As the sun appeared, the legion closest to the northeast took the lead in taking action, crawling toward the northeast in column. The legions on both sides of this legion also followed suit, and the ants of the three legions formed a fan about two meters wide and moved forward.
The assembled legions followed suit. The protagonist's legion is to the east of the entire assembly area, and the other legions around him quickly follow the vanguard, and are at the front of the army's march.
The protagonist wants to work as a foreigner, and going to the front is not in line with his plan. Therefore, even if his subordinates scratch their heads and head in anxiety and frequently send worker ants over to deliver urging signals, the protagonist remains unmoved.
The legions next to them started to move out one by one, and the protagonist's legion standing still seemed extremely conspicuous. However, no legion commander came to complain. The entire Ant Expeditionary Army was not so much a whole, but a conglomerate of fifty small legions, all moving towards the same goal. Different legions cannot command each other, and there is no supreme commander.
At this time, there are still a steady stream of ants in the main nest that have just come out and have not yet completed their assembly. The newly emerged legions gathered in the open space to the south and waited for the legions that had left the nest first to advance before they could follow.
The protagonist's attempts to hide in the back are quickly dashed. When about half of the legion had already set off, a legion passed by the protagonist's legion, but this legion suddenly stopped. The protagonist was surprised when a worker ant quickly ran over from the legion. He stopped for a moment on the edge of the protagonist's army, briefly communicated with a king, and then ran straight to the protagonist.
The protagonist knew that this worker ant should be a messenger, so he extended his tentacles.
The worker ants conveyed a message to the protagonist through their tentacles: the Public Security King’s legion invited the Divine Envoy King’s legion to accompany them.
Well, I bet this army is under the public security. Yesterday, I seemed to hear my senior brother say that he was just an ordinary king in this legion. In addition, the name of the God's Envoy King's Army is quite nice. Let's call it this name from now on.
Since the police sincerely invited him, the protagonist couldn't refuse. He emits a pheromone signal of "attack now", coupled with a unique abdominal fricative sound. This combination of messages means moving forward. The soldier ants and worker ants around the protagonist immediately responded to their unique fricative syllables, and then the ants further away responded to the same sound after hearing it. After the ants at the edge of the legion also recovered, the entire legion began to move forward.
After the Divine Messenger King's legion moved, the public security legion followed closely behind.
After all fifty legions from the main nest were assembled and set off, the sun had completely risen from the horizon. The dazzling morning light of the sun pierced the sky from the east and shone on this advancing expeditionary force, reflecting a golden light on their carapace.
If you look down from the sky, you can see that this piece of golden light is about two meters wide and more than ten meters long. It is in the shape of an irregular rectangle and moves rapidly toward the northeast at a uniform speed of five meters per minute.
Along the way, countless insects lurking on the ground and in the grass suffered disaster. In the direction of the ant expeditionary force, only insects with good eyesight, fast speed and sensitive reactions can avoid it in time. As for other insects, as long as it is bitten by any ant, countless ants will soon crawl all over its body. The soldier ants use their sharp mandibles to dismember it alive, and the worker ants divide the meat into more pieces. Small pieces of meat, the entire king's team will stop to enjoy this delicious meal, and then speed up to catch up with their own legion after eating. Sometimes if a big guy is caught, the entire legion can even have a feast and let the legions behind him surpass him.
In the human world, the rules for setting out armies in medieval times were generally "the emperor will never leave hungry soldiers". The ant world is different. Since the main nest needs to support too many ant colonies, and a lot of food is transported to the secondary nest near the front line to support long-term operations, the troops leaving the main nest are half full before setting out on the road. Therefore, whenever there are hunting results along the way, the ants will stuff them into their stomachs without hesitation.
In this way, the ants will even climb every stone and every shrub in their path. Whether they are locusts and carabid beetles active during the day, or centipedes, caterpillars, etc. that are resting under stones or leaves, they will They were all unlucky, and they all became rations for the expeditionary army.
Even the mantises and centipedes that terrified the protagonist before, as well as the unicorns and stag beetles that have never been encountered before but are extremely powerful at first glance, all avoid the army of ants. The ant army did not actively pursue these dangerous apex insect predators to avoid incurring casualties.
This also made the protagonist feel very angry. The two previous encounters with the mantis and the centipede resulted in a total loss of troops and failed to cause any real damage to the opponent. It was a complete defeat. Now that you've seen the ant army, you just have to run away! The saying that unity is strength is true. No matter how strong the individual strength of these stragglers is, they are no match for a group of truly social insects (ants, termites, and bees). Just like a hunter can't beat a lion, but a group of lions is definitely no match for a group of hunters, even if the group of hunters only has a stone spear.
The protagonist couldn't help but think of a well-received documentary "Animal World" in his previous life. The highly recognizable male magnetic voice explained such a scene: "The lions were enjoying the fresh prey they had just obtained, and suddenly , all the lions were alarmed, and they ran away in a hurry. What made them even give up the prey they had already obtained? It turned out that a group of African hunters came over in the distance. At this moment, the lions finally understood who was the owner of the African grassland The owner." What is the name of this narrator? The protagonist has lost his memory and has forgotten.
In fact, there are such spectacular ant hunting scenes in the real world. Ants such as army ants and spear ants in the Americas have this habit of marching and hunting. In the tropical rainforest, it is not difficult to see the following scenes: large cockroaches as big as house mice, extremely poisonous scorpions, fur-covered tarantulas, as well as turtles, snakes, lizards, etc. fleeing in all directions. Following bursts of sour smell, a black army of ants that was at least 15 meters wide, with terrifying momentum and extremely fast speed, arrived in the blink of an eye. They do not build permanent nests. On weekdays, they line up and kill in the rainforest area. Wherever the mighty army goes, all insects and invertebrates rarely survive. When the vanguard captured prey that was thousands of times larger than them, the main army arrived immediately, and the prey was immediately submerged in the vast sea of ants, with zero chance of survival. In particular, spear ants can even hunt large animals many times their size. Cattle tied to trees are often targeted by spear ants. Spear ants will burrow into the cow's body through the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose in groups, and first cut and eat its internal organs. Within a few weeks, all that was left of the cow was its bones. A chicken can only serve as food for spear ants for two days.
