Chapter 26: The Captives (1)

While dealing with the last enemy, some unexpected situations arise on the front line, which leads the protagonist to make a trip himself.

It turned out that just as the Divine Envoy King's army was preparing to launch a general attack on the last remnants of the paving ants with their backs to a gravel formation, a sudden change occurred within the enemy.

Inside the enemy formation, a small force actually launched an attack on their friendly forces.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the attacked party was caught off guard and was quickly subdued and killed. After all, they didn't expect to be attacked by their own people.

Then, the group of enemies all began to crawl on the ground, their heads and abdomen curled together. Apparently, there was a commander who gave an order that was unbelievable to both sides.

It is a gesture of surrender and is common in scenes such as the male ant's marriage and flight competition, where the loser uses it to show acceptance of defeat in the hope that the winner will not hurt himself again.

What's going on here?

The Divine Envoy King's legion was also confused, the variables within the enemy had nothing to do with the battle plan drawn up by the Divine Envoy King before, and the current situation was completely a spontaneous emergency within the enemy.

The squad commander at the front did not dare to specialize, and quickly reported it to his superior, Rambofo.

Rambo Buddha was also confused, and he had no experience in dealing with this kind of thing, so he quickly reported it to the protagonist again.

The protagonist thinks about it for a while, but he understands the enemy's intentions, and they want to surrender.

It's a rare thing.

In human history, the surrender of the losing side is a common way to preserve itself, although surrender may lead to serious damage to interests, but the winner generally will not kill the surrenderer, especially when the surrendering side still retains a certain counterattack strength or use value.

In many cases, surrender is a very realistic act. But in the ant world, even though the ant is a very realistic creature, the act of surrendering is rarely the case.

In the face of a certain defeat, the losing side will choose to die generously, and the victorious side has no intention of accepting prisoners, and will put to death all the enemies they see found.

The only prisoners of war who could be accepted were probably ant eggs and juvenile ants. Some ants will intentionally bring these trophies back, some as protein-rich food, and some will be raised to adulthood and then become slaves.

So, it's really a rare thing to suddenly encounter a bunch of adult paver ants on the battlefield asking for surrender, and it's no wonder that the protagonist is also attracted to it.

The protagonist is not worried about the other party's fraudulent surrender, and does not say whether there is such a creativity with the intelligence and experience of ants, just that now the god has made the king's army stand by, and it is not that the enemy can turn the tables with such a small number of troops relying on intrigue and trickery.

And if the protagonist activates the "Celestial Descendant" state, he is not worried about being hurt by the enemy.

The protagonist quickly arrives in front of the formation, and the Praetorian Guard team surrounds him to the front of the Paving Ant Army.

The Paving Ant Army warriors still maintain a loser posture huddled together. But then, a paver ant male gets up on his own, steps over the body of his warrior curled up on the ground, and comes to the protagonist.

I saw that the paver ant male ant lowered his head and stretched out his tentacles, and it turned out to be a willingness to communicate.

The protagonist reaches for his tentacles and quickly receives a message:

The other party revealed his identity, he turned out to be the supreme commander of this paving ant army, a member of the paving ant master nest king meeting, and an authorized military instructor.

The protagonist is immediately intrigued by this unusual paving ant king.

"Did you know that paver ants and big-headed ants can communicate with each other?" The protagonist asks.

The paving ant king on the opposite side gave an affirmative answer, he is the floating leaf king, of course the protagonist doesn't know the origin of the floating leaf allusion, he didn't give this paving ant king a name, anyway, according to the ant's stream of consciousness thinking habits, he already knows how to distinguish the identity of the other party.

The Floating Leaf King tells the protagonist that the sacred and rich Paving Ant Nation understands that different ant races can also communicate with each other. It seems that although the Paving Ant Kingdom is regarded as a barbarian race by the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, it is indeed rich in heritage, and the leaders of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom do not understand this, and they have never tried to communicate with other races.

"Why did you surrender?" The protagonist asks again, in which the word "surrender" makes the protagonist entangle for a long time, and there is no such word in the consciousness of the ant, so the protagonist can only make a lengthy note on this word, and then define this new word at the level of consciousness and inform the other party.

Fortunately, the Floating Leaf King is also a wise ant, and he quickly understands what the protagonist means.

"Cast ...... Fall...... This is not surrender! The Floating Leaf King refutes the protagonist's claims.

The protagonist can only "hehe", the boiled duck has a hard mouth, it seems that not only the human world has this problem, but also ants. Just like losing a battle, leaving the capital and escaping, it can still be called "West Hunt" and "North Hunt".

The Floating Leaf King said that the heroic Paving Ant Warrior would never surrender. The reason why he gave the order to give up resistance was because he believed that there should be a truce between the paver ants and the big-headed ants, and in order to be able to convey this important message, he had to give the order to do so.

The protagonist continues, but his impression of the Floating Leaf King is refreshed again. The other party can play with diplomatic vocabulary so smoothly and say defeat so beautifully, it is indeed not an ordinary ant, you know, ordinary ants can't even lie, let alone a higher level of sophistry.

As for what conveys the truce message, the protagonist doesn't believe a word, you come with 10,000 troops, and kill the door without saying a word, in order to deliver the truce message? If you were the victor, I am afraid that even if the Divine Envoy King's army gave up resistance and made a "loser posture" as you are now, it would still be killed.

In fact, the protagonist guesses half right.

If the Floating Leaf King leads the army to achieve a military victory, he will naturally solve the military presence of the big-headed ants on the north bank of the Great River once and for all.

And the reason why he gave up the order to give up resistance, which is equivalent to surrendering in disguise, may be out of the desire of a wise individual to survive secretly, or it may be some unclear enemy feelings for the big-headed ant.

But the truce he spoke of was not entirely false. As a very small minority in the Council of Great Kings, he was the only one who dared to openly advocate a truce with the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom to stabilize the southern border.

Only this time, he found a direct channel of communication with the king, who was fighting his old enemy for life and death.

The Floating Leaf King continues to persuade the protagonist, believing that a truce between the two sides would be beneficial to the Big-Headed Ant Country, and that the Sacred Paving Ant Kingdom could give up its claim to the territory on the south bank of the Great River, even though they had lost this land for hundreds of years, and the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom would not have to tremble every winter to guard against revenge from the north.