Early autumn morning.
A gauze-like white mist enveloped the water. The slender figures of reeds and calamus in the distance were looming in the mist, revealing their gray-black figures, as if there were countless giants standing high on the water, guarding this area. .
Occasionally, lotus flowers and lotus leaves can be seen on the swamp. The lotus flowers have not yet bloomed, but the decline among the petals is already obvious. They are not as beautiful as half a month ago, and their complexion is a bit gloomy.
The lotus leaves are held high, some are very close to the water, and even half of them are drooping on the water like water lilies. This is a shelter for many aquatic insects to spend the night, and some water spiders rest on it. It can avoid many attacks from the sky and the earth.
The swamp is peaceful in the early morning, and there is no hint of danger or cruelty contained therein. Due to the lack of tall trees, the incessant chirping of cicadas cannot be heard here, and the symphony of crickets, katydids and katydids that appear most often at night is rarely heard.
In the early morning, there seemed to be only the sound of gentle wind blowing through the vegetation, and the land was exceptionally quiet.
But soon, the subtle sound of water broke the tacit calm of the swamp.
This sound of water flow was soft and fine. It was not natural aquatic. It seemed to have a fixed direction and was coming towards this lotus and this lotus leaf. The sound was getting closer and louder, and it had already disappeared from the background noise. stand out.
This is not the sound of gurgling water, nor the sound of waves, but the sound of something pushing away the water surface, causing the water to be squeezed, rolled and then happily run away to both sides.
The resting water spiders noticed something strange. Some of them turned around and faced the direction of the sound, trying to see the situation clearly; some timid ones had already jumped off the lotus leaf and lay on the water, ready to leave at any time. .
Slowly, a huge shadow gradually appeared in the pale morning mist with a bluish color. It was an extremely large body for an insect.
This shadow has a huge base floating on the water, and a towering outline that is square when viewed from the front. It is breaking through the fog bit by bit, showing its true colors bit by bit fearlessly.
This is the protagonist's walnut ship fleet, which is carrying out the mission of transporting the third batch of troops and weapons and equipment to [Swamp City].
The fleet should have arrived at [Swamp City] at this time, and then be included in the protection of the air defense network before the enemy attacked at dawn. They indeed followed the protagonist's request and set off early at night. They had to drive carefully and race against time all the way, just to arrive on time.
Unfortunately, not long after entering the swamp from the stream, the walnut boat fleet was caught by a waterweed on the edge of the balance beam, and was in a dilemma, unable to move.
It was impossible to get rid of it by just relying on the sails. The commander of the fleet had to ask the bee flying knights to drag the entire fleet back a certain distance to untie the entanglement of the water plants, and then continue to move forward.
The busy bees had to land to rest and regain their strength before taking off to tow the bees when they finally reached the shore. Now, the walnut ship fleet can only rely on weak tail winds to complete the final voyage.
The little episode just now was not insignificant, because of this delay, the walnut ship fleet was delayed for a long time.
Now, the east is white and the sunrise is just a moment away. The swamp during the day will be both bright and dangerous. The walnut ship fleet must quickly reach a safe destination and then install an air defense net to protect itself.
The protagonist is currently looking north from the top of the ant mound in [Swamp City], waiting anxiously.
The fog was so thick that even though [Swamp City] was located in the northern part of the swamp, it was actually not that far away from the trapped walnut ship fleet. On a day with clear vision, he could clearly see the walnut ship fleet dozens of meters away. everything that happened.
However, today's early autumn fog may seem light and thin, but when accumulated layer by layer over a distance of tens of meters, it becomes a thick blanket that cannot penetrate the eyes.
The walnut ship fleet should have arrived an hour ago, but now there is no news, and the protagonist cannot help but feel anxious.
As a witness to passive defense these days, the protagonist certainly knows how dangerous it is during the day. Although there are fewer and fewer parasitic beasts appearing every day because they cannot attack the ants, they always remain at around double digits.
As the only reinforcements for more than a month, the protagonist naturally does not want the walnut ship fleet to be attacked during the day due to delays and suffer losses.
Previously, the walnut ship fleet arrived at night twice, unloading reinforcements and supplies before dawn, and then returned in time.
Now, where is the walnut ship fleet?
Due to the existence of the air defense network, the Divine Envoy King's Legion voluntarily gave up its air supremacy, and even the remaining Bee Flying Knights were unable to go out.
In order to find the walnut ship fleet, the protagonist had to ask the ants to lift a corner of the air defense net fixed on the ground, and let the three flying knights go out and search north.
However, the fog was so thick that it was difficult to see clearly from less than half a meter away, and the protagonist was not sure whether they could complete the mission.
The light from the east has become brighter and brighter, turning the mist from blue to milky white. The protagonist waits and waits, but can't see anything. He can only hear the occasional sound of wind, the sound of insects and the noise from the side.
Suddenly, the protagonist became energetic. He heard the sound of breaking water in the tentacles that he had been raising high. It was the familiar sound of a walnut boat breaking through the water and moving forward. The protagonist had also been on a boat for a month and was very familiar with this sound.
Sure enough, soon the huge outline of the walnut ship's sails appeared to the north.
The protagonist couldn't help but look up to the southeast, where the rising sun had turned it into a golden patch - sunrise.
"No time?" The protagonist unconsciously clenched his front limbs, just like people clenching their fists.
At dawn, the parasitic beasts will be out soon. But the walnut ship fleet is still a short distance away from [Swamp City], maybe only a dozen meters or even a few meters.
However, in the swamp where the water flow is calm and the wind is weak, they cannot go very fast even if they rely on the traction of the Bee Flying Knight.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!" The protagonist watched as the walnut boat fleet approached little by little, not much faster than a snail. He could already clearly see the details of the first few walnut boats, with the ants rushing about on them preparing to dock; he could clearly see a large swarm of bees working hard to move forward, and the flying knight on his back constantly adjusted the direction and attitude of his mount's flight. Stretch the rope under the bees straight, like a group of flying trackers.
But this was not enough for the walnut ship fleet to arrive in time!
There was a dense and noisy sound of flapping wings in the air far to the south, and there were also the sounds of many things gliding across the water.
That's the army of parasitic beasts, and they're out!
