Chapter 49: The Golden Ring
【Butterfly chrysalis × 1, ant shell × 1】
Their colony is parasitized and used as a tool to hatch another colony.
The honey of the bee butterfly is not brewed by itself like in the real world, but uses the host's body as a container to make the best use of it......
Yan Zizheng was a little puzzled, even if the strength was not strong enough, but with such a huge number, the words of ants biting elephants to death were not casual words.
What's more, hiding deep underground, how did it manage to be invaded so thoroughly. This question was quickly answered in the next place.
"Sister Yan, look."
The swarm of worker ants soon entered another burrow, a strange and tempting sweet smell mixed with fishy smell and decay.
The organs and flesh of the unknown animal were stacked together, and the cuts were smooth and bloodless, mixed with the blackened, shriveled fruits.
The golden, viscous liquid that had been spilled all over the floor, she had a copy in her backpack.
"It's bee butter honey."
Yan Zi recognized it, but he didn't have the slightest intention of taking the opportunity to collect it.
"Sister, ...... here"
Tong Yan gently picked it up with a wooden stick, and under the faint light of the flashlight, he could vaguely see the translucent eggs inside, which were only the size of tadpoles, densely packed together.
In this way, the ill-aware-known creatures called bee butterflies parasitize their larvae on the entire nest of the monster ants.
Yan Zi made a mistake in his back molars, and secretly congratulated himself that he hadn't eaten this thing in the first place. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will also become a vessel for the larvae of bee butterflies.
"Shall we continue to look for an exit now?"
Tong Sheng only dared to have a formal chat with her at this time.
He pointed to the little conch and explained.
"This was found in the stomach of a gull bird after killing it that day, and I didn't expect it to come in handy."
Without this, the two of them might not be as easy as they are now.
"It's rare to come here, and you can't go back empty-handed."
Yanzi moved the holster forward, surveying the cave where the food was stored.
Bloody and corrupt.
A normal person would vomit after a few more glances, but she didn't react much when she was used to seeing this kind of scene.
"Sister Yan, pick these up...... You can't eat it, can you? ”
I saw her stick her harpoon out of the hole in her eye, picking at the pile of things that she couldn't look at directly. Tong Sheng's face was a little pale and at the same time, he was also shocked.
"You're bolder than I expected."
Yan Zi only tilted his shoulders slightly, blocking his view. The harpoon in his hand quickly picked out the freshest pieces of flesh and pieced them together into scattered half-corpses on the ground.
The mutilation is a bit serious, I thought it wouldn't work.
But I didn't expect it to melt into a bead in the blink of an eye, and the system prompt popped up.
【Eyes of Time and Space ×1】
Yanzi threw the thing to the young man behind him, "Take it and expand the backpack." ”
Without waiting for the other party to open her mouth to refuse, she went to turn over a bunch of things, "Don't grind and chirp like fifty or sixty years old." ”
This child is good at everything, and he is a mother-in-law.
Although the pieces of meat were very broken, Yan Zi was very skilled in fighting the corpses, and it didn't take long to restore the victims as much as possible.
【Eyes of Time and Space ×16】
Most of them are eaten because too much time has passed, and there are only one or two parts left to eat, and there is really no way.
After parting with Tong Sheng, she was just about to turn around and leave the place, but out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the golden object in the corner behind the cave entrance.
"Wait a minute."
Yan Zi moved over, and could barely make out that the mass on the ground was the stomach.
It's been too long, and only a thin layer remains, revealing what's inside.
Without hesitation, she reached out and pulled it out—
It was a ring, made of gold, engraved in the shape of a peony, and it was very rich and noble at first sight.
【Gold Ring ×1】
▲ Gold ring: the relics of the deceased, very weighty.
The money in this place was meaningless, but Yanzi still put it away.
"Let's go to the larval cave before."
He took the lead and moved forward again, and his tone was flat, "Shark their children." ”
The child's voice choked.
It was a normal thing, but for some reason it always felt strange to come out of her mouth.
……
[Butterfly chrysalis × 50, ant shell × 50]
There is obviously more to the larval burrow, but the most important thing right now is to find the exit, and as far as you can get along the way, you can take as much as you want.
After serving the cubs in a pot, Yanzi put on a holster and bumped into the two teams when he went out.
One of them is the worker ant, but the other team is the soldier ant.
After a slight hesitation, Yanzi chose to follow behind the worker ants. If the combat effectiveness is low, the chance of winning in case of a fight is relatively large.
Moreover, the soldiers are only more familiar with each other, and the risk of exposure may also be high.
It's just that after following the road for a while, Yanzi realized that something was wrong. There seems to be something strange about the direction in which this group of worker ants is going.
The previous cave tunnels were bifurcated, but the further you walked, the less you walked, the more empty it became, and there was almost only one path left.
"Stand back."
Realizing that something was wrong, Yanzi wanted to retreat.
But it's still a step too late......
A fat, flesh-colored barrel emerged from the ground behind him at some point. With dripping glow-green liquid, crimson tentacles like blood-like tentacles stretched out from the depths of the cavern, almost like old trees.
At the end of the darkness are two giant red lanterns dotted with stars.
"It's the queen ......"
What Tong Sheng can think of, Yanzi can naturally do.
The retreat was blocked by the tail of the calf thing, and the two could only stubbornly continue to follow.
But the more you move forward, the more frightened you become, as if you can't reach the end, how outrageous is the length and size of this queen ant......
Human beings are born with a fear of giants, but when they are formally confronted with a pair of eyeballs composed of countless blood-red dense eyeballs, and then nested dolls in a similar way, countless layers are set up......
The child's body fell forward uncontrollably.
Yan Ziyan quickly freed up an arm to support him, and warned in a low voice, "Don't look at it." ”
▲ Queen Ant: P30, the existence of a race whose main job is to reproduce and rule, has a stomach that can melt metal.
This is probably the only one that is not parasitized, and the strong stomach is likely to completely digest the eggs of the butterfly that have not yet hatched.
But it is precisely because of this that it does not realize that there is something wrong in the food.
Yanzi has a high R value, so although it can't avoid dizziness, it won't almost fall down like a child's voice.
The queen ant's lower body is still buried in the earth, and only the upper half is pulled there by several pairs of flesh-legged feet. Behind him is a pair of translucent wings the size of a palm, which are covered like plastic wrap.
The most shocking thing is that its head is like an irregularly shaking piece of soft gel, changing into various strange shapes with the crimson tentacles underneath.
Rotundity?
Triangle?
Still is...... Square?
This question only appeared in Yanzi's mind for a moment, and after feeling the uncomfortable and rapid breathing of the young man behind him, he was forcibly suppressed.
She gritted her teeth.
Anyway, just let it die.