On the gravel ground, behind a sand dune, in the shade of a few tenacious sandy weeds, a dozen ants are lurking here.

The ants range in size to size, the largest being about 1 centimeter long, and a pair of long, curved, slightly exaggerated, sickle-like jaws that are particularly striking. The small ant is only about 0.6 cm, and the jaw is also relatively modest.

Regardless of their size, the bodies of these ants, under the scattered sunlight around them, emit a faint silver light, as if they were coated with a layer of silver powder, only the head is brown-red, which contrasts greatly with the color of the body.

These ants are silver wire arrow ants, commonly known as silver ants or Saharan silver ants, which are suitable for living in deserts and can tolerate high temperatures.

This gravel land is not yet at its hottest, and in the middle of summer, this miniature desert about the size of a dozen football fields can reach a surface temperature of more than 50 degrees.

Such harsh natural conditions make the vast majority of ants avoid, only these silver ants stubbornly survived, although the place is barren, when relatively speaking, the competition is also small, many indigenous silver ant tribes are still quite nourished.

Silver ants have a special ability to adapt to the harsh climate of gravel land, their silver body surface reflects most of the sunlight and moves quickly to protect their limbs from prolonged exposure to hot sand and stones.

These silver ants, once they run with all their might, can actually run a distance of one meter per second, that is, a speed of 3.6 kilometers per hour. That's a staggering speed relative to its length. It is equivalent to a human being of 1.8 meters running at a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour, which is more than that of high-speed rail.

At this time, these silver ant warriors did not run with all their might, but quietly lay in ambush behind the sand dunes, waiting motionless, saving precious physical energy.

On the top of the dune, only a large silver ant was watching, and she hid her easily exposed silver gland body in the shadows, revealing only her red head, which was not easy to detect, and stared at the north motionlessly.

This is the entire strength of a small tribe of silver ants, and they learned of a "shortcut" to food from their friendly neighbors, so they ambushed here.

It's a sunny day, but it's still spring, and even if it's close to noon, the surface temperature is only about 30 degrees Celsius, which is a comfortable temperature. If it is summer, even in the shadows, the indigenous silver ants do not dare to stay for so long, and the scorching air makes them only active outside for a short time, and they must go to the nest to cool down.

After waiting for about half a day, the target finally appeared.

A convoy of about 2,000 paver ants meandered here. Only a few hundred of them are warriors in leather armor, guarding the outside, and the other paver ants are not in armor, but carry the grain in their mouths and act as porters.

The Silver Ant Tribe is waiting for this group of paving ant convoys, although most of the tribes have trade relations with the Paving Ant Empire, and will sell ant eggs in exchange for food when there is a shortage of food in the spring, relying on trade to survive the famine.

But at this time, so much food is in front of them, and these silver ant tribes who have always had a difficult livelihood really can't help but drop their jaws.

As for offending the mighty Empire of Paving Ants? What's the matter, the Paving Ant Empire has spent hundreds of years attacking this gravel land, and it has never begged for benefits!

Silver ants have good eyesight, and their eyesight, speed and endurance are the magic weapons that their clan is most proud of.

The silver ant's belly swayed regularly, alerting the other warriors to get ready for the target approaching.

The paving ant convoy moved little by little, and their long line passed through the valley below the dunes.

But before the convoy could reach the ambush site of the silver ants, about five meters ahead, another sand dune, and suddenly another group of silver ants took the lead in killing them.

The lookout silver ant was a little stunned, she hadn't seen that there were ambushes there before, it seemed that the other party was also hiding behind the sand dunes, and the lookout was also well hidden in the shadows.

The other party used the tactics that the silver ants are best at, and first sent a few warriors to lure them head-on to attract the guards of the paving ant transport team to come. Then the other ants took the opportunity to burst in from other directions, rushed straight at the transported ants, killed some enemies, grabbed food and corpses and ran.

The speed of the silver ant is too fast, even with a heavy trophy in its mouth, the paving ant warrior does not want to catch up.

The silver ant tribe that was robbed of the first prize also hurriedly dispatched, and the distance of five meters ran in a few seconds.

Taking advantage of the panic of the paving ant guards, and still chasing the opportunity of the silver ant tribe that had robbed before, this silver ant tribe also concocted the same method, killed more than a dozen paving ants, grabbed some food and ant corpses and ran away.

Unlike ants in other affluent areas, tribes in the barren sandy fields treat ant carcasses as a common food.

It's dry, carcasses don't grow bacteria easily, and dying of starvation is more common than dying of disease, and silver ants don't dislike carcasses for food.

In 2 sneak attacks, the 2 silver ant tribes grabbed some food, and the loss of the paving ant transport team was not large, and the ants and food lost were less than one percent.

But half an hour later, after transporting the food back to the nest and resting a little to replenish their strength, the two silver ant tribes traced the traces and killed them again.

Later that day, four silver ant tribes that received the news rushed to rob after hearing the news, and the transport team could not turn a blind eye.

By the time the convoy arrived at the next transshipment point, a fifth of the ants and grain had already been lost.

This is not the first time that silver ants have been robbed, but recently the frequency has become more and more frequent, and more and more indigenous tribes have joined the robbery team, and this transport team has suffered the most loss in recent times.

When the news was transmitted back to the departure base of the Paving Ant Imperial Army, the Paving Ant Imperial Army sent an air force known as "Mosquito" to conduct reconnaissance, and cooperated with the country's silver ant mercenaries to quickly protect it, which temporarily curbed the rampant silver ant tribe.

At this time, in the sparse forest area south of the gravel field, a major war also broke out between the Red Fire Ant Army and the Leafcutter Ant Army.

In this battle, the "Wisdom Elders" of the Red Fire Ant Army made great contributions. From last autumn to this spring, he not only connected a group of internal responses in the territory of the Ant Alliance, but also relied on his familiarity with the terrain in the vast and sparsely ant country of leaf-cutting ants, and laid out a few dark chess moves.

Most of these dark chess pieces are simple camps in important locations, each with only a dozen ants stationed there.

When the Red Fire Ant Army arrived, they did not attack at the beginning, but divided their forces to strengthen these locations.

Soon, the Leaf Cutter Ant Army found that their rear roads were threatened, and their logistics supply lines were attacked many times.

The Leaf Cutting Ant Army hurriedly mobilized its military strength to clear the back road, but was introduced into the field battlefield by the Red Fire Ant Army, which had been prepared for a long time, and suffered a fiasco!

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