Chapter 223: Fighting Man-Eating Ants (2)
It was only then that Qi Xiaoting took care of looking at the man-eating ants inside the stone wall.
It didn't matter if I looked at it, I couldn't help but sweat on my head.
I saw that the streets, the land, and the walls of the village were covered with crawling man-eating ants. It was like a big black and red carpet on all the bare ground.
The carpet maintained a fan-shaped procession, rolling towards them as it stretched out to either side.
The domestic animals that the villagers did not have time to take away, puppies, kittens, lambs, and piglets, "Wangwang", "Meow", "Baa" and "Squeak", ran around to avoid the attack of man-eating ants. But as soon as the body climbs up, it is immediately surrounded.
Suddenly, a black mass rushed out of the door of the house. People look at it......
Ah, it was a calf, full of man-eating ants, and it was crazy to run and roll on the ground, but in less than five minutes it was a white skeleton.
Qi Xiaoting couldn't help but shudder, closed her gaze, and looked at the ditch.
At this time, there was already a layer of man-eating ants pressed by black pressure on the other side of the ditch. The big man-eating ants with black bodies and red heads, stretching out their claws and waving their antennae, seem to be showing their teeth and claws, demonstrating to people.
The man-eating ants in the distance also rushed to the edge of the ditch like a tide, and the man-eating ants on the edge of the ditch suddenly thickened many times, and then rushed down to the ditch.
In an instant, thousands of man-eating ants rushed into the ditch, struggled on the surface of the water a few times, and sank.
The man-eating ants in the back continued to rush down the ditch, repeating the fate of the previous man-eating ants. Before this layer sank, the latter rolled down and pressed against the man-eating ants on the water.
It was as if they wanted to fill the ditch with the corpses of their own kind, so that the ditch behind them would rush to the people on the other side.
The water was flowing slowly, washing away the piles of dead man-eating ants. And the man-eating ants in the back are still rushing down the gutter one after another. However, they never made it to the other side, and not a single man-eating ant could swim to the other side.
People saw hope and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, the man-eating ants no longer went into the water, but began to gather, in clusters, by the ditch.
The next scene made Qi Xiaoting even more puzzled:
I saw that the man-eating ants quickly turned their backs to the inside and their legs outward, holding one by one, layer upon layer, and soon gathered into a group of ants larger than a basketball, rolling towards the ditch.
What's even more strange is that on the microwave rippling water, tens of thousands of ant legs turned into oars, rowing countless ant colonies, rolling towards the shore where Qi Xiaoting and them stood.
Since the water is fluid, the man-eating ants in the outer layer are washed down quite a bit by the current. A single man-eating ant rolled in the water a few times, then straightened up and sank - apparently drowned......
And the ant colony is still the same, paddling the short legs of the ants to move forward, and with every breath the ant colony breaks away from the ant colony......
People were stunned that the legend of ants could cross the river, and this time it was very real, thousands of man-eating ants formed a ball, rolling and drifting forward.
The clump of ants hugged very tightly, and the outermost man-eating ants were doomed to be drowned, but the man-eating ants in the inner center of the ball did not touch the water at all, and after reaching the other side, the ant colony spread out and could still charge into battle.
Tens of thousands of man-eating ants suddenly formed hundreds of rolling ant balls, starting to cross the river from the side of the ditch, and the water surface was covered with large and small black and red ant clusters, floating with the waves, slowly moving forward......
"If you want to cross the ditch, no way!" Qi Xiaoting shouted, picked up a wooden stick, and hit the man-eating ant ball in the water. When it can't be hit, it stirs in the water and washes away the man-eating ant balls with water flowers.
When the others saw this, they also picked up shovels or sticks and beat them in the water.
The man-eating ant balls in the water are scattered, and all the man-eating ants fall into the water and sink to the bottom.
Several of the fleeing young men also stopped to join the battle, picking up sticks and beating the man-eating ant colonies in the water.
However, the man-eating ants on the shore still come in like a tide and still go into the water in a group.
The man-eating ant carcasses in the water are getting thicker and thicker, and the man-eating ants behind them are also increasing. If this continues, sooner or later the ditch will be filled. Because the water in the ditch flows very slowly, it is not able to wash away all the drowned man-eating ants.
"Gotta turn the water into living water and wash the man-eating ants away." Qi Xiaoting shouted.
"No," said Scud, "it's not flood season, and even the water in the Lulu River flows very slowly, and the water level in the canal is so high that it can't flow." ”
There are more and more man-eating ants in the water, and although they have not crossed over, the fear in people's hearts is growing.
"Look, what are they doing?" Li Hong pointed to the other side and said.
It turned out that the man-eating ants had changed their way of crossing the water, and several or a dozen formed a group, some carrying a dead leaf, some carrying a dry branch, in an attempt to cross the ditch as a boat.
Although crossing the ditch is delusional, and the water is full of man-eating ants and branches and leaves, it speeds up the filling of the ditch.
Some farmers began to use their hedges to fish out the carcasses of man-eating ants and dead branches and leaves in the water, but the effort to fish one hedge can fall into more than a dozen hedges of ten hedges.
Danger is imminent.
"While there is still water in the ditch, we can only withdraw." The old monk said, "It's too late for us to save our lives." ”
"Are there any fugitives on the road?" Qi Xiaoting asked the young farmer.
"No, our village is in the innermost, we are after the fight, and we can't move without talents." A young farmer who had just arrived replied.
"Then let's withdraw," said the old monk, "and get out of the canal." The water is wide and deep, and it is still time to carry it. ”
Qi Xiaoting glanced at the man-eating ants that were surging like a tide, shook her head helplessly, and was about to turn around and leave, when she saw two sparks shooting out of the tiled courtyard and heading towards the southeast.
"The snake princess and the snake demon are old!" Qi Xiaoting shouted.
"I'll follow it." Scud said, just run.
Qi Xiaoting: "Sensei is gone, as long as she doesn't leave Jianjin Prefecture, we can find it." The situation here is tense, so first get rid of the man-eating ants and give the people a stable environment. ”
"Look, what's that?" A farmer exclaimed, pointing to a brown object crawling out of the gate of the tiled house.
The brown object was the size of half a calf, brown throughout, with a section on its belly, red antennae on its head, and eyes like brass bells.
"Queen Ant!" The old monk said, "The legendary queen ant is so big, we finally see it." ”
Qi Xiaoting: "Could it be that it came out to see it off?" ”
Old monk: "Maybe the situation is not in their favor, come out and supervise the battle!" ”
"I asked you to see you off, asked you to supervise the battle, and I will destroy you first!" Qi Xiaoting said, and took out a bow and arrow to shoot a sharp arrow at the queen ant.
When it was shot, the queen's body shook a few times and let out a "hiss" sound.
All the man-eating ants stopped crawling and looked back.
In just a moment, the man-eating ants around the queen crawled to the queen's body and covered it.
Soon, a large man-eating ant stack was piled up outside the gate, huddled together in the dark. The other man-eating ants paused for two or three breaths, and continued to run and move things across the ditch.
"Let's go, everybody." Qi Xiaoting said: "After I broke off with Scud and Li Hong, I had a magic talisman with Li Hong, and Scud ran fast. ”
Dongsheng and Li Hei'er also want to stay, Qi Xiaoting said anxiously: "Staying is also watching, you all have wives and children at home, don't make senseless sacrifices." ”
The old monk also said, "We can't help anymore, let's go!" ”
The two had no choice but to leave.
Qi Xiaoting shot another arrow, but the arrow only hit the man-eating ant stack, and it couldn't hurt the queen ant at all.
"Burn it with fire." Li Hong reminded.
Qi Xiaoting reached out and took out a large handful of flame talismans from the space, strung them on the arrow, and shot them over.
The man-eating ant stack immediately burst into flames, "crackling", and a strong smell of burnt paste floated in the air.
However, the surrounding man-eating ants swarmed even more, trying to use their bodies to extinguish the flames and save the queen.
When the flames were extinguished, Qi Xiaoting shot another sharp arrow with a talisman. The flames rose again, and the man-eating ants swarmed one after the other.
No matter how strong it is, it is also flesh, and the charred man-eating ant carcasses played a role in combustion, and the fire lasted for a long time.
When the third rune arrow was fired, Qi Xiaoting and the others saw that the queen ant in the man-eating ant pile writhed and twisted in the firelight, and then remained motionless.
"Dead." Scud said happily: "The thief captures the king first, the queen ant dies, and the man-eating ant loses its leader!" ”
However, the situation is not optimistic, the man-eating ants on the west bank of the ditch are like wanting to avenge the queen ant, some carry dead branches and leaves, some do nothing, and roll into the ditch "round and round", as if filling the ditch is their mission!
And the man-eating ants around the queen also scattered, picked up the corpse of the man-eating ant that had been burned to death, and ran towards the ditch at a high speed......
It's inevitable that the ditch will be filled!
There are also dense man-eating ants on the east side of the ditch!
"Run!"
Li Hong dragged Qi Xiaoting, who was stunned by the scene, and ran quickly. He had been bitten several times on the inside of his foot and neck, and he was intently in pain.
It turned out that the three of them had patronized and killed the ant queen in the distance, and the man-eating ants climbed up and didn't notice.
After the three of them ran out for a while, they saw that the ants couldn't catch up for a while, so Li Hong stopped to check his feet and necks.
Yes! There were three or four large man-eating ants in their necks, and their ankles were blurred from the bitten flesh.
Qi Xiaoting and Scud's trouser legs also got into the man-eating ants, and they took several bites, and each of them caught a few.
"Tell you to bite!" Qi Xiaoting pinched a man-eating ant and pulled off the head of the man-eating ant fiercely.
"Ah......h
Qi Xiaoting screamed in pain, raised her hand to look, and it turned out that it was the man-eating ant head that had been pulled off and bit her finger.
"I'm a thorn, this thing still wants to take revenge after it dies!" Qi Xiaoting scolded in her mouth, pinched the head of the cannibal ant and dragged it down, and couldn't help but say "oops" again: she actually dragged down a piece of meat.
Li Hong's grandfather and grandson couldn't help laughing.
Qi Xiaoting glanced at them, and she was amused. "How did you kill them?" he asked. ”
"Step on it! Through the soles of the shoes, you can't bite them. Scud pointed to the dead man-eating ant that had been trampled on the ground.
Qi Xiaoting pursed her lips and smiled, quickly took out three ambergris herbal water, used one for herself, and gave one to Li Hong and Scud, and wiped it on the part of the man-eating ant bite.