The well-equipped Xiaoqing II was quickly brought in. The protagonist has not ridden it for several days. It has been kept underground without seeing the light of day. This is really torture for its nature.
However, the protagonist has no better solution. He can also let other flying knights ride it from time to time on weekdays. But now the flying knight has to maintain information communication between different territories under the protagonist's command, which is itself stretched. So poor Xiao Qing II could only be locked in an underground fly stable, relying on delicious food to comfort his empty soul longing to fly.
As soon as he got the chance to fly today, no wonder it immediately took the protagonist into the sky.
The protagonist controls the reins and lets Xiaoqing II fly northwest.
It had been half a day since the messenger set off, but the protagonist arrived in Yancheng in less than two hours.
The situation on the ground makes the protagonist nervous!
On the ground, more than a dozen river crabs were seen waving their claws. These crabs looked as big as a human male's palm, and as small as a tennis ball.
The ground has been dug unevenly by them, and a large pit has been dug out in the deepest part. From the ground, it is completely impossible to tell that there was an ant nest there. After all, the ant nest of big-headed ants should have a more eye-catching nest hole and a conical ant mound made of waste residue.
But the ants fighting fiercely all over the ground proved that their nests existed here, the nests they desperately protected.
A large number of ants emerged from the ground. Originally, they may have wanted to avoid these ferocious monsters by hiding, but the crabs' digging ability is too strong-they have the habit of digging holes to live in.
Not long after Zhuzi's messenger was sent out, with the cooperation of the river crab's large claws and arthropods, the underground part of "Salt City" was quickly exposed by excavation.
At this moment, "Yancheng" is already very crowded. "Yancheng" originally had two to three thousand permanent residents, but Tuozi later brought hundreds of ants to live there. There are as many as a thousand salt transport teams from various places stranded here.
So many ants are crowded in the already small underground nest of "Salt City". Therefore, when part of the underground nest is exposed, these ants cannot hide in other crowded passages.
In desperation, these ants (mainly worker ants) spontaneously climbed to the ground from the ruins and launched an attack on the domineering river crabs.
This kind of attack that challenges the huge behemoth is destined to cause heavy casualties. Under the attack of the river crab's dexterous claws, the ants are killed and injured.
However, their offensive was not fruitless. After all, these river crabs came here for food, and there was no cooperation between them. A small group of ants concentrated on besieging one of the smallest crabs, while other nearby crabs were busy catching ants for food, or continuing to dig through the soil to find more ants, without caring about the life or death of their besieged companions.
But even a small river crab is as big and heavy as hundreds of ants, so it is not easy to deal with. Ants usually like to attack weak points when dealing with insects with strong carapace. However, these worker ants and a small number of soldier ants discovered that even the joints of the crab's limbs were protected by a hard membrane that could not be penetrated by the ants' jaws.
Although this river crab looks like it is surrounded by dozens or hundreds of ants, and its body is covered with ants, in fact it encounters very little threat. It still takes the time to stuff the ants into its body one by one. Eat it from Bubble's mouthparts.
Ants are born warriors. Even in the face of such a crisis and the constant death of their companions, they still did not flinch. Relying on instinct, they really found several weaknesses of these crabs.
One weak point is the mouthparts, where the carapace is relatively thin and densely packed with nerves, making them more sensitive. Some ants that were caught and eaten did not forget to prick the crab's ferocious mouthparts with their mandibles before they died, which slowed down the crab's hunting speed.
To be honest, if there was no suitable food nearby, and the river crabs that had traveled a long distance had to accumulate energy in order to lay eggs, they would not be willing to provoke these fierce and fearless ants.
For ants, these river crabs are the absolute god of death. River crabs are very gluttonous and can eat one-tenth of their body weight in food every day. In humans, a woman weighing 100 kilograms would eat ten kilograms of food every day, and more than three kilograms at each meal. Each of these river crabs needs to eat hundreds of ants every day. If there is no nest protection, more than ten river crabs can destroy less than half of the ants in "Yancheng" in one day, and all the ants inside can be completely eliminated in a few days. Ant mouth.
Obviously, "Yancheng" has reached an important moment of life and death.
The second weak point is the crab's excretory opening, which is located on the abdomen of the river crab, at the top of the navel. It is an extremely inconspicuous small opening folded inside. But smaller ants can get in through the gaps between the crab's abdomen and outer plastron and sting hard, causing pain to the crab.
The most important weakness is the crab's eyes. Their eyes cannot be closed, standing outside like two small pillars. At most, they retract into the depressions between the wart-like processes on the carapace, but they are still exposed outside the body.
The ants gathered together to attack the pair of compound eyes. Although there were two pairs of tentacles next to the compound eyes, they kept flicking and sweeping away the ants that were close to the crab's compound eyes. The pair of crab claws also began to focus on protecting their own eyes.
But there are still brave ants that get closer, especially those that crawl over the back of the river crab. They are in the blind area of the crab's field of vision and are not easily attacked by the crab's claws or tentacles.
Finally, the first ant crawled to the crab's eye, opened its jaws with revenge, and bit hard.
The thin and tough membrane on the crab's eye could not stop the mandibles, which were full of determination for revenge, and was quickly pierced. The lens in the compound eye was pierced, and the liquid gushed out.
The river crab immediately felt pain and waved its claws and tentacles wildly, trying to shake off the ants on its body. But more ants took the opportunity to swarm up, and the crab's other compound eye was quickly pierced - the crab was blind.
At the same time, some fearless ants attacked its mouthparts and anus. The river crab finally retreated. It took big steps and stumbled back in the direction it came from.
Although it is blind, its injuries are not fatal. It can return to the lake with its memory and the water vapor sensed by its tentacles.
The ants did not give up until the river crab got into the water. There were still more than a dozen ants who were not thrown away by the river crab that ran away like crazy and kept hitting obstacles. Finally, these brave ants float on the water and are surrounded by other river crabs to eat them.
After sacrificing the lives of dozens of ant warriors, the soldiers of "Yancheng" fought off a river crab. And the remaining bigger river crabs are still wreaking havoc... Do the ants still have hope of winning?
