Tokyo underground city

Chapter 24 Level 5

"A separate team of six cicada-eating ants was found ahead. Three worker ants, two soldier ants, and a new green mutant green fire-breathing ant."

After being severely scolded by Aizen once, Lin Huai'en no longer ran out of the team's sight when exploring the path. Although he lost some "freedom of movement", he felt the whole The team's "action power" is more efficient.

After raising one index finger to the rear team to sign "six", raising three fingers to draw a circle, stretching out two fingers to swing up and down, and finally stretching out one index finger again and turning it downwards, Lin Huai'en completed Convey information to the rear.

In situations where loud noises are inappropriate or the noise is too loud, "gestures" have become the most efficient tool for explorers to communicate with each other.

After seeing Lin Huai'en's gesture, Sen Yan also judged the threat of the monster ahead, and asked the Aizen team who was in charge of the front team to gradually move forward, and the squadron took over their original mission.

Aizen led the entire team and approached behind Lin Huai'en. He immediately lowered his voice and communicated with him:

"There are only six of them, so the threat level is not high. It's just the fire-breathing ant that is troublesome."

"Yes." Lin Huaien nodded, agreeing with Aizen's point of view.

As the team progressed, Lin Huai'en and the others learned more and more about the ecology of cicada-eating ants.

At first, they collectively called cicada-eating ants "cicada-eating ants", but as those large cicada-eating ants, which were almost twice as tall as other cicada-eating ants, appeared more and more frequently. After Yuan Xiaole's suggestion, they have now renamed the ordinary-height cicada-eating ants as "cicada-eating ants"; and the large cicada-eating ants that are 1.6 meters tall and caused Lin Huai'en to suffer a lot when he was on the second floor. It was renamed [Cicada-eating ant and soldier ant].

As for the last green fire-breathing ant, it is a new species that has only appeared in recent battles.

This kind of giant ant is green in color and is slightly twice the size of ordinary soldier ants. It can spit out a concentrated green burning liquid that ignites immediately when it encounters fire. It has extremely high viscosity and is difficult to get rid of.

Fortunately, this kind of wine will not ignite immediately. Other soldier ants or worker ants must knock their jaws in close combat to create sparks before it starts burning.

Therefore, although the fire-breathing ants caused some chaos to the Pioneer team, because of his quick response, Aizen immediately used the Ice Technique on the burning sword and shield hand, so the actual harm caused was not as imagined. high.

"But even so, it's just disgusting."

Lin Huaien heard the fat knight beside him mutter something in a low voice.

Lin Huai'en couldn't help but smile bitterly, convinced by the Fat Knight's statement.

What fire-breathing ants spit out is essentially a syrup that can be ignited and has a strong alcohol smell. It is very difficult to clean up when sprayed on the body. After all the alcohol has evaporated, the syrup will hang on the joints of the armor, which will also affect movement.

So every time they encountered fire-breathing ants, the pioneers had to take off the contaminated armor, scrub it, burn it with fire, and then put it back on.

After several attempts, the armor was burnt black and the team's progress was greatly slowed down.

And the one who hates these fire-breathing ants the most, besides the sword and shield hand, is the mage Neil - because the honey liquid is flammable, she was banned by Sen Yan, prohibiting her from taking action when the fire-breathing ants appear. .

In addition, in order to reduce the damage, Senyan also changed the team's tactics, giving up the stubborn tactics that she had always insisted on, and adopted skirmishing tactics to spread the distance between the team members.

After widening the distance between the teams in this way, each time the fire-breathing ants spit out nectar, they will not burn a large area like before.

Thinking of this, Lin Huaien turned to look at Aizen:

"Captain, let me make a suggestion. Let me deal with the fire-breathing ants."

"It's up to you to solve it?"

Aizen was slightly surprised: "You are wearing leather armor. If you get burned, half of your life will be lost. And you don't have a helmet, so don't you worry about your hair?"

"How can you become stronger without being bald... I'm just kidding." Lin Huaien saw Aizen's expression change and said quickly: "Isn't there Captain Aizen? Of all the wizards in the Pioneers, you are the only one who can handle this. situation."

"...The distance of my spell is limited, and the risk is too great." However, Aizen still shook his head.

But Lin Huaien is still more insistent:

"As long as we can distract the fire-breathing ants, we can take care of the other cicada-eating ants."

"Also, I will try my best to avoid being hit by incendiary liquid. If I am really hit, I will run away immediately."

"As for being really ignited, I can still find a direction and rush to a place close to you with my eyes closed."

Lin Huaien considered the worst case scenario without hesitation.

Seeing that Lin Huai'en was mentally prepared, Aizen thought for a moment and nodded:

"Okay, protect yourself."

"Yeah." Lin Huaien nodded and pulled down the sleeves of his clothes that were exposed outside the leather breastplate.

Looking at the cicada-eating ant team in the distance, he moved his wrist.

When he appeared, the Cicada Eater Ant Squad immediately noticed him.

Following the neighing sound of the fire-breathing ant, the other five cicada-eating ants quickly defended the fire-breathing ant.

This is also the reason why the fire-breathing ant team is more difficult to deal with than the violent cicada monkey team - they are more willing to adopt a stubborn stance and ignore the bait.

As the bait that the fire-breathing ant gave up, Lin Huai'en took a deep breath, jogged with small steps, and leaned towards the fire-breathing ant.

"Don't stumble, don't stumble..."

He muttered silently in his heart, his eyes traveling quickly along the cave path made of vines on the ground, and every time his feet crossed, they firmly stepped on the top of a thick raised vine.

When he got close to about 30 meters, he suddenly accelerated. The next second, the fire-breathing ant raised its head, cracking a slit from the center of its lip. With the obvious instigation of its throat muscles, a cannonball of green liquid the size of a watermelon spurted out.

Lin Huai'en did not dare to roll, so he lowered his head slightly, and the green liquid rubbed his scalp and hit the vine wall behind him.

"At most there is one shot left..."

Lin Huai'en counted in his mind the number of fire-breathing ant attacks.

According to previous combat experience, the amount of nectar that fire-breathing ants can spit out is limited, about 7 to 12 shots. And after vomiting, it can also produce new honey by eating.

Therefore, when faced with bait, green fire-breathing ants will generally only attack once or twice, and then the team will slowly press forward until they actually come into contact with the enemy's front line.

"The last shot!"

When Lin Huai'en got close to the fire-breathing ant, which was about fifteen or six meters away, the second shot of honey also spurted out.

The nectar was so hard and fast that Lin Huai'en almost didn't avoid it.

From the corner of his eye, he saw the large jaws of the fire-breathing ant move slightly, and it quickly pounced on the ground. The next second, a large area was wet on its back and the back of its head——

This was sputtered.

"Damn it..." Before he could get upset, Lin Huai'en saw a soldier ant and two worker ants rushing towards him.

He quickly got up and was not in a hurry to escape. Instead, he stared at the larger soldier ants with faster sprinting speed. The moment the soldier ants opened violently towards him, he suddenly started to move from the soldier ants. It passed by on the left side and narrowly avoided its attack.

And out of the corner of his vision, he was always staring at the green fire-breathing ants in the distance.

Just as he had expected, the green fire-breathing ants did not continue to spit honey at him.

"Success!"

Lin Huaien knew that his goal had been achieved when he saw the fire-breathing ant turning in a circle and pointing its butt towards the passage he was rushing towards.

Almost as soon as the fire-breathing ant turned, the shouts of killing from the Fat Knight and others came from behind it. Although the fire-breathing ant heard the movement behind him, he hesitated but did not turn around immediately. Lin Huai'en felt that he could guess what the dead monster in front of him was thinking——

Lin Huai'en could dodge the attack of the soldier ant and get behind it, but it was inevitable that he would not be able to dodge the attack of the soldier ant and pierce his abdomen.

Just like the green jar ant, the green fire-breathing ant also stores the flammable green nectar in its abdomen. Once its abdomen is damaged, it loses almost all of its attack power!

And Yuan Xiaole also knows this very well!

Lin Huai'en could almost see the fire-breathing ant trembling violently, followed by another...

The fire-breathing ant quickly moved its body and turned its body to one side——

In this way, it can observe the battle between Yuan Xiaole and Lin Huai'en.

But this way, it won't be able to attack either side!

Almost all the worker ants and soldier ants went to deal with the Fat Knight. Lin Huai'en was the only one left with the large soldier ant who almost bit him.

Faced with this large monster that is almost as tall as himself, the Trail Blazers basically have to rely on teamwork to effectively deal with this large creature, so Lin Huai'en had no way to deal with it for a while.

When the fire-breathing ant saw Lin Huai'en, it seemed to be deadlocked. Finally, it couldn't help but turned its body at an angle, preparing to deal with the explorer on Aizen's side.

"coming!"

Seeing the fire-breathing ants' actions, Lin Huai'en was overjoyed. This was the moment he had been waiting for!

Almost instantly, when the soldier ants rushed towards him mechanically, Lin Huai'en turned around and retreated just like before.

But this time, the dagger in his right hand is no longer a decoration!

Aim at the throat of the soldier ant and wave it hard, and the thick formic acid has already sprayed out!

He rolled back to avoid the acid sprayed by the soldier ants, climbed up without hesitation, and rushed in the direction of the fire ants!

At this time, the fire-breathing ants had spit out the first shot of honey, which caused a burst of curses from the fat knight!

Lin Huai'en stretched out his arm, aimed at the cicada-eating ant's buttocks, and thrust straight to the bottom!

Then he knelt down, using his knees as a fulcrum, and pushed the dagger forward with all his strength!

He could almost hear the sound of flesh peeling apart from his left ear, as if something was being squeezed out, and the thick, sweet liquid instantly covered his entire knee!

Seeing that the tactic was successful, Lin Huai'en stood up and jumped back without hesitation. The next second, the fire-breathing ant roared and turned around.

But in just the blink of an eye, he had already ran back four to five meters!

The fire-breathing ant stared at Lin Huai'en with its insect compound eyes. If it could express it with its expression, it should have hated Lin Huai'en to death.

But before it could bulge its throat and spit out honey to Lin Huai'en, its body suddenly burned violently——

It was the worker ant trying to ignite the Fat Knight, using its mandibles to ignite the nectar flowing from the belly of the fire-breathing ant.

The entire cicada-eating ant team instantly fell into a sea of ​​fire.

A strong aroma of alcohol, honey and barbecue spread, making Lin Huai'en couldn't help but wipe his mouth——

"Apply to Senyan tonight and have honey barbecue..."

Lin Huai'en thought so, and his body suddenly felt numb as if electricity passed through it——

Having had previous experiences, he knew that this was an upgrade!

"Finally level 5!" Lin Huai'en was inexplicably ecstatic, but he opened his attribute panel with great expectation.

But when he saw the list of skill choices that came into view, he was filled with confusion——

"What's this?!"