"Stop shouting. Even if you scream your throat raw, no one will come save you. Let's retreat to the major city first. As the ant swarm contracts, it'll also be easier for us to find the real Ant Queen." I was utterly speechless at Old Man Meng. Just because he was standing a little closer, he really treated me like a relative. When it came to hunting the Ant Princess, he had just avoided it like the plague.
"Return to the major city? Th-That's good too! If the Ant Queen comes, we can mobilize the entire city's strength to wipe it out!" Old Man Meng no longer dared to greedily rush ahead to claim credit. He probably wished he could throw himself into the fight as well.
I guarded Qu Meng's rear while Old Man Meng and Chu Jiao covered the flanks, preventing the ant swarm from rushing over to attack.
Thus, we fought our way back. Before long, we saw the glow of flames rising from the deep trench around the major city, and everyone couldn't help but rejoice.
However, even so, our situation was still far from optimistic. The ant swarm around us grew denser and denser. Once their numbers reached a certain point, it looked like wave after wave surging forward. Anyone with a fear of clustered things would have been scared weak in the knees at this sight.
"Look! Smoke signals!"
Just then, smoke suddenly rose from the direction we had come from. Moreover, the smoke seemed to be burning in a continuous line. Without a doubt, someone was fleeing ahead while igniting the smoke signals one after another. We definitely didn't dare charge forward at that moment. That would absolutely be a dead end.
Whether the other party knew this or not, they were hysterically