Chapter 107: Rebirth of the Ant Nest (VI)
Deep in the ant nest, the corridors are crisscrossed like a maze.
Xie Mian and Lin Heng walked side by side, the flash of their swords and vines intertwined, chopping up all the soldier ants that pounced on them along the way.
The fishy green slurry splattered all over the damp rock walls, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell.
“Something’s wrong!”
While Lin Heng was using vines to strangle the soldier ants that emerged from the side wall, he said in a deep voice, "Although there are many of these soldier ants, their level is generally not high. A true queen ant nest has more defensive power than this!"
Xie Mian used a knife to split the ant colony in front of him, creating a vacuum zone, and also noticed something unusual.
They had gone hundreds of meters deep, and apart from endless soldier ants, they had not encountered any higher-level guards, let alone any trace of the queen ant.
The entire nest is like a shell with only size.
"The queen ant... is not in the nest!" Xie Mian reacted instantly, and a terrible thought came to his mind.
He suddenly stopped and turned to look in the direction he came from.
"Brother, let's go back!"
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At the same time, inside the central cave.
Feng Zheng, who was "invited" out of the double shield by Goose Shifang, looked at the cold white goose in front of him, and then looked at the children who were firmly protected inside, his face full of despair and confusion.
"Why...why do this to us? My wife..."
Before he could finish his words, something strange happened!
The woman who had been holding the doll quietly with a blank look in her eyes suddenly began to tremble violently.
The doll in her arms fell to the ground, but she seemed unaware. She scratched her body in pain with her hands, and a suppressed roar that was not like a human voice came from her throat.
"Ah... my child... you are not allowed to... you are not allowed to take my child away!"
She spoke in a frantic, shrill voice.
A huge and chaotic insect energy burst out from her body!
“Gah!
"E Shifang's eyes narrowed, it was indeed so!
This woman is the source of the "field" insect energy!
Feng Zheng's domain is built on his wife's "ant nest". Without the stable protection of the ant nest and the constant supply of energy from the "Queen Ant", his domain would never be so long-lasting and stable.
What's more, this field can derive all real things, and the insect energy required is definitely not something that a single insect follower can maintain.
Feng Zheng’s wife does not control the ant colony, but she herself is the “mother” of the ant colony!
She is the "Queen Ant" of the insect family!
"No, no! Meimei!"
Feng Zheng tried to control his domain and restore it to its original "happy home" state, but the insect energy in his hand was compressed to the point of almost disappearing.
Under Feng Zheng's horrified gaze, his wife's body was undergoing horrible changes.
Her skin quickly keratinized and became like a grayish-white shell; her back arched high, and the vertebrae made a teeth-grinding "cracking" sound, tearing her clothes apart, and growing out of it huge tumors that looked like the abdomen of an ant!
Under the translucent epidermis of the sarcoma, countless white eggs the size of rice grains can be vaguely seen, multiplying and hatching madly!
"Meimei... No!!"
Feng Zheng's eyes were bloodshot. He rushed forward and wanted to hug his wife, but was bounced back by an invisible force.
The woman has completely lost her human form, and her lower body has completely turned into a bloated, fat, and egg-laying queen ant!
Her upper body still barely maintained its human form, but her face was covered with hideous crustacean markings, and her eyes had turned scarlet, filled with brutality and hatred.
"Protect... the child..."
She screamed, tears falling from her eyes.
The newly laid eggs hatched instantly, and countless small red-legged blood ants broke out of their shells. In the blink of an eye, they grew to half the size of a human. They made a threatening "hissing" sound and surrounded the "Queen Ant" and the shield!
"Queen Ant? Haha!
"E Shifang sneered, and there was no panic in Doudou's eyes.
He had long noticed that although this woman's insect energy was enormous, it was also very chaotic.
She is a woman who hates herself and drives herself crazy because her child was kidnapped.
The "Queen Ant" insect power is to better protect children.
"Hey, wake up!"
E Shifang growled and stopped holding back.
He spread his wings, and the protective shield shone brightly. No matter how the tens of thousands of soldier ants outside hit and bit him, it remained motionless.
Then, silver vortexes appeared in its small eyes.
"Time, go back!"
An invisible force spread out with Goose Shifang as its center.
The "queen ant" who was frantically laying eggs and whose body was constantly collapsing, had her transformation into an ant abruptly stopped!
The horrible tumors and shells on her body seemed to have been rewound, and began to slowly fade away at a speed visible to the naked eye.
However, the woman's spirit had already collapsed, and her strong obsession made her frantically resist the power of time.
The process of her transformation to ant form saw her retreat and growth repeatedly, causing her to scream in even greater agony. The surrounding soldier ants also became even more ferocious!
At this critical moment, two figures rushed out from the corridor!
"Wife!"
When E Shifang saw Xie Mian, he immediately felt relieved.
Xie Mian and Lin Heng were also shocked by the horrifying sight of the half-human, half-ant creature before them.
"She is the queen ant!" Lin Heng understood everything in an instant.
"She can't hold on any longer. Her vitality is being devoured by her own insect energy!" Xie Mian's gaze penetrated the woman's body.
"Save her... Please, save my wife!" Feng Zheng knelt on the ground, crying.
Xie Mian didn't hesitate at all.
"E Shifang, steady her!"
The butterfly wings behind him spread out with a swish, and his figure instantly appeared in front of the "Queen Ant".
A strong green light burst out from the palm of the slender hand, enveloping the woman.
The soft, life-giving healing insect energy surged into the woman's body like a tide.
This power was not aggressive. It did not fight against the insect power of the "Queen Ant". Instead, it began to repair the woman's already collapsed body like spring rain.
The woman's roar gradually subsided, and the scarlet in her eyes slowly faded, revealing a hint of confusion and struggle.
Under the dual insect powers of E Shifang and Xie Mian, the terrifying ant-like characteristics on her body quickly faded away.
The huge tumor shrank and disappeared, the grayish-white shell softened and fell off, revealing the pale but intact skin underneath. In the end, only a pair of tentacles showed that she was an insect-fellow.
"Meimei!"
The woman slowly fell down and was held in Feng Zheng's arms.
As she fell into coma, the shaking of the entire ant nest stopped abruptly.
The endless soldier ants outside instantly turned into pools of green liquid and seeped into the ground.
Silence returned to the cave.
After a long time, the woman slowly woke up.
She looked at her husband who was holding her, then looked at the children who were looking at her not far away, and tears welled up in her eyes again.
"I...I seem to have had a very long and terrible dream..."
Xie Mian withdrew his hand and let out a light breath.
"From now on, you'll be able to control it better." Xie Mian looked at her and said calmly, "Use your insect energy to protect them, not to hurt yourself."
The woman looked at Xie Mian and smiled slightly.
This smile made Xie Mian a little stunned.
He has never seen his mother. His memories start from the orphanage. If his mother were by his side, would she smile at him like this?
The room returned to its original state in an instant.
There was a bouquet of flowers on the dining table, and the children gathered around the woman, happily calling her "Mom Meimei".
Feng Zheng walked up to Meimei with flowers in his hand:
"Wife, you're finally well!"
Both of them have white hairs in their heads, and no one knows how they lived in the years since their child was lost.
Pain, regret, hatred.
Meimei took the flowers, but still couldn't help but said sadly:
"If only my daughter were still here..."
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