Chapter 111: The Source of the Calamity
Among the known dream possessors, only Guo Xiaojie's queen ant has eaten a large number of insect pupae.
Although Xu Yunshu didn't notice anything unusual about her in the previous cooperation, this does not mean that danger will not come suddenly.
Xu Yunshu was also the first time he had seen this kind of weird insect chrysalis, so he couldn't judge whether Guo Xiaojie would have an accident based on experience.
There's only one way to see if she's safe or not, and that's to see the queen's nest for yourself.
On the way to the queen's nest, Xu Yunshu thought to himself.
The purpose of this trip is to see if Guo Xiaojie is sick, so as to judge the impact of the pupa on the Dream Forest; Second, if she is really in trouble, Xu Yunshu can try to rescue her.
The two have teamed up many times, cooperate tacitly, and are familiar with each other, if they have to see death and not save them, Xu Yunshu asked himself if he couldn't do this.
The speed of a fourth-level predator allowed Xu Yunshu to reach his destination quickly, and before reaching his destination, Xu Yunshu hunted two second-level predator creatures to replenish his body consumption.
The small white land under the cliff is already a place that Xu Yunshu is extremely familiar with.
He has been back to this place more than once since he first glided with his epithelium.
Xu Yunshu once designed an ambush for a sparrowhawk here, so that the Yan family's gang could no longer detect his whereabouts.
It was also here that Guo Xiaojie developed into a clansman, relying on her guidance to find the dream possessed.
In the same place, he led an expeditionary force of 2,000 ants to explore the other side of the cliff, the land of poison barriers, and successfully killed a powerful fourth-level creature.
Now, Xu Yunshu is back here again-
The Dream Forest is in the middle of the day.
The scorching sun shines on the cliff valley, making everything clear.
As a fourth-level predator, Xu Yunshu has proud eyesight, and in such a sunny weather, he can observe more details.
The nest where the queen ant's body is located is naturally at the center of this ant colony empire.
There is a cavern entrance that is the largest in comparison to the other lairs.
But that's only relative.
Using Xu Yunshu's white wolf body as a standard, he could only barely stuff his paws into the nest, and then he couldn't get in.
He noticed that the ant colony's movements seemed to be somewhat disorganized.
Whether it is the queen ant using her wild instinct or Guo Xiaojie controlling the ant colony with her own will, they will show enough regularity.
Worker ants swarm in search of food, tailed thorn ants patrol to protect their homes, and honeypot ants travel from nest to nest to deliver nutrients and energy to all members of the colony.
But now, it's all messed up.
What Xu Yunshu saw was an ant colony swarming from the ground, gushing out like black oil.
Except for the relatively consistent pace of gushing out of the burrow, Guo Xiaojie's ant colony no longer seems to have any order.
They seem to be frightened.
The dense colony of ants scattered and fled, fleeing aimlessly, as if the queen who controlled them was no longer there.
Xu Yunshu thought of this, and his heart tightened.
There is no need to look any further, the performance of the ant colony has proven one thing.
There must be something wrong with Guo Xiaojie's queen body!
At this moment, all the ordinary ants in the nest had crawled out, and the black array they formed quickly moved away, gradually revealing the original shape of the nest.
Xu Yunshu stopped in the distance and waited for a moment.
Caution allowed him to see what was next.
Hundreds of larger ants emerge from their nests, and they are more powerful and swift than their own species.
They are by no means species created and strengthened by Guo Xiaojie.
Because Xu Yunshu saw something familiar.
That weird white line.
They are like bound ghosts, surging on the surface of the bodies of this group of ants, and from time to time they burrow into the ants' bodies.
These things seem to be the power spines of the ants, and they provide the ants with a powerful power boost.
It's like the guinea pig in the lab that has skyrocketed in strength.
Xu Yunshu lowered his body and carefully observed this group of insects with tiny bodies.
They didn't seem to be a threat to Xu Yunshu.
But for the ants who escaped before, it was like a catastrophe.
Xu Yunshu saw a miniature killing.
When the ants entwined in white silk threads face their former kindred, they are like merciless killing deaths.
They crushed, crushed, hunted, stabbed, and used all means to kill ordinary ants.
Xu Yunshu saw these strange insects gnawing at the corpses of their kind, and every time they ingested an ant, their bodies grew a little bigger, and the white silk threads became more and more active.
After slaughtering all of their fleeing kindred, these ants with white silk threads have visibly increased in size several times to the naked eye.
Each of them is the size of a queen ant.
Without a target to kill, they didn't stop there.
These crazy things see each other as flesh and blood.
They are biting at each other, gnawing and killing each other.
Although this battle was inconspicuous in the Dream Forest, a chill rose in Xu Yunshu's heart, who was watching from a distance.
He had begun to understand what the crisis he was about to face.
Perhaps after confirming Guo Xiaojie's condition, he would leave here immediately and hide in the shelter prepared in advance.
There are still many unexplored places in that poisonous barrier land, but it is still much stronger than this ghost place.
He congratulated himself on his foresight as he quietly approached the nest and observed the group of insects fighting each other.
They are many times more powerful than they would be as ordinary ants.
But for Xu Yunshu, it is still not worth paying attention to.
His only concern was the strange white threads.
If he accidentally gets possessed by this kind of thing, will he also fall into the vortex of killing and cannot extricate himself?
When he was in the laboratory, Xu Yunshu was just a guinea pig, and his attention was highly concentrated, and he didn't give them a chance.
But if the amount of these things is enough, Xu Yunshu doesn't dare to guarantee whether he can really be unstained.
While worrying about his own safety, Xu Yunshu was also worried about Guo Xiaojie's condition.
The current situation is that all of her ant colonies are in an abnormal state.
Either possessed by white silk threads, or died of cannibalism.
So, what about the queen body?
Guo Xiaojie couldn't respond to him in reality, was it also because the queen's body was eroded by this kind of thing?
After all, in order to complete the task and cooperate with Xu Yunshu to explore a new shelter, she could only consume a large amount of underground pupa to replenish her energy.
In the colony model, most of the energy is supplied to the queen.
Other words......
Xu Yunshu stopped suddenly.
Xu Yunshu, who realized in advance that something was wrong, retreated slightly and looked up in the direction of the ant nest.
The queen's nest suddenly began to collapse into a deep pit, and a pair of huge tentacles emerged from the ground.
The earth began to rumble.
Moments later, the nest was completely destroyed.
The head of an ant with the size of Xu Yunshu's entire body poked out of the ground, and a pair of compound eyes flashed with crystal light in the daytime.
Hundreds of white threads wriggled on the compound eyes, slowly drilling in and out of them.
This incredibly huge queen seems to have taken a fancy to a certain preyโ
Somewhere in a corner of the forest, the only fourth-level predator.