"You're still carrying this slime!" Hearing Xilu's cry, Artoris's first thought was that Xilu chose to carry the slime with her instead of putting it into the contract space.
"That's not the problem!" Geraint exhaled and said, "Don't you feel a little cold?"
Needless to say, Geraint said that others certainly felt the change in the surrounding temperature.
"But isn't it still summer?" Xilu asked after putting the frozen slime into the contract space.
Gawain knelt down, touched a handful of soil on the ground, and frowned. Gawain raised his head and said, "Quicken your pace and go to the front to take a look!" After that, Gawain stood up and took action directly.
Looking at Gawain running out, the others looked at each other and followed him. Although it is not clear what happened, judging from the expressions of others, this should not be a normal situation in the anthill.
There were many forks in the road ahead. At each fork in the road, Gawain would touch the soil on the ground and then quickly make a choice. Seeing Gawain's serious look, others did not immediately question it. After all, no one present knew which way led to the Queen's location. In fact, Geraint had already made plans to walk through the maze.
"Yawn!" Xilu sneezed. The surrounding environment was extremely severe. The cave walls were covered with a thin layer of ice, and the ground became as smooth as a mirror. By the time we got here, there were very few fire ants anymore, so the journey was quite smooth.
"Gawain, are you sure this road can lead to the queen's residence? Is this environment really suitable for saw-toothed fire ants to survive?" Artolis asked, trembling.
"Ah? Did I say that this road leads to the queen's residence?" Gawain replied.
"You..." After hearing Gawain's words, several people didn't know what to say.
"But I know this road should lead to the fire ant hatchery."
Geraint was about to say that their target was the queen ant, what was the use of going to this incubation room! Are you here to get rid of these ant eggs? What a waste of time!
"Wait, ant eggs?" Kaguya clapped her hands and said to Gawain: "The worker ants will transport the eggs laid by the queen into the incubation room, so there must be a passage in the incubation room connected to the queen's residence!"
"That's right!" After hearing Kaguya's answer, several people who didn't know why seemed to suddenly realize it.
"The eggs of saw-toothed fire ants need to be hatched in a cool environment, so the front..." No need for Gowen to explain what happened next, everyone else understood it. The low ambient temperature is probably caused by the worker ants moving a large amount of ice element crystals into the incubation chamber to maintain a cool environment. So just follow this path and you'll reach the incubator.
The low number of fire ants in this area should also be due to this environment. Wait, this is wrong. There seems to be something wrong? Artolis thought for a while and said: "Although it is said that ant eggs need to be hatched in a cool environment, it is too cold!" But no, the surroundings are already frozen, and the fire ants have grown into adults. It is unbearable for such an environment, let alone newly born fire ant larvae.
"This is indeed a problem, but I have thought of the reason. Of course, I need to verify it now!" Gawain gave up here, and it seemed that he did not intend to express his thoughts now.
Since the route was correct, they naturally continued walking. It was rare for Artris to have her own ideas, so she walked a little faster because she asked for confirmation.
Finally, after continuing to delve deeper for a while, the view broadened. Kaguya used the Holy Blessing Technique again, and as the surrounding space was lit up, a huge ice world appeared in front of several people.
Yes, this is the incubation room of saw-toothed fire ants. Looking at the underground space filled with winter colors reflected in white light, several people couldn't help but marvel.
"Those should be ant eggs." Lancelot pointed at the densely packed ice balls the size of human heads on the ground in the distance.
"It looks like it should be, but there are so many of them!" Geraint rubbed his temples, looking like he had a headache. Yes, although I had been mentally prepared, the number of ant eggs was still too exaggerated. Pieces are placed on the ice with almost no gaps. If tens of thousands of ant eggs hatch out, then they will really be finished.
Just when Geraint was thinking about how to get rid of the ant eggs after killing the ant queen, an ice spear suddenly appeared in front of his sight. By the time Geraint reacted, it was too late to dodge.
"clang"! Gazing at the giant sword in front of him, Geraint turned his head and saw Lancelot smiling at him.
"Brother, you are not vigilant enough!" Lancelot laughed.
Geraint was about to argue, but was stopped by Gawain. Looking towards the direction from which the attack came, a transparent ice ball floating in mid-air among the ant eggs caught Artolis's attention.
"Ice element! So that's it!" Kaguya turned her head and looked at Gawain's expected expression and said, "So you guessed it early on?"
"As far as I know, there should be an extremely large number of ant colonies. Although we have killed many along the way, it is a bit abnormal to just have these. So I guess there is something wrong with the incubation room of the ant nest. , by observing the adhesion of the soil, I guessed that some worker ants accidentally brought the ice element into the incubation room, because it is impossible to create such an environment by crystallization of the element alone." Gao Wen explained.
"The temperature released by the ice element was too low, causing a large number of ant eggs to be unable to hatch and accumulated here. So..."
"So what? Is it time to explain now? Let's deal with that guy first!" Artolis interrupted the conversation between the two. She didn't think too much, and immediately observed with her analytical eyes. The properties of that ice element.
The result was really incredible. The ice elemental one turned out to be a dark soul level, level 67. The opponent's attack just now was obviously tentative, otherwise the attack of a dark soul-level guy would not have been blocked so easily.
And the two people in front of me were still chatting there!
As soon as Artolis finished speaking, the ice element over there immediately launched an attack on their team. I saw blue light glowing all over Ice Elemental's body, and at the next moment, an arm-thick freezing ray shot out from Ice Elemental's body.
The speed of the freezing ray is not very fast, at least it leaves a few people with time to react. So the people quickly ducked to both sides, and the next second the places where they were originally were covered with thick ice crystals.
"The way back is blocked!" Xilu exclaimed as she looked at the hole sealed by ice crystals.
"Just in time to fend off the fire ants returning to their nests." Counting the time, the fire ants outside were almost ready to return to their nests. Artolis didn't believe that Gawain's formation alone could eliminate all the fire ants returning to their nests. The ice element now sealed the entrance of the passage, which could be considered as helping them stop those fire ants.
Artoris took out her sword-edged bow and placed the magic arrow on the string.
"Get down here!"
