53 Chapter 53
◎Fighting mutant ants◎
Chapter 53
The people with special abilities in the village were willing to follow the arrangements, face those dangerous mutant creatures, protect the village, and eliminate the danger in advance, which moved the village chief very much.
"You all need to be careful..."
After hesitating for a while, he could only say this softly.
Because the place behind was not his home ground at all, it was Tang Rufeng who arranged their actions.
After seeing everyone's abilities firsthand, he did not choose to let them all go, but instead chose someone who was more suitable.
"Tangtang, you're very capable. Would you like to play forward?"
Tang Rufeng looked at Tang Tang who was standing by and listening to his arrangements seriously, and asked softly.
I have to say that Tangtang's ability is really good. As long as her protective shield is not broken, she will be the safest one facing those mutant ants.
"Okay, Brother Rufeng, you can arrange it. I have no objection."
After hearing Tang Rufeng's question, Tang Tang shook his head and chose to believe Tang Rufeng's judgment and obey his command.
In today's world, there are many people with special abilities in the village, but there are really few who can really maximize their abilities.
Tang Rufeng is different. Not only does he have strong abilities, but his previous resume is also excellent enough for him to become the leader of their group.
In the end, Tang Rufeng only selected the most suitable people.
The ones with stronger superpowers are Tangtang who has a protective shield, Xiaoling'er who can suppress mutated plants and animals, Shitou who can communicate with mutated animals and command them to fight, and the remaining one has a more special ability, which is to burn the iron at hand into molten iron. It has no other use, but its attack power is strong enough.
Including him, the rest of them are basically physically strengthened, or strengthened by the effects of their abilities on their bodies.
After the group decided on the departure time, they began to prepare for departure. Now, more than half a day had passed since the mutant ants were discovered. If it was any later, they would probably have to go home and rest before dark.
If we keep waiting like this, we'll have to wait until tomorrow to take action.
If you encounter a problem, it is better to solve it as soon as possible.
Seeing a group of people leaving with several mutant animals from the village, the village chief stood at the entrance of the village and looked at their backs as they left with a sense of melancholy.
"Godmother, last time you asked me to go find Mom, why didn't you let Mom follow this time?"
Can Xiao Ling'er do it alone?
[Momo's ability is more inclined towards attachment, utilizing the abilities of others to attach to an object, allowing that object to possess abilities that can be used.]
Ying Huai softly explained Momo's ability. The last time he asked the village chief to find Momo and his sister, Ying Huai did not explain it clearly.
Momo's abilities are greatly limited, and his attack power can only depend on the strength of others' abilities, making him an auxiliary.
This time we go out, we need to face the crisis head-on, and it is obviously inappropriate for Momo to follow us.
As for the fact that there are so many people with special abilities among the remaining villagers in the village, why did Tang Rufeng only choose a few of them in the end?
This is because although there are many people with special abilities among them, their abilities are not strong, especially those who have awakened after the recent increase in spiritual energy content, their abilities are even weaker.
Let them take care of themselves and be able to protect themselves, which is already a good direction. Don't expect them to fight those mutated animals and plants at the moment.
It will take time for them to grow up.
In the village, at the moment, the most capable people are probably Shitou's children and Tang Rufeng, the first people to show special abilities.
In fact, the twins have the strongest attack power among them at present, but they are too young, and it would be a bit beyond their capacity to take them out rashly. There is no choice but to let them stay.
It’s time to take them out when they are a little older, or when Gangbi’s mother has taught them better and they can kill the mutated animals and plants by themselves even if they don’t obey orders.
Gangduan's mother obviously knew this too. Because of the special situation of twins, she held both children and participated in the data recording with everyone.
She stood aside and watched the whole process of other people in the village displaying their abilities. To be honest, even she, who hadn't awakened any abilities, could see that many villagers had abilities that could only guarantee a little convenience in daily life, and their attack power was not as high as that of the two troublemakers in her family.
But the disadvantages of the two troublemakers are also obvious. They are too young and cannot carefully distinguish the orders given by adults.
And the most important point is that she doesn't want the little girls who don't understand anything to participate in these plans.
It’s not that she takes care of her children like hatching chicks and protects everything, but she also doesn’t intend to let her two children be so carefree and know nothing.
Not long after she came back, she understood that if she wanted to survive safely in this world, she needed to strengthen her abilities. Only with strong abilities could she survive in the future and live a better life.
So her current protection of the two little girls and Gangbi is only temporary.
They still have to walk the rest of the way on their own; she can't arrange everything for them.
Besides, in such a world after the great changes in heaven and earth, even if she wanted to, she would be powerless.
The remaining people in the village had different thoughts in their minds, but one thing they had in common was perhaps that they all had a positive attitude towards going out to face the mutated animals and plants.
After all, you can't hide forever. Who knows whether those mutated animals and plants will become stronger in the future? Instead of being a weak person who can only hide under the protection of your godmother, it is better to go out and exercise your abilities when you have the ability.
Those villagers who were left behind by Tang Rufeng because of their weak abilities all had this idea.
The time between their awakenings was actually not that different, only half a month or a month. How could such a small time difference make them weaker than even children?
The remaining people with special abilities in the village were working hard to hone their abilities. Tang Rufeng, who was leading his men ahead, looked at the location marked by the village chief on his mobile phone for a long time before he was sure that he had found the right place.
"This place doesn't look like a place where mutant animals are found, right?"
Tang Tang squatted down and looked at some traces on the ground.
After two days of spiritual nourishment, the grass and leaves on this deliberately opened path began to grow lush again, but this did not affect their ability to see the road conditions clearly.
There was no trace of ants moving on this road. According to the village brother who was preparing to go down the mountain, those mutant ants were quite large and would forage for food around. They started to attack after seeing him.
In this case, given the size of the ants, it is normal for them to knock over the grass leaves around them.
But what they saw now was very normal, even the growth direction of the new grass leaves was normal.
"It doesn't look like those mutant ants are constantly moving around here. It's more like there hasn't been anything moving around here for a long time, which is why the current situation has occurred."
Tang Tang turned on his protective shield, walked in front and observed, looking at the grass leaves on the ground.
Along the way, there were only traces of their footsteps, and there were really no signs of other animals' activities.
Hearing her words, Captain Qingzhi also squatted down and watched, turned his head and nodded towards Tang Rufeng, confirming Tang Tang's idea.
Seeing the transparent and slender figure next to him, Tang Tang couldn't help but move to the side to make more space for Captain Qing.
Although she knew that the other person was in a completely untouchable state and she would not squeeze him at all, but seeing herself opening the protective shield and walking in front to block the entire path, she still chose to comfort herself.
Fortunately, she is not fat, otherwise, if she stood there like that, no matter what she said, the people behind her would not be able to see what was happening in front of her and would think she was talking nonsense, right?
"It's okay. We should move forward a bit. Maybe a fellow villager walked by that day and accidentally stepped on their hidden nest, making them think their nest was exposed, so they moved forward a bit."
Tang Rufeng couldn't understand why they didn't see any trace of mutant ants when they came to the same location. In the end, he could only blame it on the vigilance of the ants after the mutation, which prevented them from staying in the discovered nests for a long time.
After hearing Tang Rufeng's words, everyone nodded, which was barely a direction they could relate to.
Tang Rufeng's guess might be right. After they continued walking along the path for a while, they found that the grass leaves around them were sparse.
After the world changed, the grass leaves changed the fastest. Even if they did not mutate, they were still the fastest growing plants in the surrounding area.
But around here, even the grass leaves are sparse, which just illustrates the problem.
What kind of thing could cause these fast-growing, unpalatable, and seemingly useless grass leaves to become in such a state?
It was those mutant ants, and judging from the appearance now, the population of these mutant ants seemed to be growing.
When they cannot find enough meat or spiritual plants and fruits with relatively rich spiritual energy, the first thing they choose is the edible grass and leaves nearby that contain weak spiritual energy.
At least there is something. You can't just not eat anything and starve yourself to death just because you can't find any food, right?
Obviously, these mutated animals and plants do not care whether these things are delicious or whether they lower their food standards. They only care about what is edible and can keep them alive.
And become stronger!
The last point is the most important, otherwise they would not always target their food at prey that has mutated and has spiritual energy in its bodies.
After noticing something was wrong ahead, Tang Tang turned his head and looked in the direction of Tang Rufeng, as if asking something.
"Don't go yet, let the captain go and take a look first."
Tang Rufeng shook his head at Tang Tang, signaling her to be patient and wait.
Although Tang Tang has a protective shield on her body, this shield is condensed by her own special abilities. If she does not have enough energy or the enemy's attack power is too strong, it can be easily broken. Tang Rufeng does not want her to take risks first.
Captain Qing is different. Even if the mutant ants discover him, as long as the attack is not on the soul, it will not be a problem for Captain Qing at all.
"OK!"
After hearing Tang Rufeng's words, Tang Tang stood quietly there, waiting for Captain Qing's move.
I saw the other party flying a little further forward, then bent down to carefully check some traces on the ground, and finally nodded seriously in the direction of Tang Rufeng and others.
"This is indeed the mutant ants' nest. A little further ahead, there's a bulge that looks like a mound of earth. That's the entrance to their nest."
After Captain Qing finished his inspection, he turned around and came back to stay beside Tang Rufeng, speaking softly.
"Now what we need to consider is how to kill these mutant ants, or in other words, how to prevent them from appearing."
Tang Rufeng lowered his head, thought for a while, then turned to look at the person next to him.
"Brother Hun, can you melt the iron at hand as quickly as possible?"
"Well, as long as nothing attacks me and interrupts my ability, I can do it."
As Wu Hun spoke, he took up several pieces of iron hanging on his body.
These iron blocks were made by burning and melting iron products he found at home.
If he hadn't been busy himself, even if we knew what abilities he possessed, in this world, we might not be able to find a piece of metal that he could use in a short period of time.
"Don't worry, Brother Hun, I will definitely be by your side to help you block it."
After hearing Wu Hun's words, Tang Tang stood aside, patted the protective shield in front of him, and promised.
Whenever she saw mutant ants approaching Wu Hun, she would go up to block them. Given the size of the mutant ants, they might not be able to break through her obstacle in a short time.
"Yeah, no problem."
Wu Hun looked at her like this and felt a little amused. He nodded as if to confirm Tang Tang.
"Then let's take action."
After finalizing the action plan, Tang Rufeng nodded and signaled Tang Tang to go ahead.
The place where they were standing before was not far from the nest of the mutant ants. Now they could see their figures after walking only ten meters.
As soon as they got closer, the mutant ants active around the mutant ant nest discovered Tang Rufeng and his group.
After discovering this, Tang Tang hurriedly cleared the way for Wu Hun and headed towards the mutant ants' nest.
Although the combat effectiveness and size of these ants have increased after the mutation, the most important point is that their brains have not been improved much, and they still only have animal instincts.
They rushed over as soon as they saw the food. After their attention was attracted by Tang Rufeng and others standing aside, they even forgot about Tang Tang and the other person who had brought someone across from them before.
Seeing that he was standing next to the ant nest, Wu Hun lowered his head and carefully examined the direction of the mutant ant nest.
"This is clearly an underground ant nest. The only special thing about it is that it has many more exits than other ant nests."
As Wu Hun spoke, he looked at the state of the ant nest and without any further ado, he placed a part of the iron block on the ant nest and then attached his hand.
He felt a burning sensation in his palm, and he could clearly feel that the iron block against his palm was melting.
After he sealed most of the ant holes with molten iron, he turned his attention to the hole in the center that looked the largest.
Because of his actions just now, the ants underground seemed to sense the danger and were heading towards the ground. At this time, the other small exits had been covered by molten iron and could not enter or exit, so they could only choose the largest exit.
As for the largest exit, Wu Hun had previously placed a very heavy iron block on it. Although the mutant ants were now very strong and pushing the iron block away was not a problem, it still bought him some time so that he could first block the small ant holes.
Now, this is the biggest hole.
Thinking of this, he placed his hand on the iron block at the largest exit of the ant nest, and pressed his hot palm against it. Soon, the iron block under his palm began to flow toward the ground like ice melting into water.
Because the ground was an ant nest, the molten iron began to flow towards the gap and into the inside of the ant nest.
The mutant ants that were pushing the iron block at the entrance of the cave and were about to come out were scalded to death.
With the backflow of high-temperature molten iron, the ground, which was originally very moist due to the maintenance of these mutant ants, soon began to harden. Then the molten iron from the small outlet where he had been attached began to flow into the inside of the ant nest.
From the inside out, tiny sparks of fire lit up.
It is especially clear in the dusk.
Tang Rufeng and his men were fighting with those mutant ants. When he turned around and saw Wu Hun's actions, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, his initial prediction was correct. Although these ants had mutated, they were still afraid of fire and heat.
The reason why Wu Hun was brought out before, even though he had not yet fully mastered his abilities and his current abilities did not have strong endurance, was because we took into consideration that he might form a restraining relationship with these mutant ants.
Fortunately, the final result was not unexpected.
The mutant ants in front of them had hard shells, great strength, and extremely strong bite force. The rest could not even leave the nest and were directly burned to death in their own homes.
Most of the mutant ants are gone, so the remaining ones are not that complicated.
When the opportunity arose, they slowly killed the remaining ants.
Except for Tang Tang, everyone else was injured.
Captain Qingzhi's soul was fine, but because he always used his ghost energy to help Tang Rufeng block damage, he now felt that he was almost drained.
Seeing that there were still some mutant ants around that had not been killed, Tang Rufeng frowned. He still hadn't thought it through completely. He didn't expect that these mutant ants had such amazing defense.
Their attacks are harmful to normal mutant animals, and the damage is huge.
But for the relatively small mutant ants, as long as they block the attacks with their hard shells, it will not be a harm to them.
We can still keep fighting!
Seeing that he and his group had not been able to kill all the mutant ants yet and he himself was injured, Tang Rufeng became a little anxious.
The reason they could hurt the mutant ants so easily was because of Xiao Ling'er's ability. But now, seeing Xiao Ling'er lying on the shoulder of a fellow villager with a strengthened body, her face a little pale, it was clear that her ability was almost exhausted.
Once Xiao Ling'er's ability loses its effect, it will be more difficult for them to deal with these mutated ants.
Wu Hun, who was able to restrain these mutated ants at the beginning, has now used up all the iron in his body and his ability has lost effectiveness. Now he can only barely fight against the ants.
"Shi Tou, can you communicate with these mutant ants?"
Thinking that they had been fighting until now and had killed so many mutant ants, they had no choice but to retreat because of this small gap.
Then there were so many living mutant ants left.
Who can guarantee that these mutant ants will not leave here after they leave and find other places to reproduce again?
After all, there are examples in nature of males who are unable to reproduce transforming into females in order to reproduce after losing their population.
What if these things don’t have much brains but hold grudges?
In this world full of mutations, it is normal to have bad ideas about these mutant creatures.
Just as Tang Rufeng was brainstorming, thinking about how to find a way to kill the remaining mutant ants within Xiao Ling'er's ability and time, he saw Shi Tou shouting in one direction.
"Brother Rufeng, I can't. I've tried before, but they're like idiots, they don't understand anything and just attack us instinctively!"
Shitou lay on someone's shoulder and answered Tang Rufeng's words.
Because when they came out, they had already taken into consideration that Shitou and Xiaoling'er were children and it would be very dangerous for them to participate in the operation, so they brought a few people with enhanced physical abilities to follow them, just to hold them.
Now the stone was being carried on the shoulders of a brother who looked to be in his thirties. He was controlling his strengthened feet to step on the ants on the ground.
If he hadn't been carrying the stone, he could have bent over and hit it with his fists.
When he was in the village, he practiced boxing, but now because he had a child hanging on his body, he didn't dare to bend over, for fear that he would be entangled by ants and the stones would be bitten.
He was a little impatient to step on the stone, so he bent down and hit it a few times with his hands. As a result, he didn't kill one of the ants, but it landed on him and bit the stone.
They had more or less injuries on their bodies because they failed to estimate the defense of these ants. They thought they were dead, but there were many that were still alive and could come up to attack.
After that, he could only spend time crushing the ant under his feet into pieces before he dared to move on to the next one.
But this made his movements even slower.
They killed fewer ants and spent more time. Up to now, Xiao Ling'er had used her ability to suppress the mutant ants for such a long time, but they still couldn't kill all of them.
The cats and dogs that followed from the village were also very cautious when facing these ants. In the end, they bit many of them to death, but even so, they still had many bite wounds on their bodies.
Tang Rufeng frowned after hearing what Shi Tou said, but he asked that question with a sense of luck.
After all, they have been fighting with the mutant ants for such a long time. If Stone could communicate with these mutant ants, they would not have fought each other from the beginning.
Just as Tang Rufeng was looking around, thinking about how to come up with another useful solution, he saw a huge monster.
"What is that? It looks familiar!"
Tang Rufeng was thinking, but his eyes subconsciously looked in the direction of the stone.
When such a large animal appeared, not only he noticed it, but Shi Tou also saw it.
And he shouted as soon as he saw the other person.
"Ahri, help!!!"
Hearing the sound of stones, Ali, who was originally rushing towards the mountain, turned around and looked in their direction. His eyes narrowed slightly, and finally his gaze fell on the small things on the ground.
At this time, Ali had not appeared for a long time, and he seemed to have eaten better after coming down the mountain. His body was even bigger than when he came down the mountain before.
At this moment, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it is a giant tiger.
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