Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 168: Ant Nest

"Marshal Windsor Belo told me to inform you that the interstellar defense line has been rather tight recently. It will take about a month or two before I have time to come over." Said Colonel Berry.

Alan was shocked and said, "What, is there a war?"

"It's Neil, our old opponent." Colonel Berry did not look nervous. "They are thinking about our planet. There will always be one or two attempts to break through the Federation's defenses once or twice a year. It doesn't matter. It won't be difficult for the Marshal."

Alan nodded.

"Go and do your work. Remember, Major Coggess is strict, but his intentions are good. I hope you don't hate him."

Ellen smiled. "How could that be?"

He shook his head.

Berry left the dormitory. Outside the door, Kejess was leaning against the wall. Shaking a tin wine bottle, Coggess said, "Drink some?"

"You can't drink in the base!" Berry said in a deep voice.

Kejess shrugged, "So I'm going to take a walk outside the base."

"Come on." Berry laughed and patted Coggess on the shoulder.

Moments later, the two drove away from the base. After exiting the base and driving to a hill on the highlands, Berry jumped down and stepped on the reddish-brown ground beneath his feet. "Damn, it's so hot," he said.

Coggess crouched down and touched the ground. Feeling the heat from his fingers, he said, "This planet is almost finished."

"Anyway, I didn't have a chance to see it turn into a supernova."

"Apart from people like Marshal who have already broken through to the limit of their lives and their lifespans have been greatly prolonged, who can see when Nether Domain Star is truly destroyed?" Coggess jumped on the front of the car and sat down. He reached out to drink, opened the lid of the tin bottle, and tossed it to Berry. "That kind of person has five hands in the Federation. It's not you or me anyway."

Berry took a sip and said, "I only hope to see the abyss of the furnace in my lifetime."

That was where the King of the Blade Demon was.

"Isn't Queen Rose coming soon? I heard that Melinda has young girls in her hands. Maybe we can have a sorority." Coggess spread out his hands.

Berry laughed and said, "The boys in the base must have gone crazy with joy."

His expression darkened as he said, "Just now, your brother and a few sergeants challenged Alan."

"Is that so?"

"But that's not the point." Berry snorted coldly, "Hubble insulted the marshal."

"Then I'm curious. Why isn't he dead yet?" Coggess's eyes suddenly turned cold.

"That's because Alan beat him up."

"He's really cheap." Keoghes snorted and said, "Do you need me to do anything?"

"Of course, you have to warn him not to get too close to those Stalin sergeants." Berry handed the bottle back to the major. "Their superior is Major Luda."

Kejess snorted and said, "The people who spread the word of death are very nice. They are not actually helping defend us to monitor us."

'"There's nothing I can do about it. After all, Commander Lu Sen and Marshal Capulo are old friends. Naturally, they are not at ease with our New Party. It doesn't matter. I'm afraid that the intentions behind this provocation are not simple."

'"You mean they want to use Hubble to stir up a dispute and take advantage of this opportunity to deal a heavy blow to Marshal Allen? That's too much. I think the old party should put down some prejudices when facing a common enemy like the Blade Demon on Nether Domain at least?" Coggess said with a frown.

"Do you think those old fellows are so easy to talk to? Especially the President's attitude now is a little biased towards them. If I were Marshal Capullo, I would definitely use this opportunity to attack us, so as to reverse the bad reputation that has always been placed on us." Berry shook his head. "Forget it. Politics is a lot more complicated than killing enemies. Remind Hubble not to let anyone use it."

'"I'll give him a deep enough reminder," Coggess nodded.

As he said that, he put the bottle into his mouth and found that not a drop of wine had flowed out. He shook his head and said, "Colonel, you drank a little hard."

Berry spread out his hands, then frowned and said, "Look over there."

Keoghes followed his line of sight. It was a rolling mountain area high beneath the Blood Eagle. In the distance, there were a few small mountains and hills. A few busy figures were moving on the mountain. They were swarms of knife ants. They were heading in the same direction with a clear target.

"Looks like we have to start sweeping again. I have to say, these things are multiplying really fast." Said Coggess.

"The movement of the ant colony is too regular. Could it be that a new queen has appeared?" Berry shook his head and said, "Anyway, scout first. Damn it. There's just traces of a medium-sized tribe, and now there's a possibility of moving in an ant nest as a neighbor. I can't relax at all."

"Those brats' internship period is coming soon. It's just right for them to train. If they can't even take out an ant nest, how can they fight against the Saber Demon?" Coggess laughed.

Time goes by in training and learning.

In the blink of an eye, Alan had been on Nether Domain for three months. On this day, all the recruits gathered in the tactical conference room. Curjess stood on the podium, the electronic curtain wall on his back alternating with some pictures of the mountain topography near Blood Hawk Highlands.

"After all the scouting we've been doing for some time, there's reason to believe that there's a saber ant nest in the mountains. Often, an ant queen appears in an ant nest. The queen is the only female in the nest and its job is to reproduce. During the breeding season, the queen mates with the male continuously, laying at least a hundred eggs at a time. A month later, a hundred strong knife ants will appear in the nest. "

"But this is not the time for the knife ant to reproduce. At this time, the queen is usually in a dormant state. You've been on Planet Underworld for three months, and now I have to give you one final test. It's very simple. Take out this nest and I'll supervise the whole process and grade it based on the performance of your teams in the process," Kojas said with his hands behind his back.

"Congratulations to those who don't pass the assessment. You can leave Nether Domain Star. If you can't even do that, there's no need to push you to the battlefield and die." Kejess said in a low voice, "Is there any other problem?"

"No, sir!" Everyone replied in unison.

Half an hour later, the two trucks transporting the soldiers left Blood Eagle Base and went along the mountain road to the examination site. Vehicles stopped near the target mountain. If we keep going, the car engine will attract the attention of the ant colony. The soldiers got out of the carriage and lined up. After examining it, Coggess waved his hand and signaled for teams to leave one after another and enter the mountain on foot.

After the group entered the mountain, they dispersed and flowed through the mountain like streams of undercurrents. Kejess did not give the exact location of the nest, so finding the nest was also an assessment for soldiers. Allen was experienced in tracing his prey and soon found traces of the knife ant. Because of its large size, the traces left behind by the saber ant were fairly obvious. As long as one observed it carefully, it would not be difficult to discover them.

Their sharp forelegs, in particular, leave unique imprints on the ground. As long as you find these imprints and determine where they are heading, it won't be difficult to find traces of knife ants. Very quickly, Alan and the others caught up with a few knife ants. These knife ants were biting the limbs of some unknown beasts as they moved. Whether it was the smell of the corpses or the blood dripping onto the ground, it was undoubtedly an obvious indication.

Following these traces, at sunset, Allen's team stopped on a small slope. Alan lay on the ground, feeling the burning aura from the ground rising from his chest and spreading to other places. He didn't move at all, only holding a tactical telescope and looking ahead, then handing it to Lucy beside him.

Inside the telescope was a low hill, only about 20 meters high. The left side of the mountain is steep, and the right side of the slope is gentle, joining with the ground. There were a few strange dark trees growing on the mountain, but there were no other decorations. It was not difficult to see through the telescope that there were some deep caves at the foot of the mountain, including the mountain above, in which knife ants entered and exited.

In the 15 minutes they observed, there were dozens of knife ants entering and leaving the cave at the foot of the mountain, and there were more than a dozen giant ants serving as sentries scattered around them.

"What do you think?" Alan asked.

"We don't have enough information," Lucy said. "We need to know what's going on in the nest before we can make a strategy."

"We obviously don't have enough manpower, so there are definitely no fewer than three digits of ants in there," Willick said.

Ellen nodded and said, "Well, I'll go into the nest to scout. Nazi, leave a contact code and have the other teams gather with us to discuss how to get rid of the nest."

"Blade ants have poor eyesight, but they are very sensitive to pheromones, and they can tell if they are allies or enemies by the tremors on the ground. You have to be careful." Lucy, who had excellent knowledge of biology, reminded him.

Alan dug out some lime from the ground with his fangs and put it on his face, body, hands and feet. The soil of Nether Domain Star had a very strong scent of scorched earth. After applying it all over his body, he could conceal his original scent. After getting ready, Ellen stroked the backlit side of the hillside with his fangs on his back, and Nazi turned around to inform the other teams.

A moment later, it was dark, and two strange moons gradually rose from the horizon. One was emitting a purple light, while the other was near the purple moon. The moon was completely devoid of light, and it was like a black hole following behind.

This caused the Underworld Star night to dim, and the low eyesight Blade Ants returned to their nests one after another. Allen stepped on the night sky and borrowed the rolling hills or some dark red shrubs to protect himself. They moved at a constant speed in the direction of the ant nest. Not long after, Lucy, who was on the slope, could no longer see Alan's figure.

Night fell, and a knife ant struggled towards the nest. It had wounds on its body, and the worm armor on its second left body shattered, occasionally releasing cyan-yellow worm fluid. Two of its legs on the same side were bitten off, making it difficult for it to crawl back to its nest before sunset.

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