Chapter 288: Blockage
In this way, the number of this temporary monk team on the Fire Chain Island increased to nineteen.
As the number of fire-eating ants behind them increased further, their pursuit slowed down a little again. As a result, the monks who were desperately fleeing for their lives in front of them, not daring to stop for a moment, the pressure on them to maintain their escape speed as much as possible was further reduced.
However, if they were surrounded by fire-eating ants, the chances of them escaping were even lower.
After the rendezvous, the most immediate benefits are immediately apparent.
Even if the direction has been chosen, there will always be small schools or large groups of fire-eating ants emerging to intercept the monks on their way to escape.
At this point, the monks automatically took turns as arrows to open the way in front.
After all, everyone knows that in the face of the tide-like demon beasts, only by cooperating with each other and supporting each other can they last longer and find a chance to escape. If the cooperation is not smooth, or even concealment of personal interests and infighting, it is self-defeating.
Therefore, among these dozen people, the rotation of the arrows that have become the leader in turn is relatively smooth.
Fire-eating ants are small after all, and the number of fire-eating ants blocking the road is far from the number of fire-eating ants chasing behind, so they can easily be overwhelmed by the spells of the monks.
This is also the reason why the monks who fled for their lives, they have not been intercepted, but have been besieged by groups.
To defeat the intercepted fire-eating ants, the mana required is not small.
If a monk keeps being an arrow in front of him, he won't last long.
Now, having taken turns as arrows, the monks have plenty of time to return to their souls. On the way to escape, he was much more relaxed.
However, as far as a dozen of them are concerned, although they have not been surrounded by fire-eating ants for the time being, under the current situation, how can they compare with the number of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of fire-eating ants on this fire-chain island?
If they don't come up with a feasible solution, sooner or later, after the elixir is exhausted and their mana is exhausted, they will be swarmed by many fire-eating ants, eating up the flesh and bones, and there will be no scum left.
Among the people who fled for their lives, Chen De was undoubtedly the most familiar with the terrain among the dozen or so people.
Unfortunately, they were divided into several groups, and each time the two of them became the leading arrows to open the way, in the direction of progress, as different monks became arrows, because everyone basically ran according to their senses, or in the direction of fewer fire-eating ants.
So, in fact, the direction in which they are moving has been unconsciously turning.
This made Chen De a little dizzy. Therefore, he has never been able to tell where the dozen or so of them have fled.
Chen De began to get a little anxious.
Moreover, in their team, as time passed, there was no hope of getting rid of the army of fire-eating ants in hot pursuit, and with the continuous consumption, the remaining mana became less and less, and everyone's mood became more and more anxious.
This time, it was Chen De and Tang Junyi's turn to serve as arrows and open the way.
Like before, Tang Junyi threw the swordfish junior brother in his hand, who was tied like a human stick, to Laurentian.
The first time Chen De and Tang Junyi were used as arrows, at that time, after Tang Junyi glanced at the monks around him, he threw the swordfish junior brother who looked like a human stick in front of the tall Laurenson.
There was no need to explain in words, Laurentian naturally knew the meaning of Tang Junyi's move, he was very simple, not verbose at all, he picked up the swordfish junior brother and fled with him.
And when Chen De and Tang Junyi withdrew, he simply threw the swordfish junior brother back to Tang Junyi.
The act of being thrown around by the two of them, who was tied up like a human stick, was repeated over and over again in the escape process of this special team of monks.
Although in the process of escaping for their lives, the monks were constantly injured while fighting with the fire-eating ants, fortunately, for the time being, none of the monks were so badly injured that they could not fly away on their own.
Otherwise, he or she would probably have to be thrown around like this.
And being forced to throw it around like this, the person concerned is really embarrassed, and it can be said that he has lost face.
Therefore, these dozen or so people subconsciously tried their best to protect themselves and avoid injuries that would affect their flight, so as not to be thrown around like this.
This time, Chen De used an ice-based spell to disperse a small group of fire-eating ants that blocked the way, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
The terrain in front of him was familiar to him, and he quickly remembered that he had been here before.
Chen De was overjoyed, because he remembered that in the distance on the left front, there was a small but rather huge mountain, and about the side of the mountain, there was a cave.
The cave opens halfway up the mountain, and upon entering, the cave slopes downward. At that time, he was curious to go into the cave to find out.
Based on the traces of the formation of the cave wall and the direction of the cave, Chen De believed that this cave may have been one of the channels of hot magma during the eruption of the volcano a long time ago, and when the volcano stopped erupting, this magma channel formed this cave after the hot lava receded.
Therefore, Chen De saw that there were traces of magma flowing and scouring on the walls of the cave, and the walls of the cave were somehow quite hard.
Chen De didn't think much about it anymore, and immediately said to Tang Junyi quickly: "Senior Brother Tang, there is a cave in front of the left that you can hide!"
Tang Junyi was busy dispersing fire-eating ants, and when he heard Chen De's words, he was overjoyed.
Because they can hide in the cave to avoid being surrounded by fire-eating ants up and down, left and right, back and forth, and guard the entrance of the cave, they can have a chance to breathe.
Tang Junyi immediately asked, "Where is it?"
Chen De used his hand to point in the direction of the mountain.
Tang Junyi looked in the direction where Chen De's hand was pointing.
Because it was still far away, on that peak, the rocks were messy, and the entrance to the cave was not very large, so he didn't see the entrance to the cave at all.
Chen De said in a firm tone: "It's halfway up the mountain!
Tang Junyi felt a little strange in his heart, so far away, how could Chen De see at a glance that there was a cave where he could hide?
However, now that the situation is so urgent, where is the time to dwell on such details!
He directly ignored the doubts in his heart, and besides, he trusted Chen De 120,000 times.
Tang Junyi immediately shouted to the rest of the people: "There is a cave in front of the left, you can hide, follow me!"
Then, he immediately followed behind Chen De and turned to the direction where the cave was located.
The rest of the more than ten people were all happy.
Because these more than ten people are not stupid, they naturally know that the cave where they can hide can at least give them temporary shelter, so that they can all get precious respite and healing.
Under the great lifting of spirits, the speed of this group of monks suddenly became much faster, and they suddenly threw the dense army of fire-eating ants behind them farther away.
Following Chen De and Tang Junyi, after a while, everyone clearly saw that there was a cave with a diameter of two zhang on the mountainside.
The spirit is lifted again. When they came to the entrance of the cave, everyone rushed in.
Everyone was in the cave, each of them settled down and stood up, and after a short breath, the entrance to the cave suddenly darkened.
It turned out that the army of fire-eating ants that were following the pursuit had arrived.
Although fire-eating ants have intelligence, most of the time, they still use instinct as a guide to their behavior.
Especially those fire-eating ants that have eaten the flesh and blood of these monks, chasing down this group of monks, are extremely brave, and they don't care about it at all.
The hole is not small, but there are too many fire-eating ants. Some want to fly in, some want to jump in. The entrance to the cave was immediately blocked, so the hole was immediately dark.
The last two people to enter the cave were Konglat and Samir, they had already turned around, and the two of them were facing the entrance of the cave, one of them sent out a fierce ice spell, and the other sent out a wind blade technique.
Because, fire-eating ants like heat and fear cold, and the Wind Blade itself has a lethal effect, and at the same time, it has a bonus effect on the Ice Technique.
Suddenly, these two spells killed and injured a large number of fire-eating ants at the entrance of the cave. The fire-eating ants blocking the entrance of the cave suddenly collapsed into a large piece. Immediately, another light came through the cave.
The ferocity of the fire-eating ants was completely stimulated, and the fire-eating ants behind them were still surging into the cave.
This made the monks, who had just been given a chance to breathe, have to get up again and take turns to kill the fire-eating ants that rushed in through the hole.
The topography of this cave made more than a dozen monks temporarily qualified to compete with the army of fire-eating ants.
Because now, every impact of fire-eating ants can only be launched through the mouth of the cave.
No matter how many fire-eating ants there are, the number of fire-eating ants that can rush into the cave to fight the monks every time is a very small part of them.
No, now outside the cave, the fire-eating ants have landed densely on this peak.
The fire-eating ants are so dense that the mountain seems to have been darkened from black and gray to fiery red.
Moreover, there was only one attack on the monks from one direction, which greatly reduced the difficulty for everyone to deal with them.
The fire-eating ants attacking from the entrance of the cave were killed and injured by more than a dozen monks in turn.
This also greatly angered the army of fire-eating ants.
After a long time, the hard cave walls gradually loosened under the impact of repeated spells. Large chunks of dark rock, and large and small pieces of rubble, fell one after another.
Stones of different sizes, mixed with the carcasses of fire-eating ants.
Fire-eating ants that are frozen to death by ice spells are broken into ice cubes and ice slag. The bodies of fire-eating ants that have been killed by the impact of spells are either broken or flattened, and many of the body fluids of the fire-eating ants erupt from them.
The formic acid of fire-eating ants is extremely corrosive, but its body fluids are sticky.
As a result, the entrance to the cave was gradually blocked.
In the cave, the light gradually faded, and more than a dozen young monks became more and more settled.
Finally, with another wave of resistance, the cave became pitch black.
Because, the hole is completely blocked.
The crowd was finally relieved, and many sat on the ground full of fire-eating ant bodily fluids, regardless of the filth.
Soon, several small fireballs lit up, illuminating the tired faces of the crowd.