Chapter 37 Return

There was a faint white light on the black earthworm bracelet, and when the soil encountered this layer of light, it would become soft and fade away automatically.

Walking through the soil is like flowing in a piece of gelled liquid.

Shen Yi finally understood why the movement speed would be reduced by half when the ground movement technique was activated, the feeling of running in the glue was really terrible.

All the equipment is sealed and cannot be used at this moment, and the calls of engineers cannot be heard, only the sound of trampling above the head is still heard from time to time.

Shen Yi could clearly feel the fury from the large group of soldier ants.

Not just emotions.

A long leg pierced the ground suddenly, like a javelin shot from the roof and stabbed Shen Yi hard.

Shen Yi turned his body to one side to avoid the thorn, and then countless long legs and tail thorns from above pierced through the ground, rubbed against Shen Yi's body and stabbed one after another, stabbing along the ground where Shen Yi ran. Straight guns.

"Damn it!" Shen Yi quickly changed direction and ran towards the other side. Traveling underground, although the speed is slow, has the advantage that it is not affected by the terrain of the passage. But the consequence of this is that he may deviate from the route at any time, and in the end he doesn't know where he is going, and he also loses his forward vision.

However, the soldier ants on the surface seemed to be able to sense the movement underground. No matter how he changed his position, one pistol after another continued to stab him non-stop.

At the same time, more than forty soldier ants also dived into the ground, and their giant jaws dug up the soil like a road machine, moving forward quickly.

The ground speed of these soldier ants was not much slower than that of Shen Yi, especially because of their large number, they once again formed a crowd around the ground.

At the moment when Shen Yi was rushing forward, a soldier ant suddenly appeared in front of Shen Yi, its palate teeth broke through the soil layer, and cut Shen Yi's throat directly, Shen Yi hurriedly dodged with his head sideways, and his palate teeth flew past his face, At the same time, on his left and right sides, two more soldier ants rushed over, Shen Yi couldn't avoid it, activated the black earthworm bracelet, and he jumped upwards.

As soon as he rushed out of the underground and returned to the passage, the hysterical shout of the engineer rang in his ears: "Brother Shen Yi, be careful!"

Six soldier ants attacked him simultaneously from six directions: front, back, up, down, left, and right, and their pistols formed a dense forest of guns in front of Shen Yi.

Just when eighteen pistols were about to penetrate Shen Yi's chest, Shen Yi's figure flashed suddenly, and he disappeared without a trace.

When he reappeared, he was already standing beside Frost.

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The battle on the lord's side was over. Ninety-nine soldier ants were dead in the wilderness. The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. When they saw Shen Yi's return, all the soldiers cheered excitedly at the same time.

Frost saluted Shen Yi: "Welcome back, sir!"

"This is not welcome, Frost. You must know that my intention is that I don't want to come back...I'm not saying that I will never come back." Shen Yi patted Frost's shoulder and looked around.

He is currently located on a cliff. There are many rocks and vegetation in this area. Adventurers can make full use of the terrain to counter the flying advantages of the soldier ants.

The ground was full of corpses of soldier ants, and the battlefield covered most of the cliff. Everyone was more or less wounded, and it could be seen that it took a lot of effort to eliminate this army of soldier ants.

Lan Meier's face was even more sleepy and tired, and at the same time, she was filled with endless annoyance - after a big battle, she didn't get anything, but Shen Yi gained something by killing the general ants.

Seeing Shen Yi's return, the lord and the gardener ran over excitedly, first they slapped Shen Yi in the air to show their congratulations, and then the lord smiled and said: "Good job, big brother Shen Yi."

"It's not pretty at all. In fact, I belong to the nature of being beaten and running away in embarrassment." Shen Yi shrugged: "Those guys are really not friendly to customers at all."

"It's not bad if they didn't come out after chasing them!" The engineer shouted in the distance: "Brother Shen Yi, come and take a look at this."

Shen Yi quickly jumped onto the black lightning, and on the car computer, a large number of soldier ants in the ant nest were still angrily looking for the trace of the intruder.

Their tentacles are waving everywhere, and the passages are crowded so that pins cannot be inserted. Soldiers, you step on me, and I step on you, crawling wantonly in the passages.

The general ant whose wings had been cut off by Shen Yi before even brutally turned over a soldier ant in front of him, and then tore it to pieces, opening and closing its mouth to devour it.

Shockingly, as it devoured, the wing that had been chopped off in half slowly grew back.

Devour, one of the basic skills of the ant.

In addition to this skill, general ants also have two skills: 1 Transformation: You can transform any worker ant into a soldier ant. 2 Ant halo: exert influence on all the soldier ants around the body, improving their offensive and defensive strength.

All the skills of the general ants belong to the group skills, and the general ant that was killed by Shen Yi before was finally killed without any room for display.

"It looks like they are really angry." Looking at the brutal and bloody scene, Shen Yi laughed.

He lit a cigarette for himself, and handed another one to the lord. The lord shook his head to express that he would not smoke, but the little nurse snatched it and lighted it for himself, which surprised Shen Yi.

Seemingly knowing what Shen Yi was thinking, the little nurse said, "Do you know what the biggest benefit of entering the bloody city is?"

"what?"

"There are no exams, no teachers, and no one can't do that."

"Then……"

"And then do whatever I want, I've smoked marijuana, cocaine, all kinds of drugs and never had to worry about getting addicted. It's not illegal to kill people here, there's no homework, there's no fear of failing grades, and you don't have to deal with people you hate... The little nurse flicked the ash very skillfully, then opened her mouth and pointed at her teeth: "Don't even worry about it turning yellow."

Shen Yi smiled: "But you won't be able to see your parents anymore, although sometimes they may upset you, but when you really leave them, you will find that you have lost your most precious thing."

The little nurse's eyes darkened for a moment: "You really hate it, living here, let's think of as many good places as possible."

Patting her little face for comfort, Shen Yi turned his head and continued to observe the movements of the soldier ants on the screen, and casually asked the engineer: "Why haven't the electronic bees penetrated deeper?"

"I can't go anymore." The engineer shook his head: "The distance of the remote control can't reach that far. In fact, they are in a state of out of control now. Only when you pass by can they relay command input through you. You should get some more advanced ones next time." The electronic bee. By the way, two electronic bees were destroyed by soldier ants during your advance."

"Don't worry about losses, as long as the plan goes well, all losses are worth it." Shen Yi said while continuing to observe the movements of the soldier ants.

As time went by, the soldier ants finally dispersed after searching for nothing.

They returned to their positions, burrowed into the soil, and became silent as if hibernating, and the huge nest regained its tranquility.

Shen Yi glanced at the bloody crest on his wrist, and whispered: "Three minutes."

Then he asked the sapper: "Where did I return?"

"Here." The engineer pointed at the screen: "You deviated from the designated route when you were traveling underground, and now you are on another passage. To return to the designated route, you must..."

The engineer's finger swiped on the screen: "You have to go through this passage and turn at the next intersection. The good news is that you broke through 120 meters more than planned, and now you are 720 meters away from the ant nest It can be said that it has penetrated into the center of the enemy's abdomen. If you can maintain this speed, you only need to come back once at most to see the queen."

"Understood, replay the video, this time from the time I use the ground movement technique until I leave the ground."

Following the playback of the video, Shen Yi carefully observed the performance of the soldier ants on the ground when he was walking.

He watched very carefully, never missed every frame, and replayed it from time to time. For some scenes, it was played continuously, and I watched and watched it repeatedly.

However, no matter how the members of M7 observe, they still can't see anything worth studying about the behavior of these soldier ants in the video...

"Did you see anything? Brother Shen Yi." The gardener asked cautiously.

"Well, you can see that my current breakthrough position is at a depth of 720 meters. From the screen, there are a total of 50 passages here. I counted them, and there are a total of about 300 soldier ants here. Adding the previous one hundred, that is to say, in the entire 720-meter circle, there are only four hundred guarding soldier ants in total."

"So little?" Both the lord and the gardener exclaimed.

The engineer also felt incomprehensible: "It looks like they are all on the screen. I would believe that there are a thousand soldier ants here."

Shen Yi smiled: "This is the most interesting part. Look..." Shen Yi fixed the screen, then pointed to the colony of soldiers and ants moving on the screen and said: "Look, from the outside, we can't see soldiers at all. The difference in the appearance of the ants. They look exactly the same and cannot be distinguished. In addition, the field of vision that the electronic bees can harvest is always limited, mainly locked in my place, and the channel space itself is narrow, so it gives people a feeling of being densely packed everywhere. The illusion of black ants. But if we cast aside the narrow perspective and look at the whole situation... we will find that it is not the case."

"The black ant nest is a nest that pays great attention to symmetrical architecture. Assuming that the queen is located in the deepest layer of the nest, the depth of the entire nest is about 1,800 meters. From the current point of view, the ant nest is every 60 meters. , there are about four passages on each floor, a total of 30 floors, the number of passages should be about 120, and on average, there are about eight soldier ants in each passage."

"At first glance, when I entered the attack circle, all the soldier ants were charging towards me, but this is not the case. Pay attention, these soldier ants are not attacking indiscriminately, they know how to cooperate very well. The important thing is that they even know how to guard the road."

Shen Yi pointed to the various passages on the screen: "Here, here, and here, there are some soldier ants in every place for coordinated defense. Only a small part of them are really responsible for attacking. Most of the soldier ants are still It has its own defensive territory, but it has changed from the previous static defense to dynamic defense. Some of the soldier ants are responsible for guarding in place, and some of them are responsible for attacking. The number is about half and half. Due to their large number, they seem to be all They are exactly the same and cannot be distinguished. No matter which direction we turn the camera, we see a large number of soldier ants, but we don’t know that a considerable part of them overlaps. In addition, the soldier ants themselves are huge, and a passage can accommodate more than ten Soldier ants, it seems that they are already black and dense, holding 20 is like packed sardines in a can. How many."

"So that's the case." The lord understood: "So, the so-called black ant attack circle is actually a regional defense strategy, but a more dynamic manifestation?"

"That's right, the so-called attack circles are what adventurers call them. You must know that not all adventurers' views are correct, and some of them are even guesses at all. Simply based on the evaluation of other adventurers Analyzing the opponent will inevitably make mistakes, so in the end, you have to rely on your own observations to get an accurate answer. The black ants use a net-style defense system. The biggest advantage of this defense system is that its deployment The range is very large, sparse and not exposed, making full use of the terrain and the limited number of soldier ants. On the one hand, the soldiers ants are stationed to guard the main roads, and on the other hand, the soldier ants that attack actively are used to flexibly supplement various areas. Passage guardian force, so it is very difficult to break through."

"Are you kidding? Black ants will still form formations?" The little nurse yelled strangely.

The staff officer coughed lightly: "Spider webs are called the most perfect anti-collision system by human beings in terms of structure. There are many strange inventions in the animal world, which are beyond the imagination of human beings. They may not know why they are They do this, but they know how to do it to make themselves safer. Thousands of years of evolution have made them far stronger than humans in their survival instincts."

"Then what about these guys? How many years of evolution have they experienced to become like this?" Zhang Jianjun yelled, pointing at the soldier ant corpses on the ground and roaring: "Do you see them like ants? They say they are called ants. Ants, but each one is fucking ten times more vicious than a lion or a tiger. They sting down one by one..."

Zhang Jianjun patted the black lightning and pointed to a large pit on it: "It can poke a big hole in the steel plate. Their attacks are more fierce than bullets! What kind of evolution can create such a group of beasts?"

Shen Yiyouyou replied: "Maybe it's not evolution, maybe it's strengthening..."