Chapter 37 A Battle Between Fire Ants and Hot Weapons
Help! --
Including this cry, Li Nai has cried for help at least ten times today.
Dodging the python's attacking head, they bumped into a fellow panda and slid down a tree more than ten meters high together.
The fierce wind from the fall rushed into her seven orifices. She barely managed to open her eyes a crack, and all she could see was a colorful blur.
It’s over!
There are no buffer branches in sight...
Shake your body, try to change the direction of your fall, gamble on the fleeting scene before you jump, and pray that you'll hit a few leaves.
If Heaven takes pity and the creature is caught in a net woven from vines, all the better—
The weightlessness abruptly ended, and a "wooden stick" caught the chubby cat's belly.
Four short, black, fuzzy limbs dangled in the air. She looked up.
With a blank expression, he hangs from a tree trunk with one hand, his five fingers digging deep into the wood like dragon claws, his legs spread wide and stretched straight out, performing a standard abdominal exercise: high knee raises.
With her hanging on his right leg and his fellow panda hanging on his left, he carried the blood-soaked Lin Jingru on his shoulders and arms.
Lin Jingru was upside down, her messy, short, silvery-white hair hanging down, her face as pale as paper, tilted back, and her gaze was as cold as a dead person's.
--suddenly.
Her abdomen and calves were taut as stone. With a single upward kick, she sent the entire cat flying, along with her fellow pandas.
Li Nai drew her Dragon Claw Hand, which fell like a needle. The moment it landed steadily, she raised her hand and caught the two pandas, her posture quite like that of a female knight-errant.
Before he could hold the position for more than a few seconds, he cried out and collapsed with a thud.
People and cats were scattered all over the ground.
"I should have let it go first and then changed it back."
Li Nai muttered to himself, lying on the ground and refusing to get up.
She raised her hand to her forehead, her gaze piercing through her fingers. Above her, in the shade of the trees, a wildly writhing black shadow seemed to be heading straight for them.
"A snake!"
She saw it clearly and shouted, but it was too late to get up.
Bang!!
Decaying leaves and flying branches.
Two meters away from him, a huge crater was created.
Li Nai breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that the impact hadn't hit their positions.
"Waaah!"
"Eek!"
The two panda cubs scratched at the ground with their paws and slid diagonally toward the pit.
"Hey hey!"
She bent down and reached out to grab it, the round ear brushing against her fingertips.
I watched helplessly as they both fell into the pit one after another.
"Don't move, I'll be right back."
He glanced back at Lin Jingru in a hurry.
After falling, Lin Jingru lay motionless on the ground, her phoenix eyes slightly closed. When she heard someone speaking, she squinted at them.
Li Nai lay face down on the ground, with her feet pointing towards her, and slowly climbed down the slope to the edge of the pit.
Lin Jingru tilted her head, lying helplessly on the ground, her face touching the half-yellow and half-green fallen leaves, quietly observing Li Nai's every move.
The ear pressed against the ground felt a vibration, a sound coming from deep underground.
The tremor came swiftly.
The next second.
The ground trembled, then exploded with a loud bang, unable to withstand the pressure any longer, and collapsed instantly.
"ah!"
Li Nai vanished instantly into the empty space, leaving only a scream.
Lin Jingru struggled to her feet, but before she could move an inch, countless pale red ants crawled out from the bottom of the pit. They were as big as a baby's fist, and their mandibles, like pliers, were as big as her head.
The ants, which had been scurrying about, shook their antennae and slowed their pace. As if they had smelled some pheromones, they all turned their heads toward the nearest wounded person, Lin Jingru.
Lin Jingru was terrified. As if her back injury had healed, she got up and limped away without stopping.
Leaning against a tree, I looked at the large pit. Red ants kept appearing, as if they were under attack, and they scattered and fled in all directions.
Looking back at the spot where she had just lain down, ants swarmed together, heads bowed, seemingly feasting. The satiated ants stood tall and proud, their mandibles stained bright red.
Are they drinking blood?
His phoenix eyes shifted to the large, sunken black pit, his dark pupils growing even darker.
Li Nai was awakened by the pain of being bitten.
With a forceful flick of his wrist, something dark and blurry flew out in the dim light.
As I opened my eyes, bits of dirt fell off my eyelashes.
Close your eyes and tilt your head down.
After a short while, I got bitten on my butt again.
"What is that?!"
Lift your hips into a glute bridge position, and the layers of broken soil on your body will scatter.
She reached under her and grabbed some kind of multi-legged insect with thorns on its small legs.
The tiger's mouth was in excruciating pain.
I got bitten again!
As soon as he let go, he quickly rolled over and got up.
Press down on the bleeding wound.
"What the hell is that thing? It bites really hard."
Put the tiger's mouth into the mouth and suck, the taste of rust spreading across the tip of the tongue.
She spat out mixed-blood saliva and realized that many things were climbing up her legs.
A chill ran down my spine, and I ran toward the light.
As they ran closer and closer to the aperture, their pace suddenly slowed down.
He stepped right into the light circle, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were filled with shock.
Before me, a gigantic python, barely alive, writhed in its final struggle. Its thick, oily body, as thick as a paint bucket, was crawling with red ants. The ants' sharp, hard mandibles burrowed into the snake's breathing scales, slowly cutting and devouring it.
The snake opened its mouth wide, and ants stepped onto the "red carpet" of its forked tongue to enter and begin selecting the freshest and most delicious meat.
Li Nai took two steps back, half disappearing into the darkness.
These ants were exactly the same as the ones she had seen in the tree.
The soft, gnawing sounds blended together, like grinding her bones.
"Host……"
She looked around frantically. She had to find a host.
Following their unique senses, they quickly found two panda cubs huddled together for warmth under an overturned coconut shell the size of a bathtub.
She scooped one up in each hand and held them close to her chest. Looking up, she saw an opening about the size of a well.
How deep did it fall?
Looking around again, there were dozens of passageways and hundreds of recesses filled with ant eggs.
They've fallen into an ant nest's larval nursery.
Wait, larvae?
they?
She looked at the pale red ants, about the size of a child's palm, devouring the python's carcass.
If they are larvae, how big must the adults be?
It's terrifying to think about.
She hugged the wriggling panda cub tightly, the warmth beneath its fur providing a sense of security.
Hiding in a corner of a rock, she examined the entrance to the anthill tunnel, contemplating whether to go inside to find an exit, or transform into another version of herself to consume time and escape through the collapsed opening above.
Obviously, being in an unfamiliar place, the best option is to transform and go out, which is both quick and safe.
Once she had made up her mind, she climbed out from the corner of the rock and looked up at the exit above her head—where swarms of ants were moving about.
His expression immediately turned terrified.
Adult worm!
The adult insect is bright red, like fire.
In the sunlight, two gleaming black sickles in its mouth waved in the air.
They marched in unison along the collapsed opening into the anthill.
Li Nai estimated that there were several thousand of them, spreading like a rapidly growing fire, gradually engulfing the earthen walls of the nest.
Pat pat pat.
The dense sound of insect legs echoed around me.
Suddenly shaking its head, looking in all directions, it saw that the ranks of fire worms were crawling out of the various passages, big and small.
At the nearest opening, several red ants, thicker and longer than her thigh, trembled their short antennae. Their round bellies, seemingly saturated with firelight, swayed up and down as they turned and crawled toward her.
He retreated, his legs shaking, while pounding his chest like a drum.
These ants are definitely not some ant species from the documentary "Animal World".
One group can influence a whole area.
She was surrounded by an army of giant ants.
His back was pressed against the stone.
The ants leading the charge suddenly raised their faces, ugly and ferocious, and the next second, they launched themselves at her face.
Wow!
Ant or spider?
He leaned back and fell to the ground, several ants scurrying across his face.
Ants in front, ants behind, cling tightly to the panda cub, there's nowhere to retreat.
Misfortunes never come singly—
[Warning! The toxins in the body of Villain No. 3, Lin Jingru, have spread, and her health has dropped to 83%, 82%, 79%...]
His eyes glazed over for a second before regaining their clarity. He saw a circle of ants' rear ends around him and then crouched down to gather strength.
In the instant she lunged forward, she closed her eyes and shifted her consciousness.
[Command received 1: Protect the host and remove it from the anthill.]
[Order 2 received: Locate Lin Jingru and ensure her safety.]
His empty eyes lit up.
Suddenly, he flipped himself up, did a handstand, and spread his long legs apart.
With a twist of his waist, he performed a ground-based street dance Thomas spin, sweeping away bouncing ants in mid-air.
It spun faster and faster, turning into a giant windmill, blowing away a large number of ants around it.
Once the goal is achieved, stop spinning, keep your legs together in an inverted position, tense all your muscles, and transform into a gymnast, performing a backflip jump.
The moment his hands left the ground, he grabbed two bewildered panda cubs.
He performed several straight backflips and came to a stop in front of an earthen wall.
He pulled out a green vine he had picked up during a somersault, swung it around with a whoosh, and cracked it like a whip. The swarming army of ants that touched it instantly tore into pieces.
After temporarily pushing back a large area to safety, the rattan was retracted, wrapped around the back twice, and used to firmly bind the panda cubs together.
[...66%, 64%...]
The panda cub Li Nai pressed his head against his chest, his mind filled with the countdown of his life points.
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
"Waaaaah!"
The little boy punched once, then straightened his fist, pointing his toes at the top of his head.
"Li Nai" followed the claws and looked at the collapsed opening above its head.
After a glance, approach the earthen wall.
Using his hands as climbing axes, he hammered into the earthen wall, climbing upwards relying solely on the strength of his upper limbs.
With their feet dangling, a dense army of ants followed them as they climbed the wall.
On the wall above their heads, the only exit they could pass through, a wildfire of "flames" had broken out. Adult ants, both those already present and those yet to appear, adjusted their direction and swarmed towards them.
Faced with a relentless swarm of large ants, "Li Nai" remained unfazed by life or death, climbing while swinging his arms to smash the ants that attacked him.
Catch an ant, squeeze it until it bursts, and with a flick of the wrist, sweep away a swarm of ants from under your feet.
The ants that failed to attack fell one after another like rain.
Panda Li Nai tucked his head in, preventing the leaping ants from finding a way in.
I quietly looked up, gazing at the exit that was getting closer and closer.
It nervously scratched at its clothes, and a piece of fabric slid down, revealing a large patch of reddened skin.
Looking at the tattered cloth on its paws, it blinked its black bean-like eyes.
Looking behind and down, I realized that my clothes and pants were tattered and torn by the scalding fluids from the ants' corpses, and were fluttering in the wind.
With only two meters left, "Li Nai" grabbed the wall with both hands, pushed off with both feet, and leaped high out like a frog.
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat—"
Hot bullets swept in.
The bullets struck Li Nai's impenetrable body, leaving the ground littered with spent cartridges.
Panda Li Nai stared with a bulge of white in her eyes.
"Where did this machine gun come from?!"
Several large-caliber machine guns emerged from the tree branches and ferns, firing 360° at the frenzied, attacking red ants.
Li Nai stood up straight, seemingly oblivious to the battle between ants and firearms. He turned his body in place, searching for the target location with his eyes, and occasionally raised his hand to crush an ant that scurried up to him without even looking at it.
[Target location locked, distance 50 meters.]
The line of words "report" in my mind disappeared.
"Li Nai" embraced the two pandas with one arm, like an arrow shot out, piercing through ants and bullets, and rushed straight to a tree 50 meters away.
In the distance, a pair of outstretched feet were visible behind the tree trunk.
Lin Jingru leaned against a large tree, motionless, her head tilted to one side.
Li Nai put down the panda in her arms.
One of them climbed onto my leg.
Panda Li Nai looked up at Lin Jingru, his face pale and his chapped lips bluish-purple.
Poisoning?
A wet, sticky feeling appeared under his claws. He lifted his hand to look and saw deep red blood. It came from beneath Lin Jingru.
[56%, 53%...]
As it gradually approached 50%, a warning siren rang in my head.
The panda's black bean-like eyes fixed on Lin Jingru's index finger, its green light subtly shifting.
It extended a claw tip and cut a gash under the ring, from which blood seeped out.
"Waaaaah."
Crush the ring.
Li Nai squatted down and gently crushed the emerald with two fingers. Green water flowed down and entered the newly cut opening.
"Waaah, waaah waaah waaah waaah waaah."
Go get me two machine guns.
Li Nai stood up abruptly and returned to the battlefield between ants and firearms.
When he returned, he carried a heavy machine gun with a mounting on each shoulder and dragged two long magazines behind him.
Thump! Thump!
They dropped the heavy machine gun. The ground trembled, and dust billowed.
Panda Li Nai closed her wide-open mouth.
The heavy machine gun, along with its ammunition and turret, probably weighs over a hundred kilograms.
Forehead……
Let's find a safe hiding place first, then switch bodies.
[Friendly reminder: The system's special ability—Invincibility Buff—has 8 minutes remaining.]
ah!
"Eek!"
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