The enemy troops penetrated deeper into the lower half of [Purple Leaf Licheng] and controlled more and more places.
Vibrations coming closer and closer came from the soil. If he put his tentacles up, Suzaku could even distinguish which ones were noisy fighting sounds and which ones were desperate struggles before death. From these vibrations, Suzaku also sensed the approach of death.
It was already approaching evening, and even the most optimistic estimate was that Suzaku thought he would die before dawn.
The small nest where Suzaku is located is already crowded with many male ants. These male ants all lost their subordinates in the battle and escaped with their lives. Now Suzaku has no cannon fodder troops that he can contact to mobilize. Let them continue to direct.
These male ants can only stay with Suzaku, crowding each other, and quietly welcoming their final destination, without restlessness or struggle.
Nowadays, it is difficult for even messengers to reach here. The battlefield in the lower half of the nest is crisscrossed, and most of the troops who are still fighting hard have been unable to get in touch with the commander-in-chief. And some battlefields have suffered serious attrition, and have been embarrassed to the point of sending couriers into combat. These crowded male ants will not interfere with Suzaku's work, and she has almost no work to do now.
The mysterious ants are still so unstoppable, it seems that no one can defeat them, which makes Suzaku feel discouraged - the experience accumulated by the pavement ants, the painstaking defense line and the tenfold advantage in military strength are still not enough to stop these ants. Terrible enemy.
For a moment, he was also full of pessimism about the upcoming battle in the main nest.
At this time, the male ants near the door of the nest started to stir. Suzaku turned his head and saw with his compound eyes a worker ant squeezing past the male ants and getting closer to him.
This was a messenger, a messenger Suzaku didn't recognize. This is normal. There are too many ants under Suzaku's command, and most of them have never communicated with them using their tentacles before, so he has no impression of many ants.
I haven’t seen the messenger for a while. I wonder what bad news she brought. Which key node was lost? Or did a male ant he knew well die in battle? Or maybe another granary or the queen's palace has been lost?
Suzaku has become numb to the constant influx of bad news, which means that there are fewer and fewer messengers now, so that he does not have to hear bad news all the time. Suzaku still stretched out his tentacles to touch the messenger, performing the last duty of a commander.
However, what the messenger brought was an order, an order from the main nest.
It turned out that this worker ant messenger came from the main nest and was one of the three messengers sent urgently by the main nest after Suzaku's messenger arrived. Only she arrived at [Purple Leaf Licheng] in the shortest time, and then found the secret passage based on the intelligence, all the way to Suzaku's location.
The order of the king's meeting in the main nest is: Suzaku will take the male ants around him who can leave and leave [Purple Leaf Li City] to return to the main nest. There is no need to stay here.
This is an unusual order. The pavement ants are brave and fierce, not afraid of death, and are even proud to die in battle. Commanders rarely retreat unless ordered to do so. And kings often do not interfere when the commander of a defeated unit dies along with his subordinates.
This time, the kings of the main nest felt that Suzaku and the male ants who had already experienced fighting the mysterious ants needed to come back as much as possible.
On the one hand, this is because there are currently a lot of troops gathered in the main nest, and the number of male ant commanders is limited. If we can equip the cannon fodder army with as many commanders as possible, we can upgrade this army to the main army, which will help improve the level of the cannon fodder army. combat effectiveness.
More importantly, the information Suzaku provided to the main nest king meeting was very valuable. Even though they had been fighting the mysterious ants for more than half a year, the information about the enemy from the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom was still fragmented.
The male ants in the main nest urgently need ants like Suzaku to bring back more intelligence and ways to defeat the enemy. Even if Suzaku is already the defeated general, he is still a failed and glorious commander.
Based on this, the king's meeting in the main nest issued an unusual order.
After receiving the order, Suzaku did not hesitate. He was not afraid of death, but he valued the order more. So he immediately notified the male ants around him and his guard team, and a group of ants moved to a secret passage not far away.
As for the friendly forces who are still fighting behind them, it doesn't matter whether there is a supreme commander in charge at this time. Anyway, the organization has basically been broken up.
There are hundreds of ants in the group, and only fifty worker ant warriors. The number of male ants even exceeds that of the worker ants, and they are advancing rapidly.
Under the guidance of the messenger, Suzaku took the lead and climbed to the ground from the secret passage.
It was already dark at this time, and a huge bright moon hung in the center of the sky early. The earth illuminated by the bright moonlight was actually extremely bright.
Although light is not a necessity for ants, they can find their way with their antennae and pheromones. However, seeing the sky and the moon again was a blessing that made all the ants feel like they had narrowly escaped death.
Under the guidance of the messenger, the male ants quickly fled south. At this time, Suzaku once again showed the qualities of an excellent commander. Even at such an urgent moment, he still sent out twelve worker ants around him to move forward, backward, left, and right, acting as scouts and peripheral warning nets.
His caution is not unnecessary, the enemy's troops are close at hand, and the world full of dangerous insects at night is not the ants' favorite.
Although ants in the human world work day and night, in this world, ants prefer the day, and the night belongs to those dangerous predators.
Suzaku's arrangements were not in vain.
The mysterious ants are always aware of the presence of a team of pavement ants nearby. Although the messengers coming and going through the secret passage did not attract their attention before, now hundreds of pavement ants are acting together, quickly attracting pursuers. .
A small team of mysterious ants, ten mysterious ant warriors, are chasing after them from behind at high speed.
In Suzaku's team, the male ants moved slightly slower. Some male ants were injured after the battle and walked even more slowly.
Suzaku quickly sensed the enemy's approach from the alarm sound coming from behind as the worker ants rubbed their joints with all their strength before they died.
The male ants around him must be protected as much as possible. This is Suzaku's decision. These male ants all have experience in mysterious ant combat and are precious resources for the entire country.
The only option was to sacrifice the worker ants, and Suzaku felt no psychological pressure from sacrificing the worker ants, which was a common thing.
Under his order, six worker ant warriors, led by a wounded male ant, immediately left the team, hoping to buy some time for the larger army.
However, can just seven ants complete this arduous task?
