Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Waterhole Below
Looking at the group of demon beetles, Qi Nan knew that this was not something he could match, not to mention this group, even the purple beetles at the top were enough for him to drink a pot.
Qi Nan hid to the side, his black pupils constantly scanning the swarm of wriggling beetles.
Naturally, he didn't want to fight against this group of black beetles by himself, he turned his head and looked at another group of black beetles, there were also some purple beetles in this group, Qi Nan had noticed the close proximity of the two groups of beetles before.
After several days of observation and some understanding of their situation, black beetles often devour each other at their borders, but there is no widespread attack.
Qi Nan didn't feel that he wouldn't, but the temptation was not enough.
With a turn of his eyes, he took out a glass bottle, but it was no longer the blood of the demonic beast, but a whole bottle of translucent spheres, which was all the gains of Qi Nan during these days, and he himself stopped devouring these orbs that were saved from between his teeth.
Suppressing the distress in his heart, he threw the glass bottle over, and with a bang, the glass bottle shattered in response, and the translucent sphere rolled to the ground.
Qi Nan didn't think about the distress, but carefully watched the beetles and watch their actions. His fists clenched slightly, he didn't want his hard work to be in vain.
Fortunately, as he wished, the nearest black beetle next to him seemed to smell it, hissed, full of excitement, and then rushed towards the translucent spheres, and the hissing also attracted the surrounding beetles to rush with it.
There is another group of the same nature, they also immediately found the translucent sphere, the black beetle that should know this boundary is just the most marginal insect of the population, they are basically devoured, at this time there is a chance to swallow the translucent sphere, naturally it is crazy.
They devoured the translucent sphere like a frenzy, and of course they touched each other, compared to two communities, if one community dared to grab the sphere, they would also take a bite.
So, the beetles bit each other, and the number of beetles increased, and the hissing attracted more and more beetles to join the fight.
Qi Nan clenched his fists, his eyes full of excitement. That's what he wants. Leaning over slowly, collecting the translucent orbs from the dead beetles' brains from the very edge, he didn't mind punching some of the living beetles.
Soon, it was filled with a glass bottle, making up for the translucent orbs that Qi Nan threw out before, and licked his lips with excitement in his eyes.
The battle in between, too, grew more and more intense, with a full third of each colony joining the battle, that is, nearly three thousand in number, and the surging black beetles roared wildly with their mouths wide open.
Qi Nan still kept a certain distance, constantly harvesting those translucent spheres, Qi Nan had already filled four glass bottles, and at this time he directly grabbed them and threw them into his mouth.
While feeling the tremors of every part of his body, he ran quickly to seize the translucent sphere.
The black pupils looked upward, stepped on the footsteps, jumped up, stretched out his right arm, and grabbed a black beetle, which had just dug its head into the skull of another black beetle, and roared excitedly.
And at this time, Qi Nan's right hand also arrived, and Qi Nan's physical strength at this time had been metamorphosed to the extreme, grabbed the black beetle, pinched it hard, and heard the sound of the carapace breaking. As soon as his face turned cold, the black beetle's body turned into mud, grabbed his head and crushed it to take out the translucent sphere.
Then he turned his gaze to the group of beetles that were fighting, there were many corpses underground, but almost all of the heads had been bitten open, and the translucent spheres had been swallowed. At this time, Qi Nan had already obtained nearly five hundred translucent spheres, if he didn't use this method, he didn't know how long it would take him to get these five hundred translucent spheres, and now it was only twenty minutes.
Qi Nan licked his lips, and there was a hint of joy in his eyes.
But at this time, a scream suddenly sounded, even in so many roars, it was so obvious, Qi Nan's face was solemn, and he looked up.
I saw a half-purple beetle crawling on the beetle swarm, crawling over, and letting out a low roar as it crawled.
Qi Nan slowly retreated, he had a trace of something bad in his heart, this was a premonition that he had from devouring the blood of the demonic beast, and he had helped Qi Nan many times before.
At this time, Qi Nan heard a scream behind him, and when he looked back, it was another half-purple beetle, which was also walking in this direction like the one just now.
And the two beetle swarms that were fighting also stopped, and seemed to stay in place in confusion.
And at this time, it was the scream again, and when Qi Nan saw it, goosebumps all over his body came out, and there was a cold sweat directly behind him.
The two half-purple beetles screamed, and all the beetles, thousands of heads, all pointed towards Qi Nan, waving the iron mouth.
Qi Nan didn't dare to think about it, he directly pulled up his legs and ran quickly, and just after he turned around and stepped out of his feet, a surging roar sounded behind him, followed by a sensational sound that made the scalp tingle, and the two groups of demon beetles rushed towards Qi Nan, like a black giant snake, and on the skull were two purple pupils.
Qi Nan was covered in a cold sweat, his legs waved to the limit and ran through the branches at a rapid speed, and the speed of the beetle swarm behind him was not slow at all.
Qi Nan's face was grim, his eyes kept scanning the surroundings and choosing a route, there was still a thick fog in the branches, and the thick fog did not dissipate because of this, but these days, as the translucent spheres that Qi Nan devoured opened more and more, his ability to see in the dense fog became stronger and stronger, and now he could see things that were not far away.
As he was running at a rapid pace, he suddenly heard a sound that seemed to be wrong, and his head turned to the right, and he saw a roar from the branch on the right, and then he saw a group of black beetles gushing out.
The rear is still pursuing, and there is definitely no hurry to go straight forward. Qi Nan gritted his teeth, jumped into a downward passage, he didn't know where it led, only that if he didn't do this, he would die.
As soon as Qi Nan's figure jumped into the passage, the giant snakes piled up by the demon beetles chasing behind him slammed into it, but except for a few that fell into the passage, the rest listened and wandered in front of the cave entrance. On the head of the giant snake formed by the largest demon beetle, two pupils, that is, the two half-purple demon beetles, stared at this passage, and then roared, and all the demon beetles moved again, and the giant snake generally shrank back. Only the downward passage was left silent, and there was a thick fog.
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And Qi Nan, who jumped down, did not fall vertically, he grabbed some protrusions next to the lower branches, and stuck to the edge of the passage, at this time, seeing that this group of demon beetles actually did not chase down, he couldn't figure out his head, but his heart was even more vigilant.
Seeing a few fallen beetles falling down like this, Qi Nan didn't plan to go up, but slowly climbed down, he didn't know why the two half-purple beetles chased him, did he identify him? But he had also encountered purple beetles before, but he didn't attack him, so where was the key? Qi Nan was very puzzled in his heart, but he didn't dare to go up, but went down.
In fact, the two purple beetles just recognized that he did not belong to his own species, but Qi Nan really couldn't think of this.
Qi Nan clinged to the branches, grasping the cracks and bumps on the branches and crawling down. While looking down, I couldn't see much because of the thick fog.
After crawling for a long time, but still not bottoming out, Qi Nan frowned, and pressed his right hand to the wall, and his hand pinched in, and pinched out a piece of wood, this huge, all-encompassing passage is completely wood, branches, but they are all hollow.
Pulled out the piece of wood and threw it down, this section of the road Qi Nan threw every time he climbed a section, as long as what he did could increase his survival rate, it was not troublesome, and it was necessary to be afraid.
His eyes were full of heaviness, and his ears were tightly absorbing all sounds, which had been fruitless before, but this time, he heard a soft thud. Although it was very light, Qi Nan was sure that he heard it, and he definitely heard it correctly.
With his right hand, another piece of wood was grabbed from the wall of the passage and thrown down. Wait quietly.
I only heard the bang sound again, although it was faint like a mosquito's chirp, but it did exist, and Qi Nan looked happy.
It seems that it is coming to an end, Qi Nan thought in his heart, his feet are still not idle, and he continues to climb down, but his caution has not decreased at all.
Then every other way, Qi Nan threw a log to listen to the sound, and finally the sound got closer and closer, and became clearer and clearer.
There was another bang, but this time it was clearer than before.
Qi Nan was even more shocked, he finally heard this sound, this bang, isn't it the sound of wood falling into the water?
It seems that there is water below, and Qi Nan finally has an answer in his heart, and he will soon know what is underneath.
Qi Nan continued to climb down, and for another hour, Qi Nan was already able to see the scene below through the thick fog. It is a waterhole, and when you look down from the mouth of the passage, it is full of water, and you can't see the edge.
The waterhole was very quiet, and there was no sign of biological activity, but Qi Nan did not feel relaxed, and even took a breath of cold air, and became more vigilant.
Because he was shocked to see the broken bodies of the black beetles that had fallen before floating on the water, especially the brains, which were even more broken.
Qi Nan didn't think it was caused by them falling, obviously, there was something in this water!