Chapter 239: Desert Marching Ants
The Desert Marching Ant, which captures level 1, is one of the last creatures that people who walk the desert want to see. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis insect does not miss any opportunity to find food, and when it finds its prey, it will chase after it and will not give up until it achieves its goal.
What's more, the desert marching ants move incredibly fast, and it is not easy to get rid of them.
The vehicle that Sean and the others deliberately left as bait was quickly overwhelmed by a large number of desert marching ants, and the high-strength body that could withstand the full force of the capture level 5 beast was defeated in front of the terrifying formic acid of the desert marching ants, and was corroded into scrap metal in a matter of minutes.
These baits did not attract all the desert marching ants, and a third of the ant colony still chased after Sean and the others who fled.
Water storage camels are constantly being attacked, but Sean and they dare not stop.
With the strength of the expedition members, they may be able to fight hundreds of desert marching ants at the same time, but they are a drop in the bucket in the face of a staggering number of ants. The most important thing is that those water storage camels do not have the strength of the expedition members, and once too many water storage camels are swallowed by the desert marching ants, the exploration of the gem desert will be declared a failure in advance.
Sean glanced back at the ant colony behind him, gritted his teeth and said, "You guys go first, I'll slow down the ant colony." ”
Pushing the camel's back, Sean jumped straight to the back of the line. Glancing at the swarming desert marching ants, Sean punched the rice desert with all his might. The spreading fist power directly caused the sand to explode, and a huge sand wave appeared within a radius of a few hundred meters, and all the desert marching ants walking on it were thrown into the air.
Sean stopped the desert marching ants for a few seconds with a punch, which was enough to keep the expedition away.
After completing the task, he turned around and prepared to catch up with the group, but he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his calf. Several desert marching ants climbed on his body at some point, and the giant jaw bit the flesh on his leg and no longer let go, and the extremely corrosive formic acid was quickly released.
Formic acid corroded the skin and caused a piercing pain, and Sean froze and was crawled on top of him by more desert marching ants.
"Get the fuck out of here. ”
With a loud shout, Sean's muscles suddenly tensed, and the desert marching ants on his body were instantly shattered into pieces.
The difference in strength is where Sean's self-confidence lies after breaking alone, and if the ants want to kill the elephant, they must use an amazing number to make up for the difference in strength between the two sides, but Sean will not give the other party this chance at all.
With a blow that shook the nearby desert marching ants, Sean jumped dozens of meters and quickly got rid of the ant colony.
Habitually glancing back, Sean was surprised to find that the ant colony did not continue the pursuit. The dense ant colony seemed to have received some order, and retreated like a tide.
"What the hell is going on?" Sean wondered.
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A few minutes earlier, Lin Su had appeared at the place where the expedition and the desert marching ants had first come into contact.
Because he didn't have a water storage camel, he could only rely on foot, but fortunately, Lin Su didn't need to worry about the beasts in the desert, and he was able to travel day and night.
After entering the Rice Desert, Lin Su was amazed by this peculiar food landscape. Although he had tasted the rice cooked from the rice produced in the Rice Desert before, Lin Su still couldn't help but pack some natural rice into his backpack.
Just as he was thinking about whether to cook porridge or stir-fry rice with these natural rice, the desert marching ant colony surrounded him.
The ant colony swarms to tear the prey in front of them to pieces, but when they bite down, they find that their proud jaws can't leave a single trace on the other person's body.
Seeing that the jaws didn't work, the desert marching ants spewed formic acid instead. Formic acid had no way to corrode Lin Su's skin, but it made holes in the cloak on his body.
"Hey, this is a souvenir!" Lin Su inadvertently released a trace of breath when he was annoyed, and the desert marching ants fled in a hurry as if they had encountered a natural predator.
"I remember that the eggs of the desert marching ants were an ingredient alongside high-quality caviar, and I tried it today. "At the same time as the desert marching ants retreated, Lin Su had an idea about them.
The capture level of a single desert marching ant is only 1, but the capture level of the ant eggs is as high as 27, which is similar to that of the puffer whale, which shows how difficult it is to catch this kind of ant eggs.
Desert marching ants usually build their nests hundreds of meters underground, where they can escape the sun and have access to underground water sources, and it is not easy to find their nests in the vast desert.
However, this was not difficult for Lin Su, a layer of ice crust condensed around him, and Lin Su went deep into the bottom of the rice desert like a giant drill.
"The natural rice reserves here are amazing. "After drilling to a depth of 200 meters, Lin Su still did not see the end of the rice desert.
At the moment, Lin Su didn't have the heart to think about how deep the rice desert was, he quickly searched for the nest of the desert marching ants.
Building a nest in a highly mobile desert is not an easy task, and those desert marching ants will spit out extremely adhesive saliva as a binder, using natural rice to build a termite-like nest.
Therefore, as long as you dig all the way down the pipe made of natural rice, you will eventually be able to find the location of the ant eggs.
The nest is attacked, and all the desert marching ants receive a distress signal from the queen. The ant legions frantically flocked to Lin Su, the invader, but the hard ice shell made them helpless.
"Found it!" Lin Su's face suddenly became happy.
There were about tens of thousands of crystal clear white ant eggs the size of corn kernels in the place where the ant eggs were stored, and Lin Su didn't have a pot end and just took away a fist-sized piece.
Leaving the desert marching ants who wanted to cry without tears silently repaired their nests, Lin Su returned to the ground.
It was only then that he noticed the white bones on the ground and the corroded car, and knew that the expedition had made contact with the desert marching ants first.
After patrolling around the neighborhood, Lin Su didn't see any human bones. This is good news, as there are no casualties on the expedition for the time being.
"Hopefully, those people will retreat and maybe leave the desert garden alive. Lin Su thought silently.
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While Lin Su was leisurely crossing the Rice Desert, the members of the expedition who had gotten rid of the desert marching ants were resting in place to count the losses. In this battle alone, the team lost twenty-five water-storing camels and thirteen off-road vehicles. Although there were no casualties, the loss of supplies was enough to make everyone's hearts ache.