Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Ant Nest
The ant colony was stunned for a moment, and then rushed to the dried corpse, and Dad had quickly taken out a lighter to light the clothes on the dried corpse, and then quickly retreated. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The cotton coat worn by the dry corpse was full of genuine cotton, and a thick layer of corpse oil formed on the surface of the skin of the dry corpse, which burst into flames instantly, and for a while the flames rushed to the ground, almost burning my eyebrows.
This group of ants seemed to have no IQ, and after the few who took the lead in front rushed to the corpse, the ant colony that followed behind also poured forward one after another, regardless of the sea of swords and fires in front of them.
The temperature of the flame was extremely high, and as soon as the ants rushed into the fire, they made a crisp 'crackling' sound, and they were instantly burned.
A strong stench came to our noses, and the three of us stood away with our noses covered until we saw the colony all disappear into flames.
It was the first time I had seen such an aggressive ant, and I was a little afraid and asked, "What kind of ant is this, it's too scary." ”
Dad said: "This should be a kind of marching ants, they are very disciplined like soldiers, once the leader gives an order, they will immediately execute, even if they die, they will not retreat, you also saw just now, even if you follow the leader to die, neither detour nor escape, this is their style." ”
Seeing that the danger was lifted, we didn't know about Uncle Liu's situation, so we quickly ran to his side, and when we were about to work together to help Uncle Liu up to check, I suddenly felt the palm of my hand hot, and my whole hand seemed to be a little numb.
"What's wrong?" Dad saw my strangeness and asked with concern.
I slowly turned over the palm of my hand, and I saw that the palm of my hand was red, and a small red envelope was bulging in the middle, and the surface was red and shiny.
"Ah, you're poisoned." Yu Aiting said in surprise.
"Poisoned?" I asked worriedly, "When did I get poisoned, why didn't I know?" ”
Dad looked back at the fire that was still burning, and said worriedly, "I guess you were bitten when you wiped the marching ant on my leg just now." ”
He reminded Yu Aiting of this, only to hear her say: "This should be fire ants, sometimes in the hospital you will come into contact with patients bitten by fire ants, this is such a symptom, do you feel a little numb in your nerves and hot palms?" ”
I nodded truthfully.
She said: "It's not a big problem, fire ants just carry a kind of nervous fire poison, which can be cured with ordinary drugs that remove fire and inflammation, and it is not infectious, but it cannot be left untreated, and the wound will be infected and suppurated after a long time, and surgery will be required to remove the bad meat." ”
I felt a lot more relieved when I heard the previous paragraph, but her later sentence made my heart suddenly hang, and it was not a big problem to be cut off? Besides, we don't know when we'll be able to get out there yet, if it's too late......
I didn't dare to think about it anymore, so I hurriedly said, "Without further ado, let's hurry up." ”
When we helped Uncle Liu up, a black ant suddenly startled us, but we didn't expect that there was still one hidden here!
We checked Uncle Liu's back and found that there was a small red envelope on the back of his neck that was the same as my palm, and the surroundings were already red, and I suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Yu Aiting tested Uncle Liu's pulse, frowned and said: "The central nervous system in the cervical spine is paralyzed, his heart rate is relatively disordered, and he must be treated quickly!" ”
We didn't dare to delay any longer, so Dad picked up Uncle Liu on his back, pointed to the direction where the ants were fleeing and said, "Go that way!" ”
As I led the way in front, I asked, "There should be an ant nest over there, what are we going to do there?" ”
Dad said, "Ants have to go out a lot to forage for food, usually not too far from the exit, there should be an exit over there!" ”
My father was well-informed, and I naturally believed in his words, and unconsciously quickened my pace.
Don't look at the size of the ants so small, if you really run at a fast speed, several of us followed closely behind the ants, tired and panting.
After advancing for about 100 meters, the ants turned a corner, and we rushed in, and we saw the scene in front of us, and we were all dumbfounded, I had never seen such a terrifying scene anyway.
In front of me was a spacious irregular cave, in the cave piled up countless forest bones, these white bones are well maintained, it can be seen that some are human bones, some are other vertebrate bones, the whole cave exudes a damp and rancid smell.
It's not the bones that are terrifying, it's the walls around it.
The walls of the cave are full of dense round holes, full of devastation, at first glance there is a layer of goosebumps all over the body, and those who have dense phobia are afraid that they will faint directly when they see this scene.
With the light of the miner's lamp, I glanced around, and saw some black ants crawling outside these small holes, it was the kind of marching fire ants with black bodies and dark red heads just now, they were holding something several times larger than their bodies in their mouths and drilling in and out of the small holes, obviously the worker ants carrying food among the fire ants.
The fleeing fire ant climbed up the wall as quickly as it passed, touching each other with the antennae on its head as it passed by, and then the worker ants simply threw away the food in their mouths and quickly burrowed into the hole.
Yu Aiting asked stunnedly, "Where is there any exit...... This is obviously a huge ant nest, what should we do now? ”
Dad gasped and said, "Something is wrong, judging by the situation, these ants seem to be ventilating the news, this kind of marching fire ants are extremely aggressive, without further ado, let's get out of here quickly!" ”
As we spoke, we turned around and prepared to leave, but at that moment, a rustling sound came from behind us, and it grew louder and noisier.
I looked back in amazement, only to see a black patch on the cave wall, like a torrent of ants crawling down the wall, countless small holes are constantly emerging ants, God knows how many ant armies are hidden in this ant nest!
I was stunned by this extremely terrifying situation, and I forgot the danger for a while, until my father yelled 'run', I woke up like a dream, spread my legs and quickly opened the way in front, if I was caught up by the ant colony, needless to say, every minute, every second would be gnawed into a pile of bones!
The army of ants completely covered the road, like a black carpet with dark red stars stretching towards our feet, this group of fire ants stay in the underground nest all year round, and the usual little food is not enough for them to stuff their teeth, but fortunately, they are chasing after us like starving ghosts.
I didn't know the specific direction at all, I ran forward in a hurry, suddenly, Yu Aiting 'oops' exclaimed, I thought she was caught up by ants, and suddenly her head exploded, and when I looked back, it turned out that she tripped her foot and lay on the ground in pain, unable to get up for a while.
And the group of ants was crawling towards her at a speed of one foot per second, and that short distance of a few meters connected her and the ant colony like Huangquan Road!