Chapter 37—The King and the Knight (Part II)
For some reason, Dasha, the soldier ant who had been guarded by him, returned and attacked the intruder without hesitation.
Because of the continuous growth these days, the level of the soldier ant Dasha seems to have increased again, and its body has reached nearly seven centimeters, which is more than twice the size of the ordinary reddish-brown soldier ant.
Heatham observed that the rat's hind leg had a wound due to Dasha's bite, resulting in some blood stains.
Perhaps it was the corrosive effect of formic acid on the wound, and the rat curled up and began to lick the wound with its tongue.
The Soldier Ant Dasha took advantage of the chaos to move directly in front of Systm and protected Systm behind it.
"Now, attack it!"
Heatham knew that the rat was licking its wounds right now, and this was the perfect opportunity.
If you want to attack this mouse, you have to do it now.
At the same time as Sistum gave the order, the soldier ant Dasha did not hesitate to obey Sistum's order!
The soldier ant opened its massive chelicera, and when fully opened, it was twice the size of its head.
The double-edged foot of the big silly chelica is six centimeters, and it uses its chelicera to aim at the head of the mouse licking the wound and rushes straight over!
However, before Dasha could rush to the rat and bite the rat's head......
The mouse's body is more flexible, it senses the movement of the soldier ant Dasha, and the last to shake its body first, knocking Dasha into the air first!
The mouse didn't stop, it ran directly in the direction where the soldier ant Dasha fell, and after biting twice, it threw the soldier ant Dasha away again......
Insect hunters are adept at one-hit ambushes, but they are clearly not suitable for direct frontal charges.
Although the soldier ant Dasha has grown to seven centimeters, which seems to be very large, the structure of the ant's body is very slender and very light, and this fifteen-centimeter-sized mouse weighs dozens of times its weight.
The soldier ant Dasha obviously suffered a loss in body weight and flexibility, and the sneak attack failed, but was attacked by the rats.
Click... Click......
The mouse held a black object, put it in its mouth and chewed it, and in the silence of the cave, there was a very harsh chewing sound.
Soldier Ant Dasha shook his head, the rat's attack just now made it a little dizzy.
Heatham noticed that the left-hand side of the back leg of the soldier ant Dasha's body was gone—
The leg was chewing in the mouse's mouth.
I don't know if it's intimidation, or intimidation, or rat banter.
The rat didn't give the soldier ant a fatal blow just now, but instead ate its limbs in front of the soldier ant Dasha.
Systm felt no uneasiness or fear in his [psychic connection] with the soldier ant Dasha.
There are only two emotions in the heart of the soldier ant Dasha, one is the worry about Sistum, and the other is the anger against the mouse!
Dasha adjusted its body, and before Sistem's order, it rushed at the rat again......
It's a pity that Dasha's charge this time is exactly the same as the last one.
This time it was the right forelimb and the left middle leg, and the mouse easily tore off Dasha's two more limbs, and then threw Dasha away again.
Click... Click......
The rat tossed aside half of the limb it had eaten earlier, and it picked up Dasha's new limb and nibbled on it.
Systm even heard rats sucking flesh from the exoskeleton of their feet.
Even if the soldier ant Dasha was not injured at all, he would not be able to defeat the mouse, and Dasha, who had only three legs left, had no hope of defeating the mouse.
Dasha will only be eaten by the mouse in front of it, and will be tortured to death by the rat.
"Dasha, come here."
Systm sends a spiritual message to the soldier ant Dasha, and he wants to call Dasha over.
Dasha, who was a little dizzy from the rat attack, shook his head, and its head seemed to have been cracked by the rat's impact, and some white cloudy liquid flowed out of it.
However, the vitality of the insect is so tenacious, even if it loses its three limbs and its skull is shattered, the soldier ant Dasha still uses the same speed as usual to get in front of Sistm.
Soldier Ant Dasha sent a puzzled look at Sistum, who clearly didn't know what Sistemm was going to do.
Heatham saw a rat not far away eat all of Dasha's limbs, and picked up the other one to continue eating.
Systm finally made a decision.
"Dasha, you hide behind me, and when it attacks me in a while, you can run away and return to your original ant nest, where there is a real ant queen, and I am not actually an ant queen, but a grasshopper."
Heatham sorted out the thoughts in his heart, and tried his best to convey the spiritual message to Dasha in a calm and sincere tone.
Heatham felt very strange about himself, obviously he felt terrible when he watched the countdown to life, but when he was really dying, he saw it a little.
The dozen or so ant larvae around it are very difficult to even wriggle, and it is basically impossible to escape, and the only hope of escaping is the soldier ant Dasha.
Systham hopes that Dasha will survive.
“……”
However, Soldier Ant Dasha did not respond to the spiritual message from Sistum, and remained silent.
For the first time since encountering Systham, Dasha disobeyed Systham's instructions when he suddenly turned around and exploded with extraordinary speed with his remaining three legs.
Dasha shook the huge chelica on his head and charged at the rat again!!
Click... Click......
In the same way, Dasha was once again thrown off by the rats, losing both of its legs again, leaving only the last left forelimb to move.
Dasha uses his remaining leg and his movable abdominal joint to writhe on the ground as it attacks the rat.
But it's already slow, slow......
It was so slow that when the rat ate all of Dasha's limbs, Dasha couldn't move in front of the mouse.
The rat seems to have lost interest in this kind of soldier ant Dasha, and it comes to Dasha and uses its two front legs to flip and play with the disabled body of the soldier ant Dasha, throwing Dasha around like a sandbag, and when Dasha is exhausted from torture, it grabs Dasha's body.
The rat seems to be about to put the final touches on Dasha......
And that's when a miracle happened!
Whoop –
A translucent liquid mixed with red splattered from the rat's head.
Maybe it's the negligence of the rats, or maybe it's the long-planned attack of Dasha.
The sting needle in Dasha's abdomen miraculously pierced the rat's eye.
The rat let out a terrible scream, and it continued to roll and jump in the burrow, as if it was afraid of the pain of the big stupid stinger, and the rat eventually fled......
……
Dasha is tossed aside by the panicked rats and buried in the scattered dirt, but he is not dead.
It struggled out of the dirt with its remaining left forelimb and movable abdomen, and then slowly moved towards Sisstem.
After a few minutes, Soldier Ant Dasha finally crawled in front of Systham, turning around and opening its massive chelicera, aiming them outward......