Chapter 6, Ants and Grasslands

After a long distance, the number of ants began to increase, and some of them combined to transport huge monster bodies, and cut and gnaw on materials that could not be entered at the entrance of the hole; Others transport waste from inside the tunnel, mixed with sand and gravel, and pile it up into small anthills next to the tunnel.

Compared with the two ants that are busy transporting, there are more soldiers who are constantly moving west from the cave, like a stream of black streams converging to the west.

Along the line of ants, there was a constant trivial clattering sound coming from the side, which was the noise caused by the collision of the ant's anterior palate, and the more ants, the more annoying and harsh the sound became.

It didn't take long for there to be no way ahead, and many ants formed a stream of ants, and the staggered ant streams weaved into a net, converging into a sea of ants in a farther position, where dense ants surged and made a creepy sound, although far away, they were still in the ears!

At the limit of the cloud's eyesight, at the junction of the sea of ants and the sky, at the forefront of the entire unknown battlefield, from time to time a huge commotion would erupt, and many ants would be thrown into the air, looking like black waves from afar. But the sea of ants soon regained its calm, and continued to roll and shoot westward, like waves crashing on a reef, and the ants were rushing forward and hitting their opponents.

Although he was very curious, Yun Cang did not have the ability to fly, and the detour was blocked by a river in the south, and the north was too far away to cross the ant tide, so it was naturally impossible to know what was happening. After thinking about it, Yun Cang decided to go back to the team first after recording the video, probe the captain's tone, and cross the river from the Xing'an Bridge tomorrow to see what was fighting with the ants from the other side.

Before leaving, Yun Cang carefully released a large range of energy perception, but did not detect the situation on the other side, all the way was densely packed with brown highlights, causing this energy perception to be disordered halfway, he thought to himself: Good guy, there is a sea of energy ahead, if all of them are killed and absorbed, then how many levels do I have to upgrade! These ants are really terrifying, just looking at this order of magnitude, I don't know what kind of ruthless character is on the other side, and they can actually compete with them.

In the evening, next to the camp car, out of the need to stay behind, the two groups did not all come back, but took a two-person round to take turns to report the results of the day.

"Hey, don't you know, at that time, I was standing behind Sister Linlin's void shield, and my mouth was a high-speed chant, and I directly roasted this ant, and it was all oily." Sun Yu's eyebrows fluttered and described, "The other ant still wants to sneak attack, but fortunately it has Linlin's shield, and its big pincers and formic acid are all guarded." My backhand is a big fireball, tsk, the best partner is so clean, but unfortunately I didn't find the crystal nucleus. ”

Hearing that there was no explosive equipment, Xia Yan joked: "It's been said that Africans should not touch the corpse, this is the first time." Your explosion rate is like asking Hanako to move, and there is nothing. ”

“?” Sun Yu glared at the apricot eyes and scolded angrily, "That's much better than some people, with their spiritual teammates, who can't find prey, or even ants." ”

"We're here for sport warfare, not hunting, so we didn't look for it." Xia Yan touched his nose and explained.

"It's strange that a battle maniac would say that." The honest Liu Guangrong said with a smile.

"What are you doing, Glorious, are you my partner?"

In the midst of laughter, everyone enjoyed a sumptuous dinner. Due to the need to guard against ants, everyone extinguished the bonfire and quickly returned to their duty area.

In front of Xia Bing's tent, Yun Cang thought about it again, and still said, "Captain, I have a situation to report. ”

"Come in." Xia Bing's voice came from inside.

As soon as he entered the tent, Yun Cang found that the temperature inside was more than ten degrees lower than that outside, and with the vision of energy perception, the entire tent was covered with blue ice crystal-like energy.

It wasn't until Xia Bing looked up and confirmed that it was him that this energy slowly dissipated.

Looking at Xia Bing, who was still wearing a white windbreaker, Yun Cang began to tell in detail what he had seen and heard along the way, and was engrossed in observing Xia Bing's expression and energy fluctuations.

"When talking about the strange movements of the ants and the sea of ants, her expression was surprised, and the energy fluctuations were normal, it seemed that she really didn't know." Yun Cang thought silently.

"You mean, there's an unknown creature fighting the ants to the west of the nest?" Xia Bing put his chin on his hands and asked, "Your ability is indeed unique, our intelligence officers have never approached that position, but there is no evidence, I think you should have a video." ”

Yun Cang handed over the terminal, and after being interrupted by Xia Bing's thoughts, he now needs to speculate from the beginning, if it is really as stated in the terminal manual, the 12 captains of the camp collectively deliberate and make decisions, then this change of ants should not be the collective work of the Xing'an camp, because Xia Bing, as the captain of Team B, does not seem to know.

Is it possible that Xia Bing is lying to me? No, the probability is very low, if micro-expressions can be faked, then what about energy fluctuations, she didn't know beforehand that I could perceive energy.

Was this the work of the individuals in the camp? Who has the ability? His motives are equally suspicious, why didn't he say it clearly at the meeting because he didn't want to expose it? Or is there another interest?

Of course, there's also the possibility of stumbling into a mutant creature war. In any case, this matter has little to do with me, I am still too weak, and the exploration is only out of interest and self-preservation, and it is only appropriate for the captain to report the matter. Let's sleep today, and tomorrow we will cross the river to see the situation on the spot.

Thinking of this, Yun Cang said to Xia Bing: "Captain, when this matter was reported, it was said that Team B found out, and it was a gift from me to everyone." ”

Xia Bing looked at Yun Cang, and was silent for a while before replying simply: "Okay, you go and rest." ”

After returning to his tent, Yun Cang directly emptied his brain, handed over all his perception to Xiaobai, and soon fell asleep.

As soon as he woke up, the sky was just dawning, Yun Cang simply ate a few pieces of dry food, then put on his equipment and walked towards the Xing'an Bridge, preparing to cross the Xing'an River according to the original plan, and see what was fighting the ants on the south bank.

The scenery on both sides of the road is still familiar, but it is a little messier and more wild than before. Lush plane trees begin to grow wildly after being untended, obscuring the sky above the boulevard to just a few corners; The old shops on the side of the street are bored fiddling with their windows and creaking in the wind because they are in disrepair; Many of the walls were already mottled, so the creepers had to be invited to decorate them with green. Yun Cang walked alone on the road, looking at everything familiar and unfamiliar, and suddenly felt like a world away. Under the golden morning sun, his hair and the entire street were dyed a clear yellow, and there was a sense of alternative vitality.

Walking to the bridge river again, after crossing the bridge is the endless grassland, Yun Cang silently put a layer of energy on himself to prevent an unknown creature from suddenly attacking him after crossing the bridge.

The Hung Yen Bridge was built at the end of the last century, as a key project of strict construction, all the materials are selected from the fine, and the service life is expected to reach 100 years. The whole bridge adopts suspension structure, the stiffening beam is suspended on the steel cable, the two ends of the steel cable are fixed with a large volume of concrete anchors, and the slings hang down from the steel cable to firmly pull the bridge deck, and there are two high towers combined with the bridge piers on the river surface, which provide intermediate support for the steel cable, so that the whole bridge is integrated, strong and magnificent.

But everything is in the past tense, and the current bridge has been blown off more than 50 meters in the middle of the river, and a tall tower has collapsed. The two ends of the broken bridge were simply connected by several steel structures to facilitate the passage of ordinary pedestrians, and the Hung Yen Bridge became a de facto single-plank bridge.

Walking along the steel structure single-plank bridge, Yun Cang found a large number of dark red blood stains on the broken bridge on the other side, these cruel traces accompanied by bullet holes in the ground, all the way to the grassland not far away, silently pouring out the tragedy of the battle that year.

Facing the half-human-high sea of grass in front of him, Yun Cang immediately raised his vigilance, a lesson from the past and the future of the future, and the traces on the bridge fully proved that this is not only a holy place for herbaceous plants, but also the hometown of many dangerous mysterious creatures.

For the sake of safety, he decided to actively consume energy and expand his perception field of vision, so that he could find the high-density energy points around him at the first time. Anyway, it would be a waste not to use the energy crystals issued by the camp, ten of them was enough for him to replenish his energy seven or eight times, and he didn't care about this loss.

Slowly approaching the grassland, Yun Cang felt that he was walking towards a green sea. Ahead, there was glowing green grass as far as the eye could see. It swayed and tumbled in the wind, rushing into the distance one by one. Look closely at the waves, the near ones are yellow-green, the farther ones are emerald green, and the farther ones are dark green, layer after layer, and finally connected into a piece, and the vast one is connected with the blue sky.

Yun Cang couldn't help but sweat, he thought he was ready before he actually went out into the wilderness, but now he felt that he was nothing more than the most fragile reed in nature, no different from the most ordinary weeds in front of him.

He didn't want to enter the grass, in the dense tall grass, no matter how good the information shield was, it would not disappear completely, and the grass next to him was revealing its movements all the time, who knew when the killing machine would come!

Considering that he did not have any means of defense, Yun Cang decided to take the river beach as much as possible if there was a river beach, and walk along the border of the grassland if there was no river beach.

Along the riverbank all the way to the west, the scenery on the grassland side seems to have never changed, always dense half-man-tall grass, yellow or green, with the occasional insect chirp or two. If it weren't for the straight flow of the river, Yun Cang really felt that he was lost.