscured by foliage and flakes of grass, sometimes emerge from the sand and gravel, moving forward with determination and uniformity.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist and his party set off early in the morning, and the destination is the "real main nest", and the previous envoy of the oldest king has already informed the protagonist of the location of the "real main nest".

This is also a manifestation of trust, after all, if the secrets of the inheritance of the eldest king and the queen ant are leaked to the king meeting of the big-headed ant kingdom, it will definitely summon the scourge of the sword soldiers.

And the "real main nest" that has exposed its position, with weak troops and lack of food, is not at all an opponent of the King's Council.

Fortunately, the protagonist didn't plan to betray the oldest king and the "real main nest", after all, he and the king meeting were not of the same mind, and he was often angry with the king meeting.

Moreover, the mysterious big-headed ant "remnant" apparently has a good relationship with the queen inheritance faction, and the protagonist is wondering if this big-headed ant "remnant" is also honored by the queen.

As long as there is this possibility, the protagonist does not want to openly side with the faction of the King Conference now, causing the dissatisfaction of these big-headed ant "remnants".

After all, the secrets of the new world that these big-headed ant "remnants" carry, the secrets of a world that may be more civilized, are what the protagonist is most eager to know at the moment.

The "real main nest" is not far from "Dongyang City", about six hours to the southwest of it, and if the protagonist rides Xiaoqing II himself, it will take about ten minutes to fly.

But for safety reasons, he had to take a large army and walk over little by little.

The territory of the big-headed ant "remnant" is still further south of the "real main nest", and the protagonist does not know its specific location, and if he wants to talk to the other party, he can only meet with the "real main nest" according to the requirements of the covenant.

Yesterday, the protagonist had already ridden Xiaoqing II to the target location in advance to reconnoitre.

After going back and questioning the other ants, the protagonist confirms that the "real main nest" was originally a small secondary nest on the southern border of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, this secondary nest is located in the transition zone from the valley to the mountains, the terrain is already relatively rugged, and the entrance to the nest is a narrow stone crevice under an unusually large rock.

This large rock is about ten meters high from a human eye, and it has been eroded by wind and rain like a stone pillar, which is an insurmountable natural monument for ants.

The protagonist decides to call the "real main nest" "Stone Pillar City", otherwise the "real main nest" is too difficult to pronounce.

Similarly, the main nest of the big-headed ant kingdom, the protagonist decides to call it "Qingqiu City" in the future, after all, the main nest is huge and occupies a small grassy hill, which can afford this name.

The protagonist's scouting doesn't yield much, and he can only confirm that there is this nest here, and that there are some large-headed ant worker ants active and foraging. Because he didn't want to startle the snakes, he didn't go down to meet these worker ants, so he couldn't get information such as the smell on the other party's body, and he couldn't confirm whether the other party really belonged to the old king's command.

However, since the ants don't lie, the protagonist is still more relieved.

He hovered around "Stone Pillar City" for a long time, and did not see too many worker ants working in the area, and also determined that the vegetation in this vicinity was sparse and insects were scarce, perhaps this is the reason why the Queen Ant Inheritance faction finally escaped from "Qingqiu City", but had to take the risk of actively exposing its existence to the protagonist in order to get help.

It's too desolate to support an ant population of a certain size.

But it was precisely because of the barrenness that the team led by the senior brother did not come here to find the whereabouts of the oldest king. It can only be said that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other.