Chapter 101

The sky is covered with dark clouds and dense raindrops. This season is the most abundant time of the year. There will be a heavy rain every two or three days.

"This damn weather."

Keith cursed and wiped the rain on his face. Such weather was definitely the worst for the sentry. The rain covered the sun, and he couldn't see anything two or three hundred meters away. Keith climbed up the beacon tower in a heavy coir raincoat. When he saw the firewood pile watered by the rain, he could only smile bitterly and shake his head. These firewood can't be lit at all. After a rainy day, they have to be removed and replaced with new dry firewood. This is a lot of work for a post with only three people.

Keith is a soldier under victor. He and two other comrades in arms are stationed in this post to carry out guard tasks at the command of Captain Nelson. Their main job is to monitor the entrance of the Everglades.

Since there was no trace of Ogres in the western mountains, Victor determined that the ogre tribe must be in the swamp, because the old ogres would not come out of thin air. So Victor ordered Nelson to build a sentry post at the entrance of the Everglades, set up a beacon tower, and stationed three soldiers. In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers, Victor specially equipped them with three alchemical crows. Once the alchemical crows warned them, they would immediately light the beacon and then retreat on horseback.

The soaked coir raincoat was very heavy and uncomfortable. Keith decided to go back to the shack to take shelter from the rain. As soon as he entered the shack, he heard Lev yell at him, "Keith, you're lazy. You should be on duty now."

Ignoring Lev's ridicule, Keith apologized to a middle-aged Soldier: "head, it's raining too hard outside. I can't see clearly. Anyway, there are dust falcons monitoring the entrance of the swamp. I want to take shelter from the rain first. When the rain stops, I'll continue to guard."

"Take a break and I'll have a look." Matthew, a middle-aged soldier, put on a coir raincoat and pushed the door and went out.

Outside the door, the sound of the rain was deafening. Matthew couldn't help shaking. He scolded: "it's only been comfortable for half a year. This rain scared him?" After tightening his coir raincoat, Matthew Yi rushed into the rain and went to the lookout.

Matthew is an old man of War Bear mercenaries. He has led two recruits to carry out guard tasks here for a month. Matthew knew very well that no matter how bad the weather was, the guard post could not be empty. Because if there are monsters to attack, the first thing to escape is themselves.

The entrance of the Everglades is a huge slope, and the warning platform is located on a mound two kilometers away from the entrance. If you look from here at ordinary times, you can see everything at the entrance, but now Matthew has enough eyesight and can only see the scenery about 400 meters. As Keith said, even if you come out to guard, you can't see the situation below.

Matthew hesitated whether to go to the shed to take shelter from the rain. A dust Falcon came through the rain, flew askew, fell beside him, and made a sad cry to him.

"Little fellow, you can't fly because of the rain. Let's go. I'll take you to wipe your feathers and bake the fire."

Matthew was very happy to find a reason to take shelter from the rain. He picked up the dust Falcon and wanted to go back to the shed, but the dust Falcon didn't appreciate it, but shouted more fiercely.

The abnormal performance of the dust Falcon attracted Matthew's attention. He rushed to the edge of the platform, opened his eyes and stared at the entrance of the swamp. It was white, but Matthew only felt heavy in his heart.

The ground shook slightly. Matthew's face changed. He quickly fell down and put his ears on the ground of the guard post. The feeling of vibration was immediately clear and audible, like ten thousand horses galloping.

"Enemy attack!"

Matthew kicked open the shed and rushed in with the rain. Keith and LEV were startled and shouted, "head!?"

"Enemy attack! Set fire to the house! Retreat!" Matthew picked up the barrel and sprinkled fire oil around the shed. When he saw two newcomers standing still, he said angrily, "don't start a fire!"

The outside of the hut was wet and the inside was dry. Sprinkled with fire oil, it soon burned. The thick smoke was no different from the beacon tower, but the second post to transmit the beacon could not see the situation here.

The three lit the shed, raised their spears and swords and rushed out of the fire house. As soon as they got outside, they took a breath of air conditioning. Countless black and brown monsters had surrounded them. These monsters are 1.7 meters high, like centaurs, with six limbs, including four limbs on the ground. They have black brown shells, and their heads are like enlarged ant heads. These monsters are like enlarged human ants.

In a desperate situation, everyone's performance is different. Some are cowardly and some are brave. Matthew is the kind of brave. Matthew is a mercenary and a soldier. When there is no way out, he chooses to embrace the soldier's destiny.

"Kill!"

Sit on your crotch, twist your waist, shake and straighten your spear, and the sharp spear point cuts through the rain and stabs at the nearest monster. Matthew's assassination can be said to be tempered. He once stabbed through the sarsan soldiers in lock armor with a spear. Although he is no longer young, this stab is still unstoppable.

The green liquid splashed, the spear pierced the monster's neck, and the ant man fell softly to the ground. Matthew was excited. These terrible monsters are not invincible!

However, other monsters are more excited than Matthew. The death of their companions makes them emit a happy neighing. The neighing sound rises and falls one after another and is transmitted to the Everglades. Greater waves sound from the Everglades. Endless ant people are responding to their own kind. Matthew's face showed a look of despair. Ants rushed up and drowned the veteran soldier in an instant.

Seeing Matthew torn to pieces by the ant man, Keith and LEV looked white. They couldn't lift their weapons. They had to kneel and tremble in the heavy rain.

When the swarm separated, there was nothing on the ground except blood, fragments of leather armor, and a spear. A very tall ant man came over, picked up Matthew's spear and waved it skillfully. The refined iron spear danced faster and faster in his hand, turning into a silver light and making a terrible hum.

As soon as the ant man took his hand, the silver light dissipated in an instant. The refined iron spear pointed to Keith's forehead. Seeing that Keith had no response, the ant man's head leaned in front of Keith, and the huge mouthpiece like pliers suddenly opened and roared at him. Keith saw countless of himself in the ant man's compound eyes, and knelt in the mud with a hasty face. Keith's mind was blank. A few months ago, he was just an honest farmer. In the face of terrible monsters, he had no courage to resist.

The ant man's head slowly moved away from Keith's sight. It carried a spear and walked forward with its limbs. Other ant people followed it and passed by Keith and LEV who were paralyzed in the mud. Until the last ant man disappeared in the rain, they realized that these monsters didn't kill them.

Keith and LEV helped each other to get up from the ground and gasped. Tears mixed with rain flowed freely on their faces. They were glad they survived.

However, the earth was shaking, and the two farmers desperately found that the black flood was gushing out from the entrance of the Everglades, which was an endless army of ant people. One, two, ten, and a hundred ant men passed by Keith and LEV. They turned a blind eye to them, but before they were lucky again, an ant man knocked them down on the ground, and countless limbs stepped over them until they stepped on them into a pile of meat mud.

The boundless ant people are like the black tide spreading in the man horse hills. This is the land they have never set foot on. Today they come. They grow up in battle, plunder in killing and feed back in death. This is the mission of ant man.

The shed was smoking heavily, and even under the rain, the fire oil was still stubbornly burning the wood. Groups of ant people stepped by the shed. They didn't know that a black crow was hiding in a corner. Its wet feathers gradually became dry under the baking of charcoal.

Ten hours later, the ant man army began to become sparse. At this time, the rain is getting smaller and smaller. The alchemical crow jumps out of the hiding gap. When the ant people don't pay attention, it quickly picks up one eye that doesn't know who it is and swallows it. This bloody eye will give it enough strength to fly back to the hill camp.

With a quack, the alchemical crow shot into the sky like an arrow. It wanted to warn Victor before the ant army. This is also the mission of the alchemical crow.