Chapter 869: The Plague of Ants
"Oh no, run!"
Before Lai Zi finished shouting, he heard Hai Dongqing, who had been following the pheasant vigil, suddenly let out a terrible howl, and flew to the top of everyone's heads in a panic, constantly circling.
Before everyone could react, what was going on, they saw the stone carvings around them peeling off like a python molting.
As this stone sculpture disintegrated, the other stone sculptures around it also became soft and moltened......
Almost in the blink of an eye, all the stone carvings had been reduced to rubble.
Under the rubble, a small golden thing slowly crawled out.
"Damn, what's this?" The fat man was so frightened that he hurriedly took a few steps back, but did not run.
In the feelings of everyone, although the little thing in front of them appeared strangely, it was not so terrifying.
But no one thought that Lai Zi would run away without looking back, and he didn't even have time to say a word.
The fat man didn't pay attention at first, but when he found that Laizi had run away, he said angrily: "Laizi, are you so scared?" Just such a big gadget, how big a wave can it make, look at the fat man stepping on it to death. ”
"You're crazy, it's a Martian ant, get out!"
When Laizi shouted the last sentence, the whole person's voice was hoarse.
But when this voice shouted, Zhang Meng, Fatty, Lady Na and others were all dumbfounded. I didn't bother to pack up the sapper shovels and tents, so I ran out of the castle.
Try to get in the car as fast as you can and escape from here.
Not only that, but everyone ran out while reminding Ye Jiu and the others who were keeping vigil.
"Don't come, get out! Evacuate! This has Martian ants. ”
Martian ants, as the name suggests, are one of the rarest ants in the world, and in the words of the British Times, they are the same ancestor of all the ants living in the world, carnivores that live underground all year round.
Although Zhang Meng rarely pays attention to these weird things, she still likes science magazines very much, and Lady Na is an expert in this area. Although the fat man and Zhao San didn't know very well, they could both see Laizi's reaction, even Laizi was such a steady person, and his voice changed in fright, how strict is the matter, can the two of them old fritters understand?
"I remember, the Martian ant was discovered by scientists in the Amazon, how did they get here?" Zhang Meng asked suspiciously as he ran out.
"Whew...... Call! The fat man was just panting, and he didn't have time to talk to Zhang Meng.
Although Zhao San is old, he was a good hand at six doors when he was young, and he didn't have a hard time running, and said, "Could it be that Laizi is wrong?" ”
"No, the most striking feature of the Martian ant is that it is golden all over." Lady Na's expression was also very gloomy and said: "In this way, the bones we dug up just now are easy to explain if they are of any age." ”
"You mean, those bones were eaten by these Martian ants?" Zhang Meng gasped.
"Hmm." Lady nodded: "If you think about it, those bones were not buried, they were just trapped in the yellow sand. By all indications, only people who have been eaten by man-eating ants will do this, and if they are hunted by large animals, their bones will be long gone. ”
"Nima, fat man, I don't want to taste the taste of insect ant tarsal bones." The fat man hurriedly touched the fat on his body and sprinted hard.
"Moreover, I think it is very likely that these dead people were moved under the stone carvings by Martian ants outside." "Ants have always had a habit of storing food, and it is estimated that many corpses are dragged through. ”
"Hmm." Zhao San nodded and said, "This also explains why this barren sand castle has not been discovered so far." Those who have been here have probably been eaten by ants for a long time......"
"But as far as I know, Martian ants don't have eyes, and on what basis do they track?"
Just as Lady Na finished speaking, the fat man suddenly squatted down, gasped and said, "Damn, these man-eating ants can't fucking see anything?" ”
"Hmm."
"How do you know?" The fat man was afraid that Lady Na would not be able to say accurately, so he asked again.
"Lady Na is right, foreign scientists have confirmed that this carnivorous golden ant has no eyes." Zhang Meng affirmed.
"Damn, since we can't see it, why are we still tired and tired?" The fat man sat on the ground, looked back, and found that there was no trace of Martian ants, which was a sigh of relief, and complained: "This second dog is really dead, and he will slip away first before he finishes speaking." ”
Everyone saw that what the fat man said was not unreasonable, maybe Laizi was too cautious, so he didn't run back desperately, but gradually slowed down.
Just as they slowed down, Ye Jiu rushed over with the pheasant and the others.
"What's the situation, Martian ants, what's it?" Ye Jiu asked.
"Alas, don't say it, I almost didn't scare myself to death." The fat man pouted dissatisfiedly, and then stretched out his chubby hand and counted: "Hey, no, little lady, why are there two people missing?" ”
"I heard your warning just now, so I let Xiaolou get into the car." Ye Jiu replied.
"That's one missing?" Zhang Meng looked at Ye Jiu.
"Liu Tang went to call." Ye Jiu knew that Zhang Meng was talking about Sai Rengui Guo Sheng, so he nodded and said immediately.
As soon as Ye Jiu finished saying this, he found that the red-haired ghost Liu Tang looked in a hurry, and he ran over with a roll.
Seeing this scene, Ye Jiu frowned slightly.
"What about Guo Sheng?"
"It's gone." Liu Tang said.
"How could it be gone?" It is rare for people in the Ye family to be like this, and Ye Jiu immediately asked again.
"When I passed, I couldn't find Guo Sheng's figure." The red-haired ghost Liu Tang said with a puzzled expression: "It stands to reason that Guo Sheng is not the kind of person who disappears quietly, and he ......"
"And what?"
"His iron halberd is still there." After speaking, the red-haired ghost Liu Tang handed the halberd that Guo Sheng was carrying in front of Ye Jiu and said, "I found such a halberd in the north corner of this castle. ”
"The weapons of the warriors and the pens of the literati, as long as they don't die, they won't let go." Zhao San said with a dark face: "This Guo Sheng must have had an accident." ”
"Third uncle, are you saying that there are other enemies here?" Just now I was mentioning Martian ants, and in the blink of an eye, there was another mysterious enemy, which was tantamount to making matters worse, Zhang Meng asked anxiously at the moment.
Lady Na frowned, as if she had thought of something, and asked, "Is there anything else near the halberd?" ”
"Something else?" Liu Tang shook his head, not understanding what Lady Na was referring to.
"Like bloodstains or something?"
"Nope." Liu Tang added: "It is precisely because I didn't find anything that I feel a little strange. It's like nothing has come before, quiet cautious. ”
"Quiet?"
Hearing Liu Tang say this, Lady Na, Zhao San, and Zhang Meng were like being empowered, and their hairs suddenly stood on end, and they couldn't help but shudder.
Zhao San waved his hand in a hurry: "Run, run!" Come on! ”
"Run, run!"
Zhang Meng and Lady also hurriedly ran in the direction of the off-road vehicle, shouting as they ran.
Although Ye Jiu, Liu Tang, and Qing Pheasant didn't know what was going on, they all realized something when they saw the expressions of the others, and quickly retreated in the direction of the off-road vehicle.
But before they could escape from the deserted castle, the stone carvings that stood all around the castle were crawling with those Martian ants in an instant.
Although the fat man had determined that those Martian ants had no eyes, at this moment, seeing so many Martian ants that were so dense that they almost covered the entire barren sand castle again, the fat man couldn't care about anything else, so he ran out.
"Fuck it! With so many Martian ants, even if they don't have eyes, they can drown us! The fat man scolded: "It's so scary, why didn't we find it when we came in?" ”
The fat man was right, and everyone was puzzled, why such a large number of Martian ants were not found under this lonely city of barren sand?
Judging by the positions where they appear are all under the stone carvings, it is likely that they are artificial, but what kind of person is it that controls so many Martian ants with such an abominable method?
"You don't need a knife to kill." Zhao San only felt his scalp tingle and said.
"You say, could it be the Taoist disciple who set up the trick?" Zhang Meng remembered what the fat man had told Lai Zi about the stone statue technique before, and immediately asked.
"I don't think it's like a Taoist method." The pheasant, who has been protecting Zhang Meng's back, said.
"Not Taoist? What is that? ”
Seeing that Zhang Meng was still in the mood to ask nonsense at this time, the panicked fat man shouted: "I said what time is it, let's escape first." ”
No one paid attention to the fat man, but the pheasant explained to Zhang Meng: "I think this way of using animals to guard is very similar to shamanic teachings. ”
"Shaman?" Zhang Meng said puzzledly: "But the technique can only be mastered by the Spring and Autumn Mojia and Taoist people. ”
"Maybe it's a trap made by someone who knows Taoism and shamans." As he ran, the pheasant turned around and said, "The grassland people respect the animals on the grassland the most, whether they are eagles, wolves, deer, bears, or tigers, they all have a totemic culture, and the shaman wants to use the power of these animals to complete the agreement." I think these Martian ants are the steppe ant gods they invited, just like the horse fairies in the Northeast. ”
"In other words, these Martian ants are actually people who know how to control shamans?" Zhang Meng remembered something and asked rhetorically.
"Yes." The pheasant nodded and said, "It must have been someone ready to do something to us when we entered the grassland." Although these Martian ants have no eyes, they will never be the key to our escape? We have to find out the person who controls these Martian ants in the shadows! ”