When they saw the devastation on the battlefield, they were all stunned.
On the outermost edge of the entire Bloodthirsty Golden Ant territory, countless large trees lay crookedly to one side, their massive root systems exposed to the air.
The entire territory was several meters lower than its surroundings.
The crater gets deeper and deeper into the center, and there are traces of a violent explosion around the perimeter. If you smell carefully, you can also detect a faint smell of gas mixed with sulfur.
All the ant mounds and stone pillars had been broken into small clods of earth, covered with countless dead insects. The green slime from the ant carcasses had gathered in a heap at the very center of the giant pit.
Looking at Lian Shan's already dark face, so dark that he was unrecognizable, the young man named Xiao He stared in disbelief and said, "This...this was hit by a meteorite?"
Lian Shan swung his hand and slapped him on the head, making Xiao He grimace and jump up and down.
"Nonsense! If a meteorite falls from the sky, we can't see it!"
Lian Shan was unwilling to let his efforts go to waste, so he quickly gave instructions to those around him:
"It's not time to despair yet. This place is full of the corpses of bloodthirsty soldier ants and worker ants. Everyone search carefully. The mission has not failed yet."
Although we don't know how these ants died, what if the male and queen ants underground didn't die?
Does that mean we can complete our task more easily, or even exceed expectations?
Hearing Lian Shan's words, everyone mustered their energy again and began to take action, diligently searching for any clues around them.
However, Lian Shan himself remained standing at the entrance of the dark underground passage, frowning, as if he were pondering something.
The dark, downward-facing passage seemed like a gaping maw, waiting for the group to enter.
Na Lianshan hesitated at the cave entrance for a long time, but finally seemed to have figured something out. He stopped hesitating, gave Xiao He a few instructions, and strode into the dark underground passage.
Seeing this, Ma Zhong didn't hesitate and followed him inside.
However, before they could take more than a few steps forward and encounter the bloodthirsty golden ants, they came across a cave entrance that had collapsed and was completely blocked.
"call--"
The burly man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no road ahead.
As if he had unloaded the burden in his heart, he did not try to dig a passage here, but instead turned around and returned to the ground.
Ma Zhong was baffled by Lian Shan's strange behavior and had no choice but to follow him back.
Looking at his underlings who were still carefully inspecting the surroundings, Lian Shan said to Ma Zhong beside him:
"Brother Ma Zhong, if we make any discoveries later, you should first control the worker ants and explore this dark underground passage to see what's going on inside."
Seeing that Lian Shan had spoken, Ma Zhong stopped hesitating and asked directly, "Brother Lian Shan, what are you doing going back and forth like this? Why don't you just tell the brothers to dig up the tunnel?"
Before he could finish speaking, Lian Shan interrupted him.
"Don't dig, you mustn't dig. If all the bloodthirsty golden ants are dead, then there's naturally no problem."
But what if, I mean what if, there's even just one-tenth of the ants still underground, even if they're just the lowest-level worker ants, unless you can fly and have a constant supply of spiritual energy, all of us dozen or so people will die here.
I have personally witnessed the ferocity of the Bloodthirsty Golden Ants. A B-level Fire Awakener was here, right where we were standing. He only lasted for one minute before he was unable to escape even after his body was transformed into flames. After his spiritual energy was completely depleted by the formic acid, he was exposed.
Then, those damned ants reduced him to a pile of bones in just 10 seconds, leaving not a trace of flesh or blood.
Although Ma Zhong kept nodding in agreement, he secretly looked down on Lian Shan.
Being an adventurer means spending every day in the wild, risking your life. If you're so cowardly, why are you even out here?
Even the mighty Helian Mountain of Tengchong has aged; it's nothing special now!
I thought he looked serious just now because he had made some discovery, but it turns out he was just scared. It really proves the saying: the older you get in the world, the more timid you become!
While the two were talking, the henchmen who had scattered to search for clues quickly made a discovery.
"Boss! Someone's having a picnic nearby! Come quick, there's freshly roasted duck and canned beer over here!"
Lianshan: ? ? ?
Ma Zhong: ? ? ?
The two big shots in this makeshift team were completely baffled, but they still quickly arrived at the spot where Wang Zheng had been watching the show.
The two of them had just walked over when they made a new discovery from this angle.
From this angle, there seemed to be signs of a battle on the other side; the ground was covered not only with mottled green liquid corroded by formic acid, but also with marks of flames.
However, the deep crater in the center of the site, which looked as if it had been hit by a meteorite, looked so strange and incongruous.
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