In addition, each "cabin" of the walnut boat fleet is independent of each other. These "cabins" are walnut balls, each of which can accommodate dozens of ants.
A fleet of walnut boats consists of dozens of walnut boats, connected to each other only by ropes. If the ants want to move between different cabins, they have to crawl around on the undulating cables without any protection measures, and they may fall into the water.
Although human sailors in the age of sailing ships have been climbing on various cables all year round, the ants are in danger once they fall into the water. If it is bad weather with wind and rain, the ants will not be able to leave the cabin at all, otherwise they will simply die.
Therefore, the protagonist wants to use hollow pipes to connect different cabins, so as to protect the water-based ants.
At the beginning, the protagonist wanted to use the pipes of the pipe grass. The pipe grass is relatively common. When the Angel King's army used smoke to attack the parasitic ants in the southern hills, they used the pipe grass as a flue. Moreover, the hollow partitions inside the grass are also easy to open.
However, the knotweed is very brittle after drying and is not resistant to deformation. Once the positions of the walnut boats change relative to each other under the action of water flow and wind, the stressed knotweed channel may be damaged.
The protagonist also wanted to use small bamboo tubes. Although bamboo is not resistant to the cold winter in the Dahe area, there is also a small area growing near the [Inula Flower City].
However, the texture of bamboo is too hard, and it is very laborious to collect or break through the bamboo joints in the middle. The protagonist's plan is to let the scientific research team experiment how to process bamboo tubes efficiently. After all, he cannot take care of everything at the same time.
I am the dividing line
The protagonist returned to [Dongyang City] for nearly a week, gave some instructions to the scientific research team, and also clarified the current key research targets.
Later, after the ants reported that the weather would change again and another heavy snowfall was coming, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing II back to [Linshui City] at noon.
Fortunately, Xiao Qing II's memory is not good, so the protagonist uses honey dew to coax him into being extremely well-behaved, and then rides Xiao Qing II into the cold sky again.
Although Xiao Qing II quickly regretted it, he couldn't help but regret it after he came out. With the mysterious ball warmer baby providing basic warmth, Xiao Qing II had to rush to [Linshui City] at the fastest speed in his life.
In the past few days, the situation in [Linshui City] and [Bridgehead] has remained calm, and there has been no attack from the Destroyer.
At this time, the river was completely frozen, and the pavement ant messenger took advantage of the good weather to contact multiple sub-nests on the bank of the river to confirm that these sub-nests were safe and had not been attacked from across the river.
The protagonist is very confused about what the Destroyers are doing, and he also guesses that the enemy may be stepping up their siege on the remaining forces of the Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
I am the dividing line
The protagonist's guess is correct.
At this moment, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom is at the end of its rope and has set up a nest in the west. In this huge nest that holds their last hope, the organized resistance has almost been crushed.
A few days ago, the Destroyers captured the upper half of the western nest. The upper half was mainly inside the pile of rocks, and the structures were mainly stone crevices and caves. The lower part is a conventional nest built in soil.
The defenders of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army and the attacking Destroyers faced off for two days across several passages on the upper and lower floors, but this line of defense that had placed the defenders' expectations on them was still lost.
The swarming Destroyers broke through this line of defense and burned the war to every corner of the nest. The battle rages on, with pavement ant nests falling every hour or even every minute.
Sometimes a granary is lost. The fall of each granary will reduce the defenders' food reserves a little, but this is nothing compared to the rate of death of soldiers.
Sometimes the nursery is lost, and the ferocious destroyers will mercilessly kill all the white ant eggs, the squirming chubby young ants, and the ant pupae that have begun to take on ant shapes but can only swing with their bellies.
Sometimes even the queen ants and male ants' palaces are lost, which means that the pavement ants have lost part of their ability to replenish their troops, or some of the warriors have lost their commanders.
In the huge nest, the two sides fought fiercely around every passage, every nest room, and every entrance and exit. The battle lines were already intertwined and intricate. There was me among you, and you among me.
Just like the Battle of Stalingrad, both sides devoted all their efforts to the fight until the last drop of blood of one side was exhausted.
Once an army of pavement ants is put on the battlefield, it is quickly forced to disperse into multiple squads to fight independently, or even cut into smaller combat units. They no longer need the proud military formation. In the narrow fighting environment, the ants can only use the most primitive method to fight. The jaw is a weapon, the carapace is armor, life is a bargaining chip, and life and death are bets.
With more and more occupied areas, the strength of the pavement ant defenders has been stretched thin. Even the worker ants in the nursery that have just emerged from pupae will be driven away after being fed the first bite of food. battlefield. At this time, the remaining time of their lives is measured in minutes.
The defenders of the Pavement Ant Barbarians are desperately resisting, but the western branch is not Stalingrad. They have no external support, and the enemies seem to be endless.
Lost, lost, still losing!
Retreat, retreat, and keep retreating!
Finally, the Destroyers had occupied most of the entire lair, and the remaining defenders were divided into multiple independent areas.
Even so, although the defending male ants knew that failure was inevitable, they were still making their final resistance. The invaders will never let go of any living defenders and vow to kill them all.
Every pavement ant male is a core of resistance, temporarily resisting at every stronghold they hold. Even if they have lost news of friendly forces, even if they have no source of food, the battle still does not stop.
The surviving queen ants are still laying eggs conscientiously. They already know that the end is approaching, and even the worker ants who take care of themselves have been dispatched to the front line.
She was the only one left in Nuo Da's queen ant palace. In this world, the abdomen of the ant queen will be as bloated as the termite queen during the reproductive state, making it difficult for her to move.
But she still moved with difficulty, licking the eggs she laid clean one by one, and placing them neatly, waiting for the worker ants who would never come back to put the eggs into the warm nursery.
But what she waited for in the end was the Destroyer's jaws glowing with death...
The sporadic fighting continued until the day when the protagonist went to [Dongyang City] to do scientific research.
Finally, on November 11, 2014, the illustrious nation of Ant Barbarians went to perdition alone on this lonely day!
