From three o'clock to about six o'clock at sunset, in three hours, the battle line of the big-headed ant army advanced only about three meters, and it was less than two meters from the entrance of the auxiliary nest.

Outside the encirclement, the 30,000 troops of the 20 legions of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force and the almost equal number of paving ant barbarian armies in the encirclement were tugging on the battle line. In just three hours, for this short three-meter distance, both sides have paid thousands of casualties. Among these casualties, most of them are dead, and very few of the wounded survive, as long as there is still a trace of strength, they will choose to fight to the death.

The dead ants were either decapitated or mutilated. Even if the injured ants lose all their arthropods, they will still viciously bite any part of any enemy around them until they die. In the war of the human world, the casualty rate is usually as high as 10%, which will cause the rout of one side. And the war of ants often ends with the annihilation of one side.

The protagonist looks at the battle scene from afar, he doesn't know what the soldier ants and worker ants who are fighting so hard are thinking in their hearts, will they have fear and remorse, can their simple minds understand the meaning of death? Can you understand the meaning of your sacrifice? Or are they, like male ants, who also see themselves as consumables for the kingdom?

The protagonist also notices that there are some simple rotation tactics in the Big-Headed Ant Legion. Each legion had thirty squads commanded by the king, and each squad had fifty soldier ants and worker ants. Due to the tight front, only seven or eight squads in a regiment were fighting on the front line at the same time. When more than half of these squads are killed or wounded, the squad commander will withdraw with the remnants of the squad and be taken on top by the reserve squad in the rear. This tactic is entirely aimed at protecting the squad commander (i.e., the king), after all, it takes far more time and resources to raise a male ant with a higher IQ than a soldier ant and a worker ant.

The Paving Ant Barbarian Army also has a similar rotation tactic, also focusing on protecting their king. The only exceptions are the paving ant worker ants who are already foraging outside the nest. Unlike the paving ants that came out of the nest and had a team with Wang as the commander, these paving ants and worker ants who were originally active in the field consciously converged near the entrance of the auxiliary nest after hearing the alarm, and they spontaneously resisted the attack of the big-headed ant expeditionary force on the front line without Wang's command. Without the king's command, there would have been no order to retire them, so in just half a day, all these valiant warriors had been killed.

Night fell, and a deep black enveloped the wilderness, like a thick ink splashing darkness, through which even the bright moonlight could penetrate. This is the first time the protagonist has experienced night on the ground, and he looks up at the moon.

The white disc close to the full moon is covered with a dark sea of moon. This size, this circle is missing, and the shape is like the shadow of Wu Gang cutting the laurel tree. The protagonist confirms that this is the moon of the Earth. Anyway, he didn't travel to other worlds, he was still on Earth. The protagonist is suddenly filled with a sense of belonging to the land under his feet.

Although the protagonist's night vision is good, it is even far beyond the human period. But looking at the battlefield a few meters away, it was also a blur, and I couldn't see the details clearly. He climbed down the rocks and sent messengers to ask the police what to do at night.

The police replied to him that the battle would continue at night, and that the regiments that had not yet entered the battle would stand by and that if the regiments in front of them sent messengers to signal that they needed to be replaced, they would come forward to engage in battle.

Countless ants lay on the ground in silence, except for their tentacles dancing around, feeling the smell of blood in the air ahead. The protagonist simply eats something first, then curls down on the silk bed to sleep for a while, so that Mulan has news and wakes him up. The early summer night is still a bit cold, and the protagonist feels a little stiff.

Soon fall asleep.

In his sleep, the protagonist seems to be in the Shura field. Countless ants and humans are fighting. No, these are no ordinary ants, how can they have a human torso, legs and hands, and be as tall as a human? These ant-headed monsters are fighting fiercely against humans. What are they holding? Zhanghachi snake spear? Park knife? Long axe? Flail? A two-handed sword? Their faces are so hideous, they strangled each other, even if they were cut off their hands and feet, they had to viciously tear the throat of their opponents with their teeth, and even if they were cut in half, they had to crawl over and pierce the enemy's calves, just like zombies that would not die without being hit in the head.

The protagonist is standing naked in the middle of the battlefield with his bare hands, and he looks down to see that he is a human body, the body of himself that is incomparably familiar.

Before he could regain his senses, he felt a fierce impact from behind, and the protagonist flew up, and the dog gnawed mud and fell into a pool of blood. The protagonist hurriedly gets up, but finds that he is holding half of the face he just grabbed from the ground, and his round blood-red pupils are staring at the protagonist indifferently, and half of his mouth is still moving.

"Ahhhh When he turned around, he saw that it was an ant-headed monster that had just hit him, and his ant face could clearly see a look of banter and cruelty, and he was holding a stabbing spear that was taller than a human in his hand.

The protagonist wanted to run away in fear, but his body seemed to be paralyzed, and he finally turned around tremblingly.

Why? Why did I feel like I was tearing in my chest, but I didn't hurt? What's the point of the gun that comes out of the heart? I've been stabbed, will I die?

The protagonist falls to the ground on his back, the tip of the spear piercing through his heart, and the active red blood happily leaves the body. The ant-headed monster who killed him burst out laughing, and the whole world echoed with his laughter.

All the figures vanished, except for the laughing bodyless ant's head, which grew larger and larger, rose into the blood-red sky, and slowly changed into a human face. The protagonist thinks this face is so familiar, but he can't remember who it is.

"Hahahahaha" The nasty face laughed loudly in the air, and the face covered the entire sky.

Suddenly, he restrained his expression, and his laughter stopped abruptly. He stared at the dying protagonist viciously: "You can't be a man, and you're a coward to be an ant!" ”

"You can't be a man, and you're a coward to be an ant!" …

"You can't be a man, and you're a coward to be an ant!" ……

"You can't be a man, and you're a coward to be an ant!" ………

The whole world echoed with this mockery, and the heavens and the earth shook.

"No, I'm not a coward!" The protagonist tries to refute loudly, but says nothing.

He woke up, shaken awake by Mulan, his mouth without vocal cords wide open, wanting to say but unable to speak.

However, the protagonist silently says in his heart: "No, I'm not a coward!" ”