Chapter 433: Ant Nest
From 1 a.m. to 4 a.m., the rainstorm fell for more than three hours.
At the beginning of the sunny day after the rain, the air becomes extremely fresh, especially the rainbow between the sky and the earth in the distance, which undoubtedly makes people's mood a lot better.
After simply eating the dry food they carried, Qin Xiaolong and the others continued to set off.
But because of the rain that had just fallen, the roads were very muddy, which slowed them down a lot.
When it was nearly ten o'clock, Qin Xiaolong and the others came to a canyon.
This canyon is simply a paradise of medicinal materials, such as golden clematis, heavy building, gastrodia, and Sichuan fritillary can also be seen everywhere.
However, Qin Xiaolong came to the 100,000 Mountains this time for the black-veined ants, so naturally he would not waste time on these ordinary medicinal materials.
Just as he was about to reach the center of the canyon, Abu suddenly stopped.
"It's not good, it's a miasma!"
Abu shouted with a solemn face.
In the woods in front of them, a mist was constantly rising, and if you sniffed closely, you could smell a faint fishy smell.
But this is not fog at all, but miasma!
"Old Wei, let's take a detour, it's too dangerous to walk directly through the miasma."
Abu looked at Wei Boyang and suggested.
Miasma is a poisonous gas generated by the decay of animals and plants in the primeval forest, after inhaling the miasma, it can make people vomit and diarrhea, and in severe cases, it will directly make people lose their minds and go crazy and die.
Therefore, Abu has always stayed away from miasma.
"No, you ate this."
Wei Boyang said, took out a small medicine bottle from the bag he was carrying, and poured out three pills from it.
"What is this?"
Abu asked, puzzled.
"This is a miasma avoidance pill made by myself, and only one is enough to ensure that you will not be poisoned by miasma within a day."
Wei Boyang briefly introduced.
Before he came, he expected to encounter miasma, so he made a lot of preparations in advance, and this miasma pill was specially made by him with medicinal materials such as Atractylodes realgar, and it came in handy right now.
"Old Wei, are you sure this pill really works?"
Abu asked incredulously.
"Of course, do you think I'm going to joke with my life?"
Wei Boyang smiled.
Hearing this, Abu didn't question it anymore, took the pill and swallowed it in one gulp.
Then Wei Boyang sent another one to Qin Xiaolong.
Qin Xiaolong was still very confident in his strength, and the ordinary miasma couldn't poison him at all.
But there are a lot of poisonous insects and poisonous weeds in the 100,000 mountains, and no one can say how these miasma came from, so to be on the safe side, he also swallowed the pill.
About five minutes after eating the miasma pill, Wei Boyang asked Abu to continue his departure.
Abu was still very nervous in his heart at this time, he was afraid that Wei Boyang's miasma avoidance pill would be useless, if that was the case, he would most likely die here.
Thankfully, it turned out that he was just worrying about the sky, and he didn't feel anything unusual until they passed through the entire miasma area.
"Old Wei, your pill is really a god, it's the first time I know that there is a pill that can prevent miasma!"
Abu looked at Wei Boyang with admiration.
"It's just a little trick, it's not worth mentioning."
Wei Boyang replied nonchalantly.
"Old Wei, I have a reluctant request, I don't know if you can give me a few more miasma avoidance pills, or I can pay for them, so that my family won't have to worry about falling into miasma when they go out to collect medicine in the future."
Abu asked, a little embarrassed.
His own uncle had died of miasma poisoning before, and he definitely didn't want this tragedy to happen again.
"I don't have a total of a few miasma pills, but when I get back, I can give you the recipe for it, and you want to make it yourself."
Wei Boyang said very generously.
"Thank you, Wei Lao, you are really the reincarnation of a living Bodhisattva, I thank you for our entire Hongshanzhai people."
Abu did not refuse, because with this prescription, the Miao people in Hongshanzhai would no longer have to be afraid of miasma in the future, so he immediately bowed to Wei Boyang to express his gratitude.
"Hey, don't kill me, I'm just a layman, and I'm still 108,000 miles away from the Bodhisattva."
Wei Boyang waved his hand.
Although Wei Boyang said this, Abu still expressed his gratitude again.
After resting for a while, the three of them set off again.
An hour later, they came to the foot of a mountain that resembled a lotus flower.
This is where they are going.
"Last time, Wei Lao and I found the black-veined ants around here, and according to the habits of the black-veined ants, their old nest should be hidden somewhere in this mountain."
Abu continued.
"Then let's have a meal first, and then spread out to find it."
Qin Xiaolong said.
"Okay."
Abu, who had been walking for a long time, was already hungry and hurriedly agreed.
After sitting down and eating dry food, Qin Xiaolong and the three of them divided into three directions and launched a search.
Qin Xiaolong's search speed was very fast, and a piece of mountainous land was almost swept directly.
This is mainly because he is a powerhouse in the transcendent realm, and his eyesight and perception are far superior to ordinary people like Abu.
In a short time, Qin Xiaolong's search area exceeded three football fields, and a black-striped ant that was hunting beetles finally came into his sight.
However, the black-veined ants are the fighters among the ants, and their farthest range of activity is very large, so Qin Xiaolong can't determine the location of the black-veined ant's nest for the time being, so he can only take this place as the center and continue to search.
Another twenty minutes later, several black-veined ants appeared in front of Qin Xiaolong carrying a dead magpie.
In terms of size, the black ant is half the size of the bull ant; In terms of ferocity, they are more terrifying than man-eating ants; In terms of toxicity, the black ant is the ancestor of the bullet ant.
Legend has it that in ancient times, a colony of black-striped ants could develop hundreds of thousands of ants at most, and the places they passed were like natural disasters.
Hunting magpies is impossible for other ants, but for black-striped ants, it is commonplace.
But now that the environment has changed, it is good for the black-striped ants to reproduce, and it is almost impossible to develop a population of hundreds of thousands.
Looking at this magpie that was being carried, Qin Xiaolong knew that he should not be far from the old nest of the black-veined ants.
He didn't bother the black-striped ants, and just followed them not far or closer.
Half an hour later, the black-streaked ants came to a crack in the ground.
Around this crack, there are constantly ants coming in and out.
"I've finally found your lair!"
Qin Xiaolong knew that under this crack in the ground must be the nest of black-veined ants, so he hurriedly took out a sapper shovel and dug it up along the crack in the ground.
Seeing that Qin Xiaolong, an intruder, was destroying his own nest, those black-veined ants quickly launched an attack on Qin Xiaolong.