Chapter 43: Nesting
Gu Beimo's car stopped next to a ruin, and the three of them got out of the car and looked at the camp that no longer existed in front of them, all of them were speechless.
The ruins were filled with smoke and smells, and behind the row of burnt vehicles at the camp entrance were black corpses.
The car was burned through, and the bullet ants crawling on the car were burned to the shape of black charcoal, and their corpses were littered on the ground, spreading from outside the camp to inside.
There is not a single intact house in the camp, and even the duplex building where Zhang Zhixiong lives no longer exists. The smell of death was everywhere between the ruins, and Ding Xiu wanted to find the corpse of his robe among the corpses of the bullet ants, but he found nothing.
As if thinking of something, he clenched his hands into fists, and suddenly his eyes were cracking, and his teeth were gritting.
Ding Xiu originally thought that everyone had fled in time after receiving the warning, but this ruin was full of traces of battle. He tried to confirm the casualties of his troops, but he couldn't find a single robed body. There is only one possibility for this outcome, and that is that the mutant bullet ants killed them and ate their corpses.
"Dude...... Condolences! Gu Beimo patted Ding Xiu's shoulder.
"The head and Uncle Chen are also gone...... Ding Xiu looked at the duplex building and the original location of the hospital, his eyes red. The carcasses of bullet ants were piled up in front of the small building, and a little farther out, stumps and fragments covered the path in the camp.
He walked inside, stepping on the remains of bullet ants and the rubble of the collapsed houses, feeling the desolation of the destruction of the camp, and his heart was bleeding.
"Lao Gu...... Look at his lost soul, why don't we pull him back? Shen You pressed his elbow against Gu Beimo's arm.
"Give him some time, let's go back to the car first." Gu Beimo shook his head.
He is a person from the past, and he actually empathizes with Ding Xiu's mood at the moment, because he has had a similar experience before, so he knows what to do as a friend.
The two returned to the car, Shen You looked at Ding Xiu, who was still wandering like a walking corpse in the ruins, and sighed: "Aren't all soldiers everywhere they are?" This camp is gone, just change the camp. It's nerve-wracking to make yourself feel embarrassed. ”
"Xiaoyu." Gu Beimo touched her head.
"Huh? How? Shen You turned his head to look at Gu Beimo, and then used his hand to pull his hand away from the top of his head: "How many times have I told you, don't touch my head, it won't be tall." ”
"What will happen to you if this car of ours is gone?" Gu Beimo asked.
"I'm sad." Shen You blinked, not understanding why Gu Beimo suddenly asked like this.
"And what if I die one day?"
"I'll be sadder." Shen You thought for a while, "Old Gu, you better live well, otherwise if you really die, I'm afraid you will be the same as Ding Xiu." ”
"You understand his mood now."
"I understand a little bit." Shen You nodded.
Ding Xiu walked in the ruins, and suddenly kicked something under his feet. He used his foot to remove the remains of the bullet ants in front of him, revealing a long alloy knife underneath.
"It's ...... The Chief's Knife! Ding Xiu's eyes widened as he picked up the weapon from the ground. Standing there for a moment, he frantically threw himself into the corpses of the bullet ants around him and rummaged through them.
There was nothing underneath, Ding Xiu knelt on the ground, tears falling.
"Boss ......"
The cry was full of sadness.
In the distance, Gu Beimo sat in the car and watched this scene, feeling a little uncomfortable, while Shen You lowered his head and stopped looking out of the window, his two hands together and fiddling with his fingers.
After a long time, Ding Xiu returned to the car, the tears on his face were no longer visible, only his eyes were still slightly red.
"Brother, what are your plans next?" Gu Beimo helped him push the car door and beckoned him to get into the car.
Ding Xiu was silent for a moment, and then asked Shen You, "Xiaoyou, you said before that the ant colony acts according to the orders of the queen ant, right?" ”
"yes, what's wrong?" The girl nodded.
"Can you find the queen?" Ding Xiu asked.
"You seem to have asked that question." Shen You looked at Ding Xiu with some puzzlement, "What are you going to do?" ”
"Revenge." Ding Xiu's face suddenly became murderous: "Since the bullet ants are all at its orders, then this revenge must be counted on its head." ”
"Forget it." Shen You waved his hand and pointed out the window: "I haven't seen the destroyed city over there in Danze, but I have seen your camp for real." Before, I thought that I could be somewhat sure that I could get the eggs of the mutant bullet ants with Lao Gu, but now it seems that I am thinking too much. ”
She turned her head and said to Gu Beimo again, "Old Gu, let's leave this desert." I'm afraid that if we continue to stay, the car and you will be gone. ”
"Huh? Why is the car and me gone? Gu Beimo pointed to his nose.
"You ask me, I don't know, that's what I think." Shen You said and tugged at his sleeves: "Oh, let's go, let's go." ”
"Brother, come with us." Gu Beimo had already planned to leave just now, and the fate of the W47 camp made him dispel the idea of coming to the desert to make a windfall.
"Yes, Ding Xiu, you come with us." Gu Beimo's words made Shen You's eyes light up, "The three of us can form the most powerful combination." ”
She looked at Ding Xiu blankly, waiting for this strong reinforcement to nod.
"I can't go." Ding Xiu shook his head and said, "Boss, Uncle Chen, and the brothers of the more than a hundred defense forces, they all died here, if I leave like this today, I will not be able to raise my head for the rest of my life." ”
"If you can't raise your head, don't raise it, Lao Gu, drive, Ding Xiu agreed." Shen You pushed Gu Beimo and urged him to drive. Seeing that Gu Beimo didn't move, her face fell, and she muttered, "A fool, a madman." ”
"How about you help me find the queen ant, and I'll help you get the eggs of the bullet ants?" Ding Xiu is eager for revenge, and he is already determined to fight the culprit in the ant colony.
"Huh? Let me think. His words made Shen You stunned for a moment, and the girl held one hand across her chest, pinching her chin with the other, and her brows were twisted together.
"Old Gu, I suddenly felt that I could try it again." After pondering for a moment, Shen You turned his head to look at Gu Beimo.
"Are you crazy too?" Gu Beimo asked.
"Well, a little bit." The girl nodded, "Anyway, I'll only help you find the queen, and the rest is yours, right, Ding Xiu." ”
"Deal."
"You two...... Alas! Gu Beimo smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly.
He started the car and followed the traces left by the ant colony on the road when it left, chased all the way to the southeast, and after half an hour, finally caught up with the tail of the ant colony more than ten kilometers away.
"Old Gu, get closer, so that the ant colony can receive the pheromones I released." Shen You urged Gu Beimo. Her fingers were already grinding, and the pheromones emitted from her fingertips drifted through the open car window in the direction of the colony.
A handful of bullet ants in the colony suddenly left the large group and crawled towards Gu Beimo's car.
"Stop." Shen You shouted, "You two hands are on my shoulders." ”
More than a dozen bullet ants surrounded the car, and their tentacles kept making contact with the body, and one of them even got into the window and crawled towards Shen You.
Ding Xiu's hand touched the dagger, and Gu Beimo's hand also moved, and the two were about to help Shen You out of the siege, but they were stopped by her.
"Don't move, I'm asking about it." The girl said.
Ding Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, and Gu Beimo also removed his hand that reached under the seat.
"Got it, hehe." The girl touched the bullet ant's tentacles with her hand, and a sly smile appeared on her face.
"What about them?" Gu Beimo pursed his lips outside the car, and glanced at the black giant ants that were surrounding the car.
"I'll leave it to you." Shen You looked at Ding Xiu with a smile in his eyes, "Wait for the ant colony in front of you to go away before you do it." ”
Ding Xiu nodded.
The ant colony disappeared from sight, and Ding Xiu came out of the car with Zhang Zhixiong's long knife.
His hand left Shen You's shoulder, and the bullet ants around the car were immediately alert, and they surrounded them and attacked without hesitation.
"Go down, little girl." Shen You patted the bullet ant next to him that was not leaving, and drove it out of the car.
Ding Xiu had a long knife in his hand, although he was not very accustomed to this kind of weapon, but against the dozen or so bullet ants around him, he was not even ready to activate the war paint.
His own strength is the source of confidence, and he is no longer the border guard soldier before he encountered the mutant mole cricket.
"Old Gu, do you see it, you must tie Ding Xiu to us." Shen You watched intently at the battle outside the car, and saw that Ding Xiu's hand was killed one after another when the knife fell.
"My big meal ticket isn't enough for you to live?" Although Gu Beimo snorted in his mouth, he was also a little moved in his heart. The two of them unexpectedly got acquainted with Ding Xiu, and Ding Xiu's camp happened to be destroyed, if Ding Xiu could join them in the future, it would undoubtedly greatly increase the strength of the team.
If the strength is improved, the business can become bigger and stronger.
"One meal ticket is enough, the more the merrier, so that I don't have to worry about the crystal nucleus in the future, hehe."
"That's it." Ding Xiu returned to the car. Before Gu Beimo and Shen You had time to chat a few words, the outside of the car was already full of bullet ant corpses.
The car turned to the south, and just now Shen You already knew where the ant queen was hiding, and had a general understanding of the situation there.
It is a canyon in the Gobi Desert, where the queen ant hides, and there are many soldier ants and male ants nearby.
"The queen ant is ready to nest in the canyon, so all the worker ants are sent to sweep the surrounding area, in addition to removing the danger, but also to prepare food for the nesting process." Shen You told everything he knew.
"Nesting?" Ding Xiu asked.
"Yes. Because it's about to lay eggs. ”