For the next week, Gerf and the others found no trace of the Chimera ants, after which they found several more villages. With the exception of the first village, which was deserted at first, the rest of the villages were inhabited by a significant number of inhabitants.

made Bang Kuer and others can't help but think, could it be that the investigation is in the wrong direction?

Until the night of the last day of the week. Jelf and the others once again discovered that the villagers had disappeared as they had been a week earlier.

This time, there were still undried blood stains and a faint fishy smell on the ground.

It means that the Chimera ant is around here... Jerph's spirits were shaken.

"Ahh

"In the direction of 14 o'clock!" Pence shouted.

Jerf and the others hurriedly ran towards the source of the cries for help.

Pushing away the messy weeds that were more than a meter high, the scene in front of them stunned everyone.

Even the self-proclaimed Phantom Beast Hunter's Explosion Cuer was dumbfounded: "What the hell... What exactly is it? ”

Not far from the group, a barbed humanoid crab was holding a pincer mastiff aloft and was about to attack a little girl who was sitting on the ground.

In the vicinity of the crab monster, there are several things that appear to be a combination of bees and spiders hovering in the sky. Each of these monsters has a human in its arthropods.

The goal of the mission is already on the horizon.

These monsters are the reason why the villagers disappeared!

Finally, I found it. Jelf's heart moved.

...

After a week, the queen ant finally found her favorite place. It began to build its own nest. In just one week, the entire anthill has changed its appearance. From the outside, it looks like a strangely shaped hill, and the primeval forest stands out from the crowd.

The nest is full of winding and rugged paths, intertwined like a giant labyrinth.

Inside a giant crater, countless flying ant ants threw captured humans into it. These humans are piled up like arhats and a small mountain. In addition to humans, there are many strange creatures that have been captured. However, judging by the slightly heaving chests of these creatures, they should not be dead.

The flying chimera ants have mouths that contain venom that paralyzes nerves.

In order to maintain the freshness of the "food".

Chimera ants themselves are not picky eaters, they eat everything that humans can eat, they can eat everything that humans can't, and the amount of food is not large. Even if you don't drink for a month, you won't die.

The reason why such a large number of humans and animals are captured is because of the food of the queens who pay tribute to them.

"Hey." A humanoid crocodile with a tall shoulder slowly walked slowly to a chimera ant with a bird's face.

"Have you heard? The old turtle man was attacked by humans. ”

"Fight back?" The human-faced and bird-like Chimera ant was stunned: "Do humans have the power to hurt us?" ”

Even the lowest-end soldier ants have physical qualities that far exceed those of normal humans. Not to mention a single human being, even hundreds of them are difficult to resist one.

During the previous capture period, they occasionally encountered rebellious humans, and it was like an itch for them. As a result, the Chimera ants automatically classify humans as weak, like to gather together, easy to catch, and the queen especially likes them.

This is the first time that it has been attacked by a counteroffensive and has also caused casualties.

Several chimera ants that seemed to have identities gathered together, including the old turtle in the crocodile's mouth, and one of them, a penguin holding a thick book, spoke:

"I'm afraid it's a gun that attacked you..."

"Guns?"

"It's a commonly used weapon made by humans..."After explaining, I found that several people were confused. So let's read more books on a regular basis, these things are in the books. ”

"By the way, one of the humans mentioned the name, what is the name?"

"Name? That's what humans have, we don't... Specifically..."

...

The NGL Autonomous Region has a closed country policy, and no one entering the territory is allowed to carry any modern tools. To the outside world, it is claimed to be "protecting nature" and "returning to nature".

In fact, almost all the men in the NGL are members of the "Neo Green Life" group, and everyone is equipped with modern weapons. And allegiance to a man named Zairo.

The true face of NGL is to breed a plant in that primeval forest that extracts an addictive substance, the so-called "drug". The NGL Autonomous Region provides 80 percent of the world's volume.

In order to cover up these truths, the NGL Autonomous Region refused all foreign aid and so on.

At the same time, there is a small modern army on the territory of the NGL.

The Chimera ants are stronger than humans, but they are only mortal and completely unable to resist the intensive attacks of modern thermal weapons.

... Divisional commanders, assemble and come to me...

Division Commander: A term for the Chimera ant. The Chimera ant is divided into several levels, from the most common worker ant (soldier ant) to the captain of the soldier to the commander of the division. The commander of the division is currently the highest position of the Chimera ant.

If it weren't for the fact that the appearance was too different from humans, it would be no different from the ancient human system.

A voice sounded in the heads of all the division commanders in the nest, accompanied by bursts of tinnitus.

The source of that voice is the queen of their allegiance.

More than a dozen or twenty strange-looking "monsters" came to the deepest part of the anthill one after another. The queen ant was lying there, her lower abdomen slightly raised.

"From now on, I will concentrate on giving birth to a king. Send me fifty humans or creatures of equivalent nutritional value every day. ”

"Of course, the more nutritious the better."

"Yes!" The division commanders said in unison.

"Your Excellency, can you allow the old slave to say a word?"

"Accurate!"

It was the old turtle who spoke, and it seemed that it had a deep trust in the queen.

"Can we have a name?"

"Name? What is that? "The queen doesn't seem to understand very well.

"It's something that separates us individually, like a mark."

The Chimera ant above the rank of captain already possesses the wisdom of a normal human. And as long as it is an intelligent creature, it will yearn for a name, and the Chimera ant is no exception.

"Yes, whatever you want. I just want to concentrate on giving birth to my king now. ”

"Thank you, Queen..."

Watching the division commanders retreat one by one, the queen ant gently stroked her abdomen.

"I really gave birth to an incredible bunch of guys who could give their own opinions and ask for names. In order to compete for racial glory and at the same time fiercely pursue the self. This is something that has never been heard of before. ”

"Sure enough, it was the right choice for me to cross the sea to this unknown land."

"My king, you will surely stand at the very top of this world. Lead our race to continue. ”