The war has ended, and the protagonist watches the Pangolin ants clean up the battlefield.
I saw that these pan-bellied ants would raise their abdomens from time to time when they stopped. As expected, these ants lived up to their name, and were completely different from the abdominal-lifting ants that liked to lift their abdomens. In this posture, the Discobellum ants used this posture to finish off all the undead Camponotus ants.
A small number of those ants that were also trapped in the poisonous smoke began to return to normal after a few minutes, and staggered out of the pile of corpses on their own. It seemed that they would not die, but no other ants came to help. Most of the ants that participated in the battle could no longer move until they were dragged away and buried by their companions.
The protagonist is very interested in the chemical warfare method of Pangasius ants. The weak Pangasius ants are so common in this hilly meadow, so they really have their own unique features.
This kind of poisonous powder contained in the pupal sac is so terrifying once released that even a huge ant cannot withstand it for a few minutes and will die.
This kind of poisonous smoke is the killer weapon of the Pangolin ant clan, and the protagonist has already guessed its ingredients.
At this time, the breeze was blowing the faint smell left on the battlefield to the protagonist and his party who were watching the battle. After detecting this familiar and distinctive smell in the tentacles, the protagonist quickly thought of the source of this peculiar smell.
The white-flowered wild chrysanthemums I encountered yesterday also had this smell that made insects feel uncomfortable.
It seems that the Pangasius ants deliberately collected the white chrysanthemums unique to the hills, processed them into powder through a certain process, and filled them into the pupal sacs.
The scientific name of this kind of white chrysanthemum is pyrethrum albus. As its name suggests, the flower has sudden insecticidal effect, and some pesticides are extracted from its active ingredients. The protagonist is not proficient in botany, otherwise he would definitely recognize this famous plant with strange effects.
In fact, the Discobellum ants also showed discomfort with the powder of Pyrethrum alba in the previous battle, and their soldiers also suffered casualties while struggling in the poisonous smoke.
The protagonist doesn't know how the distal ants are able to collect this plant that is naturally resistant to all insects. You know, yesterday the flying knights and their mounts did not dare to get too close to Bai Yeju. Once the smell came close to touching the shell, they would feel uncomfortable.
The protagonist suddenly became interested in these local ants that were weak and backward in other aspects, mainly because he was interested in acquiring the technology of collecting and processing white wild chrysanthemums.
If the God Envoy King's Army also has this kind of poisonous smoke pupa sac, it will be helpful for the protagonist to enjoy it!
In fact, the protagonist has not yet figured out the specific use of this poisonous smoke. If it is used like the Pan-bellied Ant, it will only kill a thousand enemies and damage itself by 800. This is very valuable to every warrior, and a lot of resources have been spent on cultivating a divine envoy. For the Wang Army, the gains definitely outweigh the losses. But if you don't accidentally hurt your own ants through other methods, then this poisonous smoke weapon will still be useful.
The protagonist's "collecting habit" has come up. Don't worry about how to use it in the future, first find a way to get the technology.
Today is obviously not the right day to "acquire" this skill. After cleaning the battlefield, a group of hundreds of abdominal ants are approaching the protagonist and his party.
The commander of the other party has noticed that it is unusual for dozens of bees to stay nearby for a long time and they want to investigate.
Looking at the alert posture put up by the Panbelia ants, the protagonist, who did not have the powerful military support of the God's Envoy King at this time, gave up the plan to negotiate with the Panbelia ants immediately, led his subordinates back to the air, and rushed to the meeting point .
Along the way, the observant protagonist discovered that this kind of white wild chrysanthemum that can produce poisonous smoke, the white-flowered pyrethrum, is very common in this area. Tribes of Pangasius ants are often found in places that are neither too far nor too close to this kind of flower. The nests of other ant tribes are generally far away from the growing areas of white wild chrysanthemums.
The nests of Pangasius ants are also very interesting. On the exposed soil layer on the ground, a conical hole with a diameter of about half a decimeter is the entrance and exit of the Pangasius ants nest, which is very recognizable.
But the protagonist never saw any ants collecting white chrysanthemums, which puzzled him - how could the ants make poisonous smoke pupae without collecting raw materials! ?
That's right, if you want to collect the smell that makes the ants unbearable, there must be special worker ants, right?
With doubts, the protagonist returned to the assembly point. His group of ants arrived almost two hours later than scheduled, and the other three teams had been waiting here for a long time.
After exchanging information with other flying knights, the protagonist discovered that there was also an exploration team that noticed this chemical tactic of Pangasius ants. They observed that two tribes of Pangasius ants both used poisonous smoke pupal sacs in the battle, and both ended up losing.
It seems that this kind of weapon and technology is mastered by all the local ant tribes, rather than a box-pressing stunt unique to one or two tribes.
Apart from this, the exploration team made no other valuable discoveries.
The protagonist made an evaluation and felt that just the white-flowered pyrethrum and the poisonous smoke pupal sacs produced by it were not worthy of the Ant Alliance's large-scale development of this barren area.
However, it would be a good deal to establish a colony to obtain local white-flowered pyrethrum resources and supply them to the home country.
The protagonist and his party have started to turn back all the way while thinking about the uses of the white-flowered pyrethrum and how to obtain resources and related technologies.
Today's original plan was that if the protagonist and his party returned in a straight line without stopping along the way, they should be able to rush back to the country and spend the night in a secondary nest on the border.
But because the protagonist and his party were delayed watching the battle of the Pangolin ant tribe, it was already dark when they flew to the swamp area, which was still two hours away from the border.
The protagonist and his party had to spend the night here. They couldn't find a tree hole in their hurry today, so they could only choose a tall tree. They gathered bees and dragonfly mounts together on the lee side to spend the summer night together to stay warm.
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At night, the protagonist with keen senses and the magic soldier Ant Flying Knight are awakened by a mysterious noise.
That's the unique sound of ants' arthropods scratching through the bark!
Ants are approaching the flying knights camping!
Judging from the noise, there were dozens of them. They knew how to hide the footsteps of their jointed limbs, and the noise they made was very light.
The "footsteps" of this ant are different from those of other insects, and neither the protagonist nor the flying knight can make a mistake.
If it weren't for the sharp senses of the protagonist and the magic soldier ants, ordinary ants (even the giant soldier ants) would definitely not be able to detect such a hidden approach.
The other party is unkind, and no friendly creatures will quietly approach in the middle of the night, not to mention that the ant world is originally a world of jungle and war.
The protagonist and the magic soldier ants prepare for battle quietly, and they also have to be careful to wake up their sleeping mounts. If there is a big movement, the enemy ants not far away will definitely be able to detect it!
