Chapter Eighty-Three: The Queen Ant
Someone led me to a hideous forest full of tree anthills, and immediately realized that this place was not suitable for a long time, and just as I was about to leave, it happened that the other members of the team also gathered here.
I told Seventh Master Zha about coming here, and everyone thought that someone had deliberately led me here. In the hideous and ugly woods here, there may be danger, and when he thought of this, he immediately beckoned everyone to leave this place.
When he walked out of the tree nodule forest, he specially told the fat man and the monkey: "Don't touch the tree nodule on the tree, it is an ant nest, and the ants living in it are like man-eating ants, don't do it."
As a result, before I finished speaking, there was a half-watermelon-sized tree tumor anthill on the tree in front of the fat man, which suddenly fell to the ground with a thud, and choked back the words that I hadn't spoken in the second half.
The fat man and the monkey hurriedly jumped away from the fallen nodules, saying that they had not touched anything, and I knew that it was not their hands that they owed it, because I clearly saw that a stone flew from a distance and hit the tree in front of the fat man, and only then did the huge tree tumor fall to the ground.
The anthill of the tree that falls under the tree is like a half-poop (herbaceous plant, the fruit is larger than the gourd, and it can be made into a scoop after it is half cut. After falling on the grass, there was no ant colony scattered inside. However, inside the half-stump of the tree, there was a black ant the size of a fist. The small head and chest, but with an incomparably huge abdomen, people can recognize at a glance that the ants in the necromorphic tree tumors are the "queen ants".
When I saw a tiger slug before. There was a large slug with black antennae and black spots, and in hindsight I thought it was the "aftermath" of the tiger slug. That's why it's different.
Now, after seeing the real one. And it is the "queen ant" of the ants with very strict collective discipline. The queen ant is in the ant colony and has absolute royal power. Often lives in the anthill, never goes out a step, the rank is in the ant colony, as if it is a god-like being.
Seeing that the queen ant actually fell to the ground, the brain melon skin suddenly exploded, and then saw that the fat man actually raised his foot and made a gesture to step on the queen ant in the half of the negotiac, and immediately shouted, "Don't." "I was so anxious that I wanted to knock the fat man down immediately.
Fortunately, the sound of drinking stopped. The fat man reacted quickly and stopped his feet in time, and immediately beckoned everyone to hurry out of the woods.
At this time, countless ants had already poured out of the nodules on the trees, and the bare yellow trees were immediately buried in patches of black as if they had been splashed with ink.
Seeing that some ants have approached the queen ant in the slump tree, and the queen has good signs of life, this is a lot more reassuring. But just as I was about to turn around and leave. Suddenly, I saw a black shadow, which suddenly burst out from behind the tree in the distance, and then bit the ant queen lying in the slump of the tree with a bite, and rushed to my approach. Dumped the bitten queen ant onto my shoes.
The black shadow that suddenly sprang out and killed the queen ant was the hateful detective black cat that had been surrounding us. It was in a flash of lightning. Turning us innocent people into the target of tens of thousands of ant colonies.
See the corpse of the queen lying on top of my shoe. Feeling discouraged, he shouted "Run" in a hoarse voice. He shook off the black queen carcass on his shoes. The wind generally runs towards the periphery of the tree-like woods.
The queen ant is the founder of the ant colony and the supreme leader of absolute power. After the queen ant completed mating, the male ant left the world early, and the queen ant began to endure extreme loneliness and danger alone in order to create her own ant kingdom, relying on the energy she carried in the absence of any external supply at all, and in the closed nest, it was extremely difficult to nurture the next generation. Many queens die before they can establish their own kingdoms.
When the queen ant established her own kingdom, she went through many hardships, carefully cultivated the next generation little by little, and slowly established her own "ant empire". And all the ants in the Ant Empire are absolutely loyal to the queen and will not swerve until death.
Now, I have become the worst enemy of this huge tree ant empire, I really don't know if I can survive and escape from here alive?
I fled for my life quickly, and suddenly I felt a sense of depression and bitterness that wanted to cry without tears, and I hated the black cat and its owner who were trapped in my disadvantageous place, and I thought that once I caught this black hand behind the scenes, I would definitely "light the sky lantern" to relieve the hatred in my heart.
On the way to escape, I glanced at my teammates around me from time to time and found that everyone was pale and in a cold sweat.
At this moment, everyone heard the sound of some kind of animal running behind them. Normally, ants make very small sounds when they walk, and humans cannot hear them. But at this time, the sound of the swarm of ants chasing clearly reached my ears, and I didn't need to look back to confirm it, I knew that the ant colony chasing behind me was absolutely overwhelming, all over the mountains.
The crawling speed of the little ants is definitely above us. Soon, the black and oppressive ant colony had already surged to the feet of everyone, and I kept stepping on the ant colony, and I made a cracking sound like stepping on broken wood.
Now I only hope that these huge black ants will not be man-eating ants. But even if it is not a man-eating ant, such a large and numerous colony of ants can gnaw us into dry bones with its well-developed mouthparts.
The more urgent the crisis, the faster my mind turned, and I remembered how to deal with a man-eating ant colony, and it was best to escape from the water. However, we are now in a densely wooded mountain, not to mention small streams and rivers, and there is not even a depression of stagnant water, so we cannot use water power to get out.
In addition to water attack, there is another method, which is fire attack. However, Qilin Mountain is full of dense trees, and using fire is simply a prelude to setting yourself on fire and playing with fire to set yourself on fire. I couldn't borrow the power of fire and water, so I had to keep shoveling up the soft soil and dead leaves on the forest ground with my feet, and use the scattered dirt and dead leaves to take away the ant colonies on the upper of my shoes and trouser legs. But this can only solve a temporary urgent need, not a long-term solution.
Suddenly, in the woods ahead, a small animal, I don't know whether it was a rabbit or a bobcat, ran close to me.
When I got closer, I realized that it was a gray hare, and just as I was about to dodge, the smoke man suddenly dodged in front of me. I didn't notice where the smoke man jumped out at all, but I saw a thing in his hand quickly throw out of his hand, and then ran to the gray hare, which was immediately smashed and fainted. When I jumped over the gray rabbit, a large group of black ants quickly rushed to the hare's body. Then, in the blink of an eye, the hare was gnawed into a white corpse.
The hare that suddenly popped out effectively attracted the attention of the ant colony, and we took the opportunity to open a considerable distance with the black pressure ant colony.
When I encountered the dead man's head armor before, the military boots on my feet had already been gnawed and scarred. Now, after being bitten by an ant colony, it has become devastated. Fortunately, the heavy cowhide boots are of very good quality, or I would have to run barefoot in the woods right now.
Now is not the time to relax, we have to find open spaces or rivers to effectively escape the pursuit of ant colonies.
The emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts, and we finally encountered an open field without trees in the frenzied pursuit of the ant colony. However, the open field is a large deep pit, more than one person deep, and the diameter is about five or six meters wide.
Everyone was very tacitly picking up the broken branches of the trees on the ground, and at the same time ran towards the deep pit, and after I jumped into the deep pit, I immediately took out the matches and began to light the fire. After lighting a handful of dead leaves in his hand, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The ant colony could not get close to the roaring fire, so we lit long fires around the pit, and then everyone gathered in the middle of the pit and sat on the ground.
Although the ant colony was afraid of the scorching flames, it did not disperse lightly, and all of them gathered around the top of the deep pit, staring at us with fierce eyes.
Now that I finally had time to deal with my aching calves, I took off my ordnance and hung upside down on the fire, shaking the ants that had crawled into my boots into the burning fire. The big black ants that fell into the flames made a crackling sound and wafted out the smell of fried sesame seeds.
When I rolled up my trouser legs, I found that a lot of the skin and flesh on my calves had been ripped off, leaving small red pits, and the whole calf looked like a big-eyed sieve.
Zha Ling'er handed some gold sore medicine to everyone's hands and asked everyone to apply it to the wounds.
The ant colony that lost the queen ant would never let us go lightly, and there was not much wood fire in the deep pit we were in, so I made a simple torch and prepared to go outside to find some firewood.
Now we need to be prepared for a long time to fight a long battle, and although we seem to be forced to be trapped here, we can easily leave this place at any time as long as we figure out how to deal with the ant colony.
However, the solution is not so easy to come up with, and the ant colony will definitely not wither and wait all the time.
Of course, I hope that the ant colony will leave on its own because it is impatient to wait, but when this simple idea is spoken, even the fat man and Zha Ling'er, who have always been optimistic and simple, will never believe it.
When I went out to look for firewood, I couldn't pick up much by myself, so the fat man decided to accompany me. Before going out to look for firewood, the fat man and I wrapped a thick layer of gauze around our legs as a leg guard to prevent the attack of the ant colony. (To be continued......)