Chapter 41: The Battlefield

Ants and bees, which are rare lifelong social insects in nature, are known for their complex social structure.

They have a large number of individuals and a distinct hierarchical system, forming a highly organized social group, and realizing the survival and reproduction of their own ethnic groups through division of labor and cooperation.

A large ant nest or beehive can gather hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of individuals, and the fact that such a large size can always be kept functioning properly and thriving, shows the excellent and stable social structure.

If it weren't for the fact that insects don't have the cells to think and the ability to create intelligence, they might have formed a civilized society that is not inferior to humans.

Judging from the current situation, on this mysterious island, after the alienation and transformation of the mysterious factor, these two creatures have obviously broken through the limitations of their own races and evolved into civilized life in the true sense.

The ability to create and rationally use tools is itself the most fundamental feature of an intelligent civilization.

Looking at the falling spears attacking each other in the picture, Xu Yue's face was calm, as early as when he learned about the effect of the mysterious factor, he had some guesses about the current situation, and now it was not surprising to see the ants and bees that gave birth to wisdom.

The only thing he is worried about now is how to communicate effectively with these two groups, you know, whether it is ants or bees, they do not have vocal organs, pheromones, movements, touches and other means of communication between them.

If you finally find a civilized group, only to find that you have no ability to communicate at all, it will be really a waste of effort.

"Master, are we going to leave now?"

While thinking about it, there was a sound of Ah Fu's inquiry in his ears, Xu Yue's divergent thinking recondensed, and he glanced at the situation of ants and bees fighting in the picture, and he said lightly:

"Don't worry, the losses on both sides are not yet broken, and when they develop to the point of 'fighting bayonets', it will not be too late for us to enter the field."

Although the current battle between the ants and bees seems to be anxious, so far, the use of long-range attacks is only a few long-range attacks, and it is far from the most tragic time of the fight.

For alienated creatures, the spear falling stone is only a support after all, and only its own strong body can be called the most powerful weapon.

Only when they start to fight in close quarters can it be said that the battle situation has really entered the white heat, and that is the best time for Xu Yue to insert into it.

After listening to his master's explanation, Ah Fu looked at the projection screen with a little more realization in his eyes, before he thought that the battle situation had already entered the white heat, but now it seems that there is still a distance from the most intense moment.

After thinking about it, he used a wooden bowl to hold the fried egg cooked on the stone slab and handed it to Xu Yue on the side.

"Since we still have to wait, let's eat something first."

The egg pieces fried until golden came into view, the tempting fragrance poured into the nostrils, looking at the wooden bowl handed over by Ah Fu, Xu Yue, who had not eaten all night, immediately felt a sense of hunger in his stomach.

Just as he was about to reach out to take it, he suddenly remembered the suspicious spice that Ah Fu had just added, as well as the 'craftsmanship' he had tasted in the exclusive room before.

Xu Yue's face froze, and he withdrew his outstretched right hand in time, coughing dryly to hide his embarrassment.

"Ahem, no need, I'd better do it myself."

With that, Xu Yue avoided Ah Fu's gaze and turned around and walked towards the corner where the bird's eggs were placed.

After a few moments, both men had eaten and drunk, and the battle situation in the projection screen changed, no longer whistling spears falling stones, but into waves of swarms that swooped down towards the ground.

At this time, the battle between ants and bees can be regarded as entering the climax stage.

"Let's go, the stage is set, it's time for us to enter."

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Mysterious Island, a wooded lake.

The humming sound of the mmencho flapping resounded in the sky, but it still couldn't hide the sky-pounding battlefield killing, and all the areas around the lake were now covered by black and yellow waves.

The two waves were entangled and hedged against each other, yellow-green or amber blood was thrown into the air, and the entire battlefield was constantly emitting a rich and pungent fishy smell.

A large number of alien creatures located around the battlefield began to flee frantically, and among them, two black shadows were swimming upstream, rapidly approaching the core of the battlefield.

In the center of the battlefield, the sky above is endless, and it is difficult to see the swarm of bees on its edge, which are arranged in an orderly manner, like waves that rise and fall, and are constantly swooping downward.

Closing the field of vision, a wasp with a size of nearly three meters was falling rapidly in the yellow phalanx, and after successfully approaching the ant colony below, the spikes on its tail let out a sharp roar, and stabbed down suddenly, and the spikes accurately pierced a pitch-black ant head, and instantly eliminated an enemy.

At the same time, the black spear clenched in its forefoot stabbed out, piercing an enemy once again with the powerful kinetic energy of the dive.

Although it failed to hit the vital point this time, the bee venom attached to the spear had already invaded the target's body, and death was only a matter of time.

In just a few breaths, this wasp has killed two ant enemies who are only slightly inferior to him in size, and after doing all this, it did not continue to fight, but flapped its membranous wings on its back, driving its body to quickly pull up, out of the attack range of the ant colony under it.

As the wasp took off, countless colonies rose simultaneously around it, and another wave of bee colonies above was ready to dive again.

As a result, the whole sky was completely enveloped by the undulating yellow waves.

Flying is the biggest advantage of the swarm, and the wasps who control the airspace will naturally not choose to fight with the ant colony on the ground, but adopt this strategy of diving and charging up after one blow to retreat, which can effectively kill the enemy below while ensuring its flight agility.

Of course, there are gains and losses, and not every wasp can return to the airspace safely after swooping down.

There are quite a few bee colonies that have just fallen, and they have been clamped by the ants who have been prepared for a long time with their mouths and jaws, and once they are dragged to the ground, what awaits them is a fate that is submerged by countless ant colonies, and none of them are spared.

In addition to passive counterattacks, the ants on the ground are not without other ways to attack, only to see some of the flaming ants in the black ant colony began to exert force, they gathered to form a square formation, and then raised with a little black full belly.

The next moment, a large amount of venom was shot out by this group of fiery red ants into the sky, and all wasps touched by the venom would instantly appear to have their bodies dissolved and burned, and their bodies were convulsed and weak, they trembled and fell from above, and then they were torn to pieces by the surging ant colony.

What's more, there are also yellow-brown ants that are thrown into the sky by their companions, and after reaching the highest point, the ant's whole body begins to swell, and then explodes.

The sprinkling venom exploded outward, and all the affected wasps around them fell like a torrential rain.

Although the swarm is larger and has the advantage of airspace, the ant colony has a more diverse range of troops, coupled with a strong carapace and strong strength, the difference in combat power between the two sides is not huge, and it can only be said that there are advantages and disadvantages of each other.

"Fire Red Ant, Mulberry Flat-headed Ant ......"

At the edge of the battlefield, two figures hid in the dense canopy, quietly observing the situation on the battlefield.

Looking at the ants with different colors in the field, Xu Yue muttered in a low voice, and he recognized the two types of ants.

The ant's venom is extremely aggressive, can cause serious damage to the flesh, and will leave corrosive scars like flames, which are difficult to eliminate.

This guy is known as one of the most dangerous invasive species, and his reputation is not small.

The ant, which has a yellow-brown body, is the Mulberry flat-headed ant, which has a nickname, which is a self-exploding ant, just from this name, it can reflect the characteristics of this guy, and the other party is very good at ending up together.

When in danger, the Mulberry flat-headed ant will self-detonate to launch the venom in the body to the greatest extent, unlike the strong corrosiveness of the red fire ant venom, its venom can not directly kill the target, but it has strong adhesion and paralysis, so the infected wasps will fall one after another.

These two kinds of ants are also famous in the entire ant family, and they can be as famous as well-known guys such as marching ants and bullet ants, and it is precisely because of the other party's fame that Xu Yue can quickly identify the identity of the other party.

"Do multiple ant populations with completely different living environments live together, it seems that this ant civilization is bigger than I imagined."

After identifying the identities of these ants, Xu Yue did not feel relaxed, but his face became more and more solemn.

There are more than 11,700 species of ants known to humans in nature, and many of them are individuals with extremely terrible racial talents, but although they belong to the same ant group, they will never live together, and even form a situation of fighting and killing each other.

For example, the Mulberry flat-headed ant on the battlefield, the opponent's self-explosion ability is because he can't defeat the yellow lynx ant of the same ant family, so he will evolve this kind of combat skill that will end up together.

As for why this phenomenon occurs, it is necessary to talk about the social structure of ants, no matter what kind of ants, their social forms can be roughly divided into various classes such as queen ants, male ants, soldier ants and worker ants.

Among them, the queen ant occupies an absolute dominant position, because it is with the queen ant that a large ant nest can exist.

In an ant colony, there is often only one queen, and the queen of different populations is undoubtedly single, which leads to the fact that the ant colony is unlikely to be mixed, and they cannot accommodate two kings.

But this huge ant colony on the battlefield has broken this limitation, and it is not difficult to come to a conclusion from this.

In front of the queen of the ant civilization, she either has the ability to give birth to multiple ant populations, or through some method, she controls the queen of other ant populations.

But whatever the possibility, it shows that this ant civilization may be more prosperous and powerful than he expected.

Since the ant is like this, the strength of the bee colony civilization that can fight it at the moment and faintly overwhelm it is naturally not far behind.

"Master, which side should we help after we enter the field?"

Just when Xu Yue was still recalling how many special individuals there were in the ant family, Ah Fu's inquiry sounded in his ears again, and his thoughts were separated from the memory, and Xu Yue raised his eyes to look at the battlefield situation in the distance.

Although the ant colony is very strong in combat and has more diverse attack methods, it is still at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, so from the overall trend, it is still pressed by the bee colony that occupies the airspace, and it has gradually begun to show signs of exhaustion.

Seeing this, Xu Yue's eyes lowered, the golden red flames rose between his eyes, and the Xiaoyun longbow in his hand appeared.

"The icing on the cake, how can it be compared to sending charcoal in the snow, naturally whichever side is invincible, we will help whichever side."

After that, the longbow in his hand was lightly raised, the string opened, the arrow condensed, and released!

"Whew!"

There was a faint whistling in the air, and the golden light flashed away.

Not far away, above the battlefield, a beam of golden light flashed from below, and in an instant, it had reached the dense swarm of bees.

The golden light pierced through multiple wasps along the way, and finally exploded in the center of a wasp phalanx, and with a roar, a large amount of golden-red flames also spread out from the center of the explosion.

In the place where the flames were encompassing, all the wasps were burning with boiling fire, and although the wasps had a shaggy and round body like bees, they also had a little fluff on their bodies.

These fluff are the best accelerants, once affected, the pure yang flame will spread to the whole body at a very fast speed, and the unlucky wasps will soon be swallowed by the flames to swallow the membrane wings that are constantly flapping behind them, and then fall directly from the sky, and be instantly torn apart by the black tide of the ant colony below.

And those who are a little more lucky are just surviving, and the adhesion of pure yang is not low, especially when dealing with these aliens.

Although they were not burned by the sun, their skin and flesh were burned through layer by layer.

In this extreme pain and torture, the wasps began to struggle and roll frantically, intending to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but this did not help, but instead spread the pure yang flame in the already dense bee colony.

After a while, more than 60% of the entire phalanx was covered in flames, and there was a tendency to gradually expand.

With just one arrow, Xu Yue almost abolished most of the bee colony square, and inside a square team, there were at least thousands of wasps, and the effect was quite exaggerated.

Seeing this situation, Xu Yue, who was hidden in the canopy, was slightly stunned, the fire resistance of this bee colony was surprisingly low.

And just when Xu Yue was stunned, the riot of the wasp team quickly attracted the attention of the leader of the swarm, and he saw that at the top of the swarm, a giant killer bee with a body size of more than four meters was overlooking the entire battlefield.

The crimson oval insects roamed left and right, and after observing the fire burning in the bee colony, the red red insects immediately froze.

Then its two tentacles on its forehead began to tremble, and an invisible ripple instantly spread throughout the colony.

"All the warriors who were affected by the flames immediately broke away from the colony and launched a suicide attack on the ant colony."

The message contained in the ripples spread, and without the slightest hesitation, all the wasps entangled in pure yang fire began to descend rapidly, launching a fierce attack on the ant colony with spikes, spears, and even the flames on their bodies.

Even in the process of falling, many wasps noticed the nearby lake, and none of the wasps shifted their direction, they would only be absolutely loyal to the orders of the commander, even at the cost of their lives.

Less than ten seconds after the command of the killer bee was issued, all the fire in the colony disappeared, and boiling golden flames began to appear in the colony below.

However, compared to the fluffy body of the wasp, the ants covered in carapace are obviously much more resistant to fire, and these sporadic ignitions were quickly extinguished, failing to set off too many storms.

In the distance, Xu Yue watched the firelight disappearing into the swarm, and the bowstring in his hand was pulled open again.

"Boom! Boom ......"

Soon, a series of explosions resounded in the bee colony, and large areas of golden red flames bloomed everywhere in the bee colony, and the blazing wasps fell one after another.

Although the pure yang flame that exploded did not spread as continuously as the first time, with each arrow, Xu Yue could at least destroy hundreds of wasps.

After a while, as the rhythm of the attack was disrupted, the entire bee colony became a little chaotic, and at the same time, a wasp team also broke away from the large force and flew quickly towards Xu Yue's direction.

(End of chapter)

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