After the remaining six unfinished tunnels were redirected, the good news of breakthrough soon followed. Subsequently, more and more squads were engaged in the search for the secondary nest of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

The Divine Legion of the King remained unmoved.

The protagonist is constantly surrounded by messenger worker ants that emerge from the ground to report the progress of the underground:

Report: A large number of ant pupae have been found, destroyed.

Report: Found a nest of young ants, all killed.

Report: The team has been intercepted by several enemy forces and is engaged in combat.

Report: The team encountered a large force of enemy forces and was unable to advance, and requested reinforcements.

Packets of information are passed on by the messengers, and the protagonist can sense that the initial advantage of the surprise attack has gradually faded, and more and more reconnaissance teams have been stopped by enemy reinforcements.

However, there is no news of the queen ant yet.

I can only continue to wait patiently, waiting for the news to come.

At this time, the eight legions had already sent a large number of troops from the large tunnel to the bottom of the sub-nest according to the plan, and countless squads searched and advanced along the main road, forks and paths they found, until they were blocked by the enemy.

These big-headed warriors have destroyed hundreds of eggs, larvae, and chrysalis, but if they don't kill the queen, then the results are meaningless.

More and more news indicates that the underground forces have been blocked, but there is no good news as expected.

In the end, the protagonist decides not to wait, the fighter plane is fleeting, and he wants to personally lead an elite squad down to the bottom of the enemy's lair, and he has a strong instinct that only by going there himself can he find the target he is looking for. Since that strange dream, the protagonist feels more enthusiastic and brave, and after becoming the Divine Messenger King, he has a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that he has never felt in human times.

The protagonist immediately asks Mulan to bring the pre-assembled elite team, which is a convoy of twenty strong soldier ants, and Mulan is among them, and the protagonist will take them down the underground to search for the location of the paving ant queen.

Bringing only such a small number of guards is not a risk or a big deal for the protagonist, but in a narrow and complex underground environment, too many troops cannot be used, and it is not conducive to command. And the protagonist's eyesight in the underground dark environment is very good, and he can be found by the enemy first, which greatly guarantees the survival probability of the protagonist.

In addition, the remaining Divine Envoy King Legion is all gathered at the mouth of the Great Tunnel, and if there is a signal for help from underground, these legion soldiers will go down to support as soon as possible.

After making arrangements, the protagonist climbs down the last large tunnel with twenty personal guards. There is still a lot of unexplored area where this tunnel connects.

Descending all the way down the large tunnel, then changing to a horizontal front, the tunnel is only about four meters in total, and the protagonists quickly pass through it, entering the secondary nest through the wall of a nest chamber. This nest is relatively narrow, and there is the corpse of a pavement ant worker ant on the ground, which was killed by the big-headed ant construction team that dug through here. Other than that, there is nothing left in the entire nest except fluorescent bacteria.

There are two exits to the nest chamber, both of which have pheromones left behind by the advance team of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force, and it is clear that other teams have already set off before. One of these two exits is upwards and one is downwards.

The protagonist decides to continue searching downwards as he had previously judged. Two soldier ants open the way at the front, followed by the protagonist and then the remaining eighteen soldier ants, and the whole team marches in a column.

Soon after the advance, there was a fork in the road, and according to the pheromones left on the ground, the advance party in front of them went around the fork in the road, and the original passage was not explored. The protagonist then proceeds along the passage with the party.

After continuing for a while, the sharp-eyed protagonist noticed two paver ants in front of him. The other party's eyesight is poor, and he hasn't noticed the protagonist and his party not far away. They crawl forward quickly, and it won't be long before they collide head-on with the protagonist's small team.

Two paving ants, you can't let either one go, otherwise it will lead away a large group of enemies. The protagonist thinks to himself, and then he immediately gives an order to the four soldiers around him. According to the location information in the protagonist's information packet, the four soldier ants who received the order quickly stepped forward and pounced on the two paver ants who had not yet found the abnormality. Because of the darkness underground, the two paver ants did not spot the enemy until their tentacles made contact with the nearby big-headed ant soldiers, but it was too late, and they were torn in two by the four soldiers before they could even raise the alarm.

Ignoring the two dead paver ants, the protagonist urges the team to move on, abandoning the fork in the road for a moment and following the current passage first. After ten minutes of this, the protagonist is disappointed, and the road in front of him has come to an end, merging into a narrow, almost straight underground passage, which is a drainage channel.

The protagonist has no choice but to leave the drain with the team, and return to find the forks in the road that he missed one by one. But the results were extremely disappointing, and each fork in the road ended not what he expected, some of which were collapsed and abandoned passages, and some were nests of dead big-headed ants and paver ants (the corpses were used as food).

Finally, after searching all the forks in the route and killing a dozen lone paver ants unscathed, the protagonist and his party return to their original nest. It seems that the downward path leads nowhere.

The protagonist decides to continue on another upward path, but not long after entering, he finds that the front is occupied by big-headed ants and paving ants who are fighting fiercely, and this road is also impassable.

Mulan looks a little discouraged on the side, and the protagonist is also a little irritable, so do you have to climb back to the ground and search for a new big tunnel? If the longer the time drags on, the more likely it is that the other party will move the queen ant to safety, and his plan to raid and kill the queen ant will be completely ruined.

The protagonist forces himself to calm down, and he rehearses his actions after entering the secondary nest. Did I search all the places along the way? Is there any missing information? Is there a fork in the road I forgot to go in and search.

Suddenly, the protagonist pats the carapace on his head: there is indeed a place where you can still move forward, but the protagonist does not search for it. So the protagonist and his subordinates hurriedly walked again from the road they had walked for the first time before.

They soon came to the end of the passage, where they joined the gutter.

Yes, gutters. All the gutters of the nest are drilled deep into the ground for drainage. Upwards, these gutters will be adjacent to some important nest chambers to prevent them from being flooded. These important nest rooms have meeting rooms, hatcheries for young ants, and dormitories for queen ants!

The protagonist decides to try his luck by climbing up the drain.