Chapter 69 Flame Orchid

Is it a monster?

Jiang Ning was wrapped in the lotus leaf, not daring to make any noise.

She hid in the dark, and could not judge the level of the monster outside.

From the rustling sound above her head, it seemed that the monster outside had not discovered her yet.

After an unknown amount of time, she finally felt that her head was empty.

The thing crawled towards its feet.

Jiang Ning carefully opened a slit on the edge of the lotus leaf and looked towards its feet.

The first thing that caught her eye was a thin, long, and bald tail. Her eyes gradually moved upwards, and in front of her was a mouse with short gray-yellow hair and a round body. It was only about one or two centimeters tall, but its ears were surprisingly large.

It turned out to be a gerbil.

Jiang Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

Gerbils have keen hearing and are good at jumping. They usually attack with their fangs and claws, but their attack power is not high and their polluting properties are not strong, so they are only judged as C-level alien beasts.

Jiang Ning estimated that if it attacked her lotus leaf, the rebound would be enough to kill herself.

She did not rush to take action, but observed carefully for a while.

The behavior of this gerbil seemed a little strange. It kept poking its head and tail around the pit, and no one knew what it was doing.

A small ball of light slowly gathered in Jiang Ning's palm.

In order to prevent students from cheating, the school banned all external tools, including some hot and cold weapons such as knives and swords.

She threw the ball of light in her hand at the gerbil, and the gerbil was soon knocked unconscious.

Jiang Ning lifted a corner of the lotus leaf that was pressing on her body, stood up and sat next to the gerbil.

Before she could make up the knife, she caught a glimpse of a layer of black and red sand on the ground in the distance, as if it had been blown by a strong wind.

But there was no wind tonight.

Jiang Ning looked carefully and found that it was not sand blown up by the wind, but dense ants, each about half the size of a palm, with ochre backs, the same color as the soil on the Red Star, and black abdomens.

They looked like red ants.

Red ants were not of high level, and belonged to the same C-level monsters as gerbils, but red ants appeared in groups most of the time, rarely alone.

Moreover, red ants also have extreme group consciousness. Once you kill one of the ants, the other ants will definitely attack you in groups to avenge you.

There are more than a few thousand red ants here.

This is trouble.

Jiang Ning rubbed his forehead and smiled bitterly.

Where did all this come from?

While Jiang Ning was surprised, the gerbil woke up quietly.

It stared at Jiang Ning with its small eyes for a while, then used its two claws to dig up the soil at the bottom of the pit and buried the whole mouse in the ground.

The gravel it swept out hit the lotus leaves and made a rustling sound.

This sound attracted Jiang Ning's attention, and also attracted the attention of the red ant over there.

Damn!

Forget about this thing.

Jiang Ning quickly sent a small ball of light to make up for it, and directly sent the gerbil, which was halfway through digging the pit, back to the west.

Out of habit, she put the gerbil into the nano ring in her hand.

This side was solved, but several mangrove ants on the other side had heard the noise and were coming over here.

If she continued like this, she would be exposed sooner or later.

As long as one mangrove ant noticed the abnormality and attacked her lotus leaf, it would inevitably cause damage, and then all the mangrove ants would rush over, and her lotus leaf would not be able to resist at all.

Unless she had a way to guarantee that all the mangrove ants would be solved once and for all.

She remembered that the "Beast Encyclopedia" said that mangrove ants seemed to be afraid of fire.

Among the plants she summoned, it was known that peppers could explode and produce flames, but this was a contaminated area and there were no flammable materials around. She might not be sure to kill them all even if she threw out ten peppers.

There is pulp in the pumpkin, but how big a pumpkin would be needed to destroy them all? Moreover, the flowing pulp is uncontrollable and might even affect her.

Jiang Ning eliminated the plants that flashed in the notes one by one.

Aren't there any plants that have a strong fire but will not harm her own?

Jiang Ning scratched her messy long hair and thought for a while.

She didn't know why a flame orchid that she summoned in the game two days ago suddenly appeared in her mind.

The flame orchid has bright colors and looks like flames when it blooms, hence the name.

She has never summoned a flame orchid in reality, and she doesn't know if its function can be as dazzling as its name.

Sometimes women's inexplicable sixth sense is quite accurate, just like the flame orchid flashed through her mind at this moment, maybe it can really come in handy.

Seeing those red forest ants getting closer and closer to her, Jiang Ning made up her mind and began to concentrate and began to summon the flame orchid.

Her mental power began to be consumed directly from fifteen, and gradually increased to twenty, and the flame orchid was summoned when it was fully grown.

Jiang Ning seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

The flame orchid and the rose require about the same amount of sunlight, so the attack power should not be much lower.

I just don't know how it attacks?

She waited quietly for a few seconds with a hint of doubt.

The flame orchid was like a pearl blooming in the night. As soon as it appeared, it immediately illuminated the surroundings.

Originally, only one or two red ants noticed Jiang Ning.

Now it’s good.

The red ants all crawled over here after hearing the sound.

Several dozen seconds passed, and the flame orchid still didn’t respond.

Jiang Ning began to panic.

She climbed out of the pit and shook the flame orchid high up.

Jiang Ning: “?”

At the critical moment, were you still sleeping?

Even though she was shaking like that, the Flame Orchid still didn't react.

Her heart almost sank to the bottom.

Perhaps, sometimes a woman's intuition is not so accurate...

Jiang Ning raised her hand slightly, and a white light flashed in her palm. She was ready to fight these red ants head-on.

The next second.

The Flame Orchid suddenly launched an attack. Before its petals were about to fall to the ground, they suddenly attached a flame effect and swept forward.

All the red ants on a path were burned to ashes.

Jiang Ning: "!"

Jiang Ning was stunned by the effect.

The red ants sensed the message from their companions' pheromones, and immediately rioted, quickening their pace towards the "culprit".

After the Flame Orchid launched an attack, there was no movement again.

No way.

Jiang Ning looked at it in a speechless manner.

Seeing that the swarm of red forest ants was about to reach her, Jiang Ning had no choice but to use a small light ball to sweep over and eliminate a few of the ones closest to her.

But the small light ball could only sweep away a few, and the situation would soon be out of control.

At this time, the flame orchid clanged and dropped a bunch of petals, sweeping in all directions.

"..."

Jiang Ning realized belatedly that the reaction arc of this flame orchid seemed to be a bit long.

At this attack speed, who is protecting whom!

Jiang Ning sighed, took out some windmill grass pollen that he had collected earlier from the nano ring, and sprinkled a little on the flame orchid.

Three seconds later, the attack speed of the flame orchid really increased a lot.

The inflorescence of the flame orchid is opposite to the leaves, often with several branches, and many flowers can bloom on the branches.

Jiang Ning calculated that it could be done about seventy to eighty times.

Judging from its cleaning range, it would take about four or five more times to basically kill all the red ants.

Jiang Ning planted two more flame orchids on both sides at a distance of about ten meters, and then sprinkled the remaining windmill grass pollen on the two flame orchids to speed up their attack speed.

After doing all this, she clapped her hands and returned to her original pit.

Outside the stadium, the teachers returned to the indoor monitoring room built outside the N107 area at night.

There were teachers on duty at night, and the people on the judges' seats had basically changed.

There were also many freshmen looking for night trips at night. In order to ensure their safety, the teachers had to keep an eye on the situation in the stadium at all times.

According to the images sent back by the micro-camera, most of the troops in front are doing fine and are moving forward as usual.

Occasionally, some people in the back stop to rest and replenish their energy.

The judge teacher's sight suddenly brightened up, and in the pitch-black sand dunes, several abnormal flames appeared on the field.

The judge teacher raised his eyebrows.

A freshman will encounter a monster so soon?

According to past experience, this group of people will have to run through tonight at least, and will not start to encounter monsters until tomorrow noon when they are close to the chaotic stone forest.

She looked in the direction of sight and was suddenly startled.

So they were going in this direction.

No wonder they encountered it.

It's not uncommon for the judges to be like this. After serving as a judge for so long, there are always one or two mavericks every year.

She cheered up and called the teacher next to her.

Later, the freshman can't hold on any longer, so we have to rush in to save him.

However, the two judges waited for two or three hours until the sky gradually became hazy, and the student didn't call for help. She even killed most of the red ants.

Jiang Ning had enough rest at night, but the two judges were worried all night, fearing that there would be a call that they didn't answer.

The two judges looked at each other, yawned, and put their hearts back in their stomachs.

Wen Renchao and his three friends, who had been rushing to make progress all night, finally surpassed Jiang Ning.

Wen Renchao looked at the number on the screen of the star brain and saw that it finally jumped to 1, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He once thought that the ranking software was broken. He ran well yesterday, but his ranking suddenly dropped to 2nd place, but there was no one ahead of him.

Before setting off, everyone was required to download an internal software on the Star Brain and enter the N107. It is the only software that can be used on the Star Brain. It can rely on satellite positioning to display everyone's current ranking in real time. In addition, the helpline can only be dialed on this internal dedicated race software.

Wen Renchao and Wei Shengyu relied on their strong mental strength to pull away from everyone else. Even Cheng Yao couldn't hold on and stopped to rest for a while. After

a day and a night, Wen Renchao and Wei Shengyu both showed signs of fatigue. The two reached an agreement and decided to stop and rest for a while before continuing on their way.

Wen Renchao opened a tube of nutrient solution and poured it into his mouth.

He got it from a supply point on the road.

After drinking the nutrient solution, the hunger in his stomach finally subsided a little. He asked Wei Shengyu beside him: "I haven't seen Jiang Ning all the way. She can't even make it into the top 50%."

"Is it possible that she is already ahead of us?" Wei Shengyu also opened a bottle of nutrient solution and gulped down a few mouthfuls.

Although Jiang Ning can't fly, judging from her usual class, her speed is not slow.

Wen Renchao instantly thought of his strange ranking: "You mean..."

He kept his eyes on the ground. Jiang Ning couldn't run around the two of them to the front. If she was really the first, she would not be walking in this direction.

That direction...

Wen Renchao lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "Let's go to the southeast road to find Jiang Ning."