In the past ten days, after the patient and meticulous teaching of the senior brother, the protagonist has finally basically mastered the basic knowledge of the Big-headed Ant Empire. At the same time, the protagonist also has an awareness of the current season.

It's late spring and early summer, and the young males are about to make their wedding flights, and then the army of big-headed ants will launch a counterattack on the six secondary nests that were lost in winter after completing the material reserves. This also means that the protagonist's theoretical coming-of-age ceremony and debut in the ant world are coming.

This is not good news for the protagonist. Marriage flight means that you may have to be with the female ant XXOO, but it is said that the number of male ants and female ants is very different, and the male ants who can XXOOA to the female ants are only a few lucky and I, the protagonist has a way to avoid it. The initial battle means to devote yourself to a huge battlefield with tens of thousands of ants, although the big-headed ant kingdom is the attacker and has an advantage in numbers, but for the tactics of hand-to-hand combat of the ants, as well as the battlefield of the main nest ** tunnel street fighting, the protagonist is not sure that he will be able to retreat with his whole body, in case he accidentally hangs up and is injured, it is unacceptable.

The wedding ceremony was held two or three days later, and today the first rain after spring has fallen outside the nest, which not only indicates the arrival of the rainy season, but also informs the young males of each secondary nest that it is time to set off to the main nest to participate in the wedding ceremony.

The ants can feel the changes in air pressure and humidity before the rain through their bodies, but the protagonist does not. Compared to the first rain, the protagonist is even more curious about why these male ants come to participate in the wedding ceremony during the dangerous rainy season. Keep in mind that rain can be fatal to ants exposed to the ground, and it can easily wash away and drown them when it becomes a stream of water.

The protagonist confided his doubts to the elder brother, and the elder brother told the protagonist: The time of the wedding flight has been set at the time of the first rain at the turn of spring and summer since ancient times, but now because there are too many secondary nests, some kings and queens in remote areas rush over and even have to walk on the road for three or four days, during which there will be many unfortunate kings and queens who die in floods, lost and beast attacks, but this is also a test of God, only the really strong and lucky kings and queens can arrive at the main nest and complete the heavy task of reproduction.

After listening to this, the protagonist is glad that he arrived at the main nest in advance and does not need to rush on a rainy day.

The protagonist leaves the elder brother's nest, calls out to the little secretary and Mulan, and decides to go to the ground to have a look.

The protagonist, fearing the backflow of rain, climbs out of the relatively high exit of the castle on the hill. It's the morning of the day, and the rain has stopped, but the ground is still wet, and it looks like a heavy rain has fallen at night or early in the morning. The entire main nest was not affected by the rain, and the soldier ants still patrolled the vicinity of the main nest in groups, while the worker ants went out to farther away to collect rations.

Speaking of food, the protagonist has always thought that the main nest has insufficient food due to too many ant mouths, and even the granary is about to bottom out. Now I know that most of the grain has actually been transported to the secondary nest on the front line, and after the wedding flight, the army of the entire big-headed ant kingdom will be assembled there to launch a fatal blow against the paving ant barbarians in the six fallen secondary nests. These expeditionary armies are not productive, and need to have abundant grain reserves to ensure combat effectiveness, as the saying goes, "before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first", and the ants also have this awareness.

The protagonist is looking down at the ground from the top of the hill, and a number of alien teams (males and females and their subordinates) have come into view. Male ants with developed chests and females with developed abdomen are generally much larger than worker ants and a little larger than soldier ants. These kings and queens came from the secondary nest that was relatively close, and as soon as the rain stopped after dawn, they could not wait to set out from the auxiliary nest, and each king and queen came with a few soldiers and worker ants, stepping on the muddy ground to the main nest. By the time they arrived near the main nest, they were already covered in mud, and after a brief review by the patrol team, they were put into the interior of the main nest for temporary placement.

But they are also relatively lucky, the shorter journey does not require overnight in the wild, which allows them to avoid many dangers. And the kings and queens of the remote lair have to face more than just distance, rain and the threat of beasts. After a series of heavy rains, the pheromones left by the male ants on the rocks or tree trunks next to the ant expressway will also fade or even be washed away, and the king and queen, who have lost the direction of progress, will die in the wild in the rainy season sooner or later if they cannot correct the route as soon as possible with the help of their subordinates. Every year, the secondary nest close to the main nest only needs to give birth to ten kings and one queen, and in order to make up for the loss on the road, the most remote secondary nest like "Dongyang City" will give birth to twenty kings and two or three queens.

There are generally only one or two queens responsible for laying eggs in the secondary nest, and there are only more than 600 queens in the main and auxiliary nests, but there are as many as three or four hundred new adult queens after participating in the wedding flight every year. After these queens reach adulthood, they return to their respective nests, and if they find that the original queen ants are old, they will brutally attack the old queen, kill or expel her, and replace her position by themselves. If the queen of the secondary nest is in the prime of life, these newly grown queens will take the initiative to leave the nest with a small number of soldier ants and worker ants and go to a farther place where food is abundant to start a new nest.

This kind of secondary nest established by the stray queen is also an important way for the Big-headed Ant Empire to expand its territory. The other two ways are to conquer the enemy's nest, or to actively migrate a large number of ants to establish a secondary nest due to food shortages and other reasons. The difficulty of establishing a secondary nest with a small number of subordinates is much more difficult than that of a large number of ants who actively migrate to build a secondary nest, and often fail due to disease, climate, hunting of predators, etc., which is also the reason why there are only more than 400 secondary nests in the big-headed ant kingdom for so many years.

The protagonist recalls this knowledge taught by the elder brother and is full of interest in the female ant (that is, the future queen). Since I crossed over to become an ant, I have seen a lot of male ants, soldier ants, and worker ants, but I have never seen a queen ant once. Although the queen ants generally live in seclusion and hide in the deepest part of the nest, it is indeed a bit strange that the protagonist turned the "Dongyang City Side Nest" almost all over at the beginning.

The protagonist runs to the lower exit of the hill castle in the main lair, through which he has seen the king and queen from the east entering. He asked the nearby worker ants who were repairing the holes that were a little loose due to the rain, and asked about the temporary settlement of the new queen ant, so he rushed over with Xiao Mi and Mulan.

As a result, when he arrived at the temporary settlement, the protagonist was driven away by the guard ants at the door. These guards are the soldiers of the main nest, and they are responsible for guarding the females who have arrived at the main nest. At this time, the female and male ants have been placed in different nests, so as not to eat the forbidden fruit before the wedding ceremony due to the strong hormone secretion between them. The subordinates of the female and male ants were also placed separately, and all the hospitality and guarding work was taken care of by the ants of the main nest, and there were five kings who were directly in charge of this.

As a result, the protagonist who came to visit the female ant was unceremoniously chased away by the guards as a male ant with a strong hormone secretion. There's no way, who let the protagonist still wear a pair of wings, and at first glance, he is a newlywed person who is going to participate in this wedding ceremony.

This result disappointed the protagonist, and he could only crawl back into the four-bedroom apartment.