The rainy season was pouring down for several days.

In the past few days, the protagonist and all the residents and garrisons of "Waterfront City" seem to have returned to the winter time, and they can't live out.

As long as there is rain in the sky, ants cannot go out, otherwise they can easily drown in raindrops and standing water, which is the disadvantage of size. When the protagonist leaves the nest when the weather occasionally improves, he can also see the corpses of insects in the low-lying waterholes, most of which are very small.

In this occasional good weather, the ants come outside the nest, and this time it is not so much a hurry to work as to let the wind out.

The ants turned a blind eye to the drowning insect carcasses on the edge of the waterhole next to the nest, because they were too damp to dry and would soon grow mold and contaminate other food if they were brought back to the barn. Therefore, the ants prefer to continue to endure the lack of food and give up the precious meat that is readily available.

This lasted for several days, with only half a day of sunshine in between. But it's much better than in the south, in the protagonist's memory, when he lived in the south in his previous life, everything was wet at this time, the bedding, the walls and the air, as if they could pick up a lot of water, and colorful mold took the opportunity to multiply in the dark corners, so southerners prefer to call it a "mildew" day.

On the afternoon of the last day, the rain thinned out again, and the sun broke through the cage of clouds and reigned on the earth with incomparable might.

The ants sensed from the change in temperature and humidity that the menacing rain had stopped, and even if there was a sporadic light rain in a week, it would not become a climate.

At this point, the protagonist should leave for the Lord's Lair for a cumbersome meeting of the kings, but he decides to put it off for another day or two.

On the one hand, they are worried about another rain or two, although the old ants feel that the temperature, humidity and air pressure indicate that it will not look like there will be heavy rain in a short time, but they are afraid of what happens.

On the other hand, Xiaoqing II was wet with humid air during these days and needed to be dried in the sun, which also took about half a day, so that it would be the evening of the same day.

Therefore, the protagonist simply set the departure time early the day after tomorrow, anyway, he rode Xiaoqing and flew fast, and even if the king of the other sub-nest set off immediately, he would not necessarily arrive at the main nest earlier than himself.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist delays the departure time, but there are still some unexpected gains.

Early the next morning, when the protagonist climbed onto a tree branch to bask in the sun after the sun came out, he inadvertently glanced north and saw a different scene.

I saw that in the air on the north bank of the Great River, not far from the ground, there seemed to be a burst of black smoke churning. This layer of black smoke is very thin, and if there is none, it is difficult to detect without looking closely. But the smoke seemed to be alive, gathering and dispersing, hovering over the ground not far from the riverbank.

It's too far away for the protagonist to see it realistically, but he can roughly guess that this is not some climatic phenomenon, but rather a mosquito column, a phenomenon formed by flying insects.

Mosquito pillars are a phenomenon in which mosquitoes that like hot and humid weather (such as midges) gather and fly in the right weather, and they even like to run after people, and this phenomenon is called "mosquito pillars" in Japan.

But the protagonist feels that the creatures in it don't look like mosquitoes, the aggregation is not high, and there are not so many of them. If the protagonist hadn't paid careful attention, he might have missed it.

At this time, Xiaoqing II's wings were already dry, and out of curiosity, the protagonist immediately rode it towards the place of the incident.

The protagonist doesn't worry about safety, and after a winter, the protagonist feels like he's a lot stronger. After experiments, he is now able to lift a rock larger than a tennis ball after entering the state of "Heavenly God Descending to Earth", and he has roughly the strength of a cat!!

With his current strength, few insects are his opponents, so the protagonist is not only not worried, but even sometimes wants to find a fierce insect to practice his hands.

The only thing to worry about is that that area is the territory of the paving ant barbarians, be careful not to fall to the ground and be surrounded, then it will really be more ants bite the elephant, and the protagonist is not confident that he can successfully break through in the ant army. But now there is no Xiaoqing II, it is generally safe to fly in the sky, and the paving ants will not fly......

However, reality soon slapped you in the face!

The protagonist flew over to take a look, and the dense sky in Nima was full of flying paving ants!

To be exact, the male and female ants of the paver ants, that is, the future queen and queen.

It is said that it is dense, but in fact, there are probably only a few hundred, and they should be carrying out the wedding flight ceremony, chasing and fighting each other in the sky with complex flight paths.

It seems that there is not much difference between their wedding flight ceremony and the big-headed ant, but there are differences.

The big-headed ants gather all the candidates to participate in the wedding flight ceremony near the main nest to carry out the ceremony, and there are hundreds or thousands of participants in the country a year.

Thousands of juvenile males and females participate in the wedding ceremony every year. Due to the large number of them, they do not concentrate on the main nest, but several participants of the secondary nest gather in a central secondary nest, and then each place organizes its own wedding ceremony.

This is the reason why the protagonist is able to see the wedding ceremony of the paver ants not far from the north bank of the river, which is a secondary nest and the closest potential threat to the "bridgehead".

The reason why so many juvenile male and female ants participate in the wedding flight ceremony every year is not only because of the vast territory and large number of ant populations, but also because of their heavy losses in the wedding flight ceremony.

As far as the protagonist can see, the paving ants fight and chase each other during the wedding ceremony, exactly what the big-headed ants do, so casualties are inevitable.

And in the air, there is also a group of hungry predators.

These predators include dragonflies, wasps, and giant ladybugs. They gather here from far and wide to enjoy a feast that is rare in this setting.

The predators bared their fangs and frantically pounced on the paver ants that gathered in the air again and again, and the cloud of flying paver ants male and female ants was constantly broken up and reunited, forming the effect of gathering and scattering in the distance that the protagonist had seen before.

Even with the threat of predators, the paver ants who participated in the wedding flight insisted on not leaving the place. Because here, there are a large number of guards on the ground, although the guards have nothing to do against predators in the air, but the male and female ants who have successfully mated are basically safe as long as they can hide on the ground in time.

The protagonist hovers through the air, observing the spectacular paving ant wedding ceremony.