Chapter 219: Surprise Attack (1)
The sun is quiet, the water is steamy, the green leaves are like clouds, and the trees cover the ground.
It is a land of marshes, mud pools and rocky piles, with dense vegetation, mostly adapted to the local aquatic plants, but shrubs, vines and a few trees also grow tenaciously. The green leaves are layered on top of each other, like heavy clouds, completely obscuring the ground.
Many years ago, it was a shallow lake that connected to a large river. However, after the connection with the river was silted up, the lake gradually lowered and disappeared, turning into scattered swamps and muddy mud pools, and many areas were barren sand and pebbles.
Now, the loss and access to water in this area have finally been balanced, forming a unique geography.
It is located on the south bank of the Great River, and is roughly distributed in the vast area east of [Zhixicheng], west of [Linshui City], northwest of [Grain Straw City], and northeast of [Trench City].
In this area, there is no secondary nest of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
Because it's so barren, it's even more barren than many remote mountainous areas. In swampy areas, water levels rise and fall with the seasons, and there is little perennially dry land to build nests.
Moreover, the vegetation in this area is flourishing, and a large number of poisonous insects and fierce insects are bred, and even the old big-headed ant kingdom nominally rules the land on the south bank of the Great River, but in fact it has hardly set foot here.
The ant path of the old Bighead Ant Kingdom bypasses the southern part of the swampy jungle, with several nests scattered along the way. In the northern part of the swampy jungle, near the banks of the big river, there are also several secondary nests standing alone in strips, which are very inconvenient for communication with each other.
This swampy jungle, like a desert within the kingdom, is both a moat and a blind spot that is overlooked.
In the past, the Destroyer always attacked the front line of [Waterfront City] when he was marching south, and he also suffered the loss of straying into the swamp jungle back then. During the civil war between the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Great King's Council faction and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, it was not affected here.
After the main force of the Destroyer on the opposite side of [Trench City] disappeared, the protagonist was worried that they would attack along the narrow passage on the south bank of the Great River, north of the swampy jungle, even though the area was steep, unusually barren, and the road was impassable, but the protagonist still strengthened the defenses there and asked the flying knights to step up their reconnaissance.
But the Destroyer's army of thousands seemed to have vanished from under the nose of the Flying Knight, completely gone.
But if the Flying Knights dared to fly into the swampy jungle, risk being attacked by dragonflies and damselflies, risk being ambushed by praying mantises, risk breaking into cobwebs by mistake, and risking their lives to lower their altitude, they might be able to see the Destroyers trudging through the swamps.
The protagonist has heard of the legend of the swamp and considers it an impassable place, even if it is prudent, there are occasional groups of flying knights passing by quickly, but the detection is very poor. He was completely kept in the dark, unaware that such an army was still halfway through the swamp.
Did the Destroyers strayed into this swamp? Or do you want to pass through here? Except for the Destroyer's commander, no one knows its original purpose or destination.
I saw the Destroyers marching in a long array in the swamp area, and in the first array, a huge radar destroyer stood out as a result.
The Radar Destroyer's tentacles swung around, as if searching for something. But the antennae, which are very good at searching for large swarms of ants, are not so effective in this inaccessible area.
The Destroyers also had to send some small forces to explore the way, which they had rarely done before, and in the past, relying on their unique sensing abilities, the Destroyers could always find their way through the enemy's location and movements.
The swamp is uninhabited, but not without ants, and there are some very homely ant races that have scattered into multiple tribes and never leave the swamp, struggling to survive in an area full of predators.
These are some black-headed sour ants, which are distant relatives of the black-headed sour ants in the wooded areas on the north bank of the Great River, and the two sides have been separated since the diversion of the Great River, and have lived independently of each other for thousands of years.
Unlike those on the north bank of the river, who like to wander in groups and wait for an opportunity to rob, the black-headed sour ant colony here is smaller and more timid, and they cower in the swamp all year round.
But in the face of the destroyers who invaded the territory, these black-headed sour ants still showed their will to defend their homeland.
In the past few days, the Destroyer's forces have been attacked by black-headed sour ants from time to time.
Dozens of swarms of these black-headed sour ants suddenly appeared from behind the leaves of the plant with their big white bellies, and sprayed at the Destroyer who was close at hand, and a thick acid mist immediately enveloped the Destroyer.
These acid mists have no effect on The Destroyer's heavy carapace, but they can also make his acid-stained compound eyes and mouth extremely painful.
These black-headed sour ants are timid by nature, and they slip away as soon as they spray acid, and they walk on the vines and trees in the swamp, and they are always nimble enough to escape the pursuit of the destroyer.
But the Destroyer's revenge, though late, will never be absent.
With the help of the Radar Destroyers, the enraged Destroyers destroyed all the nests in the trees of the black-headed sour ants found along the way, forcing some of the settlements to flee east.
And the destroyers, following these fleeing people, marched all the way to the east.
Compared to the black-headed sour ants, the greater threat to the destroyer are the poisonous insects and beasts.
Facing praying mantises, mantises, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, wasps, and other overlords who rise to the top in the competitive swamps, even hordes of destroyers will suffer casualties.
Moreover, there are traces of parasitic beasts here, and radar destroyers will always spot those parasitic beasts that are already close, and the destroyers will rush to destroy them immediately.
Even if they don't pass, the parasitic beasts will come over and fight.
At one point, more than a dozen parasitic locusts suddenly descended, and the radar destroyers did not have time to warn. The locusts slammed left and right in the Destroyer's ranks, their saw-sharp hind feet that could cut the Destroyer in two if they were kicked in the foot. Before being completely killed by the Destroyer, the parasitic locusts killed hundreds of The Destroyer.
Even the Divine Envoy King Legion didn't know that in an area so close to the main nest [Qingqiu City], there were so many parasitic beasts hidden in one group.
Because these parasitic beasts, for some reason, never leave the area. Only the occasional mycelium that spreads out becomes the thread of the ghostly parasitic stories of the land.
In addition to enemies and beasts, what makes the Destroyers even more unbearable is the dense vegetation here, and it is difficult for them to find a place to bask in the sun!