The rain only fell intermittently throughout the day. It continued to rain in the evening and first half of the night, but stopped in the second half of the night. But the heavy clouds did not disperse for a while, and the humid air did not dissipate until the next day.
[Swamp City] has withstood the baptism of rain, and the completely dry ant concrete is not afraid of being washed away by heavy rain, testifying to the excellence of ant architecture.
Due to the extremely humid air, the parasitic ants and war beasts did not appear the day after the rain. The ants rarely went out and basically stayed indoors to work.
In fact, even if an enemy attacks that day, the protagonist will not be able to enjoy using the ballista. Due to rain and moisture, the key components of the two crossbows, the torsion spring groups, were affected by moisture, and their performance was greatly affected.
The protagonist had to do it himself, laboriously removing the locust's hind hamstring tendons from the torsion spring assembly, bringing it back to the nest, and slowly drying it some distance away from the fire.
The other parts of the ballista were not affected much by the moisture and continued to be piled under the bushes, covered with a few pieces of insect skin for waterproofing - the terrain here was high and there were bushes to protect them from wind and rain.
After the hamstrings and tendons were completely dried, the protagonist tried the strength and found that there was no problem. After the outdoor moisture had dissipated, the protagonist reassembled the ballista.
In the past two days, the ants who had nothing to do indoors happened to work hard to process twelve giant arrows for the ballistae.
That night, the protagonist placed two ballistas on the top of the ant mound and on the reef platform. Except for some areas blocked by shrubs, ant mounds, and water plants, they were basically able to cover the entire range of fire around [Swamp City].
Six giant arrows were placed next to each ballista, and hundreds of stone bullets were piled into a hill. The protagonist also ordered two teams to stand by the ballista. They can not only assist in loading ammunition, but also be responsible for protecting the ballista in case of emergency, or transporting the ballista for retreat.
In short, these ballistae cannot be afforded to be lost, and the next batch of ballistae must at least wait until the next fleet arrives to be replenished. The protagonist also asked the flying knight to bring a new design information package to the scientific research team, asking them to make parts for the ballista to assist in positioning and aiming.
——I am the dividing line——
The next day, the sky cleared up and the sun came over the land that had been gloomy for two days early in the morning.
The moisture in the air fades, and the sunshine and blue sky form a beautiful picture. This is the most inspiring weather for artists, and it is also the weather that insects like.
The protagonist had a good sleep last night to recharge his batteries. He got up early this morning and looked at the sky. After seeing the sunrise, he had already foreseen that the enemy would appear today and urged the troops to enter the fighting position early.
At the same time, the protagonist himself also arrived at the crossbow on the top of the ant mound, eager to try it.
And early in the morning, the walnut ship fleet, which had not returned due to delays in rainy weather, also transported Lambotu and his regiment, as well as the surviving wounded soldiers back. The Fourth Legion also left two hundred healthy veterans to supplement the battle losses of other legions.
Now, the protagonist has two fully-staffed legions and two ballistae in hand. He must have stored supplies and regained his strength again.
Soon, the shadows of a large number of flying parasitic war beasts appeared on the horizon again as expected. They were still invisible on land and water, but it was obvious that a large number of enemies were coming.
Perhaps it was because of the two rainy days that the parasitic beasts were exhausted. There were hundreds of parasitic war beasts in the air today, but the most threatening parasitic dragonflies were only a dozen or so, and most of them lacked lethality. small parasitic war beast.
As always, after the parasitic beasts gathered on the other side, they began to attack [Swamp City].
The flying parasitic war beasts are always the first to arrive. The parasitic dragonflies lie on the air defense net unscrupulously and begin to chew on the net ropes. The experience of the past few days tells them that it is difficult for ants on the ground to hurt themselves, so they Completely defenseless.
Of course, their experience also tells them that these net ropes are extremely difficult to break, but the parasitic dragonflies have no intention of giving up.
Some parasitic flies, small parasitic wasps, and parasitic mosquitoes passed through the holes of the air defense net, but these parasitic beasts had no weapons that could harm the ants. They just flew around in the air defense net, dropping a few from time to time. Threads of parasitic bacteria try to infect ants on the ground.
But with the ground defenders well prepared, these thread-parasitic bacteria were easily eliminated.
Some ant-hunting warriors kept jumping up, grabbing the flying parasitic beasts, dragging them to the ground, and then killing them.
When the enemy's flying parasitic beasts approach, the protagonist has a chance to shoot, but he has little confidence in the accuracy of long-distance shooting. After all, the sky is so big, and more than a hundred flying parasitic beasts are scattered into the air, and the density is very low.
After the parasitic war beasts arrived at the air defense net, the protagonist paid no attention to the non-threatening insects and focused all his attention on a dozen parasitic dragonflies lying on the net.
He has not entered the state of "God descends to earth", and his usual strength is enough to control the crossbow.
The protagonist first aimed at a parasitic dragonfly that was relatively close to him. The reason why he did not choose the closest one was because the closest one was almost lying on top of his head, and the elevation angle of the crossbow could not reach this level (friends who have played WOT We all know how annoying it is when the evil elevation and depression angles are not enough).
After aiming at the parasitic dragonfly, the protagonist fully pulled the bow string, and several ants on the side worked together to put a giant arrow into the bullet slot.
The protagonist aimed accurately and gently pulled out the trigger bolt. Although the main beam of the crossbow was still slightly shaken, due to the close distance of the parasitic dragonfly, the giant arrow did not miss the target.
I saw an afterimage that was almost invisible to the naked eye flying away. The body of the parasitic dragonfly that was hit was shaken, and was knocked away from the air defense net by the huge impact. It did not fall back to the net until mid-air.
The giant arrow penetrated directly from the lower part of the parasitic dragonfly's chest and penetrated from the base of the wings on its back. The huge impact caused the silk thread parasitic fungus near the wound on its back to explode.
This parasitic dragonfly that was unfortunately shot was severely injured, but the insect's vitality is extremely strong. It was not dead for a while, and was still trying to flap its wings and struggling.
However, a large number of muscles and nerves in the body were severed by the giant arrow. The wings of this parasitic dragonfly could no longer flap in a coordinated manner. It struggled while rolling down the slope of the sloping air defense net until the giant arrow and jointed limbs protruded from the body. It took a few net ropes to stop rolling.
The parasitic dragonfly struggled a few more times before dying unwillingly.
The moment the unlucky parasitic dragonfly was hit, the other parasitic dragonflies jumped up and flew into the air at the same time, not caring about biting the air defense net.
However, they had no idea what kind of weapon they were being attacked by.
