Halfway through, the Saber Ant suddenly stopped. The two antennae in front of his head touched the ground and felt that the ground was vibrating regularly. This kind of vibration was clearly not of the same kind. The Saber Ant immediately turned its head vigilantly, but its compound eyes were filled with gray arcs of light.
The fanged bone knife cut into the Saber Ant's jaw, tearing open its mouth, head, brain, and many nerves along the way. In the end, he broke out of the shell above his head, and the tip of the knife carried flying meat and ant blood, sprinkling a straight mark on the ground. Allen put away his saber, helped the Saber Ant's corpse to the ground, and dragged it behind a mound. He reached into the wound of the Saber Ant and smeared the ant's blood on his face, armpits, and a few exposed parts of his body. In this way, the aura he emitted was no different from that of a saber ant. In addition, his body smelled of scorched earth. As long as he wasn't directly exposed to the Saber Ants, those dangerous species would only treat him as their own kind.
He was less than a hundred meters away from the nest, and this distance was only two breaths away from Allen's feet. He arrived at the left side of the hill where the nest was located. The hill was almost vertical to the ground, and there were two holes on it. The entrance of the cave was deep, and there was a faint red light. Allen used the protruding part of the mountain as a leverage point and climbed up like a gecko.
In just a moment, he had already arrived at a cave about fifteen to sixteen meters away from the ground. Allen carefully poked his head out and looked into the cave. The cave extended for a few meters before a turning point appeared, leading to an unknown place. The faint red light was coming from the turning point. The temperature in the cave was obviously higher than outside the cave, and he didn't feel cold at all. Seeing that there were no Saber Ants around, Allen quietly jumped up and drilled into the cave.
The cave was very dry, and the rock wall felt warm to the touch. Allen took a deep breath. Apart from the unique sulfur-like smell of Nether Domain Star, there was no other smell in the air. It was the dry and hot air that made Allen's throat burn. He crawled down the cave passageway on both hands and feet. After climbing seven or eight meters, the passageway had already reached the end. Poking out half of his head and looking down, he saw a complicated space.
The saber ant seemed to have hollowed out the mountain, revealing a complex structure of spatial passageways. At first glance, it was impossible to see the entire scene. He could only see a relatively wide mountainside, about dozens of square meters in size, surrounded by acupoints that led to other places. The belly of the mountain was filled with knife ants, forty to fifty of them. The ants piled on top of each other, forming a small hill. The saber ants swarmed, and the scene made one's scalp tingle.
Indistinctly, a sharp insect cry came from one of his acupoints. Allen remembered where he had heard it before, but he couldn't remember it for the moment. He held his breath and moved towards the source of the sound. There was a fiery glow coming from the bottom of the mountain. The fiery glow shone through the cracks in the mountain walls. It seemed that there was a volcano at the bottom of the mountain. However, the Blood Eagle Highland and the Abyss of Raging Flames were neighbors. Although this place was not within the range of the Abyss of Fire, it was hard to guarantee that there was no lava flowing underground. If the Saber Ants dug deeper and thinned the ground, it was not impossible for the temperature of the underground magma to pass through the stone.
With the help of the dim firelight in the belly of the mountain, Allen smoothly reached the acupoint where the insect's cry came from. After twisting and turning for dozens of meters, he passed through two large curves like a roller coaster track before arriving at the exit. There was a fishy smell in the air at the exit. Allen quietly stuck his head out and suddenly, a strange head flashed in front of his eyes. He hurriedly retreated, his hand already touching the handle of his fangs.
It was an Earth Drilling Insect.
There were no eyes or noses, only a big mouth full of broken teeth. However, the Earth Drilling Insect didn't seem to have discovered Allen's location. However, he let out a mournful cry and fell powerlessly. Allen probed again and saw that the cliff beneath the acupoint was covered in insect blood. The Earth Drilling Insect fell to the ground more than ten meters below. From the looks of it, it wanted to escape with all its might just now. Compared to the size of the Earth Drilling Insect, Allen suddenly felt that these complicated passageways might have been dug out by these insects.
Looking at the giant insect that had fallen to the ground, its body twisted and it did not die immediately. At this moment, some smaller ants with dark insect shells and sickle-like blades crawled out of the acupoints on the ground. These black ants should also be a type of saber ant, but the Origin Energy aura on their bodies was much thicker than that of ordinary saber ants. Those two compound eyes emitted a dark red fishy light, looking terrifying.
More than a dozen of these black ants used their mouths or sickle feet to attack the Earth Drilling Insect, but they didn't seem to want to kill it. However, they stimulated the giant insect to twist desperately and drill into one of the passageways. During this period, the giant insect originally wanted to rush in another direction, but the black ant quickly blocked it. From the looks of it, it seemed that the Earth Drilling Insect intended to enter their designated passageway.
What's behind the passageway?
After the Earth Drilling Insect and the Black Ant entered the passageway, Allen waited for a moment to confirm that no other saber ants had appeared before swimming down the passageway and entering the acupoints chosen by the giant black ant. This passageway didn't have many twists and turns. After walking for about seven or eight meters, it had already reached the end. The flames at the end were even brighter, and Allen approached the exit from the shadows of the path. The short body stretched out his head and looked out. It was originally an open space.
The belly of the mountain was about a hundred square meters, and the four sides of the mountain were hollowed out. The rock walls of the mountain were filled with large holes that were about a meter long and wide, and they didn't know what use they had. The ground in the center of the mountain was extremely thin. Hot magma would occasionally emerge from the center and flow around. When it encountered the air, it would gradually cool down and turn into black mud with a fiery light. At the end of the mountain's belly, there was a colossus lying.
His body was as tall as a small mountain, and he had an extremely disproportionate small head. The structure of his head was seventy to eighty percent similar to that of an ordinary saber ant, except that there was an additional compound eye in the center of his forehead. This big fellow was lying on the ground, as if he was using geothermal heat to keep warm. From time to time, two pairs of insect wings that were as thin as cicada wings would flap. However, the wings were small and thin, probably more decorative than practical.
His forefeet were not like ordinary saber ants with blades. His feet were no different from ordinary ants, and his three pairs of feet were all in the first segment of his body, making him look stupid and ridiculous. Especially when it was dragging a round abdomen. Allen had just bet that this thing would definitely not be able to climb out of the belly of the mountain, so he didn't know how it got in.
A miserable insect cry caused Allen to withdraw his attention from the strange ant. He swept his gaze across the belly of the mountain and saw the Earth Drilling Bug. The bug was driven under the eyes of the big fellow by the black ant. At this moment, the black ant was no longer polite. More than a dozen black ants surged forward, their mouths and feet moving together, biting and tearing the Earth Drilling Bug into pieces in three or two strikes.
The bug's grease, blood, and minced meat fell all over the ground. At this moment, the antennae on the big ant's head moved, and all three of its compound eyes rolled up. Then, he opened his mouth, and a straw-like organ stretched out from his mouth. When the thing landed on the ground, it began to suck the grease and blood of the Earth Drilling Bug. There were even black ants that tore off the skin and flesh of the bug and sent it to the big fellow's side, as if they were feeding it.
Without a doubt, that was the queen. As for those black ants, they should be the personal guards after the meeting. From the fact that there were no ordinary knife ants in the belly of the mountain, it could be seen that these black ants had a high status in the ant colony.
After gaining a rough understanding of the situation in the nest, Allen didn't want to stay for long, so he lightened his footsteps and retreated. In a moment, he withdrew from this acupoint. Just as he was about to climb up the rock wall, two scarlet dots suddenly appeared in the shadows in front of him. A black ant's sickle feet rubbed against each other, making a strange squeaking sound. It moved out of the shadows and stared intently at Allen.
Allen took a deep breath. Just as his hand touched the hilt of the fanged saber, the black ant had already rushed over.
Gray light flowed, and the fangs were unsheathed, slashing towards the black ant's head with a beautiful arc of light. To Allen's surprise, the black ant suddenly slid sideways, causing his saber to cut through the air. Allen let out a "yi" sound. The black ant's agility and speed were above that of an ordinary saber ant. He let out a muffled snort, turned his wrist, and slashed again with his fangs, pulling out a gray crescent wheel that stretched across space.
This time, the black ant could no longer avoid it, but it bent its sickle feet and forcefully collided with Allen's saber.
With a loud sound, the black ant was slashed back by his saber. Allen's own tiger's mouth trembled violently, but he was also shocked by the black ant quite a bit. He was surprised. At this moment, he heard the sound of insect feet swarming from the belly of the mountain. He knew that in a few seconds, he would be targeted by the other personal guards of the queen.
He had to fight!
With a thought, the Origin Energy in his body rumbled, and Allen's eyes lit up with an exceptionally intimidating light. With a soft shout, he closed his saber and pounced forward. With a pull of his fangs, the crescent wheel immediately fell, and the saber momentum covered most of the black ant's body, causing bursts of explosive sounds to ring out. The black ant had been struck countless times in an instant, but apart from the cracks in the insect nodes, there was only a crack left in the rest of the place, but it did not injure the vital parts.
The insect shells of these queen guards were extremely hard, and ordinary machine guns probably wouldn't be able to do anything to them. Fortunately, the insect nodes were not covered by black armor and were exceptionally soft. Even ordinary swords could easily tear them apart, let alone a second-grade magic weapon like Fangs. Grasping the weakness of the black ant, Allen stepped on a slippery step and avoided the attack of the black ant's sickle feet. At the same time, he slashed out with his saber, and a gray light flashed between the two sections of the black ant's body.
The black ant immediately spat out greenish-yellow blood and fell to the ground. The wound on the insect node was large and deep, and its muscles and nerves were cut off by Allen. Although it did not die immediately, it was unable to chase after Allen. Allen immediately retreated and climbed up the rock wall. At this moment, the other black ant guards rushed out of their acupoints and chased after Allen. Allen used both his hands and feet to quickly drill into the passageway he came in. He casually removed a grenade from his waist and threw it behind him without even looking. He pounced forward with all his might.
In an instant, an ear-deafening explosion sounded behind him. The shockwave carried a scorching airflow and whistled past his back and head. When Allen raised his head, the flames behind him rolled back. A few black ants were burned to the point that their corpses were curled up, their feet rolling back, and they were already dead.
He took the opportunity to leave.
In just a moment, this place was already filled with knife ants, but Allen had already left, and his body was smeared with ant blood and lime to conceal his smell. This made the saber ants want to chase after him, but in the end, they still dispersed.
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