Chapter 218: Artemisia Lin Escapes
The protagonist and his party have to flee to the south and west in the direction of [Xinyang City], so that they can meet ants who can support.
But just now under the small-leaved boxwood, hundreds of belly-raising ants, burrowing ants and Japanese black brown ants were killed from the southwest, blocking the way to escape directly home.
Not far from the small-leaved boxwood, there is a dense forest of artemisia trees, which have grown more than half a meter tall and have just grown feathery new leaves on the tall artemisia stalks.
The Divine Soldiers were all very valiant, and they swore not to retreat in the face of the torrent of pursuers, they did not seek to kill or injure the enemy, but tried their best to stop those who tried to cross their pursuit, desperately buying even a second or two of escape time for the Divine Envoy King and his companions.
Their sacrifice successfully covered the protagonist's escape into the Artemisia Forest, but the pursuers who followed quickly quickly relied on their numerical advantage to kill all the broken divine soldiers and ants, and followed them into the forest.
The grass leaves in the artemisia forest are dense, and the pinnate artemisia leaves grow in circles from the root of the artemisia stalk to the top, and the forest is dense as if there are umbrellas everywhere, such an environment makes the protagonist feel a lot more at ease.
At least even if the enemy has an ambush in front of them, it will be difficult to shoot acid in this environment.
Not only can it avoid acid rain, but the artemisia stalks in the artemisia forest are very dense, and it is not conducive to the group action of the chasing soldiers, but it is more beneficial to the protagonist and his party with a small number.
The unique fragrance of the rich Artemisia leaves precipitates in the Artemisia Forest, and the protagonist has no time to care about this peculiar herbal taste, and the "rustling" sound of the Artemisia leaves being touched behind him indicates that the pursuers are not far behind.
After escaping into the Artemisia Forest for a while, the protagonist feels that he can't keep running eastward like this, which will only get farther and farther away from [Xinyang City]. Although there is also a secondary nest of ants to the east, the road is very long, and you have to walk for most of the day, and I don't know if I can get there before dusk.
Most of the Praetorian Guards were wounded, and they came after a long journey in the morning, and the long-distance escape could not outrun the pursuers who had been recuperating for a long time.
So the protagonist immediately turns with the Praetorian Guards and begins to walk south, if he can use this dense artemisia forest to get rid of the pursuers, and then turn southwest and return to the main road to [Xinyang City].
Along the way, the Divine Ant Ants left pheromones and dangerous messages to inform the convoy that rushed to carry the locust eggs to come to support.
These ants are the only possible support for the protagonist, as long as there are a few hundred large-headed ants equipped with iron jaw knives, the protagonist is not afraid of more than a thousand enemies.
At this time, the protagonist regretted that he didn't let the flying knight accompany him today, otherwise [Xinyangcheng] would have learned about the situation and sent reinforcements.
In the dense artemisia forest, it is impossible to see the scene from a little distance, but the pursuers have been following behind, and the sound of their march is always falling behind, and the protagonist does not know how the enemy or the enemy can track him so closely without relying on sight and smell.
Maybe it's the sound of the protagonist's group moving that guides the pursuers.
As soon as I thought of this, the wind suddenly rose, and the tall artemisia swayed and made a noisy sound, which was much more than the sound produced by the ants as they walked.
The protagonist is overjoyed, maybe the chasing soldiers will have no clue in this way, and hurriedly take his subordinates to speed up and get rid of it.
The Divine Soldiers support some of their more seriously injured companions and follow closely to the protagonist. In fact, if the protagonist had run and jumped at full speed, he would have left these guards behind, and perhaps escaped.
But he was reluctant to give up these elite guards, and secondly, he was afraid that he would crash into the ambush circle of the bellied ants again, and he would die faster without the guards, so it was better to act with the divine soldiers and ants.
The wind gradually became stronger, blowing incessantly, and the pursuers could not hear the movements of the protagonist and his party, and the protagonist did not know the movements of the pursuers.
Suddenly, under the artemisia stalks in front of the protagonist, dozens of burrowing ants came out.
The two sides collided almost directly at close range, and they were both stunned, and the protagonist reacted first, picked up a dry grass stalk under his feet, and threw it out.
The burrowing ant that was drawn was like being hit by a soft whip, and immediately rolled out, but the grass stalk was too soft, and the other party was not hurt much.
The remaining burrowing ants pounced with their jaws open, and the "Heavenly Immortals" also pounced with some divine ant guards, and the two sides fought together.
The protagonist also wants to go up and fight, but the other Divine Ant Warriors surround him tightly and carry him away from the battlefield.
The sound of the fight gradually drowned out in the sound of wind and grass, and there were only a dozen Praetorian Guards left around the protagonist.
As long as there are no reinforcements, the "Heavenly Immortals" will definitely not be afraid of those burrowing ants with weak combat effectiveness in close combat, but they are afraid that if the enemy reinforcements rush to join the siege...
Continue to leave pheromones along the way, so that the "immortals" can follow behind. The protagonist and his party continue to run wildly in the artemisia forest where the sun cannot be seen, and intuitively turn and flee in the direction of [Xinyang City].
Suddenly, it suddenly became clear in front of him, it turned out that the artemisia forest had come to an end, and the protagonist and his party drilled out, looking around, not a very familiar place, there was no ant road they were looking for nearby, and there was no trace of ant activity.
Neither the protagonist nor the Praetorian Guard knew where they had run, and when they looked up at the sun, it seemed that there was not much difference in the direction they had just run.
You can't run blindly, otherwise you don't know where to run, there is a large area of undeveloped land between the nests of the ant alliance, and it will be troublesome if you really want to get lost and want to go home.
The protagonist and his party can only stop, and several Divine Ant Warriors scatter and search the ground with their tentacles, looking for short-acting pheromones left by foraging ants.
But there was no news, and the protagonist, who was standing on the high ground of a weed, personally guarded, saw that in the artemisia forest near the north, dozens of chasing ants came out densely packed with ants, and there were others coming out one after another, and the leader was the male ant of the red fire ant.
The other party also saw the protagonist, and immediately pursued the soldiers and was about to surround them, and the bellied ants also raised their bellies as if to shoot.
The protagonist quickly jumps off the weed where he is standing, calls to the nearby warriors with a friction sound, and hurriedly flees to the south.
At this time, the "Heavenly Immortals" also drilled out of the Artemisia Forest, and they didn't seem to have any losses, so they gathered together and fled for their lives.
These pursuers are ruthless to kill the protagonist, those small burrowing ants are running fast in the open field, and the already tall divine soldier ants are injured one by one, and the speed can't get up, and the pursuers are approaching little by little.
The protagonist frequently turns back, seeing that the pursuers are gradually catching up, which is not a solution, so he simply bites his big jaw and runs to the side, leaving the open field and burrowing into the dense artemisia forest.
At least the dense artemisia forests can also slow down the pursuers!
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