Chapter Seventy-Two: The Protracted War
The communication of the ants depends on the queen's divine sense, and the second is that they can only use their five senses.
Fire crystal ants' sense of hearing, sight, and smell are relatively dull, and the only thing that is commendable is their sense of touch, relying on mutual contact, they can accurately transmit information.
Now that the Great Array has played its role, there is a white expanse everywhere, and the Queen's Divine Consciousness has been suppressed for the most part.
And Zhang Zhixuan's five people can rely on the formation flag to contact each other in the big array.
The fourth uncle, Zhang Menglong, quickly sent out a signal, and several people quickly gathered in his direction along the direction.
Zhang Menglong kept changing the position of the array disk, and several people quickly converged, constantly killing the scattered fire crystal ants.
Every time a fire crystal ant is hunted, it can weaken the power of the ant colony, even if it is only a small amount, it can add up to a drop of water and eventually wipe out the ant colony completely.
It was a long battle, and several people tried to save mana while hunting every fire crystal ant as much as possible.
This battle lasted for three days and three nights, and Zhang Zhixuan and the four of them had no choice but to take three pills of rejuvenation pills and recover their mana three times before they killed most of the fire crystal ants.
By now, the number of fire crystal ants is less than 3,000.
Fourth Uncle Zhang Menglong tiredly wiped his sweat and said, "The spirit stones placed in the big array are almost exhausted, you have to replenish some as soon as possible."
Once the spirit stones are exhausted, the power of the large array will slowly weaken, and even if a few of us are intact, there will be no way to take the queen ant. ”
After fighting for three days in a row, even the iron man would be very tired, and the fourth uncle was already over eighty years old, that is, the monk's body was far beyond that of mortals, but after all, he had gone downhill, and his spirit was far inferior to the other four.
Zhang Zhixuan also felt tired now, and he panted and said: "Fourth uncle, it's not a way to go on like this, we can't consume the ant tide after all." Even if we were all exhausted, we wouldn't be able to kill all the Fire Crystal Ants.
Otherwise, let's quit and rest for a few days, wait for the mana to recover, and then fight the fire crystal ant guerrillas.
As long as we can kill thirty fire crystal ants a day, after a month or two, the queen ant will have no soldiers. ”
Sibo smiled bitterly: "You don't know, the queen ant can speed up the laying of eggs in an emergency.
According to the records of the spirit insect spectrum, the third-level queen ant can lay 3,000 eggs at a time in a crisis situation.
Even if only half of these eggs survive, the queen ant will be able to launch the stinger after three days.
In this kind of crisis moment of egg laying, a normal queen ant can last more than a dozen times. So, we only have three days.
Now we are still holding back the queen ant, once we go back to rest and recover mana, the queen ant will also go back to lay eggs, and when we come back, it will have thousands of ant troops under its command.
At that time, our hard work for more than half a year will be useless. ”
The fifteenth uncle had just recovered from his injuries, and his spirit was still a little lost, and he consumed more mana every time he made a move, and now his mana was only a fraction of what he had left, so he said anxiously: "However, it is not a way for us to consume it like this." Even if you can hunt one or two thousand soldiers and ants, when the mana is exhausted, you will have no chance of winning in the face of the queen ant. ”
Zhang Zhixuan saw that the fifteenth uncle's mana was about to run out, and immediately said: "In this case, I think it is better to take turns to rest, and temporarily put four people to besiege the swarm of ants, and do my best to put pressure on the queen ant and prevent it from resuming its egg-laying."
The order of recovering mana is the fifteenth uncle, the ninth uncle, the eighteenth aunt, me, and the little aunt Hanyan, what do you think? ”
After listening to Zhang Zhixuan's opinion, several people nodded, things are already like this, and there is no other good way for the time being, so they can only do this.
So, the fifteenth uncle began to withdraw from the scope of the formation, recovering his mana while being on guard, and when the mana recovered three or four percent, he joined the battle group again and replaced the fourth uncle.
At this time, Sibo's mana was about to be exhausted, and everyone could only fight hard to share some of the pressure on him.
The battle has reached now, the spirit runes on the five people have been completely exhausted, and the spare Rejuvenation Pill has long been consumed, and now they are using every bit of strength, all of which is to grit their teeth and support, and squeeze the potential of this body to the limit.
The fourth uncle's mana only recovered two layers, and because he was worried about everyone, he joined the battle group again and replaced the eighteenth aunt Zhang Mengqin.
By this time, the number of ant colonies had exceeded two thousand.
Two thousand fire crystal ants are distributed in a radius of more than ten miles, and they are already somewhat scattered.
Seeing this situation, the fourth uncle immediately adjusted his countermeasures and said: "The four of us quickly disperse and sneak attack the ant colony from four directions, we must try to attract and mobilize them, and we can't let them gather in a circle."
Be careful after everyone separates, and try to save mana. ”
The four of them dispersed and began to attract a group of fire crystal ants separately.
At this time, the fire crystal ants besieging them were divided into more than a dozen groups, and the number of each group was only more than a hundred, and more than a hundred stingers were no longer possible to form a situation of killing in one hit.
Because he was worried about everyone, Zhang Mengqin's mana only recovered two achievements, replacing Zhang Zhixuan.
This protracted battle has lasted until now, Zhang Zhixuan's mana has been completely exhausted, and he has begun to fight hand-to-hand with the fire crystal ants, and the demon beast inner armor on his body has a good defense, and he has not encountered a third-level ant queen, otherwise his life will hang by a thread.
Zhang Zhixuan happily left the range of the formation, and immediately grabbed a medium-grade spirit stone to recover his mana. Although he was already very tired now, his mana had only recovered by one percent, and he immediately entered the formation to replace Zhang Hanyan.
Zhang Hanyan's spiritual root has good qualifications, and his cultivation resources are not too lacking, and he has cultivated to the ninth level of qi cultivation for more than five years, and the purity of his mana has surpassed Zhang Zhixuan.
Among the five people present, she was the one with the thickest foundation, and the power of the ice spirit root cultivation method was not small, and she restrained the spirit insect of the fire crystal ant a few points, and she was the monk who killed the largest number of fire crystal ants.
But she is not an iron man after all, and she is the last to rest, her mana has been completely exhausted, and now she can only dodge the siege of the fire crystal ants in embarrassment, and she has left a lot of blood on her body.
When Zhang Zhixuan entered the formation, she was already at the end of the crossbow.
In this way, the fierce and cruel war of attrition continued, Zhang Zhixuan, who was directly killed, was weak in his hands and feet, his body was sore, and his body was like a conditioned reflex to kill one fire crystal ant after another, and his nerves were already numb.
With continuous killings, the number of fire crystal ant colonies has been less than a thousand.
At this point, not only Zhang Zhixuan and the others felt that the oil was running out, but even the queen of the fire crystal ant also sensed uneasiness.
The rapid decline in population numbers means that their ability to compete will decline rapidly.
Even if Zhang Zhixuan and the others leave now, their strength will weaken, and they may not be able to occupy this spiritual mountain in peace.
The queen finally panicked and left the colony back to the nest.
Without the queen's command, the fire crystal colony quickly became very chaotic.
At this point, Zhang Zhixuan and the four finally breathed a sigh of relief.