Chapter 84: Ant Colony 1
String Moon, Tuling Canyon.
In a barren Gobi area, the girl-Hagi is patrolling with a team.
Recently, the frequency of monster attacks has decreased a lot compared to the past, but this did not make others happy, but it made people feel a little uneasy, and Zenda even ordered to double the patrol and reconnaissance team.
This group is mainly made up of warrior monks, wanderers, and vikus.
There are not many surviving races left on the String Moon, and the most populous are currently humans, followed by the Viku, then the dwarves, and finally the elves. The number of dwarves has increased slightly, and the population of the entire range of Chanda currently adds up to six or seven thousand, but this already includes all the remaining dwarven branches. The population of elves is only half of that of dwarves, and the reproductive capacity of regular elves is a little higher, but it is about 3,000 people. As for the other races, the situation is even more miserable, all kinds of giants combined are less than a hundred, and even the ogres are only the last clan of about fifty people.
Humanity's ability to reproduce was manifested after the dark years, and the number of newborns far exceeded that of other intelligent races.
The wind whipped up the dust.
Hagi put on the mask and cast his gaze into the distance, and a hazy figure gradually appeared in front of him.
"Everything is working well ahead. ”
"I didn't see the Scout Eye hovering in the sky!" a seasoned wanderer shook the dust off his body and wondered, "It's strange." Where have all those monsters gone?"
"Why has it become so few all of a sudden!"
Hagi turned to look left and right, frowned slightly, and asked, "What about the Bato people, why hasn't he come back yet?"
Another warrior monk heard this: "He plans to go to the bloody corridor to have a look, and he may not be able to return until tomorrow." ”
The girl Hagi raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and said in a condensed voice: "Nonsense!"
"He's gone to the bloody corridor alone to investigate! You didn't stop him!"
The wanderer next to him shook his head and said, "I can't stop it at all." This kid is hell-bent on proving his abilities. What now? Shall we go to him?"
Hagi pondered for a moment and said, "The others stay." ”
"Come and see three of you with me. We can't just throw him down. ”
Soon.
The rest of the team found a sheltered place to rest for a while, while the girl Hagi quickly headed towards the bloody corridor with three high-level professionals. It is a cruel memory, a rift in the canyon where monsters slaughtered humans in the dark years, and it is also one of the strongholds where monsters are entrenched.
Usually no one approaches that side, because if you're not careful, you'll encounter thousands of monsters.
In the evening.
The girl Hagi led people to the vicinity of a bare mountain peak, and suddenly there was some noise in the distance, followed by a somewhat immature voice: "Hagi-sama?!"
"How did you get here?"
A high-ranking warrior monk walked over and picked up a small young man, who was only a little more than half the height of an ordinary person, with wide soles without shoes, and the soles of his feet were quite thick.
"I haven't come here to find you kid!" said the warrior monk patting him on the head.
The young wanderer's face was a little embarrassed, but then he said with an excited expression: "Hagi-sama, come and see! I have discovered something very amazing!"
With that, he dragged out a large MONOCULUS corpse from behind him.
"What? you killed?" the Viku man on the side glanced at and said, "How is it crumpled?"
The wanderer named Bartow shook his head, excited and suppressed, "No. I found it in the bloody hallway. There are such corpses everywhere. ”
"The army of monsters is all dead!"
Hearing his words, everyone else couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then the Viku talent stood up with an excited expression, lifted it up and said in a deep voice: "Really." ”
"It's true!" said the little wanderer, "the entire bloody corridor is littered with the corpses of monsters. ”
"Some of them have been completely dried!"
Hagi Wenyan stood up suddenly, and said in a condensed voice, "Lead the way." Let's take a look. ”
"Good. The little wanderer nodded.
The group was moving forward very fast, and the others didn't know if it was true, and now they were eager to go over and see for themselves.
About an hour or so later.
Hagi and his party finally arrived at the bloody corridor, where more than 100,000 humans had been slaughtered by monsters in this canyon rift, but now they saw the dried corpses of countless monsters. These monsters have been dead for some time, and according to the degree of drying up of the corpses for at least half a month, they also found a large number of demon eye corpses, all of which were crumpled and dehydrated.
"What's going on?"
"Why are all these monsters dead, and who did it?" said the girl, Hagi, looking at everything in front of her, a little incredulous.
The experienced wanderer on the side went down for a spin, and suddenly frowned: "Something is wrong!"
"There is no trace of a battle here. ”
"All of these monsters died of natural causes...... It's as if they've been completely abandoned......"
There are probably more than tens of thousands of monster corpses in the entire bloody corridor, and there are huge flesh and blood tissues in the center that have been dried, and some of the cavity organs of the hatched monsters have been filled with sand.
"Report this matter to Zenda immediately!" said the girl Hagi in a deep voice.
Creak.
Just as the group was about to retreat, suddenly the ground shook not far away, and then a hideous insect with a pitch-black carapace like an ant appeared in front of them, with sharp claws and teeth on its body, and a pair of dark red wings on its back, it stared at them with scarlet eyes, and then the slightly wriggling tentacles emitted a trace of psionic fluctuations.
In a flash!
The entire canyon shook slightly, and along with the cracks that appeared on the surface, thousands of insect monsters emerged.
"These are...... The breath of the monster ......"
The girl's face turned pale instantly, and she muttered, "Where did these monsters that I have never seen come from?"
"They've mutated?"
The wanderer next to him also had a solemn expression, he looked around and said, "Oh no!
Groups of newborn monsters poured up.
There are so many of them! If you let them surround you, even Legendary Professionals could fall into them!
"Human!"
"This way...... Hurry up!...... Otherwise, it won't be too late......"
At this critical moment of life and death, a hazy female voice suddenly sounded in the girl's head, and then a crack collapsed behind them, and a creature that looked more like an ant but was not so hideous appeared in front of them. The strange insects, which were only three feet long and two feet tall and weighed about 60 pounds, quickly opened an underground passage for the group.
"Let's go!" the girl Ha immediately decided.
The other party seems to be able to communicate with them, and these ant-like creatures don't look like monsters, and they won't be able to leave if they don't leave.
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