Chapter 028 Young Love
Jiang He's body tensed up and stiffened in an instant. The tingling sensation was too obvious. Although it only happened once and did not occur a second time, she was sure it was not an illusion.
What kind of mutant creature would lurk in a mine without any Jun stone, and have dense layers of fish-scale-like things growing on its body?
pangolin?
hedgehog?
Or a deformed fish?
After a brief brain freeze, Jiang He calmly bent down slightly and reached for his ankle.
3731 saw her slow down and asked, "What's wrong?"
Jiang He didn't intend to say it out loud to shake people's hearts before he confirmed it. "My foot got hit by a rock."
3731, "Are you not wearing shoes?"
He sighed with a sense of luck, "Luckily, the guy who stripped me didn't take my shoes, otherwise I would have hurt my feet too."
Jiang He: ...the deformed people and robots at the grassroots level are used to going into the mines without wearing shoes, and their shoes are all placed in baskets.
After all, mining consumes too much shoes, and buying shoes with points is too expensive, so everyone should save as much as possible.
As she spoke, her hands had already checked her ankles and calves.
I didn't feel anything, but I found a protruding sharp stone at the place where I had just been hit.
Could it really be caused by a rock? Jiang He did not slow down the team's progress. After confirming that there was nothing, he continued to follow the brown bear.
He asked 3731, "How can I leave the training camp?"
"Reach 100,000 points and serve in the training camp for five years," 3731 said. "Those who survive the five years in the training camp are rare, and reaching 100,000 points at the same time is even rarer. Even if these two conditions are met, the training camp has an additional condition: only one person can leave the camp each year. If two or three people meet the first two conditions in the same year, they will face off in a life-or-death duel, and the last person alive will be the one to leave."
This additional condition is very harsh, which means that there are thousands of people in the entire training camp, but only one person can leave each year.
If multiple talented people appear in the training camp during these five years, according to the rules they will eliminate each other and only one will survive in the end, but it is also possible that they will all die in the fight.
The purpose of the rules set by the training camp is obviously to cause these heinous prisoners to fight among themselves.
Jiang He asked, "Can anyone go out every year?"
"No one last year, but this year Qiu Fei and another deformed person named Pliers both have hope."
3731 continued, "Only you can see your points. Some people deliberately hide their points and only reveal them at the final roll call. We can only make rough estimates based on their abilities and how long they've been here."
Hiding points is not only to hide one's own strength, but also to avoid being ambushed.
After all, once they knew that someone would compete with them for a spot out of the training camp, the way to avoid a fight was to find someone to assassinate that person.
Cai He asked Qiu Fei, "Are there any aberrations outside the training camp?"
"Of course there is..." 3731 said halfway and suddenly said "Huh", stretched out his hand to pull the trouser leg of Jiang He in front of him.
"Sister, the edges of your pants are so similar to mine. My pants have a layer of frayed edges, which is very fashionable. I didn't expect that you and I have the same aesthetic taste. I wonder which guy stripped me off, otherwise I could show you that the frayed edges of our pants are exactly the same. If I catch this guy, I will definitely beat him up."
3731 actually suspected that it was a prank by 0580. That guy had earth-attributed abilities and was very good at manipulating the soil. He could easily strip off his clothes without him realizing it.
Others: ...Don't you think about why it's the same? Can you think before you speak?
The light from the mining lamp on 3731's head flashed past, sweeping across the hole on Jiang He's other trouser leg. "Hey sister, even the hole on your pants is exactly the same as the one on mine. We are so destined to be together."
You don’t say it, you really don’t say it, it’s impossible for ordinary people to encounter such a fate.
This is simply a match made in heaven!
Everyone: ...You really don't intend to think about what you said.
Don’t you ever think about why she is not wearing shoes and you are left with only shoes?
Who do you think took your clothes off?
Yao Leng said quietly, "3731, is there a possibility..."
"Oh shit." 3731 suddenly exclaimed.
He interrupted what Yao Leng was about to say.
Everyone was speechless: Is his train of thought so long?
Then, with a look of anticipation, I thought: After all this nagging, they finally discovered the truth! Will they start fighting? I hope Brother Xiong won't take sides.
3731: "Holy shit, sister, you actually have suppressors on your ankles? You, you, you, how could you have suppressors on your ankles? You have suppressors on both ankles, this is too scary. Including the one on your neck, you have three suppressors."
Everyone: ...
It is rare to see prisoners wearing two suppressors in the training camp.
The only well-known prisoner wearing three suppressors is Xiaosha, the leader of the Deformed Organization.
It is said that the guy destroyed the inhabitants of a small planet. Other prisoners were inhumane, but he directly exterminated the human race.
There are also rumors that Qin Han also has three suppressors, but this has not been confirmed and is just a rumor.
Now here comes some unknown guy and casually puts three suppressors on his ankles.
Everyone's attention is finally not on when 3731 will find out that it was Jiang He who stripped him of his clothes.
Instead, it became: Damn, how could there be three suppressors? 3731 must be blind and saw it wrong. After all, he couldn't even recognize his own pants.
"Anklet." Jiang He said calmly, "You're mistaken."
Everyone, listening intently, breathed a sigh of relief. As expected, 3731's eyesight was blurry.
Only Caihe narrowed his eyes in thought.
Jiang He spoke again, "There's a sound ahead."
At first, everyone thought she was just trying to change the subject, until Brown Bear said, "Silence, don't move."
Several people were frozen and lying motionless in the narrow mine tunnel.
They couldn't hear anything.
But the brown bear's voice was tense, which made their nerves tense as well.
"It's iron-eating ants." Jiang He whispered, "There are a lot of them, a group of them. How did they come to this mine?"
Male iron-eating ants use Jun as their nest, and they can only be found where there is Jun.
3731, who was extremely sensitive to smells, interjected doubtfully, "Could these iron-eating ants all be male? We have the scent of a Level 6 female nail-eating green python lingering on us. Normally, they wouldn't dare approach us."
The male iron-eating ants are not even at level one, while the female nail-eating green pythons are at level six. How dare they rush over? Everyone was skeptical about Jiang He's words.
Jiang He continued, "They're very fast, there are a lot of them, a large group."
She heard rustling sounds so dense and overwhelming that it was like a flood rushing towards them.
Jiang He had encountered male iron-eating ants for three consecutive days while going to the mine. In her opinion, this thing was silent when it lay on the ground, and even when it pounced on her, it made almost no sound. Why was it making such a loud noise now?
It was as if there was a natural enemy chasing it, and it fled in a panic without caring about its image in order to survive.
3731 exclaimed, "It really is a male iron-eating ant."
His nose was sharp, but he hadn't smelled the scent of male iron-eating ants until then. "Holy crap, there are so many of them! They're over 200 meters away from us. They're very fast."
Then he asked Jiang He, "Your nose is even more sensitive than mine. Sister, do you have dog genes? I saw your claws when you jumped down in the mine like a cat."
Jiang He: "I have very keen hearing."
But it has little to do with dogs.
"Sister, you are so awesome." 3731 was really sweet-mouthed. Although Jiang He asked him to call her by his number, he was very outgoing and kept calling her sister in a very intimate manner.
The brown bear said, "Do you still have any poison-repelling pills? Check them all."
At their speed, even if they turned around now, they would not be able to avoid the male iron-eating ants, so it would be better to face them head-on.
Iron-eating ants are extremely sensitive to the smell of aliens. The team had thought of this situation before going down to the mine. Their clothes and bodies were all sprayed with medicine. Even if the iron-eating ants pass by them, they will avoid them because of the pungent smell on their bodies.
Jiang He's palm was scratched. It was Brown Bear's hand that handed her a poison-repelling pill and said, "Put it in your mouth."
"Thank you, I have it." Jiang He felt vaguely overconfident, thinking that the male iron-eating ants would not dare to attack him.
After all, her little pink tentacles swallowed a level three female iron-eating ant.
This female iron-eating ant gave her immense self-confidence.
Let her reject the brown bear decisively.
The brown bear withdrew its hand and scratched Jiang He's palm again after a while.
This time he had a first-level crystal core in his hand.
Jiang He silently grabbed the first-level crystal core and whispered, "Thank you."
This stuff smells so good, I can't refuse it, absolutely can't refuse it.
When Jiang He took it, he even thought in his heart: How many crystal cores does this guy have? I have to find a chance to snatch them all away.
"The male iron-eating ants seem to be fleeing. They're breathing in panic and are filled with fear," 3731 said tremblingly. "There must be even more terrifying aberrations behind them."
Moreover, this deformed creature is even more terrifying than the level 6 nail-eating green python, which is why these iron-eating ants would rather rush towards them than turn around.
Everyone was not stupid and understood immediately that what was dangerous to them was not the upcoming tide of iron-eating ants, but the deformed creatures that the iron-eating ants were afraid of.
Brown Bear asked, "Can you smell what kind of aberration it is? Could it be that level six nail-eating green python?"
"I can't smell it for now." 3731 shook his head hesitantly. "There are too many iron-eating ants. I can't smell the scent of other aberrations."
The iron-eating ants flooded his nasal cavity like a tide, and he even felt that his nose was about to be blocked by the breath of the iron-eating ants.
Jiang He spoke up at this time, "It's not that level six nail-eating green python."
She tilted her head slightly, thinking, "There aren't any Aberrations chasing them right now. They're probably still some distance away, and they might be too lazy to chase these little creatures."
Jiang He's tone was quite certain.
Caihe questioned, "How can you be sure that the ones chasing the iron ants are not their natural enemies?"
Although male iron-eating ants are very small and can hardly fit into the gaps between teeth, there are always some deformed creatures that like to catch and eat them.
Jiang He: "I'm not sure, it's just a guess, you can believe it or not."
Caihe was speechless by her straightforward response.
In fact, Jiang He was extremely certain because she heard the cries of these iron-eating ants. They were shouting urgently, "Our king, our king is back. I want to have a baby with the king."
Female iron-eating ants have a special status among male iron-eating ants. They are called "king" by males, and all male iron-eating ants want to become the king's tool for giving birth to children.
She suspected that these male iron-eating ants were coming for her.
To be precise, it was aimed at the female iron-eating ant that was swallowed by the little pink tentacles.
Can the little pink tentacles swallow all these male iron-eating ants?
There are too many of them, packed so densely together, that it's unlikely they'll be swallowed.
Jiang He sadly discovered that after the female nail-eating green python wanted to get involved with her, a group of male iron-eating ants also wanted to get involved with her.
There is no limit to the number of both males and females!
3731 wondered, "They've slowed down, as if they're hesitating."
Yao Leng asked, "Is the danger behind them gone? They want to retreat."
3731, "I don't understand what's going on either, sis. What do you think?"
Although Jiang He said "Believe it or not" in a bad tone, 3731 inexplicably believed that Jiang He's analysis was completely correct.
Jiang He kept calling out to the system and the female iron-eating ants in her mind. After the nail-eating green python's attempt to stalk her and create a human, she was left with a deep psychological scar. She worried about the tidal wave of male iron-eating ants crawling all over her. The image was too horrifying, she couldn't bear it.
But neither of the two guys she called made a sound in response.
After hearing what 3731 said, Jiang He said, "I don't know."
These iron-eating ants are lining up to meet their queen.
As long as they don’t come all at once, Jiang He breathed a sigh of relief.
But immediately, the iron-eating ants started moving again, their speed becoming even faster than before. They rolled and crawled towards this side, shouting frantically, "King, run, run!"
Humans can hardly hear the sound of iron-eating ants, but Jiang He heard it clearly. The sound of these iron-eating ants was heart-wrenching, and they wished they could rush over and carry her away.
What aberration frightened them so?
Could it really be that level six nail-eating green python?
Jiang He had a vague feeling that it had nothing to do with the nail-eating green python.
She tugged at Brown Bear's trouser legs and said, "Change positions."
The brown bear didn't even turn his head: "Be good, don't make trouble."
Jiang He: ? ?
She wanted to return this to the other party.
Jiang He tugged at his trouser leg again, "Change seats, I need to confirm something."
Brown Bear, "Woman, don't take off my pants."
Others: ...They wish they could stick their ears into a string and wrap it around the two of them.
What are you doing? The person in front is blocking my view!
Yao Leng struggled to crawl forward, trying to get alongside Qiu Fei in front of him. It was awkward for the two of them to be squeezed together, but they still couldn't see what the other two were doing. They poked their heads around, and finally, unable to bear it any longer, they tugged at Cai He's trouser legs, "Hurry up and get 3731 to lower his big head."
Caihe: ...Do you think I don't want to? 3731's big head blocked the front so tightly that even he couldn't see how the woman was flirting with Brown Bear.
The brown bear in front had already lowered its body to let Jiang He climb over him. When Jiang He climbed onto his back, he whispered, "Don't take any risks."
The people behind: "Stacked together, stacked together...Is this exciting? I didn't even take off my clothes."
Jiang He, with his keen five senses: ...
As the most heinous criminals in the training camp, how could these guys have such things in their minds?
Hearing Brown Bear's words, Jiang He, who had a cold face, was stunned. In the training camp, everything was a risk. If you didn't take risks, you would starve to death.
After all, they are all heinous criminals, which is a risk in itself.
Jiang He didn't respond, but asked him, "Why can't we stay at the bottom of the mine after midnight?"
"To be precise, try not to stay at the bottom of the mine after 8 pm. You must retreat after midnight because the temperature at the bottom of the mine will drop to minus 20 degrees Celsius after 12 pm."
Brown Bear continued, "Aberrations are different from humans. Temperatures above zero degrees Celsius will make them sleepy, but below zero, they will be very active. For them, midnight to five in the morning is the most active time and it is also the time when they look for food. As long as there are no external objects to disturb them, they will hibernate at other times."
Jiang He nodded, "I understand."
It is difficult for humans to survive at minus 20 degrees Celsius, not to mention that there are mutants looking for food around.
But now Mine No. 1 has collapsed and everyone is trapped at the bottom of the mine. If they want to get out alive, they have to find the passage leading to Mine No. 2 from the winding mine tunnels at the bottom of the mine.
Not only do you have to travel through extremely cold temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius, you also have to be wary of the distorted creatures around you and not let yourself become their reserve food.
3731 shook his chilly body and whispered, "How about we wait here until daybreak?"
Yao Leng, who was at the back, said coldly, "The temperature at the bottom of the mine will drop to minus 20 degrees Celsius everywhere, including here."
There is still hope if I leave, but staying here will only freeze me into an icicle.
3731 sniffed, "I'm a lucky guy. I'm still alive. I'm sure I can continue to cause trouble for thousands of years."
Jiang He did not stop after climbing to the front, but continued to crawl forward.
Brown Bear grabbed her ankle and said, "Don't run around."
There was only this one path, so even if he wanted to run around, he couldn't. Since he was holding onto her ankle tightly, Jiang He turned around and said, "I won't run around."
The brown bear felt that she didn't understand what he meant, so he said helplessly, "Don't crawl forward."
Like him, his hands were extremely broad and thick. Jiang He's ankle looked extremely slender in his hands, but he was not actually paying attention to Jiang He's ankle. His fingers touched the suppressor on Jiang He's ankle.
Jiang He felt his fingers on the inhibitor on Mosuo's ankle.
3731 might be fooled by her, but Brown Bear would not fail to recognize that this is a suppressor.
Jiang He's eyes turned cold and he kicked him.
Brown Bear squeezed her ankle tightly until Jiang He turned her head and glared at him. Then he let go and asked, "What did you find?"
His attitude was very serious. He guessed that Jiang He insisted on crawling forward because he must have discovered something.
He didn't mention the suppressor, as if he hadn't noticed it at all.
But Jiang He knew that he already knew that she wasn't wearing an anklet. He was just tactful enough not to shout it out. Jiang He said, "I don't know. I need to climb a little further to confirm."
Brown Bear, "I'm with you."
He turned to the crowd and said, "Jiang Jiang and I will go ahead to investigate. You guys stay where you are and wait. You can follow us if you want."
The soil beneath me was cold, like ice, and the temperature in the cave was gradually dropping.
This is still a tunnel in the shallow upper layer of the mine. I dare not imagine what the temperature is like inside the mine now.
The crowd did not stay where they were and wait. There was no way back, so they might as well crawl forward. At least they could move around while crawling and avoid freezing.
It would be better if these people could keep up, so that if anything happens, more people can help.
Jiang He discovered that although Brown Bear was the leader of this small team, most of the instructions he gave to the team members were options. What was even more surprising was that although he gave two options, the team members would make the choice according to his wishes.
Jiang He was a person who liked to travel alone. She climbed very fast, wanting to leave Brown Bear and the others behind. However, the Brown Bear behind her kept chasing her closely, and the people from 3731 followed closely behind the Brown Bear, fearing that they would be left behind.
After the male iron-eating ants madly leaped forward again, they noticed that the king was approaching them. They all stopped and shouted, "King, I'm hungry. Eat, eat, eat."
They felt that their queen was suffering from severe hunger and needed food, but there was no food in this broken cave on the desolate ridge to offer to the queen.
Fortunately, they have their own.
They are also the queen's food.
Give yourself to the Queen first!
The male iron-eating ants are crazy about offering themselves to the queen and being eaten.
As long as the queen is well fed and becomes strong, the hateful nail-eating green python will not dare to attack her.
There were too many broken stones in the cave, and Jiang He's thighs were hit by the sharp stones several times, which made her feel itchy and scaly.
Her hand subconsciously touched her thigh, feeling as if something was wrapped around it, but when she touched it there was nothing.
It should be caused by the uneven ground in the tunnel.
3731 reminded everyone, "The distance to the iron-eating ants is less than ten meters."
Ten meters is not long, but the tunnel is full of twists and turns, and sometimes you have to climb up and down, and even the view two meters away will be blocked.
Then, 3731 said doubtfully, "These iron-eating ants are no longer swarming towards us. They seem to be hesitating and waiting. Perhaps the aberrations that frightened them have left."
Yao Leng, "Is there a possibility that they can smell us and are just waiting for us to bump into their mouths?"
"It's unlikely. We have a lot of spike-eating green python scent on us, which masks our own scent. Aberrations weaker than a level six spike-eating green python have a bit of intelligence and won't treat us like a dish." 3731 speculated, "I suspect they're trying to decide whether the spike-eating green python is more dangerous or the aberrations behind them are more terrifying."
Jiang He continued to crawl forward. After she moved to the front, she was like a ruthless locomotive. She didn't say a word or stop. It seemed that she could only increase the speed and drive forward "wooooooo".
Brown Bear tugged at her ankle and said, "Let's switch."
Jiang He didn't answer and continued to climb.
The brown bear used a crystal core to tickle her ankle.
A hand quickly snatched the crystal core from his hand.
Although his crystal core was gone, the other party thanked him quietly, "Thank you."
Brown Bear didn't feel offended at all by being robbed. Although his voice was low, it was filled with a doting smile, "Do you want more?"
He didn't hear the woman's response, and she crawled even faster.
He could faintly hear the sound of her teeth gritting.
Thinking that she would puff out her cheeks like a squirrel, he took out another crystal core and tickled the soles of her feet.
Jiang He: ...
She pursed her lips into a line and began to think about whether she should take action and directly rob this guy of all his crystal cores.
Jiang He climbed faster. She originally wanted to free herself from the temptation, but as her body rushed forward, her hands reached back involuntarily and snatched the crystal core from the brown bear's hand.
Jiang He: ...
This time she was too embarrassed to even say thank you and rushed forward as fast as a cannonball.
The laughter of the brown bear could be heard faintly from behind.
Jiang He's facial features were tense and cold as he considered whether he should kill the man after robbing him to silence him.
"They're retreating! Those iron-eating ants are retreating," 3731 exclaimed happily. "They're retreating. It must be because the aberrations behind them aren't as powerful as the level 6 nail-eating green pythons."
If there were another mutated creature similar to the level 6 nail-eating green python, they might not be able to defeat it, especially in such a narrow mine tunnel. They were completely unable to activate their superpowers, let alone cooperate with each other, and could only wait to be eaten.
But the retreat of the iron-eating ants gave them an extremely clear signal that the mutant was not as powerful as the level 6 nail-eating green python.
3731 muttered to himself, "If the Level 6 Nail-Eating Green Python wasn't so powerful, we should be able to defeat it and dig out a high-level crystal core. This time, we won't return empty-handed."
Yao Leng: "If you're more ambitious, this is just the shallow upper layer, and you can get a crystal core of at least level three. When we go deeper into the mine, we can get more like this."
3731 was happy: "Wow, we're going to have a great return today. 0580 will be pissed if he finds out."
These people never considered that the chances of walking out alive were much smaller than the chances of obtaining the crystal core.
Maybe I know, but I’m just too lazy to think about it.
Jiang He was less than three meters away from the male iron-eating ants, and from time to time he could see a few male iron-eating ants that had not kept up with the main group.
The little pink tentacles on her fingertips were like the snake in the video game. When they saw the male iron-eating ant, they immediately pounced on it and swallowed it in one gulp.
Before she could react, he had already shrunk back without even saying hello.
I am also greedy.
When Jiang He first saw the Little Pink Tentacle, he was surprised and would call the system. But ever since the Little Pink Tentacle swallowed a female iron-eating ant of that size and drooled over a level six nail-eating green python, saying that it wanted to dig out its brain and eat it, Jiang He became numb to this thing.
It is indifferent to what it eats.
She was just secretly glad that she was in the front and the people behind her couldn't see the little pink touch.
Jiang He observed the little pink tentacles of the ants popping up from time to time and excitedly eating the lone iron-eating ants. She couldn't help but wonder if she herself had some octopus genes?
But vaguely, she was extremely sure that she did not have any mutated genes.
Although she had lost her memory, she had a feeling deep down that she was not a deformed person, nor an alien.
3731 kept sniffing and reporting in real time: "They retreated three meters and then stopped. It's strange. They kept hesitating. The leader must have lost his way, moving forward and backward."
Yao Leng: "You think they are as blind as you are."
3731: "You said iron-eating ants, so what? Why are you attacking me for no apparent reason? If you want to fight, just say so. If I can't beat you, I surrender."
His tone was harsh, but his words were timid.
Yao Leng's fighting ability is second only to the brown bear. 3731 feels that even if Yao Leng is missing an arm now, he is still stronger than himself.
Yao Leng was speechless: "Big Head, what did you do before coming to the training camp?"
3731: "My name is not Big Head."
He said, "After my mutation, I used my nose to play forward for the H Gang."
After saying that, he corrected himself again, "Don't call me Big Head."
But everyone felt that his big head suited the name very well, and they no longer called him by his number.
Brown Bear: "Big Head, can you smell whether a male iron-eating ant is in heat? The scent of our nail-eating green pythons mixed with the acacia fragrance will trigger the male iron-eating ants to go into heat?"
In their eyes, the sixth-level nail-eating green python ate the female iron-eating ant and entered the estrus period, and the fragrance of the acacia on its body stained them.
This smell can induce many organisms to enter the reproduction period without discrimination.
Male iron-eating ants of the same species are probably more easily induced.
Yao Leng: "Big Head, will that thing mistake us for female iron-eating ants?"
Even Caihe said, "Big Head, can you change the smell of us?"
Datou had no choice but to accept this nickname.
"It will induce it. After all, the fragrance of cassia is the smell that can only be secreted by female iron-eating ants." Big Head talked about the smell very well, but this problem could not be solved. Although one of Big Head's supernatural properties can change the smell, it can only change his own smell, and it is not strong enough to change the smell of people around him.
After being reminded by everyone, Big Head was worried. "In the eyes of these male iron-eating ants, we are very likely female iron-eating ants. Maybe that's why they want us to come here."
Qiu Fei, who was usually quiet, gritted his teeth and said, "I don't want to be treated as a female by a male iron-eating ant."
One sentence was earth-shattering.
Everyone: ??? You're overthinking this, kid.
The male iron-eating ants are so tiny that even if all the male iron-eating ants were piled together, they would not be able to form the shape of a human.
What on earth has this guy been through to be able to put himself in the same size as a male iron-eating ant?
Everyone turned their heads and stared at Qiu Fei.
The look is a little strange.
Qiu Fei: "What? Do you want to be fucked by male iron-eating ants?"
Yao Leng laughed out loud: "You're overthinking it. With such a huge size difference, you might as well worry about them gnawing on your brain. Iron-eating ants love to gnaw on aliens' brains the most."
Big Head was speechless and said, "The mouthparts of male iron-eating ants are so small, they are no different in size from the mouthparts of mosquitoes. You are much thicker than them, so if you want to deal with them, you should deal with them. At worst, you can just mess around. You are so big that you can benefit from it, so what are you afraid of?
Jiang He, who had been moving forward silently, said: …The things that she had been worrying about alone were now shared by everyone, and the pressure on her was immediately relieved a lot.
"The male iron-eating ants have retreated another meter." Big Head paused. "Strange, their smell has become particularly strange. Brother Xiong, sister, please stop now. The iron-eating ants are not in the right state."
Brown Bear grabbed Jiang He's ankle and successfully stopped her from crawling forward. He turned around and asked Big Head, "What's going on?"
Big Head was horrified. "It's over, it's over! The violent aura is so brutal! These iron-eating ants are crazy. Their aura is particularly violent and frenzied. There must be some more terrifying aberration that scared them."
What Big Head said didn't make sense, but the brown bear understood it instantly. Just like humans have a stress response when encountering danger, the iron-eating ants must be the same.
What exactly is that more ferocious aberration?
Brown Bear's hand was still tightly grasping Jiang He's ankle. He whispered to her, "There are mutants advancing. We can't move forward."
The same principle applies to how humans’ superpowers can be advanced. The mutants will also continue to devour and advance.
But when the mutant advances, it will indiscriminately devour all the food around it to replenish its energy.
If you get too close, you may be attacked by a group of mad iron-eating ants.
But the woman kicked his wrist and tried to continue crawling forward.
She's so curious, and her stubbornness is endearing. The brown bear took a level one crystal core and scratched the sole of the woman's foot. "Don't go any further."
Jiang He: ...
She silently took the crystal core and dejectedly reunited with everyone under the arrangement of Brown Bear.
Brown bear: So good and obedient, your head is so round, I really want to touch it.
Jiang He: How come he is so skilled at using crystal cores to lure people? Has this guy ever had a dog?
Fortunately, this section of the mine tunnel is wider, enough for everyone to lie down around.
The temperature in the mine tunnel was at least minus ten degrees Celsius. Datou squeezed between Qiu Fei and Yao Leng, and stretched out his hand to call Caihe, "Caihe, come over here and warm up."
Caihe shook his head. He sat alone on one side, keeping a physical distance from everyone else. "I'm not afraid of the cold."
Big Head looked at the brown bear who was whispering to the woman.
The style of escaping to survive in the cracks instantly turns into the style of elementary school love.
Datou was so shocked by the style of the painting that he forgot what he was about to say.
But the brown bear looked at him at this time, "It's the male iron-eating ant that is advancing."
His tone was extremely certain.
Big Head was a little confused. "Most male iron-eating ants are not even at level one. It's possible for male iron-eating ants to advance. Can male iron-eating ants advance?"
He actually suspected that there was a female iron-eating ant surrounded by males, and it was the female that was actually advancing.
But that didn't make sense, because if there were female iron-eating ants, he should have smelled it long ago.
"It's not the female iron-eating ants," Brown Bear explained. "It must be the albizzia incense we carry that's triggered these male iron-eating ants. Normally, they'd enter estrus and mate with the female iron-eating ants. But the albizzia incense mixed with the nail-eating green python has made them think that if they want to successfully mate with a female iron-eating ant, they'd have to face a level six nail-eating green python. The stimulation of the environment has caused them to advance."
The male iron-eating ants were forced to advance, which shows how hard they work to gain the right to mate.
Big Head turned his head and looked at Qiu Fei with emotion, "I'm afraid your worries will come true. What if the advanced male iron-eating ants are bigger than yours? Sigh..."
Although it was a long sigh, the trailing tone was filled with incomparable excitement and anticipation. Amidst everyone's condemning gazes, he slowly said, "I'm actually quite curious about how aberrations and humans interact. I'm actually going to see it in my lifetime..."
Yao Leng raised his eyelids and stared at him coldly, "Not only can you see it, you can also experience it. Congratulations."
Just watch, it would be too traumatic to experience it in person. Big Head rubbed his hands, "I don't know how many male iron-eating ants can advance, and what level they can reach after advancing."
He had already imagined the scene of picking up crystal cores all over the ground.
Brown Bear ignored everyone's teasing and asked Jiang He, "What do you think?"
Jiang He shook his head, "No."
Brown Bear's guess was correct. Those male iron-eating ants were advancing, just as Big Head described.
They attacked and devoured each other ferociously, each one like a possessed creature, their black eyes blood red, and they madly gnawed on their own kind as if they were food.
Some male iron-eating ants had their legs bitten by another one, but they seemed not to feel the pain. They did not dodge or fight back, but instead stuck their heads out and bit other iron-eating ants frantically.
All the male iron-eating ants gathered together and chewed like crazy, they had completely lost their minds.
Although they are small in size, they look like a big snowball when gathered together. Moreover, this snowball is getting bigger and bigger with the addition of countless male iron-eating ants, and has completely blocked the mine tunnel.
The male iron-eating ants are now very manic and ferocious.
All the male iron-eating ants have only one thought: hunger... they need to eat, eat their fill, and become stronger...
Gradually, Jiang He's blood flow accelerated, his heart beat faster, and a feeling of irritability filled his entire mind.
So hungry, so hungry...
Her stomach was churning, growling like a giant beast: hungry, uncomfortable, wanting to eat, wanting to eat, wanting to devour everything like crazy...
She seemed to have become a member of the snowball, craving to eat, to become stronger, to...
Jiang He lowered her head, her eyes gradually turning blood red, veins bulging on the back of her hands, and her mind was filled with the thought of "eating".
Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in my calf.
It felt like a thin needle piercing into his flesh and bones. The pain made Jiang He shudder and wake up from his confused and angry state.
Only then did she realize that she was affected by the emotions of the male iron-eating ants. She was a little scared, but fortunately something bit her calf, and the pain stimulated her nerves, which made her regain her consciousness.
Brown Bear saw Jiang He sit up suddenly with a grim expression, as if she had had a bad dream, so he asked her, "What's wrong?"
Jiang He didn't answer. She lowered her head and touched her calf. Although the ground was uneven, there were no needles or prickles around. She moved her body and hid her calf behind the brown bear to prevent others from seeing the suppressor on her ankle.
After rolling up his trouser legs, Jiang He found a needle-sized wound on his calf.
It was too small, and she was covered in dirt, so she couldn't see the little black dot at all without looking closely. She looked up at the brown bear.
The suppressor on Jiang He's ankle was extremely conspicuous, but Brown Bear's gaze did not linger on it. When Jiang He pressed carefully to check his calf, he was also observing. Following Jiang He's gaze, he also saw this invisible black spot.
"What stung you? It's poisonous." He spoke in a low voice. Like Jiang He, he didn't want to alert everyone to the suppressor on Jiang He's ankle.
He pressed his fingertips around the wound, took out a small bottle from his arms, and said to Jiang He, "Drink this."
Jiang He didn't reach out to take it. Medicine and crystal cores were rare treasures in the training camp.
She had already taken the brown bear's crystal core, so how could she get his medicine?
Furthermore, her body had an amazing ability to heal, so perhaps this little bit of poison wouldn't be a big deal to her. After all, she was even immune to the sweet acacia.
"I don't feel anything right now. I'll talk to you later."
The two spoke in low voices, close to each other as if they were whispering.
Everyone thought they were being immature and didn't come over.
Brown Bear guessed that Jiang He wanted to save the medicine for him. This silly woman only thought about him and not herself.
He was about to speak when a noise suddenly came from the side.
Yao Leng pinched Datou's chin with one hand and kicked Datou's leg hard, "Datou, what the hell are you doing?"
The big-headed creature opened its mouth wide and bared its teeth at him, with a faint red light in its eyes, a ferocious look, and extremely hideous facial features. It looked more like a ferocious beast than a human.
He stretched his head and kept trying to get closer to Yao Leng, with blood dripping from his bared teeth.
One of Yao Leng's arms was broken, and supporting Datou's chin with one hand was already at his limit. His neck had been bitten by Datou and was bleeding profusely.
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