She took a step forward, her body moving with the speed of a thunderbolt, and quickly approached.
The ten-meter distance was covered in an instant for her. She raised her hand, gathered her strength, and smashed the wall in front of her with a punch. Then she saw a horrifying scene.
Behind the wall was a queen ant the size of a millstone, with a huge abdomen that made up two-thirds of its body, short limbs, and a tiny head.
At this moment, it was lying on a pile of bones, eating the human flesh that ants fed it, while its huge belly continued to lay eggs.
Transparent, crystalline particles kept falling out of its belly, landing on the mountain of white bones below, which were now covered with ant eggs.
Lin Ruo doesn't have trypophobia, and she didn't feel anything when she was facing those worker ants, but now that she sees those ant eggs, she does feel a chill down her spine. There are probably tens or even millions of them.
Then she saw the mountain of skeletons below, and her eyes gradually darkened. "Having eaten so many people, you must have a crystal core, right?"
Lin Ruo's hand emitted a blue light, and a huge ice arrow as thick as an arm appeared beside her.
"squeak!"
The queen ant opened her enormous mandibles and let out a shriek. The surrounding ants swarmed towards Lin Ruo, attacking her relentlessly. Even though they couldn't get close to Lin Ruo, they still tried to bite through the icy shield with their mandibles.
At the same time, Lin Ruo suddenly felt a little dizzy, and the ice shield around her body shook.
She quickly mobilized her mental stability ability, and the ice arrow beside her shot rapidly toward the ant queen.
"squeak!"
The ice arrow struck the queen ant, who let out a miserable scream as the ice arrow pierced through her heart and froze her into an ice sculpture.
The surrounding ants also retreated. Without the queen ant's control, they knew they couldn't defeat Lin Ruo.
Lin Ruo looked at the ant queen's corpse on the ground. Although the ant queen could not move due to her huge body, her mental power was exceptionally strong. No wonder she could control such a large ant colony. Fortunately, her mental power was strong, otherwise she would have really fallen for its trick.
A bright blue light flashed in his hand, and a powerful stream of water rushed through every corner of the mall, gathering all the ants and the skeletons covered with ant eggs together.
Lin Ruo froze them again. At a temperature of -300 degrees Celsius, no life could survive, not even an ant egg.
As she activated her powers, the temperature in the entire mall plummeted, ice crystal-like white mist began to form in the surrounding air, icicles began to condense everywhere, and even cracks appeared on the walls.
She stopped channeling her powers only after confirming that there were no more signs of life in the ice sphere.
She then took out a long knife from her spatial storage and plunged it into the ant queen's small head. She groped around inside, feeling the tip of the knife touch something hard. With a flick of the tip, she pulled out a crystal core.
A blue light flickered in Lin Ruo's hand as a fist-sized ball of water enveloped and cleaned the crystal core. Once the crystal core was clean, she picked it up. The crystal core glowed and, the size of an infant's fist, was actually a level 2 crystal core!
She smiled, surprised by this unexpected gain. Did that mean that the two giant ice balls in the mall also contained first-level crystal cores among the ordinary worker ants?
She decided to take these things back and search for them slowly. She put the two ice balls into her spatial storage, along with the ant balls that had fallen to the ground earlier.
She then glanced at the queen ant's corpse with disdain, but still put it into her spatial storage. Although the corpse looked disgusting, the energy it contained was very beneficial to Afu and Ashou.
Let's take this back first and see if they're willing to eat it.
In the dimly lit shopping mall, bloodstains were everywhere, the walls were covered with tiny cracks, and icicles had formed all over the place.
Lin Ruo conducted a thorough search of the mall, taking away all usable supplies as a reward for resolving the mall's hidden dangers.
He took all the timber, sealed grains, various canned goods, some jewelry, and even some sealed tea leaves.
As for the clothes, shoes, tea sets, kitchen utensils, cleaning supplies, and daily necessities that had been soaked, Lin Ruo didn't take them. Who knows how many corpses had been soaking in this water? She was really disgusted by these things that had been soaking for so long.
Satisfied, she glanced back at the mall she had emptied. Just as she was about to turn and leave, she suddenly heard the "rustling" sound again.
Lin Ruo turned around instantly. There were ants in the mall?! They were well hidden; she hadn't even noticed them when she was sweeping through the mall earlier!
She darted away and quickly chased after the source of the sound.
"Shh shh shh"
Lin Ruo quietly arrived at the place where the sound came from. She looked left and right but found no trace of any ants. She frowned slightly. Were they hiding?
"Shh shh shh"
Just as Lin Ruo was about to use her mental power to investigate, the rustling sound rang out again. Lin Ruo immediately looked down at the ice layer beneath her feet. It was underground!
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