Chapter 126: Where Did You Come From (2)
I haven't recovered from my illness yet, so let's make up a change today, forgive me 😷🤒
- I'm the dividing line -
After the military scene, what appeared in front of the queen was the livelihood scene in the information packet.
It shows large swarms of mealworms churning around the farm, plant stems crawling with tender green aphids, and lush wild vegetables bearing abundant seeds. This all shows the richness of the barbarian leader's territory.
And the numerous ant mouths, each of which shows a well-nourished body, is a testament to this affluence. At least the queen knew that even in the height of her tribe, it was impossible to feed and drink enough for every member, and that the queen and male ants did not care about the quality of life of the lowly worker ants.
The prosperity of the protagonist's territory surprises the queen, who can't help but question its authenticity.
In the protagonist's impression, ants don't lie, one is one, and if they don't want to say, they will refuse to answer.
But the queen knows that the ant world is also full of deceit, which is not uncommon in the history of the "bereaved family".
Just like the human world, the more civilized the society, the more full of all kinds of competition, requiring participants to use all means to obtain or protect their own interests, including lies and trickery. However, the more primitive places with full contact with the outside world can often get the evaluation of "simple folk customs".
The queen quickly finished browsing the information packet and came to the conclusion that the protagonist has a strong military force, a large number of ant populations, abundant food, and the application of some new technologies.
This made the queen have a big impression of the protagonist as a barbaric tribal leader, at least the new technology part, which is not something that can be imagined by ants lying, should be true. And the queen is very interested in these new technologies.
After the queen reads the packet and expresses her gratitude, the protagonist immediately asks to see what is going on in the queen's realm as well.
This is exactly the purpose of the protagonist, he has made the information of his territory friendly first, and he is not rude, and the queen is embarrassed to refuse the protagonist's suggestion.
But the queen is a little embarrassed, the protagonist has a strong military and doesn't care about exposing his existence. But the big-headed ant "remnant" is now very weak, and the queen is worried that once the leader of the barbarian tribe in front of him knows the truth of his territory, it will cause the other party to covet it. The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty, and there are still some good things passed down from the ancestors in the queen's territory.
But after seeing the military prowess of the barbarian tribe, the queen became cautious, unwilling to anger the barbarian leader for fear that he would be moody.
The queen then bites her jaw and tells the protagonist that she can let the protagonist see the kingdom of her people in the previous world.
The queen hoped that the incomparably powerful and developed scene of her own clan at that time would shock the barbarian leaders in front of her and dispel their undesirable thoughts.
The protagonist can't ask for it, he has long wanted to know about the situation in the so-called civilized world, and the queen herself sent relevant information to the door, which is the best.
The Queen's message packet is quickly passed on to the protagonist, who reads it carefully.
At the beginning, the queen confessed, this is the scene of the previous queen's time.
As the black in front of him is replaced by light, the protagonist sees a shocking scene from a first-person perspective:
In front of him, countless towering tower ant mounds appeared, each of which looked like a skyscraper with hundreds of floors in the human world.
These tower-like anthills are clustered together, with a relatively low main anthill at the bottom, which is as large as a mountain, and the towering spires reach into the sky, and from the perspective of the protagonist, this ant castle looks like an infinite magnification of Disney Castle, or Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
This level of architecture is definitely not comparable to the nests built based on the original terrain such as "Qingqiu City" or "Stone Pillar City", nor is it as small as the fortress built by the protagonist. According to the protagonist's estimates, it would take at least a million ants to work for a year to build such a grand project.
Just from this magnificent castle, you can get a glimpse of the strong national strength and advanced technology of the "bereaved family" back then.
Turning closer, I saw a huge leveled square under the castle, densely packed with military formations.
The military formation was grand, mighty and orderly.
There are also a large number of beetles mixed in these formations, ranging from huge stag beetles and unicorn fairies to small and medium-sized beetles such as beetles.
The protagonist pauses the packet and observes the formations closely.
After some pondering, the protagonist discovers that there is a difference between these military formations.
All military formations are built around a beetle, which is clearly the core of the military power of the "remnants" of the big-headed ants.
Just as in the Spring and Autumn period in China, when infantry fought around chariots, a chariot was a basic military unit called a "chariot", consisting of a chariot, three samurai and seventy-two foot soldiers, as well as a number of logistical baggage personnel. And "multiplication" has become the embodiment of the country's military strength, with "the country of a thousand times" and "the country of ten thousand times".
And beetles, especially giant beetles, are placed in the world of ants, and their effects can even be more powerful than chariots. At the very least, these beetles are as powerful as vehicles of the same size, and they are capable of climbing difficult terrain.
The military formation surrounding the stag armor and the unicorn fairy is closer to the observer of the information packet video, at the front and center of the entire square. And these formations are obviously more elite, with a larger number of soldiers and a higher proportion of soldiers.
The small and medium-sized beetles' formations were scattered, distributed on the flanks or rear of the formation.
For example, in a stag armor formation, on the back of the stag armor alone, there is a male ant commander and ten soldier ants, and two worker ants are responsible for serving as drivers. Beside the spade armor, there was also an infantry unit composed of a small number of soldier ants and worker ants. The number of ants in the entire army array was close to a hundred.
This proves that the average IQ of the male ant commander of the "remnant" of the big-headed ant is higher than that of the indigenous ants on both sides of the river, and the protagonist knows that whether it is the big-headed ant kingdom or the paving ant barbarian, if most of the male ants let him command more than fifty subordinates, his adaptability, processing ability and mathematical ability are not competent, and only a few intelligent male ants can command more subordinates. This is also why the basic military unit of both countries, the squad, is composed of fifty warriors.
In addition to the giant beetle, the large beetle army formation is generally fifty fighters, and the medium beetle army formation is about twenty fighters. Many small beetles are not accompanied by infantry, and only have a small number of ants on their backs, including commanders, pilots, and warriors.
It seems that in the period when the big-headed ant "remnants" were strong before, these large and small military formations around the beetle were the core of their military strength.