Chapter Seventy-Eight: Black Pressure
Zhang Mengqi didn't find a red ant, frowned and said strangely: "Mengjiao, what's going on?" ”
Zhang Mengjiao looked at it carefully and said: "This ant nest is made of some debris, these debris are first of all the oil juice of this poplar tree, and this leaf sheath, plus the bark, plus these grasses, some herbaceous plant detritus, we all see it mixed together, with these debris piled up in this stone crevice, and build a nest in this stone crevice." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Zhang Mengqi said: "According to the scale estimates, the number of red ants in just such a nest could reach tens of thousands at that time, but now, the nest has suffered very serious damage. And even if the colony of red ants remains, the nest is already difficult to recover. What is the reason for all the red ants here? ”
Zhang Mengjiao said: "A yellow sheep was eaten to the point that only its head and a few bones remained, and the scene of the incident was crawling with thousands of big red ants. It can be speculated that this terrible red ant is the culprit who bites the wild camel, because for hundreds of years, legend has it that on the highest peak nearby, countless ferocious red ants have occupied the mountain, and they have not only completely ruled that area, but even these red ants have bitten to death bandits, calling it "man-eating ants". After several hours of arduous trekking, I finally came to the mysterious small sand slope, but I didn't expect that there was only an abandoned nest left, and not even a single red ant was found. ”
Zhang Mengqi said: "What kind of creature can do this to the ferocious red ants, so that they all disappear?" ”
Zhang Mengjiao had another suspicion: the ant species here may not be the marching ants. Marching ants are a nomadic people who are constantly opening up new hunting grounds and looking for temporary places to live. On the way, the soldier ants with their teeth and claws are the vanguard of paving the road, followed by the worker ants who carry objects, and the scene seems chaotic but in fact orderly, and they often do not go on the road empty-handed, many red ants are holding an egg or larvae. Its nest is not fixed, it can drag the queen and its young with it, including its food, there is no fixed nest.
Zhang Mengqi said: "The ant nests that survive here show that the red ants here not only have fixed nests but are also quite large, and in this respect they are fundamentally different from the marching ant army that has been migrating all their lives, and they are likely to be another unknown species of red ants." So, where do they come from, and why are they the only ones here? And are they really all gone? A day's search was in vain, and my heart was heavy. ”
At this time, Zhang Mengjiao suddenly remembered what to say: male ants have no wings, female ants have wings, and after they hand over their tails, the female ants fly to other places and fly everywhere from other places. It is impossible for so many red ants in one nest to run away en masse because of marriage, and even if they go, they will not be too far from their original hometown. “
Zhang Mengqi and Zhang Mengjiao arrived at a shady mountain col, the slope was slightly lower, and they walked lightly. It is also covered with low shrubs, and under the trees is a thick layer of leaves. Zhang Mengqi and Zhang Mengjiao held their breath and were about to get closer, but the accident suddenly happened, not far away, under the big bluestone slab, a python more than three meters long, as thick as a rolling pin, was writhing desperately.
The body of the python is crawling with large red ants, and countless miniature killers are launching fierce attacks. These red ants are six or seven millimeters long, that is, this one centimeter or less, it is considered a big one, generally speaking, this kind of big red ant, its physical strength is also large, the strength is also great, the upper jaw is also developed, and the aggression is relatively large. In addition to the black belly, the head and thorax of this red ant are distinctly red. The besieged python began to desperately burrow into the grass, trying to take the opportunity to rub off the red ants crawling all over its body, and at the same time it swung its tail rapidly, and some of the red ants were shaken down. This python is not small, but it seems to be inconvenient to move, not only does it have traces of falls on its body, but blood also oozes from the corners of its mouth, which makes the red ants even more excited.
The smell of blood was in the air, and some of the red ants had already found the injured parts of the python's body, and they began to bite at the python's scales with their large vice-like teeth. More than thirty red ants have burrowed into the crevices of the python's scales. The python twisted desperately in pain, although the red ants had a lot of casualties, but the red ants just didn't let go, and more and more red ants were coming here.
Countless red ants launched a tidal wave of attacks, and even the mouth of the python was crawling with ants. A batch of comes, after rubbing off some, and some more, this is definitely a pretty fierce fight, although the size of the red ants is small, but the group of attack, the collective power is infinite, so that this python has no power to parry, but fortunately, the whole body has a relatively thick scale armor, so it seems that it has not died so quickly in the mouth of the red ants.
"Mengjiao, this makes me feel quite strange" Zhang Mengqi asked,
"Sister, where do you think it's strange?" Zhang Mengjiao said,
"You told me the story of man-eating ants earlier, and someone once witnessed a big python or a leopard being bitten by man-eating ants within ten minutes, leaving only a pile of bones." Zhang Mengqi said,
"The red ant itself does not have a hearing apparatus, the auditory apparatus is the ear of an insect, it does not, but it can feel vibrations, and sound waves have an effect on it. When we strike, we knock on the stone and it knocks on its roof, and it will come out of the nest to protect its nest. Zhang Mengjiao said,
In order to find out, Zhang Mengqi decided to open the ant nest. Because of the close proximity, the red ants quickly rushed out, and without hesitation, opened their mouths at their bare palms, and their thick paws were clamped into the flesh at once. Despite feeling a lot of pain. After Zhang Mengqi selected an ant nest, he lifted the stone slab at once, and the entire nest was exposed in front of him. The scene became a mess, and after sending alarm signals to each other, countless ants began to flee in all directions, and some red ants also began to attack. It didn't take long for the queen, who was the highest in the colony, to appear in front of herd, and it was even larger and began to flee under the cover of some worker ants. Almost every stone slab is home to a myriad of red ants.
If dozens of red ants from the nest poured out of the nest, would they be able to bite a huge sheep to death? The sheep can run, run on all fours, and the hair on the sheep's body is very thick, so the red ant has a small mouth and many teeth, and it is relatively easy to bite its skin. Countless red ants crawled all over the remains of the sheep, and there was no doubt at all.
Zhang Mengqi raised his head and saw that the sand date flower in the distance was pounced on a woman, knocked down the woman, stretched out her mouth to suck the woman's yang energy, as the woman's yang energy became less and less, the woman's ruddy face became whiter and whiter, and her fair body became shriveled.
"Shajube flower, stop it, don't hurt people" Zhang Mengqi hurriedly stopped shouting,
"Mengqi, you are nosy again, go against me, I don't clean you up, you don't know what is at stake" Sha Zaohua had already sucked the woman's yang energy, pushed the dried corpse aside, waved her arms, and a thick mist quickly gathered under her feet, slowly coming towards Zhang Mengqi.
"Mengjiao, be careful," Zhang Mengqi confessed,
"Sister, I'll pay attention, you should be careful" Zhang Mengjiao said,
The thick fog poured forward from the ground, overflowing the woman's dry corpse, and after the thick fog spread, Bai Sensen's white bones were revealed, and the woman's dry corpse turned into a white skeleton, which was terrible, and the dense fog didn't know what it was, so powerful. The fog moved forward and soon came not far away.
"Sister, this dense fog is red ants" Zhang Mengjiao found red objects moving one by one, it turned out that the dense fog was composed of thousands of red ants.
"Mengjiao, I saw it" Zhang Mengqi raised her left and right feet and stomped on the ground under her feet continuously, and a large number of red ants pressed by the black pressure became even more impatient, and sped up their pace, gushing out like a tide. It's scary, it's terrifying. A large piece of red ants and black pressing.
"Ah, it's terrible, so many red ants came at once" Zhang Mengjiao exclaimed loudly when she saw it,
"Sister, hurry up and find a way to kill them" Zhang Mengjiao hurriedly shouted, quickly kill all these red ants, the red ants crawl over, and they will also turn into white bones.
"Mengjiao, don't be afraid, I'll kill them with fireballs" After Zhang Mengqi finished chanting the fire spell, a red fireball appeared, Zhang Mengqi waved the fireball towards the red ants, and the red ants on the opposite side burned with a puff. In a few moments, the fire was extinguished.
"Oops! Not good, the firepower is not big enough! Zhang Mengjiao shouted loudly,
At this time, a large number of red ants pounced. The sand date flower has controlled all the red ants here to deal with them, and there are tens of thousands of red ants here, which is really a thousand troops.
"Mengjiao, there are so many red ants, the fire will definitely not burn to death." Zhang Mengqi said,
"Sister, use the nirvana quickly...... "Zhang Mengjiao shouted,
"Where to find the nirvana," Zhang Mengqi said,
"I have it in my bag, get some quickly" Zhang Mengjiao turned her back to Zhang Mengqi and said, Zhang Mengqi took out a bottle of super large nirvana from the backpack on Zhang Mengjiao's back, sprayed here and there, and the red ants were frightened when they smelled the strong smell of medicine, and fled in all directions.
Shajube Hua saw that the red ants were dead, fled, turned into a puff of green smoke and flew away.
"Sha Zao Hua, stop, don't run" Zhang Mengqi found that Sha Zaohua was about to run away, and shouted,
"Don't shout, it's already gone," said a tall, bearded, ugly-looking man with a scroll in his hand.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Zhang Mengqi asked,
"I'm the rat king here," said the man,
"Let me see what you're holding in your hand" Zhang Mengqi stretched out his hand and grabbed the scroll in the Rat King's hand, wanting to take a closer look. The Rat King immediately withdrew his hand, and Zhang Mengqi grabbed it.
"This scroll is very important to you, and it is very important to me." At the same time, the Rat King Nu said.
"If we're going to grab it, you won't be able to keep your stuff." Zhang Mengqi said.
"Even if the scroll is given to you, it doesn't matter, this scroll has been specially treated by this king, only I know how to open it, if you want to try it, the scroll will be burned." The Rat King knew Zhang Mengqi's mind very well, but there was no nervousness on his face, and there was a hint of threat in this sentence, which made Zhang Mengqi feel very surprised.
The mouse in front of him really doesn't know much about things, and he is also very good at dealing with people, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like an ordinary beast.
"What kind of conditions do you need to give us that scroll?" Zhang Mengjiao smiled, since the mouse took out the scroll, he naturally had his plan, as long as he opened enough chips to make his heart move, he could naturally get the scroll.
"Take me with you!" Unexpectedly, the conditions offered by the Rat King were very unexpected, Zhang Mengqi and Zhang Mengjiao looked at each other, but they didn't expect the Rat King to just offer such conditions.
When the others were in dire need of that thing, it was when the lion opened his mouth and bit off a piece of meat from them, and the Rat King only asked to take him with him, how could one wonder if he had ulterior motives.
"One more rat won't get in the way." Zhang Mengjiao didn't think much about it, anyway, she got the scroll first.
"That's it!" Looking at the appearance of the Rat King, he seemed to be very excited, and said:
As soon as the words fell, the Rat King spread out the scroll and pressed his hand on the scroll, and lines emerged, forming a very special pattern.
"Whew!" In the middle of the pattern, there is a powerful energy, exuding a strong divine might, and the energy fluctuations visible to the naked eye are vibrating around. (To be continued.) )