The protagonist is mentally prepared for such a refusal from the police king, after all, although the plan he proposes seems to be a "win-win", the male ants are a group of diehards, and often think not about profits, but about some strange traditions.

"Tradition" is the banner that the King's Council faction can only condense the hearts of ants, but in the eyes of the protagonist, it is also the root of their gradual decay.

Agree or refuse, in the face of the protagonist's proposal, the Northern Expeditionary Army trapped in [Target A] actually has two options, even if their choice probability is half to half, the probability of rejection is not low.

However, the protagonist still wants to work hard, and he sees that the public security king and the senior brother king have led their subordinates back to the underground lair, and it seems that he doesn't want to have too much to do with the protagonist.

The protagonist hurriedly asks the messenger to pass over again, trying to communicate again.

However, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who are dutiful to their duties, stop the protagonist's messenger from getting close to the king, and even push and bite the messenger with their bodies and jaws, forcing the messenger to abandon the mission and return.

The protagonist sees all this in his eyes, and there is nothing he can do, even the public security king and the senior brother king, who used to have a very friendly relationship, now that the relationship has come to this point, it seems that there is no room for turnaround, and the other party doesn't even give a chance to communicate more.

The protagonist had to lead his subordinates to turn around and advance towards the [bridgehead], but returned in vain.

- I'm the dividing line -

On the way back, the Divine Envoy King's legion followed the path they had come from, and soon reached the grassy area, only to find that the corpses of both sides left behind on the battlefield had disappeared.

The protagonist immediately realizes that there are mysterious ants who have visited this battlefield, after all, in the information that the flying knights have detected before, the mysterious ants have the habit of collecting the corpses of both enemies after the war, except for them, no one will be interested in these ant corpses, and it is impossible for scavenging insects to eat so clean in a short time.

The protagonist guesses that the mysterious ants feed on ant corpses, so the flying knights never find the supply line of the mysterious ants. This also explains why the Mysterious Ants are aggressive - they need to constantly attack their enemies in order to get food.

But that's just the protagonist's guess.

On the battlefield, the corpses of the mysterious ants have disappeared, and the corpses of the buried Divine Envoy King warriors are also less, and some of the corpses that are buried very shallow or only hastily covered with dirt and gravel have been excavated and taken away, only the deeper ones are still unharmed.

Even the corpses on the ground that had not been collected have disappeared, and most of the Praetorian Guards around the protagonist were crushed in the explosion and did not have time to bury them.

Thinking that the remains of these loyal subordinates are about to be eaten by those evil mysterious ants, the protagonist is on fire for a while.

The protagonist didn't let his subordinates clean the battlefield anymore, and there was nothing to clean up, and the battlefield that was cleaned by the mysterious ants was extremely clean, and there were no corpses to be seen. The protagonist fears the sudden appearance of the enemy, and expands the scouts' cordon a lot, and then returns all the way to the [bridgehead].

The journey was uneventful, and the Divine Legion returned to the [bridgehead].

Subsequently, the protagonist left Ramboto's 4th Legion and Rambofer II's 13th Legion to be temporarily stationed here, while Rambose's 6th Legion crossed the river to [Waterfront City] to replenish troops and reorganize in order to restore combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist does not return to [Waterfront City], he still stays in [Bridgehead] and continues to preside over the expansion of the fortress here.

Half of Rambofer II's legions, which had been left here, had been working overnight, and most of the [bridgehead] defenses had been completed.

However, after a battle with the mysterious ants, the protagonist feels that he has to raise his estimate of the enemy's combat strength, and the current defenses do not seem to be very adequate.

For example, the protective net can effectively isolate the attack of the larger parasitic war beast, but although the mysterious ant is much larger than the ordinary big-headed ant and paving ant, it is not so large, they can easily drill into the hole of the protective net, so that the protective net does not work at all.

I had planned to install a protective net in the [bridgehead], but it was only to guard against fierce insects, not to protect against mysterious ants. However, after seeing the fierce fighting power of the mysterious ants, the protagonist feels that the protective net is very much needed as a perimeter defense line to relieve the pressure on the defenders.

Fortunately, there are a lot of materials in the [Linshui City], and after the protagonist popularized the weaving process, the practical tool of rope is used in a large number of territories, and each lair has a certain reserve, and there are a lot of ropes in strategic places like [Linshui City], and there are various specifications.

The protagonist prepares to transport some slender but sturdy ropes with a high hemp content the next day, encrypting the existing protective net to ensure that the mysterious ants cannot get in directly.

During the protagonist swamp raiders, [Dongyang City] has been working overtime to make ballistas, as the craftsmen under the scientific research group become more and more skilled, the production of ballistas has increased a lot, and there are currently four ballistas available in the warehouse.

Originally, the protagonist planned to place all four ballistas in [Waterfront City], and the large banyan tree could be used to build four condescending forts.

But now [Bridgehead] is the key place to face the threat of mysterious ants, and as long as [Bridgehead] is not lost, [Waterfront City] will not be in danger.

The protagonist plans to transfer two ballistae to the [bridgehead], but these ballistas are only useful in autumn, and once winter, the ballistas can only be disassembled and hidden in the lair.

Mysterious ants can fight in the wild during the winter, and although like the paver ants, these mysterious ants can only act for a short time in the winter when the sun is shining, but they have enough advantages.

Once faced with siege in winter, whether it is protective nets or ballistas, or ant mounds and fences on the ground, they will be useless. The only thing that can be relied on is the underground fortifications.

The Legion of the Divine Envoy has already learned a little about building underground fortifications, and they will build a preset battlefield nest to make the most of the razor tactics.

However, the tactics of the mysterious ants are extremely simple and straightforward, using the advantages of size and strength to break through the formation and pull the battle into a melee.

The army of big-headed ants and paving ants, who are accustomed to fighting in arrays, face the front tactics of other ants that are invincible and unfavorable, and they are often helpless in the face of mysterious ants and fall into passivity.

The existing underground fortifications of the nests in the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion could not contain this tactic of the mysterious ants. Even because of the great superiority of the Mysterious Ant's individual combat effectiveness, the disadvantages of the defenders in underground street battles are more obvious than those in ground battles.

Although the Legion of the Divine Envoy King has not yet fought in the street with the mysterious ants, the protagonist has already seen the danger.

Now the only way to restrain the enemy is to use the underground fortifications.