Chapter 10
After walking for a distance, they successfully found an open space. The location was pretty good. It was getting late, so they started to set up tents on the spot and prepare to sleep.
Lu Shiyu was writing in his diary as usual tonight. The person in charge of keeping watch today was Yan Hong. Keeping watch was an important but boring task. If no one was keeping watch, any danger might lead to the annihilation of the entire army. But if there was no danger or accident, keeping watch was equivalent to having nothing to do and not being able to sleep.
Yan Hong yawned and shifted her gaze to look at the surrounding darkness. If she stared at the campfire for too long and then looked into the darkness, she would not be able to see anything clearly and would not have time to take precautions if she encountered danger.
The bonfire was crackling and Lu Shiyu wrote the last period in his diary.
"Lu Shiyu, what do you write every night?" Yan Hong held up her chin and looked at Lu Shiyu and asked, "We are either on the road or on the road every day. What is there to remember?"
"Yes," Lu Shiyu flipped through the diary and counted the big and small things that happened in the past few days. Some of the things even Yan Hong herself had forgotten or didn't notice at all, but Lu Shiyu recorded them all in the diary.
“You actually wrote about those things.”
"Record your first experience going out."
"It's nice to have something new. I've been out doing it for a long time, and I get annoyed every time I see those deformed creatures. The base is still more comfortable."
Yanhong stretched, stood up, looked around, and then sat down again.
"Although the base is stable, it becomes a bit stagnant after staying there for too long."
"If I could, I'd like to stay in the dormitory at the base every day."
Lu Shiyu planned to put the diary back into the backpack and go to sleep, but he found many ants like dotted lines crawling in one direction on the ground. At this time, Yan Hong also noticed the abnormality. The two of them looked in the direction of the ants' team and found that the end point was actually at Shaoxing Yang's sleeping bag.
"Where do so many ants come from?" Yan Hong stood up and walked towards Shao Xingyang's sleeping bag. Lu Shiyu quickly put away his diary and followed him to check.
"Shaoxing Yang? Shaoxing Yang?"
Yan Hong poked Shao Xingyang's sleeping bag with the scabbard. At this time, his sleeping bag was still surrounded by dense ants, and there were even countless ants crawling on the sleeping bag.
Shaoxing Yang heard Yanhong's cry and turned around in a daze.
"Hmm? Is it time for the shift change?"
Shao Xingyang sat up with a dazed look in his eyes. The moment they saw Shao Xingyang's face, their faces turned pale.
"You...your face..." Lu Shiyu pointed at Lu Shiyu's face tremblingly.
"Captain! Chen Yunliang! Captain! Stop sleeping and get up!" Yan Hong hurriedly turned around to wake up the other two.
"Face?" Shao Xingyang's consciousness had not yet fully awakened, and his tone was still lazy: "I know I'm handsome, but you don't have to be so surprised, right? Hey... why do I feel a little itchy?"
Shaoxingyang scratched his face and felt as if there was something there, so he grabbed a handful. As a result, he saw a handful of ants crawling around in panic. Shaoxingyang's brain crashed on the spot, and he seemed unable to figure out what he saw.
"What happened?"
Tang Zeyu and Chen Yunliang quickly stood up, took up their weapons and prepared to deal with the distorted creatures that attacked them, but when they looked around, were there any distorted creatures attacking them?
Since there was no attack from distorted creatures, it must be something else. The two men put down their weapons and asked Yan Hong what happened.
Yan Hong's expression was very complicated and difficult to describe in words. She could only point in the direction of Shao Xingyang and let them see for themselves.
At this time, Shaoxing Yang had not yet figured out why there were ants on his face, when he saw Tang Zeyu and Chen Yunliang looking at him with a subtle expression.
"What's wrong? Why are you all looking at me like that?"
Shao Xingyang looked down and said, "I'm not wearing any clothes...Ah——!"
The shrill screams pierced the silence of the night, startling the few birds perched on the trees and flying away.
"Calm down first and don't move." Tang Zeyu asked Shao Xingyang not to get excited, to prevent the ants crawling on Shao Xingyang from getting irritated and starting to bite Shao Xingyang's skin. But Shao Yang couldn't be calmed down by just one order. He felt like ants were crawling all over his body, and he got goose bumps.
"Help! What are these?"
Shaoxing Yang seemed to be screaming in his soul. Tang Zeyu pulled Chen Yunliang over and asked if there was any solution.
"You can use vinegar and smoke to keep ants away, but I'm not sure if that will work with these ants once they've become deformed."
"Let's try our best to save the dying horse."
Tang Zeyu asked Shaoxing Yang to sit there and not move, and ordered Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang to find some dry grass. He then went to find the way and asked Yu to ask for some vinegar.
"Vinegar? Yes, I do, but wait a moment."
Lu Shiyu ran behind the bushes with his backpack, looking like he was rummaging through the bag for vinegar. Tang Zeyu had a great height advantage and good eyesight, so she could vaguely see from above that Lu Shiyu was apparently taking vinegar out of the bag, but in fact his hand didn't go into the bag at all. Instead, he was fiddling with something in a blind spot, and soon came out with a bottle of vinegar.
"Give."
Tang Zeyu didn't ask any further questions. He took the vinegar and pulled out a small bottle of disinfectant alcohol. He temporarily stored the alcohol in another small bottle and then poured a 1:1 mixture of vinegar and water into the small spray bottle that had originally contained the disinfectant alcohol. Meanwhile, Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang each returned with a handful of hay.
Shao Xingyang was still carefully preventing ants from crawling into his nostrils and ears when he suddenly felt a chill and shivered. Three dark shadows fell on him. Shao Xingyang raised his head with an unidentified fear and asked:
"What do you want to do?"
Lu Shiyu sat not far away and watched the three people take turns to drive away ants for Shaoxing Yang. Tang Zeyu took the bottle of vinegar water and sprayed it on Shaoxing Yang as if it were free.
"What is this! It's so sour! Ugh!"
Next came Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang. Tang Zeyu lit some of the dry grass in their hands, and thick smoke floated out of the dry grass. The two of them turned around and let the thick smoke smoke onto Shaoxing Yang, using the smoke to drive away the ants.
"Cough cough cough! Are you going to suffocate me to death? Cough cough cough cough!"
It was useless for Shao Xingyang to escape. The three men had tied him up with ropes in advance for fear that he would move around. Now the only struggle he could do was to squirm.
At this time, Tang Zeyu prepared another bottle of vinegar water and continued to spray it towards Shaoxing Yang.
"Come back!"
After the two methods took turns to fight, the ants finally gave up and fled away from Shaoxingyang for refuge.
"It worked. The ants all left."
Shao Xingyang lay on the ground with no desire to live: "Yeah, I'm leaving soon too."
Yan Hong kicked Shao Xingyang who was lying on the ground and said, "Do you know what you look like now?"
"Like what?"
"Sweet and sour smoked fish."
Shaoxing Yang began to lie on the ground and make strange and incomprehensible noises.
Lu Shiyu, who was sitting not far away, watched the ants being driven away and ran in another direction. Out of curiosity, Lu Shiyu picked up an ant and looked at it carefully.
Although the appearance of this type of ant after deformation is not much different from the previous ants, its size is several times larger. An ant is about the size of a soybean. The larger the size, the more clear the details can be seen, such as the cockroach-like legs and the pliers-like mouth. Although normal ants looked like this before, most people would not carefully observe what the ants looked like. It is understandable that they would find it scary after seeing it clearly.
No wonder Shaoxing Yang could scream beyond the high note E6.
Lu Shiyu watched the ant crawling on her hand. She changed her hand to catch it and suddenly felt that the ant looked familiar. Lu Shiyu hurriedly took out the "Manuscript of Deformed Organisms" from her bag for comparison.
Found it!
Lu Shiyu put the ant back on the ground, trotted over to find Tang Zeyu, and asked Tang Zeyu for a favor.
"Help? What do you want to do?"
The other three also became curious and gathered around to listen to what Lu Shiyu wanted to do.
Lu Shiyu smiled mysteriously and said, "I want you to help me dig up a treasure."
"Baby?" Shao Xingyang stopped shouting and stood up from the ground, leaning on Chen Yunliang and Yan Hong, saying, "What baby?"
"We'll know once we dig it out." Lu Shiyu had no intention of telling the answer in advance. The unknown mystery aroused the curiosity of the three people.
"Then I want to go too!"
"Let go of your hand first, there's a terrible sour smell," Yan Hong pinched her nose in disgust. "I'm not going. The camp can't be left empty. Anyway, I'm the one keeping watch tonight, so I'll just stay here and look after the house."
Lu Shiyu led the three people forward, but he kept his eyes on the ground the whole time, and finally stopped suddenly in front of a mound.
"Here we are. It should be here."
"Where is it? Why can't I see it?" Shaoxing Yang rushed forward and looked left and right, but there was nothing around.
"It's right below." Lu Shiyu pointed his finger downwards.
Everyone lowered their heads to look for it, and finally found the raised mound of earth. There was a small hole on the mound, like a hole poked by a finger, and ants were lining up in and out of the hole.
"Ant nest?" Chen Yunliang pushed up his glasses. "That's where those ants came out from, right?"
Seeing that it was an ant again, Shaoxing Yang was in a state of wanting to cry but having no tears.
"Why are there ants again? Ants are nothing but treasures. They made me so happy for nothing."
"Who said treasures are ants?" Lu Shiyu shook his head mysteriously and said, "Treasures need to be dug out. Grab the shovel and start digging!"
Tang Zeyu gave each person a military shovel, and the four of them worked together to dig at the ant nest on the ground.
Someone tried to destroy the ant nest, and the ants naturally would not sit still and wait for death. Countless black ants poured out from the anthill. Shaoxing Yang, who had just experienced ants crawling all over his body, was instantly scared.
"How do we dig this? It'll probably be covered in ants before we even finish."
Tang Zeyu threw a fireball without saying a word, and the pile of ants that were hit turned into ashes instantly. Tang Zeyu threw a few more fireballs, and after a few fireballs, the ants on the ground were almost cleared out. Several people continued to dig, and after a while, a large number of ants poured out again. Tang Zeyu threw a few more fireballs and wiped out the entire army again. After a few times, the number of ants crawling out of the ant nest decreased visibly.
These ants must be cleared away at once, otherwise they may crawl back onto Shaoxing Yang. Now it is too late and it is impossible to change camp, so the only option to spend the night safely is to get rid of these ants.
Lu Shiyu wiped his sweat, glanced at Tang Zeyu who was throwing the fireball, and sighed: "Fire-type abilities are really convenient."
Shaoxing Yang almost choked on his saliva when he heard this. He thought that Tang Zeyu's supernatural power had been used as a fire these days, which was already miserable enough. He didn't expect that it was now used to burn ants, and in the end it was called a convenient supernatural power. Is this how supernatural powers are used?
With the efforts of everyone, they dug a pit nearly one meter deep. During the process, several anthills collapsed, but without exception, they were all solved by a fireball. Finally, they found the "treasure" that Lu Shiyu mentioned.
Lu Shiyu called a few people to stop, then squatted down and dug the soil with his bare hands, and took out a round ball that was not very regular from the soil.
"Found it! That's it."
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