Running along the edge of the quarry, the sharp gravel hurts to step on under my feet. Lin Ye swam like a black spark between the cracks in the stones, and he immediately rushed out of the stone field and ran towards the sparse woods to the west of the gravel area.

He didn't quickly distance himself from the rock turtle, but hung his wings, pretending to limp, trying his best to make it look like he wanted to run but couldn't, so that the rock turtle always pursued him persistently.

The rock turtle roared, and sure enough, it was fooled, its stubby tail flicking, and chased after Lin Ye's escape route.

Lin Ye's mind came up with the scene of seeing the marching ant for the first time, and he still remembered that the tentacles of the marching ant moved slightly,

As social insects, the coordination and internal differentiation of marching ant colonies are significant. And the marching ant is the most common worker ant among them, after being infected with Beauveria bassiana, it chose to stay away from the colony to avoid infecting its own kind, and its corpse is still there without moving.

This dead worker ant not only suggested that there was a camp of marching ants near Lin Ye, but also allowed Lin Ye to roughly determine the location of the marching ants. The entire gravel area is basically bare, and only the one near the dense forest area may be infested with marching ants.

Lin Ye quickened his pace, his breathing was rapid, and he suddenly burrowed into the entrance of the forest in front of him.

There is a winding path at the entrance, and it seems that many animals use this place as a pathway, but it is very deserted now. In the silence of the forest, there is an occasional sound of rustling, like brushing a brush over fallen leaves piled up on the ground.

With the shaking of the ground, the rock turtle followed closely behind Lin Ye and also came to the entrance of the forest.

The rock turtle hesitated for a moment, it seemed to be afraid of the forest. Lin Ye jumped out of the entrance again, and he had a stone in his mouth and threw it in the face of the rock turtle. Although it did not cause any damage, the Rock Turtle's anger was aroused again, and it no longer hesitated, and rushed into the forest after Lin Ye, who had fled again.

The rock turtle is five times longer than the egg stealing dragon, but its weight is dozens of times that of the egg stealing dragon, it rushes all the way into the forest, just like the Diplodocus that came to the Blood Moon Lake, although it is not as big as the Diplodocus, but it still crashes down the small trees along the way, opening up the trail again.

The fallen tree trunk stirred up heavy dust on the ground, along with a loud crashing sound. Reaching the dark and silent interior of the forest, it seemed to arouse the covetousness of something.

After running for nearly three hundred meters, I didn't see a single living creature along the way, not even the most common ancient cockroaches, as if they had been looted by something.

Without having time to think, Lin Ye looked around all the way, and at the same time dodged the forefeet smashed by the rock turtle, and finally found a live marching ant in a small naturally formed mound of earth a hundred meters in front of him.

This marching ant originally had its back to Lin Ye, but after its six legs felt the tremor of the rock turtle's footsteps, it immediately turned its head and its tentacles swayed slightly. The head is huge, and the sharp mouthparts occupy half the size of the head, and the sharp jaws can easily cut off even a small sapling. It is a soldier ant that guards the colony.

The soldier ant immediately noticed Lin Ye, its eyes that had degenerated so much that it was almost invisible only had a slight sense of light, and when it raised its head, Lin Ye had already jumped past it and continued to run forward.

But before he could run a few steps, Lin Ye was frightened by the scene in front of him.

As a social insect, marching ants do not act alone except in special circumstances, especially for soldier ants.

Ahead was a neatly marching row of worker ants, heading south along the flat land beneath the mound. Densely packed, the number is only a thousand, covering almost all the ground in the 100 meters ahead. They marched in an orderly manner, with soldiers with huge jaws on the front line and wings, and worker ants in the middle, surging south like a raging tide.

This is just a daily hunting operation of marching ants, and it is a small team responsible for scavenging insects and other food in this area, and they do not all migrate.

There were some worker ants carrying centipedes that had been tortured to the point of dying, and there were a large number of beetles whose names Lin Ye could not name. These beetles with black backs turned their heads up, dead. Its limbs were dismantled and carried to the side by the worker ants one by one, and it began to gnaw on the spot, while the only remaining body was carried back to the camp where the queen ant was located by a dozen or so worker ants.

In addition to these insects, there are earthworms, purple-red berries, tree fruits that fall to the ground, and dead ancient cockroaches and grasshoppers.

They don't have a fixed nest and only stay in one area for two to three weeks at a time, during which time the marching ants still scavenge for nearby prey. The queen ant will begin to lay eggs, and when the eggs hatch, the army of marching ants will start again.

Lin Ye, who suddenly inserted into the team, was immediately noticed by this group of worker ants. Some of the worker ants crawled towards Lin Ye, whose footsteps were shaking, their black shells emitting sunlight, and each worker ant was the size of half of Lin Ye's head.

An ant can lift more than 400 times its own body weight and haul objects more than 1,700 times its own weight. If they bite him, then it will definitely be equivalent to announcing Lin Ye's death sentence.

Seeing this group of marching ants, Lin Ye suddenly understood the reason why the number of insects in the dense forest area he was in was so scarce. The dense forest area must have been ravaged by marching ants before, with this group of marching ants, no matter how many insects will be wiped out in front of the black army, it can be called a professional and efficient biological digestion machine.

Lin Ye was ruthless, he flapped his wings, and before all the worker ants noticed him, he immediately flapped his wings and crossed through the ant team.

It was a risky move.

Lin Ye tensed his nerves, and he didn't even dare to take a breath of air. Fortunately, the eyesight of the marching ants is not sharp, as long as Lin Ye does not touch their bodies, it will be fine.

There are too many marching worker ants, and there are too few places for Lin Ye to settle down. Lin Ye walked on thin ice among the ant colony, carefully looking for a gap where he could jump. As long as a mistake is caught by the marching ants, Lin Ye will step into the abyss of no return.

The rock turtle behind it also rushed up on all fours, and it also saw these marching ants, and it was also a little vigilant, but it did not pay attention to them, which had hardly dealt with marching ants.

What can these little bugs do to the tall one? No matter how much they come, it's just rubbish.

The rock turtle could see at a glance that Lin Ye was hiding near the marching ants, although they were all black, but Lin Ye was in the opposite direction from the worker ants, and he was recognized at once.

It lifted its heavy, stout forefoot proudly.

Feeling the light above his head, Lin Ye's fluff stood up, and he immediately jumped to the open space three meters in front of him, and the rock turtle fell with one foot, the ground trembled, the smoke and dust dispersed, and trampled on the two unlucky marching ants nearby.

Dead worker ants release death pheromones that are quickly detected by the surrounding worker ants, and their abdomen lifts up while releasing a large number of pheromones to alert their companions that the colony is under attack!

The soldier ants on both sides of the ant tide immediately showed their sharp pincers, and there were fifty or sixty soldier ants that locked onto the rock turtle attacking the ant colony, and the speed of running increased, and they began to crawl along the clumsy and slow rock turtle!

The revenge of the social insect begins at this moment!