Chapter 40: The Queen Ant
A soldier ant that climbed onto the turtle's right front leg spread its jaws and pierced through the rocky shell that covered the turtle's body, inserting it into the turtle's rough skin.
Sharp pain came, and the sharp jaws clearly pierced directly into the turtle's skin.
The rock turtle howled in pain, obviously not expecting this group of marching ants to dare to attack it, which was thousands of times its size. It quickly shook its limbs, and the rocks on its body trembled with stone powder.
Under the shaking of the rock turtle, the rocks protruding from the back broke from the roots and smashed to the ground, killing a group of worker ants in one fell swoop.
The dozens of soldier ants clinging to the rock turtle were not shaken off by the slow movement of the rock turtle, but bit the rock turtle and did not let go, and the back half of their bodies were thrown up.
Unlike individual individuals, the horror of marching ants is precisely reflected in the swarm combat.
Compared to marching ants, rock turtles are unattainable behemoths, but as social insects, as long as they are united, they have the power to deal with rock turtles.
One by one, they continued to climb towards the turtle, which could not reach the ants that had climbed on it, and the heavy rocks hindered its agility, making it difficult to even turn its head.
For the first time, the turtle felt fear, and the chick that had provoked it had been forgotten had been forgotten, and it hurriedly moved its limbs and kept back. But at this moment, in addition to the soldier ants, more than 300 worker ants have climbed on its body.
The dense pain came, and the lower body of the rock turtle was covered by dense worker ants, and the soldier ants quickly climbed up to its upper body and began to attack the rock turtle with sharp jaws and formic acid to avenge the death of their companions.
The rocks were bitten through and fell off, and the stone skin, which had been camouflaged and defensive, was now removed from the defense by the marching ants. This was followed by a splatter of flesh and blood, scarred by the sharp jaws.
With a terrible roar, the rock turtle stumbled back with a large number of marching ants, and not far ahead was the entrance to the forest. As the rock turtle fled, the rest of the ant tides that had not yet climbed the rock turtle immediately turned around and turned their heads and crawled towards the east where the rock turtle had fled.
Ants are small in strength, but they can devour an entire elephant. The turtle was covered in bruises, and its speed was slowing down. Some soldier ants burrowed into the rock turtle's mouth, nose and ears, constantly tearing at its internal organs, and some even bit through the ear canal, eroding its brain.
Finally, with a desperate roar, the rock turtle's eyes were bloodshot, and its entire body fell to the ground, its limbs weak. It can't support its massive weight. The hundreds of marching ants chasing on the ground immediately seized the opportunity to climb on top of the rock turtle and surround the latter.
The heart stopped beating, the lungs of the rock turtle were bitten by the soldiers, and a large number of marching ants burrowed deep into the skin, and even the eyes were bitten.
A huge rock turtle with strong strength in the air, but it could not disperse the soldier ants that crawled on its body. Because of a mistake, he finally stopped breathing and recklessly gave his life.
The forest was calm again, save for the sound of marching ants tearing at the skin of the rock turtle. Like saws cutting through trees, marching ants use their jaws to cut through the flesh and skin of rock turtles, and each worker ant carries pieces of flesh several times its own weight back to the camp.
The marching ants, which were still like a swarm of bees, quickly returned to their original order, and some of the worker ants also carried the carcasses of their companions back to the camping area, which was never wasted as food for the colony.
Lin Ye stood on the small mound where the soldiers were waiting before, looking at this orderly group of ants, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion in his heart. As an ant that survives from the Cretaceous to the modern age, teamwork is truly a promising one.
At this point, the rock turtle died under the siege of marching ants, and the gravel area was one less dangerous factor, and it became safer.
"Ding! The host has removed the danger factor that may destroy the dinosaur eggs in advance!Please continue to protect the dinosaur eggs until the time is over, and the main quest rewards will be issued. "The quest system gives a hint at the right time.
It seems that the rock turtle is indeed one of the factors in the progress of the systematic evaluation task! The system's prompt gave Lin Ye a reassurance, which made him happy immediately.
As the initiator of this incident, he flapped his wings, quietly raised his feet, and passed the rock turtle covered with marching ants.
The multi-ton rock turtle is large enough for marching ants to decompose for a long time, and some ants even eat on the spot. Only a handful of soldier ants climbed down from the turtle and stood guard on either side of the worker ant's route. Their tentacles swayed slightly, and the harvest didn't seem to make them let their guard down.
While curiously observing their behavior, Lin Ye saw at a glance a row of worker ants carrying cut pieces of meat, slowly moving towards the west of the forest. Like a group of soldiers in full formation, they pedaled! Their footsteps were almost identical, and they even resonated slightly with the ground.
The oviraptor has returned to the quarry, and the dinosaur eggs are mostly safe. Lin Ye decided to see in advance where the temporary barracks of the marching ants were, which was related to the safety of the dense forest area where he was. He followed the swarm of worker ants, carefully slowing his pace so as not to be discovered.
After walking almost three hundred meters, Lin Ye followed behind a worker ant carrying pieces of meat and climbed over a mound.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Lin Ye suddenly took a sharp breath, and even got goosebumps all over his body.
The dark patch, like a dark cloud in the sky smashing to the ground, filled this place several times more than the marching ants that Lin Ye had seen before, they kept wriggling, like a black vortex in the sand, and the tentacles above their heads were swinging violently.
This colony of marching ants actually lowered their "barracks" directly to the ground!
At the moment, more than half of these marching ants have been sent out to scavenge for nearby food.
In the midst of the colony, there is a very conspicuous marching ant, its belly swollen and white as a touch of nephrite. The swollen abdomen is even the size of an oviraptorosaur, and the genital cavity at the end of the abdomen is constantly expelling white eggs. Around it, there are thousands of similar ant eggs, all of which emit a yellow light that is difficult to see with the naked eye, and they all contain a trace of growth value!
These eggs will hatch and grow into adults within two to three weeks, at which point the successfully hatched marching ants will no longer have growth value.
And the one who lays the eggs is undoubtedly the queen of the marching ants!
Worker ants carrying pieces of meat crawled into the colony, and the surrounding worker ants moved out of the way. It placed the piece of meat in front of the queen, then lowered its head and stepped out.
Seeing all this, Lin Ye retracted his head with some fear. He saw that in the very center of the colony, there was a circle of stronger soldier ants, and there were hundreds of these soldier ants, each of which was the size of two forest nights. If a diplodocus accidentally stepped on this nest, if it didn't retract its feet in time, it would probably have to pay a heavy price, even with its life, under the siege of thousands of marching ants half the size of Lin Ye.
This is not the place that Lin Ye should touch, at least he doesn't have that strength yet, maybe after he becomes a [juvenile], the flame feather cloak is a little more powerful, and he can hurt these soldier ants who are very powerful in close combat, so as to obtain the ants of these marching ants.
Thinking of the ant eggs that might be very delicious, Lin Ye's stomach growled and hungered again. He remembered that half of the roasted true-footed snake had been thrown into a crevice in the rock that the turtle couldn't reach. Lin Ye, who had not yet eaten enough, immediately thought about it.
It's time to go back.
Lin Ye took a step, and according to the memory in his mind, bypassed these marching ants who were not keen-eyed, and hurried towards the stone field.