I don't know if Zhou Qingfeng's hard air is working, or the queen wants to catch any life-saving straw after recognizing reality. In short, the acidophilic ants compromised. They did not pursue the attitude of this group of foreign adventurers, but led them from the prison to a deep pit.
This is probably the deepest part of the ant nest, quiet and quiet. Glowing moss illuminates the road, and only breath and footsteps reverberate during the journey. Outside the deep pit, the spreading flying ant suddenly stopped and said: "The trouble is ahead. Go and see for yourself."
Eh... ...
Zhou Qingfeng found that his current location was like a dividing line. There are still a large number of acidophilic ants moving behind him, but there is not a single ant in the direction of the pit.
Something that even countless acidophilic ants are terribly afraid of, what kind of existence is that
Everyone is puzzled, and they don't know why. The queen didn't explain it any more, she only knew it by looking at the pit. Zhou Qingfeng had no choice but to say to the necromancer, "Light a fire, I want to see clearly."
The small trick ignites an inextinguishable flame, illuminating a large pit with a diameter of more than ten meters. The mouth of the pit is dark and unfathomable. But standing by the side of the pit, you can see a large number of ants piled up inside.
To be precise..., it is a huge number of acidophilic ants carcasses.
This is a huge corpse, filled with thousands or tens of thousands of ants. They are layered on top of each other, and the number is huge, and they are almost filling this deep pit. The ant carcass exudes an indescribable sour smell, which is disgusting and even more frightening.
Xili glanced at it and turned her head, and the others frowned when they saw it. No one expected that this hidden ant country would even make a corpse so exaggerated.
But Jiying probed the head of the long monster, and asked strangely: "What's wrong with these ants? I seem to see a fat white man, that is..."
"That was the last queen ant." The flying ant said quietly.
The last queen ant was huge, about the size of four or five cows. But the queen's white body was covered with black spots, which seemed to be festering wounds, and even dissolved in some places.
'Jiying' was even more surprised, "Queen ant, you will grow to be this big? How much food do you have to eat?"
The queen ignores this silly question.
Zhou Qingfeng turned around and asked, "What's the turmoil within you?"
"There will be no disturbance in the ant colony, we are one." said the queen.
"Then this is..."
"It's the plague."
As the plague pastor, Old Borg interjected. He looked up again, and everyone found that there were pipes leading from the ant nest to the place above the pit. From time to time, these pipes would slip out of the carcass of an acidophilic ant and fall into the pit.
Mondino waved his hand, and he was summoned by a certain ant corpse before it fell. Everyone watched closely-the fallen ants were not completely dead yet, their tentacles were still dancing. But its body was ulcerated in many places, its limbs were weak, and it was dying.
Is it really the plague
Zhou Qingfeng was shocked. There was a plague in the closed space of this underground country? He was furious and slandered.' No wonder the queen said earlier that if I knew that this ghost place had a plague that caused such a large-scale death, I might as well do my fortunes outside. '
But...
Zhou Qingfeng avoided a few steps and shouted: "Okay, don't be afraid. We have an old Borg who believes in the'Mother of Disease' here. He is the best at this, and there must be a way."
The queen's tone improved slightly, "It would be great if things could be solved so easily, but the situation is probably worse than you think."
Old Borg also said in a deep voice: "I have never seen this kind of plague. Maybe I can study it, but I'm not sure."
Zhou Qingfeng suddenly felt cold...
The queen continued: "To be precise, this is the'curse of rotting.' It has been with us since the birth of our acidophilic ants. Even the queen can't escape this plague. We can only tolerate it. , Facing death.
You see that the pit is not the only one in the ant nest. In fact, since we lived here, dozens of similar deep pits have been dug. Each pit can last about one year. After filling tens of thousands of ant corpses, they can only cover it, and then dig another one.
In order to fight this plague, we have thought of many ways, but none of them are effective. We have long been accustomed to working with this kind of curse. A single death is not terrible, as long as the group is still alive.
The plague screens out the elderly and frail individuals, but makes the entire ant race stronger. But this time there is a new situation... Cases have also appeared in hatcheries that have never been infected in the past, and they are spreading rapidly.
If all the ant eggs are infected, our race will be finished. I will not kill you, but I will bring you in, hoping that someone can break the curse of the ant race. "
Zhou Qingfeng interrupted forcibly, and asked loudly, "There was such a curse when the acidophilus ant was born? It has been for at least decades. What you can't handle for decades, can we people handle it? Isn't that what you are? Do you want us to die?"
The queen is still very calm, "Don't complain, although I know that you have little hope of finding a solution. But I have no other way to go. Don't expect a group that is about to die will make sense."
"You..." Zhou Qingfeng felt really cold now. Everyone's heart was cold. They stayed in an ant nest deep underground, or an ant nest where a plague broke out-God knows if this plague will infect people
Because the plague cannot be dealt with, the acidophilic ants in the entire ant nest flock to the ground to escape? So to drive the monsters in the Black Forest everywhere? So by the way, the Harmonious Village, which was only established for half a year, was destroyed
This is not a fight, and it won’t be solved even after reading the files many times. Is it possible that we can only leave the foundation of Harmony Village, how far and how far
Zhou Qingfeng is full of unsolvable problems.
The queen said: "I don't know if you can use it? But if you have any idea to solve the ant plague, please mention what you need, and I will try my best to satisfy it.
If you can succeed, I will give you unimaginable wealth and treasures. The collections accumulated by acidophilic ants for decades will be open for you to choose from.
But if you want to escape, or wait for the pit to fill up, you still can't find any way. You will also be thrown into a deep pit as a funeral, I will do what I say. "
Everyone looked at Old Borg, and the dwarf witch doctor shrugged and said that he had no research on curses.
Everyone looked at Mondino again, and the necromancer grinned bitterly, saying that although he knew something about death and soul, the curse was also the most mysterious part of the occult.
Everyone looked at Xili again, and the elf girl shook her head slightly, saying that the curse was ever-changing, strong and weak. A curse that can last for decades, this situation is definitely not arbitrarily resolved.
Finally everyone looked at Zhou Qingfeng. The uncle scratched his head, spreading his hands and said, "At best, I can kill people with a knife, and I don't know any curses."
It's over, no one understands. Great crisis!