Filled with the joy of annihilating the last main force of the enemy army and most of the living force, the protagonist steps into a pass strewn with corpses, stepping on the remains of the loser, and passing through a tortuous path. Then, look into the distance.

There, on the downhill slope of the hills, you can see the last remnants of parasitic ants on the shore of the lake, which is covered with black silt.

But what makes the protagonist's jaw drop is that these parasitic ants are actually floating on the water.

Although the distance is too far for the protagonist to see in the distance, a large pile of pitch-black ants spreads out on the surface of the lake like a thin blanket, rising and falling with the waves, and slowly moving away from the shore.

The protagonist is taken aback, he thought that the parasitic ants were in a desperate situation and could not escape with their wings, but they actually escaped into the water. They can actually swim? The protagonist asks suspiciously.

The protagonist immediately sends a herald to get the flying knights to quickly take off to reconnoitre, and he wants to figure out why the enemy is able to wade through the water.

The soldiers of the Legion of the Divine Envoy King certainly can't swim, and they don't have the ability to pursue enemies on the water, but just letting the enemy who is already at the end of his rope escape, and finally resurrecting in a corner, is also unacceptable to the protagonist in any way.

The Flying Knights soon fly over the protagonist's head, swooping down the hills with their wings, skimming the surface of the lake at close range, as well as the enemies that form an ant blanket that undulates with the lake.

On the lake with a wide view, the Flying Knights no longer have to worry about the enemy ambush, they can lower the altitude at will and observe the enemy's movements from a very close distance.

The Flying Knight soon returns, and the protagonist can't wait to read the packets.

He saw that the remaining parasitic ants, which were less than 3,000, were forming a huge ant blanket that was almost circular, holding hands with each other, wrapping their feet around their feet, and biting their mouths, and floating on the surface of the lake. With the breeze blowing, they were constantly moving away from the shore of the lake, and away from the pursuit of the Divine Envoy King's legions.

The outer perimeter of the blanket are composed of strong soldier ants and worker ants, while the relatively weak ants, queens and parasites in need of protection are placed in the middle of the blanket. The parasitic ants have discarded all their supplies, including eggs, larvae and pupae on the shore of the lake, to be washed away.

Seeing this scene, the protagonist was dumbfounded, and under the pressure of survival, these ants actually jumped into the icy lake without hesitation, and let fate make the final judgment on them.

This way of crossing the river, the big-headed ant should not be able to do it, but some ants, such as fire ants, have mastered this skill.

According to US media reports in 2015, South Carolina has been hit by a once-in-a-millennium heavy rainstorm, with 610 millimeters of precipitation in some areas, turning small ponds into large lakes, creeks into rivers, and the water level of the Congari River has reached its highest level since 1936. This has brought extinction to the red fire ants that live in the area.

But red fire ants join forces to form floating islands to escape the floods. When the water begins to flood the fire ant colony, they will take action, the worker ants will connect each other's legs to their mouths, and in less than 2 minutes, the entire colony of the red fire ant nest will be able to form one such floating "Noah's Ark" until it floats to a dry land.

Fire ants will move the queen and larvae to the center of the ark where the water does not splash. The body hair of the fire ants captures enough air so that the ants at the bottom of the life raft are not completely submerged.

These fire ants can live on a liferaft for weeks, but they will eventually have to reach dry land before they can start living in a colony again. In the water, fire ants are constantly under threat from predators, especially fish, which bite off and eat the ants one by one. If too many ants are eaten, the entire life raft may disintegrate.

Unexpectedly, now the parasitic ants are actually self-taught, and use their own buoyancy to build such an escape ant blanket. Although their ant blankets were small enough to look like a single big wave could completely destroy them, they were also inexperienced and discarded a large amount of supplies and eggs that could have been carried on them. However, most of the parasitic ants did manage to escape.

It is impossible for the protagonist to let his subordinate legions jump into the lake to pursue them desperately, not to mention the risk of doing so, once they enter the water, they can only rely on the direction of the wind and the current to make unpredictable movements, and may not be able to catch up with these parasitic ants who entered the water in advance.

But just let the enemy flee like this, and the protagonist is extremely unwilling.

The protagonist thinks about it and orders the flying knights to attack the parasitic ants that are floating on the water and have no power to fight back for the time being.

The Flying Knights follow the protagonist's plan and fly to the top of the parasitic ant blanket with the largest stones they can drive, drop the stones, and carry out the most primitive bombardment of the enemy. Then they flew back to shore in search of new ammunition and continued the bombardment.

But this tactic soon proved to be lethal at all.

If the flying knights want to pursue the maximum damage, they have to carry the stones to fly as high as possible, at this time it is difficult for the flying knights to see the enemy's position in the narrow field of vision, and the stones dropped at this height are interfered with by the air current, and they want to hit the parasitic ant blanket that is already very small, no less than a blind man has to shoot a flying goose in the distance with a bow and arrow.

If the altitude is reduced to less than half a meter, the accuracy of the bombing can be greatly improved, but at this height the stone is not powerful at all. Even if he hits the parasitic ant directly, that is, the hapless victim briefly sinks under the surface, he will soon be able to float up and grab his companion in the ant blanket.

The most effective form of attack during the bombing campaign is when some rocks occasionally hit the edge of the ant blanket, causing a splash to splash one or two unfortunate parasitic ants and the large army, and some parasitic ants quickly return to the ant blanket. Others, despite their struggles, are not good swimmers, but gradually move away from the group under the combined action of wind and water, waiting for the fate of these outliers, either being found and eaten by other insects, or suffocating to death due to the water entering the stomata and unable to breathe.

The bombing campaign continued for a while, but it was really ineffective, and the flying knights reached the limit of their endurance and had to withdraw to rest. After a round of bombardment, there were few successes, and less than ten parasitic ants were forced to break away from the ant blanket.

The Divine Messenger Legion has begun to collect the spoils abandoned by the parasitic ants on the shores of the lake, and the eggs and chrysalis are good things, both alive and dead.

The protagonist is not in this mood, and he can only watch the parasitic ant blanket float farther and farther away on the tall rocks on the shore of the lake.