34. Stone Wall Magic
Hearing Niu Kelian's words, a bad premonition suddenly rose in my heart.
I looked up and looked ahead. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, after this look, I finally understand why Niu Kelian is so flustered today.
In front of him, he was completely covered by a red current, and there was no other color except for the blood-like bright red.
I remember watching CCTV's "Animal World" when I was a child, and I was shocked to see the scene of thousands of wildebeest in the African savannah, galloping in the wilderness. But compared to the marching ant legion in front of him, there is no comparison at all.
The wildebeest herd is like an army of 10,000 horsemen, and the marching ant army in front of you is a million-strong army.
We were on top of a small rock mound, and the scene ahead of us was in the blind spot during the journey, and it was not until the bottom of the mound came into view that we stopped urgently.
It was precisely because we couldn't see the marching ants in front of us before, and when we found them, the closest marching ant to us was no more than a hundred meters away.
A hundred meters was not far away, and I could not only see the well-defined appearance of the marching ant's head, chest, and abdomen, but I could even clearly see the pair of huge jaws and six slender legs.
This is a marching ant with a blood-red body, the size of a human head, and the number in front of him is not more than a million, and at a glance, I am afraid that there are more than ten million.
When I first came to this world, I saw and heard that the bugs were either reduced to servants of humans or reduced to food for humans, but I ignored one point:
Even in the original world, small insects were already very difficult creatures to deal with by relying on their huge population and natural advantages, let alone when their size was enlarged by tens or hundreds of times?
Growing up, how have I ever seen such a shocking scene? What I saw with my own eyes today, there was only a blank in my mind.
Niu Kelian shouted: "Go south!" "Drive away first.
We didn't dare to think about it, so we hurriedly followed him and turned with him.
The ants are not much slower than we are, and we are now running southwestward, and the marching ants are coming due west, and we are fleeing diagonally, while the ants are coming along our side.
As time passed, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and at this moment, the two sides were only more than ten meters away, and I could even clearly see the slender fluff on the ant's legs.
"Miss!" Niu Kelian shouted: "Is there a way to stop it for a while?" β
Phyllis replied loudly: "Uncle Niu, you can lead the way, and I'll take care of the rest!" β
As soon as we finished speaking, we saw a loud rumbling sound in the direction of our left, and a wide dark red stone wall rose from the ground, isolating the marching ants.
The stone wall is about 30 meters long, and as we move, the tail end of the stone wall begins to gradually collapse, while new stone walls are still rising in front of us.
I suddenly noticed that on each rising stone wall was carved an hourglass symbol that glowed bright red.
However, a discerning person can see at a glance that these stone walls are just drinking to quench their thirst, and the distance between the ants and us is still getting closer, and the only role of the stone wall is only to block the large-scale attack of the marching ant army, and there are still many marching ants who have crossed the barrier and come to our side before the stone wall rises.
"Uncle Niu......" Phyllis shouted, "the mana is consumed too fast, I can't stand it anymore." β
Niu Kelian thought for a while before he spoke: "Miss, we can't run away, hurry up and build a closed square house and lock us in!" Get ready to park! β
I could only hear their voices, but I didn't know what they were going to do, so I had to run silently behind.
At this time, the car driven by Niu Kelian stopped suddenly, and although we reacted in time this time, the three ant cars were still messily huddled together.
I saw Phyllis jump out of the car in a panic, holding a peculiarly shaped short staff in her hand, the tip of the staff glowed with a layer of dark yellow light, and her mouth muttered a series of obscure syllables that she didn't understand at all, and with the echo of this voice, four dark red walls suddenly rose slowly on the sandstone floor around us, enveloping us.
When the walls rise to a certain height, a stone wall protrudes from the top of the left and right walls, thus completely enclosing the space.
On the stone wall, the familiar hourglass symbol is painted on each side, and the symbol is emitting a burst of dark red light, although the light is faint, but it still illuminates the completely enclosed dark space in a red light.
It was only at this time that Niu Kelian and Phyllis had time to sit on the ground and breathe a sigh of relief.
Looks like it's safe.
Xiao Nan and I looked at each other and smiled, sat on the ground and began to rest.
I breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like I was going to be left behind.
Whoever is here will not be naΓ―ve enough to think that they can still survive being pounced on by that damn group of marching ants.
By the dim light, I began to look at this enclosed space, this square space built by Phyllis with magic, it was twenty meters long and wide, and more than three meters high, most of the space was occupied by three ant carts, but the rest of the space was still extremely empty, and the four people stayed in it, not feeling crowded at all.
The four of us rested for a while, then we gathered together and sat down.
Niu Kelian pulled out a map, and Phyllis held her short staff, the tip of which glowed with a faint white light, and we looked at it on the map.
I looked at the map and was slightly disappointed. This map is not like the forest map given by Tiris, with a dot that marks our current location, it is just a very ordinary map.
Phyllis yelled, "Where the hell did these damn bed bugs come from?"
Niu Kelian said helplessly: "When I saw them in the morning, they covered all the routes to the northwest of Shacheng, which has become a dead end, and who knows that so many ants will emerge from the east." As if they had made an appointment, their troops divided into two routes and directly surrounded Rock Castle and attacked. I'm sure there will be more to the north and south. β
After a moment of silence, Niu Kelian spread his hands and said, "Let's hide here, it seems that we can only wait for them to leave by themselves, I hope this stone wall can let us survive." β
Phyllis pondered for a while, and rubbed her aching head: "It's really a strange phenomenon, no matter how organized the marching ants are, it is impossible to attack in such a big circle, right?" Could it be that these are two groups of unrelated marching ants? β
When we heard this, we all fell silent.
Yes, no matter how powerful the marching ants are, they won't be able to pick on the human city and divide it into several groups to outflank it in such a wide area, right? Even if it's not the same group of marching ants, two groups of marching ants attacking the same location on the same day is even more incredible than the former.
Just when I was thinking nonsense, Xiao Nan tugged at my cuffs next to me and pressed my whole slightly trembling body over, it seemed that she was frightened by the marching ants. I sighed softly, and was about to comfort her, when she suddenly said:
"Kitten, how many ants are there in this stone room with us?"
Hearing this strange question, I almost subconsciously replied: "The marching ants didn't have time to come in, aren't there only three ants pulling the cart?" What's wrong? β
Xiao Nan's voice trembled a little, and I saw her pointing to the opposite corner of the room and saying to me, "What do I think, there are five ants in here?" β