Chapter 0064 - Roasting Stone to Exterminate Ants
"When they are full, as long as they retreat to the rocks, they will not look back! Therefore, the beach has now become the safest place! Besides, we are now detouring, it is easier to meet the 'blood demon'! We are all in the middle of the beach, and I will destroy them with a mountain fire barbecue after they have all entered the rocks!"
"No, no, no, Chief, they're demons, let's not mess with them, right?" said the Qiu Junshi, Lady Mountain, and Lady Water.
"What kind of demon? It's called a demon, but in fact it's a red ant that can gnaw stones, and it's just a little more powerful than ordinary ants! This time we found them, and if we don't destroy them, we will regret it when we are attacked by them! Besides, they entered the rocks here this year, and they don't know where they can come out next year! So it's dangerous! I must seize this opportunity to destroy them! I order, all of them go to the beach, and camp in the middle to rest!"
After all, Gu Yuan was the leader of the gods, and when he gave an order, the members of the god clan trembled and obeyed. The army settled down in the middle of the big beach, and when Gu Yuan raised his telescope to observe the retreat and hiding of the stone-devouring red ants on the rocky walls of the hillside on both sides, according to his prior arrangement, the soldiers of the Shenwei Battalion dug a large ditch a mile around the tent where they were stationed.
"Report to the chief, this beach is not quite right, it doesn't seem to be sand, mortar, or the like, but stone dust!" Several company commanders who led people to dig a ditch came to report to Gu Yuan.
Gu Yuan was also dizzy, what is it if the beach is not sand? Gu Yuan put down the binoculars and hurriedly went to the newly dug ditch with Qiu Junshi and the others, and it was indeed a little strange at first glance. This beach is not too thick with a layer of white sand on top of it, and when dug down more than a foot deep, there are rotten trees and rotten grass, as if a thin forest with grass and trees has been buried by sand. The larger trees that were buried were all bitten and fell down from their trunks.
Digging further down, after digging through the tree layer, there is a layer of rotten rocks, and large stones are piled together, very dense and deep. The stone blocks are not very large, nor are they complete stone bases. And almost every stone has dense holes, larger than a fist, and some have holes as thick as an arm.
"Could it be that these are all holes drilled out by stone-devouring red ants, and this beach is the stone dust and stone grains that were taken out when the holes were made?" Gu Yuan couldn't help but think and imagine the reason for the formation of this beach.
In fact, Gu Yuan's guess is very reasonable, and the stone-devouring red ants have been burrowing in the mountains and rocks in this area for many years, living and hiding for a long time. Due to the huge number, all the mountains were wiped out, and the excavated rocks also buried the nearby sparse forests.
Over the years, there are no more mountains and peaks, and the end of the rocks dug out will cover the grass and trees, forming this huge beach.
"Let's see, this sand doesn't look like gravel powder? It's the same as the ants digging holes in the soil, the kind of stone dust that comes out of the stone holes!" Hearing the leader say this, everyone leaned over and grabbed the sand on the beach, and after a closer look, it was really not ordinary river sand and mortar, or the stone dust that was gnawed out, and the color was not yellow, yellow sand and yellow sand, the sand on this beach was not yellow, the white was tinged with cyan, and the whole was a little gray and white, which no one really noticed before!
Basically, it is certain that this beach is not formed, but the stone dust dug out by the stone eaters digging the stone holes, and the sand on the beach is not sand!
"Report to the leader!The blood demon ants are gone, they must all have gone into the stone mountain!Can our barbecue begin?"
Gu Yuan used the telescope to observe for a while, and made sure that there was nothing on the ground, not even on the stone wall and the hillside. Leaving only holes, like a large and different eyes, it will be very scary to see from afar!
"Okay, look at the direction of the wind, right?" The mountain and the water personally urged the horse to go forward, dismounted and grabbed the sand and soil to raise the sand and dust, and determined that the wind was blowing to the opposite mountain, and the gods and horses just stopped upwind, and set fire to the mountain and burned the forest After them, Gu Feng decisively ordered to go to the foot of the mountain to pile firewood and set fire!
The wind fuels the fire, the fire borrows the power of the wind, "whew-huh-" and "crackling" bursts of sounds, and in an instant, chickens and rabbits run, and the grass and trees turn to ashes.
Taking their location as a reference, the two corners of the front left and the front right were ignited at the same time, and soon the two tongues of fire were connected.
As the grass and trees at the foot of the mountain burned, so did the grass and trees on the slopes, which burned the bare stones, and many places were burned red. In addition, the smoke just poured into the hole on the stone face downwind, although I didn't see the stone-devouring red ants being burned to death or scalded to death, but it must be enough for them to bear, and they can't escape from it, it is definitely a dead end!
The fire burned the foot of the mountain, and then it went up the hillside, and then it burned over the top of the mountain, and then it continued along the hillside, and so on it burned several hills, and suddenly the fire extinguished itself. Aerial scouts were sent to check and there was a large valley that separated the two peaks in the mountains, and there was no vegetation in this large valley, and there was a wide river in the middle, and the river was wide and deep.
"Where there is water......, there is no grass and trees? Isn't it strange?" Gu Yuan asked the scout in surprise.
The two scouts nodded solemnly: "That's true! There is a lot of water, but there is no grass and trees, and there don't seem to be fish growing in it!"
"Is this a saltwater river? If that's the case...... It is possible to dry salt, this kind of sea salt is better for Rao's body than salt stones! The yield is also large!" Gu Yuan thought about it, so he approached the river, picked up some and put it in his mouth to taste, salty, it was really like the sea water that dried sea salt in later generations, bitter and salty!
Gu Yuan picked up a shovel and went to the river's edge, and first dug a shallow pool on the riverbank, about five meters wide and long, and only half a foot deep. Because no one knew what the leader was going to do, and they didn't know how to do it, no one came to help him! Shan, Shui, Qiu Junshi, and others all took round-headed shovels from the hands of the Divine Guard soldiers, but no one could see what the leader wanted to do, and they couldn't help!
"Now everyone can help me!Fill this pool with river water!" Gu Yuan poked the shovel into the ground and laughed.
This time, everyone helped out, carrying wooden barrels, clay pots, and pottery bowls to carry water. Shui Heqiu asked Gu Yuan as he did it, "Chief, what do you want to do? Raise fish, plant lotus roots, or grow rice? We have a lot more rice seeds!"
"Neither! You can taste the river...... I'm going to turn the river into white salt, like the salt rocks in our salt mines, not as big as the salt rocks, but saltier than the salt stones!"
"No, no, no, chief?"
"God's chief, yours is true, the river is salting!God...... It's amazing!"
"It's absolutely true! It's just that the sun should shine more than three times, and it can't rain in these three miles, and if it's cloudy and rainy, it won't change!"
As soon as they heard this, the surrounding Protoss people who heard Gu Yuan's words all knelt on the ground.
"Huh, what are you doing?" Gu Yuan was startled and asked loudly.