In the conference room, the dark blue light of the fluorescent bacteria was barely enough for ordinary ants to see.
It doesn't matter even if ordinary ants can't see clearly. They are used to relying on their antennae alone to perceive the world. Vision is just a luxury, and it is of course better to have it.
As for the protagonist and the magic soldier ants, as long as they are not in a lightless environment where they cannot see their fingers, they can feel like they are in daylight.
The environment is dark. In other words, as a very important nest in the Ant Alliance, there are not even a few fluorescent bacteria in the conference room at this time, which also reflects the damage of this war - the worker ants are busy preparing for the war. , the priority of fluorescent fungus lighting maintenance is too low, and it rarely receives ant investment.
The dark room seemed to be a reflection of the bad situation that the entire Ant Alliance and the Divine Envoy King Army were facing now.
The male pavement ant standing opposite the protagonist, the golden cicada armor on its forehead reflects a strange color in the dark underground. The male ant himself was quietly looking at the surrounding environment with fear and curiosity.
The protagonist is also sizing him up.
He is the Duke of the Pavement Ant Empire, the enemy chief of the Western Expedition, and the supreme commander of the besieging enemy army.
At least, two hours ago, he still had these very prestigious titles.
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Duke Pavement Ant had never felt so alone as he fled from his injured mount.
There was no mount, no guard, and no ant following him.
The mount was injured and the driver was dead. The huge explosion and fiery flames made him feel fear like never before, and death seemed to be close at hand.
But he was lucky enough to escape, climbed out of the burning box, and ran away in a mess.
He could only escape alone in the direction he thought was safe, which was the direction of the former headquarters.
In the air, the warriors of the God Envoy King were still chasing after them. The giant dragonfly had no ammunition, but the combat flying knight was still swooping down and throwing out fire bombs.
However, the fire bomb throwing tactics with low hit rate are suitable for dealing with dense enemy formations, but are not effective at dealing with a single moving target.
Duke Pavement Ant fled all the way, with fire bombs exploding and exploding all the way around him. Although he was startled and frightened, he actually didn't encounter any danger at all.
If the protagonist saw this scene, he would probably feel very familiar - it really looks like those "protagonists" in old movies who can't be killed no matter what!
The enemy troops originally guarding the Duke had not yet reacted. They were all running around like headless flies under the bombing, completely unaware that their top commander was being hunted down.
But there are also small units of enemy ants that were patrolling nearby, and some of them have followed the sound and come closer.
In order to avoid a long night, the giant dragonfly troops landed on the ground one after another under the leadership of the head rider. The god soldier ant commander jumped down with the soldier ant bombardiers and quickly surrounded the pavement ant Duke.
I thought that the opponent would still resist, but instead, the old male ant lay tremblingly on the ground, as if waiting for death, with no fighting spirit and no dignity of a high-level leader in a powerful empire.
The warriors of the God Envoy King did not kill him, nor did they care about each other's posture. They just stood up and walked away, crawled back to the giant dragonfly, and then roared away.
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The protagonist also didn't expect that his men would kidnap the enemy's top commander. The name of the action he originally planned was "Beheading". Wouldn't it be enough to just kill him? Unexpectedly, due to a strange combination of circumstances, the "beheading" operation turned into the "capture the king" operation...
He didn't know what he would do with this enemy chieftain in the end. Ants, unlike humans, will not seek peace and negotiation just because a leader is captured, so capturing the thief and capturing the king is not that meaningful.
Now, the protagonist decides to extract some information about the enemy country and enemy troops. The dignified Duke must know a lot of secrets.
The protagonist tried to interrogate the other party, but although the pavement ant Duke's body was restrained by the guards, his head was still shaking, and he never let the protagonist put his tentacles on him.
This happened three times, and the protagonist became irritable. He had no time to play hide-and-seek games.
At this time, on the ground, some front-line troops of the Pavement Ant Empire Army were still attacking. They had not received news that the top commander was missing, and they were still performing their original mission.
The protagonist received an important report from the messenger and hurried out to deal with it. Before leaving, he ordered the imperial guards to find a pavement ant male stationed in this nest, and let him "interrogate" this important enemy chief's kin!
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The protagonist comes to the ground. Today, the enemy's offensive is not as fierce as usual. Many enemy troops behind have already learned about the changes in the command center in the chaos. The enemy troops fighting on the front line were also affected. Even if they had not yet received the latest information, their commanders noticed something amiss from the movements of nearby friendly troops.
Although the enemy's attack power has been weakened by this, it has not completely retreated.
The protagonist was called to the still somewhat dangerous ground at this time because he made an extremely important discovery.
Under the command of the commander, several soldier ants carried more than a dozen corpses of enemy ants to the protagonist.
These are pavement ants, but they are wearing armor weapons unique to the Legion of the Divine Envoy King. Such enemy ants have also been discovered before. The enemy army seems to be consciously imitating and learning the strengths of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and is armed with captured equipment.
The heavily armed pavement ant warriors who were killed twice were obviously elite, with strong combat effectiveness and fighting will.
But last time, the way the enemy ants wore their equipment was very rough. The Envoy King Soldier Ant was one size larger than the Pavement Ant Soldier, and the size of its equipment was not suitable for the enemy ants at all. Utilize the power of the iron jaw knife and armor.
But this time, the protagonist saw changes in the equipment on the enemy ants.
On this corpse, the original size of the iron jaw knives can still be seen, but they fit on the large jaw relatively well - because these thin jaw knives seem to have been hammered, and the outer diameter has become much larger. Zoom out.
In addition, the large jaws of the enemy ants are also filled with some fibers and glue, which can basically fit the inner diameter of the forged jaw knife. It does not sway like children wearing adult shoes before.
The armor has not undergone any processing. Anyway, even if it is one size larger, it can be used as a cover on the back and will not affect the movement much.
If only the appearance of these cold weapons would not cause the frontline commander to make a fuss and invite the God Envoy King himself.
The Flying Knights who were just investigating also found out that in the information package they brought back, there was a piece of information that made the protagonist almost jump!
In the area where the enemy troops gathered, there was an open area where a small group of pavement ants were playing with something!
If you look closely, you will see that they are clearly six iron cannons produced by the Ant Alliance, and there are also some mysterious liquid projectiles piled nearby!
As expected, the enemy army is consciously and actively imitating and learning from the Divine Envoy King's Army!
