Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 434 Ant Factory
Now, in front of Mike and others, there is a much sparser mushroom forest than before, but different from before, the reason why the mushroom forest in front of everyone is so sparse is completely man-made.

Oh no!
To be precise, it should be the work of ants.

Because what appeared in front of Mike and the others at this moment was a busy construction site scene. Countless huge ants were shuttling through the mushroom forest, constantly gnawing on the roots and stems of those tall mushrooms.

And once those tall mushrooms are bitten off by them, ants will naturally come to drag these mushrooms to the open space further north.

Under their coordinated operation, this piece of mushroom forest that should have been extremely dense is now sparse, with only a few small mushrooms less than a person's height and countless short and thick mushroom roots remaining on the ground.

"You guessed it right, these ants are really lumberjacks!"

Benjamin spoke slowly in a voice that was almost dreamy. If Benjamin, a smart man, had always approved of Franklin, he would have jumped up happily. not come out.

While everyone was startled by the scene in front of them, Mike took a deep breath and walked towards this 'lumberjack site'!
Through observation, he was almost certain that although these ants had terrifying physical strength, they had the same weakness as living corpses—fear of spells and high temperatures.

With this information, Mike lost his fear of this kind of ants.

And judging from the kneeling performance of the ant before, Mike also came up with a very wonderful conjecture.

Under the condition of ensuring his own safety, Mike began to confirm his own ideas without any scruples.

It's just that his move shocked Benjamin and others. The fifty elite wizards almost instinctively raised their wands, and Arthur even called out to Mike in a low voice, and pulled out directly after receiving no response. The sword ran towards Mike's direction!
The movement behind him naturally alarmed Mike, he turned around quickly, put his index finger in front of him, and made a silent gesture.

Arthur's body froze in place, but Mike continued to walk towards the 'lumberjack site' upon seeing this.

One step, two steps, three steps...

As the distance between Mike and the ants got closer, the ants who were working hard finally found Mike, a human being who had escaped from the invisible state and came to them openly.

Arthur's hand was holding the hilt of the sword fiercely. As long as there was a slight error in a while, he would disregard Mike's order and cut all these disgusting ants into pieces.

However, he probably didn't have this chance.

Because the first time they found Mike, all the ants on the 'construction site' took the initiative to stop their work, and just like the previous ant, they knelt down neatly in the direction of Mike!

Mike smiled happily, and he spread his arms towards the ants, like an emperor enjoying his people's kneeling down to him!
Everything in front of my eyes has proved my conjecture. These ants kneeling in front of me are definitely trained by humans!
Otherwise, how could a mere ant know how to bow down to humans?

At this time, another person who was hiding in the shadow also came out, looking at the ants kneeling neatly, with surprise on their faces.

"How is this going?"

Arthur panted heavily and said in surprise, his hand was still tightly grasping the silver sword.

"As you can see, these 'lumberjacks' have the habit of bowing to people." Mike said with a smile, "Do you know what this means?"

"That means there are wizards teaching them behind them?"

"Bingguo! That's right!" Mike snapped his fingers and said excitedly, "If I'm not wrong, those wizards should be the target of our trip. Now that we have met these 'lumberjacks', then It means that we will arrive at our destination soon.”

After all, the smile on Mike's face disappeared, replaced by a serious face, and said to everyone:

"We are about to arrive at the battle location, all of us will enter the battle state, the covert mode is fully activated, and we must also remember to cover up the smell, those ants are very sensitive to smell, you know?"

No one responded to Mike's words, which has become a common practice in the team.

Everyone acted the moment they received the order, and quickly entered a concealed state!
In just a split second, the small open space where Mike was still standing was vacated, and everyone disappeared.

The corners of Mike's mouth raised. He took a deep breath, looked at the wide plain in the north, and quietly entered a state of invisibility.

And when he disappeared, the ants who were still kneeling on the ground were stunned.

The two long antennae on their heads kept shaking, as if they were searching for the temperature factor in the air, but after a long time of searching to no avail, these ants finally gave up.

They all got up one by one, returned to their posts and got busy, as if Mike and his group had never been here before.

But what no ants noticed was that on the side of the avenue for transporting mushrooms among them, a series of tiny and almost imperceptible footprints continued to spread towards the distance.

……

Mike and his team are advancing along the avenue where the ants transport mushrooms. They have entered an invisible state due to the use of the disillusionment spell, and they are also using the special effect deodorant made by Benjamin (this was originally made for Victor, he doesn't like bathing, So it will be very smelly) took out the smell, so the ants who were dragging the mushrooms along the way did not find Mike and others at all.

This made Franklin a little proud, and he even climbed onto the huge mushrooms that were being dragged, and sat on them while the ants dragged him around.

For his behavior, Mike naturally didn't care, he would just laugh at Franklin for a few words, and then let it go with a smile.

But Benjamin obviously didn't think so, he stopped Franklin's behavior almost immediately, and waved his arms to educate Franklin silently!

Seeing Franklin's aggrieved look, the tension in the team eased a lot, and many people also laughed.

However, they soon stopped laughing.

Because there was a brand new kind of ant that they had never seen before on the road ahead!

To be precise, it should be Ant-Man.

Because they were completely upright, their bodies were still covered with a layer of pitch-black insect armor, a pair of huge black sawtooth opened and closed, and some mucus fell asleep. Their movements kept dripping on the ground, making a corrosive sound.

What shocked Mike and others the most was that these ants were still wearing clothes and holding weapons in their hands!

Although it is just a simple vest made of fibers from mushroom roots, and even though it is just a simple bone spear made of the bones of unknown beasts, there is no doubt that these ant-men are intelligent, and they have mastered Learned the skills of using tools!
Mike and the others held their breath almost instinctively. Everyone knew that this seemingly intelligent ant-man should be the soldier ant in this ant colony.

These intelligent soldier ants will never salute strangers like them foolishly. If these soldier ants find their whereabouts, let alone whether they can survive the siege of these soldier ants, their sneaking plan is first of all. It will all be ruined!

Everyone continued to move forward cautiously, and as the distance getting farther and farther away, more and more soldier ants appeared in front of everyone.

The job of these soldier ants seems to be to guard the work of the worker ants. They stand on both sides of the avenue holding their weapons, and their antennae are still touching each other, as if chatting.

Fortunately, the perception ability of these ants is not much stronger than that of the worker ants. Facing Mike and others who are trying their best to maintain a concealed state, they seem to be blind and unaware, which makes Mike and others They couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Ten minutes later, a building finally appeared in front of Mike and the others.

It was a nondescript square building, which stood abruptly in the empty mushroom forest, and seemed so out of place with the surrounding scenery.

And the first time Mike saw this building, he knew that the destination of their trip had arrived. This kind of huge building with strong human characteristics was definitely not something that ants could build.

The people who can build this kind of building can only be human beings, to be precise, wizards!

Everyone's pace couldn't help but quicken a lot. After so many strange things happened, the big guy's nerves have been in a highly tense state. Now they can't wait to complete this mission and return to their base. relax.

After a while, everyone came to the bottom of the building. There was an extremely spacious exit at the bottom of the building. This was also the end point of the worker ants' trip.

As soon as he entered the building, Mike found that there were a lot more soldier ants here. They held weapons one by one, staring at the worker ants as they dragged the tall mushrooms into the building, and then turned around and returned to the mushroom forest. haulage work.

And in the hall on the first floor of this square building, there are countless worker ants. They took over the huge mushrooms brought by other ants, and used their sharp teeth to completely cut off the canopy and rhizome of the mushrooms, and then cut the two parts of the mushrooms again. It was cut into small pieces of different sizes and thrown into the two machines in the huge hall.

Among them, the rhizomes of those huge mushrooms were processed by the machine into a trace of rough fiber and a pool of white paste, and those canopies were classified by the machine into different types of squares according to different colors. sort.

Soon, another group of worker ants would swarm up and transport all these things away.

The fibers and canopy cubes were transported upstairs, and the white paste made from root waste was sprinkled by the worker ants in a pond in the hall on the first floor.

At first, Mike thought it was just a waste pond, but when he found that from time to time, there would be worker ants crawling on the edge of the pond to suck the mushy juice inside, he realized that these mushy wastes were the worker ants their food, and this entire huge square building is also a huge mushroom processing factory!
Good guy, let these worker ants feed themselves, Mike has almost convinced the pure-blood wizards who built this factory, this is simply more black-hearted than him!

After visiting the work of these giant ants for a while, Mike and others began to walk towards the second floor. Unlike the first floor, which was guarded by soldier ants and was almost undefended, Mike found a very obvious place when he came to the stairs. magic prohibition.

Although I don't understand the real purpose of this magic restriction, these simple magic restrictions are obviously not enough in front of Mike, who has mastered all spells.

The restriction was easily broken, and Mike and others finally reached the second floor smoothly.

The layout here is almost the same as that on the first floor. There are densely packed machines on a huge platform that is completely opened up, and the worker ants holding various mushroom cubes and mushroom fibers are walking among these machines in an orderly manner. And finally put these raw materials into different machines.

After observation, Mike found that the fibers separated from the mushroom rhizomes would be made into rolls of white cloth after being put into an old, dirty machine.

Mike is very familiar with these cloths. This is a special cloth called Avery magic cloth. It has excellent magic resistance and heat resistance, and is extremely tough. These excellent characteristics make it expensive. Mike and others The lining of the combat uniform on the body is made of this special fabric.

The mushroom cubes of different colors will be crushed according to the pre-sorted colors, and mixed with many materials that Mike does not know at all, and finally made into bottles of viscous liquids of different colors.

Mike is also very familiar with this thing!

Avery magic liquid, they used these things in the charm class last year, among which the blue magic liquid has the ability to improve the effect of the magic liquid, the red is to increase the success probability of making it, and the yellow is to increase the probability of success. save time.

Like the Avery magic cloth, these magic liquids should be very valuable, because Snape was very careful when handling them, and even warned everyone not to overturn them.

Both of these things are exclusively operated by a pure-blood family named Avery. Since it is a monopoly industry, it is understandable that the price is a bit expensive.

However, many people are very jealous of the huge profits of these two products, and have used many means to explore the production methods and raw material origins of these products, but they have all returned in vain.

Mike didn't expect that today he found the production base of these two things by accident!
Thinking of this, Mike's heart couldn't help but get hot.

If the base can be taken over intact, then the size of the Los Santos Group will definitely increase dramatically!

(End of this chapter)