From a distance, I saw that a fierce battle had broken out on the side of the city wall, and the fire in front of the city wall was soaring, and a series of explosions were heard from time to time.

On the battlefield next to the dead forest, there were nearly eighty corpses of ghost-patterned male ants, each of which needed at least one four-wheeled truck to transport it, and the team led by Surdak could not take away so many ghost-patterned males, so they could only take out the most precious magic core from the skull of ghost-patterned males.

Even the head of the ghost-patterned male ant could not be taken away, although the back of the ghost-patterned red ant was empty, but at the call of this unlucky queen, there were still a large number of ghost-patterned red ants rushing here from the northern part of the canyon.

Surdak stood on the back of the ghost-patterned male, and after having 'insight', he could see far away in the night.

A piece of ghost pattern worker ants came from the north of the canyon, but there are not many ghost pattern soldier ants in these ant colonies, and it is not too difficult to block these ghost pattern worker ants with these veterans.

Fifteen cavalry battalion veterans under the leadership of Andrew, around the ghost pattern male ants controlled by Aphrodite formed a battle formation, the veterans waved the knight's sword in their hands and strangled hard, although these ghost pattern worker ants can spray acid, a pair of tentacles are quite powerful, but they are not the opponents of the veterans, there is almost nothing to do in the face of the knight's light shield in the hands of the veterans, just rely on instinct to pounce.

In the past three weeks, these veterans have not known how many ghost-patterned red ants they have killed in the city.

At this time, the veterans with many divine blessings, their physique and strength have almost reached an unprecedented state, these ghost pattern soldier ants more than one meter long are like a group of hungry wolves pounce up, they don't even have any fear, just keep rushing up, opening their tentacles to bite up.

The hard armor on their bodies is not very hard, and the knight's sword can easily cut through the joints of the ghost-patterned worker ants.

Surdak even erected a marching tent on the back of the ghost-patterned male, and Selena lay unconscious in the tent.

Aphrodite stood on top of the ghost-patterned male's head, controlling the ghost-striped male to walk towards the depths of the dead woods, and fifteen veterans, led by Andrew, were in charge of breaking the rear, and followed behind the ghost-patterned male to fight and retreat.

This dead forest is located at the foot of the mountain on the east side of the canyon, belonging to a narrow forest belt, walking through the dead forest to the mountainside, the terrain suddenly rises to an extremely steep slope.

In fact, this is not the main problem, climb up the steep wall of the canyon for less than 100 meters, and you will see a cluster of thorny stone pillars on the mountainside, these stone pillars are completely grown from the mountain, the longer stone pillars can reach tens of meters long, and the shorter stone pillars are only a few meters long.

These thorny stone pillars are so densely packed together that neither humans nor beasts can pass through this area.

Aphrodite controlled the ghost-patterned male ant and climbed straight up the mountain.

Chasing a large group of ghost-patterned worker ants behind, the veterans of the cavalry battalion fought and retreated.

A little farther away, a ghost-patterned ant queen with more than fifty ghost-patterned males also chased this side.

They were originally coming to reinforce the troops, but they moved a little slower, and when they arrived at this battlefield, they only saw the corpses of ghost-patterned male ants everywhere......

A group of humans was seen in the distance, retreating towards the edge of the canyon wall.

The queen ant continued to gather the ghostly red ants in the canyon, and then the army of red ants chased after them from behind.

……

Aphrodite stood on top of the ghost-striped male, and under the guidance of a cavalry battalion veteran, he drove the ghost-striped male towards the halfway point of the Thorny Mountains.

The slope of the hill is extremely steep, and the ghost males have a very difficult walk on it, and there are often rolling stones sliding down the hillside.

The terrain here is extremely precipitous, and if this ghost-patterned male ant causes a large landslide, I am afraid that not many of Surdak's cavalry team will survive.

And the rugged mountain road is very unsuitable for ghost males to climb.

The mountains behind are full of ghost-patterned worker ants, and the worker ants are not very large, and the slope of the mountain wall does not hinder them in any way.

……

In such a dark night, the gravel on the hillside often makes a rolling sound.

Gulit held the queen's skull in his arms, and he couldn't wait to sit on the back of the ghost-patterned male, ready to eat the frozen brain marrow inside the skull.

Although Surdak thought that the ogre's habit of eating raw should be completely broken, he didn't have that condition right now.

The ogre held the queen's head, licked his lips, wiped the saliva from the corners of his mouth with his hand to make a difficult decision, and said to Surdak who was standing aside: "Head, this should be put in the demon sealing box, I think it should be more delicious to bake and eat it......"

Surdak lowered the curtain of the marching tent, looked at Gullitmu, who was a little hesitant, and asked him with a smile: "Isn't your brother about to wake up?" ”

Gulit scratched his head vigorously, and said to Surdak a little embarrassed: "I guess I can't wake up after eating this queen's brain marrow, at least I have to eat another one...... If the queen ant follows us into the col, I guess I have hope this time. ”

"Head, am I very good at eating?" Gulit asked Surdak one more question.

Gulit sat down on the spot, Surdak took out a large magic sealing box, threw it in front of Gulitham, put his arm on his shoulder, and said, "It's okay, how much food to eat...... It doesn't matter, it's important to have a double lure in hunger and delicious food. How much sanity can you retain...... For an ogre, I value this more. ”

The ogre opened the lid of the box, stored the queen's head in the sealed box, and said, "Forehead, boss, do you think we can kill the queen ant in the back?" ”

Surdak nodded and said, "There is a lot of hope, although it is a little timid and suspicious, but now she is the king of this alliance, even if it is to strengthen its position, it will try to attack us......"

Samira stands on the fart of a ghostly male ant. strands, staring at the canyon behind.

A large number of ghost-patterned red ants gathered from all directions, especially from the direction of the northern city wall, and a large number of ghost-patterned soldiers and ants came in, almost completely blocking the retreat of Surdak and others.

If you want to return to the town of Dodan behind the northern city wall, you will have to encounter those ghost-patterned soldier ants head-on.

The veterans of the cavalry battalion did not come out on horseback this time, and they could not use the gouging tactics of the heavy cavalry to break through the encirclement.

Therefore, Surdak can only lure the ghostly red ants up the hillside.

……

The cavalry battalion had not been in Dodan Town for a long time, and it was not very familiar with Dodan Gorge.

When the cavalry battalion first arrived in the town of Dodan, it had to go out of the Dodan Gorge almost every day to patrol the border between the hills and mountains, and only had a certain understanding of some special terrain in the canyon.

It's a very special place.

It is located on the eastern side of the mountainside in the middle of the Dodan Gorge and has a col surrounded by many thorny stone pillars.

The entrance there is very narrow, and although there is no way to retreat, it can be held with very few troops.

This was part of the assassination plan, and Surdak had never thought of killing a ghostly ant and returning to Dodan Town, his appetite was much bigger than that.

……

Surdak stands at the entrance to the col on the mountainside......

If you don't get closer, it's hard to imagine that there is such a path less than three meters wide hidden in the mountainside of the dense thorny stone pillars, which can only accommodate a ghost-patterned male ant to climb through carefully, and be extra careful when encountering turns.

Andrew blocked the entrance to the road with ten veterans, who were wearing bulky full-covered armor and had the blessing of the gods of the 'Divine Blessed Body', and their physical strength recovered quickly, and due to the suppression of weapons and equipment, it became very easy to fight the ghost pattern worker ants.

In just a quarter of an hour, the corpses of ghost-patterned worker ants at the intersection were stacked more than a meter high.

The ghost-patterned worker ants in the back rushed up on the corpses of their companions and spat acid rot at the veterans, who could only raise their shields to block them.

Although the Ghost Pattern Worker Ant attacked slowly, it still broke into the narrow passage step by step.

Seeing that this attack method was effective, the ghost pattern worker ants almost completely used acid to open the way, and little by little forced the cavalry team to keep retreating, leaving a piece of the corpse of the ghost pattern worker ants on the narrow mountain road.

……

The size of the Ghost Red Ant was unable to climb over the thorny stone pillars, so it had to chase Andrew and the cavalry team along this narrow mountain pass.

Aphrodite manipulated the ghost-patterned male ant to continue inside, and the path was full of thorny thorns on the left and right, like the most chaotic bushes......

The path, covered with thorny stone pillars, runs horizontally along the mountain, and is only about 150 meters long, and when you enter it, you can see an open space the size of half a football field.

Surdak didn't expect such a large space inside the col either.

The terrain in the col is also all sloping, like a ravine washed out by rain.

Andrew exited the trail with a group of veterans and into the col.

A large number of ghost-patterned worker ants continued to crawl out of the mountain road, gathering more and more in the mountain col, and the ogre Gulitham also jumped down from the back of the ghost-patterned male ant with a bone-crushing stick, standing beside Andrew, and swept out sideways with the big stick in his hand, which could sweep several ghost-patterned worker ants at the same time.

Andrew followed in Surdak's footsteps to the deepest part of the col, and there was no further path.

There is a thick stone beam in the middle, and it is probably because of this stone beam that an empty col is formed below.

Underneath the stone beam is a small gap, which is not a cave, at most a horizontal stone crevice.

Surdak had Aphrodite manipulate the ghost-patterned male ant to cross the crack in the stone, just enough to block the crack for about six meters.

For the Surdak team, it's a great place to take refuge.

As long as Andrew and Gulitham take turns to guard the entrance of the cave with their veterans, they can block the attack of the ghostly red ants.

Surdak pulled out two large wooden boxes and placed them on the edge of the hole, and he opened the lids, which contained a neatly arranged row of bags of dynamite wrapped in linen, each with a long fuse.

He told Gulit to stand guard outside the hole in the stone crevice, and under the escort of Samira and Andrew, he placed the explosives one by one at the base of the spiny stone pillars on the mountainside on the left and right sides of the stone beam, fearing that the explosive packs were not powerful enough, so he threw all the two boxes of explosives into them, and scattered the spare boxes into them.

At the beginning, Surdak used black powder to blow up some limestone and dredge a drainage canal in the barren land, and he was naturally very skilled in the use of explosives.

At this time, there were already a large number of ghost-patterned soldier ants attacking the col.

Andrew fought back to the entrance of the stone crevice and joined up with Gullitham, and the two of them, with their excellent physique, took back the precarious entrance.

The ghost-patterned male ant between the cracks in the stone is actually a natural barrier against the attack of the ghost-patterned red ants, and this big man is blocked here, and those ghost-patterned soldier ants do not attack it at all.

The veterans guarding the entrance of the cave would occasionally throw one or two firescale bullets at the col, and the firescale bullets would explode in the colony of ghost-patterned red ants, often killing and wounding one another.

The battle was stalemate until before dawn, the corpses of ghost-patterned red ants at the entrance of the cave in the stone crevices were piled up, Andrew and Gullitham were scarred after a long battle, and the acid was flowing everywhere, and Surdak almost felt that the booby trap plan was about to fail.

Standing high above the stone beam, Samira shouted to Surdak, "The ghost male ant and the queen have come in......"

Surdak quickly got out of the crack in the stone, climbed up the pile of corpses of the ghost-patterned red ants, cut down a ghost-patterned soldier ant that climbed up, and saw that a large number of ghost-patterned male ants appeared at the entrance of the mountain col, and these ghost-patterned male ants quickly surged towards this side.

However, more than a dozen ghost-patterned male ants surrounded the queen, but they only stayed near the exit of the mountain col, not daring to approach half a step.

"Let them come closer......" Surdak said, spitting on it, enduring the sour smell.

Samira continued, "They are still approaching, and the queen ant has come in. ”

"Then let's start our welcome ceremony now!" Surdak bent down to pick up a blazing torch and said loudly.

"Everybody into the cave!" With a torch in hand, Andrew jumped on a raised rock and shouted at the veterans around him.

Surdak and Andrew lit the extended fuse almost at the same time, and the fuse made of gunpowder wrapped in cotton burned so fast that the fire was like a silver snake dancing in a 'snort' sound.

Surdak and Andrew jumped into the stone crevasse at the same time.

More than 30 male ants also climbed up from the bottom of the hillside, and the queen was more than 200 meters away, and Samira stood on the top of the stone beam and shot a throwing arrow at it.

The wind elemental swept the steel arrow through the air in a graceful arc, shooting precisely towards the ghost pattern queen.

Sensing the danger, the queen retracted her wings and landed downward, and several ghost-patterned males raised their forelimbs at the same time, and one of the males steadily blocked the fall. Falling arrows.

Samira took this opportunity to jump into the crack in the stone.

Gulit hurriedly blocked the corpses of several prepared ghost-patterned soldier ants outside, and a large number of ghost-patterned soldier ants poured into the corpse pile outside the cave.

In the midst of Surdak's countdown:

"Five...... Four...... Three...... Two...... One! ”

The explosion of the landslide and the earth cracked from the top of everyone's heads, and the entire stone beam was shaking, and in the violent shaking, almost half of the stone cracks collapsed.

The ghost-patterned male ant huddled outside shifted nearly two meters into the crack in the stone, and the narrow gap squeezed its body into a complete twist and deformation.

Booming sound......

Countless smashed thorn stone pillars collapsed from the mountainside like a turbulent current, instantly submerging the entire mountain col......