Chapter 16: Desert Ant Colony
The red flames of the fire lit up the surroundings, and only the occasional crackling sound of charcoal cracking came from time to time in the silence of the night, although the physique was greatly enhanced, but it could not resist the sleepiness, Jiang Xiaobei leaned on the edge of the stacked stone pile and squinted his eyes as if he was asleep, this state was very torturous.
Until the second half of the night, everything was fine, although it was said that those beasts would come out of nowhere at night, but this place is located in the Gobi Desert, and the food or water source is far inferior to the area where it was before, so it should be safe, thinking about it at the moment.
A squirming sound came, at first it was like a filament, and then it gradually became louder, and it was accompanied by the sound of "squeak, squeak", Jiang Xiaobei immediately sat up straight, suddenly became sleepy, listened attentively, and then stood up and walked around, only to find the source of the sound.
"Why are there such big ants here?" At this time, it was discovered that the source of the sound was some tree branches discarded next to it, on which climbed four or five giant ants the size of the thumb of their friends, with a well-developed upper jaw, two small scimitars that seemed to have long mouths, crawling on the branches and biting, the branches smaller than the pencils made a "creak" and broke in response.
Jiang Xiaobei's scalp was a little numb, seeing this species, most people naturally felt very bad, so he stepped forward, stretched out his hand and shook those branches, and the ants were shaken off.
Then he lifted his foot and stepped on it, and the ant "snapped" and shattered under the pressure of the soles of his shoes and the rocks on the ground.
"Get a little charge point" prompt came to mind.
"I didn't expect this ant to have energy points, but it's just too few," Jiang Xiaobei said with a smile.
After trampling the ants to death, he covered his nose, and there was a sour smell in the air, presumably the ant's formic acid smell, which was very unpleasant.
After stretching, I walked back to the fire and added some firewood, which was already about to be extinguished.
However, Jiang Xiaobei didn't sit down for a long time, and realized that something was wrong, when the cool breeze blew, there was the smell of stepping on those ants just now, at this time, it was the upper hand for the ants just now, but it shouldn't be.
The sound of rustling came again, at first like a filament, then gradually getting louder, and then it became a loud one.
Jiang Xiaobei swallowed his taste, quickly jumped up, quickly opened the tent door, climbed into the tent and pulled Lin Xiaomeng up.
"Hurry up, hurry up" The tent smelled a warm and fragrant smell, and Lin Xiaomeng was sleepy-eyed at this time, the small white hanging fell from her shoulders, and she saw a large piece of soft white on her chest through the firelight, and she could vaguely see the arching of two small beads on the white sling......
In normal times, this is also extremely pleasing to the eye, but now that time is pressing, Jiang Xiaobei naturally can't appreciate it.
"Ants, very large ants, can bite off a branch in one bite, and it is likely to be a large colony," Jiang Xiaobei made a long story short.
Lin Xiaomeng suddenly came to her senses, knew the seriousness of the matter, put on her clothes three times and two times, and followed Jiang Xiaobei out of the tent.
The smell of formic acid in the air became even more serious, and the two of them didn't even want a tent at the moment, Jiang Xiaobei grabbed his backpack, pulled Lin Xiaomeng and turned around and ran.
Jiang Xiaobei had heard the story of marching ants before, these ants were as sharp as a scimitar, and they took an offensive with ant sea tactics, and there was no grass where they passed, and none of the animals they killed survived, even if they had rhinoceros skin, although they were confident that ants could not bite open, but formic acid was corrosive, but they were not sure if they could hold it, and at this time, Lin Xiaomeng was there, if they encountered a terrifying ant colony, I was afraid that they would be able to turn red and white in an instant, and this is not a normal place, these ants are very large, I am afraid it will be more dangerous。
Lin Xiaomeng took out a flashlight, the flashlight is a military product, the light is extremely strong, the two climbed a hillside stacked with stones and sandstone, stood on a high place and shone down, and found that not far away was already dense and black, and the sound of rustling poured into the ears, which made people tremble.
"Go this way" Jiang Xiaobei saw the distribution of these giant ants clearly, chose a direction where there was no ant colony, and pulled Lin Xiaomeng to run.
Running for a long time, the sound of the surrounding rustling did not subside, with the passage of time but more resounding in the ears, under the strong flashlight, in addition to the ant colony following behind, there were these giant ants all around, these giant ants crawled out of the cracks in the rocks one after another, as if endless.
"They're too fast, they're numerous, it seems to be their territory here, what should I do" Lin Xiaomeng was a little panicked, the number of these huge black ants was simply desperate.
Jiang Xiaobei strode up, trampled on some ants under his feet, the sound of "popping" sounded, like half of a firecracker, and turned his head to see Lin Xiaomeng dodging the ants on the ground in a panic, so he helped her shoot off a few ants that climbed on her pants, and then hugged her.
"Don't panic, those ants can't bite me, as long as you don't get surrounded by them, it's fine" At the moment, Jiang Xiaobei's tone was firm, and then he hugged Lin Xiaomeng with one hand and stretched out the other hand, tearing off the trouser legs on both sides.
The torn trouser leg and the two giant ants bite on the upper jaw, Jiang Xiaobei found that it was really the same as he thought, the most powerful weapons of those giant ants were useless to him, as long as he was not surrounded by them, there was no way to take Jiang Xiaobei, but there were too many of those ants, and the speed was block, if they were surrounded by countless ants, they were afraid that they would be able to suffocate to death, and if the ants crawled in along their mouths and noses, the rhinoceros skin would not be used.
After tearing off the trouser legs, the legs were smooth, and the giant ant couldn't climb up for a while, and then hugged Lin Xiaomeng and ran forward, and when his feet landed, he exerted his strength to shake off the ants that wanted to climb down the legs.
Jiang Xiaobei ran at an extremely fast pace, the weight of the backpack behind him and Lin Xiaomeng in his arms was like nothing under the super strength, and it could be seen how powerful the tiger's huge power or the devouring enhancement of the white jade spirit platform was.
Although the speed of running is fast, the speed of those ants is even faster, and under the illumination of Lin Xiaomeng's strong flashlight, it seems to be surging in all directions, endlessly.
Gradually, Jiang Xiaobei found that the shoes were useless, the palate of those ants was like a scraper grinding the shoes out of one hole after another, and the ants that were trampled to death gradually increased, the sticky liquid was stained all over the legs, a large amount of formic acid in the liquid seemed to be not small, and the soles of the shoes were corroded and worn, fortunately, Jiang Xiaobei had devoured the skin of the rhinoceros, otherwise the legs would have been blurred with flesh and blood at this time, but Jiang Xiaobei also found that something was wrong, the feet seemed to be itchy, and it was likely that the formic acid had gradually corroded the skin.
"Over there, look over there" The ants around Lin Xiaomeng's strong flashlight were already dense to an outrageous degree, but under the inadvertent light, a piece of yellow was found on the ground covered with black ants, and the place was not affected by these tide-like ant colonies!
Jiang Xiaobei didn't say a word, ran in the direction guided by Lin Xiaomeng, and after a while, he rushed into the place that Lin Xiaomeng saw that was not affected by the ant colony.
This place is extremely strange, the ant colony actually spread here, and then dodged in an arc, as if there is a strange force preventing the ant colony from encroaching on this place.
"Huhu" Jiang Xiaobei gasped for breath at the moment, although he could support it in strength, but the physical consumption was extremely great.
"Damn, let me down, it's painful" Lin Xiaomeng's eyes were already red, and she shouted.
"Oh, you've been bitten" Jiang Xiaobei quickly let go and let Lin Xiaomeng stand back on the ground, and then threw the backpack behind him aside.
It turned out that the two of them were actually stained with some ants, Jiang Xiaobei shook his body, slapped a few thighs to death and didn't know when to climb on the shoulders of the ants, as soon as two ants fell to the ground, they quickly crawled out and gathered into the ant colony, and they didn't even care about biting the two of them.
There are not many on Lin Xiaomeng's body, because they didn't touch the ground, they should all crawl over Jiang Xiaobei, because there are clothes and the rest don't bite her, Jiang Xiaobei pinched them to death one by one, but one of them didn't climb anywhere, and accidentally climbed onto Lin Xiaomeng's waist in the middle of the way, and fell into the pants and bit through the underwear during the action......
Lin Xiaomeng couldn't care about anything else, pulled down the back of her pants, and it was really painful to be bitten by giant ants, and her voice was already crying: "You can help me get it away."
Jiang Xiaobei didn't have any other thoughts, reached out and pulled open her pants, and saw that the lucky ant bit Lin Xiaomeng's buttocks through the inside, so he quickly reached out and pinched it off and trampled it to death.
"Stand still, I'll wipe it for you with iodine wine" told her, Jiang Xiaobei took out the iodine wine in his backpack and rubbed it on Lin Xiaomeng before he cried out in pain.
"What did you see" Lin Xiaomeng was relieved to find that the ant colony outside didn't dare to cross over and enter here, and turned around to question Jiang Xiaobei......
"Pink, it's not that I haven't seen it" Jiang Xiaobei replied to her angrily, then took off his shoes and threw them into the group, the shoes were so broken that there was no need to exist, and the rhinoceros leather legs seemed to be more comfortable without shoes.
Then I took out the water bag and rinsed my feet, and the itchy feeling in my legs subsided.
Lin Xiaomeng snorted twice but didn't speak again, took a flashlight to look around, wondering why these ants didn't dare to climb in.
Finding nothing else, the two of them looked at the ants like a black tide, and the rustling sound kept coming from their ears, so they could only retreat a little farther.
"Hey, what a strange thing, look" Lin Xiaomeng pulled Jiang Xiaobei and pointed to a thick pillar not far away.
"What is that?" Jiang Xiaobei looked in the direction Lin Xiaomeng pointed out, and saw where a stone pillar was standing, and there were scattered earth and rocks stacked around the stone pillar, and the range of a hundred meters away from the stone pillar was exactly where those ants did not dare to approach.