About half an hour later, the team reached the top of the groundwater station. Chen Xing lifted the cover at the entrance of the cave and then ordered to get to work.

Some workers removed shovels, shovels, plastic buckets and other labor tools from the pallet trucks, and excavated to the side of the hole, preparing to make a ramp out. The other part of the workers began to set up tents and put barbed wire around the perimeter to establish a military defense area, on the one hand, for cover, and on the other hand, for long-term operation.

Later, Chen Xing asked Aaron to go back to Orchid Town and hired three cooks to take care of laundry, cooking and other trivial things.

Two days later, the camp was built, the slope was dug out, and workers began to carry the bodies below, as well as the part where Chen Xing had been buried nearby some time ago.

There were more than 100 corpses cleaned up, and Aliya introduced a corpse merchant to come over, bought them at a unit price of 6 silver and 5 copper, and hauled them away in two trucks. The corpse was sold for a total of more than seventy gold coins, all of which were taken away by Ye Yang Bailiu.

According to the latter's accounting, there are now 362 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze and 2 cents in the public account. But with so many people invited, it's burning money all the time. Just eating a meal costs several silver coins.

After cleaning up the body, Chen Xing transferred half of the workers to the radish and prepared to plant crops around it. Because on the first day here, the radish said that the black soil was fertile and could grow things. The rest of the workers worked with two engineers to repair the equipment at the water station.

When the ventilation equipment resumed operation, Chen Xing took Ye Yang Bailiu and two team members to the power generation room and began to clean up the mutant termites underground.

These termites, also known as "iron-eating ants", secrete formic acid, which breaks down steel, and absorb iron in their jaws. After devouring a certain amount of steel and spirit ore, they can also advance and have more powerful mining and combat capabilities.

The four of them worked together to remove the things piled up in the corner, revealing the dark hole.

"Stay here and wait for me to come out."

After Chen Xing checked the assault rifle, pistol, bullets, flashlights, and several fragmentation grenades, he gave an order to Yeyang Bailiu to stay put.

"Well, be careful." Ye Yang Bailiu said softly. Although the man in front of her is not a good thing, she can't help but care about it.

"Okay." Chen Xing nodded, bending down and burrowing into the tunnel where the termites were digging. It stands to reason that he, as the captain, does not need to rush to the front line. But at present, he is the only one in the entire team who is up to the task of exploring the anthole. These new recruits have neither experience nor sufficient ability. To send them down is to send them to death.

Moreover, Chen Xing's "danger perception" is a powerful tool for exploring unknown areas. Let him go, the safety factor is greater. It's just that the current level is still a bit low, with a sensing range of only about fifteen meters.

Looking ahead, the corridor is dark and profound, and the incandescent beam of light does not shine endlessly. His lighting equipment this time was the same as last time, a miner's lamp worn overhead and a flashlight strapped to the barrel of the gun.

The tunnel dug by termites is about one and a half meters in diameter, and for him, he can barely keep standing. But if Yeyang Bailiu comes in, he can only climb. As for Allen, he may not be able to cram in a ball.

"Fame and fortune come in danger, wealth and wealth seek ......"

He muttered in his heart, holding the gun in both hands, bowing his head, bending over, and slowly walking through the corridor. The surrounding mud was wet, and the walls of the cave were a little sticky and slippery, glowing with liquid under the light of the flashlight.

Termites have poor eyesight and can only perceive strong sunlight, and are unaware of the cold beam of the flashlight, so Chen Xing does not have to worry about the lighting system alarming them.

After walking forward for a while, about twenty or thirty meters, the road began to slope downward. The termite nest is like an underground kingdom, consisting of a network of corridors and chambers. For ease of movement, it is divided into "horizontal passages", which are like corridors in buildings, and "upper and lower passages", which are equivalent to staircases.

Chen Xing hesitated for a moment, put down the gun, took out the mountaineering rope from his backpack, fixed it on the ground and the wall of the cave with several willow nails, and then began to move downward. He did this because it was easy to go down and hard to come up.

Although the slope of the road is not very large, it is not very slippery. But in case of danger and a fall on the way up, it is likely that you will be caught up and torn to pieces. Sailing carefully for 10,000 years has always been his code of conduct. If the strength of the body is not enough, it depends on prudence to make up for it. Otherwise, in the previous life, he didn't have to wait for the Abyss Demon, and a random sickle beetle in the wild could send him on his way.

Like Ye Yang Bailiu, even if he is a little stupid, with a strength of 37 and a physique of 45, it is okay to cut a few knives, and he can withstand mistakes. And his scum, who has a strength of 12 physique and 9 physique, will end it with one knife, and he won't be able to do it if he's not careful.

He walked down little by little, and after a few minutes, he reached the bottom of the slope. The flow rate of the air has slowed down significantly. When up there, there was still a feeling of a breeze, there was nothing here, and it was cold and wet, at least thirty meters deep.

The surroundings were quiet, looking into the depths, the cold beams were filled with hazy mist, and the visibility was only about seven or eight meters. With every step I take, I hear the sound of mud under my feet, which is very uncomfortable to listen to.

If you listen carefully, it seems that there are some small sounds mixed in, which are vague and not very real.

In such an environment, even if he was a human being in the third life, he couldn't help but feel furious in his heart, and his steps became extremely slow, for fear that a bunch of big white ants would suddenly come out of nowhere.

After walking for about ten meters, the road was divided into two, which was a fork in the road. The flashlight shines past, and there are bends on both sides, so you can't see very far. Chen Xing stopped, thinking about whether to move on.

From the time he came in to the present, there was only one way, and he could be sure that there was nothing in the rear. But the fork in the road is different, if he enters one of them, if something happens, he may be blocked by termites coming from the other way.

After much deliberation, he drew his dagger, made a mark on the cave wall, and walked towards the corridor on the right. It's all down anyway, and stagnation is not the way to go. Moreover, he has a sense of danger, termites are creatures with low intelligence, and the possibility of encountering accidents is very small.

As long as it's not too deep, nothing will happen.

After walking forward for more than ten meters, turning a corner, walking a few meters, and turning another corner, the road became larger and larger, and the diameter gradually increased from 1.5 meters to two or three meters.

When he turned the third corner, a pile of black slimy things suddenly came into his eyes, and he almost slipped in fright.

I saw that in the miserable white beam, there were piles of corpses several meters high, distorted human faces, mouths wide open, and blue-green eyeballs, caught in the pile of corpses. The eroded limbs stretched out, like a pile of rotten meat full of chopsticks, and the surface was covered with blue-black mold, and the shape was extremely terrifying.

What's even more numbing to the scalp is that there are spherical white spots wriggling on the pile of corpses. It was the size of a fist, and when I looked at it, it turned out to be a larva of termites, dragging its fat belly and crawling around on it.

He only felt his stomach churning, and his throat felt like something was blocked, and it was extremely uncomfortable. Resisting the urge to vomit, he looked left and right for a while, and judged that it was the termite storage room.

"Twitter......"

Just as he was about to withdraw, there was a sudden sensation of a foreign object touching his feet, which was a little itchy. Instinctively, he looked down and saw a slender larva with a slender front body, dragging an orb, twisting its triangular head and wiggling its tentacles, burrowing into his trousers.

The itchy sensation was the larva's slender and long legs, pulling at the trouser tube indiscriminately.

Goosebumps "swooped" and filled the whole body. Chen Xing shook his wit, raised his foot, shook off the termite larvae, and then stepped on it.

"Poof!" Beneath the boots, the termite larvae's abdomen spews out a large amount of white slurry and struggles constantly, letting out a high-pitched scream.

"Tsk!"

The moment the hiss sounded, the termite larvae on the pile of corpses were in a mess, twisting their fat bodies, desperately burrowing into the pile of corpses.

Seeing this, Chen Xing turned his heart sideways and took out two incendiary grenades.

"Dingding!"

With two snaps of rings, two can-shaped objects landed on the pile of corpses.

Without waiting for the grenade to explode, Chen Xing turned his head and ran. As soon as he ran a few meters, there was a flash of fire behind him, and with a "boom", a large stream of scorching air rushed on his back, pushing him forward.

"Twitter!"

In the next second, the blazing firelight reflected the entire passage red, and sharp insect chirping continued to sound behind him. Chen Xing shook his head and got up, but at this moment, the originally smooth cave wall suddenly twisted......

By the light of the fire, long spiky worm feet emerged from the earth.

......The body in the earthen wall struggled frantically, emitting a low insect chirp, as if it was about to break through the ground at any moment.

Judging from the looming body size and the head the size of a basketball, nine times out of ten it is a soldier ant among mutant termites. I didn't expect them to hide in the soil and hibernate!

Chen Xing's face turned pale suddenly, and he rushed forward with a rolling belt. He had to get out before the ants came out, or he would be dead.

I saw him bending over, holding a gun, moving quickly in the corridor. The mud under his feet was wet and slippery, and he fell several times in succession, only to feel that the bones in his body were about to fall apart, but he still bit the root, got up and continued to run.

"Twitter!"

On one side of the cave wall, the ant burrowed out half of its body, baring its teeth and claws at him, emitting a sharp insect chirp. The sight was like being in a netherworld hell, full of withered ghost hands, and it was terrifying.

"Wow, wow, wow!" Chen Xing was overly nervous, roared and picked up his assault rifle, and shot at the soldiers who showed half of their bodies in front of them.

"Dada!"

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire resounded through the underground corridors, and the echo made the ears buzz. The hot shells slammed into his face, sending out wisps of white smoke. But he didn't know it, and ran forward screaming.

One second earlier and one second later is life and death.

When Chen Xing ran to the ramp, there were many termites behind him who had already burrowed out of the earth wall and rushed towards him.

"Die!"

Chen Xing climbed up with a climbing rope in one hand, took out a fragmentation grenade with the other, bit the pull ring with his teeth, and smashed it towards the soldier ants in the corridor.

The can-shaped frag grenade landed on the hard-shelled head of one of the soldier ants at the front, bounced, flew backwards, and rolled into the colony with a "grunt".

"Boom!"

There was a loud bang, deafening. Several soldier ants at the center of the explosion were shattered on the spot. The hot iron slices spun out, like razor blades, and sliced into their bodies at high speed, and white slurry gushed out.

Chen Xing was also uncomfortable, his ears were like being pricked by thousands of needles, and the pain made his eyes crack. He couldn't hear anymore, he was dizzy, but he gritted his teeth and climbed up.