Chapter 197: "New River Opening Plan" (2)
Time was pressing, and although it was noon, the sky was getting darker and darker, and only a faint scattered light kept the earth from falling into the night. The clouds were piling up thicker and thicker, and behind the dark clouds seemed to hide the goddess of winter.
Without the intuitionary premonition of the ants, the protagonist can tell with the naked eye that another inverted spring cold is approaching.
Referring to the harsh consequences of the last cold spring, the protagonist knows that this kind of weather is the help of the Destroyer and the nightmare of the Divine Messenger King's legion.
Nature can't fight it, the protagonist crosses the human beings who were already very technologically advanced before they were powerless to change the weather on a large scale, and the current ants can't even affect the weather. All the God could do was to minimize the negative impact of the cold as much as possible.
The worker ants hurriedly prepared, they turned out all the nut shells in stock, selected the good ones, stuffed them with fuel, and filled the fire There was no time to clean up the nut shells stained with charcoal ash that they had used before, so it was better to replace them with new ones faster.
One hundred Bee Flying Knights can carry twenty-five nut shells, twenty-four of which have been made into tinder shells, and one stuffed with mystery balls.
In addition, this time, each Flying Knight must also carry a worker ant on their mount as a detonator, after all, it is too inappropriate to have a complex technical job like the Flying Knight to do dangerous demolition work.
Naturally, the Flying Knights don't like to carry lowly worker ants, but the Divine Envoy King is now more and more authoritative, and the male ants also feel the challenge of the big worker ant class, and there is even a large worker ant flying knight army in [Great Lake City].
So the male ants didn't dare to make a mistake, so they agreed aggrievedly.
And because these worker ants need to move conveniently, and in order to save the precious mystery ball, they are only brushed with a layer of black charcoal ash to absorb heat, and do not carry the mystery ball.
I'm the dividing line
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the Flying Knights finally got ready and set off.
This mission is not as simple as sprinkling charcoal ash, it is estimated that it will take more than three hours to go back and forth, and it will be dark by then.
And depending on the weather, there may be a cold snap tonight.
In other words, this mission is the last chance for the Divine Envoy Legion to stop the Destroyer from crossing the Great River before the arrival of the Fallen Spring Cold.
The cold wind had already begun to rise, blowing from north to south, and the bee riders flew north-west at an angle of about thirty degrees, and had to fight against the north wind along the way, which was quite exhausting.
The protagonist is also observing the ground along the way, and the Flying Knight's path will pass through some of the Destroyer's occupation areas.
He could see that the Destroyer was not afraid of the cold wind, and was sending reinforcements from the direction of [to Xicheng] in the size of dozens and hundreds of them.
There were almost no other insects on the ground except for the Destroyer, and it was already time to sting, but the insects still had to hide from the spring cold in the shelter.
I don't know how many wintering insects that have woken up prematurely have frozen to death, and how many insects have died of energy exhaustion in the long process of waiting for spring.
The prey population after the start of spring this year will certainly also be affected until a new batch of insects hatches to fill the gap.
The protagonist thinks to himself, but the food crisis is not so critical, and now the priority is to be such a vicious enemy as the Destroyer.
I'm the dividing line
The team finally arrived at the designated location.
But a group of Destroyers were crossing the river on the ice, and they quickly locked onto the Legion of the Divine King's in the air based on their sound and sight.
The Divine King's legions can only hover in the air, waiting for the Destroyer to run out of patience to cross the river. Otherwise, there would be no way for them to descend to the ice to carry out their mission.
Finally, the destroyers reluctantly withdrew their peep into the air, continued to cross the river, and reached the south bank. The destroyers on the north bank are still gathering and have no intention of crossing the river immediately.
The protagonist immediately lands first, and the other flying knights follow suit.
Although Xiaoqing II and the bees had mysterious balls for warmth, they felt the cold touch under their feet, and they were still very resistant, and they were finally appeased.
After landing, the protagonist observes, although the destroyers on both sides of the river noticed, but did not attack immediately, the destroyers on the south bank hid in the [to the west city], and the troops on the north bank are still busy gathering, after all, the more ants, the warmer the river crossing, the safer it is.
But the Divine Envoy King's legion must also hurry, sooner or later the enemy will start to cross the river, and the time left for the Divine Envoy King's legion may only be ten minutes, or it may only be a few minutes.
Moreover, once the bomb is detonated, the loud noise will also alarm the enemy, and the flying knights will hardly have a second chance to re-detonate.
So this operation is a hammer deal, success or failure in one fell swoop!
The protagonist and the Ant Flying Riders stop on their mounts and do not get off, continuing to enjoy the warmth of the Mystery Ball.
The worker ants quickly climbed off their mounts and began to work on the ice.
They remove the nutshells from the rope, lay out a 3x8 rectangle of the tinder shells for detonation as the protagonist asks, and stack the mystery balls from the last nut shell in the number of three for each tinder shell.
Then, next to each tinder shell, there will be four worker ants responsible for throwing three mystery balls to detonate, and the reason why so many detonators are sent is also for insurance.
From the moment they descend to the ice, the life of some worker ants enters the countdown.
Without the mystery ball, blackening their bodies in this dimly lit weather is only better than nothing, and it does not provide much extra heat, after all, these big-headed ant worker ants are not physiologically adaptable to the cold like the paver ants, and they do not have frost-resistant genes in their bodies.
The workers could only move with the heat they had accumulated on their mounts, and after about two or three minutes, the frozen workers were already paralyzed on the ice.
Waiting for her, she can only die, and the worker ants around her are busy carrying out tasks, and according to the protagonist's request, none of the worker ants will come to take care of him.
One after another, the worker ants froze and collapsed on the ground, their bodies crawling on the ice, and the heat was lost much faster than just their limbs touching the ground, and their bodies became pale at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon they almost merged with the ice.
By the time the workers had completed all the preparations and were about to detonate, only about 60 workers were left to move.
The protagonist brings Xiaoqing II closer to the detonation site, and the protagonist emits a scent and rubs a sound to notify the worker ants of the detonation.
The protagonist finishes giving the order and immediately retreats a little farther away.
Worker ants began to throw mystery balls into nut shells that burned with small flames, and on average a worker ant only needed to throw one mystery ball, and at most two.
After the cast, more than 40 worker ants that could still move ran towards the flying knight team not far away, and about 20 worker ants stopped the rhythm of life after completing the task.