The rain had only been falling intermittently for one day, and it was still falling in the evening and the first half of the night, and had stopped in the second half of the night. But the heavy clouds did not disperse for a while, and the humid air did not dissipate until the next day.

[Swamp City] has withstood the baptism of rain, and the thoroughly dried ant concrete is not afraid of heavy rain, witnessing the sophistication of ant architecture.

Due to the unusually humid air, parasitic ants and war beasts did not appear the day after the rain, and the ants rarely went out, and basically stayed indoors to work.

In fact, even if the enemy attacks that day, the protagonist can't enjoy it with a ballista. Due to rain and moisture, the torsion spring pack, a key component of the two ballistas, became damp, which greatly affected their performance.

The protagonist has to take matters into his own hands, laboriously removing the locust hind hamstring tendons from the torsion spring group, bringing them back to the nest**, and slowly drying them at a distance from the fire.

The rest of the ballista was less affected by the dampness, and continued to pile up under the bushes, waterproof with a few insect skins, which were high and protected from the elements.

After the locust hamstring tendons are completely dried, the protagonist tries the strength and finds that there is no problem, and after the outdoor moisture has dissipated, the protagonist reassembles the ballista.

In the past two days, the ants, who had no work to do indoors, also happened to process twelve giant arrows for ballistas with all their might.

That night, the protagonist placed two ballistas on the top of the anthill and on the reef platform, which basically covered the entire firing range around [Swamp City], except for some areas that were shaded by shrubs, antmounds, and aquatic plants.

Six huge arrows were placed next to each ballista, and hundreds of stone bullets were piled up to form a hill. The protagonist also orders two squads to stand by the ballista, both to assist with loading ammunition and to protect the ballista in case of an emergency, or to carry the ballista to retreat.

In short, these ballistas cannot afford to lose, and the next batch of ballistas will have to wait for the next fleet to come before they can be replenished. The protagonist also asks the Flying Knight to bring a new design packet to the research team, asking them to make the parts on the ballista to assist in positioning and aiming.

- I'm the dividing line -

The next day, the sky cleared, and early in the morning the sun patronized the earth, which had been gloomy for two days.

The humidity in the air fades, and the sun and blue sky make for a beautiful picture, which is the weather that inspires the artists and the insects.

The protagonist had a good night's sleep last night, recuperated his energy, got up early this morning to look at the sky, and after seeing the sunrise, he already had a premonition that the enemy would appear today, and urged the troops to enter the battle position early.

At the same time, the protagonist himself goes to the ballista on the top of the anthill first, and is eager to try.

Early in the morning, the Walnut Boat Fleet, which had not returned due to the delay of rainy weather, also transported Ramboto and his legions, as well as the surviving wounded soldiers, to return home. The Fourth Legion also left two hundred healthy veterans behind to supplement the battle losses of the other legions.

Now, the protagonist has two fully equipped legions in his hands, as well as two ballistas, and a certain reserve of supplies, and has recovered his vitality again.

Soon, the shadows of a large number of flying parasitic war beasts appeared again on the horizon, and they were not visible on land and water for the time being, but it was clear that a large number of enemies were coming.

Maybe it's because of the two days of rainy weather, the parasitic beasts are also suffocated, today there are hundreds of parasitic war beasts that appear in the air alone, but there are only more than a dozen parasitic dragonflies that are the most threatening, and most of them are small parasitic war beasts that lack lethality.

As always, the parasitic beasts gathered on the other side and began to attack [Swamp City].

The flying parasitic war beasts are always the first to arrive, and the parasitic dragonflies unscrupulously lie on the air defense net and begin to gnaw on the net rope with one mind, and the experience of the past few days tells them that it is difficult for ants on the ground to hurt themselves, so they are completely defenseless.

Of course, their experience has taught them that these ropes are extremely difficult to bite, but the parasitic dragonflies have no intention of giving up.

Some parasitic flies, small-sized parasitic wasps, and parasitic mosquitoes passed through the holes in the air defense net, but these parasitic war beasts had no weapons that could harm the ants, they just flew around in the air defense net, dropping a few silk threads of parasitic bacteria from time to time, trying to infect the ants on the ground.

But with the ground defenders on standby, these silk parasites were easily eliminated.

Some of the Scythe Warriors also jumped, grabbing the flying parasites and dragging them to the ground, then killing them.

When the enemy's flying parasitic war beasts approach, the protagonist has a chance to shoot, but he has little confidence in the accuracy of long-range shooting, after all, the sky is so big, more than a hundred flying parasitic beasts are scattered into the air, and the density is very low.

When the parasitic beasts arrive at the air defense network, the protagonist ignores the small insects that are not threatening, and all his attention is focused on the dozen or so parasitic dragonflies lying on the net.

He did not enter the state of "descending from the gods", and his usual strength was enough to manipulate the ballista.

The protagonist first aimed at a parasitic dragonfly that was relatively close to him, and the reason why he didn't choose the closest one was because the nearest one was almost lying on top of his head, and the elevation angle of the ballista could not reach this level (friends who have played WOT know how annoying it is when the elevation angle and depression angle of all evils are not enough).

After aiming at the parasitic dragonfly, the protagonist pulls the bowstring himself, and several ants on the side work together to swing a giant arrow into the magazine.

The protagonist aimed accurately, and gently pulled out the trigger wooden bolt, although it still slightly brought the main beam of the ballista to a shake, but due to the close distance of the parasitic dragonfly, the giant arrow did not shoot empty.

I saw an afterimage that was almost invisible to the naked eye flying away, and the body of the parasitic dragonfly that was hit was shocked, and it was knocked away from the air defense network by the huge impact force, and it did not fall back into the net until mid-air.

The arrow pierced directly under the parasitic dragonfly's chest and pierced through the base of its hind wings, causing the silk thread parasites near the wound on its back to burst with such force that the salient parasites on its back exploded.

The parasitic dragonfly that was unfortunately shot was badly injured, but the insect's vitality was extremely strong, and it was not dead for a while, and it was still trying to flap its wings and struggle.

But a large number of muscles and nerves in its body were broken by the giant arrow, and the parasitic dragonfly's wings could no longer flap in harmony, and it struggled as it rolled down the slope of the inclined air defense net, until the giant arrow and arthropods that stretched out of the body hooked a few net ropes.

The parasitic dragonfly struggled a few more times before it died unwillingly.

At the moment when the unlucky parasitic dragonfly was hit, the other parasitic dragonflies were startled at the same time as if they had exploded, and flew into the air, not bothering to gnaw on the air defense net.

However, they had no idea what weapon they were being attacked.