Rainwater poured in continuously from the entrance and exit of the nest along the main channel that sloped downward. The protagonist struggled to climb up. His six limbs were now soaked in water, and the mud on the soles of his feet made it difficult for him to move.
Moreover, the impact of the water flow was very strong. The protagonist watched a worker ant next to him being carried away by the water flow, and soon disappeared.
The protagonist himself has to use all his strength to resist the water that is constantly hitting him to ensure that he is not washed away.
Although he tried hard to lift his body, his abdomen was still inevitably soaked in water. The water poured in along the pores in the abdomen, causing the protagonist's body to convulse like a cough.
After coughing out the water that invaded the air hole, the protagonist had to forcefully close the air inlet to avoid being choked again.
Ants do not have lungs, but they have the ability to breathe, and their breathing efficiency is quite high. Ants can rapidly perform periodic external breathing by compressing and expanding the small tracheae in their heads and chests, with a frequency of about once per second.
After oxygen is inhaled into the ant's body through the stomata, it enters the internal breathing mode: the contraction of the tracheal system is controlled through muscle movement, and then diffuses into the tissue cells.
Moreover, the protagonist discovered that the respiratory function of ants is the same as that of humans. It is controlled by autonomous breathing of the pons, medulla oblongata and spinal cord (autonomous breathing has its own rhythm and is not controlled by consciousness like the heart's autonomous cells), and is also controlled by brain consciousness. Breathe freely.
It is by relying on the controllable ability to breathe at will that the protagonist can close his air holes and avoid drowning.
Anyone with experience knows that due to the buoyancy of the water and the impact of the current, it is very laborious to perform movements in the water. The protagonist also spent a lot of effort to climb up from the muddy main passage to the ground.
After arriving on the ground, the protagonist looked around and finally understood why tonight's flood was particularly fierce - it was entirely his own fault.
The fortress built by the protagonist under the command of the worker ants during the day is generally a circular closed earth embankment, surrounding the entrance and exit of the nest of "Dongyang City" in the middle.
The entrance to the lair of "East Yang City" was originally located on a higher ground, at the top of a small mound. When it rained heavily, the rainwater would flow downwards along with the terrain, and very little water would flow in from the entrance.
After the protagonist ordered the construction of earth embankments today during the day, these earth embankments did not consider drainage design at all. Just like their names, the earth embankments faithfully performed the function of the embankments when it rained heavily, blocking all the rainwater and surrounding it inside the fortress.
A large amount of rainwater with nowhere to go can only find low-lying places to collect in the earth embankments. After the soil on the ground is saturated with water, water droplets will continue to seep from the passages of the ant nest and the walls of the nest chambers, destroying the large areas in the upper layers of the ant nest. Some areas were soaked.
This is not the main hazard.
As the accumulated small pools slowly merged into large pools, the water level became higher and higher. Some of the accumulated water had already reached the entrance and exit of the nest, and then surged into the only exit.
If the protagonist hadn't crashed an earth embankment during the experiment, and the water flow had opened a small gap along the cracks in the earth embankment, flowing out continuously, barely slowing down the rise of the water level, I'm afraid " The disaster in Dongyang City was a bit more severe.
The protagonist looked up at the sky. The dark clouds were very low and the sky was dark without a trace of moonlight or starlight.
The rain showed no signs of stopping, and big raindrops kept dripping all around, and each drop was big enough for the protagonist to swim in it.
The water in the embankment is still rising steadily, and more floods are pouring into the entrance and exit of the nest every minute.
The protagonist knows that if a few more drainage outlets are not dug in the earth embankment quickly, the flood will only become more serious. Many facilities on the upper level of the nest, such as the yellow mealworm farm, will bear the brunt of the disaster.
The protagonist climbed hard to the top of the earth embankment along the slightly dry area, constantly adjusting his breathing to avoid choking on the water.
From time to time, a raindrop will hit the protagonist or around him. Although it does not cause any damage, it often sends him flying.
This kind of attack by raindrops falling from the sky is impossible to guard against. If the protagonist is not strong enough and has a good character, if he were an ordinary ant, he would have a narrow escape in this weather. Once he is wrapped by a raindrop or thrown into In a puddle, it is difficult to get out of trouble on your own.
The protagonist was not afraid of this. He finally climbed to the top of the earth embankment step by step, and then dug out the "ant concrete" that had become slightly soft after being soaked by rain.
After working for half a night and digging out five drainage outlets, the rainwater accumulated in the earthen embankment finally showed no sign of rising.
As the rain gradually subsided, the protagonist finally relaxed and washed the mud off his body. The protagonist returned to his palace in the city and fell asleep.
After dawn the next day, the rain had completely stopped and the sun covered the earth again.
After the protagonist wakes up, there are a lot of headaches waiting for him to deal with.
The secretary reported that several worker ants and soldier ants died in the flood last night; several mealworm farms on the upper level of the nest were seriously flooded; and the nests of flies such as Xiaoqing were also flooded.
The protagonist asked Xiao Mi to immediately take charge of the aftermath and carry the dead ants out of the cave as soon as possible to avoid causing a plague. Light small fires throughout the nest to dry the walls and floor of the nest. Mealworm farms and fly nests must also organize worker ants to repair and count the losses as soon as possible.
After finishing these tasks, the protagonist summoned Rambotu and the worker ants who participated in the construction of the earth embankment yesterday to come to the ground.
Due to the flooding last night and the destruction of several earth embankments by the protagonist to discharge the flood, the newly built fortress yesterday has been completely changed: many earth embankments collapsed, others were soaked and destroyed, and large sections of trenches were also damaged by the running water. The mud and sand filled it up.
Basically, most of yesterday's construction results were wasted. The protagonist asks Rambotu to lead the worker ants to clean up the ruins and then rebuild the fortress.
This time, the overall design of the fort remained unchanged, but sixteen drainage openings were dug out at the bottom of the earthen embankment. Each drainage opening could allow two soldier ants to pass side by side, so that rainwater could be drained into the trench along the drainage openings.
The inner walls of the trenches and the outer walls of the earth embankments were embedded with gravel for reinforcement. A number of drainage channels were excavated outside the trenches leading to low-lying areas to prevent rainwater from accumulating in the trenches and eventually flowing back into the fortress.
After arranging the construction plan, it was time for the daily routine attack of the parasitic ant army.
The protagonist was very tired last night and fell asleep very late. He got up early this morning to deal with the aftermath. Now he feels extremely tired.
So the protagonist asked Gun to serve as the commander and lead twenty teams south to intercept the enemy troops south of the salt mine and protect the normal production in the salt mine area.
