"Someone is approaching! Two of them. Their soul power is hidden so that the strength of their souls cannot be detected."
Wright was sweating profusely. On the one hand, he had to follow the iron ants traveling at high speed underground, and on the other hand, he had to be alert to the dangers around him.
Controlling dozens of sentinel seeds consumes a lot of his soul energy, and the current soul energy scale is only maintained at around 8 scales.
However, the soul energy was not wasted. Fortunately, the approaching danger was foreseen in advance.
Holo asked, supporting the somewhat tired Wright.
"Are the two of you close?"
"It's very close. I don't know what soul skills the two of them used to track the route of the underground iron ants, but they will bump into each other in front!"
Byrne also lay on the ground, feeling the vibrations in the ground.
"It seems to be the end! Judging from the overlapping vibration sounds, those iron ants are the main force in the nest. The other vibration sources are very weak, most of them are newly hatched larvae."
When iron ants are young, their carapace is very soft and they feed on soil and metal.
Juvenile iron ants are mainly responsible for exploring paths and building nests, and do not take on the task of hunting. They will only covet flesh and blood when they become adults.
After hearing this, Hero stuck his head out and looked in the direction Wright pointed.
"It is unrealistic to join them rashly. Facing a huge swarm of iron ants, we are more likely to be targeted because of the large number of people. When the time comes, they will leave us standing by and watch. We are in a dilemma and can only passively be used as sandbags."
But there are still ways.
Under the guidance of Wright, Norma used a big sword to pry open the solid building, revealing the passage dug out by the iron ants.
"Lite, Nia, you two are on alert. If something happens... hurry up and rescue us!"
Byrne pushed Holo's butt and squeezed into the narrow passage. The passage was completely cast according to the size of iron ants. In desperation, the two minors could only bend forward and squat.
"Byrne, how about you go in front?"
Helo actually wanted Bai En's [Wind Soul Arrow] to explore the way ahead.
If you encounter a juvenile, you can kill it directly. If you let him in front, it will be too easy to attract attention by releasing the soul technique.
"good!"
Byrne didn't say much, and squeezed to the front and crawled forward.
It's just... when their bodies brushed against the passage, Hero could feel the moisture on his robe.
"Is there water in the passage?"
Hero touched a handful of the robe and it felt sticky.
"Byrne, stop! Get your Wind Soul Arrow."
"What's wrong?" Hearing Helo's serious voice, Byrne turned around with great effort and summoned the green wind soul arrow between the two of them.
With the help of the green light, the two of them could clearly see that Hero's hand that touched the apprentice's robe was bloody and bloody. A thick layer of plasma completely covered the palm and dripped down along the fingers.
"This is..." Byrne was extremely shocked.
Is this hurt before entering the real lair?
Helo seemed to have thought of something, pulled the wind soul arrow, and shined green light on the passage.
"hiss!"
This is not a passage made of earth, it is simply inside an internal organ.
Regardless of whether Bain Tong agreed or not, Hero directly inserted the wind soul arrow into the passage wall, picked out a piece of wall flesh, and estimated the thickness.
It's almost three centimeters.
Looking forward, this passage is deep and long, and cannot be walked in just a few meters.
"How much flesh and blood did those swarm of iron ants plunder? How much flesh and blood did the queen ant eat even if she couldn't finish it and spread it on the wall of the passage?!"
It has been recorded in the knowledge of the tower that once the queen of an iron ant colony finds a comfortable environment, she will endlessly devour blood food and give birth to ant eggs, allowing the iron ant colony to expand violently until it forms a kingdom below.
But now the flesh and blood are glued to the channel wall. What is the reason?
He didn't believe that the queen ant could suppress her instincts, or that she had enough flesh and blood to waste it like this.
The amount of flesh and blood that can be enriched to this level is definitely no less than that of the people in the entire medium-sized city.
The key is that this is the imperial capital!
Where did they plunder the blood food? Didn't the tower discover it? Is that reward fake?
"How about we withdraw?"
Byrne flinched a little. From the moment the corpse appeared, the situation here was completely different from the bounty mission given by the tower.
"It's obvious that someone is planning it, but the target is not us, but the magician apprentices from other towers. There must be something here that can attract that person!"
In the dark passage, Byrne saw Holo's dark eyes through the green light.
"Do you really want to pick it up? Your life will be in danger! This is on the border of the imperial capital, and there is no patrolling adjudication team at all. If there is danger, no magician will come to save us!"
Hero didn't think so. Crazy thoughts popped up in his mind again. For him, his life had been lost once, and he didn't want to play regular games.
Like other apprentices, spending a lot of time improving the strength of the soul and wasting ten years?
He has a module system! He can quickly increase his soul energy scale.
He could vaguely feel that there must be something good in the iron ant nest!
If we don’t take the plunge now, when will we be able to see this vast and magical empire alone?
Is there a more distant and vast sea of stars?
Life is full of seas, mountains and rivers, but nothing more.
He wants to transcend the tower and witness various legends!
Seemingly seeing the light of determination bursting out of Holo's eyes, Byrne was stunned for a moment, "Are you really going?"
Hero nodded firmly!
"Okay! I'll go with you!"
"Gah?"
No, what are you doing! ~
Brother, you are so impressed!
I just want to go by myself, why are you going? !
I have [Physique]! What do you have?
Don't ask me to protect you when the time comes!
Before Holo could explain, Byrne knocked on his chest, pointed at Holo, turned around and resolutely crawled deeper into the passage.
Hero quickly lowered his voice and shouted: "Wait a minute, why are you in such a hurry? Hey!"
But for some reason, Byrne's crawling speed was much faster than before.
He was so stunned that he couldn't hold on to a corner of his clothes.
"Yes~ I shouldn't!"
In desperation, Hero could only follow behind him to avoid being too late to respond.
The two crawled through two entire passages without encountering a single iron ant.
"I must have been attracted by the sorcerer's corpse. After all, the scent is tempting!"
Faced with Byrne's doubts, Hero squatted at the entrance of the cave and replied jokingly.
Soon.
They heard the heartbreaking sound of grinding teeth.
"Just ahead, be careful!"
Hero grabbed the impulsive Byrne and whispered in his ear.
After seeing the shocking scene, Byrne subconsciously covered his mouth to prevent it from making any sound.
Hero, who saw clearly what was in his field of vision, couldn't help but take a breath.
The first thing you see is a deep underground cave. The cave is almost as big as the dormitory hall of a high tower, and it can easily accommodate three to five hundred people.
But the problem was the huge thing occupying most of the area in the center of the cave.
"Is that the queen ant?"
Byrne didn't believe what he saw and asked Hero.
"Ask you?! I'm from the countryside!"
This queen is far larger than normal.
Although there was no light, they could still see the outline of the queen's body.
The front half of this queen ant is extremely small, even smaller than the three young iron ants before, just like a teddy puppy.
But starting from the abdomen, it expanded incredibly, like a fully inflated hot air balloon.
Connected by fragile abdominal joints, the whole thing is dragged behind.
The skin on the abdomen was extremely inflated and was so thin that it was almost transparent. Hero could clearly see that there were round eggs inside that were constantly wriggling.
"I know why those flesh and blood are smeared in the channels. This queen ant can't eat blood food at all. She can't lay eggs at all now..."
Holo watched as the perfect iron ants dragged the corpse of the magician to the queen.
The aroma is tempting, but the queen ant won’t eat it at all!
This made all the iron ants grind their teeth anxiously.
Byrne didn't understand at once: "Why? Isn't it his instinct to devour flesh and blood and reproduce the tribe?"
"Look at her spawning opening...it's completely blocked. I don't know who created the solidifying soul technique!"
With Hero's guidance, Byrne saw it.
The end of the swollen abdomen of the queen ant occasionally flashes a blue light, and every flash is the moment when the abdomen squirms.
You can see that area bulging out, but it was quickly suppressed.
"A magician sealed that place? He didn't want her to lay eggs!"
Hero touched his chin and started thinking:
"Seal the ovulation opening of the queen ant, and then provide her with a huge amount of blood food to devour until her abdomen expands to the critical point... and can no longer eat."
