Chapter 21: Mysterious Ants in Distant Regions

Don't look at the fragrance of the queen of this big-headed ant remnant, it looks detached, and I think this is a young girl among ants.

In fact, she is already five years old, which is a long life compared to ordinary ants, allowing her to experience the most difficult time in the past few years when the homeland of the big-headed ant remnants was destroyed, all the way to the upside down, and then came to the hermit land to survive.

The five-year-old queen ant is equivalent to a middle-aged and elderly woman in her fifties and sixties in the human world, and this queen ant can be roughly compared to the Queen of England in the nineties of the twentieth century.

At this age, a human woman has lost her fertility, while the ant queen can still give birth, but her productivity has been greatly reduced.

However, the queen of a kingdom ruled by a queen ant, at this age, is experienced and in the prime of life, and they can give great help to the race in other ways than laying eggs, and lead the race to survive and advance.

It is also thanks to the experience and experience of the past five years that the queen of the big-headed ant remnant clan still clearly remembers the scenes that happened in her homeland, and unlike those new generation of queens, she can only passively learn about history from the information packets recorded by the archival ants.

As a participant in history, the queen has some indirect impressions of the mysterious ants mentioned by the protagonist, which dates back more than three years.

At that time, the Big-headed Ant Remnants were still living in their homeland, and they were ruled by the previous queen, and the current queen was just one of a few reserve queens who gave birth full-time.

According to the tradition of the Big-headed Ant Remnant Clan, only after the death of the previous queen, the reserve queen, that is, the queen of the main nest, will automatically elect the oldest one to take over the queen's position.

The kingdom of the Big-headed Ant Remnant is a country of polytheistic beliefs, and in addition to worshipping the soft ant with no middle limbs and antennae as the supreme god, they also believe in many strange-looking gods.

For example, the god of the tree who grows as flat as a leaf, the god of wind and water who looks like an asymmetrical plank, the god of fire who bubbles up in a circle, and the god of rain who is round with dense pockmarks.

In the traditional system of the old kingdom of the Big-headed Ant Remnants, the queen was not only the secular ruler, but also the highest priest, and regularly presided over the rituals to various gods.

This kind of sacrifice requires a lot of food—each sacrifice ends with a feast for the whole people to chew on—but the old kingdom of the Big-headed Ant Remnants, who were extremely powerful at the time, did not care about these efforts, nor did they care about the loss of national strength for this, and gave everything to serve the gods, which was their devout faith.

Compared with the surrounding countries, the kingdom of the big-headed ant relics has relatively developed productivity, and compared with the surrounding countries, the large-headed ant relics know how to domesticate and serve beetles, so the combat effectiveness and productivity of the army are relatively high.

In terms of military affairs, it is natural to use the Beetle Legion as the core, which can break through almost any enemy's defense line in the field. In production, beetles can be used as a provider of animal power, and have great advantages in carrying materials.

Therefore, although there are many races around the Big-headed Ant Relic Clan, and there is no lack of powerful existence, most races and countries do not want to easily offend such a fierce kingdom.

If it weren't for the fact that the Big-headed Ant Remnants were not strong in their motivation to expand externally, were satisfied with their existing territories, and frequently used a large number of materials for sacrifices, perhaps they would have become the most powerful country in the upper reaches of the Great River.

The tribes of the countries around the Big-headed Ant Remnants also worship different gods, and the legends of the gods are highly similar, and the descriptions of the supreme gods are similar.

However, unlike the Big-headed Ant Remnants, who mainly worship the highest gods, other kingdoms and tribes prefer to worship gods of a lower level, such as the aforementioned tree gods, fire gods, or rain gods

Similar beliefs did not prevent the kingdoms and tribes of the region from fighting each other, just as the city-states of the Greek world, which shared a common culture and beliefs, were eager to knock out each other's brains.

Fortunately, the old country of the Big-headed Ant Remnant was in a favorable geographical position, bordered by a large river to the south, and the surrounding military threats and occasional skirmishes on the border were easily suppressed by the Beetle Legion.

About four years ago, the Big-headed Ant Remnants learned through exchanges with the surrounding kingdoms and tribes that there seemed to be a large-scale war in the north, and countless defeated ant races rushed south, and war broke out because they broke into the territory of the natives in the south.

Many of the ant races that fled south were wiped out, but many of the fugitives broke through the natives' defenses, driving the original defenders into a part of the army of fugitives, and then quickly perished themselves under the attacks of other fugitives or embarked on the road of escape again.

Over time, the unrest in the north has tended to intensify, and it has become more than a distant rumor. The following year, six or seven days north of the Big-headed Ant Remnant, the kingdom had already been breached by a swarm of fugitives.

These fugitives grew in a domino-like fashion, and what drove them south, apart from the other fugitives who attacked them, was a legendary ant like no other.

These ants are dark in color, huge in size, and have triangular heads, which are very similar to the characteristics of the mysterious ants, and as a result, the queen of the Big-headed Ant Remnant thinks that the ant in the protagonist's information pack is the one that caused the "War of the Fugitives" in her native world. Although she hadn't really seen the mysterious ants in her homeland.

At that time, the distant mysterious ants were the source of the Fugitive Rebellion, and as the number of fugitives increased, although these fugitives were of many races and did not belong to each other, they had already terrified the remnants of the Big-headed Ant and the surrounding kingdoms and tribes.

Some kingdoms have tried to unite to deal with the threat, but years of vendetta have left few to respond, and the kingdom of the Big-Headed Ant Remnant has refused to join the alliance.

As kingdoms and tribes were breached one by one in the face of the army of fugitives, the enemy finally came to the border of the old country of the Big-headed Ant Remnant.

Elite beetle armies are attacking everywhere to wipe out the influx of fugitives from all four realms.

But there are so many enemies that it seems that the ants of the whole world are attacking the remnants of the big-headed ants. The number of secondary nests in the country of the remnants of the big-headed ant is decreasing every day, and they are being conquered or forced to give up.

And when the big-headed ant remnant wanted to find support, they found that the familiar settlement kingdom river tribe around them had all been wiped out, and the big-headed ant remnant clan was the only remaining force.

It is with this painful lesson that the Big-headed Ant Remnant is determined to find a reliable ally after wandering in a foreign land.

Eventually, the remnants of the big-headed ants, who had cowered in the last side nest near the river, were driven out of their nests, climbed onto a piece of driftwood, and survived the rough waves for a long time under the protection of the god of wind and water, and survived the land in the lower reaches of the river.