The protagonist worries that the parasitic queen will make up for today's battle damage by laying a large number of eggs.

In that case, in the worst case, it only takes a few days for the parasitic ants to return to their original force size. This is not good news for the legion of the Divine Envoy King.

For the Divine Envoy King Legion, taking advantage of the new defeat of the parasitic ant army, the lack of troops and the lack of replenishment, to completely eliminate this batch of parasitic ants is the correct strategy.

Therefore, the protagonist decides to continue attacking the parasitic ant nest at night.

At night, parasitic ants will cower in their nests, and the Divine Envoy King's legion can take advantage of the night to weaken the enemy forces hiding underground by means such as smoke attacks, and can achieve rich results at a small cost.

Considering the peculiarity of night combat, the protagonist did not let the flying knights who performed well during the day follow them this time, their fly mounts need to rest at night, and they can't see their fingers at night, and the flying knights' most dominant reconnaissance ability will also be useless.

The three legions were exhausted during the day, and the protagonist weighed in and transferred the two hundred soldier ants that had just been replenished to the first legion, and then transferred six more well-organized and better squads from the three legions.

Of the 500 worker ants who arrived at night, 300 others set off in addition to the 200 who were repairing the fort.

In this way, the improvised night combat detachment had ten melee squads with more than 400 fighters, as well as 300 auxiliary worker ants.

Although this scale is much smaller than last night, as long as the enemy's main force does not break through, it is safe to protect yourself. Even if the enemy really jumps over the wall and pours out, the protagonist is confident that he will be able to bring back most of the night troops safely through the night.

After arranging the night expedition, the protagonist asked the kings to take turns to be in charge of the night, and the other ants went to rest, the battle during the day was too hard, and now the most important thing for the legionnaires was a good night's sleep.

The protagonist had a good sleep when he was unconscious, but now he feels fully recovered, and he crawls down the fortress with his troops in the dark, and makes his way towards the enemy's lair in the night.

- I'm the dividing line -

Today's night is extraordinarily dark, and it seems that a new rain is being born.

Fortunately, experienced ants said that according to the changes in air pressure and humidity, the rain will not fall in a short time. Otherwise, the protagonist would want to go home - he doesn't want to test the power of a rainstorm with troops in the field.

The troops successfully reached the entrance to the new nest of the parasitic ants, and did not get lost or fall behind due to the darkness of the night.

The entrance and exit of the parasitic ant nest were blocked by the protagonist last night by the worker ants with wet mud, but by this time the dry wet mud has been completely cleaned, and there is no trace of last night at all.

The worker ants lifted the dirt and gravel that blocked the entrance to the combustion chamber, and the combustion chamber was well preserved and did not appear to have been discovered by the parasitic ants during the day.

Another team of worker ants also found the horsetail grass pipe that had been lost nearby and carried it over.

While the soldier ants kept watch nearby, the worker ants emptied the ashes accumulated in the combustion chamber last night and filled it with new fuel, and then continued to connect the horsetail grass pipe to the entrance to the combustion chamber and the parasitic ant nest, reinforcing the junction with wet mud, and plugging the many escape openings dug by the parasitic ants last night.

After completing this series of tasks, the protagonist orders the fire, and the worker ants responsible for maintaining the fire have thrown more and more smoke-emitting materials such as peppercorns and wet grass into it after the fire has become strong.

Heavy, pungent smoke began to rise, pouring from the pipes into the parasitic nest.

The protagonist brings the soldiers of the Legion of the Divine Envoy King to the vicinity of the parasitic ant nest, ready to deal with the parasitic ants who have escaped by burrowing at any time.

Time passes minute by minute, and the protagonist carefully uses the soles of his feet to perceive the changes underground, but there is no abnormal vibration from the underground, and the earth is extremely calm.

Not far away, black smoke rose from some of the escape routes that were not well blocked, and some of the workers on standby immediately went over and blocked them with wet mud.

The poisonous smoke that has nowhere to go can only accumulate in the underground lair, but the protagonist's expected movement does not appear at all.

The protagonist has a bad premonition in his heart, and after waiting for another quarter of an hour, the protagonist finally can't sit still.

He ordered the combustion chamber to go out, and then ordered the worker ants to open the wet mud pile blocking the entrance and exit of the parasitic ant nest, and he wanted to go in to see what was going on in the underground ant nest, was this already an empty city?

But as soon as the entrance and exit were opened, a puff of black smoke gushed out, and there was no way to get in. It's a cocoon, and the protagonist has tried desperately to keep the black smoke in the ground, but now he has become his own roadblock.

Workers are digging up the blocked escape routes so that more black smoke can be released from them.

Even so, it was not until a small half hour later that the concentration of toxic smoke in the ground was reduced to a tolerable standard.

The protagonist can't wait for the poisonous smoke to completely dissipate, so he orders a few worker and soldier ants to go down to explore the way first.

After five minutes, the ants ran back, and although they were a little dizzy from the remaining smoke, they reported that the poisonous gas in the ground was no longer dangerous to health and life. And they didn't encounter a single parasitic ant.

Hearing this, the protagonist immediately descends to the underground lair with a large army.

This underground nest has the typical style of a big-headed ant nest, with a wide main passage lined with fluorescent bacteria that have withered under the smoke of two nights in a row.

There are numerous forks in the road next to the main passage, and the protagonist scatters his troops to conduct a thorough search.

As for the protagonist himself, he leads a part of his guards along the main passage and searches the lower space where the queen ant and the male ants should live.

Soon, the queen's dormitory, which he had seen in the captive's memory, appeared in front of him, and the protagonist slipped inside, and there was not a single ant inside.

The lower space was unaffected by the toxic smoke, and the walls were full of fluorescent bacteria, illuminating the interior as bright as day. Through the bright cold light of fluorescent bacteria, the protagonist notices that the nest is very spacious, and there are some dried corpses of feces, food scraps, and parasites on the ground that have not had time to be cleaned up.

The parasitic queen ant who was supposed to be here and the worker ants who cared for her are gone.

The protagonist reluctantly searches around again, and this time he finds some granaries that have not been emptied, and even some live ant eggs and ant chrysalis that have not been taken with him.

In the nursery, a large number of ant larvae are also wriggling around on the silk bed, although it seems that there has been no worker ant to care for them for some time, and there is a thin layer of meconium on the silk bed, but these larvae are still full of energy.

Soon the other search teams came to report that there was not a single parasitic ant in the entire nest.

It seems that the parasitic ants have abandoned their nests overnight and fled!