Chapter 46: Escape (4)
The remaining paver ants are still desperate and futile trying to fight back, but the mysterious ants don't need to wait any longer.
They scattered, one by one to find the surviving paver ants, and then kill them in front of them, sometimes the mysterious ants did not immediately cut off their heads in the face of the wounded paver ants, but tore their limbs and tentacles and then killed, as if enjoying the double pleasure of killing and torturing.
Suzaku desperately tried to gather the remaining ants with the smell and friction sounds, and only the paving ants in a group could fight hard, or be able to achieve a little success while the enemy was scattered.
Even if there are less than thirty surviving paving ants, it is impossible to defeat the enemy again, and Suzaku wants to bite off a piece of the enemy's flesh before dying, this is the tenacious fighting spirit of the paving ants, and it is also the spiritual source for their clan to become the overlord of the north bank of the river.
A mysterious ant warrior noticed the restless male paver ant, who was always exuding breath, constantly rubbing his hind limbs to make noise, and indeed several nearby paver ants were approaching him.
This made the mysterious ants feel provoked, and the arrogant warrior rushed towards the Suzaku with an agility that did not match the huge body.
A paving ant, a worker ant and two males stood in front of him, and these heroic guards drank their hatred under the jaws of the mysterious ants with only two faces.
The mysterious ant stood in front of Suzaku with its jaws open and aimed at Suzaku's head. Suzaku was wounded in the leg, and even the power to fight back seemed to have been lost.
Death, only in an instant!!
- I'm the dividing line -
The blue sky is cloudy, the breeze is warm, the sun is quiet, and the shadows of the trees are waving.
If it weren't for this massacre under the trees, it would have been a beautiful sight.
The aroma of flowers, fruits, and plants in the middle of summer permeates the entire area, and it is a taste unique to the wilderness, a vibrant taste. But suddenly, something strange seemed to come in.
It was almost the opposite of the original smell, with a rancid smell, a quagmire of fishiness, and a dead malice.
The slaughtered and dying paver ants have not yet reacted, and they are not very sensitive to the smell. But the mysterious ants, who have a natural sensitivity to the smell, have stopped.
The mysterious ant's jaws stayed less than half a body away from Suzaku's neck, and with a quick bite, the paving ant commander would be killed.
But the big jaw did not fall, and several mysterious ants invariably gave up the "prey" in front of them, returned to the small leader to gather, and danced their limbs and tentacles in the direction of the wind, seemingly very excited, or extremely angry.
Suzaku looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, he didn't know what was going on, he thought he was going to die.
It wasn't until a huge mantis appeared in sight that Suzaku realized that the mysterious ant had been attracted by this huge insect.
Mantis, commonly known as the grasshopper, is a large songworm, with a body length of about 10-5940, the body is mostly grass green, and some are gray or dark gray, with membranous covered wings, generally with the left wing covering the right wing, the hind wings are slightly longer than the front wings, and there are also short wings or wingless species. The male has a pronouncat on the forewings, a pair of auditors at the base of the tibia of the forefoot, a very well-developed leg segment on the hind foot, and 4 segments on the tarsal segment. The front and middle feet are walking feet, and the hind feet are jumping feet. The head is inward-mouthed, with a sloping front beak downward, large chewing mouthparts, and a long whisker in the lower jaw. The antennae are generally longer than the body length. 1 pair of compound eyes, not obvious in one eye, only a few species are obvious in one eye. The dorsal plate of the anterior thorax is well developed, mostly saddle-shaped, and the dorsal plate of some varieties extends backwards, while others are shorter, usually the anterior edge is slightly convex forward, and the posterior edge is rounded; Some of the posterior ditch areas are raised. Some of the mid-thoracic and posterior thoracic ventral plates are flat, and some bone fragments are raised.
And the mantis in front of him was four times the size of the mysterious ant, and the size was even bigger than the dozen mysterious ants combined. The mantis was covered in emerald green, but its eyes were a breathtaking blood-red color, and its mouthparts were huge, and it could easily fit a whole mysterious ant into its large mouth. Coupled with the countless sharp barbs on its six legs, everything shows that this kind of mantis is extremely difficult to mess with.
Suzaku didn't notice, or maybe there was something in the mantis that he would deliberately overlook: on this mantis's body, in the cracks of its jacket, dozens of white and almost transparent mycelium had grown, and it was dripping with rotten juice all over its body.
If the protagonist sees this scene, it will definitely feel very familiar, he has fought with similar creatures in [Southern City] before - this is a parasitic infected mantis, it turns out that these demons also exist on the north bank of the river.
However, at this moment, the flying knights did not wander in this area, and the skirmishing of dozens of ants was not enough to attract the attention of the flying knights, and the flying knights who had flown here before had no intention of staying at all.
Although Suzaku was ignored by the unique interference ability of parasites, the high-IQ male ant was generally more resistant to interference, and he already felt that this mantis was unusual, exuding an unpleasant aura all over his body, and his intuition reminded him that he should try to avoid this terrifying existence.
The mysterious ants seemed to be unaffected by the interference, and they abandoned the paving ants on the side as if they had seen an old enemy, and gathered together like a person facing the great enemy to face the parasitic mantis in front of them.
The parasitic mantis also ignored the paving ants on the side, its huge, reddish compound eyes kept facing the small team of mysterious ants, and even crawled and jumped, directly in front of the mysterious ants—this huge parasitic mantis came at the mysterious ants that other creatures avoided and feared.
The parasitic mantis held its forefeet high, its jaws wide open, its compound eyes blood-red, and its tentacles quivering, as if it were silently threatening, as if it were preparing for battle.
Not to be outdone, the mysterious ants lined up in a row, their heads held high at the parasitic mantis, their jaws also sharp, their tentacles shaking, ready for battle.
As if there was a tacit understanding, the parasitic mantis and the mysterious ant rushed towards each other almost at the same time.
It's a spectacular battle, and both sides are invincible to the paver ants.
If the previous battle with the paving ants was almost crushed like Qiao Feng vs. Juxianzhuang, then the battle in front of him was like a peak duel like Huashan's sword.
However, the only audience, the paving ants, did not obediently stay to watch the play, and Suzaku quietly gathered the remaining ants and quickly left this land of right and wrong.
Only a few paver ants were too injured to move, and they quickly died in the aftermath of the war.