Behind it was a cabinet, divided into ten compartments, three-fifths of which were covered by glass.
In each cell, there is a plump, black queen ant and a red king ant.
Some queen ants even have wings; they are "princesses."
Some queen ants have a pile of white eggs beside them.
The largest queen ant is as big as a football, and its dark abdomen is filled with black blood.
In each queen ant's private compartment, there were some black rotten flesh and some clean food.
The queen ant seemed only interested in carrion; her plump body remained motionless as she rapidly chewed the rotting flesh.
In addition to these, there is also a camera emitting a red light.
Bai Xizhu raised her hand and grabbed at the air, instantly destroying the camera.
"How come there are so many!"
Bai Yifan felt a chill run down his spine.
It's already terrifying how many eggs a single queen ant can lay, let alone ten!
The red mutant worker ants' antennae twitched wildly, seemingly preparing to attack Bai Xizhu.
Bai Xizhu's control was firmly suppressing it.
"Only one worker ant?"
Leng Yebai's eyes scanned the entire room, but he didn't find any other mutated ants.
In an ant colony, worker ants and soldier ants make up the largest number of ants.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be only this much.
“The others haven’t hatched yet.” Bai Xizhu thought of the mutated ant eggs underground. “Those eggs should be the first batch of mutated ants, but they were discovered before they hatched.”
Bai Xizhu's gaze fell on the mutated red worker ant.
A considerable amount of black liquid slowly dripped from its mouthparts.
A single mutated worker ant, moving as fast as the wind, can create a complex network of anthills beneath an entire city.
This is truly amazing.
Even if the construction begins before the queen ant has laid eggs, it wouldn't take more than two months.
If the ant colony were to hatch, it would be a disaster for the region.
Before the ants hatch, this mutated worker ant is responsible for guarding the queen ants.
Bai Xizhu squinted and glanced at the window.
The newspaper that had been covering the windowpane had a slight tear, and a corner of the glass was missing, just enough for the red ant to run out.
Perhaps the person who raised the queen ant never imagined that this tiny hole would bring utter destruction to the city.
Perhaps that person knew... yet allowed the mutated red ants to escape.
"roar--"
Suddenly, the roar of zombies came from outside.
"Woo~ woo~"
They were right next to the safe base, and could even hear the alarms coming from inside.
"Sis, what should we do?"
Bai Yifan looked at Bai Xizhu.
From the box hanging from Bai Xizhu's waist, steel needles covered in frost flew out and pierced straight at the queen ant in the grid and the only worker ant on the ground.
The steel needles pierced their brains, and black blood spurted out.
Bai Xizhu came to the grid and carefully looked at the queen ant inside.
Unlike other queen ants whose abdomens are white and plump, the queen ant's abdomen is black, filled with black blood.
In addition, Bai Xizhu also noticed that there was some powder in those compartments.
These powders are a pale blue color.
The bluish powder emitted a burnt smell.
Bai Xizhu dipped her finger in the solution, her body tensing slightly.
She was very familiar with this.
While she was in the underground research institute, she was fed every now and then.
It can forcibly develop the body's supernatural abilities, but it has powerful side effects and will greatly shorten the user's lifespan.
This powder requires fourth-order or higher crystal nuclei to be pressed into powder in a vacuum using a gentle method to ensure that the energy inside is not lost, and then mixed with a synthetic drug.
In the research institute, it was a very precious drug.
"Sis, sis? Are you alright?" Bai Yifan waved his hand in front of Bai Xizhu's face. "Let's hurry up and leave! It's getting chaotic outside!"
"Oh, okay."
Bai Xizhu made a grasping motion in the air with her fingers, and the crystal cores from the brains of the ten ant queens flew out into the air.
They all gleamed with a faint light; they were fifth-order crystal cores.
Bai Xizhu directly stored all the crystal cores into her spatial storage.
"Wow—Sis, why didn't that person send more people to guard all these crystal cores?" Bai Yifan's eyes lit up.
These crystal cores contain immense power, making them priceless treasures in the apocalypse.
Even from a distance, he could sense that these crystal cores were different from the others.
"I'm afraid of not dividing the spoils fairly," Bai Xizhu said.
“But, it was too easy for us to get the crystal core! I feel like they definitely have a backup plan.” Bai Yifan stroked his chin.
Ten fifth-order crystal cores, how could they be obtained so easily!
“You’re right, do you see this?” Bai Xizhu pointed to a glass bottle on the cabinet.
The glass bottle was entirely emerald green, with a faint trace of liquid inside.
Bai Yifan took a deep breath and, besides the stench of decay, caught a faint, pleasant fragrance.
The scent is very faint; you can't smell it at all unless you sniff it hard.
"There are highly toxic and volatile gases in here. The entire room is sealed, and the gases permeate every inch of the air. Anyone who accidentally wanders in will not be able to get out and will be cut into food by worker ants."
Bai Xizhu pointed to the only worker ant that was already dead.
It is a mutated worker ant, very fast, and can unexpectedly leave a wound on a human.
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