Chapter 26: Cicadas

The leg essence was thus removed, and all the workers were excited, celebrating this great victory.

Xiao Ran did not and this small victory dizzy his mind, to achieve his great cause of food, sitting on the stove with a spoon in hand, and giving you a spoonful is still far from his dream.

The Sea Buckthorn Zerg Clan didn't say anything, and even the oil and salt that they had in their hearts and minds didn't get it done. Moreover, although it is still in the hot weather of the autumn tiger, in a few days, the row of buds hanging on the land of death will be collected into the warehouse by the third grandfather.

Xiao Ran looked back at the worker ants, except for the pepper and Kudo, who did not carnival, the other worker ants were so happy that they got carried away. After a while, the smell of stewed chicken came from the third grandfather's kitchen.

Well......

The taste of angelica, the third grandfather really made a big tonic chicken.

Well......

The taste of sand cucumber may be rustling when eaten, so it is called sand cucumber, which is also an edible tonic herb that replenishes qi and blood.

Ginger and shiitake mushrooms......

Xiao Ran smelled the smell of stewed chicken, it was so fragrant. He swallowed, and had to give up this taste that didn't belong to him now.

Then, he took a small team of worker ants to the place where the third grandfather killed chickens.

This place smells very fishy, and there are chicken feathers all over the place. Xiao Ran found a small piece of discarded chicken intestines and instructed the workers to carry the small piece of chicken intestines back to the place of death.

Before encountering Xiao Ran, these meat products were the favorite of all worker ants, but since the worker ants ate Xiao Ran's cooked food, no one likes to eat this raw food.

"Is this going to be barbecued leg meat?" asked Pepper.

"What kind of leg meat, it's obviously roasted leg sausage!" said another worker ant.

"Grilled sausage?"

"I want to eat, I want to eat......"

......

Xiao Ran didn't answer everyone's questions, he just asked the workers to carry this small piece of chicken intestines back to the place of death.

When the worker ants carried this chicken intestine back to the place of death, all the worker ants were anxiously waiting for Xiao Ran to make another peerless delicacy that they had never tasted.

But Xiao Ran didn't move at all, just looked at the sky silently.

It wasn't until the evening that the worker ants silently ate a grass seed in disappointment and went to sleep.

Xiao Ran looked at the starry sky, thinking about the things of the past few days, he always felt that the sound of the cicada was strange, and now that the leg essence had been removed, he decided to go and find out.

The next day, the workers came to the area of the small piece of chicken intestine early to carefully observe whether the chicken intestine had changed a little, but to their disappointment, the chicken intestine did not change more except for some rotten breath.

Xiao Ran instructed Tengjiao to take the ten worker ants and the four brothers of the Shi family to dig another firewood pit in the grass not far from the mouth of the mountain spring. After Fuji Jiao took the worker ants and the four brothers of the Shi family to go, Xiao Ran decided to take Xiao Sen, Xiao Shan, and Kudo New Ant to the direction of the cicada sound in the past.

But today, it's strange that the cicadas didn't continue to sound.

Xiao Ran looked for directions, and he walked along the edge of the Artemisia Jungle through the Artemisia Jungle. They walked very carefully, this was the territory of the Empire after all, so they had to be cautious.

After walking through the Artemisia jungle and seven or eight meters south, Xiao Ran came to a row of cypress trees. The cicada he heard a few days ago, like the bell for the end of class, came from this cypress tree.

But there are more than a dozen cypress trees here, but he doesn't know which cypress tree it is. According to Xiao Ran's memory, the village where the old house is located has planted a lot of cypress trees, and cicadas like to stay on top of cypress trees, and in summer, they are on this row of cypress trees, squeaking and squeaking.

When he was a child, he thought these cicadas were very noisy and hated cicadas, but when he grew up and moved into the city, for some reason, this noisy cicada sound became an important childhood memory for him.

After moving to the city, I no longer heard these cicadas.

Xiao Ran told the three ants who came with him that the purpose of coming here was to find a cicada, because this cicada's call was a bit peculiar. Xiaoshan is his most loyal companion in the ant colony, Komori is a master of climbing trees, and Gongteng New Ant may be able to help too.

"Then let's look for each tree by tree?" Komori said.

"But there are so many trees, to find when. "Little mountain road.

"Isn't it fast for every ant to have a tree. Komori said.

"But we have four ants now, one ant and one tree, and it will take a long time. "Little mountain road.

"Then I'll go back and call some more ants?" Komori said.

"No need!" Kudo Shinant stepped forward, his eyes full of confidence between the tentacles, "There is only one truth, and there is only one real tree." ”

"Do you know which one it is?" asked Komori.

Gong Teng did not rush to answer, but led everyone to the third tree and said, "This is it!"

The ants were puzzled and some didn't want to believe it. But after hearing this, Xiao Ran nodded affirmatively and took the lead in climbing up the tree. With the sheer strength of the ants and their six legs with barbs, climbing trees is no different from flat ground for them.

The only difference is that this tree is too tall for an ant, and it will take some time to climb up.

Komori suddenly climbed to the front and threw away the ants far away. After five minutes, Komori shouted in whiskers to the ants who were still trying to climb up, "Found it!

The ants climbed up to take a look, and sure enough, a cicada was perched on top of the cypress tree.

Xiao Ran stepped forward to take a look, and the cicada was already dead.

"No wonder, I didn't hear the sound of this cicada today...... Xiao Ran muttered.

Komori ran around the cicada and asked Kudo, "How do you know that the cicada is on this?"

Gong Teng lifted his tentacles and was about to answer.

Xiao Ran hurriedly said, "Let me guess?"

The eyes of the three ants were all on Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran continued: "Although there are many cicada holes under these trees, there is one under the third tree that knows the latest holes. Right?"

Kudo nodded.

But that's not enough to say that the cicada is on the third tree, because the cicada can fly. The reason why the cicada is on this tree is because this tree knows that the smell of urine is the heaviest. Xiao Ran said again.

"It turns out that Burning Wing's reasoning ability is also so strong. Gong Teng said.

"Haha," Xiao Ran smiled, "Where, that's what I thought of after I heard you say on the third tree." ”

Komori said: "I see...... I'm going to go back to the ants now, and bring this cicada back, what a big fat meat!"

Xiao Ran looked at the salivating Xiao Mori and said, "Just let it be here." It's too far from the Land of the Dead, and it's too dangerous to transport back through Imperial territory. ”

"But ......" Komori was halfway through his words, and he was reluctant to keep silent. He seemed to remember that Xiao Ran was now the acting prime minister of the Little Thorn Insect United Nations.

"But what is it, tell me. Xiao Ran said.

"The small piece of grilled sausage that I brought home is not enough for everyone to eat. Now I encounter such a good piece of fat, and I don't take it home. Komori complained.

Xiao Ran patted Xiao Sen's head with his front paws and said, "Let you have a big meal today!"

After that, he sighed, this cicada died before he arrived.

The ants abandoned the cicadas and went to the land of death.