"You also said that snow ants will only abandon the princess when food is scarce."

Ryan stared at the snow ant for a moment, and then said, "This snow ant looks like it's looking for food, since their queen was once an abandoned princess, then she must value food very much, and this kind of place is so desolate, there must not be a lot of food." ”

Ryan: "Tong, I'll give me a light later, and say that I want it, and I have to look at it and feel very relatable." ”

Although he is already very affinable, it is not enough, he has not used the aura for a long time, he wants to use the light to warm the cold ice.

If you lack anything else, you still have to think about how to solve it, isn't it easy to lack food?

System: "The light is ready, do you need some feather drop effect?" ”

"No, I'm not an angel, and if I don't come to those vanities, it will backfire."

Ryan flew towards the snow ants and asked in a low voice, "Right, beans are originally plants, can they smell them?" ”

The system understands what he wants to do, "Snow ants have a keen sense of smell, and they don't like smells very much, because it confuses their perception. ”

Ryan sighed: "That's a pity, the sharing plan died before it even started." ”

So far, he has only found one leopard leopard who likes to eat stinky tofu.

No, when he goes back to Oran, he will have to get a disguised robot to open a small cart stall in Lebaye and promote the food.

Orn would definitely agree, and isn't there still a vest of the black-hearted merchant Theseus.

One stinky tofu in the left hand, one roasted durian in the right hand, and a snail flour in the middle.

Although Ryan only eats stinky tofu, and the other two dare not touch it, he thinks it is a good idea. However, Hughes still had to be more stylish, only selling pure sweet sugar, and let the puppet push the food stalls.

Without much thought, it was decided that it was perfect.

As Ryan approached the snow ants, he perfected this decision and repeated it to the system, "Tong, what do you think of this idea?" ”

The system listened calmly, and finally asked without emotion, "So my dear host, why don't you consider the City of Light?" Padraic is still looking for your whereabouts, and if you want to do business in the City of Light, whatever it is, I think he'll say yes. ”

System: "And there are ways to connect with each other in each main city, and the great nobles of the other main cities also know about the essence, but no one knows who the mysterious merchant who traded with Orn is." ”

Ryan: Wake up the dreamer with a word!

It's that he's too short-sighted.

"You're right, Padraic leaked Theseus, so I'll have to give him a little bit of a gift."

Ryan: "Something that smells bad may be delicious, and the light of faith may have long since sunk into darkness and cloaked in hypocrisy. ”

Ryan: "It's decided, I'll go to Orn later, and then let him vaguely mention to Padraic that I intend to open a shop in Lebaye in the Hughes vest." When the time comes, ask Padraic to come to me, and then ask him for a word, it's better to hang a sign on the cart with Stinky Tofu that Padraic loves to eat. ”

"So that even if the stinky tofu is stinky, they will taste it in the name of the feather of generosity."

Ryan: "Absolutely. ”

"You're amazing."

The system complimented sincerely, "It's a satire of the City of Light and it's making money, but it probably doesn't do Padraic any harm."

According to his character, even if you sell delicious horse manure in the City of Light, if you ask Padraic for that brand, he will give it to you without hesitation. But then the world will only think that he is kind and generous, and that he is very open-minded, and can endure such insults, that you are a heretic and a bad fellow, and that he is a good man who is noble and worthy of respect. ”

"If you really make this kind of brand, maybe it will increase his fame even more, and Padraic is very good at this kind of thing." ”

Ryan frowned slightly, "He's such a troublesome guy, and the foundation and reputation of the Feather of Generosity are too strong. ”

System: "After all, Padraic has lived in the City of Light for many years, and his father is an archduke, so you don't have much reputation as Theseus. ”

"That's not good, it's not difficult to hide the identity of Xiusi with his identity, so as not to expose all the content of my transaction with him. He just wanted to use the strength of others to force me out, and at the same time test my details, and then pretend to save me with difficulty, this routine is not too easy to figure out. ”

The corners of Ryan's mouth twitched slightly: "I bet he didn't mention the fear of the abyss, so in the City of Light, is there a prince or princess who has a bad relationship with him?" ”

"Nope."

System: "All the princes and princesses of the City of Light, it should be said that they don't want to and dare not offend Padraric...... If you really want to say, do you remember the last time you saw the prince? ”

"Yes."

Ryan: "Didn't he call Brother Padraic?" ”

"There is more than one more who calls Brother Padraic."

System: "That prince may have some subtle feelings for Padraic. But he sealed the disgust with props, otherwise the emotions would have been sensed by Padraic. ”

"Is Padraic really that noble?"

Ryan snorted softly, "Oh, forgot, all the descendants of the royal family are collectively referred to as the princes. ”

What a troubled city.

Ryan: "Commander, the dragon-related ruins, will Padraic also go in?" ”

System: "No, the City of Light enters the ruins with a different prince every year. ”

Ryan: "What do you think...... Is it possible to let him into the ruins? ”

"It's extremely unlikely."

System: "Padraic rarely goes to dangerous places. ”

Ryan: "So there's still something wrong with that ruin. ”

The system's voice was lowered a lot, "Maybe." ”

Ryan closed his eyes slightly, "I see, we'll talk about Padraic in detail later." ”

After finishing the communication with the system, he used magic to speed up, so that the withered branch staff hanging the magic lamp floated to his side, and flew towards the snow ant that was searching for food. The moment the light source approached, the snow ants that felt the light immediately turned around, their forefeet like ice were slightly raised, and the tentacles on their heads were raised in a defensive posture.

Ryan: "Unity, the light comes." Don't exaggerate, just make it less defensive. ”

The next second the words fell, the light seemed to converge from his magic lamp into a phantom, gently surrounding Ryan, making his face look without any danger, full of affinity, exuding a gentle aura.

The snow ant's tentacles slower the frequency of the tentacles on its head, and they quietly watched Ryan approach, showing confusion and a little wariness.

At the same time, the system asked in a low voice in Ryan's mind: "Do you need to rent a special telepathic communication prop, which can make the snow ants feel a little bit of your meaning, it only costs 5 gold coins an hour." ”

"Yes."

Ryan stopped in front of the snow ant from the air, reached out and touched the spatial ring, and suddenly a white feather emitted a pure light on his cuff.

White Feather and the magic light flickered, Ryan took out a large portion of bread made of wheat from the ring, handed it to the snow ants, and whispered, "I have enough food, I hope you can take me to meet the snow ant queen once, maybe you can save you from the lack of food." ”

Although it can be incognito, it is not very polite, after all, it is not good to turn a whole ant colony and be regarded as a bad person.

The snow ant's eyes stared at Ryan quietly for a while, and then aimed the tentacles on his head at the feathers on Ryan's cuffs, and finally raised his shorter forefeet, hesitantly and easily took the large piece of wheat bread, turned and walked in the direction of the ant nest, and after walking a few steps, he glanced at Ryan who was slowly following up, and kept moving forward at the same speed.

Ryan followed the snow ant to the nest and whispered in a whisper, "Is this light as good as this feather?" ”

"Maybe I'm thinking you're a stray cub who got lost."

The system replied in a low voice: "Snow ants have the habit of picking up their cubs and returning them to the nest, not to mention that you also bring your own food, it should be ready to take you directly to meet the snow ant queen, because it likes the smell of wheat bread." ”

Ryan: "That's good, it's good to be young. ”

What's so bad about being treated as a cub, he's young.

System: "......"

Although he thought so in his heart, Ryan actually felt that it should be because of his human appearance.

After all, the Snow Ant Queen, she also has the appearance of a human.

The snow ants walked straight ahead with bread in their arms, and the nest was located further down the ground, where food was scarce but safer, and other vicious aliens were rarely seen. Snow ants do not invade each other's territory, but they do not share food, and the more powerful the snow ant colony, the larger the territory.

The snow ants holding the wheat bread quickly reached a place with a darker light, their eyes could see in the dark, and Ryan did not turn down the light of the magic lamp, but only changed the halo to an orange color, not as cold as pure white.

When seeing snow ants of the same race, the snow ants holding wheat bread will use the antennae on their heads to communicate with each other, but the snow ants don't know if they all go out to look for food, and Ryan doesn't see many snow ants.

Soon, in the corner of the curve, the light was slightly brighter and there was no ice, for example, when the place was much warmer than the place it had just passed, the snow ant turned around, and its antennae drooped to the ground.

Ryan paused and asked in a low voice, "Do you mean to stop me and wait?" ”

The snow ant couldn't understand his question, but could vaguely perceive the thoughts through the feathers, and saw Ryan stop moving, and the tentacles on the snow ant's head parted, one pointing at himself and the other pointing deep around the corner. Making sure Ryan didn't move, it made a subtle, fluffy sound before turning and walking into the depths of the corner.

Ryan looked at the place where the snow ants disappeared, his eyes were calm, and his mental power could feel the sight of a few snow ants hiding in the dark, and he still showed no danger at all.

Soon, when the snow ant returned, it had no wheat bread in its hands.

This time the snow ant behaved much better, less vigilant, and its tentacles waved quickly, one pointing behind Ryan and the other at the place where it had just gone. The snow ant also makes a strange sound of a certain frequency, and when it returns, all the sensations of watching in the shadows disappear.

The snow ants led Ryan deeper into the corner, a small cave built to resemble a beehive, with lots of dry grass and specially treated hides on the ground, and the wind was quiet and warm.

Between the skins and on the walls, there are also transplanted some sparkling snow flowers that emit the same color as the wind and snow.

Ryan asked in his head, "Tong, is this the place where the queen rests?" ”

"It's not."

System: "This colony of newborn snow ants is born here, and the first stage of larvae is spent under the care of the snow ant queen, and when the larvae are transferred after the first alienation, the new snow ants take care of the larvae that have increased in food and so on. ”

The appearance of the Snow Flower is somewhat similar to that of a water lotus, but the petals are light ice blue and have no leaves, and the thin and fragile Ice Flower Stem holds up the whole flower, and the stamens of the flower are gushing outwards like fine snow, and many snowflakes are extremely beautiful when they light up the cave together.

In the middle of the snowflakes, Ryan, who entered the cave where the young ants were breeding, was led by the snow ants and met the leader of the snow ant colony, a snow ant queen with an extremely young face.

The Snow Ant Queen is somewhat similar to the Queen Bee and the Queen Bee, with the appearance of a human woman, her hair and eyebrows are like blue frost and snow, her eyes are light blue like snowflakes, she wears a crown of ice and snow, and her skin is as white as ice. The white fluff on the snow ant's body surrounds the queen's long dress, half-covering the pure white ant's belly behind her, and the human is about the same height as Ryan when he stands upright.

Although the Snow Ant Queen's face is young, her eyes have begun to have a bit of majesty.

At this time, in the palm of the snow ant queen's human hand, she was holding the piece of wheat bread that Ryan had just given to the snow ant, but the bread had been torn into pieces. Around the Snow Ant Queen, there should be some young snow ants that have just hatched from their eggs.

There is not much difference between the appearance of juvenile and adult snow ants, and each juvenile snow ant is less than the size of a palm, and its whole body is covered with soft and fluffy hairs. The two small short legs will only grow after the first alienation, and the lower jaws are a little softer, and they are not as sharp as the adult snow ants.

Compared to adult snow ants, juvenile snow ants look much cuter, and their blue eyes are like mist, moist and shiny.

Although Ryan doesn't like insects, he doesn't hate snow ants even larvae.

After tearing the bread into multiple pieces, the snow ant queen uses ice magic to tear up the small pieces of bread and gently bring them to the mouths of the young snow ants.

The young snow ants naturally accept the feeding, eat the torn bread, and the light in their eyes and the sound of their immature calls can be heard in their love.

Retracting her gaze from the floating staff and magic lamp, handing over the torn bread to the snow ants to feed the young ants, the snow ant queen looked at Ryan, her waist was slightly bent and her posture was elegant, and her cold face instantly became much gentler when she spoke, and she asked Ryan in the continental lingua franca: "Kind and powerful human mage, I am the leader of this snow ant tribe, Chrissy, may I ask why you are here to find me?" ”

After the Snow Ant Queen fully accepts the inheritance memory, she will also master the magic of ice, and she can feel that Ryan's magic level is above herself, coupled with Ryan's kind attitude, the Snow Ant Queen's question is also very direct.

"First meeting, Chief Chrissy, I'm Lord Ryan, the human lord."

The corners of Ryan's mouth smiled, and he replied directly with a gentle smile: "Chief Chrissy, I hope to hire you and some of your clansmen to do things for me, and I can repay you with enough food." ”

The first time we met, I said I want saliva from you and your people, huh...... If you say that, you won't be considered a pervert.

Chrissy did not directly refuse, because the clan was indeed facing a shortage of food at present, and after thinking seriously, she asked, "Lord Lane, what exactly do you need to hire us for?" ”