Little by little, the enemy troops penetrated into the lower half of the nest of [Purple Leaf Plum City] and took control of more and more places.

There was a nearer and nearer vibration from the earth, and if the tentacles were rested, Suzaku could even tell which ones were noisy battle movements and which ones were desperate pre-death struggles. From these vibrations, Suzaku also sensed the approach of death.

It was already approaching evening, and the most optimistic estimate was that Suzaku felt that he would die before dawn.

The small nest room where Suzaku is located is already crowded with a lot of male ants, these male ants have lost their subordinates in the battle and escaped by luck, and now Suzaku has no cannon fodder troops that can be contacted to transfer them to continue commanding.

These males can only stay with the Suzaku and crowd each other, quietly welcoming the final destination, without agitation or struggle.

It's hard for even messengers to get here, and the battlefields in the lower half of the nest are staggered, and most of the troops who are still fighting hard are no longer able to get in touch with the commander-in-chief. And some of the battlefields have been severely attritional, and they have been embarrassed to the point of putting the messenger into battle. These crowded males don't interfere with Suzaku's work, and she has almost no work to do.

The mysterious ants were still so unstoppable, and it seemed that no one could defeat them, which made Suzaku also feel disheartened - the experience accumulated by the paving ant clan, the painstakingly managed defense line, and the tenfold superiority of troops were still not enough to stop these terrible enemies.

For a moment, he was also full of pessimism about the next battle of the main nest.

At this time, the male ant near the door of the nest was in a commotion, and Suzaku turned his head, and saw a worker ant squeezing past the male ant and approaching him.

This is a messenger, a messenger that Suzaku does not recognize. This is normal, there are too many ants under the command of Suzaku, and most of them have never used their antennae to communicate before, so he has no impression of many ants.

It's been a while since I've seen the messenger, and I wonder what bad news she's brought, which key node is missing? Or did a male ant you know die in battle? Or has some granary or queen's dormitory been lost?

Suzaku had become numb to the constant influx of bad news, which meant that there were fewer and fewer messengers now, so he didn't have to hear bad news all the time. Suzaku still stretched out his tentacles to touch the messenger, doing his last duty as a commander.

But the messenger brought a command, a command from the Lord's nest.

It turned out that this worker ant messenger was from the main nest and was one of the three messengers urgently sent by the main nest after Suzaku's messenger arrived at the main nest. She was the only one who arrived at [Purple Leaf Plum City] in the shortest possible time, and then found a secret passage based on the intelligence, all the way to Suzaku's location.

The order of the King's Council of the Main Nest is: Suzaku and the male ants that can leave the [Purple Leaf Plum City] together to return to the main nest, and there is no need to stay here.

This is an unusual order, the paving ants are so brave and ruthless, they are not afraid of death, and they are even proud to die on the battlefield. Commanders rarely retreat on their own initiative unless they have an order. And the kings often did not interfere with the commander of the defeated army and died with his subordinates.

This time, the kings of the main nest felt that Suzaku and the males who had already fought the mysterious ants needed to come back as much as possible.

On the one hand, this is because the main nest currently has a lot of troops, and the male ant commander is limited, if you can equip the cannon fodder corps with as many commanders as possible, you can upgrade this legion to the main legion, which will help improve the combat effectiveness.

On the more important side, the information provided by Suzaku to the main nest king meeting is very valuable, even if it has been fighting with the mysterious ants for more than half a year, the information about the enemy of the paving ant barbarian country is still fragmented.

The males of the main nest urgently need ants like Suzaku to bring back more information and ways to defeat the enemy, even if Suzaku is already a defeated general, but he is also a failed and glorious commander.

Based on this, the King's Council of the Main Nest issued an unusual order.

Suzaku did not hesitate when he received the order, he was not afraid of death, but he valued the order more. So he immediately notified the male ants around him and his escort team, and the group of ants moved towards the secret passage not far away.

As for the friendly forces that are still fighting behind them, it doesn't matter whether there is a supreme commander in charge at this time, anyway, the establishment has basically been broken up.

A swarm of ants, there are hundreds, and the worker ant warriors have only fifty, and the number of male ants even exceeds that of worker ants, and they are advancing rapidly.

Under the guidance of the messenger, Suzaku took the lead and climbed to the ground through the secret passage.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and a huge bright moon hung in the middle of the sky early, and the earth illuminated by the bright moonlight was unusually bright.

Although light is not a necessity for ants, they can find their way with their antennae and pheromones. However, seeing the sky and the moon again is also a blessing that makes all ants feel like they have escaped death.

Guided by the messenger, the males quickly fled south. At this time, Suzaku once again showed the quality of a good commander, even at such an urgent moment, he still divided the twelve worker ants around him to march forward, backward, left and right, acting as scouts and peripheral cordons.

His caution was not unnecessary, the enemy's troops were close at hand, and the world full of dangerous insects at night was not the favorite of the ants.

Although ants in the human world work around the clock, in this world, ants prefer daytime and night belongs to those dangerous predators.

Suzaku's arrangement was not in vain.

The mysterious ants are always aware of the presence of a team of paver ants nearby, and although the messengers who came and went through the secret passage did not attract their attention before, now hundreds of paver ants are acting together, and soon attract pursuers.

A small team of mysterious ants, ten mysterious ant warriors, is chasing after them from behind.

In Suzaku's ranks, the males were moving a little slowly, and some of the males were wounded after the battle, and they were even slower.

Suzaku quickly sensed the enemy's approach from the alarm sound of the paving ants rubbing the arthropods with all their might before the worker ants died.

It is Suzaku's decision to protect the male ants around them as much as possible, and these male ants have experience in fighting mysterious ants and are a valuable resource for the whole country.

can only sacrifice worker ants, Suzaku has no psychological pressure on the commonplace thing of sacrificing worker ants.

Under his command, the six worker ant warriors, led by a wounded male, immediately left the group, hoping to buy some time for the large army.

But can just seven ants accomplish this daunting task?