Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Blessing or a Curse
At this critical moment, only I can pull Yu Aiting a hand, I don't think about it anymore, I step in front of her in two steps and pull her up, turn around and continue to escape, and open up some distance from the ant colony. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong, and as I ran, I looked left and right, and realized that at some point we had actually entered a cave with no fork, and if it was a dead end, we would not even have the last hope of escaping.
I panted and asked my dad for advice: "Dad...... What to do? There is only one way. ”
"What else can I do? Is there another choice? Dad ran with Uncle Liu on his back for a long time, obviously tired, he gasped and said as he ran: "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, don't think about it!" ”
Maybe it's because I'm shirtless, I'm more sensitive to temperature than them, and I suddenly felt a wind blowing in front of me after running a sweat, which was indescribably comfortable, and I suddenly became excited, and it seemed like an exit ahead!
I looked behind me, the black colony could not be seen, the 'black carpet' continued to follow us forward, God knows how many ants were hiding in that ant nest, at this time, a question actually came to my mind - how much food do so many ants eat every day, can the animals eat three times a year circle the earth?
Just when we were exhausted, I suddenly realized that there was a wall in front of us, and there was no imaginary exit!
Since there is no exit, where does the wind come from?
Just as I was in doubt, another wind blew on me, and a thick fishy smell hit me, and I had to stop and stare wide-eyed at the wall in front of me that was bulging inward.
At this time, we were only about ten meters away from the wall, and we could see clearly what was in front of us under the strong light of the miner's lamp.
Yu Aiting suddenly pointed ahead in horror and said, "That's not a wall, it will move!" ”
I saw that it would take a little time for the colony to run to our feet, so I took a few more steps forward and saw the wall completely. ’
The protruding wall is cylindrical on the inside and thick on the outside, and at the foremost are two dark and shiny round objects, each with two small holes in the middle, through which streams of gas are spewed in.
As the gas erupted, the two small holes continued to expand and shrink, which was very strange.
After such a delay, the frenzied ant colony was already chasing us at our feet, and the thought of waiting for thousands of ants to wrap us in a ball, and then tear the skin on our bodies, burrow into the body and eat the internal organs, I suddenly panicked, and couldn't help but tremble a little, and I couldn't move my legs.
"Duck in the corner, quick!" Dad screamed, and I woke up in horror and quickly ran after him to the raised wall.
Dad put Uncle Liu on the ground and took off his upper clothes without hesitation, I immediately understood his intentions, but I still felt that there was little hope.
The reason why the corpse was burned just now and successfully destroyed the group of ants was because the number was limited after all, and now this vast army of ants is constantly coming, and it is simply wishful thinking to stop them with the flames of this garment, and its effect is nothing more than to suspend the rhythm of their attack, and the final result is not much different, anyway, it seems that we are a dead end at present.
However, Dad did not show the slightest panic at this time, squatted down calmly, and lit the lighter with a 'snap'.
Seeing his style, I suddenly understood why he was able to survive unharmed in the mountains alone, not only because of his agility and intelligence, but also because of his fearless general style and steely tenacity to survive.
At the thought of this, my anxious heart quickly calmed down, and even when I saw the menacing ant colony, I felt that it was not as terrible as I imagined.
Just as my dad slowly moved the lighter under his clothes, I suddenly felt a flash in front of my eyes, and there seemed to be a red light and shadow flashing in front of me.
Obviously, Dad also noticed, turned off the lighter, and quickly glanced at it.
I saw that the pile of ants that had been approaching us suddenly became much less, and the ants behind continued to rush forward like a wave, sweeping towards us again like a wave.
Another red light and shadow flashed in front of him, and a large black ant mass was carried into the air with the light and shadow, and then disappeared into the cylindrical wall.
Yu Aiting was pleasantly surprised: "I understand, this is an anteater!" ”
"Anteaters?" I'm a little puzzled.
"Look...... This thing is its nose and mouth. She pointed to the cylindrical protrusion of the wall and said, "These two black things are its noses, and I wondered why these black things are always closed one by one, and the wind is coming through them, and it turns out that it is breathing." ”
"Really?" I couldn't help but feel excited, and I felt an indescribable sense of relief for the rest of my life.
I cautiously leaned over to the cylindrical wall, looked closely, and found that as Yu Aiting said, where is the wall, there is clearly an exit, an anteater has put its slender mouth into it, and is licking the ant eater colony with its tongue.
I saw that the mouth and snout of this cylinder were all covered with a layer of gray-black scales, and the gaps between the scales were faintly covered with sparse gray hairs.
As you can tell from its football-sized black nose, this anteater is definitely a giant one, and it should have a very big appetite, which is very much to my liking, the bigger its appetite, the safer we are, and I wish it had licked the colony clean and gone for our troubles.
Suddenly, another red light flashed in front of my eyes, and since I was relatively close, I even felt a strong wind blowing in my face, and my father dragged me back to him and said, "Don't come closer! Beware of being eaten by it! ”
"Eat...... Eaten? I asked, somewhat incredulously, "Does it still eat people?" ”
"It's just an ordinary anteater, this is the most powerful of the anteaters, the giant pangolin! What do you think is the difference between our size and bugs in front of it? ”
As soon as my father said this, cold sweat broke out on my forehead, and I quickly shrank back into the corner.
After repeating this for about 20 minutes, I estimated that the giant pangolin had eaten hundreds of pounds of ants, and I couldn't even think about what the concept of hundreds of pounds of ants was.
Whenever an ant rushes in, it will be licked away by its tongue, and gradually, the ant colony army is obviously thinning out, it seems that this giant pangolin unknowingly licks the ground in a breath and breath This ant kingdom is about to be destroyed, and when it retreats and gives up the position of the exit, we can escape from this terrifying underground world.
After a few more minutes, there were no ants coming again, and just as we were hopefully waiting for the pangolin to leave, all of a sudden, another red light and shadow came in, and the tongue that came in did not touch anything, and did not retract quickly, but swept slightly on the ground.
Now we can see clearly, its tongue is more than two meters long, it is full of dense small barbs and thick mucus, it is obviously not enough, its tongue bends sharply, up and down, left and right, we are almost licked by it several times, startled us in a cold sweat.
But when my hanging heart was just put down, I suddenly heard Yu Aiting exclaim: "Uncle Liu! ”
I looked down and saw that Uncle Liu, who was lying in the corner, was wrapped in his arm by the pangolin's tongue, and the pangolin's tongue flicked and threw him directly into the air, and then the tongue shrank, and Uncle Liu was about to be swept into the cylindrical mouth!