The warriors of the God's Envoy King were quickly prepared. They inserted one end of the exhaust pipe made of knotty grass into the entrance and exit of the parasitic corn ant's nest and buried it. The other end was connected to the top of the combustion chamber, and they were sealed with wet mud.
There was also a large amount of fuel accumulated in the combustion chamber, which was dry grass and dead branches collected nearby. It was not easy to collect so much fuel in a humid swamp area, but fortunately there were many ants, and enough fuel was collected after a lot of hard work. .
A smoldering torch impregnated with turpentine, carried by a team of ants, was fed into the combustion chamber to light the pile of dead twigs and hay.
This combustion chamber is somewhat similar to the copper smelting furnace in [Dongyang City]. It has a vent and a feed port. The ants only need to keep throwing fuel into the inclined feed port on the ground. They don't need to be very close to take care of them. Danger is also avoided.
As the fire grew stronger and the ants saw the right time, they began to throw green grass leaves, some spicy-smelling plants, poisonous fruit seeds and other smoking materials into the sloping feed opening. The passage rolled down, and those piled up but not rolled down were also stabbed in by the ants with long branches.
Soon, pungent smoke rose up in the combustion chamber. Most of this smoke poured out from the top of the chimney flue and was directed to the nest of parasitic corn ants not far away. A small part of it came from the vents. and the feed port were discharged, and the warriors of the God Envoy King who were approaching were slightly smoked.
The smoke was mixed with various pungent and poisonous gases. Even a little leakage from the vents and feed ports would make the smoked warriors of the God's Envoy King feel dizzy. The protagonist can only ask the warriors of the God Envoy King to take turns feeding in batches, so that the smoked ants can retreat to a well-ventilated place to relax.
The soldiers of the God Envoy King who were also affected were still like this, which shows how powerful the smoke was, not to mention the plight of the parasitic ants hiding in the nest.
The billowing thick smoke was introduced into the room along the pipes of the anthills. The original entrance and exit at the top of the bun hill had been completely sealed, and the poisonous smoke could only spread along the road inside the ant nest.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King who were outdoors continued to use moist soil to fill the smoking cracks near the entrances and exits, ensuring that all the poisonous smoke was consumed by the parasitic corn ants in their nests.
Soon, around the top of the bun hill, slightly lower, smoke began to appear in some places. These were the vents of some underground nests of parasitic ants. The diameter was very small. Parasitic ants usually did not enter and exit from here. Before, He was not discovered by the flying knights and scouts of the Divine Envoy King's legion.
What’s interesting is that these dozens of vents are neatly arranged in a circle around the hill, which looks unusually regular.
These vents are only large enough for a worker ant to pass through, and the openings are narrowed at the top of the vents to prevent other ants from invading from here. Therefore, even if the main entrance and exit are completely blocked, there are very few parasitic ants escaping here.
The soldiers of the God's Envoy King were ordered to rush to wherever there was smoke and continue to fill the vents with stones, soil, etc. to prevent the poisonous smoke from being discharged.
Occasionally, some parasitic ants would be dizzy due to the smoke, and they would struggle to dig out the soil at the top of the vents, but the scythe-hunting ferocious ant scout warriors of the Divine Envoy King's Legion who were always vigilant would quickly kill them and then notify other warriors to come over. Fill the hole.
Judging from the bodies of the killed parasitic ants, the poisonous smoke not only had a great impact on them, but also had a very good killing effect on the thread-parasitic bacteria. The thread-parasitic bacteria on these corpses were all wilted, although some were not dead yet. , but even if the warriors of the God's Envoy King were close at hand, these parasitic bacteria did not break away from the dead original host and went to find a new host, appearing half-dead.
The warriors of the God Envoy King were busy all night, continuing to inject large amounts of poisonous smoke into the parasitic ant nest.
Although the protagonist does not know the current situation in the parasitic ant nest, he estimates that there must be heavy casualties inside.
But it is unrealistic to think that the hundreds of thousands of parasitic ants inside will die just by a night of smoke attacks. This parasitic ant nest must be very large, and there are always a lot of places that the poisonous smoke cannot reach to form a shelter.
Just like a capsized sunken ship, a shelter space with air will be formed inside due to air pressure. When poisonous smoke fills the ground, there will also be a large amount of shelter space for parasitic ants to linger.
In the middle of the night, the protagonist led the Angel King soldiers to withdraw from [Bread City], but no treatment was carried out on the combustion chamber, the grass pipes, etc. Anyway, even if the living parasitic ants were smart enough to know how to destroy these equipment, the Angel King It doesn't take long for the warriors to rebuild - hollow weeds such as knotweed are everywhere in the swamp, and digging holes is not difficult.
The soldiers of the God Envoy King who returned to [Bread City] began to take turns to rest, while another group of soldiers who did not go out to fight last night began to take over the city defense in preparation for today's battle.
Yesterday, the parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts in various places in the swamp learned about the existence of [Bread City] through channels unknown to the Divine Envoy King’s army. As soon as it dawned today, one after another the parasitic armies gathered outside the city and began to Siege the city.
Unlike yesterday, the parasitic corn ant nest on the nearby bun hill did not move at first.
It was not until almost noon that the original entrance and exit at the top of the nest was opened, and a large group of parasitic corn ants crawled out staggeringly as if they were drunk.
Today, this parasitic ant nest has sent tens of thousands of parasitic ants to participate in the siege. It can be seen that the protagonist's judgment is correct. It is impossible for the poisonous smoke to completely cover the huge underground nest.
However, those parasitic ants that survived suffered heavy losses when they tried to dig out the entrance again.
After all, in just one night, the underground ant nest was almost completely sealed. The poisonous smoke had nowhere to go, and the natural precipitation and degradation were slow. Because the poisonous smoke is lighter than air, most of the poisonous smoke is still floating in the upper part of the nest. .
The area near the main entrance is precisely the highest point of the entire underground parasitic ant nest, and the concentration of residual toxic smoke is the highest.
The parasitic ants have not tried to dig new entrances and exits, but have been trying to rush through the poisonous smoke area and dig out the original entrances and exits.
As passive breathing creatures, ants cannot even hold their breath. Groups of parasitic ants fell into the poisonous mist. If they cannot be rescued in time and returned to a place with good air circulation, they will die soon.
But the parasitic ants did not go to rescue their companions at all. They simply stepped on their companions' bodies and dug open the main entrance and exit bit by bit.
With the influx of fresh air from outside, the parasitic ant nest finally survived the most dangerous period.
