Halfway through, the knife ant stopped suddenly. The two tentacles in front of the head touched the ground, and felt the ground was vibrating regularly. This kind of vibration is obviously not produced by the same kind. Knife Ant immediately turned its head to look alertly, but its compound eyes were filled with gray arc light.
The fang bone knife cut into the knife ant's jaw, tearing open its mouthparts, skull, brain and many nerves along the way. Finally, the shell broke out from the top of the head, and the tip of the knife brought up flying meat shavings and ant blood, and sprinkled a straight trace on the ground. Allen put away the knife, put the knife ant's body on the ground, and dragged it behind a dirt bag. Stretch your hand into the wound of the knife ant, and apply the ant blood on your face, armpits and several exposed parts of your body. In this way, the aura he exudes is no different from that of the sword ant. Coupled with the smell of scorched earth on its body, as long as it is not directly exposed to the sight of the knife ants, those dangerous species will only regard it as the same kind.
There is less than a hundred meters away from the ant nest, which is only two breaths away from Alan's feet. He came to the left side of the hill where the ant nest was located. This hill was almost perpendicular to the ground, and there were two holes on it. The entrance of the cave is deep, with a faint red light. Allen used the protruding part of the mountain as a point of leverage, climbing up and swimming like a gecko.
But in a moment, he has come to a cave about fifteen or six meters above the ground. Allen poked his head out carefully and looked into the cave. As the cave extends into the Mish, there is a turning point, and I don't know where it leads. The faint red light came out from the turning point. The temperature in the cave is obviously higher than outside the cave, and it doesn't feel cold at all. Seeing that there were no knife ants infested, Allen quietly sprang up and got into the hole.
The cave is very dry, and the rock walls are warm to the touch. Allen took a breath, and there was no other peculiar smell in the air except for the pungent sulfur-like smell that is unique to Netherworld Star. It's just that the air is dry and hot, making Allen's throat hot. Using both hands and feet, he crawled down the cave passage. After climbing seven or eight meters, the passage has come to an end. Poking out half of the head and looking down, it is a complicated space.
The knife ants seem to have hollowed out the mountain, presenting a complex structure with many spatial passages. At a glance, it is impossible to see the whole panorama, only a relatively wide mountainside, about tens of square meters, surrounded by acupoints leading to it. The belly of the mountain is full of sword ants, there are forty or fifty of them. Ants and ants piled up on top of each other, forming a hill. The knife ants were swarming, and that scene seemed to make one's scalp tingle.
There was a sharp insect sound faintly coming from a certain acupuncture point. Allen remembered where he heard it, but he couldn't remember it for a while. Then he held his breath and moved towards the source of the sound. There was a fire at the bottom of the mountain, and the fire shone along the cracks in the mountain wall, as if there was a volcano at the bottom of the mountain. This is not the case, but the Blood Eagle Heights is adjacent to the Fury Flame Abyss. Although this place is not within the range of the Fire Abyss, there is no guarantee that there will be no lava flowing through the ground. If the knife ants dug deep, making the strata thinner, and the fire temperature of the underground magma penetrates the stone, it is not impossible.
With the help of the dim light of the fire in the middle of the mountain, Allen smoothly touched the acupoint where the insects sounded. After winding and climbing tens of meters, I passed two steep slopes like a roller coaster track before arriving at the exit. The air at the exit smelled a little more fishy, Allen poked his head out quietly, and suddenly a strange head flashed past his eyes. He stepped back quickly, his hand already touching the handle of the fang.
That's an earth borer.
Without eyes and noses, but with a big mouth full of broken teeth,
But this earth-boring worm didn't seem to find Alan's whereabouts. But there was a whine, and he fell down powerlessly. Alan probed again, only to see that the mountain cliff under the acupuncture point was covered with insect blood. This earth-boring worm fell to the ground more than ten meters below. Judging from the situation, it was trying to escape desperately just now. Comparing the size of the earth-boring worms, Allen suddenly felt that these complicated passages might have been dug out by these worms.
Then look at the giant worm that fell to the ground, its body writhed, and it didn't die immediately. At this time, some giant ants with slightly smaller heads, dark shells, and curved blades on their front feet crawled out of the tunnels on the ground. These black ants should also be a kind of sword ants, but the source force breath on them is much thicker than that of ordinary sword ants. Those two compound eyes exuded a dark red light, looking terrifying.
More than a dozen of these black ants used their mouthparts or sickle legs to attack the earth-boring worm, but they didn't want to kill it, but stimulated the giant worm to twist desperately, and burrowed into one of the passages. During the period, the giant worm was about to rush in another direction, but the black ants quickly blocked it. Judging from the situation, it was actually intentional to let the earth-boring worms enter their designated passage.
What will come after the channel
After both the earth-boring insects and the black ants entered the tunnel, Allen waited for a while to make sure that no other knife ants appeared, and then swam down from the tunnel to the ground, and then burrowed into the cave chosen by the giant insect black ants. There are not many twists and turns in this passage. After walking about seven or eight meters, it has come to an end. The flames at the end were even brighter, and Allen approached the exit close to the shadow in the road. Short body probe looked out, it turned out to be an open space.
The belly of the mountain here is about a hundred square meters, and the four sides of the mountain are hollowed out, and the rock walls of the mountain are covered with large holes in the length and width of meters, and the purpose is unknown. The stratum in the center of the mountainside is extremely thin, and hot magma emerges from the center from time to time, and then flows to the surroundings, and gradually cools when encountering the air, turning into black mud with fire. At the end of the mountainside, there lay a huge monster.
A body as tall as a hill, with a very disproportionately small head. The structure of the head is roughly similar to that of ordinary sword ants, except that there is a compound eye in the center of the forehead. This big guy was lying on the ground, as if he was warming himself with geothermal heat. From time to time, two pairs of insect wings as thin as a cicada's wings fluttered, but the insect wings were small and thin, probably more decorative than practical.
The forefeet are not like ordinary knife ants with blades, and the legs are no different from ordinary ants. All three pairs of legs grow on the first segment of the body, which makes it look stupid and ridiculous. In particular, it still has a chubby belly. Allen just bet that this thing will never climb out of the mountainside, so he doesn't know how it got in.
A miserable insect cry made Allen withdraw his attention from the strange ant, and after a slight sweep in the mountainside, he saw the earth-boring worm. The worm was driven by the black ant to come under the eyes of the big guy, and the black ant was not polite at this time. More than a dozen black ants rushed forward, biting and tearing with their mouths and feet moving, tearing the earth-boring insects to pieces.
Bug grease, blood, and bits of flesh fell all over the floor. At this time, the tentacles on the big ant's head moved, and all three compound eyes rolled up. Then it opened its mouth, and a straw-like organ protruded from the mouth. When the thing fell to the ground, it sucked the oil and blood of the ground borer. Some black ants even tore off the insect's skin and flesh, and then sent it to the big guy, as if they were feeding it.
There is no doubt that it is the Queen Ant. As for those black ants, they should be the queen's personal guards,
This can be seen from the fact that there is not a single common knife ant in the mountain belly, and the status of these black ants in the ant colony is not low.
Having a general understanding of the situation of the insect nest, Allen didn't want to stay for a long time, so he stepped back to the place with light steps. After a while, he exited this acupuncture point, and just about to climb up the rock wall, two red dots suddenly turned up in the shadow in front of him. A black ant scytheed its feet against each other, creaked, and moved out of the shadows, staring closely at Allen.
Allen took a deep breath, and as soon as his hand touched the handle of the fang knife, the black ant had already charged at high speed.
The gray light flowed, the fangs came out of their sheaths, and a beautiful arc was drawn to chop the black ant's head. To Allen's surprise, the black ant suddenly slipped strangely, causing him to cut through the air. Allen said "Huh", the flexibility and speed of the black ant are much higher than that of ordinary knife ants. He snorted, turned his wrist, and cut his fangs again, pulling out a gray moon wheel across the space.
This time, the black ant couldn't dodge it anymore, but he bent his sickle and gave Alan a knife.
When there was a sound, the black ant slashed him and slid back. Allen himself was shocked, but he was also shocked by the black ant. He was surprised, at this moment he heard the sound of swarming insect feet on the side of the mountain, and knew that within a few seconds, other ant queen guards would be watching.
It must be done quickly!
As soon as his mind moved, the source of power in his body roared, and Alan's eyes lit up, which was extremely attractive. He gave a soft drink, and rushed forward with his sword together. As soon as the fangs were drawn, the moon fell, and the knife covered half of the black ant's body, and there were bursts of explosions. The black ant didn't know how many knives were hit in an instant, but except for the gap at the insect's joint, there was only a crack left after the knives in the rest of the places, but it didn't hurt the vitals.
The insect shells of these ant queen's personal guards are very hard, even if they are fired by ordinary machine guns, they will not be able to do anything to them. Fortunately, there is no black armor covering the worm's joints, and it is extremely soft, even ordinary swords can be easily torn apart, let alone second-grade magical weapons such as fangs. Mastering the black ant's weakness, Allen stepped on a sliding step to avoid the black ant's sickle foot attack. At the same time, he dragged the knife and slashed out, and a gray light flashed from between the black ant's two-sectioned insect.
The black ant immediately spurted out blue-yellow blood and fell to the ground. The insect's wound was large and deep, and its body and nerves were severed by Alan. Although he died immediately, he was unable to pursue Alan. Allen retreated immediately and climbed up the rock wall. At this time, other black ant guards rushed out of the cave, chasing after Allen. Using both hands and feet, Allen quickly got into the passageway when he came in, and casually untied a grenade/mine from his waist, and threw it back without looking at it, while the man rushed forward with all his strength.
In an instant, a deafening explosion sounded behind him, and the shock wave carried scorching air whistling past his back and head. When Allen raised his head, the flames rolled backwards behind him, and the corpses of several black ants were burned up, curled up, their feet rolled up, and they were dead.
He took the opportunity to leave.
But after a while, the place was already full of knife ants, but Alan was already far away, and his body was covered with ant blood and lime to cover up the smell. This made the knife ants have nowhere to chase, and finally scattered.
After Allen left the ant nest, he quickly rushed back to the low slope where the team was before. Several other teams had already gathered on the slope, and they rushed over when they saw Naz's contact signal. They heard that Alan was going to scout the ant nest alone, and the sergeants couldn't help but worry. Only Hubble looked indifferent and sneered from time to time looking in the direction of the ant nest.
(end of this chapter)