Mystery Journey (3)
The combat level of the amber ant is equivalent to the peak level seven but lower than the mimicry level eight. It is no problem for Gonggong at level nine to deal with it, not to mention the help of Nan Chiqing, Su Jiuzhong and other cubs.
The battle ended easily within three minutes, and Shi Jianxia dug out the energy crystal of the amber ant. It was the size of a round egg and had a clear amber color. It looked like a rare gem that was hard to find, and was extremely beautiful.
Several people took turns holding it in their hands and observing it, but they couldn't figure out what it was.
The nine-tailed fox swallowed the amber ant's spoils. It tasted very good and the energy contained in it was purer and more abundant than the insect crystal.
If Xiaoxiaozi had not left with Gongye Jiwang, he would most likely come over to grab the food by now.
Shi Jianxia explained the Nine-Tailed Fox's feedback to him, then added thoughtfully, "We'll have a chance to hunt down a few more creatures from this world. You can also try using their energy crystals to improve your mimicry. Who wants one?"
Although amber ants had appeared in the Federation before and were identified as Zerg, this energy crystal was obviously different from the Zerg crystal and was more similar to the energy crystal that was just swallowed by the nine-tailed fox.
Shi Jianxia thought that the differences might be caused by the different planets or cosmic environments.
Jun Xiaoyi and Wen Qiuqiu both shook their heads. Their combat level was only level five, and they could not absorb energy crystals close to level eight.
Nan Chiqing and Su Jiuzhong exchanged a glance, and the latter said, "Chiqing's combat level is higher than mine, and she absorbs faster. Should I give it to her first?"
Nan Chiqing didn't care about your rejection, so he took the energy crystal and fed it to the Mimic Qian Gong Teng.
Qiangong Teng's foundation is very solid. Even after swallowing more energy crystals that are one level higher than itself, it did not fall into a deep sleep. Instead, it turned into an inconspicuous small green vine and wrapped around Nan Chiqing's wrist, slowly absorbing the extra energy in the body.
The five people were not in a hurry to hunt the next forest giant, but followed the amber ant colony under the leadership of Kunlun Mountain.
Given the powerful fighting power of the amber ant colony, they dare not follow too close, and they must always be vigilant to see if there are any amber ants looking for food nearby, to prevent them from informing the ant colony and directly killing them, or being hunted by other forest giants.
Of course, everyone's worries may be unnecessary. They are too small in this forest, and real predators will not take them seriously at all.
Kunlun Mountain, which looks no different from an ordinary stone, is really an expert at tracking and exploring. It hid all the way and successfully followed the amber ant colony to their nest.
Beneath a giant tree so thick that more than ten people could hug it, black soil was turned over onto dead leaves. Countless amber ants came and went. After returning from foraging, the amber ants would carry their spoils into their underground nests and then come out to continue looking for food.
Their sizes vary, the largest is two meters long, and the smallest seems to be newly born and is only the size of a human finger. Shi Jianxia saw this scene from the perspective of Kunlun Mountain and could not imagine how huge the amber ant's underground nest would be.
Can't afford to offend.
Just as Shi Jianxia was about to ask Kunlunshan to find a place to lie down and quietly observe the ant colony, a slender figure flew out from the underground nest.
Like the butterfly-faced man and bee-faced man that Shi Jianxia had seen before, it had the slender limbs and torso of a young woman, but with an ant head. Its transparent wings behind it fluttered gently as it flew in mid-air, looking down at the diligently working ant colony below.
Suddenly, it flew towards the ground. The amber ant it targeted immediately dropped the energy crystal in its mouth and crawled on the ground trembling.
The ant-faced man picked up the energy crystal and started eating it with a crunch, as if he was chewing some crisp and delicious fruit.
After it had completely eaten the energy crystals, the amber ant crawling on the ground quickly retreated and left, continuing its journey to find food.
The ant-masked man then went to find another amber ant and continued to eat the energy crystals.
Shi Jianxia felt a little strange. The Zerg and humans were obviously two completely different creatures. Although the Zerg plundered human genes after invading the human universe, why did they evolve into human bodies but still retain the Zerg brain?
It's like an incompletely evolved life form.
And why do you think that becoming human is evolution? The Zerg obviously have powerful strength and a certain degree of intelligence, and the advanced Zerg are a typical example.
On the contrary, humans are physically weak and need the help of tools to achieve many things that they cannot do on their own before awakening to mimicry.
The ant-faced man ate a dozen energy crystals in succession before closing his mouth. Then he fluttered his transparent wings behind him and flew away from the nest.
Shi Jianxia asked Kunlunshan to follow it quietly, and told Jun Xiaoyi and others what had just happened.
Jun Xiaoyi pondered and said, "It seems that different types of Zerg have advanced Zerg. I just don't know how many ant-faced people are in the amber ant's nest. It would be great if I could sneak in and take a look."
Nan Chiqing and Su Jiuzhong immediately gave him a look that said 'you'd better just think about it'.
That's the nest of amber ants!
Even if you can sneak in successfully, there is no guarantee that you can come out safely. If you are exposed inside, you will definitely be eaten until not even a bone is left.
Jun Xiaoyi touched his nose and said, "I'm just thinking about it."
Wen Qiuqiu said, "Didn't we kill an amber ant before? Can we let the mimic put on its body and sneak in?"
The newly dead amber ants still retain the breath of the tribe. To the amber ants, the sacred mountains are no different from stones, so there is a great possibility that the disguise is successful.
Shi Jianxia immediately said, "Give it a try. If we get caught, we can just run away."
She took out the corpse of the amber ant from her space bracelet. She had originally intended to take it back to the Federation for research, but now it came in handy in advance.
Several people worked together to hollow out the abdomen of the amber ant and let the two sacred mountains drill in. In order to prevent their breath from contaminating the amber ant, they picked leaves from the bushes and coated the amber ant's body with a layer of juice to cover it.
Then, two sacred mountains half flew up and carried the amber ant's body close to its nest. I don't know whether the deceptive appearance worked or the busy amber ants did not notice the breath of other creatures, but the sacred mountains successfully sneaked into the nest.
Shi Jianxia concentrated on observing the situation inside the ant hole, while Nan Chiqing and others were responsible for being vigilant and running away immediately if they found anything wrong.
The infiltration operation went more smoothly than expected. The interior of Yixue was indeed well connected, and they almost made the two sacred mountains dizzy after wandering around.
Fortunately, they had a pretty good ability to distinguish directions and did not really get lost. They followed an amber ant carrying an energy crystal and gradually went deeper into the nest.
During this period, Shi Jianxia saw many 'storage rooms' for storing energy crystals. The round and shiny energy crystals were piled up one by one, like beautiful crystal hills.
If Shi Jianxia hadn't wanted to know what was happening deeper inside the nest, he might have let the Shenshan ants rush in and eat a lot of food while the nearby amber ants weren't noticing.
After circling a few more times and changing a few amber ants to follow, the Shenshan people came face to face with an ant-faced man with his hands on his chest and his antennae trembling rapidly.
The surrounding amber ants seemed to feel the pressure of some powerful force. They spat out the energy crystals in their mouths and crawled on the ground tremblingly.
Shi Jianxia thought that things were not going well, but he couldn't let the Shenshan people escape, so he had to order them to control the amber ant's body to lie down and see if they could get away with it.
The ant-faced man walked very fast, and judging from the reactions of the surrounding amber ants, he seemed to be angry.
Shi Jianxia held his breath unconsciously, but suddenly heard a burst of intermittent sound waves, which were a little different from the sound waves he had heard from the bee-faced man transmitting information on Tianchen Star before.
"You deserve... death... Why... I'm not... a... foreigner..."
"I'm... angry... Wang... what... are you thinking..."
In these intermittent words, the frequency of the sound waves transmitted was getting faster and faster, until Jian Xia could hardly capture the specific information conveyed in it. She immediately opened the smart brain memo and recorded what she heard.
Nan Chiqing and others looked at her actions strangely. Shi Jianxia simply turned off the private mode of the intelligent brain and allowed them to read the text in the memo.
Wen Qiuqiu's eyes moved slightly, and she thought of the intermittent information she had obtained when she discovered the child of the bee-faced man on Tianchen Star.
After that, Zhuang Mingyue questioned her and Shi Jianxia, took blood samples for research, and gave a more reasonable guess.
Wen Qiuqiu is an experimental subject of Higanbana. Zerg genes were once injected into her body, and she awakened the colorful jade waist as a mimicry through parasitic awakening. It is very likely that she has acquired the Zerg's language talent.
As for Shi Jianxia, she had also undergone the doctor's experimental transformation. Since she herself did not know what kind of transformation the doctor had performed on her, the researchers could not determine whether she obtained Zerg genes in the process and mastered the Zerg's language talent like Wen Qiuqiu.
Shi Jianxia was taking notes when he suddenly felt the tension coming from the two sacred mountains that were carrying out a covert mission. He immediately distracted himself to sense the situation in the ant's acupoints.
It was unknown when the ant-faced man stopped, and he happened to stop in front of two amber ants disguised as sacred mountains.
From this angle, you can see the ant-faced figure's straight and slender long legs, her slender waist, and the knee-length leaf skirt she is wearing.
The emerald green of the leaves and the porcelain white of the skin created a strong visual impact. Even Shi Jianxia, who was also a woman, couldn't help but sigh that the ant-faced human body was extremely beautiful.
You are a beautiful woman, but why are you an ant?
But when she felt the ant-faced man's gaze as if it were real, her mood of appreciating beautiful things instantly disappeared.
The ant-faced man looked down at the amber ant crawling on the ground with its antennae raised high in front of him, raised his white and slender feet, and stepped directly on its head.
The tentacles, which had lost their toughness, could not withstand such a "heavy blow" and broke into two with a snap.
The world suddenly became quiet.
The ant-faced man was stunned for a moment, and the antennae on his head trembled rapidly, as if conveying some information.
The remaining antenna of the 'Amber Ant' was stubbornly sticking up, as if it had suffered great injustice. The other Amber Ants were crawling on the ground, trembling, and had no intention of paying attention to this scene at all.
Shi Jianxia tried to capture the information conveyed by the ant-faced man's high-frequency shaking antennae, but his mastery of the Zerg's language talent was limited, and he was unable to complete such a difficult translation.
The next second, the ant-faced man's antennae raised upwards, as if he had discovered something interesting.
Shi Jianxia held his breath and gave orders to the two sacred mountains without hesitation -
"run!"
Shenshan, who had been prepared for a long time, was like an athlete who heard the starting gun. He threw away the amber and his body, and split into two groups and rushed towards the antxue that was connected in all directions.
The bad-tempered ant-faced man was stunned for a moment, then became furious. He immediately flapped his transparent wings behind him, caught up with one of the sacred mountains, and at the same time sent an invasion signal to the entire antxue.
The peaceful and tranquil ant nest suddenly exploded and began to search for the intruder according to the signals from the ant-faced man, even alarming other ant-faced men who were sleeping in the nest.
Hulala!
A group of amber ants rushed over!
Hulala!
Another group of amber ants rushed over!
There were also ant-faced men flying around one after another, patrolling the territory.
Soon after, fires broke out in various places in the school, and the whole school became a mess.
Two palm-sized sacred mountains were buried in the pile of energy crystals in the 'storage room'. They ate up the rear area completely with a roar, then moved to another position and continued to feast.
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