Volume 1 The Endless Wilderness Section 44 The Anthill

"Squeak Squeak......"

One night a few days later, Chen Xing was sleeping when he was suddenly woken up by a sound of insects.

The sound came from the tin closet. There is no thing in it, but a tunnel in the anthill. Suna sent worker ants to him at this point in time, there must be something urgent.

As expected, as soon as he opened the closet, a small termite kept calling at him, and stepped forward to bite his pants and pull them towards Yongdao.

"Wait, I'm going to get the gear." Chen Xing said. The little termite immediately let go, shrunk aside, and waited.

After a while, Chen Xing changed his clothes, put on military boots, and carried an assault rifle on his back to enter the Yongdao with the little termite. The little termite seemed to be in a hurry, crawling very fast, and from time to time it turned back and called at him, as if urging.

Chen Xing couldn't help but speed up his pace. The four primary agility potions increased his agility attribute to 18 points, and his travel speed was much faster. If it had been, he might not have been able to keep up with the termites.

After walking a straight road, I started to go downhill, then I made seven turns and eight turns, and after walking for five or six minutes, I suddenly heard a hissing in front of me.

"Tsk!"

There was anger in his voice. Chen Xing immediately recognized that it was the cry of the queen ant, Suna.

"Twitter!" The little termites raised their heads, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and let out a sharp insect chirp, accelerating towards the hatchery.

Instead, Chen Xing slowed down, took off his assault rifle, held it with both hands, the muzzle of the gun downward, and walked forward with small steps.

The chirping in front of them was getting louder and louder, and in addition to the sound of termites, there was also a relatively low insect chirping, as if there was a battle between the two sides. Chen Xing bent down and drilled out of the corridor, and the beam of the flashlight shone through, and he saw not far away, a group of immature termite worker ants were fighting to the death around two huge creatures.

When you look closely, they are two giant mutant spiders. The body is covered with black fluff, and there are two rows of eyes on the head, a total of twelve, which are emitting a scarlet light. Further down, there are eight long, thick spider legs, with a dark yellow cuticle wrapped around the end of the foot, hook-shaped, and very sharp ends.

At this moment, the battle in the hatchery is fierce, and the ground is littered with termite corpses and broken eggs. Suna moved her huge body and rushed to the front line, wielding seven or eight sickle-shaped knots, forcing one of the spiders to retreat.

The other, on the other hand, is constantly slaughtering the baby termites, piercing their bodies with curved hooks, then putting them in their mouths and chewing them.

Chen Xing picked up the gun, aimed at the head of the big spider, and concentrated his energy. The psionic factor escaped, gradually enveloping the bullet in the chamber.

"Bang!"

A few seconds later, a blue bullet came out of the air. The moment the chamber of the gun exploded, the blue light illuminated the entire underground space like a vast ocean.

The brilliance swept by, exploding on the head of the second mutant spider, and the blue sand was scattered everywhere, like sparks from the collision of iron weapons.

I saw that the spider froze on the spot, and when the light dissipated, there was only a hole in the original head that was bubbling out with yellow slime. Chen Xing was afraid of hurting Suna, so he didn't choose the spider that was fighting Suna as a target.

After killing one, the other one let out a long roar, turned around and ran. Chen Xing couldn't allow it to slip away, and another powerful bullet rushed out of the chamber of the gun, punching a hole the size of a bowl in the abdomen of the big spider.

Behind the big spider, there was a long yellow bodily fluid. After running out for a while, his body suddenly tilted and he couldn't move anymore. The remaining termite workers immediately swarmed up and completely bit it to death.

"What's going on?" Chen Xing put away the gun and asked Suna, who was covered in scratches.

"I ...... I want the baby to go to find something last time, the things that my brother liked......" Suna told Chen Xing about the situation before and after through telepathy.

In order to curry favor with Chen Xing, Suna asked the worker ants to dig up the original collapsed tunnel, wanting to go in to find those "fun little toys". Unexpectedly, as soon as they dug through, two big spiders ran out, devoured these termite worker ants that were not yet adults, and chased them all the way to the hatchery.

"How's your injury, serious?" Chen Xing asked.

"Suna is fine, it's just skin trauma, it doesn't hurt." Suna said with a smile.

Chen Xing walked around Suna twice, but he really didn't find a deep wound, so he was relieved.

After getting along these days, he feels more and more that this cheap sister is well-behaved and obedient, easy to use. Yeyang Bailiu still has a little temper, and sometimes he has to wait. This sister doesn't have a little temper, she is docile and cute, she thinks about her brother with all her heart, and gives her brother everything good.

For Chen Xing now, Suna is like a beloved toy, which can't be broken.

"Brother, Suna really doesn't hurt." Su Na said coquettishly, as if she was stared at by Chen Xing, a little uncomfortable.

"What, can't you see?" Chen Xing's face turned cold and asked.

"You, you, what do you see~" Suna said deliciously, her little face flushed.

"Okay, okay, just to tease you." Chen Xing smiled gently and said.

Later, Chen Xing asked the baby termites to lead the way and blew up the tunnel leading to the spider's nest to avoid another attack.

The two large spiders broke in, crushed at least a third of the eggs in the hatchery and killed more than 50 small termites, which can be said to be even worse, and the losses were extremely heavy.

"During this time, you have dug up all the corridors that may be dangerous. The problem of food, I'll solve it. After returning to the hatching room, Chen Xing said to Suna.

They had done an exhaustive exchange before. Suna told Chen Xing about the operation of the anthill.

Typically, the life cycle of termite workers is two years, the larval stage is fifteen days, and the juvenile stage is forty-five days. From hatching to adulthood, it takes two months.

The life cycle of termites is ten years. But this decade is a dormant decade. If the activity continues, the life cycle is very short, less than 120 days.

The larval stage of soldier ants is 20 days, and the juvenile stage is 70 days. From hatching to adulthood, it takes three months. After that, there is only less than thirty days left in the life cycle. Holes must be dug to hibernate or they will soon die.

Then there are the eggs.

Suna can lay more than 100 eggs every natural month. If she can obtain more resources, such as the corpses and crystal nuclei of advanced mutant creatures, or other psionic substances, as well as a sufficient amount of iron, she can evolve from a "normal termite queen" to an "ironclad termite queen". In addition to being covered with iron armor, it can produce nearly 1,000 eggs per natural month.

If you further obtain resources, you can also ignite the "spiritual fire" in the crystal nucleus, and evolve into the "Hundred Nest Ant Queen" who lays more than 1,000 eggs per day and can teleportation for short distances, and even the legendary "Star Eater Queen" who can tear through space and devour the core of the planet.

This information was automatically put into Suna's mind when she became the queen of termites, and it belonged to the knowledge of species inheritance.

At present, there are more than 700 eggs in the anthill, and more than 60 young worker ants. It will take at least two months to recover and become self-sufficient. During this time, Chen Xing had to provide at least ten corpses a day to ensure the operation of the anthill.

But it's not that difficult, take someone out for a walk every day, and you can get enough corpses.