The protagonist stands at the southern end of the peninsula [Xinyangcheng], looking out at the south bank of the Cheong River in the distance.

If you could see the expression on his carapace-covered face, it would have been iron-clad and painful.

At this time, the protagonist is biting his big jaw, and the fire on the south bank is reflected in his compound eyes, and he doesn't know what he is thinking!

The South Bank, [Pioneer City], was no longer a familiar sight full of greenery, but a terrifying one struggling in the firelight.

You see, the image of the tall anthill is distorted by the scorching air, like the air that has been placed on a black stone in the middle of summer, and it is like it is baked on an oven!

Not only [Pioneer City], as far as the eye can see, the entire south bank of the Qing River has become a hell at this time, and there are flames rushing to the sky everywhere, even if it stops at the river bank and cannot threaten the north side of the river, it still spreads rapidly to the east, forming a large area of fire on the periphery of [Pioneer City].

The color of the flames, combined with the dreary daylight at dusk, made the surface of the Qinghe River turn a bloody and sad yellow-red color, as if the flames were burning in the water.

Thick black smoke billowed and steamed, turning the sky into a haze, as if to indicate an ominous atmosphere.

A large-scale, destructive wildfire is raging on the south bank of the Qing River, engulfing everything.

Countless flying insects stumbled to escape the fire, some swept across the river and flew north, the only hope here. Some insects still had fire on their wings, and they didn't fly far before they fell into the water and died.

Compared with those insects that can fly and have the ability to escape, the insects on the ground are even more miserable, and the songworms play a symphony of death in the firelight, accompaniment to the curtain call of life everywhere.

Today is September 17th, the day when the god of fire rages and wields power!

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As early as 2 days ago, the flying knight in charge of the south bank of the Qing River discovered that there was a fire on the south bank of the Qing River, west of the [Pioneer City].

At this time, the wildfire was not so deadly, although it was obvious that it was burning from a long distance, but it seemed to be the end of the crossbow, and the fire had been extinguished in many places, leaving behind charred grass and half-burned vegetation that was still alive, and a small amount of green smoke was a sign that there were still sparks burning inside.

Some ants and insects that had escaped took the opportunity to come out to find the burned corpses for food, showing a different kind of life.

The wildfires were still burning in only a few places, and they were all half-dead, and there was no indication that they were about to cause a catastrophe.

This situation was not taken seriously at the time.

But that night, a westerly wind suddenly blew, and many sparks, which had been half-extinguished, quickly burned again, and then the fire quickly burned into a forest by the wind, and then spread out again, out of control!

The first half of the year had good rain, but from the end of the summer onwards, after the flood season, there was much less rain than usual, when the weather was dry and a wildfire had a devastating effect.

When the next day, when the flying knights found the line of fire of the wildfire, they couldn't see the end from afar, and under the blessing of the west wind, it was like an unstoppable army under the command of the god of fire marching hand in hand, and hurriedly flew to report to the protagonist.

The protagonists themselves fly in front of the line of fire, and they dare not stay above or behind the line of fire, otherwise the flying insects that are constantly falling under the heat wave and smoke are the best examples.

Soon, the protagonist decides that this wildfire will not be able to quell on its own, and it will not be long before it will burn [Pioneer City]!

There are 100,000 ant mouths in [Pioneer City], and it is too late to evacuate all of them to the safety of the north shore for a while. Thus, a race against time began to save themselves.

On the one hand, in the [Pioneer City], a large number of worker ants began to urgently dig holes in the ground, and most of the ants in the [Pioneer City] lived in the ant mounds on the ground, but these ant mounds were like iron pots on the fire in the fire, and they couldn't stay at all, only the underground was safe.

High-status queens, male ants, etc., except for those who stick to their command posts, have been preferentially placed underground, and then a large number of ant eggs, larvae and ant pupae have also been moved down, and the underground is crowded, and more ants can no longer be squeezed in, and many ants can only be crowded together with mealworms and fly maggots.

Everywhere there are teams digging and expanding, rushing to dig more safe areas to accommodate the remaining half of their companions who can't get underground.

Every second is on the ground, and there's a race against time on the ground.

Originally, there were many crops such as dogtail grass, verbena, cow tendon grass, and rye grass planted in the open space outside the castle walls and outside the ant mound, and there were also large fields outside the city walls, and a lot of grass seeds had been harvested, but the dry grass stems and grass leaves had not yet had time to be cleared.

These are fuels, and in the coming fire, they will become reinforcements for the flames and mortal enemies for the ants.

Countless ants cut through these weeds with large jaws equipped with stone, copper, and iron knives, cut them into small pieces, and then discarded them dozens of meters away.

In addition to crops, weeds and shrubs within twenty or thirty meters of the [Pioneer City] should also be cleared, and the Ant Alliance hopes that at least one safe zone will protect the [Pioneer City] from this "natural disaster"!

Unbeknownst to the protagonist, this disaster is not a natural disaster, but a superposition of ant disasters and natural disasters.

However, there were many shrubs around [Pioneer City], and the ants hurriedly cut off those tough trunks and branches, so they could only cut off all the leaves and transport them away, leaving the bare trunks. Some of the shrubs that were far away didn't even have time to clear the leaves.

When the fire approached the next day, the [Pioneer City] had not yet completed its self-rescue, and there were still tens of thousands of ants on the ground, waiting for the Flying Knight to warn him, and then he hurriedly ran to the nest.

At this time, the fire on the ground even caused a change in the sky, thick smoke billowed and yellow haze covered the sky, and the flying knights' reconnaissance was affected, and by the time they gave warning, they could already see the fire behind the thick haze.

Just a few minutes later, the fire had already burned in front of them, and some ants who had not had time to withdraw were already curled up by the scorching heat, quickly roasted and dried, and then ignited and turned into flying ashes.

The fire was terrifying, the heat drove the updraft, constantly throwing the material on the ground and then falling nearby, and many sparks were preemptively opening up new positions before the line of fire.

The shrubs around [Pioneer City] were lit like candles, and large clumps of burning material were thrown around the anthill by the heat.

Even the ants below the ground could feel the heat passing down the soil, and hurriedly crowded to the cooler places below.

But the underground is now crowded into a ball, and there is still a place to escape.

On the north shore, the protagonist can only watch as [Pioneer City] disappears into a firelight, twisting helplessly.

The power of the god of fire takes heaven and earth as a dog and all things as fuel!