38. Marching ants digging tunnels
Just as my voice fell, there was a sudden movement in the entire stone room that was not large, but very dense, and the squirming was endless.
The sound was coming from all directions, and I couldn't make out where it was coming from, the only thing I knew for sure was that it was coming from under my feet.
Phyllis threw several white balls of light into the air, illuminating from the light of the balls, and I could clearly see that the earth and rocks on the ground around me were shaking slightly with the sound of rustling.
The sound was getting louder and louder, and the frequency of the earth and rocks shaking on the ground was getting louder and louder, and we all panicked at this moment.
Xiao Nan tugged at my sleeve in a panic and asked in a low voice, "Kitten, can't it really be a marching ant, right?" ”
I shook my head helplessly and didn't answer, but scolded in my heart: "Look at my crow's mouth, what do you say." ”
I'm almost certain now that this movement under my feet must have come from the marching ants. After all, apart from marching ants, what else in the vicinity could make such a big noise?
Of course, I'm even more curious about how marching ants, which never build nests and dig burrows, suddenly learned to dig tunnels today?
All of us have deliberately overlooked the characteristics of marching ants, which will take everything they can eat in their way, regardless of whether they are strong or weak.
Just when we were still holding on to the last bit of luck, red figures surged out of the coarse sand-paved ground.
Sure enough, the huge jaws, slender limbs, and the red and smooth carapace are the marching ants lurking outside.
"Be careful! It's marching ants! ”
Niu Kelian shouted, and when he first carried the Pu knife, he slashed at the marching ants that had just emerged.
Although the number of marching ants emerging from the ground is not as moving as the red torrent seen outside, the sight of one after another emerging from the ground and swooping towards us with a fierce light in their eyes is very shocking.
Such a sudden crisis made us at a loss for a while, except for Niu Kelian and the two soldiers who took refuge here, how could the remaining three of us have ever encountered such a thing? The battle between the two sides had been going on for quite some time, and I was able to go to the carriage to get my weapon.
I carried a watermelon knife in my hand and slashed at the marching ants that attacked me.
Niu Kelian shouted on the side: "Don't panic, everyone, the terrible thing about the marching ants is their number, in the stone room, they can't develop their advantages, we just need to defend here!" ”
I, Niu Kelian, and Da Blue, surrounded the carriage with their backs to each other, trying their best to stop the attack of the marching ants, but these ants seemed endless, and no matter how many they were killed, there were still marching ants crawling down the hole to the stone chamber and joining the attacking team.
On the carriage, Little Blue was wielding a bow and arrows, and with the sound of the bowstring, one arrow after another shot the marching ants that had just emerged from the hole. Phyllis was waving the short staff in her hand, the dark yellow light of the tip of the staff continued to flicker, and huge stones appeared out of thin air, slapping towards the hole in the ground. Xiao Nan's hands were tightly gripping a Pu knife, and he slapped down a few fish that had climbed into the carriage.
No matter how hard we tried, the number of marching ants grew, from more than a dozen at the beginning, to now they are swooping towards us like a tide.
I don't know what the state of other people is, I just know that I have begun to get tired, and the originally light watermelon knife in my hand has begun to gradually become heavy. I just felt like my heart was going to explode at the moment, pounding so fast that the boiling blood was almost suffocating.
"It's not a way to fight like this, get in the car, get in the car!"
Niu Kelian yelled and jumped into the carriage first, and Da Blue and I didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately climbed into the carriage.
I slashed at the marching ants that climbed into the carriage and looked at Niu Kelian.
I saw Niu Kelian take out a box more than one meter long from the carriage, open it, and take out a square shield the size of a half-body, he held the shield in one hand and the Pu knife in the other, jumped on the back of the leading leaf-cutting ant, and shouted while slashing at the marching ants around him: "Miss, withdraw the magic, we have to break out!" ”
Phyllis dissolved her spell, only to see the stone wall in front of us begin to rumble apart, falling apart and falling to the ground.
Almost as soon as the stone wall collapsed, countless marching ants swarmed inward from this exit.
The current situation is very clear to everyone, and if you continue to stay here, you will definitely die.
Niu Kelian shouted loudly, and the ants under him began to take the lead. As the ants dragged the carriage forward, we left the stone chamber in an instant, and countless marching ants were knocked by us and became scattered in all directions, and even many marching ants flew into the carriage.
We hurriedly drove the marching ants out of the carriage and on the side of the carriage, not even caring about our eyes that were sore from the sun.
We were in such a mess that it took a while for things to get better.
Now that the sun is at its head, we have been hiding in the stone chamber for a whole morning.
Hours passed, but the number of marching ants outside did not decrease much, but at this moment, looking ahead, at least the front was no longer the black red torrent, although the number was still shocking, the density of marching ants had decreased a lot, and at the end of the sight, the sandstone beach mixed with dark red and dark yellow had revealed its original color.
However, our movement has attracted a lot of marching ants, and the nearby marching ants seem to be aware of our movement and are outflanking from all directions.
At this moment, we have completely caught up in the encirclement of the other party.
In fact, it is nothing to fall into the encirclement of the other party, after all, although there are many of these marching ants, they are generally not large, and the average size is about the same size as a human head, as long as we can continue to drive on such a rampage, we will be able to rush out sooner or later.
But now the biggest problem is that the number of marching ants on the ground is too much, although the other party is not big, but this does not mean that we can rampage out, we only drove forward more than ten meters away, these obstacles composed of marching ants made us almost overturn several times, if it overturned at this time, then we are all finished.
It seems that Niu Kelian also discovered this problem, only to see him take the Pu knife back on his back, and instead hold the shield in both hands and put it in front of him. While I was wondering, I saw a wide translucent barrier suddenly appear at the front of the team, and the shape of this translucent barrier was exactly the same as the square shield in his hand.
Then, there was a miraculous scene in front of our eyes, only to see that the marching ants that were originally blocking the front were actually knocked away by this translucent barrier in the process of the vehicle.
We are like a fast-moving bulldozer, pushing this translucent barrier to open up a way forward in such a heavily surrounded environment.
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief in my heart: "Whew, saved, it looks like we should be able to rush out with this momentum." ”
The expressions of the others were similar, and their faces were full of lightness for the rest of their lives.
However, not long after I relaxed, I suddenly noticed that as the car moved forward, there were actually a few cracks on the translucent barrier in front of me, and as the car continued to move forward, the cracks on it were gradually increasing.