The Infinite Mystery

"I don't care. If you don't want to, then so be it. We will withdraw to Blackrock City now. As for whether you want to move forward or retreat, that is up to you. However, if you meet any more Demonic Beast, then you will have to depend on yourself." The Blood Wolf Gang's leader laughed coldly and said.

Old Man Mu was so angry that his entire body shivered. He clenched his teeth and said, "I can only give you 1.5 times the reward!"

"Double it, not one less." The Blood Wolf Gang's leader didn't take a step back.

After a short struggle, Old Man Mu finally gave in, "Fine! So be it. However, you must promise me that no matter what happens in front of us, you must not leave us behind and escape on your own."

Old Man Wu was very familiar with the Blood Wolf Gang and its members. They would do anything for money but they are also cowards. When they encounter danger, they always run away.

"Hey!" The blood Wolf Gang's Leader sneered in disdain, "Don't worry about that. We, Blood Wolf Gang, always complete the job we take."

After the price was doubled, the members of the Blood Wolf Gang were full of energy.

Qin Feng, who was in the group, shook his head helplessly. A weakling without strength could only suffer this kind of humiliation.

At this moment, a rustling sound was heard from the side.

Everyone, who had just managed to catch their breath, felt their hearts skip a beat as a swaying deer-shaped Demonic Beast crawled out of a lush bush.

"Damn, that scared me to death. So it was a little beast!"

One of the members of the Blood Wolf Group cursed and walked in front of the Demonic Beast. Without saying a word, he directly stabbed the longsword in his hand into the Demonic Beast's head.

However, what was astonishing was that the little demonic beast unexpectedly did not struggle at all. It did not let out any wails. There was even no blood that flowed out from the hole.

"What's going on?"

The fierce man furrowed his brows. Before he could understand what was going on, a scorching heat was transmitted from the end of the weapon.

"Holy sh*t!"

"What are you shouting about? Why aren't you leaving yet?" The Blood Wolf Gang's leader bellowed.

"Leader, look!"

The big man's voice revealed a trace of fear. Everyone was frightened, their gazes all sweeping over the place, only to see that the sharp sword that had stabbed into the venomous deer had turned red, and it looked like a hot iron. Immediately following that, under everyone's astonished gaze, that sharp sword rapidly melted into a puddle of molten metal.

"This?"

Before the crowd could recover from their shock, they heard a loud bang. With a muffled sound, that demonic beast's body suddenly exploded and a rain of red light bloomed like fireworks.

Countless fiery red lights recklessly shot out and landed on the body of that fierce man.

"Ah!"

Accompanied by an incomparably mournful scream, the fierce man's entire body was immediately covered by those red dots of light. It looked as if he was wrapped in magma and in a blink of an eye, his entire body was burnt into a pile of charred ashes.

Everyone present turned pale with fright. All of their pupils slightly dilated as they saw that the fiery red dots of light were actually strange ants.

These ants were very large, almost the size of bees.

Each ant was a fiery red color. After turning the fierce man into ashes, tens of thousands of ants rapidly headed towards the others. Wherever they went, the ground was covered in streaks of black scorch marks.

"It's a fire ant swarm!"

"Damn, our luck is really bad."

"We should run, otherwise, all of us will die."

Near the Demonic Mountain Forest, what caused the biggest headache was not some Demonic Beast that had a huge body and wild strength but small demonic beasts who lurks in the forest in a group.

Fortunately, the Blood Wolf Gang was also an established hired team in Blackrock City and it was not the first time they had come to the border of the Demonic Mountain Forest. If they encountered such a situation, they would have a way to deal with it.

"Splash the ice powder. Quick, take out the ice powder." The leader of the Blood Wolf Gang shouted at his men.

The members of the Blood Wolf Gang each took out a clay pot. Then, they grabbed a handful of blue powder from the pot and scattered it towards the fire ants.

The blue powder flew all over the sky and the cold air was recklessly released. When the fire ants came in contact with the ice powder, none of them were able to move. It was as if they were frozen by a layer of ice.

The ice powder was very effective against fire ants. It instantly turned them into tiny ice beads before they shattered into pieces.

Old Man Mu finally felt a little relieved after seeing this, but at the same time, he was worried about the journey ahead. This was still far from the other side of the forest, yet his caravan had already encountered so many attacks from Demonic Beasts one after another. He did not know what unknown things awaited them on the road ahead.

Suddenly, at this moment, and especially scorching air current suddenly attacked them.

Accompanied by an ear-piercing, strange screech, a colossal creature pulled a tree from the forest and scuttled out.

This was a huge fire ant that was more than ten meters tall. It had deep red skin and long slender tentacles covered with sharp barbs. Its sharp mouth was split into four parts, and it looked like a man-eating flower.

Upon seeing this beast, even the Blood Wolf Gang's leader was frightened to the point that its face turned pale and its heart trembled.

"Fire Ant Queen."

"We're dead for sure."

Other than Qin Feng, everyone else present was panic-stricken. Fire Ant Queen was a terrifying existence that was the ruler of all the fire ants. It could control all the Fire Ants.

There was no one in the Blood Wolf Gang that could fight against this Fire Ant Queen. All of them were trembling in fear. 

Old Man Mu was also trembling in fear. Although he knew that the Demonic Mountain Forest was not peaceful recently, he never thought it would be chaotic. The Fire Ant Queen that he had never encountered before in his entire life was actually here today, and it was so close at that.

Almost at the same time, a scarlet pillar of fire shot out from the Fire Ant Queen's mouth, striking a dozen or so men from the Blood Wolf Gang head-on.

All sorts of miserable screams sounded out and those dozen people instantly turned into blazing flaming men. In less than two seconds of time, dozens of ashes appeared on the ground that soon scattered and dissipated because of the wind that was blowing slowly.

As for the Blood Wolf Gang's leader, he was even more terrified. He pulled the panicking horse up and quickly mounted it. Then, he turned around and ran.

"Go, retreat, retreat!"

Old Man Mu panicked even more and begged, "Don't go, don't leave us behind. Just now, you said that no matter what happens, you won't leave us behind. Why are you now running away? Damn... Come back here!"

"F*ck off."

The Blood Wolf Gang's leader had long since left his previous agreement behind. Not to mention Old Man Mu's caravan, he directly abandoned the subordinates of his own team and ran away in panic.

"Go, go quickly!"

Old Man Mu did not dare to think about going forward anymore, so he just left the goods. He picked up one of the carriages and turned around, heading back the way he came.

The Fire Ant King's huge eyes looked at the panicking crowd in a mocking manner. It opened its iron-clawed mouth and spat out a fireball.

As it spat out a fireball, a dense swarm of fire ants also rushed out. The fire ants that filled the sky rained down on Old Man Mu and other people like a rain of arrows.

All the people felt death rapidly approaching them. Old Man Mu and the rest were extremely afraid and immediately used all of their strength to run.

At this moment, hundreds of streams of lightning suddenly shot up to the sky from the ground. The power of lightning that was filled with destructive aura blocked Old Man Mu's group from the back and blocked the path of the fire ants.

The dense swarm of fire ants all hit the hundreds of destructive lightning bolts and instantly exploded before turning into ashes. Other than the Fire Ant Queen, none of the ants survived.