Chapter 5: Beaching

When the sky was bright, although there was still no sunny weather because of the clouds in the sky, the clouds finally stopped pouring raindrops completely, and there was no trace of the storm except for the dampness and the green of the leaves.

When the rain stops, the protagonist immediately summons the Praetorian Guards and asks them to act as messengers to deliver packets to the various cabins, informing the males of their current situation and having all the Legion Captains meet on a walnut ship in the middle of the fleet.

At this time, the ants on the ship belonged to four legions, namely the 9th Legion, the 10th Legion, the new 7th Legion and the new 8th Legion, and the commanders were Shovel Elephants, Armored Oxen, Centipedes and Leopards.

After about half an hour, the four regiment commanders finally arrived at the meeting place one after another, and it was not an easy task to climb the communication rope bridge between the ships in a sailing state, especially since such a climb was completely unprotected, and once it fell into the turbulent torrent, there was no chance of survival.

Most of the legion commanders, even ordinary squad leader male ants, are characters who are not diligent and do not distinguish between grains and grains, but they are on a drifting boat, and they have no qualifications for hypocrisy, and the protagonist has thoughtfully set the meeting place far away from him but closer to other army commanders, which can be regarded as taking care of them.

The meeting must be held, and even a sea of swords and fires cannot stop it.

By the time the four corps commanders arrived, there was already enough space for a meeting in the cabin, which was mainly stocked with food, due to normal consumption.

The four Legion Commanders and the protagonist are connected to each other with tentacles to form a small circle. The Legion Commanders had already known that the fleet was seriously deviating from course, and they seemed a little panicked at this time, after all, the ants were more accustomed to staying on solid ground, and at this moment, they were seriously insecure by the flow of the tide, especially now that they didn't know where they were, and they didn't even know if they could reach their destination.

The four captains of the stag elephant, the beetle, the centipede and the mantis are not outstanding in the second batch of male ants, and the other high-ranking officials and important ministers have been sent to carry out the first batch of migration missions, such as rolling and Rambo Fei have already arrived in the swamp, and Rambo Wan and Rambo have been sitting in the swamp for a year. There are also some excellent males who have died in the war against the Destroyer, such as Rambose, Rambery, Rambofer II, Praying Tiger, etc.

It was also a last resort to let these four mediocre legion commanders follow him to carry out the tasks of the palace.

The protagonist doesn't expect them to have any good way to help the fleet out of the predicament, so he just follows the plan he has thought of early on and informs the various legions to cooperate with him.

The males continued to hide in their cabins, while the ordinary warriors assisted the sailors in raising the sails and reorienting them so that the fleet gradually moved closer to the north shore. After finding a suitable spot to surf the beach, a small force should be sent out of the boat in time to fix the cable to the trees or rocks on the shore.

After the order is delivered, the commanders of each corps return to the boat to command their subordinates to actively cooperate, and the protagonist continues to sit in the center, which is convenient for the central command.

At this time, the sky finally brightened, and the weather turned from overcast to cloudy, and the sunlight shone on the earth in the form of Tyndall's pillars of light in the gaps in the clouds.

I saw that on the turbulent river, in a flotilla of walnuts like floating objects, one side of the sail was pulled by the ants and raised by the cable, and the Range Rover on both sides of the crossbar was pulled to adjust the direction and face northeast.

Dozens of white sails are like a group of clouds, under the combined action of the south wind and the river water, the clouds cross an arc-shaped trajectory on the river surface, heading towards the northeast, and gradually approaching the north bank of the river.

At this time, the protagonist himself does not know how far away the fleet is from the big lake, the river is flowing very fast, and it is possible to leave the homeland for dozens of kilometers in one night, which is almost an insurmountable distance for insects, and many insects will never run so far in their lives.

On both sides of the river are unfamiliar landscapes, long mountains and hills, which are not high, and the highest looks like they are only a few hundred meters. On the other hand, there is a valley on both sides of the river, with gentle terrain and dense vegetation.

The walnut boat under the protagonist's feet soon sends a violent vibration of impact, which means that the first ship has washed up on the beach, and under the effect of resistance, it hits the ships behind it, causing a series of collisions.

The ants all hid back in the cabin, or clung to the ground for shock.

After successfully rushing the beach, more than a dozen sailor ants jumped off the shore with a cable in their mouths, found a few large stones on a fine pebble, tied them in two circles, and used them as anchors to secure the boat.

Subsequently, the walnut fleet was hit by the current and pushed a little downstream, but because of the restraint of the cable, it was thrown diagonally to the shore and stuck and no longer shaking. About a third of the walnut boats are stuck on the shore, and two-thirds are still in the water.

The protagonist estimates that as long as the river no longer rises, the walnut fleet will be firmly anchored on the shore without fear of being washed away.

The protagonist disembarks with the Praetorian Guard, followed by the other legions. Some of the ants were still swaying after they had just disembarked, and it was obvious that they had been tortured on the boat for a long time and a night.

The protagonist originally planned to dig a temporary camp nearby after landing, and waited until the Flying Knight found him and contacted the swamp area.

But now the fleet is on a pebble beach, and under the pebbles is a layer of water-rich sand that makes it impossible to build a nest.

And leaving the river beach, there is a dense bush, in which the sound of insects is heard, and the protagonist does not dare to risk letting the small number of troops go directly in.

The protagonist sends four scouts into the bushes to find out what's going on inside.

Before the scouts returned, the disembarking ants went about their jobs.

The ants who had been tortured on the ship enjoyed the calmness of the earth, sunbathing in the sunlight that had finally broken through the clouds, dissipating the chill and dampness in their bodies.

Other ants get busy, checking the boat for breakage and counting the damage in the storm.

Soon the protagonist gets a summary report, the fleet is mostly intact during the storm, a small number of rope breaks have been repaired, there is no loss of cargo in the cabin, and a few ants have been treated for their injuries. However, some of the goods hanging on the ship were lost, and there is no way to make up for them, but fortunately they are all unimportant items.

Some ants also looked for some fresh food along the river beach, including algae, shrimp and the like.

Now there is no way to make a fire, and the protagonist himself can only eat some raw shrimp and algae, and everyone fills their stomachs, and puts some long-lasting food such as dried algae into the cabin.