This may be the first time in the entire ant world to sail on the water, not only the passengers participating in the trial voyage are trembling, but the protagonist has no confidence.

The main character, riding Xiaoqing II, has been hovering over the walnut ship, keeping a close eye on the walnut ship's movements.

If something happens to this walnut ship, the protagonist will have almost no means of rescue, and it will also be a major blow to future plans to attack the parasitic swamp along the waterway.

Even though the protagonist has informed the flying knights and passengers above of various plans before, Shan is still inevitably apprehensive.

It is often said that the sea is "windless and waves", but for ants, the waters of this small lake in the eyes of humans are as vast as the sea.

The lake's natural waves are like huge waves, causing boats to swing back and forth between the crests and troughs, as if they have no power to resist, and the heavens and the earth are mighty and daunting.

Fortunately, today's trial voyage was a sunny day, and after moving away from the waterfront, the waves in the middle of the Great Lake were relatively calm.

The flying knight no longer nervously manipulated the three bees to dodge the huge waves like a mountain, and began to drag the walnut boat forward normally.

The walnut boat with a balance beam sails smoothly in relatively calm waters. After completely freeing themselves from the turbulence on the shore, the ants finally dared to burrow out of the safety of the walnut boat and move along the shallow gully on the surface of the walnut.

They raised the sails, and the walnut boat immediately headed north-eastward under the force of the wind, much faster than the bees had pulled it.

Seeing this scene, the flying knight also followed the plan, let the bees land on the surface of the walnut ship to rest for a while, and ate some honey carried in the walnut ship - the battle with the wind and waves just now had consumed too much physical strength of these bees.

The protagonist follows all the way, and about two hours later, he also lands on the Walnut Boat with Xiaoqing II.

There was no landing platform for bees and flies on the walnut ship, and the four flying horses crowded on the surface of the walnut, which was not very large, and were firmly attached to it with twenty-four claws. The protagonist quickly informs the flying knight and the squad commander on the ship to return to the ship, and then takes off again.

The sails on the walnut ship were lowered, and the bees took off again, heading in the direction of the dock. They towed the walnut boat against the headwind, but fortunately, the wind was not strong, and the walnut boat slowly but firmly returned to its home port.

It took about half a day for the walnut boat to approach the inlet, and then accelerated violently under the help of the waves on the shore.

The bees struggled to control their direction, constantly adjusting their tracks, and carrying the walnut boat little by little into the narrow entrance of the inlet.

At this time, an accident occurred, and a sudden horizontal wave slammed the walnut boat into a reef standing near the entrance of the inlet, and the walnut boat slammed into the reef, and the bees in the air were also dragged on all sides, almost uncontrollable.

The protagonist's heart tightens as he watches, for fear that the Walnut Boat and the passengers on it will be reimbursed.

But fortunately, after the walnut boat was knocked backwards for a while, it swirled and stabilized again, and the appearance did not seem to be damaged, and the balance beam and sail did not fall off.

Bees are not as easily frightened as flies, and after the Flying Knight regains control of the bee in the middle, the other two bees, after a moment of panic, unite again and successfully bring the walnut boat back to the dock boardwalk.

The walnut boat was re-roped to the trestle, and after a bit of sailing, the passengers were finally able to descend to a safe and stable land.

The protagonist sums up the lessons of this "historic" sea trial afterwards.

On the whole, the Walnut ship has met the design requirements, and its safety has reached the design goals.

Thanks to the thick walnut shell, a normal impact would not break the ship. The balance beam and ballast stone design also prevent the spherical walnuts from tumbling indiscriminately.

In terms of speed, the indicators of the walnut ship are unsatisfactory, only the speed is satisfactory when the wind is downwind, the efficiency of relying solely on bee traction is very low when the headwind is headwind, and the headwind speed during today's trial voyage is only one-third of that of the downwind, and the bees after returning to the sea are too tired to do it, and they need to rest for a while.

Fortunately, when the time comes, the course is basically downwind, and when you come back, although the wind is against the wind, the bees only need to play the role of auxiliary power and steering.

What worries the protagonist the most is that the ants are dizzy after getting off the boat, which is similar to the behavior of human seasickness. Although ants' nervous systems are not as complex as humans', it is obviously not a good experience to be randomly shaken up and down, left and right all the time on a ship that is completely different from the smooth earth.

The protagonist worries about whether the ship's troops will be able to maintain their combat effectiveness and establish a beachhead after a long journey.

This can only be solved by constant adaptive training.

The construction of the Walnut Fleet did not stop for a moment, and the 4th Regiment of Rambo was also experiencing the voyage in the depths of the Great Lake in batches. Overall, there are about two months left before the expedition to the parasitic swamp.

- I'm the dividing line -

During this period, the protagonist is still paying attention to the situation on the north bank of the river.

Since the mysterious ants began to attack the paving ant barbarian country again, the north bank of the Great River has been full of smoke.

Although the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is still recuperating, and the forces of the indigenous black-headed sour ant and the Japanese black-brown ant have suffered heavy losses and are difficult to set off storms, the decisive battle between the two strongest families, the mysterious ant and the paving ant, is as magnificent as the world war on the north bank of the Great River.

According to the information sent back by the flying knights, this time the mysterious ants mobilized tens of thousands of troops, with the big mysterious ants as the main force, mixed with some small mysterious ants, and the soldiers launched an attack on the paving ant barbarian country in four directions.

The main force of the first road launched an attack first, following the route of the mysterious ant army last time, and once again attacked the direction of the main nest of the paving ant barbarian country.

The second way is to attack the eastern border of the paving ant barbarian country from east to west from the eastern forest, which has been almost completely destroyed by the old black-headed sour ant and the Japanese black brown ant's sphere of influence.

The last two roads were not detected by the flying knights at first, and they were discovered after the Paving Ant Barbarian Country dispatched troops, and the two mysterious ant divisions were attacking the east and west borders of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country from north to south in two different directions.

Overall, the Mysterious Ant Four-Way Army was in a semi-encircled posture, attacking from the north and east.

Among them, the army that directly attacked the main nest area of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country was the most powerful.

The paving ant barbarian country concentrated the elite of the whole country and resisted stubbornly in the main nest area, and only a small army in the other three directions, relying on the local secondary nest to resist.

Since the resumption of the war, after a series of wars, the situation has gradually become unfavorable to the Paving Ant Barbarians.