() Qiao Zhengyu was stunned when he saw that the man was masked with a black cloth and was agile, and said, "Your Excellency is 。。。。。。 The man waved his hand at him again and again: "Young Master Qiao doesn't need to ask more, this is not the place to talk, let's leave here first." Keep urging Qiao Zhengyu to climb up.

Qiao Zhengyu didn't dare to slack off, nodded and grabbed the thick rope, and climbed up hard. The roof and the ground were about ten zhang high, and although Qiao Zhengyu was struggling to climb up, he was also in a hurry, like a snail slowly rising.

Seeing that he was about to reach the small window, he saw a figure flashing above, and the shopkeeper's voice suddenly came overhead: "Young Master Qiao, where are you going? Do you want the old man to help you?"

When Qiao Zhengyu heard this, he immediately panicked, his hands couldn't help but loosen, and his whole body fell. It was not even, but it hit the masked man's head. Hearing a scream of "Ah!", the man immediately lost his voice and fell to the ground without saying a word.

"Ahh couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, blaming himself for being careless and killing his benefactor.

He got up from the ground, carried the man to the bed, bowed to him three times, and blamed himself in his heart: "Qiao Zhengyu, Qiao Zhengyu, it's so easy for someone to save you, but you don't want to end up like this, why are you so unlucky." ”

Seeing that the man's face was covered with a black cloth, he thought to see his true face, so he stepped forward and uncovered the black cloth.

"Shopkeeper! this 。。。。。。 How is this possible?" At this time, as the black cloth was removed, the shopkeeper's face slowly appeared in front of him. Qiao Zhengyu was stunned by the scene in front of him and was immediately stunned.

looked up hurriedly, but saw that the shopkeeper was smiling at the window, and he was even more confused.

"What's going on, how can there be two shopkeepers?" he was bewildered by this, lost in thought, but he didn't watch out for the corpse suddenly sitting up from the bed, smiling at himself, followed by a punch.

A heart suddenly raised his throat, but he couldn't dodge, and was hit in the chest by the shopkeeper's punch, he screamed in pain, and suddenly jumped up from the bed.

"Shopkeeper, what do you want to do?" looked around, but saw half a figure somewhere. In a panic, he looked up, but saw that the small window was closed, the roof was pitch black, and there was a shopkeeper there.

couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It turned out to be a dream, but it scared me." Secretly glad, and then collapsed on the bed again.

"Hey, I don't know how many days I've been locked up. I only remember that the shopkeeper came to deliver food every day, as if there were twenty-two together, except for breakfast, according to two meals a day, it should be eleven days. ”

Qiao Zhengyu thought in his heart, not that he didn't know, this calculation really scared him, he sat up from the bed in a hurry, shook his head and said: "I heard that people's vitality is very tenacious, they can go without drinking water for three days and not eating for seven days." I've been here for eleven days, and I don't know how I survived. ”

Looking at the basket under the bed, he smiled wryly again.

"Basket, basket, you and I have wronged you every day, you didn't have to stay here, but because of me, I had to ask you to suffer with me. However, you are not like me, you can go out and get some air, and by that alone, you are much better than me. ”

Qiao Zhengyu

Thinking that he was not even as good as a basket, he sighed even more, drooped his head, and shook his head again and again.

At this time, an ant crawled on the ground and quickly flashed in front of Qiao Zhengyu's eyes. Although the light in the prison was not good, it was still clear through the faint light in the small holes.

Although the ant was very small, it was extremely fast, and it did not move much, and it slipped under the basket as if it were equipped with wheels.

After a moment's pause, he touched the basket with his two tentacles, and then quickly crawled along the edge of the basket towards the top of the basket. The basket was like a behemoth to the ants, unattainable. But the ant didn't do it properly, and crawled as fast as he could, and in one fell swoop into the basket.

Maybe it smelled the fragrance and stopped at a roast chicken. The roast chicken was delicious, the skin was smooth and soft, and the ants took a few bites, obviously attracted to it, and crawled on it, never wanting to leave.

"Well, kind of interesting. I want to see what you want to do?" The ant's actions immediately aroused Qiao Zhengyu's interest, turned around, and crawled on the bed to stare at the ant.

The ant lingered on the roast chicken for a while, then moved and began to crawl to another place. There was not only roast chicken but also some other wine and food in the basket, and the ant circled around the wine and food, and then went down the edge of the basket and hurried away.

When Qiao Zhengyu saw him leaving, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Ants are ants, in the face of delicious food and wine, they can only watch but can't enjoy it, it seems that it is much worse than me." ”

He thought that there was something worse than himself in this world, and he couldn't help but be complacent, and was about to withdraw to lie back on the bed, when suddenly he saw something faintly coming out of the gap in the corner, and his heart moved, and he looked at it urgently.

Then I saw that there were ants crawling out of the gap, one after another, as if in a line, neatly and neatly, crawling towards the basket. At first, it was just a row, and there were hundreds of them one after another.

But as the ants in the crevices continue to pour out, the team of ants is gradually growing. From the first row to two rows, then to three rows, to four rows, until later, those ants have swarmed out, densely packed, and soon, the whole ground is crawling all over.

"Interesting, what do they want to do, do they still want to drag the basket away?" Qiao Zhengyu knew that ants were social animals, and they generally poured out of their nests to find food, carrying and eating together. But in the face of a behemoth such as roast chicken, even if there are thousands of ants, I am afraid that I will not want to move half of it.

He was suspicious and looked carefully, but saw the ants swarm up, crawl up the edge of the basket, and suddenly land on the roast chicken and wine. But this is the beginning, because with the arrival of the ants one by one, the roast chicken is already densely crawled with ants. Not only that, but the same is true for other food and drinks, where there are ants everywhere, and a black patch occupies almost every corner of the basket.

Qiao Zhengyu frowned slightly, and said to himself: "Although these ants have possessed the food, this is only temporary, and it will disperse quickly when they fill their stomachs, so they can't have the food, let alone bring it back to the cave."

"Besides, these delicacies are huge, and it is impossible for the ant's cave to fit them. I see that the prison is very tight, and there are no holes in it, so if they want to eat again, they will have to repeat what they have done. ”

Suddenly I felt that these ants were very pathetic, and they were no better than myself, so I couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly.

At this time, he felt that his eyes were a little tired, so he closed them and rested. After about a stick of incense, I slowly opened my eyes.

Looking at the basket again, I suddenly made a new discovery.

It turned out that although the food was still in the basket, the volume was much smaller, for example, the roast chicken, the body was full and round, but now it is much thinner, and the skeleton is faintly protruding, and the meat on the body is missing.

Qiao Zhengyu only felt strange, looked carefully, and quickly discovered the mystery.

It turned out that although the ants were small, they all had a pair of sharp teeth. One or two may not be anything for a roast chicken, even if you bite hard, it's like tickling, and you can't see anything powerful.

But tens of thousands of ants are different, densely packed together, not only a little scary and scary, but also much more powerful. Just imagine, tens of thousands, or even millions, of ants swarming all over the roast chicken and then biting them at the same time。。。。。。

This picture seemed a little cruel, Qiao Zhengyu didn't dare to think about it anymore, and couldn't help but gasp. But it wasn't these things that surprised him the most, but what the ants behaved next. After biting off a piece of meat from the roast chicken, like a well-trained warrior, he did not linger for a moment, but turned around and walked away, returning along the road.

So a peculiar landscape was formed, and on the ground of the prison, there was a huge team of ants. The ones who bite the meat continue to move back, and the empty-handed ones continue to surge, coming and going, without interfering with each other, unhurried, and neat. Even the millions of ants don't seem to be chaotic at all.

Soon, only a pile of bones and a few saucers remained in the basket, and with the departure of the army of ants, the dungeon returned to its usual tranquility.

This scene was like a good show, and Qiao Zhengyu was only amazed from beginning to end. After a long while, I lay back on the bed, my heart rising and falling, and it was difficult to calm down for a while. He seemed to have some understanding in his heart, but he couldn't say why, so he had to fall asleep again in a half-asleep state.

In the days that followed, such a "good show" was played out every day. When it's time to deliver the meal, the ants will show up on time, feast on it, and then leave on time. The basket was always empty, except for the wine bottle, which was lucky not to be removed by the ants because it was impossible to uncork it.

It is impossible to say that Qiao Zhengyu has not eaten for dozens of days, but he has eaten relatively little, and each dish only moves a little, so it can't be seen on the surface. As for the wine, Qiao Zhengyu will definitely not let it go, firstly, in order to get over the addiction to alcohol, and secondly, he is also drunk so that he can forget everything for a while, and he is no longer so uncomfortable.

Therefore, the wine bottle has become a common thing in Qiao Zhengyu's hands, and he takes it in his hand when he has nothing to do, no matter what time it is, he takes a sip when he wants to, especially when he is troubled, he takes a sip from time to time and forgets all his troubles.

The shopkeeper saw that there were not many things left in the basket, thinking that Qiao Zhengyu wanted to open it again, nodded secretly, and the smile returned to his face.

On this day, he put away the basket and shouted downwards: "Young Master Qiao, you have been wronged these days. But please be patient for a few more days.