After the Divine Envoy King's army withdrew overnight, it finally got a respite after two days of fierce fighting.

After entering the bridgehead, after only two days of fighting, the Divine Envoy King's legion lost a large number of troops, and the fourth legion was almost disabled.

The large amount of ant power and materials consumed to build the bridgehead in the first place, as well as the potential loss caused by the delay in collecting food supplies, were a huge burden on [Swamp City], which was stretched thin. But now, this bridgehead has to be abandoned.

After returning to [Swamp City], it was not that there was no trouble, and after dawn, the parasitic army reappeared.

However, without the rope bridge, the parasitic armies that were pressing like black clouds lost their target, and most of the parasitic war beasts could not cross the water to reach [Swamp City].

The parasitic air force has no way to take the army of gods who can't live or die in the lair. A handful of parasitic dragon lice are persistently spraying water cannons, soaking a small section of the outer wall of the ant mound into mud.

A handful of parasitic beasts that jumped onto the island began to gnaw at the outer walls of the antmound, and throughout the day the protagonist could hear a terrifying gnawing sound coming from the walls, as if the walls would collapse in the next second.

But [Everglades City] is generally safe, and the wide waters can keep more than 90% of threats away.

The protagonist spends the day thinking about what to do in the future: the current environmental situation is undoubtedly very bad, almost "no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside", and the number of enemies is much more desperate, and the whole swamp seems to be lurking with endless enemies.

Dragonflies, dragon lice, tiger armor, centipedes, spiders, ants, all creatures in the swamp seem to be enemy warriors, and the gods make the king's warriors seem weak. That's the horror of this parasitic swamp, it's the enemy's home turf!

But the protagonist and the Divine Envoy King Legion are not without a glimmer of life, [Swamp City] is like an unsinkable battleship, the enemy is difficult to conquer no matter what, as long as there is this base, the Divine Envoy King Legion can take root.

That night, after the enemy has withdrawn, the protagonist directs his troops out and begins to repair the walls and forage for food.

A few days ago, because of the construction of the bridgehead Deng work, the foraging work was put on hold for a while, and after a few days, the granary was already in an emergency.

It was thought that the troops who could inflict heavy damage on the parasites in the bridgehead defense and then seize a larger area of actual control to obtain resources would make up for the shortfall.

For now, the Divine Messenger Legion still has to fetch much-needed food around the tiny [Swamp City].

Due to the large number of enemies surrounding [Swamp City] today, some insects that jumped onto the island and flew over and landed on the island accidentally got entangled in the rope trap. At the end of the day, these rope loops controlled six prey, and the meat of the prey temporarily filled the empty granary.

The protagonist is thoughtful as the ants are busy mending up their prey in the rope trap and hunting aquatic insects in the water with fish cages.

In addition to the hunt, another group of ants was sent out to harvest the only plants on the island, including calamus and aquatic plants near the shore.

In the previous battle, the supplies in [Swamp City] were seriously depleted, and now there is a shortage of ropes. The ants that need to make the rope can secrete and manufacture it themselves, and the other raw material is plant fiber, which can only be harvested on the spot.

The warriors of the Divine Angel King are generally equipped with copper jaws, and harvesting plants is twice the result with half the effort.

- I'm the dividing line -

In the next few days, the parasitic army continued to come every day, but on a smaller and smaller scale.

There is also a small group of parasitic ants, as the protagonist fears, who have made their home in the abandoned bridgehead of the Divine King's legion. However, due to the severe damage and limited scale of the place, and the lack of food nearby, the parasitic ants left after two days, which greatly relieved the protagonist.

These days, during the day, the Divine Legion of the King endured humiliation and could not hold out, and at night they were actively hoarding supplies and weaving ropes.

In addition, at the behest of the protagonist, a large number of Divine Envoy King warriors are involved in a huge project, and they work together to weave a large number of ropes, which they then hang outside the anthill.

The ropes were crisscrossed and weaved, taking shape day by day, slowly forming a vast net that covered the entire [Swamp City] under the net.

This is the "air defense net" that the protagonist came up with to build for [Swamp City].

With this net, parasitic beasts from the air or jumping from the opposite shore will not be able to threaten the ants moving under the net, and will even become entangled in the net.

The ropes of these nets are woven with a mixture of ant silk and plant fibers, which makes it easy to obtain raw materials and high yields, and can be easily repaired even if damaged.

After the air defense network was built, the warriors of the Divine Envoy King could finally come out during the day, and the parasitic beasts were powerless to tear through the air defense network made of thick ropes, so they could only stare angrily at the net.

The water cannons that are very lethal to the outer walls of the ant mounds will be weakened by the soft and elastic nets when fired at the air defense nets, and the grid near the bottom of the air defense nets is particularly fine, and it is difficult for the water cannons to avoid the ropes and launch them through the holes.

And at night, the parasitic beast entangled in the air defense net becomes the prey of the ants, and the hunting efficiency is much better than a simple rope trap.

In this way, a seemingly simple air defense network greatly strengthened the defense of [Swamp City], and also relieved the Divine Envoy King's army from the embarrassing situation of lack of soldiers and food.

- I'm the dividing line -

After the most dangerous situation has passed, the protagonist is planning a counterattack again.

Now, the protagonist can clearly perceive that the weather is getting cooler, especially the temperature difference between the morning and evening temperatures and the noon is getting bigger and bigger, and the fog in the morning and evening is also very thick, which is a sign of autumn, and there is not much time left for the protagonist.

In a week or so, the third batch of reinforcements will arrive, and the protagonist is ready to let Rambo take the Fourth Legion back by boat and reorganize the Legion in [Dongyang City]. At that time, the protagonist has two more legions in his hands.

At the same time, this time, the research team also brought some new weapons with the ship, including ballistas, which will greatly improve the long-range firepower and air defense of the Divine Envoy King Legion.

And this time, after the protagonist plans to rebuild the bridgehead, he will also build an air defense network in the local area, plus ballistas, and the defense will be qualitatively improved compared to the last time.

The ropes needed for the air defense net have been fabricated in [Swamp City], and it is expected that it will take one night to be completed.

This time, the protagonist is very cautious, repeatedly simulating the plan in his mind - this may be the last chance before winter, even if the swamp cannot be conquered this year, the Divine Envoy King's army needs to kill as many enemies as possible to lay the foundation for further military operations after the beginning of spring next year.