Chapter 124: Fire Ants
The further you go into the forest, the trees become taller and taller, impervious to the wind, and obscuring the sky.
The light couldn't get through, and the forest was a little dark. Ji Chen followed Jiang Qing's steps closely, observing the surroundings with a wary expression.
Suddenly, Jiang Qing gestured and whispered, "Stop." ”
Ji Chen stopped.
He was puzzled, followed Jiang Qing's line of sight, and couldn't help but twitch when he saw something hanging from a big tree blocking the road in front of him.
Jiang Qing finally knew why she had seen so many animal skeletons on the road along the way. It turned out that there was a huge ant nest here, and the ants swimming on it were actually the size of a finger.
Ants the size of your thumb?
Not only Jiang Qing, but Ji Chen also saw it for the first time.
What's even more puzzling is that these ants are not black, they are fiery red, like a red-hot soldering iron, and they look very unique.
It takes at least two or three people to hug the ant nest in the tree. According to the rough calculation of the size of the ants, there are tens of thousands of them in this nest.
Tens of thousands of ants, let alone these few people, even if a few elephants come, I'm afraid it won't be enough for these ants to eat.
From the corpses along the way, Jiang Qing could roughly imagine what kind of attack power these little things had.
She didn't want to provoke, and Ji Chen didn't dare to go up and brush the tiger's whiskers.
But there are always exceptions.
The little skeleton ran into the colony, and the ants crawled all over its body in an instant. However, the little skeleton has a skeleton left above and below its body, so these ants can't take it.
Just watching these ants burrow between the eyes and nostrils of the little skeleton, Jiang Qing couldn't help but get goosebumps all over her body.
The little skeleton didn't pay attention to these ants at all, glanced at Jiang Qing from a distance, and pointed to the ant nest.
Jiang Qing's head instantly became bigger.
This little ancestor, shouldn't it be the idea to fight this ant nest?!
Grass, what is there about this ant nest, it is not afraid of death, but don't pull her and Ji Chen either!
Jiang Qing was a little angry in her heart, and Ji Chen, who was frowning and contemplative, suddenly said loudly: "Jiang Qing, I once watched an issue of scientific revelation on TV, these ants may be fire ants. ”
"Fire ants?" Jiang Qing had heard this kind of name for the first time.
Ji Chen nodded and said, "These fire ants are very aggressive, once they fall into the ant colony, it won't take a few seconds for them to be gnawed down to a white bone. Not to mention a human, even if it is an elephant, it only takes more than ten seconds to become a skeleton. ”
"So powerful?" Jiang Qing was secretly surprised.
"Let's take a detour, if we can, try not to provoke them, otherwise we may not be able to run away. Ji Chen expressed his attitude.
Jiang Qing also meant the same thing, but the little skeleton obviously took a fancy to something in the ant nest, and from the message it transmitted, Jiang Qing could feel its longing.
Usually there is a queen ant in the nest, this little skeleton, shouldn't it be tempting about the queen ant?
Does it want to suck the queen as it did with Jesse?
The little skeleton continued to point to the ant nest, Jiang Qing felt that things might not be as simple as she imagined, since there was something in the ant nest, she planned to find out.
She asked Ji Chen to hide on top of a big rock, and climbed the tree by herself, wanting to quietly climb to the tree where the ant nest was hanging from a nearby tree.
Because the trees are intertwined with each other, it is not very difficult to get through. Jiang Qing didn't dare to alarm these fire ants, and only dared to approach slightly.
When she climbed to the top of the nest and looked down from above, for a second, she couldn't take her eyes off it.
What did she see?
There is indeed a huge queen in the nest, and that queen can catch up with the size of an ordinary cat. But what attracted Jiang Qing's attention was not the queen ant, but the fragment of the magic stone above the queen!
The fifth Philosopher's Stone fragment came so unexpectedly!
Jiang Qing almost couldn't suppress her ecstasy, she was worried about the whereabouts of the other magic stone fragments, it really didn't take any effort!
As long as she got this magic fragment in her hand, plus the one in Hei Mei's hand, and collected five magic fragments, she would be able to sense the whereabouts of the other magic fragments.
So, this piece of magic in the ant nest, she is going to decide!
Jiang Qing wanted to tell Ji Chen the good news, but she couldn't say anything, if she alarmed the fire ants in the nest, it would be enough for her and Ji Chen to drink a pot.
So the question is, how can she take this magic fragment without alerting the fire ants?
Jiang Qing naturally couldn't reach in and take it, if she destroyed the ant nest, the consequences would be too serious, and she didn't dare to try it easily.
There's a way.
Jiang Qing glanced at the little skeleton, this little guy is not afraid of fire ants, and the hole above the ant nest is enough to let it pass. It is undoubtedly the best choice to let it take out the fragments of the Philosopher's Stone.
But, how can we summon this little ancestor?
Jiang Qing sent a message to the little skeleton, saying that as long as the little skeleton helped her get the contents inside, she was willing to exchange it for whatever price she could afford.
The little skeleton agreed, but it didn't tell Jiang Qing what it wanted.
Jiang Qing watched it pick up a big stone from the ground, and understood the little skeleton's intentions in seconds, and was suddenly frightened.
She hurriedly sent a message to the past, telling the little skeleton not to make too much movement, otherwise she and Ji Chen would not be able to escape.
The little skeleton understood what Jiang Qing meant, and climbed up along the trunk of the tree.
It came to the top of the nest, looked at the inside of the nest, and reached in without hesitation.
It was the only one who dared to do this, Jiang Qing watched the little skeleton's palm get closer to the fragment of the Philosopher's Stone little by little, and her heartstrings tightened.
The fire ants in the nest seemed to sense the little skeleton's intentions and crawled onto its arms to expel the intruder. But the little skeleton was not afraid of them at all, and successfully obtained the Philosopher's Stone fragment.
Seeing this, Jiang Qing didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, only to see that the queen ant noticed the situation here, quickly raised her head, and bit the little skeleton's finger fiercely.
Although the little skeleton didn't feel any pain, it seemed to be angered by the queen's behavior, and it flicked its arm and threw the fragment of the philosopher's stone to Jiang Qing, who hurriedly caught it.
Then, the little skeleton jumped into the nest and frantically tore at the nest.
The nest looks sturdy, but in the hands of the little skeleton, it is as fragile as tofu. Soon, the nest was torn apart, and a large number of fire ants fell from the nest.
Jiang Qing's scalp is numb, don't pull her and Ji Chen if this little skeleton is crazy!
She fell from the tree without hesitation and shouted at Ji Chen: "Run!"
This is not the first time she has said this to Ji Chen, Ji Chen has already had a tacit understanding. When the little skeleton jumped into the nest, he realized that something was wrong.
Jiang Qing and Ji Chen spread their feet and ran lifelessly. They took the time to look at the dense and overwhelming fire ants behind them, and couldn't help but curse.
This is the cause of the little skeletons, why should they bear the wrath of the ant colony?
"Jiang Qing, hurry up and use your magic to kill this group of ghosts, otherwise we will be caught up, and we may be doomed." Ji Chen said with a sad face.
Jiang Qing threw the magic fragment he had just obtained to Ji Chen, and asked him to clean up these little things with the gun he got from Miao Jiang. As for her...... It takes a certain amount of time to cast a more powerful magic, and she needs Ji Chen to help her buy time.
Ji Chen took the gun and fired a shot directly at the ant colony, and in an instant, many fire ants were blown away, and even died directly under this cannon.
He played very well, and was just about to make another shot, but Jiang Qing glanced at him fiercely.
Being glared at by Jiang Qing like this, Ji Chen realized something.
One fragment, at most three shots, he still saves some use, otherwise when the shot is finished, the gun will be scrapped.
He looked into the colony, trying to find the little skeleton. When he saw the little skeleton stepping on the queen ant and unscrupulously in the ant colony, he didn't want to care about it for a while.
He fired another shot, because the distance was too close, some fire ants almost splashed on him and Jiang Qing, Ji Chen was so frightened that his hands shook, and the last shot was also shot.
He was a little embarrassed, but Jiang Qing didn't look at him, and after about a minute, Jiang Qing's magic was finally completed.
Suddenly, a piece of magma appeared in the sky, and these magma gathered together, like a funnel, and poured down towards the ant colony, and in a short time it drowned the entire ant colony.
Jiang Qing wasn't worried that the magma would hurt the little skeleton, besides, the disaster was the little guy's breakthrough, if it could make it suffer a little, then it couldn't ask for it.
But the little skeleton is just a skeleton after all, and is not afraid of her methods.
However, this group of fire ants was burned to death by magma, and the remaining fire ants did not dare to chase anymore, and immediately dispersed as birds and beasts.
When all the fire ants have receded, the crisis will be resolved.
Jiang Qing was also worried that these fire ants would continue to rush forward fearlessly, in that case, when her magic power was exhausted, if this group of fire ants did not die, then it would be her and Ji Chen who were unlucky.
Fortunately, the worst did not happen.
The little skeleton came to Jiang Qing's side in a hurry, not looking like it had done something wrong. Jiang Qing didn't bother to talk about it, the little skeleton was different from her, she had no worries, so if she wanted to threaten it with something, it didn't exist at all.
Creatures summoned by summoning are uncontrolled and cannot be destroyed. Jiang Qing regretted a little, why did she use this forbidden technique at that time, the destructiveness of the little skeleton was only stronger than that of Black Rose.
It's too late to regret it. Jiang Qing put away her thoughts and took the magic fragment with a somewhat dim halo from Ji Chen's hand.
"Jiang Qing, you already have four magic fragments on your body, even if you can't get the one back in Hei Mei's hand for the time being, it should be able to revive my father, right?" When talking about Ji Chen's father's awakening, Ji Chen's appearance was a little nervous and expectant.
Jiang Qing nodded and said, "Naturally, there is no problem, but the specific things will be talked about when we go out." The Black Magic Stone hasn't been found yet, and it's not time to relax and talk about it. ”
"Got it, let's move on. Because of the joy of obtaining the new magic fragment, Ji Chen suddenly felt that his whole person was full of motivation.
Jiang Qing was just about to put away the magic fragment, when suddenly, a gust of wind passed, and the magic fragment disappeared......