Chapter 434 Ant Factory
What appeared in front of Mike and others now was a mushroom forest that was much sparser than the previous one, but unlike before, the reason why the mushroom forest in front of everyone was so sparse was completely man-made.
Oh, no!
To be precise, it should be ants.
Because what appeared in front of Mike and others at this moment was a busy construction site scene, with countless huge ants shuttling through the mushroom forest, constantly gnawing at the roots of those tall mushrooms.
And once those tall mushrooms were bitten off by them, then naturally there would be ants coming to drag these mushrooms to the open space further north.
Under their collaborative work, this mushroom forest that was supposed to be very dense was now sparse, with only some small mushrooms that were less than a person tall and countless short and thick mushroom roots left on the ground.
"You really guessed it right, these ants are really lumberjacks!"
Benjamin said slowly in a voice that sounded almost like a dream. If Benjamin, a smart man, agreed with Franklin, he would definitely jump up with joy, but at this moment, Franklin looked at the scene in front of him with a confused face and couldn't say anything.
While everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them, Mike took a deep breath and walked towards this "logging site"!
Through observation, he was almost certain that although these ants had terrible physical strength, they had the same weakness as zombies - fear of spells and high temperatures.
With this information, Mike lost his fear of this kind of ants.
And judging from the performance of the ant kneeling before, Mike also came up with a very wonderful guess.
After ensuring his own safety, Mike began to verify his ideas without hesitation.
However, his action frightened Benjamin and others. The fifty elite wizards almost instinctively raised their wands, and Arthur even whispered to Mike. After receiving no response, he drew his sword and ran towards the direction Mike was heading! The action
behind him naturally alarmed Mike. He turned around and put his index finger in front of him, making a gesture of silence.
Arthur's body froze in place, and seeing this, Mike continued to walk towards the "logging site".
One step, two steps, three steps...
As the distance between Mike and the ants got closer and closer, the ants who were working hard finally discovered Mike, a human who had left the invisible state and walked towards them openly.
Arthur's hand was tightly holding the hilt of the sword. If there was anything wrong, he would attack without regard to Mike's orders and chop all these disgusting ants into pieces.
However, he should not have this opportunity.
Because when they found Mike, all the ants on the "construction site" stopped their work and knelt down in the direction of Mike just like the previous ant!
Mike smiled happily, and he opened his arms in the direction of the ants, like an emperor enjoying his people's kneeling to him!
Everything in front of him has proved his guess. These ants kneeling in front of him must have been trained by humans!
Otherwise, how could a mere ant know such a high-level action of kneeling to humans?
At this time, another person hiding in the shadows also came out, looking at the ants kneeling neatly, with surprise on their faces.
"What's going on?"
Arthur said in surprise, panting, his hand still tightly grasping the silver sword.
"As you can see, these 'lumberjacks' have the habit of kneeling down to people." Mike said with a smile, "Do you know what this means?"
"This means that there are wizards behind them teaching them?"
"Ice! Right!" Mike snapped his fingers and said excitedly, "If I'm not mistaken, those wizards should be our target of this trip. And now that we have met these 'lumberjacks', it means that we will soon reach our destination."
After that, the smile on Mike's face disappeared, replaced by a serious face, and said to everyone:
"We are about to arrive at the battle site, all enter the battle state, the concealment mode is fully turned on, and remember to cover the smell, those ants are very sensitive to smell, understand?"
No one responded to Mike's words, this is already a routine in the team.
Everyone took action the moment they received the order and quickly entered the concealment state!
In just a moment, the small open space beside Mike that was originally full of people was vacant, and everyone disappeared.
Mike's mouth curled up, he took a deep breath, looked at the broad plain in the north, and quietly entered the invisible state.
When he disappeared, the ants who were still kneeling on the ground were all confused.
The two long antennae on their heads kept shaking, as if they were searching for the temperature factor in the air, but after a long period of fruitless exploration, these ants finally gave up.
They all climbed up one by one and returned to their posts to get busy, as if Mike and his party had never been there before.
But what no ant noticed was that on the side of the road where they transported mushrooms, a series of tiny, almost undetectable footprints were constantly spreading into the distance.
...
Mike and his party were moving along the road where the ants transported mushrooms. Because they used the illusion spell to enter the invisible state and used the special deodorant made by Benjamin (which was originally made for Victor, who didn't like to take a bath, so it would be very smelly) to remove the smell, the ants who were dragging mushrooms along the way didn't find any traces of Mike and others at all.
This made Franklin somewhat proud. He even climbed up the huge mushrooms that were being dragged, sat on them and let the ants drag him around.
Mike naturally didn't care about his behavior. He would only laugh at Franklin and then laugh it off.
But Benjamin obviously didn't think so. He stopped Franklin's behavior almost immediately and waved his arms to give Franklin a silent education!
Seeing Franklin's aggrieved look, the tense atmosphere in the team eased a lot, and many people laughed.
However, they soon stopped laughing.
Because on the road ahead, a new kind of ant that they had never seen before appeared!
To be precise, they should be ant-men.
Because they are completely upright, covered with a layer of black insect armor, a pair of huge black saw teeth open and close, and some mucus keeps dripping on the ground with their movements, making a corrosive sound.
What shocked Mike and others the most was that these ant-men were actually wearing clothes and holding weapons in their hands!
Although it was just a simple vest made of the fiber on the root of a mushroom, and although it was just a simple bone spear made of the bones of an unknown beast, there is no doubt that these ant-men are intelligent and have mastered the skills of using tools!
Mike and others almost instinctively concentrated and held their breath. Everyone knew that this seemingly intelligent ant-man should be the soldier ant in this ant colony.
These intelligent soldier ants would never be stupid enough to salute these strangers. If they were discovered by these soldier ants, then let alone whether they could beat the siege of these soldier ants, their infiltration plan would be ruined!
Everyone continued to move forward cautiously, and as the distance of advancement became farther and farther, the number of soldier ants in front of everyone increased.
The job of these soldier ants seemed to be to watch over the work of the worker ants. They stood on both sides of the avenue with their weapons raised, and their antennae kept touching each other, as if they were chatting.
Fortunately, the perception of these ant people was not much stronger than that of the worker ants. Facing Mike and others who were trying their best to maintain their concealment, they seemed to be blind and had no idea, which made Mike and others feel relieved.
Ten minutes later, a building finally appeared in front of Mike and others.
It was a square building without any characteristics. It stood abruptly in the empty mushroom forest, and it seemed so out of tune with the surrounding scenery.
As soon as Mike saw this building, he knew that they had arrived at the destination of this trip. This huge building with strong human characteristics was definitely not something that the ants could build.
The only people who could build such a building were humans, or to be more precise, wizards!
Everyone's pace could not help but speed up a lot. After so many strange things happened, everyone's nerves have been in a highly tense state. Now they can't wait to complete this mission and return to their base to relax.
After a while, everyone came to the bottom of the building. There was an extremely spacious exit at the bottom of the building. This was also the end of the journey for the worker ants.
As soon as he entered the building, Mike found that there were a lot more soldier ants here. They held weapons one by one and watched the worker ants dragging the tall mushrooms into the building. Then they turned around and returned to the mushroom forest to restart the previous hauling work.
In the hall on the first floor of this square building, there were countless worker ants. They took over the huge mushrooms brought by other ants, and completely cut off the mushroom's cap and rhizome with their sharp teeth. Then they cut the two parts of the mushroom into small pieces of varying sizes and threw them into the two machines in the huge hall.
The roots of the giant mushrooms were processed by the machine and turned into rough fibers and white paste, while the caps were classified by the machine into blocks of different types according to their colors.
Soon, another group of worker ants rushed up and took all these things away.
The fibers and cap blocks were transported upstairs, while the white paste made of the root waste was sprinkled by the worker ants in a pond in the lobby on the first floor.
At first, Mike thought it was just a waste pool, but when he found that worker ants would crawl over the edge of the pond from time to time to suck the paste juice inside, he realized that the paste waste was the food of the worker ants, and this huge square building was a huge mushroom processing factory!
Good guy, let these worker ants feed themselves, Mike was simply convinced by the pure-blood wizards who built this factory, which was even more black-hearted than him!
After a brief visit to the work of these giant ants, Mike and his companions began to walk towards the second floor. Unlike the first floor which was almost defenseless and guarded by only soldier ants, Mike found a very obvious magic restriction as soon as he arrived at the stairs.
Although he didn't understand the real purpose of this magic restriction, these simple magic restrictions were obviously not enough for Mike, who had mastered the end of all curses. After
easily destroying the restriction, Mike and his companions finally came to the
second floor smoothly. The layout here was almost the same as the first floor. A huge platform that was fully opened was filled with densely packed machines, and the worker ants holding various mushroom cubes and mushroom fibers were walking between these machines in an orderly manner, and finally put these raw materials into different machines.
After observation, Mike found that the fibers separated from the mushroom rhizomes would be made into rolls of white cloth after being put into an old, filthy machine.
Mike was familiar with these fabrics. This was a special fabric called Avery Magic Cloth. It had excellent anti-magic effect and heat resistance, and was extremely tough. These excellent properties made it expensive. The lining of the combat uniforms worn by Mike and others was made of this special fabric.
The mushroom cubes of different colors were crushed according to the pre-classified colors, and mixed with many materials that Mike didn't recognize at all, and finally made into bottles of viscous liquids of different colors.
Mike was also familiar with this stuff!
Avery Magic Liquid. They had used these things in the spell class last year. The blue magic liquid had the ability to improve the effect of the magic liquid, the red one increased the success rate of making it, and the yellow one increased the shelf life.
Like the Avery Magic Cloth, these magic liquids should also be very valuable, because Snape was very careful when treating them, and even warned everyone not to overturn them.
Both of these things were exclusively operated by a pure-blood family named Avery. Since it was a monopoly industry, it was understandable that the price was a little higher.
However, many people are very jealous of the huge profits of these two products. They have used many means to explore the production methods and raw material origins of these things, but they have all returned in vain.
Mike didn't expect that he would accidentally discover the production base of these two things today!
Thinking of this, Mike's heart couldn't help but get excited.
If this base can be taken over intact, then the scale of Los Santos Group will definitely increase dramatically!