Chapter 118: Backup Plan and Brainwashing

The Divine Envoy King Legion continued to harass the rear of the Red Fire Ant Country, relieving the military pressure of some of the Leaf Cutting Ant Armies in disguise.

After all, if there is a lack of military rations, they are as strong as the Red Fire Ant Army, and their offensive will also be greatly affected, and their later offensive is far less than the first two days.

However, this will not completely save the besieged leaf-cutting ant army. The Red Fire Ant Army has always gritted its teeth to maintain the blockade, and has repelled 3 reinforcements from the Leafcutter Ant Country from the mainland, and did not let the prey slip away.

By late August, the Flying Knights had discovered that the trapped Leafcutter Ant Army had begun to transport the corpses back to the nest, even digging up the bodies of the warriors on both sides who had previously been buried.

These are signs that the Leafcutter Ant Army is beginning to be forced to use corpses as rations, and it is clear that their stock is estimated to be depleted.

The matter of feeding on ant corpses was also done by the Northern Expeditionary Army of the old big-headed ant kingdom, which was the only way to do it when it was forced to do so, but it had great drawbacks.

Especially the leaf-cutting ant army is currently like this, trapped in one place and unable to transfer, the density of ant populations in the position is extremely high, once the plague transmitted by the corpse spreads, it is difficult for the gods to save it.

Of course, the protagonist also wants to be wiped out by the besieged Leaf Cutting Ant Army, but it is best to weaken the strength of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom at the same time, so that they are unable to turn around and deal with the Divine Envoy King Legion afterwards.

But the protagonist's luck has always been very bad, although the logistics of the Red Fire Ant Army are not continuous, but still firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield, twice and three times thwarted the reinforcements of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, and also gradually encroached on the positions of the trapped enemy army, while its own strength was not greatly damaged.

At one point, the reinforcements of the Leaf Cutter Army had even approached a very close distance to the trapped allies, and even briefly rendezvoused with an ally that had broken through in reverse when they heard the movement, but they were quickly defeated.

Among the retreating leafcutter ants were two males who had been trapped before, and they joined up with reinforcements and retreated to the mainland, before being sent back to the main nest [Sacred Tree City] to report on the situation.

As a result, the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom learned that the Divine Envoy King had lied to the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and falsely passed on the military order to let them break through.

After learning of this last thing that the protagonist wanted them to know, the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom immediately severed its relationship with the Divine Envoy King's legion and suspended the export of iron ore.

This incident finally made the protagonist make up his mind to carry out the backup plan.

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[Xinyang City] underground, an area heavily guarded, the protagonist walks in under the escort of the Praetorian Guard. The protagonist arrives in front of a prison nest sealed with tree branches.

It was dark, only a faint glow of fluorescent bacteria on the walls of the hallway, and it was almost impossible to see inside.

But this doesn't hinder the protagonist's eyesight, he has been there several times and knows that there is a male ant of red fire ants inside.

The protagonist motions for the guards to remove one of the fences and burrows into it sideways, leaving both the Praetorian Guards and the guards outside.

With the skills of the protagonist, he is not worried that the red fire ant in front of him can threaten him, not to mention that there are his own guards outside.

When the protagonist first comes here, the male ant of the red fire ant does try to attack him.

The male ant of any ant clan has a burly shell, but its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of worker ants (the protagonist is a BUG). Even if it is as strong as a red fire ant, this red fire ant male ant who dares to sneak attack is simply put down by the protagonist.

The male was captured after being knocked unconscious in a battle more than half a month ago, and several males were captured along with him.

As long as the protagonist is free, he will always visit this prison every two or three days to try to communicate with the red fire ant male.

Most of the attempts fail, but the protagonist has a solution: cut off food and water, plug their blowholes with clay, and stuff their blowholes into a jug.

These methods, which are inaccessible in the eyes of human wardens, are the most horrific punishment of time for these shallow male ants.

Two of the male ants did not survive these punishments, but the rest succumbed to their will, or even collapsed.

The male ant in front of him is the one with the most stable performance so far.

The protagonist remembers that he used clay to cover the holes in his abdomen one by one, and he struggled in vain, but was suppressed by several Praetorian Guards.

As his hind legs twitch due to lack of oxygen, and he slowly stops moving, the protagonist unravels the clay clods that block the air holes one by one, allowing him to take a greedy breath.

Over and over again, the protagonist sees a little bit of a faint flame of survival in the compound eyes of the female red fire ant. When the protagonist brings his tentacles to his tentacles, the red fire ant's mind is no longer defended by the torture he just had.

The protagonist reads a lot of information from it, and even if the male ant has remorse afterwards, there are one and two, and when the protagonist comes next time and just takes out the wet clay from the clay pot, the male ant immediately bows down on all six limbs to show submission.

The protagonist is now able to communicate normally with the other party, and he shows the red fire ant male ant the advanced and powerful Divine Envoy King Legion, and imperceptibly brainwashes it, making the other party feel that he should not be an enemy of the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Not only is this red fire ant male slowly brainwashed by the protagonist, but several other male ants have also been instilled with these concepts to varying degrees.

The protagonist does this because he has long considered that he should have a backup plan after making enemies with the Leafcutter Ant Country.

The protagonist's backup plan is very simple, that is, "Lianhong Attack"!

Although the relationship between the Red Fire Ant Kingdom and the Divine Envoy King Legion is very bad at present, the two sides have already fought each other, and there are still casualties among each other. But after the protagonist peels off the cocoon, he feels that there is no fundamental conflict between the two sides.

The territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, most of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom has never ruled at all, and from the captive male ants, the protagonist also knows that they are only interested in Honeydew and Raven Honey.

There is every possibility of peaceful trade between the two sides.

And on the side of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, they have now broken off relations with the Divine Envoy King Legion, and they have in their hands the hematite that the Divine Envoy King Legion needs most.

If the Divine Envoy King Legion can join forces with the Red Fire Ant Nation, then the Divine Envoy King Legion can send troops to occupy the hematite without any worries, and take this vital resource for themselves.

In order to implement this plan, the protagonist persevered for more than half a month in his busy schedule, and basically completed the brainwashing of the male captives of red fire ants.

Now that the time is ripe, the protagonist personally leads a troop and escorts several red fire ant male captives to the border of the territory on August 24 and releases them.

The male ants carry the information package provided by the protagonist and step into the control of the Red Fire Ant Nation in a few steps.

One of the males took a few steps and turned his head to look at the male ant who had been brainwashed the most!

The protagonist knows that the male ant of the red fire ant is looking at him, and he his antennae slightly. The male ant also nodded his tentacles, and then turned to chase after the other males!