To the protagonist's dismay, the steady rain did not stop until nightfall.
The protagonist watched the light dimming little by little. The sun descended from a gap in the clouds, sending out afterglow between the clouds and the ground on the horizon. In an instant, it completely fell below the horizon. After the light returned, there was only coolness and dampness in the sky. meaning.
The thick dark clouds did not dissipate. After the strong wind and rain stopped, the long rain was like an army good at protracted warfare, surrounding the fleet, forcing the protagonist to surrender.
The protagonist tried hard to look at the shore and identify his current location based on some eye-catching landmarks. He has walked this section of road several times, flown over it and passed by boat, and is very familiar with it. As long as he can see a few specific hills or rocks, and a few eye-catching old trees, he can know the direction of the fleet and the deviation. How far is the route?
But the sky is dim, even when the raindrops are the sparse, the dark clouds still block most of the sunlight, and there are bright shadows in the distance. Occasionally, some darker shadows can be distinguished than the background of the sky. That is the land, and it is impossible to see the details clearly. .
As night fell, it was impossible to see the surroundings clearly, and there was no way to cross the rope bridge to reach other cabins. The protagonist had no choice but to return to the cabin in frustration. He didn't know where the fleet had gone, nor what was going on in other cabins. He could only wait quietly for tomorrow.
The protagonist has previously given an order. Once the cabin is closed, no walnut ship is allowed to open the door without a messenger sent by the protagonist.
This is for safety reasons. If the hatch is opened at an inappropriate time and a large wave surges in, it may cause the ship to sink and be destroyed. If multiple ships take in water and sink, the entire fleet may be dragged down.
Anyway, every ship has grain stored in it. Except for specialized grain transport ships, the grain stored in ships with more ants is less, but it is enough to support the needs of a day or two. The gaps in the cabin can be ventilated, and the water droplets that seep in can quench thirst. Even if the cabin door is not opened, the ants inside can persist for a long time.
However, because of such an order, the protagonist cannot grasp the damage situation in other cabins and can only pray!
Entering the cabin, the interior has been cleaned, the cargo has been rearranged, and the spilled honeydew has been licked up. However, the impact of the previous storms and natural disasters can still be seen. The goods are now roughly piled together, with mysterious balls and plant seeds mixed in, and empty clay pots buried inside.
The protagonist didn't pay attention to it. Now is not the time to be picky. When it's time to make do with simplicity, you have to make do with simplicity.
The ant silk bed he used to sleep on had been thrown aside because it was stained with honeydew and could not be cleaned off. The protagonist could only suffer for one night, huddled in a hollow at the bottom of the walnut boat, huddled and lying on his back. Trying to fall asleep on the hard and cold walnut shell.
Tomorrow will definitely be busy. After a natural disaster, there is so much work to do that the protagonist must force himself to sleep.
——I am the dividing line——
Fear, fear, boundless fear gripped the protagonist's body and mind.
There is an endless black tide on all sides, coming from all directions.
The protagonist didn't know why he was standing on a snowy field, unarmed. The copper mace was missing, his mounts Xiaoqing II and Tempest were missing, and all his subordinates were also missing. Are you alone, facing the dark tide that is about to drown you?
This must be a dream. When the protagonist recalls clearly, he is clearly in the cabin of the walnut ship, and his own guard team is next door. Tempest and Xiaoqing II were following the troops on the road and the first batch of ships respectively. The team went to the swamp.
This must be a dream to be in a strange snowy land! Don't be afraid, this is a dream, a dream that you will wake up from no matter how scary it is, a dream that will not hurt you!
But the protagonist still only dared to look around secretly and fearfully. He knew it was a dream, but the pressure from the dark tide that was approaching quickly still made him feel lonely, afraid, and suffocating pressure like a tsunami.
The black tide came closer, and they were all black and ferocious heads, ant heads without bodies. There are destroyers, there are big-headed ants, there are pavement ants, there are hunter ants, there are black-headed ants, there are Japanese black ants.
They have no bodies, just heads, black heads. Even the heads of big-headed ants that should be yellow are dark, and some have twisted caps and stipes of parasitic fungi sticking out of their compound eyes and mouths.
These heads were crowded, biting each other, suspended above the snow, and all came over with the lonely protagonist as the center of the circle.
Even though the protagonist knew it was a dream, he still lay on the ground in fear, covering his compound eyes with his forelimbs, as if he could escape from the dream and wake up.
Although there was no tentacle contact, the protagonist's tentacles seemed to pick up the noisy sounds coming from all directions. It was a curse-like sound coming from the mouths of countless ants surging in the black tide, spoken over and over in smooth Chinese. Singing in confusion.
What they say seems to be: "Protagonist...Protagonist", but the pronunciation is somewhat different. "Zhu" seems to be a Yin level tone, while "Jiao" seems to be a Yang Ping tone.
Why do they say "protagonist"? Or "Zhu Jue"? Is this a scene? Is my dream a movie? And the protagonist, are there any supporting characters?
The protagonist didn't understand it, but countless ant heads rushed over, covering, beating and submerging him like real waves.
The protagonist howled loudly in pain. Countless jaws were biting his whole body. His tentacles, compound eyes, six limbs, and body were all being torn apart. Countless parasitic bacteria pierced his compound eyes and got into his mouth. It penetrated the gaps in his carapace and then plunged into his internal organs.
The severe pain from the inside out made him scream in pain. This was definitely not a dream! No dream can be so truly painful!
"Protagonist...Protagonist..."
"Zhu Jue... Zhu Jue..."
The noisy magic sound intensified the pain. At this moment, the protagonist felt as if he was being tortured by car splitting, waist cutting, beheading, lingchi, and insect bites at the same time. He wished he could die immediately!
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist woke up with a trembling body, groping around the familiar cabin, and then slowly calmed down.
It was really a dream just now, an extremely real dream, even the pain was so realistic, a dream that did not weaken it at all.
Why is there such a painful dream? The protagonist feels wet all over. Even though his body does not sweat, it is still wet, and there is a real pain in the abdomen.
Why does it really hurt? The protagonist touched his abdomen with his arthropod, and the thick liquid was smeared on his hand. If you get close to the tentacles and smell it, it smells faintly of blood.
I was really hurt! The protagonist was startled, and carefully checked his body in the dark, and found traces of blood flowing out of the pores in his abdomen. Mixed with the humid air in the cabin, he had that wet feeling.
