Su Mi stopped everyone who was about to get off the giant centipede.
Qin Hao looked around with the same serious expression.
"Everyone, look around carefully. Is there anything strange?"
Qin Hao also had some uncertainty in his eyes, and Ge Shanshan also turned her head carefully to observe the surrounding environment.
"It's strange, the ground here is dry and not a blade of grass grows, not even a flower or a grass."
Su Mi finally realized something was different.
"Flowers and grass don't grow on the ground here, and the trees don't have enough vitality." Although the trees here are alive, the vitality is too weird.
The vitality expression of living things is like different types of aura. The vitality of plants is green, and the vitality of animals has many colors.
This is also a new function that appeared after Su Mi's space was unblocked this time. You can see some aura colors, just like there is green subtle aura in the air in Linjiang City Base.
But in addition to a faint hint of green, the surrounding trees also have a golden aura.
gold? what is that?
In addition to green, there is gold on every tree. There is it on every tree.
"Hehehesuosuo."
"Zila zila."
"Smack, smack, smack."
"What's the sound?" Su Mi suddenly sounded the alarm, and even the giant centipede at this moment showed a kind of fear.
"Master, run quickly and return to space. The baby doesn't want to die! It's them! They're coming! Ah!"
"Everyone, hold on to the centipede's limbs and don't let go!"
After Su Mi shouted, the tree closest to her suddenly broke in the middle with a "click".
It's not broken horizontally, but vertically, a crack is opened in the middle, and then it is broken directly into two halves.
Everyone was brought back to space by Su Mi.
But only Su Mi saw the scene outside.
A piece of gold, a piece of glittering gold, it's hard to see what it is.
Moreover, with the golden light and shadow exploding in the tree trunks, all the surrounding trees suddenly exploded like the first tree.
More than one piece of golden light exploded from the tree trunk.
Su Mi's eyesight was very good, but she couldn't tell what these patches of golden light were.
The golden light followed one after another, and then superimposed on each other, like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger.
In the end, a big shining golden ball was formed.
The big golden ball rolled in a circle towards the broken tree trunks around it.
Then the broken trunk was gone.
Not to mention the broken tree trunks, bark and tree shavings, and even the roots of underground rhizomes disappeared in an instant. After the big golden ball rolled over, the ground was as clean as a vacant space that had been flattened by bulldozers, and was lifeless.
Only the wooden box was left alone in the open space.
Qin Hao and others asked when they saw Su Mi's face full of seriousness and fear.
"Su Mi, what did you see?"
Su Mi shook her head, "I don't know what that is."
She told everything she saw, and everyone fell silent.
Even the well-informed Ge Shanshan didn't know what that thing might be.
Ma Dexiang pinched his chin and suddenly his eyes lit up.
"Boss, no matter what it is, that thing is alive, right?"
"Aren't you talking nonsense? It's not a living thing, how can it move?"
"Alive. Alive? Hiss, Mimi, everyone, I don't know if you have heard of a kind of ant that lives in tropical deserts for a long time."
Su Mi shook her head.
Regarding the types of creatures, Su Mi only learned about some common ones from Zeng Yangping and Wang Runhe.
"I know! They are golden ants. I heard that this ant race is very ancient. In order to study them, scientists have gone deep into the desert areas many times, but they have not even been able to find their shadows." Qin Hao frowned deeply, "If you really want to If it’s a golden ant, that’s going to be trouble!”
Ge Shanshan also became more serious than ever.
"Team Qin is right. Golden ants in the desert are a very mysterious ant species. The largest golden ants discovered are about the size of a quail egg, and the smallest ones are smaller than mosquitoes. But they live in groups. Large gregarious creatures, as long as golden ants are found in one place, there must be thousands of golden ants together."
Su Mi listened very seriously, "So the golden light is most likely an ant colony composed of mutated golden ants?"
Ge Shanshan shook her head.
"No, although golden ants are called golden ants, they are not all golden. Most of their groups have dark red bodies. They have golden fluff and markings on their foreheads and abdomens. When they live in groups, they will emit a golden light. , so it is called golden ant.
But in the early days, the name of this ant was fire ant. Because when they bite a queen ant, the wound will show burning pain and signs of corrosion, hence the name. "
"Shanshan, do golden ants only live in the desert?"
"No, there are oases even in deserts. In the 1960s, a scientific research team discovered traces of golden ants living in desert oases. Therefore, golden ants can also survive in rainforests."
While listening to Ge Shanshan's words, Su Mi watched the "big golden ball" from the outside world rolling further and further away, and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"If these big golden balls were gathered by ants, not even the stone, bark, or roots would be left where they rolled over." Su Mi even began to worry. If the roots of the small tree spread, what would happen? I won't be eaten by this big golden ball.
"Master, the treasures and materials are also missing, and they must have been eaten by those golden things!"
"Your treasures are all jewels and jade. If those are really golden ants, they can even chew jewels and jade, but why not that wooden box?"
"Master, the wood used to make that box is really good! It's golden nanmu! Every inch of wood is precious, treasure!"
Ge Shanshan said "ah" in sudden realization.
"Mimi, if that box is made of golden nanmu, that's right! Golden nanmu has a natural fragrance, and snakes, insects, rats and ants can't avoid that kind of fragrance. If the golden color is golden ants, even if they They are mutant ants, and they are probably born with an instinctive dislike of the smell of golden nanmu.
The teachers' research team used this box to store information, most likely because the information was very important. We have to get that box! "
"The big golden ball has rolled away. If I go out now and rush over to put the box in, I should be able to do it in time."
However, as soon as Su Mi left the space, a fragrant breeze appeared around her. That shiny golden ball appears again!
The big golden ball rolled very fast, and it rushed to the front of Su Mi in just a few seconds.
This also allowed her to see clearly the true appearance of this golden ball.
This big golden ball is really made up of golden ants.
Su Mi wanted to bet whether the golden ants gnawed her first or whether she took the golden ants into the space and marked them in space the moment she came into contact with them.
But she still gave up the moment the golden ball was about to touch her.
On the one hand, I'm scared, but on the other hand, the roots of the dense trees underground have already spread.
