Chapter 72: The Demon Worm from the Abyss (Part I)
Systm looked up, a flash of blue in his eyes.
Heatham flew quickly, the tentacles on his body intertwined to form a streamlined shape, and his flight speed increased even further.
For nearly a month, he had been feeling uneasy for no reason, but on this day, he finally found a hint of something unusual.
Thanks to the enhancement of the [Perception] talent, the derivative ability [Eye of Sixtham] has also been enhanced, and Sixm is now able to see some unusual things, such as the frost energy that is free in the air.
It is not perceived by the body, but seen with the eyes.
Because of the frost power in his body, Sistemm could see the free frost energy in the Lierte Forest even when he was thousands of meters away; In addition to this, Heathm can also see another colorless energy from a distance, which is closely related to his [telepathy] and [perception] abilities.
Just now, Sistemm accidentally discovered that a strange frost energy spiral appeared over the forest a hundred meters away, and with the appearance of this spiral nest, the frost energy there decreased a little.
The spiral nest was not very large, only a few tens of centimeters in size, and when Syst flew to the spiral nest, the frost energy spiral nest had not completely dissipated, and he immediately noticed that this place was unusual.
Systm's tentacles felt a strange smell of sulfur, and an eerie aura that was hot and distracting slightly.
This hot energy is incompatible with the free frost energy in the air, and the two energies will annihilate each other once they come into contact, and the ice-blue spiral nest is obviously formed because of this.
"How could such a scorching aura of energy appear in the ice and snow?"
Heatham transformed into a [Frost Form] in mid-air, and asked Nellis at the aperture above his head.
Nellis seemed to be familiar with this strange aura, and immediately replied to Systm, "It's the breath of the abyss. ”
"The abyss?"
"Hmm."
Sitting in mid-air, Sistemm glanced down into the forest for a moment until the smell of sulfur in the air had completely dissipated, and he found no trace of any abyssal creatures below.
The so-called abyss, Sistemm has heard from Nellis's words more than once in the past six months.
However, Nylis didn't know exactly what the abyss looked like, but she said that her former contractor, the white bear, had fought the demons from the abyss a few times.
For a long, long time, the Lierte Forest seems to have had an unknown connection to the Abyss, and there are always some Abyssal creatures invading it.
Sistemme had also asked the Goblin Giant what the Abyss was, but the Goblin Giants who had lost their power and suddenly regained their power were also not very clear, and they didn't know as much as Nylis.
"Wang, have you found anything?"
Seeing that Heatham had hovered for a few moments from his sudden rise into the sky, and that his expression had become a little solemn, Shava immediately leaned over to Heatham and asked.
"Nothing for now."
Systran replied to Shava, and although there was no sign of the abyssal creatures, Systrem felt that his uneasiness came from this breath.
Maybe after a while, he will encounter a monster from the abyss.
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In Systham's nest, traps were set and mice were trapped, and after eating and resting for a while, the five worker ants left the nest again.
They have to recycle the paralysis traps that were previously used to lay out the rats.
Since only one soldier ant in the entire nest has mastered the ability of this [paralyzing toxin], it takes a long time to recover from each secretion of this toxin before it can be secreted again.
Therefore, these toxin-containing baits need to be recycled and eaten and absorbed by the soldier ants, otherwise the [paralyzing toxin] on this poisonous bait will lose its effectiveness after a long time.
Ants have a natural sense of smell, and these black-brown ants turn gray and white, and as they get bigger, their sense of smell becomes even more sensitive.
The five worker ants shook their antennae at the same time, and they used their antennae to touch each other and communicate, apparently discovering something unusual.
A few worker ants gave up the toxin bait and followed the fishy smell wafting through the air, gradually moving behind a tree nearly thirty meters from the nest of the Systham.
Behind the trees, several ants found a half-cut butterfly larval carcass, about five centimeters long.
The ants probed for a while near the butterfly larvae's carcass, and it wasn't long before two of the ants collaborated with each other to carry the butterfly larvae's carcass and decided to transport it back to the nest.
Although active hunting of this butterfly larvae has been forbidden by the king, there is no reason why they should not recycle the corpses of this butterfly larvae.
However, before the five soldiers could transport the butterfly larvae two meters away, a strange uninvited guest appeared in front of them.
The pink flesh was exposed, as if it were an oval ball the size of a watermelon, which shook in the snow and emitted a slightly burning smell of blood.
Although the IQ of the worker ants bred by Syst is higher, they still inherit the fearless character of the ants.
Several worker ants moved towards the ball of flesh, trying to find out what the smelly ball was.
As the worker ants get closer, the balls of meat flutter faster and faster.
When a worker ant is about to touch the meat ball, the meat ball changes suddenly.
A giant white butterfly larva about 15 centimeters in size grew out of the meat ball in a few seconds, and a thin black-brown thread with the thickness of a hair appeared on the tail of the butterfly larva and connected to the meat ball.
The giant butterfly larva looked like a real butterfly larva, and it wriggled towards a worker ant, wrapping it tightly around it like a snake with its bloated flesh.
Despite its large size and overwhelming strength, the butterfly larvae are not good at fighting by nature, and the entangled worker ant constantly waved the chelicera on its head to cause a lot of damage to the butterfly larvae, and several other worker ants also tacitly cooperated, attacking the butterfly larvae together, and the butterfly larvae were bitten all over the body.
One of the several worker ants suddenly noticed something, and instead of continuing to bite the butterfly larvae, the worker ant attacked the thin thread that connected the tail of the butterfly larva to the meat ball.
The thin lines were hard, but the chelices strengthened by Systm were noticeably stronger.
In less than half a minute, as the thin thread was bitten by the worker ants, the white butterfly larva that was constantly struggling instantly lost its ability to move and suddenly became motionless.
Several ants decided to move the giant butterfly larva back to the nest......
But a few of the ants apparently didn't notice that the pink ball of flesh not far away from them had changed shape.
A round mouthpart of 20 centimeters in size appeared on the ball, and the mouthparts were covered with white and brown sharp teeth.
In an instant, the ball of meat ate all five worker ants and the giant butterfly larvae that had grown from its body......
It didn't take long for the surface of the ball to start wriggling again, and an ant nearly eight centimeters long grew from the surface of the ball, and there was also a thin wire near the tail of this ant connected to the ball.