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According to the plan before separation, each exploration team will meet at the respective locations on the morning of the third day after separation, and then set off to return home.
The protagonist's detachment set off in a direction southeast away from the river and flew in an arced trajectory for a whole day. Along the way, except for the white chrysanthemums that appeared on the surface from time to time, no other valuable things were found.
There is just a large hilly meadow here, with no obvious surface minerals, no particularly valuable plants or insects, and not even a powerful ant force.
It is obviously a piece of green grass, but in the eyes of the protagonist, it is nothing more than a green desert, a "desert" that is of no use to the Ant Alliance.
The next morning, the protagonist and his party still found nothing, so he informed his subordinates to prepare to take another route to return. If there is no harvest on the way back, and the other exploration teams find nothing, this exploration trip to the lower reaches of the Qinghe River can be considered in vain.
The protagonist flew all the way, thinking all the way, if the lower reaches of the Qinghe River are not a suitable expansion direction, where will the future strategy of the Ant Alliance be directed?
In order to deal with the threats of the Paving Ant Empire and the Destroyer in the future, the Ant Alliance cannot stop there. The only way to survive is to continue to expand and grow!
If the lower reaches of the Qinghe River fail, then the Ant Alliance needs a new direction of expansion, and there may be a new hostile force!
After thinking about it for an unknown amount of time, a flying knight suddenly approached the protagonist who was riding on "Ah Huang" and following the lead. The distance was so close that two bees were almost beating each other's wings.
The protagonist finally came back to his senses and noticed the flying knight approaching.
The opponent points his lance vaguely downward, and the protagonist looks over, only to see a small black patch on the ground, which is a dense ant war!
The protagonist was originally not interested in this small-scale battle between indigenous ants. The two sides were about more than 1,000 giant carpback ants, and about 4,000 smaller, slender and agile ants.
Both parties are common indigenous ant races on this hilly land, and they are also widely distributed ant races. But the protagonist has not yet discovered that these two ant tribes have established a strong force.
Judging from the current battle situation, on the battlefield, the smaller number of Argonotus ants are taking advantage of their size advantage to kill all directions. The frontline troops of the Pangasius ants, which are not prone to war, have collapsed, but their main and rear formations are still standing. Do not move.
The military staff on the giant dragonfly was somewhat interested in the fighting methods of the indigenous people, and the giant dragonfly took the lead in lowering its altitude at his signal.
It is impossible to communicate effectively while flying in the air. The protagonist only sees an ant on the giant dragonfly shaking its antennae and joints. He cannot understand the intention, but he also lowers the altitude - while flying, he follows the first mount to make a move. It's discipline.
Under the guidance of the giant dragonfly, the protagonist and his party landed on a half-meter-high weed very close to the battlefield. It has a good view, is not easy to be attacked, and can overlook the battlefield. The flying knights crowded together and watched the battle at close range.
The protagonist only received the report at this time and knew the intentions of the military staff. Although he was not interested, he agreed.
The warring parties also noticed the "bees" and "dragonflies" staying nearby. Although they were surprised, they still focused on the enemy ants in front of them and did not provoke the protagonist and his party.
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On the battlefield, among the giant ants Carnotoptera ants that are similar in size to the Destroyer, the large warriors are 12-13mm long, and the small and medium-sized warriors are close to 10mm in length. Each of them is rampaging like a small tank.
Although these ants fight alone, their huge size gives them an advantage.
On the other hand, the warriors of the Discobellum Ants are only about half the size of the opposite ones. They are a relatively gentle race that is not good at fighting. They are also not good at forming formations. No matter how many there are, it seems that they cannot change the situation of the battle.
However, the protagonist noticed that the main and rear formations of the Panbellied Ants were still stable, and were not shaken at all by more and more defeated frontline troops escaping back.
In this formation, there are dozens of ants with abnormality that attract the attention of the protagonist. These ants have yellow-white sacs on their backs, which look like ant pupae.
But the protagonist used his eyesight enough to look over, and found that these ant pupae were obviously the pupa skin left after the pupa had broken out, and the color had turned yellow due to too long. I don’t know what was filling these pupae skins at noon, they were bulging, the cracks were sealed again, and there were traces of ant glue adhesion.
The protagonist suddenly feels that these pupal sacs are the strength of the Pangasius ant clan. Therefore, he also became interested and did not mind waiting for a while, patiently observing the changes in the battle situation.
The hamster ants quickly dispersed the front army of the ants and began to gather together, approaching the ants' main formation.
At this time, nearly half of the warriors in the Pangasius ant formation jumped out of the formation and began to fight with a similar number of Campoback ants. Some Pangasius ants who had fled back also joined the battle group.
But it was obvious that the ants still had the upper hand, and the ants' tactics of adding fuel to the fire were a taboo for military strategists.
Seeing that the troops were exhausted, the Pangasius ants carrying pupal sacs finally took action. About two-thirds of these ants moved forward quickly and plunged into the battle group.
When the ants saw these pupal sac warriors approaching at close range, they seemed to be panicking. Some of the ants that were fighting hand-to-hand turned around and ran away, losing their fighting spirit.
But it was too late. The ants had poor eyesight and were already very close when they saw the ants in the pupal sac. There were ant warriors around them to restrain and harass them, so they could not escape from the affected area.
The protagonist saw the first smoke rising in the battle group, a pupa sac was punctured, and a large amount of yellow-white powder inside rose up into smoke, and then the smoke bloomed in the battle group.
In the smoke, we could vaguely see the struggling ants, the Argonotus ants and the Discobellum ants. They were either rolling on the spot, or hunched over, some were lying on their stomachs and vomiting, and some were swinging back and forth or shaking uncontrollably.
What a strange weapon this is! ?
The protagonist was surprised. Those chrysalis sacs contained something obviously poisonous, and they were poisoning both the enemy and ourselves in the battle group.
For the panbellied ant clan with more ant colonies, this tactic of killing one thousand enemies and damaging oneself eight hundred is undoubtedly profitable.
After only about ten minutes, the smoke dissipated, and there were no ants left standing in the battle group. The warriors from the main and rear formations of Pangasius ants began to enter the battlefield, and executed those Campoback ants that were not completely dead in the battlefield where the poisonous mist dispersed.
However, those ants that were still struggling and twitching did not receive treatment...
