A day passes easily.
Zhou Qingfeng headed to the Elf Ruins and ran through the blood flow canyon into the nest of acid ants. This huge underground country is two to three kilometers north of the canyon, and the ant colony builds a three-dimensional urban structure underground.
This is a quiet and silent ethnic group, unknown to outsiders for 50 years, but now it is facing the crisis of extermination. A plague called'spoilage' entangles the ant tribe, constantly eating away the lives of this colony.
Acidophilic ants have thought of many ways to save themselves, and catching foreign "prisoners" to work for themselves is one of them. They built a separate room in the nest **, the largest of which was given to the "Plague Priest" Old Borg-in fact, Old Borg is a witch doctor.
Although only a weak divine power, Tarona, the goddess of poison and disease, is a very difficult guy. It has always been rejected by gods, and even bad species like Cyric despise it, feeling that the poison and disease it has caused are not influential.
The twisted psychology allowed Talona to double the injustice and suffering she suffered and return to the followers of other gods. Whoever dares to provoke it, it will retaliate with disease.
As a master of spreading the plague, everyone's expectations fell on the'professional' staff of Old Borg, hoping that something miraculous would happen.
In a large room built by acidophilic ants, fluorescent moss covers the ceiling and walls, and the faint cold light provides barely enough lighting. There are several earthen platforms in the room, which serve as simple research sites.
Old Borg is dissecting the bodies of several acidophilic ants. Zhou Qingfeng and other unrelated personnel stood at the door watching the excitement—in terms of technique, he felt that doctors in other worlds did not seem to be engaged in medical research, like killing pigs in the countryside and preparing to make sacrifices.
In fact, old Borg really did that. He cut open the dying acidophilic ants, took out the internal organs and glands one by one, put some incense on them, and began to kneel down and pray to the'Mother of Plague', asking the gods for hints.
If you can't get a reply once, it must be because something was done wrong in the ritual process, or the heart is not pure enough and not religious enough, so do it again.
What's the difference between this and jumping god
Waiting for the old Borg to announce that he had failed the third time, and thought that the fortune was probably wrong today, and Goddess Talona was too busy to respond.
Uncle Zhou had to go to the next door, the necromancer was also busy. The Dementor didn't engage in disgusting drama such as anatomy. He tried to get a breakthrough from the perspective of the soul, but he was still sad for a long time, not knowing how to solve the rapidly spreading plague.
"I just hope this plague won't infect people, so that I can look better when I die." Zhou Qingfeng sighed and sighed, just in time for the'shadows' walking around. He pulled the dead horse aside and asked, "Do you have a way?"
"Nothing."
"But why do I think you seem to be very happy?"
"Master, you don't know. This acidophilic ant has crawled east and west outside the blood flow canyon for decades, searching for a lot of good things. I found a spine of a mad war demon and felt that the harvest was huge, but the ants Later it is said that they have a complete'Nightmare' skeleton.
The queen said that as long as we can solve the plague that plagues them, give me the skeleton of the'Nightmare'. It's no use they want those demon remains anyway. That's the skeleton of "Nightmare", it can fly. Eh..., Master, where are you going? "
"Go away.... I'm ashamed of having a silly mount like you. At the desperate moment, you can still laugh. There is really no sense of worry at all. Daydreaming is quite powerful."
Uncle Zhou got angry. He raised his hand to look at his watch, and just remembered that he had just watched it three minutes ago, "This underground world is isolated from inside and outside, and my biological clock is disordered and I feel irritable."
The ant colony country deep underground is busy but quiet. All acidophilic ants can't speak. As a whole, except for the queen who can use telepathy to transmit information, other ants communicate by colliding with each other's tentacles.
The environment of the entire Ant Kingdom is so intricate. Zhou Qingfeng is just a few dozen meters deep underground, looking up at the various passages and buildings above his head.
Glowing moss and underground flora are everywhere, and they are responsible for providing air and food for the ants. The underground river is abundant in spring water to ensure that all ants will not die of thirst. Food, air and water, the ecological cycle constitutes a perfect balance.
But now this balance has been broken by the spreading plague. A few worker ants led the way, and Zhou Qingfeng went to the incubator of the nest. There has been an unprecedented big trouble, which really threatens the survival of the ant colony.
In the past, acidophilic ants were tortured by'rot disease', and they continued to multiply to fight the spread of the plague. But now this cursing disease appeared on the ant eggs that hadn't hatched, and it sounded the death knell for the entire ant colony.
After reading the so-called curse study of old Borg and Mondino, Zhou Qingfeng was greatly disappointed in them. The pastor will only ask the gods, and if the gods don't reply, they will be helpless.
The methods of the necromancers were not clever, they asked how the soul got sick. If the ant can answer, is the queen extremely desperate
As for the others...
"It's really distressing, Lao Tzu is not a veterinarian." Zhou Qingfeng thought wildly, "No, the ants are not under the control of the veterinarian when they are sick. God knows what is the so-called plague? Viruses? Bacteria? Parasites? Who is the source of infection? what?"
Just look at the history of world civilization to know how terrible infectious diseases are. Countless civilizations and races fell apart because of that invisible curse. Human beings have a deep fear of the plague while suffering from disease.
The incubation room is here, it's a big cave. Tens of thousands of ant eggs are densely packed on the ground in the cave, looking a bit like alien eggs. A large number of worker ants are responsible for taking care of these unborn baby ants, constantly coming in and out.
Under the irradiation of luminous moss, healthy ant eggs have a milky white luster, while infected ones have dark spots.
"Is there only one incubation room?" Zhou Qingfeng asked.
The queen's telepathy goes directly to her brain, "There are twelve incubation rooms."
"Are there infections in all hatcheries?"
"Yes it is."
"Are there any signs of infection from the worker ants who take care of the eggs?"
"Have."
"Damn it. Don't you know that infected and uninfected people should be isolated?"
"It's useless, we tried this trick long ago. But the infected ant eggs continue to appear, or even more. Even if the newly produced ant eggs are completely enclosed, corrupt black spots will appear after a period of time. "
Zhou Qingfeng got stuck in an instant... His knowledge of infectious diseases was not only terrible, but the infected person must be isolated. But if isolation is useless, what should I do
"Can you tell me the number, susceptible groups, and location of the'rot disease' in recent years. I want to make a data analysis." Zhou Qingfeng put forward a new request, he hopes to learn more about this invisible plague information.
However...
The chaotic footsteps from behind interrupted the communication between Zhou Qingfeng and the queen. When he turned around, he saw several humans with different clothes but all arrogantly appearing in front of him.