The individual of the desert demon ant does not have obvious individual intelligence, but the collective consciousness of the collection seems to be far above Lin An's imagination.

As if realizing that the clouds that Lin An and the others were riding on were no longer able to be chased, although the clouds did not fly too far, the black wriggling on the surface of the sand dunes below squirmed for a while, and they did not catch up as relentlessly as before, and flowed in place for a while, surging in the direction where the other part of the ant colony that had been divided into two before.

"Ran, what are they going to do?" Athena raised her little face, as if she had forgotten about the other group that had diverged and run away before.

Standing on the clouds, John watched the black rustle below, "It seems that the group hasn't been swallowed up yet, miss, let's go over and have a look." ”

Lin An knew what John meant, and had no objection.

Although these desert reapers, they were attracted by the previous group, but Lin An and the others all saw the person running in front of them shouting at them to run, and led people to turn around, luring away a part of the ant colony, for the sake of this, if those people were still alive in the past, they might as well reach out and save them.

Athena looked at Lin An's expression, and urged the clouds to chase in the direction where the group ran away before.

Soon, Lin An and the others on the clouds saw Gustav and the others swinging their legs quickly in front of the black wave.

Those black ant tides were only about ten feet away from the last of them, and the dozen or so people had all kinds of fighting spirits blooming on their bodies, running like a race against death, and they didn't dare to look back, until the shadows of the clouds swept over them, and no one looked up in amazement.

One of the men with dark blue hair looked ecstatic, "Help! Help me! ――The ransom is negotiable!! ”

"Let me come!"

Athena was a little excited, she had already been simply popularized with the characteristics of the desert demon ant before, and she wanted to show her hand.

With Lin An's approval, Athena pulled the clouds forward, lowered them a little height, stopped, put her little hands together, and said something with her little mouth. With both hands downward, a string of more than a dozen hazy white balls of light flew out of the palms of his hands, flew downward, and came to the top of Gustav and the others one by one.

Athena's power comes from the temple itself, and other powers are not subject to special restrictions and cannot be used lightly. was told by Lin An not to show up in front of others. Only illusion is the most handy.

However, for creatures like demon ants with little individual intelligence and only basic group consciousness, illusion is the most useless. However, Athena, who had been instilled by Lin An for a period of time, was also very smart, and chose to target the cast on the dozen or so people who were being chased.

Gustav and the others watched the clouds fly away and then stopped, and their hearts rose and fell like a roller coaster.

Seeing the hazy ball of light flying down from the clouds to the top of their heads, the relatively cautious Gustav and the three did not immediately withdraw the Dou Qi layer with some vigilance, and the guide with the weakest Dou Qi cultivation could not even cover the whole body, and he didn't care about anything else, and he had already collided directly with it without waiting for the light ball to arrive, and his body was hazy and disappeared on the spot. I couldn't even feel the slightest breath.

However, the footprints on the sand dunes still revealed the trace of the guide, but the ant tide behind the previous guide rustled and rustled, as if he had suddenly lost his purpose.

Effective!

Gustav and the others were overjoyed, not thinking about how the people on the clouds could release more than a dozen spells at the same time, and immediately removed the Dou Qi layer to let the ball of light submerge into the body, only to feel as if a film covered the whole body. The other people disappeared from sight.

The ant tide slowed down for a moment.

Athena had already prepared, her lips moved slightly, her closed palm opened, and seven or eight rays were released, falling on the sand dunes. A mirror image of Gustav's dozen people appeared in the other direction of the ant tide, rushing away into the distance.

The black ant tide became chaotic, and Gustav and the others in stealth took the opportunity to run a long distance, and the ant tide behind them quickly regained order, and separated one part to chase after the mirror image, and the other part still followed the footprints on the sand dunes.

"Hey, how can this be!"

The expected effect was only half achieved, the ant tide was not completely misled, and the distance between Gustav and the others was not safe enough, Athena, who was lying on the edge of the clouds with William, was taken aback, "I have obviously completely covered the breath on their bodies!" ”

The aura simulation of the mirror image is also perfect, and it is no different from the advanced mirror technique, with Lin An's current rank, he can't release this level of illusion.

"These demon ants didn't distinguish the smell of those people, they came after the breath of energy."

Lin An looked at the footprints on the sand dunes below, which were already a little messy, so he no longer let Athena practice, "You look at how Your Excellency Salin does it, sometimes it's not that the higher the technique, the more useful it is, according to local conditions, in fact, you can use some very simple methods to achieve the goal." ”

"Ann said that, I don't dare not satisfy you."

Hearing this, Salin smiled at them, but there was no embarrassment on his face, his fingers moved, and a large bag of demonic beast meat with a faint fishy smell appeared on the clouds, and the yellow mage's hand lifted the bag and threw it into the ant colony.

In mid-air, the mouth of the bag was scattered, the minced meat was thrown along the arc, and the black ant tide rustled for a while, leaving behind Gustav and the others and the mirror image, and gathered tightly towards the place where the minced meat was the most.

"Unlike those ordinary camels, Warcraft meat contains higher energy, which is more attractive to demonic ants and slower to digest."

Lin An said as he asked Athena to lower the clouds and pick up Gustav and the others.

Although the cloud area had been expanded beforehand, thirteen or fourteen tall men climbed up, and the clouds suddenly seemed a little crowded, and Athena urged the clouds to fly away from them, leaving the black ant tide behind.

The rescued people escaped with great difficulty, although they were ecstatic but did not lose their temper excessively, took a moment of respite, and thanked Lin An and the others led by the three Gustavs.

Most of the more than ten rescued people were burly and strong, and the scars on the exposed skin were different from old to new, Lin An saw that their faces were as usual in an instant, and their fierce breath showed that there was no lack of life and death experience, and even the black iron warrior with the weakest breath among them did not have the reaction of crying after a normal person escaped death, and immediately knew that the group of people he saved was not ordinary people.

Lin An and his group, including Titi, have all changed their faces, William has become the size of a giant mastiff, and has restrained the aura on his body, and the single horn on his head looks special, but it is not beyond the scope of the demon pet.

The three of Gustav looked at William twice, and only took it for granted that Lin An and his entourage, who could use the clouds to travel, could have such an extraordinary magic pet, but they exchanged glances with each other while secretly assessing.

The two sides exchanged identities.

Of course, Lin An and his entourage used travel as an excuse, while Gustav and the others said that they and the others were merchants of a large caravan, and the goods and employees of the caravan had been wiped out, leaving only so few people to protect the three of them.

Because Lin An and his party saved more than a dozen of them, Yun Qi and William, who looked like alchemy products, and showed their extraordinary identity background, Gustav and his party didn't think that Lin An and his party would covet them, who seemed to have no oil and water, so they didn't hide the identity of the three of them:

With the life-saving grace of Lin An and the others, even if they were to give the space equipment together with the things inside, it would be nothing, and not to mention that they met in this situation, even if it was an ordinary chance encounter, Gustav and the others might take the initiative to make friends with Lin An and the others in order to develop their own connections.

When one party was grateful and intended to make friends, and the other party did not refuse and had a pleasant attitude, the atmosphere between the two parties quickly became harmonious.

Gustav's private profligacy is only one side, if he puts on a normal attitude, he is also a hearty and atmospheric man, coupled with grateful and intentional enthusiasm, he talks well and has a wide range of knowledge, and he quickly won the favor of Lin An and others.

Then Gustav and the others learned the reason why Lin An and the others went to save them, and they were stunned for a moment unexpectedly, and they couldn't laugh or cry.

Under the slightly puzzled gaze of Lin An and others, Gustav coughed twice, and the subordinates behind him understood, the one with the weakest breath in the eyes of Lin An and others:

"This ...... I didn't think about it that much at the time, but I knew some of the characteristics of the demon ants, and in the case of being chased by the ant tide, it was the best for each other to escape. ”

"Let's be honest, at that time, we just chose the most advantageous way to deal with it, in that case, if we were to lure the demon ants towards you and we could shake off the ant tide behind us, there is no doubt that we would never have a second choice. But since you have saved our lives, we will also say it bluntly—"

Gustav thought his subordinates were too tactful, so he simply spread them out, "In a chaotic place, when an accident occurs, especially from behind, it is usually either a bandit or a sandstorm - the people of this desert, with a veil of face, can act as a team of robber horses; Changing into clothes and changing merchants again, even if it was a caravan under my command, it was not like nothing like it hadn't done.

Therefore, people who often walk in the chaotic place, when they encounter living people, whether they are alone or in groups, will immediately avoid them if they do not wait for people to approach, otherwise they are likely to be inspired by wealth and swallowed to the point that there are no bones left......

Gustav said while looking at the faces of Lin An and the others, and when he saw that he said that he would lead the demon ants to them in order to survive, no one glared angrily, and nodded slightly in his heart, it seems that although he has no experience in walking the land of chaos, he is not a complete fledgling, and he can make friends depending on his personality.

Making friends depends on personality and identity, otherwise the gap in temper is too big, even if there is a life-saving grace in front, they are grateful, and they can't bend their hearts to greet them, at most they will be rewarded.

(To be continued)

ps：

It's late again, and the second watch will probably be later.