Chapter 210: The Destroyer Doesn't Fly?
On April 6, the sky was cloudy and fog-free.
The protagonist looks up and makes sure that there is no annoying fog today, which makes him satisfied. Beside him, an army was pouring out of the already widened entrances and exits.
After a night of reorganization and rest, the 36 regiments continued their journey.
In yesterday's battle, the Divine Envoy King's army wiped out about 300 destroyers, but they themselves lost more than 3,000, and the battle loss ratio was very unsightly.
Fortunately, after some reorganization last night, the Big-headed Ant Legion has replenished a lot of veterans and soldiers who have experienced the baptism of battle in [Sitong City], and it is basically full again, and only the 14th Legion has lost more than a hundred Hunting Scythe Ant Scouts and cannot be replenished.
There was no fog today, and the flying knights who had arrived from the main lair [Qingqiu City] were hovering in the sky to provide early warning. Coupled with the vigilant network formed by the scouts scattered on the ground, at least today the protagonist does not have to worry about being attacked by a large number of enemies.
Last night, the protagonist had a good rest, relieved the fatigue and discomfort of entering the state of "gods descending to earth" for a long time, and today he is in good spirits again, and it seems that "gods descending to earth" for another hour and a half is not a problem.
He still walked in the middle of the column, and the Praetorian Guards took turns carrying maces.
From [Sitong City] to [Spiral Flower City], there is more than a day's journey in between, which is the normal pace of big-headed ants.
The Destroyer, who retreated around yesterday afternoon, didn't make it to [Spiral Flower City] before the fall of last night, and is still on the road.
As for the Divine Envoy King Army, it is estimated that they will not arrive at their destination until tomorrow, that is, in the afternoon of April 7.
The most important thing in army combat is to keep the team intact, so the protagonist has no intention of catching up with the retreating enemy lightly.
Today, the protagonist has chosen a night camp on the road.,It's a sub-nest that originally belonged to the Divine Messenger King's legion.,It's been lost before.,But when the Destroyer's army retreated.,The Flying Knight found that there was no Destroyer here.,It's estimated to be an empty nest.,Just in time for a camp.。
The army of the king of the gods still marched in a column of 100 meters.
At this time, the smell of spring has become stronger, the damage caused by the cold of spring to nature is fading, everywhere is full of greenery, and many strong surviving insects are enjoying the rich environment without competition, hoarding energy and waiting for the mating season.
If it weren't for the gloomy sky, it would indeed be a picture of a beautiful spring.
After a day's march, safe and sound, the King's legion arrived at the camp as expected, and it was already an empty nest.
The scouts searched it to make sure there were no Destroyers hiding, and the army entered. Due to the limited space, there are still many legions who temporarily dig caves nearby to stay.
This nest was once empty, and when the scouts searched it, they couldn't find even a single corpse, only in some hidden corners, you could still smell the faint smell of blood, telling the horror that had happened here.
The scouts found that the granary in the nest was still stocked, except that the grain had been dumped everywhere and had not been damaged.
The protagonist checked the size of the granary's grain storage, and it should have not been consumed too much since the beginning of spring. It seems that the Destroyer does not eat the food collected by these big-headed ants, and they do not touch grass seeds or even cured meat.
This reinforces the protagonist's idea that The Destroyer feeds on the corpses of other ants, perhaps only fresh corpses. His dislike for destroyers haunts as civilized man's aversion to cannibals.
These stocks of food are better than nothing, and the protagonist asks the soldiers to distribute them and give them to the hungry ones. Most of the fighters had only eaten last night, so they didn't need to be replenished.
The protagonist doesn't eat much, although most of the time he maintains the habit of three meals a day, and occasionally two, developed in human times. But this body is an ant after all, and after eating a large amount of food at one time, he can also maintain two or three days without eating if he has entered the state of "heavenly gods descending to earth" and consumes a large amount of energy.
The main thing is that the food has just been seized from the destroyer, and although the immortals use their tentacles to check for a long time and say that it is safe, the protagonist also feels that it is not clean and his stomach is not hungry, so he does not eat it.
Fortunately, the next day, the warriors who had eaten the food were still alive and well, and it seemed that the Destroyers were not smart enough to poison the food and not inadvertently contaminate the food with excrement.
The protagonist thinks of another question, after fighting the Destroyers for so long, it seems that the Destroyer's excrement has not been found.
As long as it is an animal, it will definitely excrete if it eats. A large number of social animals live together, and there will inevitably be no shortage of excrement, think about the smell of some places where poultry and livestock are raised intensively, and it is basically the smell of feces. The large amount of manure and farts produced by cattle raising is also an important source of greenhouse gases.
Each nest in the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion had to open up a garbage dump to pile up the garbage that had been cleaned up, many of which were dung.
Because most of the fluorescent bacteria cultivation in the secondary nest cannot consume so much manure, and the farmland needs manure, but the farmland only began to be promoted to various places last year.
Therefore, the important garbage in the original garbage dump was the manure produced by ants, which had to be buried and replaced with a new garbage dump from time to time.
However, from the recovered secondary nest and nearby, no traces of feces were found, only the feces piled up in the nest, which were also identified as the feces belonging to the big-headed ants, which should be the old feces accumulated when they could not go out in winter.
The droppings of different ants are different, and the droppings of big-headed ants and paving ants can be easily distinguished in the eyes of ants, just like dog owners who find dog droppings on the ground when walking their dogs, and can immediately judge that this is not human excrement.
The protagonist asks his subordinates to investigate, but they do not find any trace of ant excrement other than the big-headed ant.
Don't these destroyers have to excrete? Even if you eat a food that is easy to digest, such as meat, you can't avoid food scraps, and there can't be any living thing that doesn't need to be excreted at all.
There are also animals that eat their own feces, also to improve digestion, and eventually there are residues that need to be discharged.
The protagonist remembers the scene when he found the mysterious orb in the body of the Destroyer, and vaguely saw traces of electric sparks. It can't be that these destroyers are all robot ants, right? Survive on solar energy.
So how to explain that these destroyers have biological muscles, internal organs, and other tissues in their bodies? And the protagonist has found a lot of evidence that the destroyer "eats" the corpses of other ants.
The identity of the Destroyer is a discordant puzzle in this ant world, and the protagonist is temporarily powerless to solve the mystery, just as he is powerless to solve the mystery of the human skull stone in the swamp!
Hopefully, it's just for the time being!