Being underground made them lose all sense of time. The sunset came too quickly.
Though the tunnels had collapsed, some of the smaller ants managed to slip through the cracks and swarmed the train station, attacking the remaining Nether Bone Gang members.
These ants were injured, but perhaps due to the Ant Queen's fury, they were more aggressive than usual.
It was pure chaos.
It would have been easy to exterminate these ants, but the night had fallen, and it was hard to see them.
"Ants! Ants! Everyone, kill them!" came the panicked shout.
Ratatata.
"Where's Boss? Has anyone seen Boss?"
"There are too many of them!"
A wiry man with sharp features and a permanently hunched posture stood guard at the station master's room, where the laboratory was located. He was in charge in the absence of his boss, Mingsi.
He was the one who had informed Mingsi earlier about the appearance of the ant tunnels.