Chapter 0039: Ant Eggs
Because of crawling, Dongfang Guan Yuan's shoes couldn't work, and the movements of the worker ants were light, so he didn't notice it.
Qingtian Yu was slightly puzzled, but he didn't hesitate too much, passed by Dongfang Guan Yuan's side, pounced, and stabbed the thin sword into the forehead of the worker ant.
Dongfang Guan Yuan was stunned for a moment, and shouted in a low voice: "It's bad, let's go quickly." ”
He rushed towards a fork in the road.
The fork in the road went diagonally downward, and when it reached the bottom, three more forks came out, and he did not stop, but crawled straight to a passage diagonally upward, and then continued downward.
The forks are repeated, and there are many thick and thin tree roots on the walls, which is quite difficult to crawl.
Yi Changhong and Qingtianyu followed behind, admiring in their hearts, if it was just the two of them, they would have long ago not been able to distinguish between east and west, north and south, and could only break in.
The front is getting darker and darker, and the two can only listen to Dongfang Guan Yuan's voice to move forward, and sometimes they need Dongfang Guan Yuan to remind.
The further down they went, the wider the passage became, and the three of them began to hunch over and trot.
At this time, a steady stream of worker ants spotted the three and chased after them.
Running through two long downhills, in front of it was a wide hall, just dark and cloudy, with a strong musty smell.
Dongfang Guan Yuan can detect that there is a lot of wood here, which is overgrown with fungi, and there are many worker ants and larvae that eat fungi here.
This is the granary of the ant nest!
The worker ants heard the movement and gathered around them.
"Quick!"
Dongfang Guan Yuan shouted, took out his sword and picked up the worker ants in front of him, and ran towards the left side of the hall without stopping.
There is a passage and a ramp, and there is a huge granary underneath.
In this way, after the three granaries, the further down, the fewer worker ants, the more young ants, densely packed with fleshy little bodies, with two thin antennae, stepped on the feet to make a "pop" sound, spewing out a cloud of liquid.
There is no way to avoid it, so you can only step on the young ants forward.
The larvae begin to accumulate in the passage in front of them.
"Brother Yi, you stay here, don't let the worker ants block it. ”
"Brother Dongfang, isn't it almost there?"
Dongfang Guan Yuan pointed with his hand: "Yes, over there, pick up those young ants, inside is the delivery room, the queen ant is laying eggs there, Yi eldest brother, you can light the fire." ”
As he spoke, he slew the worker ants that rushed over.
The two of them each took out a fire fold and blew it vigorously, and the white phosphorus on it quickly ignited, producing a small flame that illuminated everything around them.
"Ahh
Qingtian Yu screamed, looked at the countless young ants around him, his heart was furious, and he looked in the direction of Dongfang Guan Yuan's finger, where there was no passage, but a wall, a wall made of young ants.
"I'll stay here. Qingtian Yu tore off the backpack behind him and threw it at Yi Changhong, "Here you go, load more for me." ”
"Okay!" Yi Changhong did not refuse, put the backpack behind him, put the sword into the sheath, threw himself towards the wall of flesh, pounced into the pile of young ants, and struggled with both hands to open the young ants to both sides, and soon revealed a hole.
The entrance to the cave grew larger and larger, and by the faint light it was possible to see a slightly higher platform inside, on which a pile of bulging white flesh squirmed, the size of a hippopotamus.
Queen!
Behind the queen ant was still growing clumps of eggs, each about the size of a date, about seven or eight in a clump, and some worker ants separated the eggs and ran to another hole.
"I'm coming!" Yi Changhong shouted, squeezing into the hole.
At this time, a large number of worker ants arrived, piling up clay in their mouths towards the mouth of the passage, Dongfang Guan Yuan fought hard to kill, and picked the sticky away.
Qingtian Yu held the fire fold in one hand and the sword in the other, and also joined the battle, while saying: "Brother Dongfang, you go quickly, this place will be handed over to me." ”
"Good!"
Dongfang Guan Yuan also rushed to the entrance of the cave and got into the delivery room from the young ant pile.
After Yi Changhong killed several worker ants in a row, he loaded the newly laid eggs of the queen into his backpack.
"Be careful!" shouted Dongfang Guan Yuan.
A giant ant twice the size of the soldier ant sprang out from the other side of the queen, biting Yi Changhong's leg, swaying back and forth, and not spitting his mouth.
Male ants!
Yi Changhong screamed miserably, swung his sword and struck, but the neck of the male ant was far thicker than that of the soldier ant, and the shell on his body was also extremely strong, and the sword slashed on it leaving only shallow scars.
"Brother Yi, what's wrong with you?" asked Qing Tianyu with concern outside.
"It's okay, I was bitten by a waste male ant that supposedly only copies. Yi Changhong was angry and ruined the tunnel.
Dongfang Guan Yuan had already arrived, the long sword hit the male ant's neck, but it still didn't work, he slammed the sword back into the sheath, raised his right hand, grabbed the sword hilt exposed in the backpack, the sword flashed, and half of the male ant's head was neatly cut off.
A five-section sword is missing!
The male ant's body twitched, but the two front jaws on half of his head were still tightly trapped in the flesh of Yi Changhong's legs.
The five-section sword swung again, severing one of the front jaws.
Yi Changhong stumbled, bent down and pulled out the two front jaws from his legs, and he hurriedly took them out to stop the bleeding and scattered them.
Dongfang Guan Yuan returned the sword into the sheath, "Rely on the eldest brother, quickly take the detoxification pill." ”
Yi Changhong nodded, and then took a black detoxification pill.
"How do you feel?" asked Dongfang Guan Yuan.
"Out of the way, hurry up and pretend. Yi Changhong threw the queen's newly born and future eggs into the backpack.
Dongfang Guan Yuan drew his long sword and came to the front of the ant queen.
Yi Changhong shouted: "Brother Dongfang, don't kill it, otherwise it won't lay eggs." ”
"I know it in my heart, and I can rest assured that my eldest brother is relying on it. ”
Dongfang Guan Yuan said, put his sword against the queen's head, and said loudly: "Hurry up, or I will kill you!"
"Hah!" Yi Changhong laughed out loud, "Brother, can it understand?"
Not to mention, the queen fruit produced a little faster.
Dongfang Guan Yuan smiled, he originally just wanted to ease the atmosphere, but he didn't expect it to really work.
At this time, Qingtian Yu shouted: "Hurry up, there are too many of them, I can't stop them." ”
Dongfang Guan Yuan shouted: "Sister Qing, you hold on a little longer." ”
He said to Yi Changhong again: "Brother Yi, pick it up quickly, I'll go to the nursery to have a look." ”
As he spoke, he rushed towards the other hole and quickly returned, "Brother Yi, give me your bag." ”
Yi Changhong was slightly stunned, untied his bag as he said, and continued to pack ant eggs into the bag on a sunny day.
Dongfang Guan Yuan ran into the hole again, and after a while, he ran back, his backpack was bulging and swollen, with two swords hanging under his waist, and a backpack in his hand, which was also full, not pulled well, and ant eggs kept falling outward.
He kept chewing in his mouth and muttered, "It tastes a little spicy, it's not delicious." ”
When he arrived at Deyi Changhong's side, Dongfang Guan Yuan asked inarticulately: "Brother Yi, the passage inside and out has been blocked, we can only go back the same way, how are your legs, can you walk." ”
Yi Changhong moved his injured right leg, "It's not in the way, but it may not be fast." ”
"Let's go, let's go out and divide again. ”
Dongfang Guan Yuan rushed towards the hole that was blocked by the young ants again, kicked it a few times, and squeezed it out.
Yi Changhong picked up another ball of ant eggs, carried the bag behind him, and limped out.
Outside, the entrance to the passage has been half blocked, and the sunny weather and rain no longer care about killing the worker ants, but are busy stirring up the soil to maintain a basic exit.
"Sister Qing, give. ”
Dongfang Guan Yuan handed over the bag in his hand, drew his sword out of the sheath, killed a few worker ants, and picked up the soil that had just been spit out.
"Hurry up!" he slipped out of the passage.
Leaning on Changhong and sunny days and rain respectively drilled out of the channel, after the sunny day rain was broken.
The three of them inevitably had some clay stuck to them.
While killing the worker ants, they ran up the slope, and then the three of them were desperate to find that the entrance to the passage had been tightly blocked.
Dongfang Guan Yuan stabbed it with a long sword, only half a minute into it, and the soil had already begun to condense.
"Brother Dongfang, what should I do?" Yi Changhong asked.
Now Dongfang Guan Yuan is their only hope.
Dongfang Guan Yuan was not worried, and pointed with his hand, "There, pick up those woods, there should be a hole leading to the main passage, I have already faintly heard the sound of shouting and killing." ”
Yi Changhong and Qingtian Yu listened carefully, but they couldn't hear anything.
But they prefer to believe in Dongfang Guan Yuan's hearing.
"Brother Yi, you have an injury on your leg, take a rest and let me come. Sunny Sky Rain said as he walked towards the fungus-covered wood below.
"Wait!" Dongfang Guan Yuan called out to her.
"Brother Dongfang, what's the matter, don't you want to go out now?" asked Qingtianyu.
The three backpack ant eggs are a huge amount of money, if they are discovered, it will inevitably not cause some people's dissenting hearts, Yi Changhong was injured again, and Qingtian Yu also felt that it was not good to appear now.
Dongfang Guan Yuan shook his head: "We can't stay here for a long time, those young ants mature quickly, and the three of us can't deal with a large number of soldier ants." ”
"And what do you mean?"
"I still want to go back the way I came. ”
"However, the road has been blocked. ”
"I'm going to give it a try. ”
Dongfang Guan Yuan said, pulled out the five-section sword at his waist, raised it high, and slashed the wall that was still wet at the entrance of the passage.
Unlike ordinary long swords, this time, the five-section sword was deeply submerged.
It is worthy of the Demon Breaking Sword.
Dongfang Guan Yuan's confidence increased greatly, and he slashed again and again, cutting out a big hole, but the further out, the drier the wall, the more difficult it was to damage.
"Brother East, that's enough. "Yi Changhong is overjoyed.
In the delivery room, he knew that this was a divine weapon, but it was damaged.
Qingtian Yu stared at the Wujie Sword, but didn't ask, this kind of thing belongs to personal secrets, so it's better to keep your mouth shut.
There was only a small part of the fire fold left in her hand, and she took out another one and pointed it at it.
The three of them took off their backpacks respectively, handed them out of the hole, and then drilled out of their bodies to the outside of the passage.
Carrying a backpack and killing worker ants all the way up, the passage entrance of the second layer of the granary was not blocked, but when it came to the third floor, there were many worker ants busy there, and the passage mouth was half blocked.
"Not good. "Dongfang Guan Yuan stepped forward to kill the loose worker ants.
"Brother Dongfang, what's wrong?" Yi Changhong asked.
"These worker ants are obviously not trying to block us, I think, someone is coming in through the vent above. ”