In addition, each "cabin" of the walnut fleet is independent of each other, and these "cabins" are walnut balls, each of which can presumably hold dozens of ants.

There are dozens of walnut boats in a walnut ship fleet, connected to each other only by ropes. If ants want to move from cabin to cabin, they have to crawl around on undulating cables, without any protection, and risk falling into the water.

Although human sailors in the age of sailing ships also climbed on various cables all year round, the ants were lucky enough to fall into the water. If it was bad weather with wind and rain, the ants would not be able to leave the cabin at all, otherwise they would be killed.

Therefore, the protagonist wants to connect the different cabins with hollow pipes, so as to protect the ants that are not good at water.

At first, the protagonist wants to use the pipes of the knotweed, which is more common, and when the god makes the king's army attack the parasitic ants in the southern hills with smoke, they use the knotweed as a flue. And the hollow partition inside the knotweed is also very easy to open.

However, after drying, the knotweed is very brittle and not resistant to deformation, and once the position of the walnut boats changes with each other under the action of water and wind, the stressed knotweed channel may be damaged.

The protagonist also wants to use a small bamboo pipe, and although the bamboo is not tolerant of the cold winters of the Great River region, it also grows in a small patch near [Spiral Flower City].

But the texture of the bamboo is too hard, whether it is to collect or open the bamboo in the middle is very laborious, the protagonist's plan is to let the scientific research team experiment how to process the bamboo pipe efficiently, after all, he can't do everything himself.

I'm the dividing line

The protagonist returned to [Dongyang City] for nearly a week, gave a little bit of attention to the scientific research team, and also clarified the current key research objects.

Then, after the ants report that the weather will change again and another heavy snow is coming, the protagonist takes advantage of noon to ride Xiaoqing II back to [Waterfront City].

Fortunately, Xiaoqing II has a poor memory, and the protagonist coaxes him to be very well-behaved with honeydew, and then rides Xiaoqing II into the cold sky again.

Although Xiaoqing II quickly regretted it, he couldn't help but regret it when he came out, and there was a mysterious ball warm baby to provide basic warmth, and Xiaoqing II had to soar to [Linshui City] at the fastest speed in his life.

In the past few days, the situation in [Waterfront City] and [Bridgehead] has been calm, and there has been no attack from the Destroyer.

At this time, the river had been completely frozen, and the Paving Ant Messenger also took advantage of the good weather to contact a number of secondary nests on the bank of the large river to confirm that these secondary nests were also safe and had not been attacked from across the river.

The protagonist wonders what the Destroyers are doing, and he also speculates that the enemy may be ramping up the siege of the remnants of the Pave Ant Barbarians.

I'm the dividing line

The protagonist's guess is correct.

At this moment, the paving ant barbarian country has reached the end of its rope, and it has broken its nest in the west, this huge nest that pins their last hope on **, and the organized resistance has almost been crushed.

A few days ago, the Destroyers had conquered the upper half of the Western Nest, which was mainly in a pile of rocks, and the structure was dominated by stone crevices and caves. The lower part is a nest built in the regular dirt.

The defenders of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army and the attacking Destroyer faced off for two days through several passages on the upper and lower floors, but the defensive line that had placed the defenders' hopes on was still lost.

The swarming Destroyers broke through this line of defense, burning the flames of war to every corner of the nest. The battle is raging at a fever pitch, with the nests of paver ants falling every hour, if not every minute.

Sometimes it is the loss of granaries, and the fall of each granary will reduce the defenders' food reserves a little, but this is not worth mentioning in relation to the rate at which the warriors are killed.

Sometimes when the nursery is lost, the murderous destroyer will mercilessly kill all the white eggs, wriggling chubby larvae, and the pupae that have begun to take on ant form but only have a swinging belly.

Sometimes even the queen and male ants' dormitories are lost, which means that the paving ants have lost some of their ability to replenish their forces, or some of the warriors have lost their commanders.

Huge nest**, the two sides are fighting fiercely around every passage, every nest room, every entrance and exit, the battle line is already intertwined and intricate, you have me, I also have you.

Like the Battle of Stalingrad, both sides threw all their forces into the fight until the last drop of blood of one side was exhausted.

Once a legion of paving ants is put into battle, it is quickly forced to disperse into multiple squads to fight on its own, or even cut into smaller combat units. They no longer need a proud military formation, in the narrow combat environment, the ants can only use the most primitive methods to fight, the big jaw is the weapon, the carapace is the armor, life is the bargaining chip, life and death are the stakes.

As more and more areas are conquered, the strength of the paving ant defenders has been stretched, and even the worker ants in the nursery who have just broken the pupa and become adults will be driven to the battlefield close at hand after being fed the first bite of food. At this time, the remaining time of their lives is measured in minutes.

The defenders of the Paving Ant Barbarians are desperately resisting, but the western branch is not Stalingrad, they have no outside support, and the enemy seems to be endless.

Lost, lost, and still lost!

Retreat, retreat, retreat!

Eventually, the Destroyer had taken over most of the lair, and the remaining defenders were divided into separate areas.

Even so, the defenders' males, knowing that defeat was inevitable, were still making a last stand. And the invaders will never spare any of the defenders alive, and they will kill them all.

Every paving ant male ant is a core of resistance, temporarily resisting in every stronghold they hold, even if they have lost the news of their allies, even if they have no source of food, but the battle still does not stop.

The surviving queen ants are still diligently laying eggs, they already know that the end is near, and even the worker ants who take care of themselves have been sent to the front line.

She was the only one left in the queen's bedroom. In this world, the abdomen of the ant queen will be as bloated as the termite queen in the reproductive state, causing her to have difficulty moving.

But she still struggled to move, licking her eggs one by one, arranging them neatly, waiting for the worker ants to never return to place them in the warm nursery.

But all she had to wait for was the Destroyer's deathly jaw...

The sporadic battles continued until the day when the protagonist went to [Dongyang City] to engage in scientific research.

In the end, on November 11, 4 years, Xuanhe's paving ant barbarian country went to extinction alone on this lonely day!