Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 72 This Is Not the Queen Ant

The calf-like army ant emerged from the sand, and the yellow sand was left along its carapace. Its black and red body was shiny in the sun.

A sand wolf just passed in front of it, and its hind legs were crushed by the falling wall bricks.The army ant's tentacles shook a few times, and quickly stretched out its sharp jaws, which were thicker than a wolf's legs, and bit the sand wolf's waist.

The sand wolf was cut off at the waist in an instant, rolled on the ground in pain, and let out a mournful wail.Its internal organs rolled and scattered, blood stained the nearby yellow sand, and the lower body pressed under the wall bricks also writhed unwillingly.

The approaching army ants swarm covered the sand wolf in an instant, even the blood-stained sand grains were not spared.

The army ant shook its body, and slowly spread its six pairs of transparent wings, like a twelve-winged angel of death, with no emotion in its diamond-shaped protruding eyes.

The fat man was the first to react, and said to Xiao Ran: "You are right, this thing is the same as that stone statue, it seems that this is that barbarian patron saint!"

Xiao Ran replied: "Karaquman. But this is a larger army ant, not the patron saint itself."

Hu Ba and the two shouted: "It may be that the sandstorm is too strong, which has disturbed the depths of the ant nest, and they are about to migrate. This big guy should be the queen."

Xiao Ran murmured in his heart, Hu Bayi said it was the queen ant, but he always felt that something was wrong.

When the fat man heard this, he didn't think much of it at all, picked up the sports air rifle in his hand, and poured all the bullets on the army ants.But most of those bullets just left shallow pits on the army ant's body, completely unable to penetrate its hard shell.

"The caliber of this broken gun is not good! It can't hit at all!"

The fat man reloaded the gun anyway while complaining.

Xiao Ran looked around, there was really no suitable weapon, and the army ant hill below was getting closer and closer, if this continued, the three of them would definitely become army ants' food.

There was a sudden bang behind him, and Xiao Ran turned around, only to see that a fuel pile that had been arranged before had started to burn violently, and it was the second uncle who fired in time.

Those reckless army ants rushed to the fire one after another, trying to suppress the wall of fire by numbers, but the burning ability of solid fuel was too strong, and these ants' flesh and blood could not fill it up for a while.

But the attack of these army ants on the fire pile temporarily tore a small gap for the black ant swarm, which is a good time to escape.

Xiao Ran was about to call Hu Bayi and Fatty to leave when he suddenly felt a buzzing sound accompanied by a strong wind.

He rolled on the ground subconsciously, and when he got up, he saw that the big army ant had already flapped its wings and flew to him.If it wasn't for his quick reaction just now, his skull would have been cut open from the middle by the giant scissor-like jaws.

"Fatty, greet its wings!"

Hu Bayi and Fatty raised their guns and fired, and Xiao Ran also raised their guns to join in the shooting.Now that they were close at hand, and the army ants' wings were relatively weak, they were quickly smashed to pieces by the firepower net of the three of them.

Transparent wing fragments fell like shattered glass, and the army ants fell from the air. The huge tail just blocked the hole in the roof, blocking the way of the ant hill coming up from below.

"Get out!"

Hu Bayi and Fatty supported Xiao Ran, and the three rushed out of the encirclement through the gap of the ant colony.

But the army ant refused to let go, swayed his body and pulled his tail out from the roof, and the ants below him rushed out like a fountain, chasing after Xiao Ran and the others.

The army ants also quickly crawled not far from the fire, and sprayed out a stream of formic acid from their mouths, instantly covering the solid fuel pile.The flames of the fuel pile flickered a few times and then re-ignited, but the fire was significantly smaller.

As long as it sprays a few more mouthfuls, it is a matter of time before the fire is extinguished.

Now the ant colony obviously regards the human beings in front of them as mortal enemies. If they don't find a way to stop their offensive, everyone will have no chance to escape.

At this moment, the second uncle rushed over, and not far from the three of them, threw something in his hand towards Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran raised his hand to borrow it, it was a can of solid fuel.He wrapped the fuel tank with a scarf and shouted to the two people next to him, "Aim for this!"

With all his strength, he threw the scarf wrapped around the fuel tank towards the army ants beside the fire.Just when the fuel tank flew above its head, two shots sounded, and the fuel tank was pierced by Hu Bayi and Fatty, turning into a rain of fire and showering on the army ant.

The army ants twisted their bodies and scrambled on the sand, bringing flames to the surrounding ant colonies.Even so, the ant colony still climbed onto it one after another, trying to put out the fire on the army ants.

There was a crackling sound of burning in the air, and billows of black smoke rose in the desert.

It seemed that the offensive was temporarily delayed. Xiao Ran called everyone to run back, but he heard continuous "bang bang" sounds behind him.

Everyone looked back and saw that the ruins in the ruins continued to collapse, and seven or eight army ants the size of calves emerged from the ground under the sand dunes, flapping their transparent wings, and flew towards the fire in front of the big house.

"This is not the queen! This is the drone!"

Xiao Ran recalled what felt strange to him. Generally, queen ants do not have wings. Only male ants can grow wings, so that they can fly to other ant nests and avoid the possibility of inbreeding.

These loyal male ants are not only the spouses of the queen, but also the most loyal and robust guards.Now the human beings in front of them have offended the ant colony, and when the fire is extinguished, what awaits Xiao Ran and his party is the fate of being torn to pieces.

Fortunately, misfortune is a blessing, these low-intelligence insects seem to accept death, and they will not attack Xiao Ran and others until the fire is extinguished.

"Let's run quickly! Otherwise, we won't have a chance later!" the fat man shouted.

Hu Bayi shook his head and said, "No, these winged male ants fly too fast, and it only takes a few minutes for them to put out the fire. At that time, our camels will not be able to outrun them."

Xiao Ran was deeply impressed, Hu Bayi asked: "Brother Xiao, what do you think?"

Xiao Ran pointed to the other piles of fuel, and said to the two of them: "I've prepared it in advance. When those guys get together, I'll aim at the fuel tanks. Let's give him a barbecue!"

At this time, the wind and sand had gradually subsided, and the desert under the sun had high visibility. Hu Bayi and Fatty could easily see the fire wall made of fuel tanks and rags to activate the nodes.

The second uncle also ran to several people at this time, and Shirly Yang also ran to him with a gun.Xiao Ran looked back at An Liman, saw Sati Peng and Chu Jian standing beside him, he was slightly relieved.

The five people raised their guns and aimed at the piles of fuel tanks. When the seven or eight male ants flew near the fuel piles, they fired a volley, and the bullets hit the fuel tanks one after another.

The fuel piles exploded instantly, and the stream of fire hit the male ants flying in the air, igniting their wings.Before the wings were surrounded by flames, the wind they fanned blew the flames towards the ant colony, and then walls of flames ignited.

The male ants fell one after another, smashing into the army ant pile with flames all over their bodies.The ant swarm was smashed to death and burned to death countless times, and the front of the big house became a Shura field for this army of army ants.

You should be able to breathe a sigh of relief now, everyone put away their guns and panted heavily.The fat man bent down to support his knees, and raised his thumbs up to Xiao Ran: "Xiao...brother Daxian, I'm convinced, and you counted ahead of time again? It's thanks to your preparation..."

Shirley Yang suddenly interjected, "I'm afraid Xiao Ran is not the only one we should thank..."

As soon as the words fell, there was another loud noise from the big house. The roof collapsed in an instant, and the sand below continued to sink, and a huge body was moving out.

"It's fucking endless!" the fat man scolded.

(End of this chapter)