Chapter 48: The Underground Kingdom
The last thing in the field of vision is the large leaves of the tree.
Thousands of words are only condensed into one sentence, "Your second uncle!" ”
You can't hide!
The tunnel is long, and the bumps are not pleasant. reminded her of when she was a child, her father took them to ride a roller coaster, and her fear of heights was so much that she vomited......
At that time, she was in good physical condition, and she couldn't quite understand it, but now she can empathize.
When he was about to hit the bottom, Yanzi suddenly ripped off the schoolbag behind Tong Sheng and carried it on his back, with his back down.
"Sister Yan?"
The young boy with immature eyebrows was slightly stunned, and before he could react, he was tightly wrapped around his arms together with a waist bag, like spreading his wings to protect the chicks.
This is a standard protective stance.
This time she was not wearing gloves, and her palms were cold, neither soft nor warm, but her ten fingers were slender and powerful, and they could bring a sense of firmness and security.
The child's voice seemed to remember something, and the two of them had landed in a trance-
The pain rushed through his limbs, and his back slammed against something as hard. Yan Zi could see his own health bar on the panel shrink sharply.
This height, if it weren't for the fact that it wasn't a straight road, there was a cushion in the middle, plus there was a schoolbag in it. I'm afraid that in this case, she and Tong Sheng will both have to drive west.
"Hmm......"
The blood couldn't help but surging on the ground, and Yan Zi covered his lips and forcibly swallowed back this mouthful of old blood, for fear that the smell of blood would attract something bad.
It was dark all around, and Tong Sheng didn't dare to speak, so he hurriedly took out a bandage to stop her bleeding.
The life characteristics of the blue egg in the cloth pocket are fine, but they are quiet at the moment, and I don't know if they fainted because of the impact force.
Yanzi dealt with his injuries while touching a flashlight. The fingers stood in front of him, and only a glimmer of light peeked out from between his fingers, and he shone through it carefully. After seeing the surrounding situation clearly, his face gradually became ugly.
Although the child voice had previously said that it was blue underneath, it was indeed a dark underground cavern now.
Countless half-man-high small holes, all connected to the tunnel, I don't know where they lead.
Yan Zi could see that there seemed to be several flesh-colored tentacles near the entrance of the cave, colliding with each other.
She touched something underneath her, her hand sticky.
▲Parasitic soldier ant: P4, the perfect host for butterfly eggs. The internal organs are gradually absorbed, but the empty shell can still function normally until the butterfly in the body is completely broken.
No wonder it didn't decompose immediately, it turned out to be an empty shell a long time ago, but it could still survive.
Tong Sheng suddenly ripped off the corner of her clothes.
Looking into his line of sight, something from behind the entrance to the cave was coming this way......
Yan Zi only pondered for a moment, and then without hesitation, he pulled him to hide inside the soldier ant. The soldier ants are not small, and the two of them can make do with squatting and huddled together.
The inside was almost hollowed out, and the green chrysalis were clinging to the inner wall, swaying and wriggling their heads and tails. Next to it is honey that has not yet been brewed like fat.
It has not yet grown, and can only see white spots all over its body, which are newborn eyes that have not yet opened through the membrane.
Tong Sheng flipped out the dagger and killed him directly.
【Butterfly chrysalis ×1, ant shell ×1】
▲Bee butterfly pupa: high protein supplement, edible.
▲Ant shell: a thin layer, which can be used to make medicines.
The half-smaller ones at the entrance of the cave finally crawled over, and Yan Zi could see their appearance through a compound eye that had been cut off......
Fluffy insects with irregularly shaped heads. A large bunch of pink tentacles protruded from the half-occupied mouthparts.
Its gray eyes do not grow on the top of its head, but on each slender leg, lined up from front to back.
▲Parasitic worker ants: responsible for carrying foraging social animal tools.
Seeing one of them approaching, Yan Zi imitated them, flung a tentacle and touched the other.
But the worker ant froze in place, unresponsive.
The corners of her lips pursed, and she was about to take out the harpoon when a child voice behind her suddenly handed her a blue-green conch.
"Sister Yan, try this ......"
▲ Wonderful Conch: A magical artifact that may be able to help you communicate some of the languages you can't understand.
How can this kid still have such a thing?
Now is not the time to study this problem, Yan Zi stuck the conch in the compound eye, and this time took the initiative to stretch out the tentacles.
“989572……”
The other party reported a string of numbers, and Yan Zi only paused, and then reacted that this should be their job number.
But she didn't know what the number of the soldier ant that had been crushed to death by herself was.
The worker ant on the other side didn't get an answer twice, and seemed to be a little restless, and even began to stretch out its tentacles to caress the compound eyes on the other's body......
Yan Zi knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so he casually replaced it with his own number.
“142857。”
As soon as the words fell, she was ready to simply take the opportunity to slash the other party and steal the job number.
But the worker ant will retract its tentacles at once, and will turn away without turning its head.
"Success?" The child's dagger behind him was still in his hand.
Yan Zi replied to him in a low voice while carrying the soldier ants forward, looking for the exit of the underground ant cave, "They shouldn't be able to remember the ants corresponding to the job number, so as long as it's not an empty number." And the number at the beginning of it is 9, which means that there are so many births in front of it, and it will always be right to get one at random. ”
The two of them moved on their way.
The cave is much bigger and deeper than you think.
In addition, the soil layer here is completely different from the real world, so it is impossible to tell if it is underground.
The road diverges and forks, more winding than a labyrinth.
Even if Yanzi has a good sense of direction, it is difficult to discern.
These ant colonies do things regularly, so she didn't dare to wander around, so she could only follow one of them from a distance, intending to find out the general layout first.
The worker ant went into a small hole next to it, and its feet were damp and sticky.
The shape of the larvae is even uglier than expected, the pink and fat body has not yet fully grown those tentacles, and the disc-shaped mouthparts are sharp and terrifying.
One of them, Chao Yanzi, has a huge mouth on the skin of a soldier ant, and you can see the bee butterfly body inside, wriggling in both compartments......
The image was quite impactful.
▲Parasitic larvae: Larvae that are parasitic from the egg, and when their demand for food is not satisfied, they will devour each other.
The worker ants next to them brought out a piece of pale and bloodless meat, and the larvae immediately rushed to grab it.
Yan Zi could recognize it at a glance, it was a severed finger of a person.
The player who landed on the island was torn apart by them, and the tentacles and mouthparts were very effective, and the straw was just as easy to drain the blood.
Unable to wait for the feeding in front of them, the larvae opened their mouths and tore off one of the compound eyes on the holster leg and chewed it vigorously.
But as soon as the worker ant in front of him left, a harpoon sticked out directly from the broken eye hole and ran through the two sets of fat bodies......