On April 6, the sky was cloudy and fogless.
The protagonist looked up and confirmed once again that there was no annoying fog today, which made him very satisfied. Beside him, the army was filing out of the expanded entrance and exit.
After a night of reorganization and rest, the 36 legions continued on their journey.
In yesterday's battle, the Divine Envoy King's legions destroyed about 300 Destroyers, but they themselves lost more than 3,000. The battle loss ratio was very unsightly.
Fortunately, after some reorganization last night, the Big-headed Ant Army has added many veteran soldiers who have experienced the baptism of battle in [Sitong City], and is basically full again. Only the 14th Army has lost more than a hundred Sickle Ant Scouts and cannot get replenished.
There is no fog today, and the flying knights coming from the main nest [Qingqiu City] are hovering in the sky to provide early warning. Coupled with the warning network formed by the scattered scouts on the ground, at least today the protagonist does not have to worry about encountering a surprise attack from a large group of enemies.
The protagonist had a good rest last night, which relieved the fatigue and discomfort caused by being in the state of "gods descending to earth" for a long time. Today, he is energetic again, and it seems that he can maintain the state of "gods descending to earth" for another half hour.
He still walked in the middle and front of the army column, and the squad of guards took turns carrying maces to follow him.
From [Sitong City] to [Xuanhuahua City], there is more than a day's journey in between. This is the normal pace of the big-headed ant.
The Destroyers who retreated around yesterday afternoon were unable to reach [Swish Flower City] before last night, and they are still trudging on the road now.
As for the Divine Envoy King's Legion, it is estimated that they will not arrive at their destination until tomorrow, that is, in the afternoon of April 7.
The most important thing in a large army battle is to keep the team intact, so the protagonist has no intention of catching up with the retreating enemy with light equipment.
Today, the protagonist has chosen a night camp on the road. It was a secondary nest that originally belonged to the Angel King's army. It had been lost before, but when the Destroyer army retreated, the Flying Knight found that there was no Destroyer here. , it is estimated that it is an empty nest, just right for use as a campsite.
The army of the God Envoy King was still marching in a column that was 100 meters long.
At this time, the breath of spring has become strong, and the damage caused by the late spring cold to nature is fading. There is greenery everywhere. Many insects that have survived are enjoying the rich environment without competition, hoarding energy and waiting for the mating season.
If it weren't for the gloomy sky, it would indeed be a picture of beautiful spring.
One day's march was uneventful, and the Divine Envoy King's army arrived at the camp as expected. It was indeed an empty nest.
The scouts searched and confirmed that there was no Destroyer hiding inside, and the army entered one after another. Because space is limited, many legions have temporarily dug holes for accommodation nearby.
This nest was once emptied of ants. When the scouts searched, they couldn't find even a single body. Only in some hidden corners, a faint smell of blood could be smelled, telling the story of the horrific scenes that had happened here. .
The scouts discovered that the granary in the lair still contained food. Except that the food was scattered everywhere nearby, it was not damaged.
The protagonist checked the size of the grain stored in the granary. It should be that it has not been consumed too much since the beginning of spring. It seems that the Destroyers really don't eat the food collected by these big-headed ants. They don't touch the grass seeds or even the cured meat.
This reinforces the protagonist's idea that the Destroyers feed on the corpses of other ants, and perhaps they only eat fresh corpses. His loathing for the Destroyer, like the loathing of civilized man for the cannibal, lingered.
These stored grains are better than nothing, and the protagonist asks the soldiers to distribute them to those who are hungry. Most of the soldiers had just eaten last night, so there was no need to replenish their food.
The protagonist didn't eat much either, although most of the time he still maintained the habit of three meals a day developed in the human era, and occasionally two meals. But this body belongs to an ant after all. After eating a large amount of food at one time, he can go without eating for two or three days, even if he enters the state of "God descends to earth" and consumes a lot of energy.
The main reason is that these grains were just seized from the Destroyer. Although Tianxian and the others checked it with their tentacles for a long time and said it was safe, the protagonist felt that it was not clean and was not hungry, so he stopped eating.
Fortunately, the next day, the soldiers who had eaten the food were still alive and well. It seemed that the Destroyers were not smart enough to poison the food, nor did they accidentally contaminate the food with their excrement.
The protagonist thought of another question. After fighting the Destroyers for so long, it seems that the Destroyer's excrement has not been found yet.
As long as it is an animal, it will eat and excrete. A large number of social animals live together, and there will inevitably be a lot of excrement. Think about the smell of some places where poultry and livestock are raised intensively. It basically smells like feces. The large amounts of manure and farts produced by raising cattle are also important sources of greenhouse gases.
Each lair in the territory of the God's Envoy King Legion must open up a garbage dump to accumulate the cleaned garbage, many of which are feces.
Because most of the fluorescent bacteria cultivated in the secondary nest cannot consume so much manure, and farmland requires manure, but farmland only began to be promoted to various places last year.
Therefore, the important waste in the original garbage dump was the feces produced by ants, which had to be buried and replaced with new garbage dumps from time to time.
However, no traces of large amounts of feces were found in or near the recovered sub-nest. Only the feces accumulated in the nest were identified as feces belonging to big-headed ants. They should have been accumulated in winter when they were unable to go out. Old feces.
The feces of different ants are different. The feces of big-headed ants and the feces of pavement ants can be easily distinguished in the eyes of ants, just like when a dog owner finds dog feces on the ground while walking his dog, he can immediately judge that it is not human excrement. Things are the same.
The protagonist asked his subordinates to investigate, but they found no trace of the excrement of other ants except the big-headed ant.
Don’t these destroyers need to excrete? Even if you eat easy-to-digest food like meat, food residues are inevitable. It is impossible for any living thing to completely eliminate the need for excretion.
There are also some animals that eat their own feces to enhance digestion, and eventually there are still residues that need to be excreted.
The protagonist recalled the previous scene when he found the mysterious ball in the Destroyer's body, and vaguely saw traces of electric sparks. It can't be that these destroyers are all robot ants, right? Live off the sun.
Then how to explain that these destroyers have biological muscles, internal organs and other tissues in their bodies? Moreover, the protagonist has discovered a lot of evidence that the Destroyer "eats" the corpses of other ants.
The identity of the Destroyer is a discordant puzzle in this ant world, and the protagonist is temporarily unable to solve it, just like he is unable to solve the secret of the human skull stone in the swamp!
I hope it’s just temporarily unsolvable!
