After a preliminary search, it has been almost confirmed that the parasitic ants have all disappeared.

Since there is no combat risk, and given the huge scale of this underground lair, the search team currently searches only a small part of the total scale, so the protagonist continues to split the search team and continue to search deeply.

At the same time, the protagonist sends a messenger back to the Stump Fortress, demanding that the two hundred worker ants who are in charge of repairing the defenses immediately stop their work and rush here to support the search. Anyway, if the parasitic ants did escape, then it didn't matter if the stump fortress was repaired on hold.

The search force is constantly aggregating the latest search information to the protagonist, and with the arrival of reinforcements from two hundred worker ants, the search speed is greatly accelerated.

From the information reported by various sources, the protagonist gradually learns the details of this newly abandoned ant nest.

First of all, all the adult parasitic ants disappeared, leaving only a few corpses.

Secondly, it can be seen that these parasitic ants are in a hurry. Many of the grain silos were not emptied; A large number of eggs, larvae and pupae have been abandoned and left in the nest**, while some eggs, larvae and pupae have signs of destruction; And the parasitic ant carcasses, which should have been thrown out of the nest to ensure environmental hygiene, were not cleaned up.

Finally, and most surprisingly, not far from the queen's dormitory, the corpses of five pale gold workers were found.

The corpses of these five pale gold workers were all in different places, and the wounds looked like they had been cut open by the big jaws of the soldier ants.

Are these pale gold workers the commanders of the parasitic ant legions that besieged the Stump Fortress before? If so, why did they die after successfully escaping back to the lair? A total of six light gold worker ants escaped back, where is the one survivor?

The ant search team did not find any new corpses of the light gold workers, and the other corpses left in the nest ** were all normal deaths, and there was no separation of the body, but the parasites on their bodies were missing.

An answer slowly emerges in the protagonist's mind - execution.

He felt that the pale gold workers had been killed for a failed battle, which would explain why they were killed by ant attacks in well-guarded nests. This cannot be done by the enemy, it can only be one's own people.

And there were six light gold workers and a complete legion that returned from defeat during the day, is it only the light gold big worker ant who brought back the legion intact that was not executed?

This conjecture shakes one of the protagonist's previous guesses.

Previously, when the protagonist saw the Palgold Worker Ants appear as the commander of the parasitic ants, he once wondered if they were the supreme power holders of the parasitic ant nest.

Because according to the hierarchy of the big-headed ant kingdom, the ordinary male ant is the king, and can only command a squad in wartime, or as a member of the power organ of the secondary nest. Older, more experienced, and meritorious males will be promoted to the rank of king, not only as a legion commander in wartime, but also as one of the supreme power holders of the main nest.

Parasitic ants originate from the kingdom of big-headed ants, and in many ways they are similar to each other.

Although there are no male ants in the parasitic ant nest, there are large worker ants equivalent to kings, and the IQ of large worker ants is similar to that of ordinary male ants.

The light gold worker ant, which is equivalent to the king, has an IQ even higher than that of ordinary male ants, and is extremely cunning in battle, knows how to retreat strategically, and can even drive parasitic dung beetles to fight.

Then it is logical for the protagonist to think that the light gold worker ant is the same as the king of the big-headed ant kingdom, and is the supreme power holder of the entire ant nest.

However, after discovering that these light gold workers were actually suspected of being executed because of defeat, the protagonist's guess was shaken again. There must be mysterious ants whose rank and status are above the Great Worker Ants of Light Gold to order the execution of these legion commanders.

However, the search results of the ant search team can no longer provide more basis for the protagonist's reasoning.

The protagonist gradually restores in his mind what happened to the parasitic ant nest before.

When the last legion led by the six Pale Gold Workers Ant and fled back to the Parasitic Nest, they immediately reported the situation to the Leader of the Nest.

The Supreme Leader must have been furious, and he or she ordered the execution of all five pale gold workers who had lost their legions, completely indifferent to their lives and merits.

Subsequently, the Supreme Leader assessed that the strength of the Parasitic Ant Nest was no longer enough to withstand the attack of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, or even to hold out until the newly laid soldier eggs of the Parasitic Ant Queen hatched and grew to replenish the battle damage.

So, before the sun set, the Supreme Leader immediately ordered the entire lair to be relocated en masse.

The order to move and escape came so hastily that the parasitic ants could only move away some of the most important resources: parasitic queens, some ant eggs, ant pupa, portable food, and live silk thread parasites.

As for the large amount of grain stored in the granary, these parasitic ants can only abandon it, even if the grain will be met with enemies in the future.

For the eggs, larvae and pupae that cannot be transported, the parasitic ants destroy them before leaving, completely ignoring the fact that these larvae have the same blood flowing as themselves.

However, the retreat was still too hasty, and it was almost dark, and the destruction of the eggs, larvae, and chrysalis was not complete, and most of them survived until the arrival of the Divine Messenger King's legion.

In the process of relocation and escape, some parasitic ants that have reached the end of their lifespan slowly collapse to the ground and come to the end of their own ant life. The busy companion next to him just transferred the parasite bacteria on the corpse, and did not have time to pay attention to the body of his companion.

Finally, before dark, the migratory parasites had left their nests for some distance. As for whether they will continue on their journey in the dark night when they can't reach their fingers, or find a safe haven to rest for a while, the protagonist cannot guess.

Now that it is certain that the parasitic ants have fled, it is imperative to find the enemy quickly, and then take advantage of the opportunity for the enemy to break away from the cover of the nest to find an opportunity to destroy the enemy and completely solve this serious problem.

But it was night, and the Flying Knight couldn't go out to scout. If you send soldier ants or worker ants out to investigate, they have a narrow field of vision at night, and they do not have an advantage over parasitic ants, and even if they find the enemy, they may not be able to successfully escape and report back. It seems that the investigation will have to wait until dawn.

So the protagonist brings the large army back to the Stump Fortress.

In the original parasitic ant nest, the protagonist leaves behind a small number of worker ants, who are responsible for staying behind and counting the available supplies. If the enemy goes and returns, the worker ants are also responsible for immediately escaping back to the fortress to report to the protagonist.