"Why did it stop?"

The honeydew ants that carried the white flesh worms did not keep crawling forward, and after advancing some distance, they stopped, which made Fengyun who was following them a little puzzled.

But when he saw the next scene, he understood that they were waiting for their companions.

Less than a minute after the honeydew ants carrying the meat worms on their backs stopped, Fengyun saw a team of honeydew ants with a similar number appear.

As soon as they appeared, they immediately caught his eye and eventually landed on their backs.

He found that they were actually the same as the honeydew ants he was tracking, and they were carrying things, but instead of meat worms, they were honey sacs.

After the two teams of honeydew ants converged, they entered a passage together, and Fengyun immediately followed, guessing where they were going.

"I'm supposed to be feeding the young ants. ”

The last time Fengyun entered the ant nest, he only saw ant eggs, not young ants, but for such a large ant colony, young ants must exist, and they should be an important part of it, and even related to the life and death of the entire ant colony.

In order for them to thrive, it's understandable that honeydew ants go to great lengths to raise meat bugs and collect honeydew.

"It has to be like this. ”

Fengyun thinks he has the truth, but it doesn't take long for him to realize that he was wrong, and he was very wrong.

After the honeydew ants that transported the meat worms and honey sacs began to walk together, they kept crawling forward without stopping for a long time, which made Fengyun gradually feel that something was wrong.

Normally, ant colonies would place their larvae close to food, but this is a bit too far away.

However, Fengyun decided to follow.

He entered the ant nest again this time, although the goal was to find the honey crystal, but to tell the truth, he was not too sure.

If you give up tracking these honeydew ants and look for them in the nest, you may not be able to do so, but it is better to continue to track them, and there may be unexpected gains.

After walking for about ten minutes in his heart, Fengyun found that the passage in front of him suddenly opened up, and both the height and width increased several times at once.

Almost as soon as the passage changed, Fengyun keenly sensed the change in the honeydew ants, and their speed not only slowed down, but they also seemed a little cringe, as if there was something in the passage that scared them.

"Uh-huh. ”

Fengyun suddenly became interested, gathered his eyes and looked into the passage that had become much wider, with his eyesight, even if there was no light, he could still see far and clearly.

It was a result that did not satisfy him.

Although the passage became wider, it was not straight, and it stretched forward about fifty feet, and it made a turn, and it could not be seen at all.

In the distance before the turn, Fengyun didn't see anything to be afraid of, and it could even be said that it was empty.

However, Fengyun is not without gains.

He found some traces on the ground, not deep, but somewhat peculiar, wavy, but not very coherent.

"It was supposed to be some kind of reptile left behind. ”

As soon as Fengyun saw those wave-like traces, he made inferences and simulated in his mind the appearance of the animal that left them.

"It should look a little like a snake. ”

This is the conclusion given by Fengyun, and he will give such a conclusion, not because he imagined it out of thin air, but because he happened to have seen similar traces.

It was a documentary about snakes that he watched once before he crossed over, and there were traces left by snakes crawling on the sand, which were somewhat similar to the traces he saw this time.

He continued with the honeydew ant, and when he entered the open passage, he faintly smelled a fishy smell, which made him more sure of his judgment.

After a short time, the honeydew ant crossed the bend of the passage, and then the wind and clouds also folded, and found that it was still a passage, but this time the distance that could be seen was much longer, hundreds of feet.

But he still didn't reach his destination.

Turning around several times like this, Fengyun conservatively estimated that he had walked 1,500 zhang in the open passage, that is, nearly ten miles.

If it weren't for the fast crawling speed of the honeydew ants, and considering the time issue, Fengyun might not be able to hold on to it.

Even so, Fengyun grew impatient, and just as he sensed that his patience was running out, things finally changed.

He heard a grinding sound, coming from the depths of the passage, more precisely from a bend not far from the passage.

The speed of the sound was very fast, and when Fengyun first heard the sound, it should have been far away from him, but in the blink of an eye, it was already quite close to him.

In the next moment, it was at the bend in the passage.

Fengyun subconsciously opened his eyes wide and looked over.

It didn't disappoint him either, and almost as soon as he opened his eyes, it burst into his field of vision, and found that it looked very similar to the one he had simulated.

It looks almost identical to a snake, the only thing that doesn't resemble it is that it's not a snake at all, at least Fengyun has never seen a snake with a scorpion tail hook on its tail.

When the manticores appeared, their tails were raised high, almost touching the top of the passage, like a flag.

The speed of the manticore, which was already fast, was more than doubled after seeing the honeydew ants carrying the meat bugs and honey sacs on their backs.

Like a gust of wind, it swooped in front of the honeydew ant in the blink of an eye, and its two red eyes sparkled brightly, and even the night could not be hidden.

At the same time, Fengyun also noticed the anomaly of the honeydew ants, they had stopped, and their bodies were stirring, their legs shaking, as if they could no longer support their weight.

Although the speed of the manticores is very fast, its self-control ability is also very strong, and it can move from high-speed to complete stationary with almost no buffering.

When it stopped, the tip of its nose was less than a fist away from the front honeydew ant.

It stopped, and it wasn't idle.

Almost as soon as it stopped, its raised tail poked out like lightning, and by the time it retracted, there was already a white fleshy worm hanging from it.

It sends the meat worm to its mouth and then opens it up.

At this time, Fengyun discovered the second difference between it and the snake, that is, its teeth, the number of snake's teeth is generally relatively small, but it is full of mouths, and densely packed together.