"Attention everyone, they're coming!"
Zhang Shaohua, holding binoculars, shouted loudly through a megaphone, which invigorated the soldiers hiding behind the fortifications, and they all picked up their submachine guns.
Meanwhile, all the survivors had returned to the underground city. Zhang Shaohua gave the order to close the underground city gates. It seemed that they had no intention of leaving themselves a way out and were determined to fight to the death.
Ye Lei also took out a high-powered telescope from his spatial storage. Looking around, he saw a dark mass of giant ants moving rapidly toward him.
These ants are enormous, each as thick as a human thigh and about a meter long. Their bodies are covered with hard exoskeletons that shimmer with a metallic sheen.
They have a pair of huge pincers on their heads that can easily snap trees along the way. Their legs are thick and powerful, and they move quickly, reminiscent of alien creatures in science fiction movies.
Ye Lei pondered to himself: Such a huge change in tiny ants is most likely due to the mutation of their queen after being exposed to T radiation, which caused her offspring to increase in size by more than a hundred times.
This explains why they search for food everywhere; after all, their enormous bodies require enough energy to sustain them.
The Silver Scale Corpse Python, which had come with Ye Lei, seemed to have also seen the menacing army of ant zombies. It was so frightened that it hid behind Ye Lei and the others. This reminded Ye Lei that the mighty Python Corpse King might have been driven out by the ant zombies.
"Silver Scale Corpse Python, you are a mighty Corpse King, are you afraid of a bunch of tiny ants?"
"Master, you don't know this, but I was driven out by them."
It turns out Ye Lei was right.
"Those ants were easily killed by you, so what are you afraid of?"
Pythons are afraid of ants? Ye Lei didn't recall that being true.
“Master, their numbers outnumber ours several times over. The key is that they can squeeze inside my plate armor. Those huge pincers are terrifying. My impregnable plate armor is completely useless against them!”
The Silver-Scaled Corpse Python spoke with lingering fear, the excruciating pain sending chills down one's spine.
So that's how it is. It seems that the ant zombies have their own advantages in surviving and growing stronger.
"Listen, watch how I avenge you today, as I promised you."
"Alright, I will obey your orders, Master. I will not rest until this grudge is avenged!"
The silver-scaled corpse python opened its blood-red maw, revealing its sharp fangs. Its scarlet tongue flickered in and out, emitting a nauseating stench, as if it were ready to devour these ant-like zombies at any moment.
However, the Hidden Ape King was merely a zombie king. Perhaps it had never seen such a powerful ant zombie before, or perhaps it was out of loyalty and a desire to protect its master, but it stood fearlessly in front of Ye Lei and the others, its eyes wide, its teeth bared, staring fiercely at the approaching ant zombie.
"Rockets, prepare!"
The vanguard of the ant zombies was less than 100 meters away from the underground city, so Zhang Shaohua decided to bombard it with rockets first.
"shoot!"
At Zhang Shaohua's command, "Boom!" Dozens of rockets, trailing long white flames, hurtled towards the ant-zombie army.
As the rocket whistled through the sky, it landed precisely in the area densely packed with ant zombies.
Instantly, a powerful explosion and flames rose into the air like a giant mushroom cloud, and the powerful shockwave knocked the surrounding ant zombies to the ground, with many even being blown away.
The high-temperature fireball and scattered debris generated by the explosion caused great damage to the zombie army. Almost none of the ant zombies around the explosion point survived; they were either blown to pieces or severely injured by the intense heat wave and shock wave.
Because of the enormous size of the giant ant zombie, the rocket explosion caused more significant damage, tearing apart the exoskeletons of many ants and exposing their fragile internal tissues.
Despite the sheer number of ant zombies, the rockets proved exceptionally powerful at this moment, as if they were the ultimate weapon on the battlefield.
However, the ant zombies did not seem to have completely lost their fighting ability due to the explosion. Some ants far from the center of the explosion began to try to reorganize their formation and continued to move slowly but steadily toward their target.
Some of the ant-like zombies that weren't injured by the explosion were already very close to the dungeon, and we could only deal with them using submachine guns.
"beat!"
At Zhang Shaohua's command, "rat-a-tat-tat..." Submachine guns and machine guns spat out tongues of fire, and the scorching bullets all struck the ant zombies.
When the soldiers faced the massive, hard-shelled giant ant zombies, their submachine guns, though unable to cause the same widespread destruction as rockets, still fired fiercely, trying to find the monsters' weaknesses.
As bullets from the submachine gun continued to strike the ant zombies, although most bullets were blocked by the hard shell, some lucky bullets found gaps and entered the ant's body, especially the relatively vulnerable joints.
Whenever a bullet hits these weak points, the ant zombies become noticeably unsteady, and some even collapse after being hit in vital areas, with yellow fluid flowing all over the ground.
Under continuous firing, the high-temperature bullets from the submachine gun also caused burns to the ant zombies to some extent, making them move more slowly.
Nevertheless, due to the sheer number and incredible resilience of the ant zombies, firing submachine guns could only temporarily slow their advance, not completely stop them.
After this round of attacks, the vanguard of ant zombies at the forefront was wiped out, while the soldiers holding rockets reloaded and awaited the next wave of attack from the ant zombie army.
Ye Lei was quite satisfied with the soldiers' well-trained defense. After all, these ant zombies were made of flesh and blood and could not withstand the attack of heavy weapons.
However, Ye Lei didn't care about these minor characters. What he wanted to find was their queen ant, the supreme leader of this army of ant zombies. Only by subduing her could this crisis end.
He raised his binoculars and looked behind the army of ant zombies. After searching for a long time, he finally found the enormous queen. If the bodies of these ordinary ant zombies were a hundred times larger, then the body of this queen ant was more than a thousand times larger.
When Ye Lei saw the crystal core on the queen ant's forehead, everything was as he had expected. It was an orange crystal core exactly like the one on the Silver Scale Corpse Python, which meant that this queen ant was also a Corpse King.
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