As Wang Zheng continued to venture deeper, the winding passage had already descended at least a thousand meters.

The narrow passage was completely dark, and even with Wang Zheng's eyesight, he could no longer see his surroundings.

It's worth mentioning that all ant-like alien beasts rely on touch and pheromones to move around in their underground nests, so this passage is always pitch black and there are no glowing plants or mosses.

But who is Wang Zheng?

He was the kind of person who emptied several department stores before he even set off, so this little bit of difficulty was naturally no challenge for him.

Wang Zheng casually rummaged through the storage space and found the high-powered flashlight he had bought before.

After turning on his flashlight, Wang Zheng saw that the narrow passage was as bright as day, and continued to move forward with firm steps.

As time passed, when Wang Zheng suddenly saw three dark passages in front of him, he couldn't help but curse.

"Damn it! Why make an underground base so complicated! It's been winding its way down for so long, and now we have to choose one of three?"

Looking at the three almost identical roads in front of him, Wang Zheng cursed loudly.

Ultimately, having no other option, they could only observe it carefully.

The leftmost hole had the most worker ants, so Wang Zheng pressed on and charged into it.

He had barely entered the passage when the swarm of bloodthirsty worker ants went berserk, attacking and tearing at Wang Zheng like madmen, leaving behind a trail of corpses.

Thanks to these crazed, bloodthirsty worker ants, every step Wang Zheng takes now leaves him stepping on their corpses with a "crackling" sound, kicking up countless drops of slime.

If it weren't for Wang Zheng's strong mental fortitude, any normal adventurer would have been disgusted to death, even if they weren't bitten to death by these crazy ants.

After walking a few hundred meters further, Wang Zheng felt a sense of openness ahead.

The tunnels in the anthill were originally three or four meters high, but now they seemed to have been expanded several times over, becoming wider the further you went.

Eventually, the entire passage turned into a huge underground cavern, larger than Wang Zheng's storage space.

There was even a huge circular ceiling overhead. Although the walls of the cave looked pitted and uneven, they were quite smooth to the touch, and when a flashlight was shone on them, they faintly reflected light.

Wang Zheng walked to the wall of this huge space and carefully tapped it. He then discovered that the earthen wall was coated with a layer of fine film, which was hard and smooth. When he tapped it lightly with his fingers, it made a crisp "clang clang clang" sound, which showed that it was very hard.

Although the passage had come to an end, it wasn't without any discoveries.

Look towards the center of this vast space.

It contained piles of shriveled chunks of meat, dried fur, and some plant roots and fruits.

However, this does not mean that bloodthirsty gold ants are vegetarians; they simply need to obtain nutrients from these plants.

Just look at those meats with unknown ingredients and you'll know.

They were processed by the worker ants into finger-sized pieces of meat, which were then neatly stacked together.

Behind the pile of meat, countless bones were piled up in a corner of this space. Wang Zheng saw not only the skeletons of various strange beasts, but also quite a few human skeletons.

However, these pale bones have also lost all their spiritual energy and have no value whatsoever.

But such a scene is chilling and terrifying.

Clearly, this enormous underground space is the food storage room of the bloodthirsty golden ant colony.

Wang Zheng took a few steps forward and felt a slight airflow surging inside the cave.

There are even ventilation openings inside the storage room of this ant nest?

Wow, that's awesome!

Wang Zheng offered his sincere praise.

You should know that Wang Zheng is currently at least tens or hundreds of meters underground.

This shows that the ants' nest-building skills are truly extraordinary.

After unexpectedly discovering that the passage with the most worker ants was actually the storage room of this group of bloodthirsty gold ants, Wang Zheng returned the way he came.

He had no interest whatsoever in the ants' collection, though he still rummaged through it, thinking that maybe there were some spiritual crystals among them.

However, it was clear that even if there were spiritual crystals, they were either offered to their queen by the worker ants or consumed by the ants themselves, making Wang Zheng's search in vain.

In the era of spiritual energy, every beast was a master at absorbing spiritual energy; there was no way he would get such a good deal.

Wang Zheng shook his head with a wry smile.

"As expected, novels are all lies. They say you can easily find countless rare treasures in the lair of strange beasts while exploring the wild, or get martial arts manuals by falling off a cliff. There's no such thing as a free lunch."

In reality, aside from various pieces of meat and fur that are about to rot and spoil, there's absolutely no benefit to them.

Wang Zheng trampled over countless ant corpses and returned to the fork in the road. He looked at the worker ants that were relentlessly attacking him without any sign of retreating.

At that moment, a strange sense of admiration arose in my heart.