However, the next day, the protagonists were forced to evacuate, and failed to uncover the secret of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army's deep dive into the mountains and forests.

That night, an army of paving ant barbarians gathered together for the night.

The night in the forest is dangerous, and predators that are very different from the daytime insects become active: scorpions, centipedes, some spiders, and other insects.

The Paving Ant Barbarian Army has no shelter in the forest, but they must face more vicious predators and the cold temperatures characteristic of the forest nights in the summer, which can be deadly.

Fortunately, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army was not unprepared for this, and under the guidance of the scouts, they found a dry dead tree, the trunk of which had been riddled with holes, but it was still standing in the woods.

The paving ants gathered at the bottom of the trunk of the dead tree, and some of the ants got into the cavities, but most of them could not squeeze into the already crowded trunk, so they could only huddle together on the surface of the trunk, as if they had put on a layer of black clothing on the trunk.

Paver ants can snuggle up to each other to ward off the cold of the forest. These measures are effective, and the clumps of paver ants are able to save most of their companions, but there are some unfortunate ones that are at the bottom and outermost of the trunk.

Due to their location in the outermost layer of the colony, their body temperature gradually decreases under the influence of the cold air at night, and they do not have the warmth of their inner companions from other ants.

The temperature won't freeze the ants to death, but it will make them extremely stiff. To add insult to injury, some predators found the dead tree and the overnight paver ants on it.

Countless ants gathered together means abundant food, and in this year, food is the hope of survival.

Nocturnal predators have better eyesight or other senses, and they are able to understand the size of an ant colony, so they naturally do not easily crash into an ant colony. In that case, the predator will become prey.

They carefully tear out the semi-frozen outer layer of paver ants at the edge of the colony, eat them, and repeat the previous step.

The outermost semi-frozen paver ants were powerless to resist such an attack, but they could not escape either, and the entire colony was now a whole, and could only be sacrificed locally in exchange for the survival of most of its members.

It wasn't until the sun rose that this hunt came to an end. As the thin sunlight shone down on the floor of the Black Forest, the army of paving ants "came alive" again. Like a stream of flowing water, they covered the ground with a "whoosh".

Some of the insects around that didn't have time to escape were instantly affected, whether they were vegetarian insects or carnivorous insects, they all became the breakfast of the paver ants.

Some of these breakfasts even ate a lot of paver ants last night. But when the paver ants fight back during the day, any insect that doesn't escape in time is immediately turned into prey. This is the cruel side of nature, you eat me, I eat you.

This food was not enough for the entire army of paver ants, but they had only been on the road for a day and were not hungry, so hunting was just a matter of course. Now, the army is on its way again.

Last night, the protagonist took the Flyhawk and the Praying Tiger to find a safe place to spend the night. They chose a dead tree where the paving ants gathered.

The paving ants live in the lower part of the dead tree, and the protagonist finds a spacious tree hole in the upper part to live in. With the paver ants underneath acting as guards, they are generally relatively safe.

However, even so, the protagonist still meticulously arranges the cordon according to the previous plan, and if the mount detects any trouble, the protagonist can wake up.

In the morning, when the paved ant barbarian army began to set off again, the protagonists also hastily drank a few sips of the dew that had not dissipated in the morning, and ate two mouthfuls of jerky, which was considered a meal.

At present, they are still well fed. Therefore, the protagonist thinks that the scout team has enough food reserves for the enemy to track down this army of paving ants until they discover their ultimate goal and unravel the secret of their adventure into the forest.

But soon, the protagonist has to give up his optimistic ideas.

Today is the same as yesterday, the paving ant army is constantly attacked by the fierce insects in the forest, although it is annoying, but the paving ant barbarian army actually does not care about the loss of this bit of troops, after all, there are too many of them.

The paving ants are just moving forward, overcoming all obstacles, ignoring the predators of the insects.

The scout team was right behind, and no insect would ignore the numerous paver ants and come and target them, and they were safe, at least for now.

But gradually, the protagonist hears some dense flapping sounds, which is a bit unusual.

This flapping sound is similar to the fluttering of the wings of the mount beneath him, and if he doesn't listen closely, the protagonist will even suspect that he is hallucinating.

The protagonist struggles to find the source of the sound, but in the woods, the vision is severely limited. Therefore, it is not until a large swarm of wasps turns from behind a large cedar tree and appears above the army of paver ants that the protagonist discovers them.

Vespa, the protagonist is not the first time to face, when he was watching the wedding ceremony of the paver ant before, the protagonist had a conflict with a wasp, and even suffered a small injury.

But a single wasp is not the same as a whole swarm of wasps, just like the difference between a single ant and a swarm of ants.

The yellow and black bodies of these wasps also stand out in the dim sunlight of the woods, they don't need much covert protection, they are the most ferocious predators themselves.

There were hundreds of these wasps, and they must have been reported by scouts that they had spotted an army of paving ants, so they rushed over to hunt.

A wasp colony of this size consumes a lot of meat every day, and in this season of food scarcity, a colony of ants is excellent prey, even if the ants are not tied down.

Vesps fly in the sky and have a natural advantage against paving ants that can only crawl on the surface.

Moreover, there are many wasps, and there is a clear division of labor. Some wasps land around the colony, tentatively trying to get in touch with the colony.

The army of paving ants had stopped advancing, and they realized that the wasps in front of them were not ordinary fierce insects, and that if they were left alone, they would bring huge losses to themselves.

The paving ants discharged a dense defensive formation, and the wasps testing at the edge of the formation did not dare to easily crash into this formation, otherwise they would also be besieged and would not even be able to take off.

However, these wasps that landed on the ground and tried to test were only responsible for containment, and more wasps roared through the air, they found the weakest point of the formation, and drove away a small group of paving ants to force them out of the large army, and then wiped them out!