Jasmine was unaware of what Richard was thinking, and pointed to the well and beckoned, "Go in, sink to the bottom of this well, and you will be a ruin." ”

After speaking, he jumped into the well, wrapped his whole body with a layer of sky blue energy, isolated from contact with the water, and sank quickly.

The rest of the men followed and jumped into the well, with Richard at the end.

"Poof!"

Wrapped in golden energy all over his body and entering the well, Richard felt the gravity around him suddenly more than double, greatly exceeding the buoyancy, as if an invisible arm was dragging him down.

After descending for about 30 meters, the surrounding pressure increases to the level of three standard atmospheres, and the feet are slightly soft, passing through a layer of water film, entering the air, and then touching the solid ground.

Looking around, Richard saw that he was already in a hall, and there was a skylight at the top of the hall that led to the well outside, and it was obvious that he had entered from here just now - the four walls of the hall were carved with magic patterns, which stabilized the air and kept it inside, so as to prevent the inflow of well water, and the design was somewhat ingenious.

Jasmine and her party arrived in the hall first, because it was not the first time to enter, they were no longer curious, they didn't look at it a few times, they turned around and walked towards the side of the hall.

With a "squeak", a stone door was pushed open, revealing a deep tunnel, and a group of mermaids entered, and Richard followed.

The entire corridor is generally inclined downward, which is somewhat similar to the corridor where the ancient ruins were first explored, and after walking for most of the day, Richard estimated that it had reached a position nearly a thousand meters below the ground, and finally entered a huge underground space.

Here, the surrounding air is noticeably somewhat warmer.

In general, as a rule of thumb on Earth, for every kilometre of rise, the temperature drops by 6°C, and for every kilometre of descent, the temperature rises by 3°C. Now it has dropped a thousand meters, and in Richard's perception, the temperature has risen by 10°C, to say the least.

A geothermal anomaly, where the earth's crust may be relatively thin...... Richard blinked in thought.

Jasmine and the others didn't pay attention to this, and their eyes fell on the pools of blood on the ground around them.

Strangely, there were only traces of blood, no corpses.

The sorceress Sue, limping up to Jasmine, whispered, "The corpses should have all been eaten by them." ”

"Hmm. Jasmine replied, expressing her agreement, with a solemn expression, "Next, be careful to avoid being ambushed." ”

"Yes. ”

Richard glanced at Jasmine's conversation with Sue and didn't ask out loud, because he was confident that Jasmine would tell him the relevant information if necessary. If you don't tell it, you either don't need it, or it's not time.

......

The group marched deeper into the ruins.

Because Jasmine and his party had been to the ruins once before and carried out relatively careful clean-up operations, the guardian creatures in the ruins, or other dangers, were eliminated, so the group was very fast.

In this way, after traveling for more than an hour, they completed the road that Jasmine and her party had walked for several hours.

During the process, Richard noticed that there would be large clumps of blood on the ground from time to time, which should have been left by the creatures killed by Jasmine and her party - as evidenced by the traces of spell destruction around them.

However, without exception, there were no corpses left, not even fragments of corpses, as if they had been cleaned by extremely dedicated cleaners - what happened at the beginning of the ruins was not a single incident.

This made him a little curious about the existence of cleaning up all this, but he patiently didn't ask, waiting for Jasmine to take the initiative to tell him.

Next, the group traveled several miles in the huge underground space and stepped on a gray-white ground. Jasmine, who took the lead, took the initiative to reduce her speed and led everyone to slow down.

Slowly and vigilantly marching to a raised high ground, Jasmine waved the group to stop, pointed ahead, and opened her mouth to Richard.

"The last time we set foot on the high ground, we ran into an enemy that we couldn't solve. This time, I invite you, just to solve them, you have to be prepared. Jasmine took the initiative.

"What is your so-called enemy?" asked Richard.

"It's a swarm of ants. ”

"Ants?" Richard listened, was slightly stunned, a little surprised by this answer, thought for a moment and asked in detail, "What kind of ant?"

"A terrifying ant. Jasmine's face sank as she spoke, obviously evoking bad memories, "They are relatively large, half the size of a finger, they are fast, their physical strength is not low, their teeth are sharp, and they can spray acid - but that's not why they're terrifying - no matter how powerful they are, they can't resist the power of spells, but there are too many of them, almost endless, and they have a lot of intelligence, and they know how to cooperate with each other."

You know the last time we fought them, it was like fighting an army. Moreover, this army, there is no possibility of demoralization, all the soldiers will fight to the death, and will use all means to try to hurt us.

If it weren't for their small size, we wouldn't have been able to last even ten minutes. Even so, we spent a long time with each other, and found that not only did not decrease in the number of each other, but became more numerous, and our men were wounded and exhausted, and had to retreat. ”

"More and more ants?" Richard listened, his eyes rolling in his sockets, and a thought flashed through his mind: could it be ...... A superbiotic species in a strange species, right?

A superborn species living in this ruin?

A superbiotic that acts as a guardian creature of the ruins?

It's a bit of a surprise.

Jasmine looked over and asked, "How is it, are you confident that you can help us solve it?"

"Let's see. Richard replied.

"It's fine. Jasmine nodded, took a deep breath, told her subordinates to prepare for battle, stepped forward, and went up the steep slope to the gray and white high ground that suddenly rose more than ten meters.

A few seconds after stepping on the high ground, there was a dense "rustle" sound in the darkness ahead, and Richard waved his hand to shoot a few energy balls for lighting, suspended in mid-air, and saw a large area 100 meters away, all occupied by the ants that Jasmine said.

These ants are red and black in appearance, like charcoal with sparks in the ashes, and they pounce directly without saying anything.

Richard noticed that the ants pounced on them, seemingly swarming and mindless, but not chaotic and orderly. A large number of ants are roughly divided into twenty-four clusters, and the ants in each cluster travel along a uniform route, without crossing, and the provinces interfere with each other.

This is obviously extremely efficient, and the speed of the ants is the same as Jasmine said - very quickly, but in a few breaths, it is a few tens of meters in front of the group.

Jasmine shouted, "Attack!"

"Boom!"

Jasmine's men struck quickly.

Richard did not hesitate, and also launched an attack, ready to see the reality of the ants.