Seeing Surdak leaving, a shopkeeper with a rusty single-edged axe in his hand immediately approached the leather maker boss Mullen and whispered to him:

"Brother-in-law, have you negotiated with Commander Surdak, has he relented?"

The expression on his face did not show any respect for this boss.

Boss Maren didn't seem to care about this at all, and muttered in a depressed expression:

"No, Commander Surdak seems to be very interested in those hard armor skins, I don't think we should hide this matter, how can this kind of thing be hidden! Sooner or later, he'll know. ”

The shopkeeper smiled, a sly look flashed in his eyes, and said to Boss Maren: "Brother-in-law, as long as this matter can be successful, you can leave this ghost place with the whole family in advance, and you have already found a good relationship in the Noctia leather shop in Wilkes City, and then you can not only get a considerable amount of gold coins, but also work in the largest leather shop in Wilkes City, which is better than opening your own leather shop and not making money all day!" ”

"The hard armor of the ghost striped soldier ant has been soaked in the acid pool for enough time, and if it drags on, those hard armor skins will really dissolve." Boss Malen touched the stiff crust on the board in his hand, and said with some concern: "When the time comes...... I think this business is really going to fail. ”

The shopkeeper's face instantly became a little ugly, he immediately wiped his hands, nailed the one-handed axe to the wooden stake on the side, and immediately said, "I'll go find a friend in the city defense brigade again......

Boss Mullen wanted to speak and stopped: "......"

……

Leaving the shed, Surdak planned to go around the city walls, but he always felt that something was wrong, so he took a cotton mask in the barren land to prevent the inhalation of volcanic ash, and walked back to the pit where the ghostly soldiers were stacked.

Not too far from here, a group of migrant workers are digging a second large pit.

After the first pit was filled, the ghostly soldier ants brought from the shack were thrown into the second pit, and Surdak saw many aborigines among the workers.

Aung San was among them, and it seemed that he was supposed to be the little foreman in charge of the communication steward, with a pickaxe in his hand, and he was circling the area of the digging pit.

Standing on the edge of the pit, the soldiers who followed Surdak were all hiding their mouths and noses.

No one can stand this spicy and pungent stench.

Surdak picked up a wooden stick more than two meters long next to the pit, and poked the floating ghost soldier ant in the acid pool, some viscous liquid flowed out of the hard shell of the ghost soldier ant, like some melted cream, very disgusting.

He stood silently beside the pit, and the soldiers behind him did not dare to leave without permission.

Not far away, on the Yong Road, soldiers kept throwing the headless corpses of the ghost-patterned soldier ants into the pits.

Some bubbles came out of the central part of the pit.

In a viscous liquid, these bubbles come out and are crowned with a large semicircle.

until the semicircular bubble bursts, emitting a series of waves.

Some bubbles actually lifted the hard carapace of the ghost-patterned red ant floating in the middle of the pit, and kept opening and closing on the surface of the pool......

Surdak noticed something that he hadn't noticed before, the hard shells of the ghost-patterned soldiers in the center of the pit that had been soaked in the acid pool for too long had actually become soft.

The wooden stick in his hand couldn't reach the hard armor of the ghost pattern soldier ant in the center of the pit, and the ghost pattern soldier ant at the edge was thrown in not long ago, and he stabbed it hard, in addition to the flesh and blood in the shell melting, the carapace covered with spikes was still very hard.

He asked the soldiers around him to find a five-meter-long knight's spear, and picked up a soft soaked ghost-patterned soldier ant hard carapace in the middle of the pit filled with sour liquid.

The carapace of the ghost-patterned soldier ant hung from the tip of the spear, like a dark green kelp dripping with seawater.

When the soldiers picked the carapace out of the pit, Surdak had two buckets of water brought over and rinsed the acid and putrid liquid on them.

He was going to use his real eyes to see what had happened to the hard carapace of the ghost-patterned soldier ant.

But now it looks pretty bad, because the soldier with the knight's spear has poked a large hole in the hard carapace of the ghostly soldier ant, and the hard armor should have lost its original toughness......

……

Surdak was about to study the hard armor skin further when he saw two merchants with thick scarves on their heads and a few retinues walking from a distance to the side of the pit, carefully inspecting the situation inside the pit.

Putting down the wooden stick in his hand, he stepped on the carapace of the ghost-patterned soldier ant that had become a little soft, and walked towards the merchants.

"You want to buy these ghost-patterned soldier ant hard armor skins?" Surdak stared at the two merchants.

The two merchants hid their faces in their scarves and shook their heads repeatedly, and one of them explained to Surdak, "There is no market for this hard armor leather, it is better to buy some magic cores, we are not going to buy them." ”

Seeing that the two businessmen flatly denied it, Surdak did not continue to question.

He nodded, and then said:

"There is a big shortage of arrows and fire oil on the garrison's side, so you merchants need to be able to collect more arrows from the towns around Wilkes City, of course, it would be better if you could find fire oil and fire scale bullets."

"The garrison can exchange the Warcraft materials in the warehouse for arrows, and guarantee to leave you enough profit margins."

When the merchant heard Surdak say this, he immediately promised:

"We will try to mobilize some urgently needed armaments, and there are more than a dozen workshops around Wilkes City that specialize in making arrows, and now we have sent people to make a large number of purchases......"

Before the merchant could finish speaking, he saw one of the city guards running over, saluting Surdak, and hurriedly saying:

"Lord Commander, Captain Andrew has made a new discovery on the city walls! If you have time, it's a good idea to make a trip. ”

Surdak glanced up at the city walls, and when he saw that there was no scuffle in the city, he relaxed a little and replied, "I'll go there right away." ”

The two merchants still wanted to continue the conversation with Surdak, but Surdak had already hurried to the top of the city, and they couldn't help but look at each other, and they both saw a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes.

The two merchants walked out of the pit of the sour liquid with a few retinues and came to the door of the city's guard brigade.

Nearly ten businessmen gathered at the entrance of the brigade, and everyone got into a magic caravan.

The eyes of all the merchants fell on the two merchants, and one of them, the gray-bearded merchant, asked with a worried face, "Have you seen Commander Surdak?" ”

The two businessmen nodded silently, and the atmosphere in the carriage was a little dull.

The gray-bearded merchant asked the two merchants, "Have you negotiated?" ”

One of the merchants shook his head in frustration and said helplessly:

"Before we could talk any further, the people went to the city to deal with things."

Another businessman also asked, "President, is there any progress on Ms. Selena's side?" ”

The gray-bearded merchant sighed and said, "This side simply directly interrupted the negotiation of the ghost pattern soldier ants, and only sold the primary demonic beast leather in the warehouse, and there is no head!" ”

The other merchants sitting in the magic caravan also began to talk about it:

"This business is really tortuous."

"If you want me to say, it's better to say it directly, we hide it like this, even if we make this big order, we will dig a piece of meat from someone's mouth, and in the end, we will completely offend this commander."

"Well, I've heard that this Commander's background is not simple."

"It is estimated that this Surdak commander should also be aware of it, so he will decisively stop the trade of ghost soldiers and ants here."

"There shouldn't be a problem, Josh of the trading firm. Baron Golding and the Commander are at odds with each other, and we have communicated with him beforehand, and he should not have said anything about it. Wasn't it the same the last time the beast tide was over? ”

"Hey, haven't you seen how many headless ghost pattern soldiers are in the pit, as long as this order is made, we can take the merchant group to the southern town to do business, as long as we wait for four years, once the guard is changed, this town will be a new military and political officer."

“……”

……

Surdak ascended the city walls.

Andrew stood behind the battlements, enduring the steaming heat under the city, looking at the open space between the canyons outside the city, scraping the stubble on his face with his fingers, his face was a little solemn.

The outside of the northern city wall is almost crowded with ghost-patterned red ants, and a catapult throwing a flint will kill a large number of ghost-patterned worker ants.

The heavy infantry on the city wall are holding tower shields, and behind them is a row of heavy infantry holding Paglio's spears, they stab the spears in their hands through the shields, the main attacker will pierce the spear from the jaw of the ghost soldier ants, seal the mouth of the ghost soldier ants, prevent them from spitting, and the rest of the spearmen will pierce the spear between the head and chest gap of the ghost soldier ant who has just emerged on the city wall, so that it will be stuck in the city, and then there will be a knife and axe hand to decapitate it.

The spearmen and axemen are all veterans of the team, and only they can neatly pierce the hard armor of the ghostly soldiers.

And those large numbers of ghost-patterned worker ants, before they even climbed to the top of the city, were shot down from the mountain wall by the city guards on the city wall with a repeating archer crossbow......

It crackled and fell onto the pile of smoked corpses at the foot of the mountain.

In this kind of city defense battle, the heavy infantry and city defenders have been able to do it very skillfully, even if there are some mistakes in a certain link, they will know how to remedy it in the future.

Another wave of attacks by the ghost-patterned red ants was repulsed.

Surdak endured the heat and stood beside Andrew and looked out through the cracks in the battlements.

Andrew pointed to the canyon, and in mid-air, nearly seven or eight hundred meters away from the northern city wall, there was a huge red ant covered in red blood, and the winged red ant was about the size of an adult ice-horned rhinoceros.

Just below its body, hundreds of ghost-striped red ants were clustered, and these ghost-striped red ants were several times taller than other ghost-striped red ants, and even one leg was about the length of a worker ant, and they looked like tanks, clustering the queen.

Many ghost-patterned soldier ants are surrounded by left and right, and the outermost circle is the ghost-patterned worker ants, and you can know that the hierarchy is clear at a glance.

Andrew licked his lips and said, "This big fly was found this morning, one suspended in mid-air in the valley, and you don't feel ......"

"Is it the sense of oppression on the high-level demonic beasts?" Surdak said.

"Well, I estimate that the demonic beasts that can oppress us should at least be third-order demonic beasts." Andrew said, his eyes fixed on the big fly.

Surdak leaned his back against the battlements, avoiding the heat rising from beneath the walls, and said, "This big fly with wings should be their new queen, and the kind of queen ant who is trying to complete mating." ”

"How do you know it's an unmated queen?" Andrew asked with a look of surprise.

Surdak smiled and said, "When this new queen finds a safe habitat, builds a new nest, and completes mating, the wings will fall off on its own." ”

"Really?" Andrew asked in even more surprise.

"Of course, the ones under it should be a group of ghost-patterned male ants, and they are probably the new queen's personal guards." Surdak said firmly: "Look how bright red its body is. ”

After Surdak finished speaking, Andrew actually poked his head out and looked at it twice.

"After it arrived at the Dodan Canyon, the ghost-patterned red ants here became much more orderly, don't look at the sides of the city wall now so stable, I guess they are paralyzing us!"

After Andrew finished speaking, he led Surdak to the corpse of a huge ghost-patterned soldier ant more than four meters long, this ghost-patterned soldier ant was larger than those ordinary ghost-patterned soldier ants, and the color of the body pattern was also deeper, and some uneven and convex stripes appeared on the carapace, and the sharpest point of these stripes had a series of blunt spines.

The dark red carapace on his body also appeared harder, and he had three giant crossbow arrows stuck in his back, and one in his head.

"A total of eight bed crossbows were shot at it, and four of the giant crossbow arrows were blocked by the armor...... Look here, here, here...... Oh, and here. Andrew pointed out the cracks on the Ghost Ant's body one by one to Surdak.

In these places, the giant crossbow arrows failed to penetrate the armor, but smashed the armor into cracks.

Andrew pulled out the four giant crossbow arrows stuck in the ghost-patterned soldier ant, looked up at Surdak and asked:

"The strength of this ghost pattern soldier ant has reached the level of a second-level demonic beast, do you want to see what is in its skull?"

Surdak nodded.

Without saying a word, he used the butcher's sharp axe in his hand to split the dark red head of the ghost tattooed soldier ant with huge pincers, and suddenly the juice of the city head splashed, and a demon core the size of a baby's fist was buried in the pale green brain flower.

Andrew grabbed the core in his hand and weighed it for a moment before saying:

"Such a big demon core, it's a second-level demonic beast That's right, the strength of this ghost pattern soldier ant is much stronger than that of ordinary soldier ants, it seems that we have to be careful, it's okay to say during the day, once this kind of soldier ant climbs up at night, it is estimated that it will be very troublesome."

"Adams, who is on duty at night, will have to bear more pressure, and they have to make those ghost-patterned red ants in the city honest." After saying that, Surdak turned his head and shouted to Samira, who was standing on the control table of the bed crossbow, "Samira, what is the maximum range of these bed crossbows?" ”

Samira replied casually: "You can shoot 800 meters from the city wall......"

"Can you shoot that big fly?" Surdak asked, pointing to the ant queen levitating in the air in the distance.

Samira stood on the bed crossbow console and gestured to the queen before saying, "It's too far, it's only possible to get closer." ”