"I realized that you can only think fast when you're fighting!" When Mrs. Manas said that, she sounded like she was praising Lin Sanjiu sincerely, "I can't believe you could think of such a trick to trick it —"
Lin Sanjiu had no time to answer Mrs. Manas.
After she grabbed the smooth and thin ring, she hurriedly put it on her hand, and her body had already fallen to the ground. She sat up from the pile of broken limbs, but she still couldn't stand up. She tried twice with all her might, but her right leg was still an illusory limb.
The surrounding ants didn't seem to have expected such a situation to develop. They were all shocked and took a few steps back before stopping. At this moment, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help thanking the layers of leaves above her head. They blocked most of the queen's vision and delayed her reaction time. Even if the queen would find out that the ant wearing the ring was dead sooner or later, she would at least have some time to catch her breath.
"Come on."
Lin Sanjiu sneered at the ants around her. She waved her wrist, "Don't you have Special Items with you? Let me have a look. It's best if you can use them one by one. "
The wet ring shimmered under the sunlight and glowed with a wine-red hue. When the ants saw it, they seemed to realize the severity of the situation and retreated another ten meters. Many of their thin tentacles swayed agilely in the air as if they were thick parasites trying to crawl out of their host's shell.
Come to think of it, just staying here was enough to say that they didn't care about their lives. After all, who knew how many abilities, effects, and attacks were hidden in this thin circle?
Seeing that she couldn't get up, Lin Sanjiu decided to give up. She sat on the ground and panted, ignoring the ants around her. While observing the thin ring on her wrist, Lin Sanjiu tried to figure out how to use it. Unconvinced, she replied to Mrs. Manas, "I can do it normally … Besides, as soon as I realize that the other ants have stopped attacking me, I will immediately know that the thin ring of ants is nearby. Isn't that easy?"
"No, I'm not talking about that … I can't believe you can figure out that the ring of ants can't detect the effects of the ring!"
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help smiling.
When she pounced on one of the ants, she had already sensed that the Diamondback Ant was nearby. Of course, she wasn't going to use her ability on it. She didn't even use [Mosaic Censorship]. She only screamed, "Where's my ability?" after she hit the ant with her hands. That was all.
The ant fell for her trick.
"Well," Lin Sanjiu scratched her face, a little embarrassed. "Because they are ants … You know, ants have a few ways to communicate, and the most important one is through smell."
In addition to their antennae, sound, and limited vision, the ants also secreted a kind of odorless "pheromones" from their abdomen to communicate and transmit information. While Lin Sanjiu was running, she kept thinking about a question: How does the queen ant transmit signals to the worker ants and accurately instruct them to advance and retreat in the forest?
Lin Sanjiu didn't hear any sound from the queen, nor did she see any movement from it, so she struggled with this question for a while. It was only when the biological knowledge that she learned from nowhere surfaced in her mind that she finally understood. She then turned her attention to the "smell".
After all, wasn't the spaceship-sized abdomen of the queen hovering above the forest? Only ants of the same species would know what kind of smell it emitted.
Lin Sanjiu's thoughts jumped from this point to the ring. This "Eureka Moment" made her suddenly see the light.
The thin loop was obviously a human object, and it was meant for humans to use. In other words, if there was any "signal transmission" between this Special Item and its owner, it would have to be in a way that humans could perceive and understand, such as flashing lights, voice prompts, or even mental waves.
Now, it was in the hands of an ant that mainly relied on smell. What did this mean?
This meant that even if the ring sent a signal saying "Failed to receive the ability", the ant wearing it would not be aware of it and would not be able to understand it!
At first, Lin Sanjiu was a little worried that the ring would use the worst method of "voice prompts" to notify its owner. The ant's visual range was narrow and dark, so there was nothing to worry about. She did not expect that she would be so lucky this time. The thin loop did not make any sound. When the ant heard her say, "What about my ability?", it completely believed that the effect of her ability had been absorbed by the thin loop.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have come to her just to activate the [Mosaic Censorship].
Lin Sanjiu was able to communicate very quickly through her mind. It only took a few seconds for her to finish processing all the thoughts in her mind. She looked up at the ants that were still hiding in the shade of the tree and snorted, "I didn't expect this phantom limb to last longer than I thought …"
Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly stopped. Then, the long tentacles of the ants in the shadow swayed and turned in the same direction.
While holding her breath, Lin Sanjiu vaguely heard the sound of rapid footsteps in the distance and the slight trembling of the ground under her feet.
"Damn it, those crooked faces are haunting us again! I thought I had left them far behind, "Lin Sanjiu complained to Mrs. Manas. Lin Sanjiu grumbled to Mrs. Manas and quickly made a decision, "Let's get rid of these ants first. It's better for them to come to me than Bohemia."
The effect of the [Tornado Whip] was hidden in the ring. Lin Sanjiu shook her wrist as she guessed, but nothing happened. The ring remained moist and glistened with the ant's body fluid.
"What's going on?" Lin Sanjiu turned around and glanced at the direction where the footsteps and voices came from. She patted the ring again and asked, "Did I use the wrong method?"
The people in the distance seemed to have discovered her location. They were rushing toward her without any hesitation. They were about to arrive, but Lin Sanjiu's right crotch was still empty.
"Hurry up and get to work!" Lin Sanjiu was afraid that the ring would be activated by sound, so she shouted at it politely. Fortunately, Bohemia wasn't there to witness this moment.
At that moment, Mrs. Manas suddenly screamed. Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat when she heard the scream from the depths of her mind. Mrs. Manas screamed.
"Why did you suddenly —"
Before Lin Sanjiu could finish her question, Mrs. Manas pulled up an image in front of her eyes. It was the first time Lin Sanjiu saw the ring on the ant's antennae during the battle. At that time, the ant raised its head from the ground. There was a long string of saliva hanging from the edge of its "mouth". There were two dark rings on each of its antennae.
"Take a good look. It's a pair of rings! This Special Item comes in a pair. Of course, we can't use it without one! " If Mrs. Manas had a tongue, she would have bitten Lin Sanjiu by now. "Quick! Quick! The other ring must be in that pile of mud. Go and find it!"
Lin Sanjiu didn't need Mrs. Manas to say anything. She lunged forward and plunged into the pile of mud and limbs left behind by the ant. She grabbed a big lump of insect tissue mixed with the black mud. At this moment, Lin Sanjiu couldn't care less about how disgusting it was.
Fortunately, the ants were just standing quietly in the shadows, and none of them came forward. They couldn't hear the conversation between Lin Sanjiu and Mrs. Manas, and with their poor eyesight, they couldn't see if Lin Sanjiu was wearing a ring on her other hand. When they realized that the humans were almost there, they immediately followed their old habit of not doing anything and let the humans do the work.
"Quick! Quick! Over there! You haven't looked over there yet. Hey, isn't that —"
When Mrs. Manas got anxious, she would become a chatterbox. She would say one sentence after another, which annoyed Lin Sanjiu to no end. Lin Sanjiu dug her hands into the insect remains, searching for anything in the shape of a ring. The footsteps behind her became clearer and clearer. When she heard someone saying, "She's there!", Lin Sanjiu's fingers froze.
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