Chapter 154: Salt Marsh Movement (7)

The protagonist finally squeezed into the entrance of "Salt City", which was almost in ruins.

This is not the original entrance to Salt City, which is leaning against a rock. However, the giant river crab dug a large hole in the soil under the rock, destroying the original entrance and exit of "Yancheng" and many nesting chambers on the upper floor.

Now this entrance, located on the bottom side of the large pit dug by the giant crab, was originally just an ordinary internal passage, but when it was exposed, it became a new entrance. There are several such entrances and exits, all of which are original passages or nests.

If left unattended, the ants will block the extra exits, leaving only one suitable entrance and exit, and the nest will be back to normal.

But if the river crab visits every day, then "Yancheng" will not be able to repair its own damage, and it will slowly decay like a patient who has lost its immunity.

Some of the ants exposed by the river crab excavation and the nearby ants attacked, so the protagonist didn't feel crowded when he first came in, but as the ants behind him poured in from various passages, and flowed like water into the cracks of all the underground nests, the underground soon became crowded.

The protagonist moves forward, and the worker and soldier ants around him give way to him.

It's not because the ants see the protagonist, and it's not easy to spot a male ant leaning towards him in the dark and crowded underground.

The protagonist is in a bad mood and even a little angry. He couldn't suppress his emotions, so a smell with a special meaning was emitted.

Smelling this smell, the nearby worker ants and soldier ants immediately became trembling, trying to make room for the noble king and not affect his progress.

The protagonist touches several nearby ants with their antennae and asks them to call the manager of "Yancheng".

The ants took the order, and while asking the other ants with their antennae, they struggled to squeeze through the colony and headed deeper into the nest.

It didn't take long for the tumor to come first. The protagonist doesn't have any resentment against him, and he also knows that he doesn't have any authority for the tumor, and the tumor can only command a small number of ant colonies brought from "Dongyang City". And he sent messengers twice in time, which also enabled the protagonist to understand the situation here in time, which can be regarded as a small credit.

The protagonist asks about the ant colony brought from "Dongyang City" again, and fortunately, these ants only suffered losses in the early stage, and in today's catastrophe, because the tumor restricts them from going out to fight, so there is no loss. A small number of losses were due to casualties caused by the destruction of surface nests.

And as the protagonist predicts, in the case of the siege of the Cancer, it is the actual ruler of "Salt City", the only king, who also asks the ants to attack.

If it weren't for the fact that the underground was too crowded, and the entrances and exits and surface nests were destroyed, many ant warriors couldn't find their way out for a while, and they were afraid that these ants in "Yancheng" would suffer even more heavy losses.

Even so, it is estimated that "Yancheng" has lost nearly a thousand ants today, except for those who retreated after the protagonist, and the ants near the nest on the surface were almost all wiped out.

After a while, the initiator, the king of "Yancheng", struggled to squeeze a passage out of the ant colony and came to the protagonist.

The protagonist looks at him sarcastically, he orders the ants to fight back heroically, and he hides in the innermost part of the nest with peace of mind, so it takes so long to come to the protagonist.

The king of "Yancheng" naturally can't read the protagonist's emotions, and in fact, the ant's carapace face can't make human expressions.

The protagonist puts his emotions away for a moment, and then intersects with the king's antennae, who again asks him the question he asked the tumor before. The king all admitted that the tumor was right.

The protagonist is not doubting the accuracy of the information provided by the tumor, but because of his values, he needs to confirm "one more move" before making some decisions.

The king triumphantly said that he had made the "Yancheng" garrison repel the attack of the monsters, these ants did not know about crabs, they had never seen them before, but they quickly gave the image of these crabs a word in the information packet, and they were regarded as monsters like praying mantis, scorpions, etc.

The crabs on the ground did withdraw, but only because it was getting late and the crabs needed to return to the shore to rest. But the king of "Yancheng" did not know, and he apparently felt that his wise command had repelled the enemy.

And he didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior of hiding in the deepest part of the safe nest. In fact, except for the king and the king who led the army, most of the kings were accustomed to giving priority to their own safety, even if they paid the loss of thousands of workers and soldiers of the same clan, and in their minds, the male ant was the most noble and could not be lost.

After the questioning, the protagonist asks the tumor to call two sturdy soldier ants brought from "Dongyang City" in front of him and give them an order.

The soldier ants are a little stunned, but soon carry out the protagonist's orders under strict discipline.

They came behind the king of Salt City, and one of them bit his back with a large jaw, subduing the male ant, who was larger than themselves but weak, to the ground.

The king of Yancheng struggled, he couldn't understand why such a thing had happened, why the lowly and obedient soldiers and ants dared to do this to him. At this moment, the large jaws of another soldier ant were already on his neck, and as the jaws closed, the severe pain made the male ant feel the threat of death.

The ant's head rolled off and he died.

The surrounding ants were stunned, they had never seen a male ant killed by his own clan in the nest, but the protagonist was still present, and he suppressed a panicked ant colony.

Subsequently, the protagonist, as the king of the gods, announced the "divine decree" of the execution of the king. The colony then quieted down.

Although these ants have never seen males killed due to customs and hierarchical constraints, there is a tradition of ants killing each other.

In primitive ant colonies, worker ants sting males and females who are unwilling or unable to leave the nest to marry, and adult ants eat larvae, eggs and pupae during food shortages.

In the kingdom of big-headed ants, the male ant class also has precedents of killing soldier ants or worker ants, such as when there is a shortage of food, those old or disabled ants are killed and used as food.

In the eyes of these ants, it is a kind of power for a high-ranking ant to execute a low-ranking ant, and the divine envoy king is obviously higher than a king.

The first king of the big-headed ant kingdom to be executed appeared in front of the ants in this way, and the protagonist also used this method to declare his power.