Chapter 0408: Blood Ants
Walking on the thick fallen leaves, from time to time there will be poisonous snakes of the same color as the leaves suddenly burst out to bring us a little excitement, but without exception, the final result is cut into several pieces or tied into dead knots and hung on the branches.
After walking more than 500 meters in this forest, everything went smoothly, and there were no unmanageable dangers and no strange things to see.
As long as we walked through this forest for more than ten kilometers to leave the Savage Mountain area, just when we all thought that we would not encounter any danger in the future, the monkey in front of us suddenly stopped.
"Monkey, what's the situation?" I hurriedly asked on the radio, after last night's poisoning, my heart has been tense, and the slightest wind and grass makes me feel nervous.
"Everyone, don't move, I'm going to pee." The monkey unbuckled his trousers and walked behind a big tree in front of him.
“you! Why don't you die a big idiot, scare him! I breathed a sigh of relief and opened my mouth to curse, and the others raised their middle fingers in silence.
There was not much time, and a monkey's low voice came from the headset: "Guys, I think you should come over and take a look, we seem to be in big trouble." ”
Everyone was shocked, looked at each other, their faces showed a solemn look, cautiously like a monkey position approached, around the ancient tree, and saw the monkey squatting motionless not far in front.
"Big idiot, what do you see?" The devil asked aloud from behind.
"Shh The monkey hurriedly made a silent gesture and waved at us, signaling us to slow down and not make a sound.
Everyone looked at each other with a look of curiosity, but they didn't dare to relax their vigilance at all, the monkey has always been a sharp soldier, and he won't joke at this time, and looking at him with a nervous and serious look is not like a joke.
We leaned over lightly, squatted next to the monkey and looked at it, and couldn't help but open our mouths wide, full of shock and even a trace of panic and panic, only to see dozens of mound-like things standing on the fallen leaves in front of us, we have seen this thing, ant nests.
In the jungles of Africa, if you want to ask what is the most terrifying, it is not tigers, lions, crocodiles, pythons and other large beasts, but African man-eating ants that can gnaw an elephant into a skeleton in dozens of minutes.
This is a kind of social terrible creatures, also called the ant, they are fierce, invincible, even if it is a wolf, tiger and leopard have to retreat, and the diet is very mixed, from the ground animals and plants to the dead branches and carrion almost everything, but this kind of ant generally lives in the Nile River basin of North Africa, and although there are many species of ants in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, I have not heard of this large man-eating ant.
We've carried out a few missions in Southeast Asia, and we've also encountered a few times in the forests, and we've encountered anthills a few times, but they're all ordinary ants that don't threaten, and this time it's clear that this is definitely a real jungle overlord, a large man-eating ant.
The so-called large refers to the fact that compared with ordinary ants, it is much larger than those ordinary black ants, with a length of about one centimeter, and the reason why they are called man-eating ants is because they are carnivores, so the African locals gave such a name, and gradually it spread.
The reason why this little ant can run rampant is that it relies on a huge number, usually millions of people gather together, and like the ant colony with dozens of ant nests in front of you, the number is at least tens of millions.
This location is on the high side, and the huge canopy above the head becomes a natural barrier, even in the rainy season, there is no need to worry about heavy rain washing away the ant nest, let alone being flooded by the rain, which is why the ant colony survives.
"If you look closely, it's not like the man-eating ants we've seen in Africa." The devil frowned, and his voice was kept to a minimum, for fear of alarming this group of fierce and cruel little monsters.
They often go to Africa on missions and have seen the notorious African ant, but I haven't seen it, I have only checked the information and watched the documentary, and in my impression, those big ants crawling around outside the nest and making people numb are indeed different from the images taken in the documentary.
Although the size is almost the same, but the color is different, the African man-eating ants are black, and the ones we see, the body is dark red, like the color of blood after coagulation, this is the biggest difference between the two types of ants, but one thing is certain, this ghost thing is definitely a carnivore, because there are some bones scattered around the anthill, I don't know what animal accidentally broke into the forbidden area, alarming this group of bloodthirsty monsters.
This is still what you see in front of you, under the thick fallen leaves, for many years, I don't know how many animal corpses are buried, this is definitely called the forbidden area of Savage Mountain, as long as any animal steps here, it is absolutely impossible to escape death.
Fortunately, the monkey appeared early, and if we broke into it, we wouldn't be able to escape even if we had great ability.
"Could it be that the African man-eating ants have mutated? Or is it a specialty of Savage Mountain? We were so lucky to see how fierce they looked, it reminded me of Ant-Man from the movie. The wolf looked at the big ants scurrying on the ground with a look of surprise and said.
"I don't think it's a lucky thing, and when they attack you, you'll know how bad our situation is." The baby shook his head very experienced, as if he had been hunted by this ghost before.
"Go around from the flanks, be careful, don't alarm them." The monkey waved his hand lightly, said a word in a low voice, and when they heard his words, everyone nodded, and cautiously began to retreat.
As soon as he took two steps, a small insect said that it happened to hit the nose of the wolf, and the wolf habitually raised his hand to drive away the flying insects and then rubbed his nose.
Everyone turned their heads to look at the ant nest in amazement, only to see that the ants that were originally wandering outside suddenly began to scurry, and then there was a sound of Xi Xi Suo, and then they saw a swarm of dense dark red ants, swarming out of the ant nest, quickly gathering together to form a torrent, like a flowing carpet to surround us.
“! You bastard killed us, why are you running away! "I went up and slapped the wolf on the head, and the thing was still watching the rolling ant colony, until I slapped him before he reacted, turned around and ran away.
"Oh my God, what did I do!" The wolf saw the huge ant-tingling colony behind him, and muttered to himself with horror on his face.
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