The artifacts of the heavens on the tip of the tongue

Chapter 67 Captive
Before the ambush starts, the enemy must first be lured deep into the ambush circle, so that the enemy can be quickly and efficiently dealt with.

What Luke sent out to lure the enemy were two colorful wire centipedes.

They completed the task of luring the enemy very well, luring the 50 soldier ants who were in charge of the formation in the mixed team of Red Fire Fifteen Ton Ants into the pocket formation arranged by Luke.

There were 10 colorful wire centipedes, 100 soldier ants, and an army of more than 300 worker ants waiting for the 50 soldier ants.

The soldier ants of the Red Fire Clan are really powerful in fighting, and the two colorful iron wire centipedes that lured the enemy were quickly caught up and beat to death by them.

But it was not their turn to be complacent. Following Luke's order, more than 400 mixed army of worker ants and soldier ants rushed out of their hiding places, submerging them like a tide.

The battle progressed very quickly and ended in less than 3 minutes, but the brutality of this battle was far beyond Luke's imagination.

Although an ambush encirclement and suppression battle was carried out with an 8 to 1 superior force, the 50 Red Fire soldier ants displayed a strong combat effectiveness, and in the end Luke paid a heavy price.

300只只负责牵制并不负责强攻的工蚁死伤超过120只，100只强攻的兵蚁死伤也有近30只，战损比达到了惊人的3比1。

On the contrary, the 10 colorful centipedes who were originally in charge of besieging survived intact because the enemy did not retreat and did not flee at all.

Although most of the casualties were cannon fodder worker ants, it proved once again that soldier ants are indeed the most suitable type of arms for combat.

However, after cleaning the battlefield in the end, Luke's harvest is quite good after the settlement.

红火族的50只工蚁和50只兵蚁，一共给他带来了125个百分点的【蚁力千钧】技能升级进度，让他现在的【蚁力千钧】技能从2级升到了3级，并且还有将近40个百分点的盈余。

There is no way to measure this harvest by source power, but another important harvest can be.

The last time Luke attacked the Red Fire mixed team, because Luke didn't understand the situation, his worker ants killed all the blue water ant slaves.

This time Luke made preparations in advance and gave all his subordinates a death order: unless those ant slaves resisted, they were not allowed to kill them.

Facts have proved that his order was very timely. Until the end of the battle, the ant slaves of the Blue Water Tribe did not make any resistance movements at all, but just sat there stupidly and let the victor down.

The soldier ants of the Red Fire Tribe also seemed to understand the nature of the ant slave very well, and they also did not order the ant slave to resist.

Therefore, except for a few ant slaves who were killed or killed due to various accidents, among the nearly thousand ant slaves sent by the Red Fire Clan for this grazing operation, 988 survived intact in the end.

These ant slaves are no different from the ant slaves manifested by Luke except that they cannot directly accept the orders given by Luke with the help of the [Swallowing System].

But it doesn't matter. After they become ant slaves, they lose their souls. They will only mechanically obey the orders of the worker ants, constantly eat the blue silver grass, and then produce ant eggs.

Luke just needs to give the order to the worker ant supervisors that he manifested, and the supervisors will lead the team to continue the grazing work.

Calculated in terms of source power, these 988 ant slaves are worth 9880 points of source power.

And the total value of Luke's lost worker ants and soldier ants is only 900 points of source power.

Counting the duration of the battle and the source power consumed by cleaning the battlefield, Luke paid a total of 5 points of source power for this battle of less than 1678 minutes.

In the final settlement, Luke gained a total of 8202 points of source power in this ambush battle, and there are some skill upgrades that cannot be calculated with source power, which can be said to be full of gains.

With so much source power, if he were to devour ant eggs, he would need more than 400, which would be a very "hard" job.

No wonder since ancient times, so many emperors, generals, celebrities and heroes like to start wars. It turns out that war is the activity with the highest income and the fastest effect, even faster than Luke's devouring all kinds of artifacts and beasts with the help of the [Swallowing Sky System] .

This realization made Luke fall in love with war even more, and it also made him look more eagerly at the ant nest that was about to take shape in the hunter's cabin.

But after weighing it for a moment, he quickly calmed down.

With his current strength, there is no way to deal with the Red Fire Tribe's Thousand Jun Ant Swarm over there. He needs more troops, faster development, and most importantly, more source power.

Then, after harvesting these 988 ant slaves, the opening of sub-camps, which was originally planned to be postponed for a while, can be put on the agenda immediately.

Just do what comes to mind, Luke doesn't want to waste any time.

Because the manifestations he manifested, except for low-level goods such as ant slaves and worker ants, are all consumables that have to pay for the source power every minute.

Wasting time means wasting source power, wasting wealth, and wasting opportunities to strengthen oneself, he is absolutely unwilling.

He immediately ordered the 180 worker ants who survived the ambush to take the 988 blue water ant slaves they had captured just now, and headed for the blue silver grass sea on the other side of the slope he had discovered earlier.

At the same time, he ordered the remaining 70 soldier ants to enter the second blue silver grass sea with the fastest marching speed, and was responsible for eliminating possible dangers there.

After giving the order, he non-stop began to manifest 300 worker ants to fill the gap left by casualties and departed worker ants.

He didn't let go of the 10 colorful iron wire centipedes that didn't play their due role. Five of them followed the soldier ants to fight, and the remaining five took on the transportation work originally undertaken by the worker ants in the camp.

Not to mention, the role played by these colorful wire centipedes on the battlefield is far less important than the role they played as transportation tools during the construction process.

Their moving speed is not too fast, only 5 meters per second, but it is enough for this small soil slope.

Another point is that a colorful iron wire centipede with a body length of more than 30 centimeters, after a simple modification by worker ants on its back, can carry far more materials each time than a worker ant with a body length of less than 7 centimeters and must use its forelimbs to carry materials .

Its transportation volume is almost equal to 10 worker ants, and the transportation efficiency has to be increased by another 40%.

The most important thing is that a colorful iron centipede that cannot play a big role can liberate about 15 worker ants at the same time, allowing them to play a greater role in the construction process.

This is not only a question of how much energy can be saved, but also a question of improving efficiency and saving time.

But what Luke lacks now is time.

Because, when he was on the lookout, he had already discovered that the Red Fire Fifteen Ton Ant colony over the hunter's cabin had made new movements. He wondered if they were planning to send a large army to encircle him, an enemy whose danger had suddenly increased.

(End of this chapter)