Chapter 462: Fire Ant Plague (1)

When Lu Xing, who was hiding in the void, heard this, he almost fell out of his head, this European girl's personality is really a little excessive.

Suddenly, a gust of monsoon wind blew from the direction of the coast, and a strange heat was carried into the air, and Lu Xing frowned and looked in the direction of the coast.

Now that autumn has begun, the sea breeze at night is the kind of cool and comfortable feeling, and this kind of heat is definitely not normal at the moment.

The distant coast is still about sixty or seventy kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, and if you add the endless jungle, it is estimated that there are still nearly two hundred kilometers to reach the No. 04 settlement.

Lu Xing's current perception ability has exceeded more than 110 kilometers, but the No. 04 settlement is a little beyond the range of perception here, so he has not carefully perceived the coastline.

After this hot monsoon hit, Lu Xing hurriedly teleported in the direction of the coastline, and after three or four teleportations, his feet stepped on the soft sand in southern China.

The jungle in front of us stretches for more than 100 kilometers, and the evolved plants are particularly tall, coconut trees have grown to a height of nearly 100 meters, and there are many with a diameter of more than one or two meters.

Because the climate of the ocean is extremely humid, all the plants are not as tall as Emily said, and the jungle is full of vines climbing indiscriminately, such as dodder seeds, oil wisteria, mutant wisteria, windmill jasmine, etc., which almost connect the huge jungle into a whole.

This kind of jungle is difficult for ordinary people to cross, even for long-trained soldiers, but for an evolutionary of Lu Xing's level, there is almost no jungle that cannot be crossed.

With a slight release of his wood elemental ability, the evolved vines will consciously retract their tentacles and let him pass.

After the spiritual power is released, this jungle is also quiet, without a little animal noise, this is the beginning of autumn time, even at night, there will be autumn insects chirping, this situation is absolutely abnormal.

Suddenly, on the ground more than thirty kilometers away, more than a dozen human skeletons attracted Lu Xing's attention, and it is normal for there to be bones in the wilderness and jungle now, but these more than ten skeletons are a little weird.

Their clothes hung in sheets from Bai Sensen's bones, as if they had been corroded by something, and the surrounding plants also showed signs of corrosion, and the leaves and branches had corroded and burned yellow patches.

Some of the pale bones were still bloodshot, and it appeared that all muscle tissue had been artificially removed after death.

Half of these bones still have stainless steel nameplates unique to the 'Dawn' soldiers around their necks.

After perceiving the soldiers, Lu Xing appeared near the bones with a teleportation, this is a big event, if these soldiers can be killed here, then the threat is likely to be near the settlement, with the quality of the 'Dawn' soldiers, they can be quietly hunted near the settlement, this is a very small probability event.

Taking off the nameplate from a skeleton, Lu Xing put it in front of him to watch, only to see that it was written: Fourth ......, 400170th 3rd Division...... The handwriting on the back has been corroded by some kind of acidic substance, indicating that the fragments of their clothes are definitely related to corrosion.

He took off the other nameplates and looked at them in turn, and finally he determined that these soldiers were soldiers of an independent regiment of the Third Division of the Fourth Column Army, and unfortunately encountered an accident when they went out hunting.

Judging from the bullet casings in one place, they were attacked by something before they died, and these soldiers had used their guns to shoot blindly in all directions, but none of the corpses or clues of the target were left.

Looking at the Gatling machine gun hanging on the bones of a soldier, Lu Xing was even more puzzled, although this thing is not powerful enough for large-scale evolutionary things, but at least it can still break the defense, and now in this area, there is no trace of the target of the attack, as if the traces have been deliberately cleaned up.

Sensing it further, a white bison skeleton appeared, judging from the traces left on the ground, this guy should have been attacked by something, and then ran wildly in the jungle like crazy, and there were not a few trees that were broken along the way.

You must know that after the cataclysm, the bison has become as large as an elephant, and it is difficult for ordinary things with rough skin and thick flesh to easily break through their defenses.

The next moment, Lu Xing almost urinated, because in the spiritual world, hundreds of kilometers were full of dead beast bones, and even a few giant wolves, you must know that the wolves are definitely one of the most unprovoked creatures in the current wilderness.

"Shhhh......h

Lu Xing gasped, this jungle was simply too weird, as if there were monsters hidden everywhere, and this monster was still invisible.

Of course, this kind of killing can't be caused by predators, who hunt creatures with super strength and don't have so much leisure to hunt ordinary herbivores.

A burst of heat struck again, and this heat seemed to float from the deeper part of the jungle, and it was definitely not what this autumn night should have.

Lu Xing frowned, and slowly moved in the direction where this heat came, this unknown thing can empty hundreds of kilometers of jungle, it must have extremely huge terrifying power!

Suddenly, a reddish-brown cone-shaped building entered the spiritual perception, this thing is about thirty meters high, about twenty meters in diameter, and the whole body is made of fist-sized reddish-brown rock, but the construction process is extremely precise, and it is not at all possible with human construction technology.

Further away, there is a cone building of the same pattern that is only half built, and where is half of the building still placed at the moment, I don't know if it stopped because of the night.

Lu Xing was a little puzzled, he didn't know who was doing this strange building here, there was not even a door in the whole body, and it seemed that there was only a big hole like a hole at the top.

"Shhhh......h

Suddenly, Lu Xing gasped, the conical shape of this pattern seemed to be only engaged in by some kind of insect.

The spiritual power probed underground along the root of the cone-shaped building, and the scene that came to mind gave the creature goosebumps all over its body.

More than 30 meters below the ground, this cone-shaped shape is filled with countless passages, which lead in all directions like the rhizomes of a large tree.

These passages are not tall, but they are extremely deep, and the rock and soil layers are as smooth as a mirror, as if countless things are entering and exiting the passages.

Directly below the cone, there is a road hole that can be walked through by adults, which extends down to about 10,000 meters, and the road hole is densely packed with small road holes hanging on the main hole.

Sensing this, Lu Xing was about to really pee, is this clearly some kind of ant's cave, can the cone be built so tall, and the underground tunnel is so deep, this group of ants is definitely not an ordinary ant.

However, he sensed nearly half of the underground anthills, and did not find a single ant.

In today's wilderness, apart from wolves, the most unprovoked creatures are these inconspicuous little creatures, organized, disciplined, moving in groups, with powerful jaws that can chew everything and swallow everything they can eat, including humans.

After the first fully constructed cone was completely perceived, Lu Xing did not find a single ant here, but the strange and fishy high temperature came from the bottom of the cone.

The column formed by the cone poked towards the sky cleverly formed a cylindrical passage that allowed the air flow to rise, just like the cylindrical chimney built by humans, the updraft pumped the stuffy gas in the cave into the air, and the hole reserved in the cave pumped fresh air into the underground space.

The insects that can build this underground castle, except for the earth bee is the ant, this kind of insect class, hymenoptera small things, born with infinite strength, good at digging, after the door of evolution is opened, they become even larger, a queen ant is about to catch up with the size of the hound.

Ordinary worker ants and soldier ants are more than an adult's big-footed girl, and they are absolutely terrifying, and the formic acid they spray can make humans or other creatures hit dozens of meters away, and the power is comparable to that of a pistol.

When he thought that this might be an ant colony, Lu Xing suddenly felt a little toothache, because the bones of humans and animals before could already explain many problems, and there was nothing left that could gnaw away the flesh and blood of animals, except for bacteria, which was probably an ant colony.

Extending the perception to the unfinished cone, this one appeared to be quite larger than the first one, as the half-cylindrical shape of the ground was at least three meters in diameter.

This place belongs to the extension frame of the mountain range, the two anthills are equal to the construction of the mountain, except for a small part of the ground, the other nearly 10,000 meters are below the ground, which shows that the excavation function of this group of ants is simply extremely strong, and all the mountains below are hollowed out.

"Ah...... This......! ”

Less than thirty meters down from the spiritual power, the thing screamed in shock, because in its perception, there were wriggling fiery red creatures everywhere...... What is it if it's not a fire ant?

The fire ants in the perception are really the size of an adult's big feet, and a pair of tentacles on their round heads are constantly swinging, as if they are catching some kind of pheromone in the air.

Fire ants, belonging to the subfamily Leafcutter Ants, are one of the most aggressive ant species with a large amount of formic acid in their venom glands.

After evolution, these guys are not only super large, but also the toxicity of formic acid has increased several times, and once the gathered population is large enough, then its harm will become extremely high, because these guys will attack any species that can swallow their stomachs.

What shocked Lu Xing was the huge number of this ant colony, from thirty meters below the ground, within more than ten kilometers, there were all black and fiery red ant colonies, it was late at night, these guys were all huddled together for the night, and it could be seen that the reason why there were no ants in the other anthill was this huge anthill that had not yet been completed.

Further down, three or four queens the size of hounds huddle together, and they are the center of the colony.

Under normal circumstances, there will only be one queen in an ant colony, and more than two queens can appear, which can only mean that their colony is too large and is splitting the population......

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