Chapter 32: Capture The Thief By Capturing The King First, Gu Control Technique Subdues The Ant Queen
Seeing the army ants charge again after the ant queen’s vibrating chirp, Su Mo’s brows furrowed tightly.
These army ants were even harder to deal with than corpse beetles.
Corpse beetles were creatures of utmost yin, living in tomb waterways for many years, and possessing a certain spiritual consciousness, so they naturally feared the power of kirin blood, which was utmost yang and rigid.
But these army ants did not possess spiritual consciousness, and they only obeyed the ant queen, with not such a strong fear of kirin blood.
Although Su Mo had just scared them off with a roar, the ant queen’s vibrating chirp made them come back charging.
“What to do!”
Xue Li Yang saw the army ants come back charging and was already at a loss, one hand reaching again for the bag containing the alcohol can.
Ye Yi Xin, Sa Di Peng, and the others were even scared pale-faced.
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi held entrenching tools, their faces also pale, their backs soaked with cold sweat.
At this moment, Su Mo suddenly dashed forward in an arrow step, charging toward the tidal wave of army ants instead.
“Master Su!”
Xue Li Yang cried out sharply, her face instantly turning pale.
Everyone had just witnessed with their own eyes the scene of the army ants devouring the yellow sheep and sand wolf; if so many army ants surrounded Su Mo, he would probably turn into white bones in less than a minute!
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi saw this and were shocked, their faces changing drastically:
“Master Su, be careful!”
Amid the cries of alarm, Su Mo’s movements showed no hesitation; in an instant, he reached the front of the army ant tide, pushed off the ground with both feet, suddenly leaped up, soared over a distance of more than ten feet like a great bird, and landed on the ant queen’s body.
The ant queen suddenly had someone riding on its back and immediately panicked, rolling to one side.
But just as it rolled halfway, its body suddenly stiffened and it lay motionless on the ground.
The surrounding army ants seemed to sense the ant queen’s danger and suddenly turned around, charging toward Su Mo.
The black-and-red army ants were like a massive wave, about to engulf Su Mo who was riding on the ant queen in an instant.
But at that moment, the ant queen under Su Mo suddenly vibrated its wings and let out a chirping sound.
The tidal wave of army ants suddenly stopped, all lying still in place.
This scene stunned everyone.
Everyone couldn’t help but rub their eyes, their faces full of disbelief, staring intently at Su Mo riding on the ant queen in the distance.
They saw Su Mo riding on the back of the ant queen’s neck, one hand tightly pressing down on the ant queen’s head, his expression still calm as water.
The ant queen had become as docile as a tamed pony, lowering its head and lying on the ground, allowing Su Mo to ride on its back, its wings trembling lightly, but no longer showing any resistance.
Around them, large numbers of army ants also gathered around Su Mo and the ant queen, not one daring to take another step forward, like soldiers who had heard their general’s command, all stopping in place.
“Damn, what supernatural ability is this?”
“Master Su… he actually seems to have tamed the army ants?”
“Is this the supernatural ability of a Banshan Daoist? This is too miraculous!”
“Heaven, this Mr. Su is too amazing!”
“Is this the folk secret technique?”
Wang Pang Zi and the others couldn’t help but open their mouths wide, their eyes full of shock and disbelief, murmuring exclamations.
Xue Li Yang looked at Su Mo, her beautiful eyes full of amazed admiration, as if filled with little stars.
Ye Yi Xin, Sa Di Peng, and the other students were even more like starstruck fans, their eyes and faces full of amazement and shock toward Su Mo.
Even Hao Ai Guo and Professor Chen, these two old antiques, looked at Su Mo with eyes full of shock and incomprehension.
Su Mo’s methods had already exceeded the scope of their imagination.
And An Li Man, the old man, directly knelt down toward Su Mo at this time:
“Allah Hu Akbar, Hu Da above, this must be the miracle you bestowed; Comrade Su must be the angel you sent…”
Here, after using gu control technique to control this ant queen, Su Mo jumped down from its body.
The Buddhist lion’s roar could only disperse the ant swarm and could not make the ant swarm fully retreat.
The key point was still on this ant queen.
So, Su Mo decided to capture the thief by first capturing the king and subdue this ant queen.
Gu control technique could not only control gu insects but also simple-minded creatures like ants, and some abilities of gu control technique were similar to the principle by which the ant queen controlled the ant swarm.
Therefore, after quickly passing through the ant swarm and riding onto the ant queen, he directly used gu control technique on it.
The facts proved that this method was indeed effective!
After jumping down from the ant queen, Su Mo immediately issued a command to the ant queen through his mind.
The ant queen shook its head, then vibrated its wings and let out a chirping sound.
The ant swarm moved again.
Countless army ants turned around and crawled toward the other side of the ancient city.
The ant queen chirped twice more, then followed the ant swarm crawling in that direction.
In a short while, the massive ant swarm left this area and disappeared without a trace!
Only then did everyone relax, and when they looked at Su Mo again, they were already in awe of him as a heavenly being.
“Master Su, awesome, I, Wang Kai Xuan, am truly convinced this time!”
Wang Pang Zi was the first to step forward a few steps, giving Su Mo a thumbs up:
“The people in this world who can make me, Wang Kai Xuan, convinced: only one and a half. Old Hu can only count as half; you are absolutely the only full one!”
Hu Ba Yi couldn’t help but roll his eyes at him.
So he himself could only make Wang Pang Zi half convinced.
Turning to look at Su Mo, Hu Ba Yi was also convinced and nodded:
“Master Su, your methods are truly otherworldly; you can even control ants. I, Old Hu, am also convinced!”
Hu Ba Yi had many years of military experience, had seen many dangerous war scenes and strange things, and had been learning the sixteen-word yin yang feng shui secret technique since his youth, always quite confident.
But at this moment, witnessing Su Mo’s ability, not being convinced would be fake!
Hearing the two’s praise, although Su Mo just smiled faintly, his heart couldn’t help but stir slightly.
These two guys, Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi, did have abilities; Hu Ba Yi was proficient in sixteen-word yin yang feng shui secret technique, and with many years in the military as a company commander, his personal abilities were not to be underestimated.
And although Wang Pang Zi was very slick and had a somewhat reckless personality, he was also a bold, meticulous expert with thief-good marksmanship.
If he took these two as little brothers, it would only benefit him in the future.
Tomb raiding has never been a one-man job; even a Banshan Daoist like Zhe Gu Shao needed to partner with Master Fo Chen to go to Black Water City, and had to bring Old Foreigner and Flower Spirit to Bottle Mountain.
Not to mention anything else, having two little brothers to help dig tomb raiding holes was good.
Now in this archaeological team, Hu Ba Yi was the team leader and guide, while Su Mo was only in the role of consultant.
Once they entered the Jing Jue Ancient Kingdom later, Su Mo must establish leadership of this team, so that this expedition team could survive in the crisis-ridden Jing Jue Ancient Kingdom and find the things he wanted.
Thinking of this, Su Mo smiled slightly at the two:
“Just some minor tricks, not worth mentioning. But Old Hu, your celestial star feng shui technique and such could use some strengthening!”
“If you’re willing, I could teach you a thing or two!”
