Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 73 Showdown
The quicksand continued to sink, and the huge body under the desert gradually became clear, and finally exposed to everyone's eyes.

"This is the queen ant!"

Hu Bayi looked at the wriggling body in the sand pile like a mountain of meat, his voice trembled a little.

The ant's head and torso were about the size of a male ant, but behind it was a huge white abdomen as thick as a truck. It was crawling slowly as it moved, and it was getting out of the sandpit surrounded by the ant colony.

According to the body proportions of usual queen ants, the abdomen of this army ant queen must be at least seven or eight meters long, filled with millions of ant eggs.

It seems that under the cover of wind, sand and desert, this queen ant has already hatched generations of black army in the depths of the ruins.

The death of the male ants made the queen ant perceive the risks faced by the ant colony through pheromones, so she had to emerge from the safe underground nest and leave the dangerous area with the ant colony.

Fortunately, as the leader, the queen ant's huge body is not directly proportional to her combat effectiveness, and she can only direct the ant colony to attack the enemy.

The queen's head kept shaking, and the antennae collided with the army ants around her. Those army ants around her seemed to have received an order to collide and communicate with the army ants a little further away.

After a while, these army ants passed on the queen's orders layer by layer. They no longer entangled with the burning male ants, but adjusted their direction and slowly moved towards the direction of the archaeological team.

A few male ants with fire on their bodies, like the ancient fire bull formation, marched towards the archaeological team with raging flames on their backs, ignoring the same kind that they ignited around them.

Although the spread of the fire somewhat slowed down the progress of the marching ants, but after all, they are so numerous that they can continue to move forward one after another, and it will sooner or later engulf the archaeological team.

Xiao Ran was anxious, but he also found a breakthrough to solve the predicament in front of him.

"Now there are no flying male ants, our camels run faster than them, seize the opportunity to run!"

Hearing what he said, everyone came back to their senses, turned their heads and ran towards the camel team.An Liman with an anxious face saw everyone coming back, jumped up happily, patted his legs, and hurriedly climbed on his camel.

But the second uncle was unmoved, still staring at the ant colony carefully.

Xiao Ran went to pull him, he glanced at Xiao Ran, saw that the others had already left, and whispered to Xiao Ran: "Today I will teach you a lesson, remember that you either don't do anything, or do it if you want to do it!"

In the second uncle's eyes, there was a trace of coldness and cruelty that Xiao Ran was unfamiliar with.

He raised his gun and aimed at the front of the ant colony, a cat-like army ant with longer antennae.

One shot passed, and the long-horned army ant huddled into a ball, lying motionless on the sand.

A miraculous scene happened, the army ants around the long-horned ant started to circle around its corpse.

The second uncle went over with several shots and killed several other larger long-horned army ants. The whole ant colony began to circle around a center like a demon, including those big male ants that were on fire. .

Xiao Ran looked at the scene in front of him, and a word flashed in his mind - death vortex.He never expected that the second uncle would have such experience and skills.

Soon, flames once again spread in this vortex of circling army ants.The second uncle looked around, picked up the small fuel tank in his hand, and threw it towards the queen ant behind him.

Before the fuel tank fell, the second uncle fired again, and the flames scattered from the air, and the rain of fire poured on the huge and fat abdomen of the queen ant.

"Old Mo, why is this necessary? Let's take the opportunity to run away. It's not necessary to kill them all, right?"

Hu Bayi ran over and looked at the army ant colony that was peeling and burning in front of him, his tone was a little emotional.

The second uncle glanced at Hu Bayi, then at Xiao Ran, turned around and walked towards the camel team without saying anything.

The army ants behind the ruins also rushed up and surrounded the queen, as if they wanted to put out the fire with their bodies.However, solid fuels are extremely durable, and a small amount can burn for more than ten minutes.

Whoever will finish first, the army ants or the flames, no one in the archaeological team wants to see the final result.Everyone climbed on the camels and urged the camels to run out of the city. The animals along the way, whether they were afraid of the flames or the army ants, ran around like crazy. Some gazelles even lowered their heads because of the sand wolf in front of them. With one pick, the sand wolf was ripped apart.

The camel team ran hundreds of meters all the way, and the ancient city gradually disappeared behind them, but they could still see the black torrent, which contrasted greatly with the color of the desert, continuously pouring out from the periphery of the ancient city, and crawled towards the big house in the center. I don’t know where the ant nests under the ancient city are How many army ants were killed.

But now, everyone is safe.

Hu Bayi patted Xiao Ran's shoulder again, and said, "Brother Xiao, you really have it. Fortunately, you arranged it in advance, otherwise you might not be able to control these army ants. Oh yes, and Lao Mo..."

Having said that, Hu Bayi, Xiao Ran and Fatty turned to look at the second uncle, only to see that Shirley Yang walked around behind the second uncle at some point, raised his gun and lightly pressed it against his back.

"My friend, you should also tell me who you are? You and An Liman are not together at all."

Everyone was confused by Shirley Yang's actions, and they didn't know who to help for a while. As one of the funders and initiators of the archaeological team, Shirley Yang is naturally one of his own.But Lao Mo has worked hard all the way, only working and not talking, and feels much more reliable than An Liman.

Besides, just now, Hu Bayi and the others were trapped on the roof, and it was Lao Mo who rushed to the rescue at the first time, no matter how you think about it, he shouldn't be a bad person.

Xiao Ran was in a hurry to explain, but was stopped by his second uncle who shook his head slightly.

Seeing that Lao Mo was silent, Shirley Yang put down the gun again, and said: "But you saved Xiao Ran and the others before, and I saw that you still controlled An Liman to prevent him from escaping first, I believe you are not planning any evil. We have been together all the way, and I hope everyone can be honest with each other.”

The second uncle smiled, took off the scarf, and took off the big beard on his face, and said to everyone: "Let's get to know each other again, my name is Xiao Changkong, and I am Xiao Ran's second uncle."

Everyone was surprised, looked at Xiao Ran, Xiao Ran nodded helplessly, and pointed at his second uncle: "My second uncle, I grew up watching me, I'm sure I can't make a mistake..."

The fat man looked at Xiao Ran, then at his second uncle, the former Lao Mo, and now Xiao Changkong, and laughed: "Why did Xiao Ran come out to do something and bring his elders with him? Want to travel at public expense? ?”

"Hey, young man, you're talking the wrong way. I'm worried about my nephew who's not working well, and I want to see if the friends he makes are reliable, so I followed here."

The second uncle's words were half serious, Hu Bayi smiled and asked: "Then are you relieved now, old man?"

The second uncle nodded and said, "I'm at ease with you, but I'm not at ease with him now. This kid's brain is not bright, and it will inevitably cause trouble for you."

Shirley Yang saw that Xiao Ran and Xiao Changkong had no abnormalities on their faces, so he felt relieved and said, "Since this is the case, thank Mr. Xiao for taking care of me this way. The rest of the road, Please take care of me too."

After saying this, Shirley Yang gave Xiao Ran a meaningful look.

Now that he has entered the depths of the desert, he can't be sent back, right?Xiao Changkong was really capable this way, and judging from what happened just now, this elder is really courageous, calm and composed, and Shirley Yang is not short of the extra salary.

But Xiao Ran couldn't just admit it like that, after all, he didn't go through the back door privately, wanting to bring his family members to make more money.

Just as he was about to explain, Professor Chen, who was riding a camel before, walked over tremblingly, looked at the second uncle in surprise and said, "You...you are Xiao Changkong?"

(End of this chapter)