A cavalry captain, heavily armed with a tower shield, cautiously stepped one foot into the entrance to the sour-rotten cavern, the black blood that was about to dry up was a little sticky, sticking under the boot, and each step looked a little sluggish.

Obviously, this expedition mission is not a good task, but since it is his turn, he has to go to the front.

Surdak reached out and pressed the horseman's shoulder, and the cavalry captain turned his head to Surdak with a puzzled expression, and then at the battalion commander Intas.

"Let me ......" Surdak didn't say much, and strode directly to the front, with a dwarven chain shield glowing with silver holy light on his arm, and the other holding a torch of holy light that emitted a glimmer of light, and walked into the cave first.

The cavalry captain hurried to follow.

The cave was supposed to be an underground storage room in the temple, and it is said that it was occasionally used to hold heretics, and this multi-purpose storage room was built with the temple and was usually not too small.

It's just that Lady Liberty has abandoned this place, and even the priests and priests in the temple have been clean, and the temple in the town has been abandoned, and the grass in the backyard has grown almost to knee height.

The commanders of the two cavalry battalions saw that Surdak was in the lead, and hurriedly cheered up and followed with the elite cavalry.

The two of them led a group of cavalry to search the town for survivors, but they didn't get anything for the night.

Chasing the ghost-patterned red ants that kept retreating, he killed all the way to the southernmost temple of the town, only to find that this basement was crowded with ghost-patterned red ants, and it looked like a wormhole, and many ghost-patterned soldiers were crowded in the cave and fought to the death.

The cavalry blocked the entrance to the cave, and the ghost-patterned red ants in the cave could only come out one by one, and then they were cleared by the cavalry one after another.

Walking down the channel full of acid and rotten liquid for six or seven meters, the road ahead became much smoother, and it was filled with a foul smell that was almost suffocating.

The light in the cave was a little dark, and Surdak walked in front with the torch of holy light, although he was not wearing a magic pattern at the moment, but the salamander leather armor was wearing a thick layer of full-cover heavy armor, if it weren't for his face, he would not be much different from the other cavalry in the cavalry camp after wearing a helmet and mask.

Suddenly, there was a small chattering sound from both sides, and two ghost-patterned soldier ants poked their heads out of the black holes on both sides of the burrow, and when they found Surdak, they immediately turned their heads flexibly and pounced on Surdak with their teeth and claws.

The space in the corridor in the cave was so large that Surdak couldn't dodge it, and hurriedly raised his shield to parry.

A pair of dark red tentacle pincers slammed into the dwarf chain shield, the ghost pattern soldier ant is a power-type second-level demonic beast, itself is infinitely powerful, although Surdak put on a defensive posture for the first time, but was still hit by this blow and took two steps back, a layer of holy silver light appeared on the shield, the ghost pattern soldier ant seemed to be burned, and the sharp tentacles retracted, leaving only two shallow dents on Surdak's shield.

Another ghost-patterned soldier ant pounced on the other side of Surdak, and the cavalry holding the tower shield behind hurriedly filled his position, holding the shield and crashing into the ghost-patterned soldier ant.

The cavalry behind hurriedly stabbed out the long sword in his hand, and the knight's long sword made of fine steel pierced the hard armor skin near the compound eye of the ghost-patterned red ant, making a piercing sound.

The aura at Surdak's feet lit up, and a faint demonic array flashed in his hand, and the holy light torch smashed on the head of another ghost-patterned red ant, and immediately smashed out a large hole in the olive-shaped head of the ghost-patterned soldier ant, although a light brown liquid gushed out of it, it made the ghost-patterned soldier ant bite Surdak's arm even more fiercely.

At this time, a spear reached out from behind and pierced deep along the broken skull of the ghost soldier ant, and immediately pierced the ghost soldier ant on the barrel of the gun.

Surdak nodded to Commander Intas, who had made a timely move behind him, and continued to explore.

When I went inside, I found that the inside of the cave was a long, narrow and straight corridor, and the space was very spacious.

The dome of the corridor also has an arched structure, and there are masonry columns on both sides as load-bearing supports, and there are secret rooms arranged on both sides of the corridor, but the ghost red ants are too large in size, and they have broken the door of the secret room, and many columns have also been broken, and some masonry structures have collapsed, and the earthwork on the dome has flowed down, which looks dilapidated.

The floor of the cave is covered in a viscous black-brown liquid that looks like dried blood.

There was obviously the smell of red ants in the stone room, but it felt like they didn't dare to run out.

There were many bloodstained and slime-stained skulls of various sizes in the corners of the cave in the cave, and Surdak realized that the ghost-striped red ants had brought the townspeople and the dead garrison here.

Surdak walked to the door of a stone chamber, held a shield in front of him, and poked the torch of holy light into it to take a look, only to see that there were two worker ants with a somewhat unusual size in this stone chamber.

That's right, they have the upper body of the ghost pattern worker ant, but the appearance below the abdomen has completely changed, and the dark red abdomen, which was originally only the size of a winter melon, has actually expanded into a huge ball with a diameter of two meters, and the abdomen of the ghost pattern worker ant has become translucent because of excessive expansion.

Illuminated by the light of the torch of holy light, the huge abdomen of the ghost pattern worker ants showed a light red jelly shape, and the huge abdomen supported their bodies, so that the front half of their bodies was completely suspended in the air, and their bodies were lying on a corpse pile, sucking the sour putrid liquid on it with their hard tubular mouthparts, and they were still trying to suck when they saw that their stomachs were about to explode, and they were still trying to suck, like two starving ghosts.

Surdak withstood the discomfort in his stomach and withdrew.

Seeing the strange expression on Surdak's face, Commander Intas also walked up to take a look, Surdak felt that when he turned his head back, his face was a little green, and he directly asked for a firescale bullet from a cavalryman next to him, and threw it into the stone chamber without looking.

With an explosion, a lot of jelly-like pale red materials flew out of the stone chamber, standing sticky on the pillar at the door of the stone chamber.

After the strong explosion was over, Intas explained to Surdak:

"The honeypots of these ghostly red ants are also their way of storing food, and when they are completely full, these worker ants will transfer themselves to the top of the burrow and die, these honeypots are used when the worker ants can't find enough food for the queen, hanging in a cool burrow, and can be stored for a long time......"

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Intarss reluctantly pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, and asked everyone:

"Curious how I know this?"

Without waiting for the people to answer, he explained:

"I participated in the beast tide ten years ago, when I was still a captain in the seventy-nine cavalry of the Bena Legion, but at that time, the border towns were all Bernard Legion Constructed Swordsmen, and at the beginning of the beast tide, these Constructed Swordsmen fought back and killed until the edge of the Dark Forest, if it weren't for the inability to pass through the poisonous miasma on the periphery of the Dark Forest, the Constructed Swordsmen might have directly captured the Dark Worm Valley at that time."

"So...... Didn't take it? Commander Hampton asked.

Commander Intas nodded and said, "Of course, if it is really done, maybe the second city of the White Forest Plane will be built." ”

Then he said self-deprecatingly: "Maybe that battle was too easy, this time let the Luther Legion garrison the northern occupation area, and the Provincial Council actually transferred the main force of the Luther Legion to Talapa to quell the rebellion......

Everyone didn't say anything, and sent cavalry with repeating archer crossbows to clear these worker ant honeypots along the road.

Surdak is always ahead of the curve.

In his words, his dwarven chain shield is a magic shield with a 'divine shield'.

The basement in the temple really occupies the entire underground space in the backyard.

Each stone chamber contains one or two so-called worker ant honeypots, and of course the rooms are covered with corroded corpses, making the basement of the temple feel like a burial chamber.

Finally, we reached the end of the cavern corridor, where the dried black blood on the ground also came to an abrupt end, and a pile of abandoned and collapsed masonry was piled up next to the wall, looking like it was caused by a landslide.

However, just when everyone thought they were coming to an end, Surdak found that the bricks and stones scattered in the corners of the walls did not have any traces of blood, and it looked like a new landslide had not been long ago.

Under the light of the torch of holy light, the blood on the ground stretched like broken bricks.

Commander Intas was also worried that the stone chamber would collapse, and he couldn't wait to get out of the stinking basement.

Seeing Surdak stop in front of this pile of broken bricks, turn around and come back, the cavalry who entered this basement were almost the elite of the 7th Cavalry Battalion, Intas waved his hand, and these cavalrymen immediately realized that everyone had come together to clean up the broken bricks.

Gradually, as the crumbling pieces of brickwork were cleared out by the cavalry, a larger hole was revealed in the wall.

The inside of the cave was even deeper, and there was no light in the dark cavern, but there was some hard carapace grinding sound coming from inside.

The dried blood under his feet reached this point, and it still extended into the cave, but it was relatively much less, and it was not coagulated in a thick layer.

One of the cavalrymen, at the behest of Commander Intas, threw a torch wrapped in broken steps and pine resin into the cave.

The torch flew down the cave seven or eight meters away, smashed on the stone wall and bounced to the ground, and the fire continued to weaken.

The light alarmed some of the ghost-patterned red ants, and they scrambled out of the cave again, but only halfway through the climb, the ghost-patterned soldier ants actually stopped, and then cautiously retreated along the cave, leaving only a dark and deep hole to come out.

"Queen ......"

Intas and Surdak said almost at the same time.

Without hesitation, Surdak said to the third squadron leader under him: "Go and call some more men, and if there is nothing wrong with the city wall, call Andrew over." ”

With that, Surdak walked in with the torch of light.

He found that this hole should have been newly dug by the ghost-patterned red ants, and the traces of the excavation on the cave wall were still brand new.

A group of ghost-patterned soldier ant guards saw Surdak getting closer and closer, they crouched in the stone cave and continued to spread their tentacles towards Surdak to demonstrate, but none of the soldiers rushed up, and when they saw Surdak and his group slowly approaching, the ghost-patterned soldier ants spewed acid rot liquid towards Surdak.

The cavalrymen raised their crossbows one after another, and a row of crossbow arrows shot over, which immediately angered these ghost-patterned soldiers.

The soldiers pounced again, and Surdak and the two cavalrymen stood side by side, unable to dodge in the cave, all of which collided hard.

The torch of holy light in Surdak's hand appeared three times in a row, and the lightning flowed out horizontally, illuminating the entire stone cave, these ghost pattern soldiers and ants were covered in electric arcs, and a group of cavalry took the opportunity to kill into the cave and solve the ghost pattern soldiers and ants in the cave one by one.

Walking over the corpses of these ghost-patterned soldier ants, he found that the stone cave dug by the red ants was actually connected to a natural cave.

The sound of the hard carapace grinding came from inside the cavern, and this time it shot a scroll of the Gathering Fire Technique into the dark cavern. The magic scroll unfolded in the wind, and the magic scroll ignited a flame and fell in front of the cave.

Under the faint light of the fire, a group of ghostly male ants guarded a queen ant and slowly moved towards the depths of the cave.

They moved very slowly, mainly because the queen was much larger than Surdak had ever seen before, and its body was extending a few meters backwards from its abdomen, and its whole body was actually a cut longer than the ghost pattern male ant, and it was also two meters in diameter, it looked like a giant sausage, and there were magic patterns in the veins on the side of the abdomen.

In the dark cave, the bright red eyes of the future exuded a seeping light.

The dark body is covered with dark red veins, and the three pairs of wings on the back of the ant have completely fallen off, and it is lying on the body of a ghost-patterned male ant, and it is moving to the depths of the cave surrounded by a large group of worker ants, looking very weak.

There are also a large number of ghostly soldier ants in the cave, swarming towards Surdak.

It was clearly unwise for the cavalry to fight the ghostly ant in the open area of the underground cavern, and Surdak did not venture in to hunt down the departing queen.

A steady stream of ghostly soldiers rushed up, and the two commanders, Intas and Hampton, took turns rushing to the front to share the onslaught with Surdak.

It wasn't until Andrew, who exuded a strong fighting aura, arrived in the cave that the situation was opened.

As a newly promoted second-turn warrior, Andrew's aura steadily suppressed these ghost-patterned soldier ants, and with a butcher's axe, he fought his way out and rushed into the cave in the belly of the mountain again.

In the center of the cave is an ant nest with countless human bones, and the ghost-patterned worker ants have not had time to remove all the eggs in the nest.

In addition, there are four ghost-patterned males in the nest that have been sucked into empty shells, and their huge bodies are like statues guarding the nest.

These white flozytes have light green circular markings on the surface, and each one appears very narrow.

Andrew rushed into the colony and slaughtered, breaking through the formation of the ghostly soldier ants, forcing the soldiers to keep backing and protecting the huge nest.

The cavalry that kept rushing in not only surrounded the ghost pattern soldier ants, but also surrounded all these ghost pattern worker ants who were busy transferring the eggs, and under the volley of the archer's crossbow, the ant nest in the cave completely overturned.

The caves in the belly of the mountain lead in all directions, even if the ghostly red ants left some traces of evacuation along the way, Surdak saw that there were no survivors here, and after clearing the battlefield and taking all the loot, he led a group of knights to retreat to the ground of the town of Plantos, and sent people to block the cave and the underground of the temple with masonry and mud.