Chapter 474: Beast Disaster. Battle against the Fire Ants

Chu An gritted his teeth, as one problem after another arose.

This ant is mainly distributed in the Parana River Basin in South America, and usually 200,000 to 500,000 of them move together. They invaded China more than 60 years ago, causing immeasurable losses to the local area.

The fire ant ranks second in the list of the top ten poisonous ants. After being bitten by it, the injured part will feel a burning pain, followed by blisters. If you are allergic to the toxic protein in the venom, you will suffer anaphylactic shock and be in danger of death.

Even if you are not allergic, the broken blisters can easily cause bacterial infection. Under the current conditions, the ultimate fate of ordinary people will be death.

Chu An secretly thanked her lucky stars for discovering the matter in time. Even if she had medicine, she didn't want to suffer. Besides, the toxicity of these ants after their evolution was still unknown.

She calmed herself down. The red tide was still more than 20 meters away from them, so the few under her feet were not to be feared.

"Go wake up Lao Chu and the others." Chu An said to Gu Ye, and then quickly thought of a solution.

There are hundreds of thousands of ants. Cotton needles are useless and fire attacks may leave some ants missing. What if we quickly release a helicopter to escape?

That doesn't seem to work. Judging from the speed they are moving, the helicopter will probably not be able to make it in time.

Bang, bang, bang—Gu Ye knocked hard on the window frame several times, then flew towards the door and broke it open.

When I looked inside, I saw quite a few fire ants on the ground. Fortunately, most of them were lingering around the table legs and bed legs. The nine dogs were tilting their heads and looking at them.

"Xiao An, Xiao An... come in first and take the dogs back."

Lao Chu and Wang Guan had already woken up. Although Wang Guan didn't know what had happened, he reacted quickly and jumped out of bed to ask the reason.

Gu Ye turned on the searchlight in the room and pointed to the ground. "Red ants."

"Fire ants?" Wang Guan obviously recognized them. He squatted down and took a closer look. His expression changed instantly. "How many are there outside?"

"It's all there, crowds of them." Gu Ye stepped on the creatures that continued to crawl inside to death, trying to stop Daye and Xiaoye who wanted to come over to help (make trouble).

"Sit down and stay where you are." The crown gave orders to all the dogs.

The dogs also smelled the danger and squatted obediently in the safe area in the middle.

Chu An quickly came in with two torches. He first put the dog into the space, then pointed the torches at the legs of the table. There were crackling sounds, and an unpleasant burnt smell spread.

Lao Chu also got off the bed, "Ants, where did the ants come from?"

It doesn’t matter where they come from, what matters is how to eliminate them, and we really don’t know where they come from.

Gu Ye naturally took the torch from Chu An's hand and burned the ants with her, stepping on those that escaped.

Wang Guan walked to the window and got goosebumps all over his body. He saw a dark red area in the distance, with layers of ants falling one after another, some places had built ant ladders more than one meter high, and some were rolled into circles the size of footballs, scrambling to move towards the cabin.

He tightened the window bolt and found that the gaps around it were quite large, so he asked Lao Chu, who had just come over, to pull up the bed sheets and quilt covers.

"Oh my god." Lao Chu shuddered, and immediately blocked all the gaps in the door and windows with Wang Guan.

"Xiao An, what should we do next?" Wang Guan asked, unconsciously putting Chu An in the captain position.

Chu An had thought of many ways, but none of them seemed safe, so he took out the stone house in the space. There happened to be enough space here, "You go in and hide first."

"What about you?" Old Chu was busy rubbing his arms. Just looking at him made him feel uncomfortable all over.

"I'll wait a moment." Chu An said.

"No." Lao Chu grabbed her and said, "Girl, this thing looks very difficult to deal with. Let's go in first and then think of a solution together."

Chu An felt a little passive because she lost the opportunity to observe the outside world after entering. She used her mental power to connect to the space and asked Wang Ce to help find insecticide to deal with the fire ants. If that didn't work, she was ready to use a flamethrower.

Flamethrower also has limitations, and it is easy to miss ants, but it is the only way at present.

Wang Ce heard her urgency and immediately agreed. Chu An took out four more sets of protective clothing and asked them to put them on.

The crown reminded, "It's too late to change clothes, go to the stone house first."

The others looked towards the door and saw that the red tide had already reached the window and the entire cabin began to creak.

Wang Guan piled the remaining strips of cloth at the door of the stone house, holding it up for a while.

Gu Ye pulled him up and said, "Captain Wang, even water can't get in through this door, don't worry."

"Oh, I see." Wang Guan threw the strip of cloth away and turned to see if there was anything left in the house.

"What did you say?" Chu An suddenly looked at Gu Ye, with a gleam of light in his eyes.

"Ah? I said the stone house was well sealed." Gu Ye was a little confused, "What's wrong?"

Old Chu had been inside for a while, and found that there was no joint except the door. "Come in, girl. This stone house was hollowed out from the middle. It's really nice."

Wang Guan walked around and came back and said that the stone house was the safest place. "Let's go in and hide for a while. The scale of the situation outside is beyond the ability of just a few of us to handle."

"Not necessarily." Surprise gradually emerged in Chu An's eyes. She looked at the red color that almost covered the window, and a sly smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

The next moment, a column of water shot out of the window.

Bang——

The window and its frame were blown away, and the red color disappeared.

As everyone stared in amazement, Chu An summoned stream water from space, forming four curved water walls around the four people, blocking even their heads. He then increased his mental strength to 10% and expanded the stream water in all directions.

The cabin creaked under the strong water pressure, and after a few seconds it reached a critical point. The beams broke, the wooden boards shattered, the cabin was torn apart, and countless broken wooden boards flew in all directions. If viewed from the outside, it looked like an exploding wooden firework.

Along with the cabin disappeared the fire ants that were the first to crawl over also disappeared.

"Oh my God, what did I see?" Old Chu held onto the stone door, feeling terrible.

Wang Guan tried to act calm, only Gu Ye looked as if he was used to it.

Chu An did not relax her vigilance. She knew that ants were very strong and would not necessarily die if they flew out. Moreover, ants were not afraid of water. It was not that they could survive in water, but that they had a fearless spirit of sacrifice.

They can cross the river in groups or build ant ladders to cross the river, and they will achieve their goals even if they have to sacrifice their brothers in the outer circle.

But...her wall of water is not a river.

Chu An felt that Gu Ye's reminder was very timely. Her smile grew wider and wider. At the same time, she increased her mental strength to 20%, allowing the first wave of water wall to wash around. Although it was not as powerful as a flood, with the blessing of mental strength, dealing with these ants was no problem.

Gu Ye hurriedly picked up the searchlight (waterproof), and everyone clearly saw that the first wave of water wall washed the fire ants away five or six meters, and the ones behind also stopped, hesitating and not daring to move forward.

"My daughter..." Old Chu swallowed his saliva. How could this be his daughter? She was simply a goddess from heaven descending to earth. "So beautiful."

Wang Guan also silently gave a thumbs up. He was glad that he came to the right place, otherwise he would never be able to see this scene in his life.

Chu An gathered his strength for another wave of water wall, this time increasing his mental strength to 40%, expecting to be able to knock them back into the woods.

"They seem to be trying to escape." Gu Ye's ears moved slightly, and he felt that the rustling sound was getting farther and farther away from them.

If you want to escape, you need her consent.

These ants are a nuisance. Chu An is not going to let them go. He decisively releases the water wall.

The next second, just as she thought, everything within a radius of thirty meters was washed away by the water wall. The water also rushed into the woods, and countless birds and beasts were scared away.

At this point, the crisis was finally resolved.

Wang Guan and Lao Chu both felt that it was a bit of a waste of water and wanted to try to collect some of it. However, the earth was like a vampire that had been hungry for hundreds of years and finally encountered some fresh blood, which it sucked up clean in an instant.

The four of them were not in the mood to continue sleeping, so Chu An took out the prefabricated steel house and placed a pot of buns, twenty each of pork and cabbage, beef and radish, and vegetarian dishes, plus a pot of meatball and vermicelli soup.

"Have a bite to eat, then we'll go."