It's not a simple matter to attack and capture such a large hive, and it gives the protagonist a bit of a headache just thinking about it.

Each hive is home to thousands of worker bees, who are no less powerful than the strongest soldier warriors, and have secret weapons such as bee stings and bee venom, and are exceptionally determined to defend their homeland. Anyone who has been stung by a bee must know this.

The hive is also in a position where it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the difficulty of overcoming it is estimated by the protagonist to be higher than that of a secondary nest guarded by a big-headed ant or a paver ant with a serious illness.

This time, only one legion of the Praying Tiger arrived on the battlefield, not the protagonist Tuoda. Today the protagonist is just preparing to launch a tentative attack.

When it comes to fighting bees, neither the previously formed elite corps nor the newly formed corps have relevant experience.

Therefore, the protagonist mobilized the new legion to come, on the one hand, to let it be used as a exercise, and on the other hand, there was also the intention of reluctant to lose elite veterans.

Before the Praying Tiger's legion arrives at Dongyang City, the protagonist even rides Xiaoqing II himself, and together with the flying knight commanders such as the centipipeda, he conducts a close-up reconnaissance of this hive.

- I'm the dividing line -

Xiaoqing II lies quietly on the leaf of a shrub, and the protagonist is looking out at the poplar tree not far away, accompanied by other flying knights.

Every time he sees this tall poplar tree, the protagonist can't help but feel emotional.

There are very few tall trees near "Dongyang City", and this poplar tree is like a world tree that stands tall in the sky, and it looks extremely majestic—if it weren't for its foliage, it is not really prosperous, far less dense than the legendary World Tree.

"Dongyang City" is located in an area prone to strong winds, this poplar tree has few but thick branches, and the young branches that have not been exposed to the wind and sun have long since withered, and only the most tenacious and lucky branches can survive. It can be seen how difficult it is for this aspen to grow to this height today, and how resolute life is.

From a distance, the aspen tree looks like a tall and thin strip, with few horizontal branches.

The protagonist is the first to be reborn, and the first time he walks on the ground, he sees only this poplar tree in sight, except for the dusk and yellow sand.

At that time, he was still full of hope to find the humans in this world, although he didn't know what he could do as an ant and still in danger after arriving in the human world. But at least he would have a sense of ethnic belonging.

And now, he has given up, he thinks that there will be no humans in this world.

There have been countless times when he has fantasized that there are no human traces just because the place he is in is so remote. Maybe there is a human settlement just a short distance away.

But after a few years, he also knew that this conjecture might not work. After all, man's ability to transform nature is incomparably greater, and in his previous world, there is simply nothing that humans have not set foot in.

Even in uninhabitable places, you can often feel the ubiquity of human beings: non-degradable plastic waste, airplanes flying in the sky, man-made materials floating in rivers, etc.

But the protagonist has never seen it once.

The protagonist can finally paralyze himself, that is, human beings still exist, but they are still in a very primitive stage, and they have no ability to transform the entire natural world, so they can't see any traces of human existence.

But this is only a comforting conjecture, is the primitive human still his own kind? It is impossible for them to have the technology and consciousness to turn their "special" ant back into a human.

On the contrary, as an ant, the protagonist gradually has an identity. Accustomed to seeing these ants with hard carapace and strange faces, the protagonist no longer finds them ugly, but is as intimate as seeing a different face from a human.

Without the protagonist of the human race, he was extremely lost, disappointed, and hesitant for a while, but the experience and adventure of the ant world made him feel the temperature of the collective, the team and the race.

He has settled down to be an ant, but the deep human consciousness in his heart still awakens from time to time, reminding him that he is by no means an ant. Humans and ants, two subconscious minds, are constantly fighting for his inner belonging, just like angels and demons.

When faced with countless ant subordinates, naturally, his state of mind will be occupied by the subconscious that belongs to the ants. And when you are alone in the dead of night, the human subconscious can be extremely powerful.

Now, for example, his ambition is to unify this mountain basin and get out of here. It's not for ants' natural love of expansion, or for the fulfillment of their promise to help the remnants of the big-headed ants return to their homeland. He still wants to see the bigger world, in the end, this world is still not the earth, which era of the earth, is there still an earth with no human beings?

- I'm the dividing line -

The Flying Knights did not dare to interrupt the imagination of the Great Divine Envoy King. In recent days, the authority of the king has become more and more powerful, and he has unwittingly changed the status system of general equality among male ants and based on seniority.

After the protagonist pondered for a long time, he signaled to go, shook the reins, and Xiaoqing II's limbs slammed into the blue sky obliquely.

Today is a good day, clear skies and most importantly not strong winds. Due to the climate of Dongyang City, strong winds often blow and flies either stay underground or fly at low altitudes to avoid being blown by the raging air currents.

The centipeda and other flying knights followed, and the group flew around the beehive on the poplar tree a few times to get a general idea of its appearance.

In the past, the ants of "Dongyang City" only knew that there was a beehive here, but they knew very little about it. Ants that climb up the poplar trees are expelled by patrolling bees when they are not far from the hive.

From the point of view of the importance of protecting the nest, bees, like their close relatives, will refuse other creatures to enter the nest most of the time. This is also a common feature of eusocial insects.

Ground reconnaissance does not work, so naturally we can only rely on aerial reconnaissance.

In fact, bees will also repel insects that are too close in the air, but there are no bee patrols in the air, and this expulsion is just the knee-jerk behavior of the worker bees in and out of the hive in and out of the hive.

The protagonist controls Xiaoqing II with ease, using his vision advantage to avoid the busy air passage of bees, flying around the hive, and looking at his target from different angles.

The honeycomb is located in a tree hole in the middle of the poplar tree, which is long and narrow, less than a decimeter wide and four or five decimeters high.

The hive is about six or seven meters above the ground, and there is a remnant of a branch not far from the tree hole, like a natural take-off and landing platform.