Chapter 31: Holy Shit, This Ant Has Become A Spirit
In just a few short seconds, the surrounding Desert Army Ants had become overwhelming, nearly submerging the entire area around the expedition team.
Many animals that had originally been hiding in the ruins panicked and fled, but they couldn’t match the speed of the Desert Army Ants. Soon, several Sand Wolves and Yellow Sheep were crawling with ants.
These Army Ants all had formic acid in their mouths, and with so many ants biting together, even an elephant couldn’t withstand it.
These few Sand Wolves and Yellow Sheep soon fell to the ground, and in no time, their bodies were gnawed down to expose white bones.
The gnawing speed of the Desert Army Ants was terrifying. Sa Di Peng and the others were all scared pale and at a loss, while Wang Pang Zi hurriedly raised his gun and aimed at the Army Ants.
“A gun is useless! Use the entrenching tool!”
Hu Ba Yi roared angrily, leading Wang Pang Zi, Sa Di Peng, and others to grab entrenching tools and smash the Army Ants crawling toward them.
But there were simply too many Army Ants. Earlier, some animals had been surrounded and devoured by them, so they hadn’t paid attention to the expedition team members yet.
But in the blink of an eye, those few Yellow Sheep and Sand Wolves were reduced to only white bones, even the organs and feces in their chest cavities completely devoured clean.
Countless Desert Army Ants quickly turned around and surged fiercely toward the expedition team.
“Use alcohol!”
In the critical moment, Xue Li Yang suddenly remembered that their carried equipment included alcohol, which was for daily cooking and heating. As long as they lit the alcohol, it should block these tidal-wave-like Army Ants!
With that, she took out several cans of solid alcohol from her pack and threw them toward areas dense with Army Ants, then immediately pulled the trigger on them.
Bang bang!
With two explosive sounds, the alcohol cans were directly shot open, igniting bursts of firelight.
The air was immediately filled with the scorched smell of Army Ant corpses, carrying a particular acrid smell that made people feel very uncomfortable.
The alcohol cans temporarily blocked the large number of Army Ants. Over there, Hu Ba Yi and the others kept smashing with entrenching tools, finally temporarily halting the Army Ants’ attack momentum.
But there were simply too many Army Ants. These creatures had likely proliferated for a long time in this Xi Ye Ancient City, mainly surviving on animals hiding from the Black Sandstorm. Now encountering the expedition team, they came out in full force, endless like a tide.
“Hu Da bless us…”
An Li Man muttered on the side while moving to untie the camel’s rope.
Hu Ba Yi saw the old guy trying to sneak away and immediately shouted:
“Fatty, shoot his hat!”
“Got it!”
Wang Pang Zi had long been displeased with An Li Man. He raised his hand and fired a shot straight at An Li Man’s head.
With a bang, An Li Man’s little hat was shot off, startling him into a shudder as he sat on the ground.
“Comrade Wang, no need to shoot…”
Wang Pang Zi sneered:
“If you dare run again, the next shot will hit your right eye!”
An Li Man quickly waved his hands:
“No running, no running. I saw there were too many ants, so I was helping us all leave first!”
Hu Ba Yi and the others couldn’t be bothered to argue with An Li Man; as long as this guy didn’t dare run, it was fine.
At this point, many Army Ants had been killed by the few cans of alcohol, but alcohol burned too quickly. Soon the fire points went out, and more Army Ants surged toward everyone.
Xue Li Yang saw the Army Ants about to surround them again and hurriedly reached for more alcohol cans.
At this moment, Su Mo shook his head at her:
“Don’t burn it!”
They didn’t have many solid alcohol cans. If they burned them all, they wouldn’t even have clean water to drink afterward, let alone for cooking and heating.
Su Mo glanced at the Army Ants from all directions and said gravely:
“Everyone cover your ears!”
Everyone who heard his words couldn’t help but be stunned.
What was the point of covering their ears now?
Hao Ai Guo couldn’t help but say:
“Comrade Su, you…”
Xue Li Yang immediately said:
“Professor Hao, listen to him quickly, cover your ears!”
Everyone had no choice but to tentatively cover their ears, their eyes full of doubt as they looked at Su Mo.
Seeing everyone had covered their ears, Su Mo concentrated his energy and suddenly unleashed Tongue Blooming Thunder with an angry shout.
“Retreat!”
Boom…
A wave of Kirin Bloodline power instantly radiated out with the powerful internal energy of the Shaolin Lion’s Roar, like a massive wave suddenly rising on the sea surface, spreading in all directions.
Although Xue Li Yang and the others tightly covered their ears, they could still feel the intensity of the sound wave vibration, their eardrums buzzing from the shock.
Professor Chen and Hao Ai Guo were older and closer to Su Mo, immediately feeling their vision go black, nearly passing out on the spot.
Meanwhile, those Desert Army Ants instantly buzzed and retreated backward like a tide.
The Kirin Bloodline power from Su Mo’s roar made these insects, which had no spiritual consciousness, instantly terrified and flee, hiding behind the ruins.
Everyone seeing this scene couldn’t help but be stunned.
Just one angry shout scared away a million Army Ants?
What supernatural ability was this!
Wang Pang Zi saw the Army Ants retreat and slowly lowered his hands from his ears, couldn’t help giving a thumbs up:
“Awesome, Master Su! This Buddhist Lion’s Roar is too powerful!”
“In the Three Kingdoms era, Zhang Yide roared three times: the first made the river water flow backward, the second broke Dangyang Bridge, the third scared Xia Hou Jie to death, making a million Cao army retreat. Your single roar scared away a million Army Ants—better than Zhang Fei!”
His praise was like storytelling, very amusing, making the shocked crowd can’t help but laugh.
Xue Li Yang looked at Su Mo, her eyes full of surprise and admiration.
But Su Mo’s expression remained grave, his eyes fixed tightly on the Army Ants behind the ruins.
Unlike the Corpse Beetles, these Army Ants had no spiritual consciousness. Although temporarily scared back by his Kirin Bloodline power, they hadn’t all fled away.
Hu Ba Yi, though also very shocked, saw that the Army Ants had only temporarily retreated and couldn’t help saying:
“Fatty, less chit-chat. The Army Ants are still there!”
As he spoke, suddenly a wall of ruins ahead collapsed with a boom, and a massive ant suddenly crawled out from behind the broken wall.
This was an Army Ant Queen, with six pairs of huge translucent wings on its back, a body the size of a calf, a head with a diameter of a foot, red and black patterned, looking extremely creepy!
“Holy crap, this ant has become a spirit!”
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help exclaiming.
The others seeing the Ant Queen appear were also scared pale.
Then, after this Ant Queen crawled out, it suddenly vibrated its wings and emitted a chirping sound.
Ants don’t vocalize; the sound from this Ant Queen was caused by wing vibration, seemingly its way of rallying the ant swarm.
With the chirping sound, the Army Ants that had retreated suddenly surged back toward Su Mo and the others like a tide.
