The protagonist is worried that the parasitic queen will make up for today's battle losses by laying a large number of eggs.
In that case, in the worst case, it only takes a few days for the parasitic ants to return to their original strength. This is not good news for the legion of the God Envoy King who is working hard on the expedition.
For the God Envoy King's Army, it is the correct strategy to completely eliminate this group of parasitic ants while the parasitic ant army is newly defeated and its troops are insufficient and have not yet been replenished.
Therefore, the protagonist decided to continue attacking the parasitic ant nest at night.
At night, the parasitic ants will huddle in their nests, and the Angel King's army can take advantage of the night to use smoke attacks and other methods to weaken the enemy troops hiding underground, and achieve rich results at a small cost.
Taking into account the particularity of night operations, the protagonist did not let the flying knights who performed well during the day follow them this time. Their fly mounts need to rest at night, and because they are unable to see at night, the flying knights' most advantageous reconnaissance capabilities will be useless.
The three legions were exhausted during the day. After weighing the situation, the protagonist transferred the two hundred soldier ants that had just been added to the first legion, and then transferred six more fully-organized ants from the three legions. , a team in better shape.
As for the five hundred worker ants that arrived at night, in addition to the two hundred that repaired the fortress, the other three hundred also set out together.
In this way, the temporarily formed night combat team consisted of ten close combat teams with more than 400 warriors, and auxiliary 300 worker ants.
Although the scale is much smaller than last night, as long as the enemy's main force does not break through, self-protection is safe. Even if the enemy is really desperate and jumps over the wall, the protagonist is confident that he can bring back most of the night fighting troops safely under the cover of darkness.
After arranging the night expedition, the protagonist asked the kings to take turns to be responsible for the night watch, and the other ants went to rest. Fighting during the day was too difficult, and what the legionnaires needed most now was a good sleep.
The protagonist's sleep quality was good when he was in a coma. Now he feels completely recovered. He climbed down the fortress with his troops in the dark and headed towards the enemy's lair in the night.
——I am the dividing line——
The night is particularly dark today, and it seems to be preparing for a new rain.
Fortunately, experienced ants said: Judging from the changes in air pressure and humidity, the rain will not fall in a short time. Otherwise, the protagonist will want to go back home - he doesn't want to lead his troops in the wild to test the power of a heavy rain.
The troops successfully arrived at the entrance of the new nest of the parasitic ants, without getting lost or falling behind due to the darkness of night.
The entrance and exit of the parasitic ant nest were covered with wet mud by the worker ants ordered by the protagonist last night, but now all the wet mud has been cleaned up, and no trace of last night can be seen at all.
The worker ants removed the soil and gravel that blocked the entrance and exit of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber was well preserved and it seemed that it had not been discovered by the parasitic ants during the day.
Another team of worker ants also found the horsetail pipe abandoned nearby and carried it over.
Soldier ants were on alert nearby, while the worker ants emptied the combustion chamber of the ashes accumulated last night, filled it with new fuel, and then continued to connect the horsetail pipe to the entrance of the combustion chamber and the parasitic ant nest, reinforcing the connection with wet mud. , plugging and filling in the many escape hatches dug by the parasitic ants last night.
After completing this series of work, the protagonist ordered the fire to be lit. After the fire became strong, the worker ants responsible for maintaining the fire threw more and more smoking materials such as peppercorns and wet grass into it.
Thick smoke with a pungent smell began to rise, rushing from the pipe into the parasitic ant nest.
The protagonist leads the soldiers of the God Envoy King Army to the vicinity of the parasitic ant nest, ready to deal with the parasitic ants that escape from the hole at any time.
Time passed by minute by second, and the protagonist carefully used the soles of his feet to sense the changes in the underground, but there was no abnormal vibration coming from the underground, and the earth was extremely calm.
Not far away, black smoke was rising from some escape passages that were not tightly sealed. Some worker ants on standby immediately went over and blocked them with wet mud.
The poisonous smoke with nowhere to go could only gather more and more in the underground lair, but the movement expected by the protagonist did not appear at all.
The protagonist had a bad feeling in his heart. After waiting for another quarter of an hour, the protagonist finally couldn't sit still.
He ordered the combustion chamber to turn off the flames, and then ordered the worker ants to remove the pile of wet mud blocking the entrance and exit of the parasitic ant nest. He wanted to go in and see what was going on in the underground ant nest. Could it be that it was already an empty city?
But as soon as the entrance and exit were opened, a puff of black smoke poured out, making it impossible to get in. This is really a cocoon. The protagonist tried desperately to keep the black smoke underground, but now it has become his own obstacle.
The worker ants went around digging out the blocked escape passages to allow more black smoke to escape from these passages.
Even so, it wasn't until less than half an hour later that the concentration of poisonous smoke underground dropped to a tolerable level.
The protagonist couldn't wait for the poisonous smoke to completely dissipate, so he ordered a few worker ants and soldier ants to go down first to explore the way.
Five minutes later, these ants ran back. Although they were a little dizzy from the remaining smoke, they reported that the poisonous gas underground no longer endangered their health and lives. And they didn't encounter a single parasitic ant.
Upon hearing the news, the protagonist immediately led a large army down to the underground lair.
This underground nest has the typical style of a big-headed ant nest, with a spacious main passage, and the fluorescent fungi planted on both sides have become very wilted under the smoke for two consecutive nights.
There are numerous forks extending in all directions next to the main passage, and the protagonist spreads out his troops to conduct a thorough search.
As for the protagonist himself, he led some of his guards along the main passage to search the lower space where the queen and male ants were supposed to live.
Soon, the queen ant palace that the captive had seen in his memory appeared in front of him. The protagonist got in, but there was no ant inside.
This lower space was not affected by the poisonous smoke. There were many fluorescent bacteria on the walls, illuminating the room as brightly as daylight. With the bright cold light of the fluorescent fungi, the protagonist noticed that the nest was very spacious, and there were some feces, food residues and mummies of parasitic bacteria on the ground that had not been cleaned in time.
The parasitic queen who was supposed to be here and the workers who cared for her disappeared.
The protagonist was unwilling to search around again. This time he found some granaries that had not been emptied, and even some living ant eggs and ant pupae that had not been taken away.
In the nursery, a large number of ant larvae are also wriggling around on the silk bed. Although it seems that no worker ants have taken care of them for a while, and there is a thin layer of meconium on the silk bed, these larvae are still full of energy.
Soon other search teams came over and reported that there was not a single parasitic ant in the entire nest.
It seems that the parasitic ants have abandoned their nest overnight and escaped!
