Chapter 54: Ant Colony
The rustling sound was exceptionally clear in this eerie atmosphere, although it was not loud.
This kind of sound does not simply come from a certain direction, but comes from all directions, in the cracks of the stones, and among the grass.
"What the hell is it"? Rao is Wang Jun, who dared to fight the living dead head-on, swallowed his saliva because he was afraid at this time, and said with difficulty, his body trembling slightly.
Fear often comes from the unknown, and the unknown is the most terrifying.
"What ...... is that"? Yu Miaomiao suddenly pointed in one direction and said, her voice was calm, a little relieved.
Looking in the direction she was pointing, a small creature appeared on a rock.
This small creature, no bigger than an adult's fist, is completely black, and under the sun, its body is actually a little reflective, as if it has a smooth carapace, two centimeter-long tentacles on its head, crawling on six legs, and the rustling sound comes from a pair of pincer-like mouthparts on its head.
"It's an ant, right? At least ten times magnified ants", Ling Tao hesitated when he saw the small creature.
There are many kinds of ants, some small ants are less than two millimeters long, but some ants can reach one centimeter to two centimeters, and some ants in the rainforest can even reach a terrifying four or five centimeters.
But at this time, the ants that appeared in Ling Tao's sight were more than twice as large as the largest ants known in the world!
"Huh, ......it's actually an ant, it ...... scared me," Wang Jun said with relief.
Fear often comes from the unknown, and when you know that what you are afraid of is actually an ant, everyone feels a little funny in their hearts.
But this relaxed state of mind did not last for a few seconds, the expressions on everyone's faces froze, and their hearts became more frightened than before, and even everyone present couldn't suppress the trembling of their bodies.
I saw that around, in the cracks of the stones, in the grass, under the soil, black ants crawled out, densely gathered, black pressed one, at a glance, it gave people a feeling of numbness in the scalp.
In such a situation, if someone with a dense phobia is here, I am afraid that they will be scared to death on the spot.
Even Ling Tao and them were pale with fright at this time, a single ant may be nothing, even if it is large, it can be easily dealt with, but what about thousands? I'm afraid that a person will be gnawed into a pile of white bones in less than a minute!
These ants appeared, and they actually 'turned a blind eye' to the corpses on the side, but slowly 'surrounded' Ling Tao and others, the tentacles on their heads trembled, and the mouthparts like pincers opened and closed, making a rustling sound, and thousands of rustling sounds converged, making people's scalps tingle.
Moreover, this kind of ant is still appearing around, more and more, and as far as the eye can see, all the sight range is this kind of 'huge' black ant.
Ants are the 'largest' animals known in the world, capable of lifting things dozens or hundreds of times heavier than themselves.
"No wonder the railway will be broken, it's not the masterpiece of these ants, no wonder there are no insects, birds and beasts around here, in the face of this ant colony like 'ocean', the insects may have been eaten up long ago, and the large animals don't dare to approach at all", in this case, Ling Tao thought in his heart, and now all the things he didn't understand are now understood.
The strange fish that jumped on the shore and was stoned to death by Zhang Guohua was eaten into a skeleton in front of these ants in less than ten seconds, and the skeleton was bare, leaving no trace of flesh and blood!
"Run, stay here and wait for death to ......", Wang Jun screamed, and his round body rushed out quickly, running upstream.
The ant colony is downstream, and there is no way to go downstream, and no one dares to go down if there are strange fish in the water.
"Ah......", Rao is Yu Miaomiao, who has always been relatively calm, was so frightened that she screamed at this time, and ran away.
The others were the same, frightened and rushed for their lives, stepping on the rocks on the bank of the river and fleeing for their lives.
As soon as they ran, the ant colony that was originally just slowly 'surrounding' them also attacked quickly, crawling on six small legs, moving extremely fast, among the rubble, the speed was not slower than their running speed, or even faster!
"Wait for me ......," a crying voice pleaded from behind.
Ling Tao turned around and saw that it was Lu Jiang, who had injured his foot before, had difficulty moving, and fell while running, and the ant colony behind him had already swarmed in.
Where do you dare to stop, I am afraid that if you stop, I am afraid that it will be the end of death, Ling Tao turned around and ran wildly, ran out more than ten meters, heard a frightened and desperate scream from behind, and then turned around to look, and found that Lu Jiang had been overwhelmed by the swarming ant colony, and the whole person struggled.
When Ling Tao ran out more than ten meters, there was no sound of Lu Jiang behind him, and in a blink ......of an eye, he left a white bone in the same place, and Lu Jiang, who was still intact dozens of seconds ago, had completely disappeared at this time!
In this case, Ling Tao was scared at just one glance, the ant colony is too terrifying, they may be nothing alone, but such a group of tides, I am afraid that fierce beasts like lions and tigers will run as far as they can, no wonder the fish in the water are collectively lurking, who dares to provoke this terrible existence?
Several of them ran wildly for their lives, but the road was not easy to walk on the rocky shore, and the ants in the rear were fast and not limited by the terrain, and they were quickly approaching them.
"Run, run, run, the ant colony is catching up", Zhang Guohua, who ran at the back, urged loudly.
Yu Miao and Jiang Feifei, who were running in front of Zhang Guohua, were pale at this time, and there was even a look of despair in her eyes because of fear.
Although Zhang Guohua is simple, he is not stupid, at this life-critical moment, he was blocked by Jiang Feifei who couldn't run fast in front of him, where would he give the other party a back, and immediately ran two steps quickly, bypassing Jiang Feifei from the side and running forward quickly.
"Save my ......", Jiang Feifei, who fell to the end, cried and said in despair.
At this time, everyone is running for their lives, who can take care of her?
The ant colony behind her was getting closer and closer, and the rustling sound was like a talisman, which made Jiang Feifei desperate, and in the end there was really no way, she gritted her teeth, found a place where she could see the bottom of the water, ventured into the water, and ran towards the opposite shore.
As soon as she walked to the middle of the stream, the originally calm water was churning, and the strange fish that had been lurking actually reappeared and swam after her.
There was a sharp pain in her legs, Jiang Feifei screamed in pain, endured the pain and quickly ran to the opposite bank, and sat down on the ground all of a sudden after being safe, her legs were already bloody and bloody, and the sharp teeth of the strange fish bit out one or twenty bloody small openings on her originally smooth and slender legs, which looked extremely miserable.
Although she was injured, she was safe, and it was impossible for the strange fish in the water to go ashore, and it was impossible for the ant colony on the other side to go into the water .......
On the other side, Wang Jun took the lead and ran wildly with the remaining few people, but running and running, there was no road ahead, and a boulder blocked the road ahead, not to mention, but also because of this boulder, the originally relatively gentle water flow became turbulent, and of course, the river channel narrowed a lot.
"Hurry up and jump from the stone to the other side", Ling Tao looked at the patrol and said immediately.
The edge of the boulder is about three meters from the opposite shore, but it should be a meter or two above the water, and you should be able to jump to the opposite shore with a hard jump.
Wang Jun reacted, patrolled and grabbed the plants on the side and climbed the boulder along the cliff, standing on the boulder, but found that in the waterhole behind, the black shadows of strange fish loomed, once they couldn't jump over and fell into the water, the consequences were probably no different from falling into the ant colony!
"It's too late, jump", Ling Tao, who climbed the boulder, urged, although he also saw the situation in the water, but not jumping meant that he would definitely be bitten to death by ants.
"Fighting ......", Wang Jun gritted his teeth, retreated and clinged to the cliff, ran two steps and jumped hard, and finally jumped to the other side of the river, almost falling into the water.
The ant colony behind them was less than five meters away, and Ling Tao did the same, running two steps and jumping hard, but he could land on the opposite shore, and while secretly breathing a sigh of relief, he was unsteady on his feet and almost fell into the water.
While the soul was frightened, Wang Jun pulled him by the hand, which prevented him from falling into the water.
"Thank you......", Ling Tao said with great fear in his heart.
Bang......, the ground shook, Zhang Guohua also jumped over, he jumped to the shore and was half a meter away from the water's edge!
"Yu Miaomiao, jump quickly", Ling Tao turned around and found that Yu Miaomiao was standing still on the boulder opposite, and immediately urged anxiously.
By this time, the ants had climbed the boulder and were about to climb on top of her.
"I don't dare, I can't jump", Yu Miaomiao shook her head in despair with a crying voice.
"Jump, if you don't jump, you'll die", Wang Jun also urged at this time, and an ant had already climbed on Yu Miaomiao's instep.
"It's okay to jump over, I'll pick you up, it's okay", Zhang Guohua said.
If you don't jump, you will die, and if you jump, you may still live, Yu Miaomiao was desperate in her heart, and suddenly she had no choice, so she ran two steps on the boulder, jumped hard, and jumped towards Ling Tao and them.
After all, she was a girl, and her strength was insufficient, so she began to fall before jumping above the middle of the water, and finally landed a meter from the shore with a pop.
The strange fish in the water swam quickly, and the rushing water was also washing her downstream......