Chapter 248: Homeland (1)
Looking southwest, the dark clouds on the horizon are gathering thicker and thicker, and they are getting closer and closer.
It was already the rainy season, and there was a cumulonimbus cloud floating in the sky, which was coming from the southwest to the northeast at a very fast speed, and it was about to envelop the head of [Dongyang City], and the raindrops were gradually dripping, gradually becoming a rain line.
The team of the Divine Envoy King's legion, who were busy moving to [Great Lake City], sensed that the rain was coming, so they had to suspend their work and hide back in the two lairs in advance to prepare for the rain.
Today is May 15, the first day of the implementation of the second phase of the Tinder Project.
Previously, the legion of the Divine Envoy King, who had been evacuated by water, had arrived in the swamp area and settled there.
The main force of the land evacuation also reached the bank of the swamp and was building a rope bridge to cross the river, although many companions were lost along the way, but the overall situation was smooth.
Now, it's the turn of the small number of remaining troops to retreat in the second batch.
Three days earlier, the second fleet of walnut ships had been completed and launched, and it began to load supplies and ants. Yesterday, the first fleet of walnut ships returned from the swampy area [Great Lakes City], and the time was ripe for evacuation from the water.
There are not many ants left in [Dongyang City], and many large pieces of equipment that were difficult to carry before have been transferred to [Great Lake City] in advance, and the troops left behind here are to stay behind the palace in order to prevent the pursuit of the destroyer.
However, the tactics of the Divine King's army attacking poison with poison were very successful, and the destroyers were stuck in a quagmire of fighting with parasites and could not get out, and they never launched an attack on [Dongyang City], and there was a brief peace here.
Even far away on the north bank of the Great River, parasitic war beasts and parasitic ants began to launch sporadic attacks, such an effect was really unexpected by the protagonist, which also gave the Divine Envoy King Legion valuable time to adjust.
The protagonist even had the illusion that he could use the destroyer and the parasite to fight at one point, and he held on to it for a long time in [Dongyang City] until two things shattered his illusions.
The first thing was that tens of thousands of destroyers arrived on the south bank of the Great River.
They did not return to their divisions or slow down because of the repeated parasitic outbreaks in the rear, leaving only a few small troops on the north bank of the river to quell the riots.
And the large army soon arrived at [New Yancheng] and other places to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the parasitic war beasts of the salt marsh.
Under the near-frantic onslaught of the Destroyer's army, the parasitic beasts suffered heavy losses. With the loss of crabs and other aquatic war beasts, parasitic ants and war beasts in the mountains on the south bank of the salt marsh are unable to reach the north shore.
Finally freed from the parasite's containment, the Destroyer finally began to continue its attack on the Divine Envoy King's legion.
On the 14th, that is, yesterday, the Destroyer soldiers bloodlessly occupied several abandoned sub-nests to the west of [Dongyang City], and they were already close to [Dongyang City].
The protagonist knows that the defenders left behind in [Dongyang City] are no match for the tens of thousands of Destroyers who are raging in the slaughter, but fortunately, the troops have already prepared to evacuate, and since yesterday, the troops have been ordered to start withdrawing to [Great Lakes City] one after another to prepare for boarding.
It's just that because of today's rain, the Destroyer's offensive has been stopped, and the withdrawal of the last troops of the Divine King's Legion can only be suspended.
The second thing is that the parasites that were released are really out of control, and in just half a month, these parasites have spread wildly.
For example, although the swamp area is the hardest hit area by the infestation of parasites, the density of insects there is limited, and there are natural water barriers, and the infected insects have a natural tendency to aggregate, but they spread outward less.
As for parasitic outbreaks elsewhere, they are generally caused by sporadic individual infection, with a limited scope of impact, and not necessarily every outbreak.
However, the parasites that the Divine King Legion deliberately spread were all young and middle-aged strains, which had strong infection ability, and they also spread in multiple places where insects were densely populated, which caused such a situation.
Now, parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts in the southern hilly areas have occupied the abandoned [Nanyang City] and other places, and there are signs of threatening [Dongyang City] from the north.
It is equivalent to the fact that [Dongyang City] is now facing the threat of both destroyers and parasites, and no matter how confident the protagonist is, he does not feel that the remaining gods and warriors can defend this place of fortune.
For now, it is better to retreat to the swamp area to recuperate according to the previous plan, sit back and wait for the destroyer and the parasite to consume each other, and then choose the opportunity to counterattack the mainland... No, it's a counteroffensive on the south bank of the Great River ...
The Destroyer ants are numerous and unstoppable, with a strong ability to spread parasitic infections, and have established themselves in the southern hills, and the two forces are bound to fight each other.
The only thing that makes the protagonist reluctant is [Dongyang City].
As the place where he was reborn and crossed, it is also the place where he started, and every passage and every nest room in [Dongyang City] is very familiar to him. Now we have to give it up!
As the rain begins to pour outside, the dense rain lines divide the ground and the underground into two worlds, and the protagonist makes one last visit to the lair.
This is the protagonist's dormitory, a two-bedroom nest with a one-room structure, and the pottery furniture in it has been removed or demolished, and now only a ball of ant silk is left as a bed.
This is also the place where the protagonist just crossed the pupa and was not used to staying with other male ants, and a resting place he found was later expanded.
At that time, the protagonist subdued his first subordinate, which was Mulan. But now that Mulan has died in the battle with the Destroyer, it's really an ant.
Walking a little up, the protagonist looks at the Ant Academy, which is the place where the new generation of males are trained and educated, right next to the conference room.
Originally, this male ant academy was the dormitory of the old king, and after the old king died, it was supposed to be used by the male ants with the highest status in [Dongyang City], but the protagonist didn't want to live here, so he changed its use.
The protagonist doesn't have a deep friendship with Lao Wang, but it was also a big deal that all the ants led by Lao Wang disappeared in the entire [Dongyang City], and later evidence showed that it was infected by parasitic bacteria, and all the parasitic ants migrated to the south.
The protagonist can't help but be afraid when he thinks about it, if he didn't go to the main nest [Qingqiu City] in advance because of curiosity at that time, but set off with them, he might have been killed by a few ants that were infected and mixed into the team on the way.
If you stay in the nest and don't participate in the wedding ceremony, you may not wake up and you are also infected, ending your short time travel career.
Unexpectedly, now, I still can't avoid parasites, on the one hand, I want to use parasitic bacteria to weaken the destroyer, and on the other hand, I have to run to the swampy area to face the threat of parasites!
After inspecting the lair, the protagonist quietly waits for the heavy rain to stop, ready to embark on the evacuation road with the last group of troops.