This nest room, which is a preset battlefield, is designed to be very narrow and long, with a length of about three to four decimeters and a width that can only accommodate two or three mysterious ants passing side by side.
The length of this nest is enough for the ballista to fire any ammunition that can easily hit the end where the mysterious ants come in, while still maintaining sufficient lethality.
If the mysterious ants want to break through this line of defense, they must sacrifice their lives.
Thinking about it, it is not easy for countless mysterious ants to drill out of the long and narrow passage and enter the battlefield, and then they are greeted by ballistae and stone bullets like strong wind and rain, which will inevitably cause heavy casualties.
And as the bodies pile up, the actions of the mysterious ants will only become more and more affected.
And even if you are lucky enough to rush over, there will be covering troops next to the ballista, and they will try their best to cover the ballista and move it to the new preset battlefield behind in time.
If the mysterious ants dare to continue attacking, what awaits them will be death battlefields one after another.
This scene is quite similar to the tower defense game the protagonist played in his previous life. A group of NPC monsters moved along a twisted road and were constantly attacked. In the end, the entire army was annihilated before reaching the key point.
Conceiving a targeted defensive position in his mind, the protagonist became more and more confident as he thought about it. His rich experience in tower defense in his previous life made him realize that his design was enough to defeat any mysterious ant troops besieging the city.
After designing the blueprint of the defense facility, the protagonist handed it over to the worker ants and asked them to be responsible for the construction.
Since the main structure of the [Bridgehead] has been completed a long time ago, and the ant mound was basically completed last night, the difficulty and amount of work required to rebuild it now is not small.
Fortunately, the underground defense part, which is the most difficult to construct, is mainly used in winter, and it is not too late to start construction now.
If the mysterious ants appear and launch an attack in the near future, they can only rely on the protective nets, fortifications and ballistae on the ground to resist it. And the legions of the Divine Envoy King stationed here are not vegetarians either.
——I am the dividing line——
[Bridgehead] is under construction in full swing, and the protagonist comes to the warehouse at this time.
Here, the mysterious ball inside the body of the mysterious ant that was seized in the battle last night was quietly stored, mixed with a bunch of debris, and seemed not to be particularly taken seriously.
Yesterday, after seizing the mysterious ball, the protagonist tried to smash open one of the oval-shaped mysterious balls, but it caused an explosion, causing heavy losses to the Guards team.
But this explosion convinced the protagonist that these mysterious balls must have a great origin, so he asked some troops to escort the remaining mysterious balls to the [Bridgehead] and place them in this warehouse.
Just now, the protagonist has been feeling that he has missed something. Although the protagonist is often extremely busy, which is common after time travel, the protagonist rarely has this feeling of feeling that something is important but cannot remember it.
After wandering around the entire lair, it wasn't until he came to the warehouse that the protagonist recalled the mysterious ball.
This mysterious ball seems to have a magical power that can make people forget its existence. If the protagonist is not standing in front of them, this mysterious ball that has been hastily placed in a pile of messy materials will not even attract the attention of the worker ants coming and going. .
The ants who placed the mysterious balls seemed to have been affected. Otherwise, the protagonist had specifically told them to escort and place these mysterious balls. His soldiers would not have piled them up so casually, and they would not have reported back to him.
This ability of the mysterious ball seems to be very similar to that of parasitic fungi. Parasitic fungi can also make ordinary ants ignore their existence. Only male ants and trained worker ants and soldiers have certain resistance.
Looking at these mysterious balls, the protagonist asked the worker ants passing by to dig them out and prepare to study them again.
Those dangerous exploding oval-shaped mysterious balls are still about the same as when they were just dug out of the mysterious ants. However, the protagonist finds that the color of the smaller, perfectly round mysterious balls has become dim.
This is not an illusion caused by the light of underground fluorescent bacteria. The two mysterious balls, the oval and the round mysterious balls, were originally the same color, but now there are significant differences visible to the naked eye, both under the same light source. What you see cannot be caused by the light.
It seems that the two mysterious balls are different, maybe the internal structure is also different. Will the oval-shaped mystery ball explode? Will the perfectly round mysterious ball explode?
The protagonist is not sure and does not dare to take another risk. In such a narrow underground space, if another explosion occurs, he will not be able to hide in time, and he will not have the same good luck as last time.
The protagonist asked the worker ants to use their antennae and joints to toss the round mysterious ball over and over again. No clues could be found. It was just a round ball with a dull dark brown color and a broken "thread".
At this time, a worker ant responsible for playing with the mysterious ball suddenly raised its head, raised its antennae, and opened its jaws wide, showing a high-alert look.
Her abnormal behavior also caused a chain reaction of other worker ants. The worker ants looked around nervously and groped with their tentacles to see where there was danger.
The protagonist has good eyesight. He looked around and found nothing unusual. But the performance of the worker ants does not seem to be fake, and ordinary ants cannot lie at all.
So the protagonist, who was suspicious, called the worker ant over and asked her.
The worker ants said that their antennae received signals from alien ants, so they immediately became alert.
A signal from alien ants?
The protagonist's heart moved and he looked at the mysterious ball - just now the worker ant was playing with the mysterious ball with its tentacles.
The protagonist also put the tentacles up, but everything went as usual with the mysterious ball, and the protagonist did not receive any information from the tentacles. It was just like putting the tentacles on a stone.
Moreover, it was not just the tentacles of one worker ant that touched the mysterious ball. All the worker ants would touch the objects with their tentacles when playing with them, and no other worker ants behaved abnormally.
Could it be that the worker ant went crazy?
But the protagonist has never heard of any ants with mental problems, especially the worker ants and soldier ants. Their own intelligence level is low, probably not even the minimum intelligence threshold for mental illness...
The protagonist didn't take it seriously and signaled for a worker ant to continue playing with the mysterious ball. Although there was nothing obvious about it from the outside, the protagonist wanted to try again.
As a result, after a while, another worker ant suddenly became alert, looking like it was facing a formidable enemy.
The protagonist's heart moved and he asked, but he got the same answer. The worker ant said that he had received information from ants of other races.
The protagonist looked at the mysterious ball and touched it with his tentacles, but there was still no reaction.
Do we have to wait? The protagonist simply imitates the worker ants and turns the mysterious ball over and over.
Suddenly, a piece of information appeared in the protagonist's mind out of thin air, which was transmitted from the tentacles.
The protagonist took a closer look and saw that one of his tentacles happened to touch the disconnected "thread" of the mysterious ball. It turned out that there was a USB-like connection port!
The message received in the protagonist's mind is simple: "Destroy... ants..."
