The escape route from the back was almost safe. Although there were other Bachie ants that detoured to chase them, they were too far away to catch up.
The protagonist marched all the way to the rear, and the protection force returned to the ship. He had already seen the pursuers arriving at the parked metasequoia from a distance. He quickly ordered the sailor ants who were left behind to untie the cable, and he pushed it away with a wooden stick. A parked metasequoia tree, sailing into the water.
When the walnut fleet was half a meter away from the tree, the Bachie ants found the Metasequoia tree by following the body odor left by the warriors of the Envoy King along the way.
The protagonist sees among the gathered leaf-cutting ants, there is a leaf-cutting ant whose size and stature are obviously different from other worker ants. That is the male ant commander.
These male ants had good eyesight. When they saw the enemy that was moving away, they actually raised their heads to the sky, opened their jaws, and seemed to roar silently, looking unusually angry.
Even so, Bachie ants did not give up. I really don't know why some ant eggs stimulate them so much. It is obviously not troublesome for the queen to reproduce hundreds of ant eggs.
The Bachie ants turned around and left the metasequoia without hesitation, and hurried away in one direction. The protagonist took a look and saw that the direction in which the fleet was pushed by the current was exactly the direction in which the fleet was pushed by the current. There were many trees ahead.
However, as long as the walnut boats don't moor against the trees, there should be no way for the leaf-cutter ants to threaten the fleet. After all, they can't fly or swim. What else can they do with the Legion of God's Angel King floating on the water? Woolen cloth?
After placing the leafcutter ant eggs in designated cabins, some materials were also discarded to make room.
Then crying, the warriors of the God's Envoy King returned to their cabins one after another. Now they were drifting with the current. The wind was not in the right direction and they could not set up their sails. The enemy could not get through. It was of no use for them to stay outside. They might as well go back.
The protagonist did not go back. He stood guard outside the cabin alone, holding a wooden stick half a decimeter long to use as a pole. Once the bow of the boat was close to the tree trunk, he pushed it away with all his strength to ensure that the fleet never docked. .
At this time, there is no trace of Bachie ants. The dense woods in the darkness hide their figures very well, and there is no sound, but the protagonist feels that they have not given up yet.
Although he despised the fact that these Bachie ants can't fly or swim, so they have no means of threatening the walnut fleet, the protagonist still has a faint sense of threat in his heart - it may be caused by the disappearing Bachie ants. Feeling of oppression.
Although the fleet has been sailing outside the water forest, it still has to pass through several trees ahead. The speed of the boat is very slow. With the agility of the Bachie ants in the trees, they can catch up.
But now they can't be seen. The enemy whose location is unknown is the most dangerous enemy.
The boat pushed away from the water, making a subtle "swishing" sound. Except for the occasional chirping of insects and the sound of wind blowing leaves, this was the only sound the protagonist could hear. It was thin, monotonous, and made him sleepy...
In the dark night, the light is very weak. I don’t know if the moon is hiding behind the clouds, or blocked by the tree canopy, or there is no moonlight tonight. The protagonist only feels that the surroundings are dim and hazy, and even the waves on the river cannot stir up a trace. The luster, after looking at it for a long time, almost blurred out that it was on the water, which made him feel sleepy even more.
The fleet was more than one meter away from the nearest tree, which was a very safe distance. In the obscure environment around him, the protagonist's consciousness was groggy. The enemy never appeared, causing him to lose his alertness little by little.
Overhead, the canopy of trees completely covered the sky, and looking up there was nothing but deep black.
The protagonist was leaning on a wooden stick and was really about to fall asleep. In a daze, he just wanted to go back to the cabin to sleep after passing through this water forest without being blocked by trees.
At this time, a very soft sound, but still clearly transmitted to the protagonist's tentacles in the night with very weak background sound, suddenly sounded. It was the sound of something falling into the water.
Unlike the huge "crash" sound of heavy objects such as stones falling into the water, nor the silence of leaves gently falling on the water, it was a slight "pop" sound, not far away.
The protagonist was still confused, but then the second and third sounds came over, right next to him.
It wasn't until he was very close to him and heard the sound of something hitting the hull and then bouncing away that the protagonist finally woke up.
The protagonist looked around and saw a large Bachie ant floating on the water next to the boat! The body that was bigger than the protagonist was floating on the water, struggling hard!
The protagonist immediately wakes up - how did this Bachie ant arrive so close to the ship out of thin air?
Taking a closer look, I saw two Bachie ants floating next to the boat!
The protagonist suddenly became alert and quickly looked up, only to see a group of black dots that seemed to move slowly and quickly from far to near, and then a large group of Bachie ants fell like raindrops, covering half of the fleet, crackling. It rained ants.
The protagonist wakes up: these Bachie ants actually climbed onto the branches above the fleet and jumped down. What a desperate move. How much do you hate these egg thieves to do such a near-death move?
The protagonist has only seen parasitic ants ambush the flying knights of the Warrior King in this way before. It was also on land, and there would be no danger if it landed.
But this is on the water!
Although it looked spectacular and shocking, there were only about a hundred or two hundred Bachie ant warriors that fell down. Most of them fell into the water, and some fell on the hard hull of the ship and bounced into the water.
A large group of ants were struggling in the water. Even though these Bachie ants have lived in the water forest for a long time, they are not water-based.
However, a small number of them successfully landed on the boat. There were Bachie ants everywhere on the mast, the hull, the wooden poles, and the ropes. Some Bachie ants fell into the water very close to the ship, or happened to be on the route in front of the fleet. Fortunately, they also climbed onto the ship.
A total of about thirty Bachie ants successfully landed on the boat. Others fell into the water more than one meter away from the nearest tree. It is estimated that no one survived in the end.
After these Bachie ants got on the boat, they immediately followed the smell and tried to get into the closed hatch, but they could not pry it open. Inside, the warriors of the God Envoy King noticed something was wrong, but they could not go out without the protagonist's orders. The ants' minds are not very flexible!
Here, there are Bachie ants close to the protagonist, and they immediately signal with their scent and sound. Then the nearby Bachie ants immediately give up on the hatch that cannot be opened, and all rush towards the protagonist.
The protagonist was completely awake at this time, looking at the Bachie ants that quickly climbed over the cable as if they were walking on the ground, and still felt emotional.
These Bachie ants, who are accustomed to moving in trees, don't feel awkward at all when climbing cable masts. They are more skillful than big-headed ant sailors who have trained on the water for a long time. This can be regarded as a racial characteristic!
