The protagonist feels the need to return to Dongyang Castle, and the protagonist hasn't been back for almost four months since the beginning of winter.

He immediately handed over the affairs of the "Waterfront City" to Roll for the time being, and handed over the defense of the "bridgehead" on the north bank of the Great River to Rambotu.

Although Roll is a bit reckless, the protagonist will not stay in "Dongyang City" for too long, so it should not go wrong in such a short time, and there is also the assistance of Rambo Buddha, who has a wealth of experience in assisting Rambo Fei in managing the lair.

And Rambotu himself is a steady and well-defended commander, even if the north bank of the Great River is suddenly besieged, I believe that with his ability, with the combat power of the Fourth Army and the combat power of the "bridgehead", he can hold out until the reinforcements arrive.

After arranging these tasks, the protagonist rides Xiaoqing II to return to "Dongyang Castle".

What the protagonist didn't expect was that after not seeing Xiaoqing II for a winter, Xiaoqing II was very uncomfortable with the protagonist riding on his back, but was closer to one of the male ants who was responsible for taking care of it in the Flying Knight.

This contrast makes the protagonist cry and laugh a little, but he is relieved in a blink of an eye. The intelligence of flies is certainly not comparable to that of intelligent animals such as dogs and horses that can recognize their masters, and they still rely more on instinct. Even when domesticating flies in the first place, it was done by relying on the double stimulation of food reward and physical punishment. What's more, there are also outliers such as Tibetan mastiffs and chow chows who only know one owner in their lives because of their lack of IQ.

Now I haven't been in touch with Xiaoqing for several months, and it's normal for the other party to not recognize me.

So the protagonist had to use his original means of domesticating Xiaoqing again, and it took a day to finally let Xiaoqing II accept him again.

In this way, the date of the protagonist's departure was postponed by another day.

Fortunately, after riding Xiaoqing, it will be very fast to return to "Dongyang City". Along the way, Xiaoqing galloped towards the southeast like a lightning speed, and the strong wind that blew on his face made the protagonist feel the thrill of drag racing that he had not seen for a long time.

But the protagonist can't patronize the flies either, he carefully observes the conditions of the places he passes by all the way, assessing the disaster in the kingdom of big-headed ants.

Everywhere the eye passed, it was shocking.

Forests, shrubs and grasslands, which should have been lush, are mostly bleak and the plants are not growing well, and many of them can be seen to have begun to wither, indicating that they have been damaged by the bitter cold.

The insects that used to be everywhere are now sparse, and only the ants are still anxiously searching for food, but most of the time they can only return empty-handed.

The scenes along the way are all similar, even after coming to the sphere of influence of "Dongyang City", there is no change.

This completely shatters the luck that the protagonist had before, and even though Rambo Fei has sent a message telling him that he has been hit by the disaster, the protagonist still hopes that the local situation will be better than that of "Waterfront City". Now it seems that the damage in the south is just as severe.

The protagonist landed at the entrance of the cave in "Dongyang City", and immediately a nearby worker ant sniffed out the breath of the Divine Envoy King, and then quickly went back to report to Lan Bofei and the others.

After the protagonist handed Xiaoqing II over to the other ants to take to the stable, he ordered Lan Bofei and others to go to the conference room to gather, and he walked towards the nest.

This is the place where the protagonist is most familiar, from birth, to the time when the human soul continues to adapt to the current ant body, the protagonist spends his time in this nest. Later, the protagonist became the Divine Envoy King and returned here with the Tinder, and "Dongyang City" became the protagonist's stable base. Here, even the main nest has no right to interfere with the command of the protagonist and cannot shake his authority.

After receiving the report, Lan Bofei and other male ants who stayed behind arrived in the conference room one after another, and the protagonist was already waiting for them here.

The protagonist then holds a small meeting to learn more about the winter, which Rambo Fei has already conveyed through the messenger, and the protagonist only wants to know more details.

However, several new pieces of information have caught the attention of the protagonist.

All of this new information appeared after the departure of the previous courier, who had been delayed for a few days due to the cold of spring, so there was a full week between the previous one and the current one.

According to Lan Bofei's report, shortly after the departure of the previous messenger, the day before the arrival of the cold spring, the big-headed ants patrolling the neighborhood noticed a beehive on the large aspen near the entrance of the cave.

This is supposed to be a new nest established by a newly-grown queen bee after the beginning of spring, and it seems to have existed for at least a week, and has not been spotted by patrols before. This is not a dereliction of duty, but because there is no source of food and no trace of the enemy on the big aspen, it is not in the key patrol area.

Ants generally do not allow bee nests or termite nests to exist very close to their nests, termites and ants will compete for food and territory, and bees are better, but they will also rob ants of their favorite nectar resources.

Therefore, Lan Bofei originally planned to uproot this hive while it was not firmly established, but the cold spring interrupted this plan.

If this hive is not a direct threat to "Dongyang City" at present, then the second intelligence is more serious and urgent.

Two days after the end of the cold season, the Stump Fortress was attacked by a tribe of scythe-hunting ants.

The attackers, consisting of just over forty scythe warriors, were quickly repulsed by the defenders, with each side paying more than a dozen casualties. The reason for the heavy casualties of the defenders was that the third legion of the Divine Envoy King stationed here was a little slackened after a peaceful winter, and even realized that it had been attacked by the enemy on the city wall.

Rambovan, who had spent the winter in "Dongyang City", immediately rushed back to the "Stump Fortress" to preside over the defense, but yesterday, the attack of the hunting sickle ants became more violent.

According to the information sent back by the messengers sent by Rambovan, yesterday in one day, the enemy launched more than a dozen attacks. Most attacks are carried out by small tribes of a dozen or dozens of scythe-hunting ant warriors alone. The two largest raids, one was an attack by a large tribe of nearly two hundred sickle hunters, and the other was an attack by three small tribes united with a hundred ants.

These attacks were repulsed by the well-prepared defenders, but Rambovan was not optimistic, as more and more scythe ants began to gather outside the "Stump Fortress", and at least dozens of tribes were infesting the vicinity, as if the natives of several nearby hills were gathering here.

Rambovan didn't know why so many of the Scythe Hunter Ant tribes were making such a move, but it clearly didn't bode well.