Chapter 169: Scouting
Halfway through, the knife ant suddenly stopped. The first two tentacles of his head touched the ground, and he felt the ground vibrate regularly. This kind of vibration is obviously not caused by the same kind. The knife ant immediately turned around alertly, but a pair of compound eyes were filled with gray arc light.
The fangs cut through the ant's jaw, tearing through its mouthparts, skull, brain, and nerves. Finally, it burst out from the top of the head, and the tip of the knife brought up a flurry of flesh and ant blood, sprinkling a straight mark on the ground. Alan put away the knife, helped the corpse of the knife ant to the ground, and dragged it behind a dirt bag. Reach into the wound and apply the ant's blood to his face, armpits, and several exposed parts of his body. In this way, the aura he exudes is no different from that of a knife ant. Coupled with the smell of scorched earth on their bodies, as long as they are not directly exposed to the sight of the knife ants, those dangerous species will only regard them as the same kind.
There was only less than a hundred meters left from the nest, which was only two breaths away from Allen's feet. He came to the left side of the hill where the nest was located, which was almost perpendicular to the ground and had two holes in it. The entrance to the cave was deep, with a faint red light. Alan used the protruding part of the mountain as a point of strength, and climbed and swam up like a gecko.
In just a few moments, they had come to a cave about fifteen or sixteen meters above the ground. Eren cautiously poked his head out and looked into the cave. As the cave stretched inside, there was a turn, and I didn't know where it led. The faint red light came out from the turning point. The temperature in the cave was obviously higher than outside the cave, and there was no cold in the slightest. Seeing that there were no knife ants, Alan quietly jumped up and burrowed into the hole.
The cave was dry, and the walls were warm to the touch. Alan took a breath, and there was no smell in the air except for the peculiar sulfur-like pungent smell of the Netherlands. It's the dry and hot air that makes Allen's throat hot. He used his hands and feet together and crawled down the cave passage. After climbing seven or eight meters, the passage has come to an end. When you poke out your little head and look down, it's a complicated space.
The knife ants seem to hollow out the mountain, presenting a complex structure of spatial passages. At a glance, you can't see the panoramic view, only a relatively wide mountain belly, about dozens of square meters, surrounded by acupuncture points leading to other places. The belly of the mountain was full of sword ants, and there were forty or fifty of them. Ants and ants are stacked on top of each other, and a hill is stacked. The knife ants were moving, and the scene looked numb.
There was a shrill insect chirp faintly from a certain cave, and Alan remembered where he had heard it, and he couldn't remember it for a while. He held his breath and touched the source of the sound, and there was a fire under the belly of the mountain, and the fire shone along the cracks in the mountain wall, as if there was a volcano under the mountain. This is not the case, but the Blood Eagle Heights are adjacent to the Fury Flame Abyss, and although this place is not within the range of the Fire Abyss, it is difficult to ensure that there is no lava flowing underground. If the sword ants dig deep, the stratum will be thinner, and the underground magma will shine through the rocks, it is not impossible.
By the dim light of the fire in the belly of the mountain, Alan felt into the acupuncture path where the sound of insects was heard. After climbing dozens of meters in twists and turns, it went through two large bends like a roller coaster track before coming to the exit. The air at the exit smelled a little fishy, and Alan quietly poked his head out, and suddenly a strange head shook in front of his eyes. He hurriedly stepped back, his hand already touching the handle of the fangs.
It's a burrower.
He had no eyes or nose, only a large mouth full of broken teeth, but the burrower didn't seem to notice Alan's location. But there was a wail, and he was powerless to fall. When Alan explored again, he saw that the cliff wall of the mountain under the cave was covered with insect blood. The burrowing worm fell to the ground more than ten meters below, and it tried to escape desperately just now. Compared with the size of the burrowing insects, Alan suddenly felt that these complex passages were dug by these insects.
Look at the giant worm that fell to the ground, its body writhed, and it died instantly. At this time, some giant ants with slightly smaller shells, dark shells, and curved blades on their forefeet like sickles crawled out of the burrows on the ground. These black ants should also be a kind of knife ants, but the source power aura on their bodies is much thicker than that of ordinary knife ants. Those two compound eyes emitted a dark red glow, and they were terrifying to look at.
A dozen of these black ants attacked the burrower with their mouthparts or sickle-foot, not as if they were trying to kill it, but they spurred the giant worm to writhe desperately and burrow into one of the passages. During this period, the giant insects were about to rush in other directions, but the black ants quickly intercepted them, and judging by the situation, they actually deliberately let the burrowing insects enter their designated passage.
What will happen after the channel?
After both the burrower and the black ant had entered the passage, Alan waited for a moment to make sure that no other knife ants had appeared, and then swam down the surface from the passage and then burrowed into the burrow chosen by the giant insect black ant. There weren't many twists and turns in this passage, and it was about seven or eight meters away, and it had come to an end. The fire at the end was even worse, and Alan approached the exit with the shadow in the middle of the road. When the probe looked out, it was an open space.
There are hundreds of square meters in the belly of the mountain here, the mountains on all sides are hollowed out, and the rock walls of the mountain are covered with large holes of a meter long and wide, and I don't know what the effect is. The stratum in the center of the mountain is extremely thin, and hot magma emerges from the center from time to time, and then flows around, and the air gradually cools when encountered, turning into black mud with fire. At the end of the mountain, lies a behemoth.
The body is as tall as a hill, with a small head that is extremely disproportionate. The structure of the head is seven or eight points similar to that of ordinary knife ants, except that there is a compound eye in the center of the forehead. The big guy was lying on the ground, as if he was heating himself with geothermal heat. From time to time, two pairs of wings as thin as cicada wings flapped, but the wings were small and thin, probably more decorative than practical.
The forefoot is not like an ordinary knife ant with a blade, the feet and limbs are no different from ordinary ants, and the three pairs of feet are all on the first part of the body, which makes it look stupid and ridiculous. In particular, it had a round belly that Alan had just bet that it would never climb out of the belly, so he didn't know how it got in.
A miserable insect chirp caused Alan to draw his attention back to the strange ant, and after a slight sweep in the belly of the mountain, he saw the burrowing worm. The bug was driven by the black ant and came under the nose of the big guy, and then the black ant was no longer polite. More than a dozen black ants rushed up, their mouths and feet moved together, biting and tearing, and tearing the burrowing insects to pieces in three or two strokes.
Bug fat, blood, and minced flesh fell all over the floor. At this moment, the tentacles on the big ant's head moved, and all three compound eyes rolled up. Then he opened his mouth, and an organ like a straw protruded from his mouth. When the thing fell to the ground, it sucked up the fat and blood of the burrowing worm. There are also black ants that tear off the skin and flesh of the insect in pieces and send it to the big guy, as if they are feeding it.
Undoubtedly, that's the queen ant. As for those black ants, they should be the personal guards of the queen, which can be seen from the fact that there is not an ordinary knife ant in the belly of the mountain, and the status of these black ants in the ant colony is not low.
Having a general understanding of the situation of the hive, Alan didn't want to stay long, so he lightened his pace and retreated. After a moment, he exited the cave, and was just about to climb the rock wall when two spots of crimson suddenly rose in the shadows in front of him. A black ant's sickle feet rubbed against each other, squeaked, and moved out of the shadows, staring at Eren intensely.
Alan took a deep breath, and as soon as his hand touched the handle of the fanged knife, the black ant had already rushed at high speed.
The gray light flowed, and the fangs came out of the sheath, drawing a graceful arc of light and slashing at the black ant's head. To Allen's surprise, the black ant suddenly slid sideways strangely, making him slash through the air. Alan let out a "huh", the agility and speed of the black ant are above that of ordinary knife ants. He snorted, and with a flick of his wrist, his fangs slashed again, pulling out a gray moon ring that stretched across space.
This time, the black ant couldn't avoid it anymore, but it bent up with its sickle feet and shook Alan hard.
When there was a sound, the black ant slashed him and slid backwards. Allen himself shook violently, but he also gave the black ants a lot of shock. He was surprised to hear the sound of worm feet on the side of the mountain, and knew that it would not take a few seconds for the other queen guards.
It's a must!
As soon as his mind moved, the source power in his body roared, and Allen's eyes lit up, which was extremely impressive. He snorted softly and slammed his knife together. As soon as the fangs were drawn, the moon wheels suddenly fell, and the knife covered most of the black ant's body, and there was a burst of explosions. The black ant didn't know how many knives it had been hit in an instant, but except for the gap at the insect joint, there was only one crack left after the knife in the rest of the place, but it hurt the vital point at the end.
The shells of these queen guards are so hard that they can't be stopped by ordinary machine gun fire. Fortunately, there is no black armor covering the insect knots, and it is extremely soft, even an ordinary sword can be torn apart lightly, not to mention the second-grade magic weapon like fangs. Mastering the weaknesses of the Black Ants, Eren slid his feet to avoid the Black Ant's sicklefoot attacks. At the same time, the knife was dragged out, and a gray light flashed between the two sections of the black ant.
The black ant immediately spurted out blue-yellow blood and fell to the ground. The wound was large and deep, and the body and nerves were cut by Allen, and although he died immediately, he was powerless to pursue Allen. Eren immediately retreated and climbed the rock wall, when the other black ant guards poured out of the burrow and followed after Allen. Allen used his hands and feet at the same time, quickly got into the passage, and casually untied a hand/thunder from his waist, and threw it backwards without looking, and the person pounced forward with all his might.
In an instant, a deafening explosion sounded behind him, and the shockwave whizzed over his back and head with a scorching current. When Eren raised his head, the flames behind him rolled upside down, and several black ants burned the corpse and curled up, and the insect feet were upside down, already dead.
He took the opportunity to leave.
In a few moments, the place was already full of ants, but Alan was far away, and his body was coated with ant blood and lime that disguised the smell. This made the knife ants want to chase after them, and finally dispersed.
After Alan broke away from the nest, he quickly rushed back to the low slope where the team had been before. Several other squads had already gathered on the slope, and they saw Natsu's contact code rushing over, and several non-commissioned officers were worried when they heard that Alan had gone alone to scout the ant nest. Only Hubble looked careless, and sneered from time to time as he looked in the direction of the nest. R1058