The bellied ants have been experiencing some trouble lately, not directly from drought, but indirectly from drought.

"Old Heart" had just finished his second meeting of the day, and he was a little physically and mentally exhausted by the lengthy meetings and heavy topics.

In the Legion Ant Clan, although day-to-day affairs are decided by the "Old Heart" and the other two veteran kings. But if it involves major matters, only the three old kings have no right to decide, and the "old heart" and the other two old kings will organize a meeting of all the male ants.

This time, after the small meeting of the three old kings, a plenary meeting was held, and based on the particularity of this topic, the decision of the meeting was already expected, and the consequences of the decision were obvious.

That's why the "old heart" feels so tired.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for today's incident, the belly-raising ant clan would have lived a good life for a while this year, and it seems that they can live forever.

Although another group of alien ants landed, and they were not as weak as the previous ants, they completely defeated the army sent by the bellied ants.

But the blessing of the misfortune is that these alien ants are not greedy, and although they also ask for some sand gold, the bellied ants then make a lot of money in the trade with the alien ants.

The alien ants can provide an unusually luscious and long-term concentrated honeydew that is far better than the light honeydew produced by the brown helmeted wax scales raised by the bellied ants themselves.

Not only do they enjoy themselves, but they can also trade with the overlord's red fire ants.

The sweetness of this concentrated honeydew is irresistible to any ant race, and the red fire ants are happy to pay whatever goods they own to trade for this honeydew.

Alien ants need only some common food or supplies, and red fire ants control vast territories and multiple vassals, and these products are not a problem. The bellied ants can earn two or three times as much by changing hands, and it is even more cost-effective than using the excess sand gold to trade in the past.

It is precisely for this reason that "Old Heart" and the other old kings unanimously agreed not to report the news of this group of foreign ants to the red fire ants of the suzerain.

Yes, if it weren't for the lucrative benefits, the "old hearts" were planning to break the agreement reached with the Divine Envoy King Legion and report truthfully to the suzerain.

They are a more civilized ant race, and they are not as honest and ignorant of fraud as the ant race in the homeland of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.

It is only when the honeydew trade has shown great benefits that the bellied ants dare to hide the news of the alien ants at the cost of being discovered and punished by the red fire ants in the future.

Anyway, red fire ants rarely come to the banks of the river, and if they do, they will say that these alien ants have just arrived, and that the place where they live is some distance from the woods and golden sand beaches where the bellied ants live, and it is understandable that they did not find it in time - the "old heart" they even thought of a reason to lie, showing a very high IQ and emotional intelligence.

If he truthfully reported to the Red Fire Ants of the Sect Lord, the "Old Heart" knew that the powerful Red Fire Ants would definitely be able to conquer this group of alien ants, just as they had conquered countless rebellious ant clans before.

In that case, the red fire ants can directly ask the foreign ants to pay tribute to the honeydew, and the belly ants will lose the lucrative profits of the trade.

Relying on the honeydew trade, the bellied ants have lived a good life for more than two months, although the brown helmet wax scales in their territory have been killed and eaten for meat, but no ants care, who let them have better and more honeydew.

In addition to the resources demanded by the foreign ants, the rest of the food was put into the warehouse by the bellied ants themselves.

So even in a drought year like this year, the bellied ants are more nourished than usual.

Until, yesterday, the male ant messenger sent by the red fire ants came to the nest.

This belly lift ant hatched from the eggs of the bellied ant clan, and he regarded himself as a loyal servant of the red fire ant, and he was not friendly to the "old heart" of the original clan.

He came to convey the request on behalf of the suzerain, the Red Fire Ants: The Red Fire Ants asked the bellied ants to continue to pay an additional batch of tribute on the premise that they had already paid the tribute in advance this year.

The tribute was enormous, including about the equivalent of twelve days of sand gold collected by the bellied ants, two thousand bellied eggs, concentrated honeysw from twenty snail shells, and a number of foods.

If it was in previous years, the bellied ants would definitely not be able to get so many supplies, but this year, after the supply of foreign ants and the reserves of the previous months, they can also make up for it.

It is precisely the blessing and misfortune that the wealth and wealth that the bellied ants have shown in the past two months in trade have made them successfully remembered by the suzerain.

The result of their decision was to promise to pay the tribute, and in the face of the vicious and fierce red fire ants, the bellied ant clan really couldn't muster the courage to refuse.

"Old Heart" tried his best to get some useful information from the antennae of this belly-raising ant male ant who was not concentric with himself, and he learned the intention of the red fire ants to suddenly ask for a large amount of tribute.

It turned out that the red fire ants were not only targeting the bell-raised ants, but other vassal ants, including the burrowing ants, the forest ants, and the Japanese black brown ant tribe, which were known to the bell-raising ants, were also asked for additional tribute.

It's just that because of the financial resources shown by the bellied ants, their clan has to pay more additional tribute.

The reason why the red fire ants suddenly requisitioned a large amount of food and supplies from the vassal ant tribes was not only because of the drought that caused the food harvest in their territory, but also because the red fire ants planned to launch another attack on the forest overlord Bacheleaf ant clan.

According to the male ant, the scouts of the red fire ants have found that the drought has caused more damage to the leaf-dependent babes, and now is the time when their old enemies are weak, and the aggressive red fire ants will not miss this opportunity.

Sending the male ant away, the "old heart" and they began to get busy. They had to deliver the tribute to the main nest of the red fire ants within three or six sunrises.

Speaking of which, the protagonist previously discovered that the ants in this area, such as the bellied ants, are counted in the hexadecimal system, and six sunrises, which is six days, is their way of calculating the date, similar to the human week, and the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter are counted in parallel with the year of the four seasons.

In the homeland, the protagonist knows that both big-headed ants and leaf-cutting ants use the decimal system, so a squad has fifty warriors instead of thirty-six or forty-eight.

Ants have a total of six arthropods, and if you add antennae, there are eight, so it seems that ants adopt the hexadecimal or octal system is very scientific, just like humans have ten fingers and use the decimal system.

In this way, it is very abnormal for the ants of the homeland to adopt the decimal system!