Seeing Li Deyang so determined, Lin Qiye was stunned. After pondering for a moment, he nodded.

After they were ready, they used ropes to descend, moving down the vertical wall little by little.

Although with their means, there are many ways to get to the bottom of the crack, such as Baili Pangpang's [Yaoguang], or Lin Qiye's poems, the situation at the bottom of the crack is still a mystery to Lin Qiye and his companions. If they rashly use the Forbidden Ruins, they may expose themselves and attract the siege of the ants.

From the very beginning, Lin Qiye and others' target was only the queen ant. The mystery of the appearance of this group is that as long as the core leader dies, the other offspring will naturally dissipate, so the best strategy is to avoid fighting with other giant ants as much as possible.

In order to avoid exposing himself, Lin Qiye specially left the iron box containing the soldier ants on top. Otherwise, with it communicating with its companions all the time, it would be impossible for Lin Qiye and his companions to sneak in quietly.

After they descended for a long time, Lin Qiye's mental power finally reached the bottom of the crack. He frowned slightly and raised his hand to make a gesture.

Everyone stopped descending immediately.

"What's wrong?" Baili Pangpang asked in a low voice.

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"How many?"

"...The entire bottom of the crack is full of them." Lin Qiye's eyes swept across the deep bottom, his face extremely solemn, "A rough estimate is that there are at least four hundred of them."

"More than four hundred?!"

The four people's expressions changed at the same time.

"How can there be so many?!" Cao Yuan asked in confusion, "Even if a group of people from the sea realm mysteriously descended, the number can't be so terrifying!"

"It is indeed impossible for the initial arrival." Lin Qiye sighed, "But don't forget, this crack has appeared for about two years..."

"You mean, they came here two years ago and lived in the cracks?" Li Deyang's face turned pale.

"If nothing unexpected happens, that should be the case." Lin Qiye nodded. "In the past two years, the queen ant has been constantly reproducing new offspring. It's not surprising that they have accumulated to such a terrifying number."

"And this is just what I have perceived so far. The actual amount will only be much more than this." Lin Qiye added.

Several people suddenly fell silent.

It would be fine for a few of them to kill forty worker ants, but if they had to fight with more than four hundred "Chuan" realm worker ants, they would have no chance of winning at all. Moreover, this was an extremely narrow crack, and it was extremely difficult to escape. Being buried in the ants' stomachs was almost an inevitable outcome.

"If so many giant ants come out of the forest and sweep across the city, the surrounding cities will probably fall directly." Li Deyang frowned, "Unless a special team takes action, no team can stop them."

Li Deyang seemed to have thought of something, turned to Lin Qiye and said:

"There are so many giant ants. No matter how powerful you are, you can't handle them. We have already found the location of the ant nest. We should retreat back to the city and wait for the special team to come and let them deal with it."

Li Deyang's suggestion was very pertinent. No matter from which angle, the current situation was beyond the capabilities of Lin Qiye and the other three. The best solution at the moment was to record the location of the ant nest and retreat. If the whole army was wiped out here, it would be a real loss.

Lin Qiye and the others looked at each other and smiled bitterly with helplessness.

Let the special team handle it?

They themselves are a special team!

We can't just let them retreat like this and then tell Ye Fan that we can't handle the problem here, so you send a more reliable special team over...

After all, this was their team's first mission. Who would be willing to accept it if it ended in such a ridiculous way?

"No, we won't go back." Lin Qiye shook his head. "As long as we avoid these worker ants and find the queen ant to decapitate her, the chances of success are still very high."

Cao Yuan and others nodded in agreement.

"But the problem is, how do we confirm the location of the queen ant?" An Qingyu pondered and said, "This crack is quite long, and the view is very dark. The terrain is not convenient for us to search here thoroughly, and if we are not careful, it will attract

"I can turn into a worker ant, mingle among these worker ants, and search for the queen ant's location at the bottom of the crack." Lin Qiye said slowly.

"Qiye, are you sure?" Baili Pangpang couldn't help but ask, "If you are discovered, you will be chased by hundreds of giant ants..."

"Don't worry, I know what's going on." Lin Qiye said calmly, "Just wait for me here, don't act rashly."

He took off the backpack on his back and his bulky winter clothes, and handed them all to Baili Pangpang to put away. He only wore a thin black shirt and carried two straight knives on his back.

He took off his rappelling gear, leaped lightly from the side of the rock wall, and fell to the bottom of the deep crack.

The other four people watched him disappear into the darkness, their eyes filled with worry.

As Lin Qiye continued to fall, a magical light flashed across his body, and the next moment he transformed into a red worker ant.

Lin Qiye has fought with this group of giant ants several times, and at least seven or eight worker ants have died in his hands. He is relatively familiar with them. Now that they have transformed into worker ants, there is no flaw at all in their appearance.

He crawled quickly along the wall on one side, and soon he could see the situation at the bottom clearly.

At the bottom of the narrow crack, red worker ants were seen crawling in neat rows, heading in two opposite directions, surging like a tide. Just one look at it made one's scalp tingle.

At this moment, seeing another worker ant climbing down from the side wall, several of the worker ants were stunned for a moment, as if they could not understand. But after confirming that it was their companion, they did not become suspicious and continued to move forward in the original direction along the team.

The worker ant transformed by Lin Qiye successfully mixed into one of the queues, imitating the movements of other worker ants and moving forward along the ant tide.

Now Lin Qiye himself didn’t know which direction the queen ant was, so he could only look in this direction first. If he couldn’t find her, he would turn back and look in another direction.

Lin Qiye walked with the worker ants for about five minutes. The distance between the rock walls on both sides became narrower and narrower. Finally, at the end of the rift, he vaguely saw a huge white giant ant...

The white giant ant was bigger than any other giant ant Lin Qiye had ever seen. Its height alone was nearly four meters, like a white hill. At this moment, it was crawling on the ground, as if it had fallen asleep.

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