The neatly equipped Xiaoqing II is quickly brought in, and the protagonist has not ridden it for several days, and it has been locked underground without seeing the light of day, which is really torture for its nature.

But the protagonist has no better way, and on weekdays, he can also let other flying knights ride it from time to time. But now the Flying Knight has to maintain information communication between the different territories under the protagonist's command, which is itself stretched. So poor Xiaoqing II can only be locked up in the underground stable, relying on food to comfort the empty soul that longs to fly.

As soon as it gets the opportunity to fly today, it's no wonder that it immediately soars into the sky with the protagonist.

The protagonist controls the reins and sends Xiaoqing II flying northwest.

It had been half a day since the messenger had set off, but the protagonist had arrived in Yancheng in less than two hours.

The situation on the ground makes the protagonist's heart tighten!

On the ground, more than a dozen river crabs were waving their claws, and these river crabs looked as big as a human man's palm, and the small ones were the size of tennis balls.

The ground had been dug up and bumps, and a large pit had been dug in the deepest part. From the ground, it is not at all obvious that there was once an ant nest there, after all, the ant nest of the big-headed ant should have a more conspicuous nest hole and a conical ant mound made of waste muck.

But the ants that are fighting all over the ground prove that there is a nest here, a nest that they are desperately trying to protect.

A large number of ants poured out of the ground, and they might have wanted to hide to avoid these monstrous monsters, but the crabs were too good at digging into the earth - they had a habit of burrowing.

Soon after the messenger of the tumor was dispatched, with the cooperation of the river crab's large pincers and arthropods, the underground part of "Yancheng" was quickly excavated and exposed.

At this moment, the inside of "Yancheng" is already very crowded. There were originally two or three thousand permanent residents in "Yancheng", but later the tumor brought hundreds of ants to move in. And as many as 1,000 salt trucks from all over the country are stranded here.

With so many ants crowded into the already small underground nest of "Yancheng", after part of the underground nest was exposed, these ants could not hide in other passages that were already crowded.

In desperation, these ants (mainly worker ants) spontaneously climbed to the ground from the rubble and launched an attack on the rampant river crabs.

This attack of the giant beast was destined to suffer heavy casualties, and the ants were killed and injured by the clever pincers of the river crabs.

However, their offensive was not without success, these river crabs came to forage for food, and there was little cooperation with each other. A small group of ants concentrates on besieging one of the smallest crabs, while the other crabs in the vicinity are busy catching ants to eat, or continuing to dig through the soil to find more ants, and they don't care if their besieged companions live or die.

But even a small river crab is as big and heavy as hundreds of ants, and it is not easy to match. Ants usually deal with insects with strong carapace and like to attack weak spots. But these worker ants and a small number of soldier ants found that even the joints of the arthropods of river crabs were protected by a hard membrane, and the ants' jaws could not be pierced at all.

Although this river crab seems to be surrounded by dozens or hundreds of ants, and its body is crawling with ants, it actually encounters very little threat, and it still unhurriedly stuffs the ants into the bubbling mouthparts one by one and eats them.

Ants are warriors by nature, and even in the face of such a crisis, in the face of their constantly dying companions, they still do not flinch. With instinct, they really found a few weaknesses in these crabs.

One weak point is the mouthparts, where the carapace is relatively thin and the nerves are densely packed, making it more sensitive. Some ants who were caught and eaten did not forget to prick the crab's hideous mouthparts with their big jaws before they died, which made the river crab's predation speed slow down.

Truth be told, if it weren't for the lack of suitable food nearby, and the long journey of river crabs that had to accumulate energy in order to lay eggs, they would not want to provoke these fierce ants.

And for ants, these river crabs are literal death. River crabs are very gluttonous, and can eat food equivalent to one-tenth of their body weight every day, and if they are humans, a woman weighing 100 catties will eat 10 catties of food every day, and she will eat more than 3 catties per meal. If there is no nest protection, more than a dozen river crabs can make the ants in "Yancheng" lose half a day, and they can completely eliminate all the ants in it in a few days.

Obviously, "Yancheng" has reached an important moment of life and death.

The second weakness is the crab's excretory opening, which is located at the top of the crab's abdomen, which is the top of the umbilicus, and is a very inconspicuous small opening that is folded inside. However, smaller ants can burrow into the gaps between the abdomen and outer abdominal armor of the river crab and sting it violently, causing the crab to eat pain.

The most important weakness is the eyes of the river crab. Their eyes do not close, and they stand outwards like two small pillars, retracting at most into the depression between the wart-like processes of the dorsal carapace, but they are still exposed.

The ants gathered to attack the pair of compound eyes, although there were two pairs of antennae next to the compound eyes that kept flicking, constantly sweeping away the ants close to the compound eyes of the river crabs, and a pair of crab claws began to focus on protecting their eyes.

But there are still brave ants who come up, especially those that crawl past the back of the river crab, they are in the blind spot of the crab's field of vision, and they are not easily attacked by crab claws or antennae.

Finally, the first ant crawled up to the crab's eye, opened its vengeful jaws, and bit it hard.

The thin, tough membrane on the crab's eye could not stop the large jaw full of revenge, and it was quickly punctured, and the lens in the compound eye was pierced, and the liquid gushed out.

The river crab immediately suffered from pain, and frantically waved its claws and tentacles, trying to shake off the ants on its body. But more ants took the opportunity to rush up, and the crab's other compound eye was quickly pierced - this crab was blind.

At the same time, the fearless ant attacked its mouthparts and anus, and the river crab finally retreated, striding and stumbling in the direction it had come.

Although blind, its injuries are not fatal, and it can return to the lake with the water vapor it perceives through its memory and tentacles.

The ants did not give up until the river crabs burrowed into the water, and a dozen ants were not shaken off by the river crabs that were frantically escaping and constantly crashing into obstacles. Eventually, these brave ants float on the surface of the water and are surrounded by other river crabs to eat.

After paying the lives of dozens of ant warriors, the warriors of "Salt City" repelled a river crab. And the remaining bigger river crabs are still wreaking havoc...... Do the ants still have any hope of winning?