Li Hong: "How big is it?" ”

Old monk: "More than ten square miles." From the Stone Buddha Temple where I am, to the east bank of the Lulu River in the west, five miles to the south and five miles to the north, there are basically all there. The government also dug the canals according to this area. As soon as it is stung, it is poured with water. ”

Li Hong: "Does it work?" ”

Old Monk: "It works." It's been like this for a few years, and I haven't found it outside. ”

Qi Xiaoting: "Master, the man-eating ants are so harmful, is there no one to get rid of the evil?" ”

Old monk: "In addition, I have been there in person, and I have also invited Taoist priests who are deep in the Tao, but I can't cure them." ”

Qi Xiaoting: "Do you see what's going on?" ”

Old Monk: "The man-eating ant spirit is a female ant king, and legend has it that she is bigger than a half-sized calf. But in the deep and simple, no one has ever seen it. ”

Qi Xiaoting: "Since you know that man-eating ants are afraid of water, why don't you drown them with water?" ”

Old monk: "I can't drown." They also choose terrain. It is said that the female ant king is in the rice village, and the terrain of the rice village is the highest in this bend. There is an old saying: 'If you drown the head of the stone Buddha, you can't drown the feet of the rice village'.

In other words, if there is a big flood, the water will overflow the stone Buddha head in the Stone Buddha Temple, and the rice village will have deep water at the foot of the foot. What's more, the surrounding terrain is uneven, how much water can be poured into the rice village to see the water? It's not that no one has thought of this method, and if they can't do it, they have to give up! Hey, are you going to run errands, or are you going to visit relatives? ”

Qi Xiaoting: "Find someone." Master, have you ever seen an old Taoist priest, a relatively young woman? ”

Old monk: "I haven't seen a woman, but I have seen an old Taoist priest and a young descendant, and they stopped in front of my temple for a while, as if they were discussing something."

"I saw that they were outsiders, and I wanted to remind them, when I walked over and looked, the old Taoist priest had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, not like a good person, the young man had an arrogant face, and he couldn't answer anything, and I didn't say anything."

"What do you think they're doing here?" Scud asked Qi Xiaoting suspiciously: "In a rural area, it is inconvenient to eat and live." Besides, people are walking out, and they can't see it. ”

Qi Xiaoting: "I'm worried that they will go to the man-eating ant spirit and use man-eating ants against us." ”

Li Hong: "If that's the case, it's really troublesome." We invite all Hercules, who has the heart to deal with gadgets! ”

Old monk: "Could it be that you are looking for the right one?" ”

Qi Xiaoting nodded, and then briefly told the old monk about the situation.

The old monk was very excited when he heard this: "The story of the Eight Dragons Altar is known to everyone in Jianjin Prefecture, and it is really good that you send it back, if you don't dislike it, I will lead you the way and lead you to Mi Village."

"If you can catch the snake princess and the snake demon Lao Dao, and then destroy the queen queen, you can be regarded as saving the people on this side and seeking great benefits for everyone. You see—"

The old monk said and pointed to the people on the road who were carrying carts and burdens and carrying them on their shoulders: "If you have a home and can't go back, you go out in spring and come back in late autumn, the old and the young are like this, and I feel sad when I look at it." ”

Qi Xiaoting: "Master, we are from the demon eradication team, regardless of whether the man-eating ant spirit or the man-eating ant demon is within our killing range." We don't know the place well, and if you can show us the way, we can't ask for it. ”

Old monk: "Okay, I brought this road." As he spoke, he stroked his beard and shouted to the temple: "Disciple, take care of the temple, I will lead the strong men to destroy the man-eating ants." ”

"Okay, master. Go with confidence. A childish voice came from the temple, and then a small bald head flashed at the door: "You have to lead people to destroy the man-eating ants, and the incense in our temple will definitely flourish." I'm looking forward to this day! ”

The group walked six or seven miles to a bare village.

"You see," said the old monk, pointing to the dry trunk of the tree in the village, "it is said that rabbits do not eat the grass by the nest, but this man-eating ant does not care about this, as soon as it gets out of the ground, it catches whatever it eats, even the branches and leaves of the tree, and after eating the front one, it goes to eat elsewhere." Wherever there are many dry trees in the village, there must be many ants underground. ”

Qi Xiaoting nodded: "If we rely on this, can we find the place where the queen ant is?" ”

Old monk: "This has not been verified yet. However, I think it is likely that this is the case, and there must be a lot of ants in the place where the queen is there, and there is no food on the ground. ”

Taking advantage of everyone's gossip to ask this and that, Qi Xiaoting transmitted the outside situation to Long Yi in the space.

"Let go of Ah Mei." Long Yi transmitted: "After cultivating for more than ten days, her soul has recovered, let her go to each house to take a look, and find the snake princess and the snake demon old way." If you find them, the queen ant will not be far away. ”

Qi Xiaoting complied and quietly released Ah Mei.

The work was not big, and Long Yi came with the news: the snake princess and the snake demon Lao Dao were in a tiled house, the snake princess was not lightly injured, and the snake demon Lao Dao was applying medicine to her tail bone.

Qi Xiaoting: "Do you think they are here to heal their wounds, or are they here to invite man-eating ants?" ”

Ryuichi: "I can't hear the voice, I can't guess." It is better for you to prepare for the worst than anything else. Call Ah Mei back, don't put her in the scarf anymore, let her be by your side, I can keep up with what's going on outside. ”

Qi Xiaoting complied and told everyone the location of the snake princess.

The old monk quickly led them to a tiled house: "This is the richest family in the villages in this bend, no, it also closes its doors and hides outside." ”

Li Hong: "Man-eating ants are no better than officials and soldiers, and officers and soldiers can be solved with bribes, but man-eating ants don't listen to this." In his eyes, there is no distinction between rich and poor. ”

Scud: "This is called Xiucai meeting soldiers, it is unreasonable, it is caught, and the rich and poor eat it." ”

Qi Xiaoting circled around the courtyard wall and said to Scud: "You and the monk master are guarding at the door, and I will go over the wall with Li Hong, Dongsheng, and Li Heier to meet them." ”

Scud had already seen that in the fight, Qi Xiaoting was far inferior to Jiaona, and the old ancestor and the two of them were also kung fu on the ground, and said worriedly: "Jiaona is not here, can you do it?" ”

Qi Xiaoting: "The snake princess is injured and will not fight." We've beaten her, but we can't, at least we'll get her away, so they don't have a chance to negotiate with the man-eating ant spirits. Her wound hurts when she moves, which is not conducive to healing. ”

Scud: "It's okay, Old Ancestor, Miss Xiaoting, Dongsheng, Li Heier, take care of the four." ”

Qi Xiaoting took the three of them to jump on the top of the wall in the most secret place on the courtyard wall, and then chose the flattest place below and jumped down.

"Hoo ......"

I don't know if it was caused by the jumping, or if I had been prepared, at the moment when all four of Qi Xiaoting jumped down, ants appeared in the cracks of the nearby walls, in the soil, and on the brick piles. All of them have black bodies and red heads, and their heads are as long as the stomachs of adult fingers, densely packed and endless.

"Man-eating ants!" Qi Xiaoting whispered to the three of them. The four of them hurriedly ran back to the wall, called the scud and the old monk, and ran out of the village.

However, the black and red man-eating ants chased after them in a fan-shaped line, as if they had spotted a few of them.

"No, we can't leave the village yet." Qi Xiaoting ran and ran, and suddenly remembered that there were villagers who had fled on the road, they brought their children and daughters, and they would definitely not be able to outrun the man-eating ants. As soon as they are overtaken, they will be buried in the mouth of man-eating ants.

"What should I do?" Li Hong said in embarrassment while running: "There are so many of them, it's really not a joke to catch up!" ”

"Burn!" Qi Xiaoting said decisively: "Let's hold firewood and lay a wall of fire in front of them." ”

Scud: "But, they climbed so fast, before they could burn, they had already crawled there." ”

Qi Xiaoting: "It's okay, you just hold Chai He." As he spoke, he took out the stone whip and threw it into the air, chanting words in his mouth.

As a result, the bricks and gravel around it gathered together in a row, and a half-man-high gravel wall was automatically erected.

The people scattered the firewood they brought under the rubble wall, and Qi Xiaoting hit a few flame balls, and the firewood immediately burned.

At this time, man-eating ants emerged from the cracks in the stones, climbed down from the stone walls, and landed in the fire, causing a "crackling" sound, and a scorching smell filled the air.

However, as if trying to extinguish the flames with their own bodies, the man-eating ants still swarmed to climb up, drill out, and then fall into the fire and be burned to death.

Beneath the stone walls are piles of dead man-eating ants that have been burned to ashes, and live man-eating ants are still crawling out and falling in.

After all, firewood is limited, and the flame ball only lasts for a short time, plus the man-eating ants that have been used before and after him, the flames gradually become smaller, and the man-eating ants behind are like a mountain and a sea, gathering more and more......

"Flood!" Qi Xiaoting shouted loudly.

When Dongsheng heard this, he immediately started a well outside the fire, and went down with a fist to look at the well, and the well was next to each other, forming a deep canal.

Li Hei'er was not idle, he found a plough plough from the farmer's house, and asked Li Hong to support him in the back, and he pulled it in front.

When the ploughshare goes down, there is a ditch more than a foot deep. Seeing this, Scud and the old monk hurriedly found a shovel to clear the soil.

Li Hei'er ploughed back and forth three times, and then formed a one-meter-wide earthen ditch, which was connected to Dongsheng's well. It's a shallow ditch.

As soon as Li Hei'er saw that this method worked, he ploughed four or five miles from south to north, and connected with the canals on both sides.

Qi Xiaoting watched the fire, and when she saw where it was weak, she hit the flame ball and threw the flame charm to help.

As soon as the dragon couldn't come out, he drew a flame talisman in the space to make it easier for Qi Xiaoting to take it at any time.

Just when Qi Xiaoting couldn't hold on, the ditch was dug and filled with muddy water.

The people cheered, and Qi Xiaoting also stopped sending flame balls and throwing flame charms, and let the man-eating ants crawl over the hot ashes and corpses of their kind, and crawl to the edge of the ditch in groups.

Qi Xiaoting saw that there were trees on the edge of the ditch, and hurriedly instructed Dongsheng to pull out all the trees near the ditch, so that the man-eating ants would not climb over the ditch from the treetops.

Although the trees were of different sizes, some of them were already thick, Dongsheng pulled them all out without difficulty and quickly, and the edge of the ditch became bare.