Under the leadership of the old man Ablizi, we continued to march in a northeasterly direction.

On the way, I asked Gu Xin why he reacted so much to the marching ants, and he explained it to me.

At the Hunter School, because the instructor arranged a raid, it was necessary to cross a primeval jungle that was uninhabited. Including Gu Xin, the raid team consisted of thirteen people.

Although the march was extremely difficult, there were no accidents until they camped in the forest at night.

Unlike the usual concept of camping, Gu Xin and the others could not carry a tent, so they could only find a random place to lean on or lie down to rest.

According to the leader's request, everyone is dispersed to rest, and while raiding the opponent, it is also necessary to prevent being counter-raided, which of course takes into account the danger of the pot.

At the same time, several guard posts were also set up, mainly to prevent the sneak attack of the fierce beasts in the forest. They were divided into three groups and changed every two hours.

Gu Xin was divided in the second half of the night, that is, from one to three o'clock in the morning.

And the change happened just before the shift was about to be handed over.

At 0:46, Gu Xin, who was sleeping in a daze, was suddenly woken up by a few screams, he immediately jumped up and hurriedly rushed in the direction of the exclamation.

At the same time, several other teammates who had been awakened also rushed over.

Under the light of everyone's flashlights, one of the team members was scurrying around like crazy, while also beating non-stop. Everyone hurriedly stepped forward to control him, and after a closer look, they found that his whole body was crawling with big ants as thick as chopsticks!

The leader reacted quickly, immediately recognized it as the marching ants, and ordered two other team members to quickly escort him to the nearest swamp and drown the ants by soaking!

Then, everyone found that there were two other team members who had not appeared, and with such a big movement, it stands to reason that they should have arrived a long time ago. Just when the team leader was a little confused, Gu Xin suddenly remembered that the team member who was attacked by ants was originally with the two people who didn't show up, and they were both resting under a huge tree.

So, the people hurried towards the big tree.

When there were still more than ten meters away from the big tree, a sharp-eyed team member noticed that something was wrong and immediately stopped everyone.

As soon as everyone shone the flashlight on the ground, their scalps immediately exploded: I don't know when, the ground was completely covered by ants, densely packed, and there was not even a trace of gaps. At this moment, they are pouring down the trees like a tidal wave from the surrounding nests!

Everyone had never seen such a scene, and they were all stunned in place.

Looking at the original resting position under the big tree, in addition to the numbing and crowded ant army, you can only see two humanoid ant piles!

Obviously, that's their teammates down there!

At this moment, they have long since stopped moving!

Perhaps the leader knew the marching ants very well, so he immediately ordered everyone to step back and prepare the things that set them on fire, preparing to drive away these terrifying creatures and retrieve the remains of their teammates.

However, at that time, it had just rained in the forest, everything was wet, and it could not be ignited for a while, so in desperation, the team leader could only use flares.

However, the number of flares is limited, and a few fall into the colony, and they can only work in a very small area, and when it is extinguished, the ant colony immediately covers it again.

By the time everyone finally lit the fire, almost an hour had passed.

So, everyone hurriedly led the fire all the way to the bottom of the big tree.

After driving away those ants and burning countless others, I finally saw the two teammates who were killed. To everyone's shock, they had turned into white bones, and there were scarlet and piercing traces of blood on the white bones!

Everyone looked at each other, so they had to set fire to the remains of the two of them.

Later, the teammate who was carried into the swamp was brought back, and although he was ravaged by the leeches in the swamp again, he finally managed to save his life.

According to his description, if he hadn't been awakened by urine and had been far away from the two people who were killed, he would definitely have been gnawed by ants like those two—— from being attacked to being gnawed up, it would not have taken more than three hours at most!

Because this ant can secrete a toxin that can anesthetize the nerves to make the prey incapacitated, no matter what kind of creature it is, no matter how big the individual is, as long as the number of ants is enough, it will also become food in their mouths!

If a person is attacked by them in his sleep and does not wake up in time, then they are the best example!

This result stunned everyone, and they couldn't imagine that the collective strength of the seemingly weak ant could destroy hundreds or even thousands of times larger than it!

It was this result that almost left Gu Xin in a psychological shadow.

After listening to Gu Xin's narration, I finally understood that Old Man Ablizi's words were not lies, but he himself didn't know the reason.

And those who died in the ruins, including the alien (Meizu man), are definitely the masterpieces of marching ants!

According to the plan, Ablizi led us slowly towards Provincial Highway 235. And because of his experience, we didn't suffer much in the desert, and after two days we left the dunes and reached the north shore of Lop Nur.

The next thing that greets us is the magnificent Yadan landform, full of red, yellow, or reddish-brown earthen platforms, large and small, dotted, as if in an alien world. In Lop Nur, this landform is called Dragon City Yadan!

And this is the end of the work of the old man Ablizi's guide.

After bidding farewell to the old man, the group of five turned east and continued to move forward. Two days later, we finally arrived at a place called Poplar Gully.

Although there are only about a dozen households in Huyanggou, there is a hotel.

Thinking about the wind and food and sleeping in the open for several days, everyone longed to take a hot bath, eat a hot meal, and then sleep well, but they didn't care about the simplicity and coldness of this hotel.

After settling in, Hong Kaiyuan pulled me to prepare to smoke outside.

When I walked out of the door of the hotel, I was greeted by several people, all empty-handed, and it seemed that they had been living here for a long time.

It's normal for the hotel to have guests, so I didn't pay attention to it.

But at the moment when we passed each other, I suddenly noticed that one of the women was very familiar, but unfortunately, she lowered her head at that time and didn't see it too clearly.

I was a little strange, because I found that this woman seemed to be deliberately trying to avoid our sight, so as soon as these people passed, they wanted to go back and ask Hong Kaiyuan.

Who knows, before I could speak, I heard Hong Kaiyuan shout loudly: "Li Xi!"

He shouted at the backs of those people.

Hearing this, I immediately struck a shock, and hurriedly grabbed Hong Kaiyuan, and scolded in my mouth: "Dead fatty, what the hell is your name, what are you wet and dry?!"

Because of Hong Kaiyuan's shout, I immediately remembered that the woman was indeed Li Xi, although she also changed her dress, I definitely recognized her demeanor and face. And she lowered her head not to avoid my sight, but to avoid Hong Kaiyuan's sight, because I am a completely different person at this moment!

Since she wanted to avoid Hong Kaiyuan, and she happened to appear in this place, it was difficult for me not to associate some things.

Of course, this is also the fundamental reason why I want to stop Hong Kaiyuan!

(End of chapter)