The early spring night is unexpectedly cold, and the temperature difference between day and night makes the air in the middle of the night feel like it is wrapped in a layer of ice crystals, as if it is still stuck in the winter night.

On such a night, even the insects that welcome spring very early have to burrow back to their winter dwellings to continue to seek refuge at night.

Near a large locust tree about an hour away from [Trench City], there was a boulder the size of a human table, and there was a dead silence all around, as if there was no sign of life.

But under the rock, there was a temporary camp for the Divine Envoy King's legion, and tens of thousands of ants gathered around the Divine Envoy King.

The Divine Envoy King Legion, who had experienced a hard battle during the day, is resting here, according to the plan, they will have a big battle tomorrow, and they need to rest well to replenish their strength.

Due to the unstoppable cold outside, the Divine Envoy King's legion did not set up sentry posts outdoors, but only placed sentries at the entrance and exit of the underground camp.

You can't blame the carelessness of the Divine Envoy King Legion, the general ants are inactive at night, and only the Divine Envoy King Legion used to sneak attack others at night, and they have not encountered the danger of the night.

The protagonist has forgotten that just the year before last, the flying knights who went to the north bank of the river to reconnoiter for a long time were once attacked at night.

Because this campsite is a temporary camp, the excavation is very simple, and the internal structure is simple.

Basically, a long passage was dug diagonally down from the west side of the boulder, along the bottom of the rock, and after about half a meter, three passages were extended in all directions, and part of the passage was widened and raised to become a nest chamber.

Compared with conventional nests, there are no granaries, no queen dormitories, and no corresponding defense facilities.

The protagonist lives in the innermost nest room, which is crowded with soldiers from the 19th Legion, as well as the commander of the 19th Legion, Kyoko.

According to the tradition of the ants, Kyoko is currently the oldest male ant of the six legions, so it is natural that he should be the protagonist's deputy. The protagonist also does not want to force his way against this tradition, and instead sets up the command center in the 19th Legion, which temporarily acts as his own guard.

In this battle, the Praetorian Guard team led by the Immortals was still on their way from [Linshui City] to the battlefield, and they were not accompanying the protagonist at the moment.

During the daytime battle, the destroyer once killed the protagonist's side, and Kyoko performed very well, leading the troops to protect the protagonist on the verge of death, and under the leadership of the god king of the gods, he repelled the enemy.

At night, the protagonist sleeps soundly, and his sleep quality is always good, unlike other ants who just nap constantly and rarely fall into a long deep sleep.

During the day, the protagonist enters a ten-minute state of descent from the gods, and although it has not triggered the sequelae of unbearable pain, it also consumes a lot of physical energy.

In the evening, the protagonist found some food nearby to fill his stomach, and the army did not carry food, and the ants had a full meal before leaving the main nest [Qingqiu City], and they could not eat for a day or two of fighting. And if the battle time is extended, [Qingqiu City] has also organized a transport team to follow up.

But the protagonist is hungry every time the gods descend to earth, but fortunately, there is still a lot of food in the spring, and dozens of ants are divided and quickly find some vegetarian food, which is enough to fill the protagonist's stomach.

After eating enough and teaching the male ants, the protagonist sleeps peacefully.

I'm the dividing line

At night, the protagonist is awakened by the vibration of the ground and the noise in the distance, he feels that something is wrong, and the ant warriors around him are also startled from their naps.

The protagonist hurriedly asked the soldier ants around him to find out what was going on and why the camp was so noisy.

Watching the soldier ant struggling to squeeze past his companion in the crowded passageway, the protagonist feels a warning sign rise in his heart.

After a while, another soldier ant squeezes through the dense colony and arrives at the protagonist.

He was a messenger sent by the commander of the 24th Legion, the outermost part of the camp, to warn the Oracle: the entrance and exit were under attack by the Destroyers, and the 24th Legion was struggling to resist.

The protagonist is shocked, and then he remembers that the Destroyer of the Flying Knights was able to operate at night.

It is useless to regret at the moment, the protagonist quickly forces himself to calm down and analyze the situation.

The enemy came prepared, but our troops were under surprise.

Fortunately, the underground structure of the camp was simple, and the only entrance and exit was blocked by the 24th Army Corps, and the enemy could not attack for a while.

But again, this underground lair lacked defenses, and the defenders had no geographical advantage at all, and in this narrow environment, facing the destroyers, the fighting troops were bound to suffer heavy losses, and the friendly forces behind could not support the front line camp, and the ant population density in the camp was too dense, and even the heralds had to squeeze in with great difficulty.

The protagonist doesn't know how many troops the enemy has put in, nor does he know what the battle is going to be, but he has to deal with it.

The closest to the entrance is the 24th Legion, followed by the 23rd Legion, where the protagonist lets the herald pass and lets both legions stop at all costs.

Then, the protagonist orders the four legions behind him to quickly dig several new passages to the outside world, and the protagonist tries to take the troops out of the ground and detour behind the enemy to counter-encircle.

Being in the rear, unable to observe the battle situation on the front line, the protagonist always feels that time flies extremely quickly.

One moment the courier reported that the 24th Army had suffered heavy losses, the other time the 23rd Army reported that troops were engaged with the enemy, and the other was that the passage to the surface had been dug up.

The protagonist hurriedly drilled out of the ground with the 19th Legion, at this time the morning sun had already appeared in the east, and more than two hours had passed since the enemy raided.

But out of the ground, the outside temperature is still very low, and the ant warriors who came out with the protagonist are all stagnant, and their movements have become sluggish with the naked eye, and they are not used to this temperature, and the heat of their bodies is dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The protagonist can't go to battle alone, he has to go with his troops. But the subordinates forced the attack in this situation, only for fear that they would soon freeze.

The protagonist had an idea and asked his subordinates to take out the mysterious balls captured in yesterday's battle, and each ant carried a mysterious ball in his mouth to warm the baby, and then threw it away when he arrived at the battlefield.

Time is tight now, and it's too late to put a mystery ball on each ant's back. Anyway, when it comes to the battlefield, the metabolism of the ants in the body is accelerated when they fight, and they can provide heat on their own, and each destroyer is like a small mobile stove, which can also provide auxiliary heat.

Because there are not enough mystery orbs, the protagonist can only kill them with hundreds of ant warriors, and they go around the boulder and soon find the destroyer near the entrance and exit of the camp.