Soon scouts spotted the anomaly.

By tracking the rhythmic vibrations beneath his feet, the scout noticed the sound of digging earth from beneath a spot nearby.

The protagonist immediately rushes over with his troops, and by the time he arrives, a small passage has been dug into the land, and a parasitic ant is trying to crawl out of the narrow hole.

A squad of Divine Messenger King Legion soldiers immediately surrounded and killed a few parasitic ants that had just crawled out.

The protagonist notices that the silk parasites on the backs of the enemies that crawl out appear to be dormant and do not move at all, even if the host dies. It is not known if the reason for this is smoke or night, the protagonist prefers the former.

This is good news, the lights are blind at night, and the protagonist was worried that fighting in this environment would cause large casualties due to silk parasites. Now you don't have to worry about it.

This small improvised passage did not cause much trouble to the defenders on the ground, because the passage was too narrow, and the parasitic ants that could crawl out were no match for the numerous and waiting warriors of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.

What's more, when these parasitic ants crawl out, they are often still dizzy from the smoke, and they die unexpectedly if they can't figure out what happened.

Black smoke billows out of the escape passage opened by the parasitic ants, the only exit the smoke finds after it spreads around the underground nest.

When the black smoke is thick to a certain extent, there are no parasitic ants crawling out of this escape route, because they are fainted by the poisonous smoke before they can climb to the entrance of the hole.

New escape routes have been opened one after another, and the protagonist has led the army of the Divine Envoy King to attack everywhere to eliminate the parasitic ants that dare to escape.

At the same time, for some "chimneys" that no longer have enemies to come out of, the protagonist himself carries a stone of the right size to seal them again - the fire in the combustion chamber is not large, and the smoke generation capacity is not strong, and if there are too many smoke vents, the poisonous smoke of the parasitic ant nest underground will become thin.

Although the parasitic ants that broke through sporadically could not pose a threat to the Divine Envoy Legion, there were occasional scouts who failed to detect them in time, and then a large number of enemy troops poured out of new escape routes.

At this time, it is necessary for the Divine Envoy King's army to fight a tough battle, trying to completely destroy the enemy and block the escape route. Fortunately, there are not many such cases.

The protagonist has always been extremely vigilant that the main force under the command of the light gold worker ant broke through, but he did not encounter this force all night. Could such a powerful force be wiped out in the poisonous smoke?

This whack-a-mole-like battle lasted all night, and the protagonist ordered a retreat when the sky was about to turn white.

Before retreating, the Divine King's legion extinguished the fire, piped out the horsetail grass and hid it in the nearby grass, and then blocked the entrance to the burning chamber with large stones. so as not to be seen by the enemy.

Then the gods sent the king's first army to return to the fortress and disperse to rest.

At the end of the night, the First Legion lost more than twenty soldier ants, which was insignificant. The casualties of the parasitic ants are estimated to be more severe, although the protagonist is unable to count specific data.

There are hundreds of parasitic ants that have been killed just by breaking through to the ground. And those who were killed by poisonous smoke underground are estimated to be even higher.

However, even so, the protagonist estimates that the smoke attack battle only weakened part of the strength of the parasitic ant nest, and did not cause the opponent to bear huge losses.

After all, the hastily built combustion chamber has a weak ability to produce smoke, and the space of the ant nest is large, and the smoke will gather upwards, and the bottom of the ant nest will generally be free of toxic smoke. Most parasitic ants can escape by hiding at the bottom of the nest as long as they don't get dizzy.

The structure of the parasitic ant nest is the same as that of the ordinary big-headed ant nest, and the most important facilities, such as the queen nest, are located near the bottom.

If the parasitic queen is fine, then if there is enough food, it will soon be able to make up for the loss of last night.

The protagonist also ran to catch up on sleep, and before going to bed, he told Mulan to wake him up when the enemy attacked the city.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist sleeps until noon and gets up, and when he goes to the top of the fortress and looks around, there is no sign of the enemy.

It was very unusual that for the whole morning, the enemy did not make any movement.

When the protagonist wakes up, he learns that the ten Flying Knights have arrived at the fortress, so he immediately orders two of them to take off to reconnoitre.

Soon the flying knights paid off. By reading the packets, the protagonist discovers that the parasitic ants are busy opening the entrances and exits of the original nest, and piling up the corpses of thousands of parasitic ants that died last night to the location of the original "ant corpse pyramid".

At the same time, they have built more than a dozen new vents, and it seems that they are still haunted by last night's bizarre poison gas incident.

Strangely, the Flying Knights did not notice the main army of parasitic ants commanded by the pale gold big-headed ant that had disappeared since yesterday. Where the hell did they go?

The protagonist doesn't believe that such a large army, with its cunning commander, would be wiped out in the poison gas last night. If this force still exists, where will they be? Didn't you go back to the nest at all last night? What the hell did they do?

All kinds of conjectures and questions linger in the protagonist's heart, and his heart is heavy.

In the end, the protagonist orders ten flying knights to set off and search in different directions, making sure to find clues to the enemy.

- I'm the dividing line -

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the protagonist finally pays off.

A flying knight flies back from the southeast and reports to the protagonist: he has spotted traces of the main force of parasitic ants, the enemy army is less than an hour away from the fortress, there are many of them, and they are very strange.

Very strange? The protagonist is very curious about the news of the Flying Knight's return, what kind of things would make the Flying Knight feel very strange?

So the protagonist puts his tentacles on the tentacles of the flying knight and reads the packet.

Through the Flying Knight's perspective, the protagonist sees an army of parasitic ants in the form of a long snake appearing under the Flying Knight.

They were climbing over a small hill and heading straight for the stump fortress. It won't be long before they reach the foot of the fortress and fight again.

The protagonist roughly estimates the number of enemy troops, which is basically the same as the number of the second batch of enemy troops yesterday, this is the enemy army that retreated bizarrely yesterday and has been disappearing, and there is a light gold worker ant in the army.

Even if this army attacks again, the protagonist will not be too worried, and the fortress has already defeated them once yesterday by relying on the well-established fortress defenses, and it has already taken advantage psychologically.

But after observing the anomaly in the middle of the enemy army, the protagonist doesn't think so......