"Could it be that someone else released the leafcutter ants and it has nothing to do with the sapling merchant?" Mirel suggested a possibility, after all, peers are enemies, and secret sabotage is quite normal.
"It's not impossible, but I still think the sapling merchant is the most suspicious." Li Zheng showed a thoughtful expression and shook his head.
Leafcutter ants are the nemesis of the Vine Race. Even if Kang'er discovered the leafcutter ants, he wouldn't dare to go in and expel them immediately.
Even if Kang'er immediately issued a private task to find someone to expel the ants, the leafcutter ants would have enough time to destroy part of the fruit trees, and in the end, they still couldn't hand over the full amount of fruit by the deadline.
