Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Zhang Qiling was leaning against the ruins wall, holding Hua Yu, who had her eyes closed, in his arms. The little Zhangs were whispering beside him, holding the cards they had smuggled in in their hands.

Hubayi and Wang Kaixuan were so bored squatting in the corner that they quietly approached Xiao Zhang and the others to watch them play cards.

Anliman was lying on the door panel, looking at his beloved camel in the wind and sand outside.

Yang Xueli sat next to Professor Chen and the others, looking at a small notebook she had taken out from somewhere, and writing and drawing from time to time.

Professor Chen and his colleagues were checking the instruments they were carrying.

"what!!"

A scream attracted everyone's attention. It was one of the girls.

Classmate: "What's wrong? What's wrong? Ye Tong, what happened to you? Are you okay? Get out of that place!"

Professor Chen is also a person who loves his students. The first thing he does is to check whether his student has encountered any problems and then ask her to leave that place.

"Professor, it's an ant. I was bitten by it just now. Will anything happen?"

"Ye Tong, it's just an ant, why are you yelling? You are just making trouble out of nothing, why not just swat it away? Why are you making such a fuss?"

After hearing that it was just an ant, the middle-aged man frowned and scolded the girl named Ye Tong.

"Okay, Old Shen, you have to understand that girls need protection. Besides, this is a desert, and we will always encounter species that we haven't seen before. It's normal for Ye Tong to be afraid."

Professor Chen looked at Ye Tong who was being scolded, walked over and pulled Ye Tong over, protecting her behind him and letting other girls go to comfort her, then he spoke to Lao Shen.

"Professor Chen, archaeology is a difficult job. If you can't even endure this little hardship, I think you'd better go home early or transfer to another department."

Old Shen still couldn't stand Professor Chen's doting on his students, and looked at Ye Tong with disdain when she was frightened by the tiny ant.

"Professor Chen, this is not an ordinary ant, and the environment in the desert is not suitable for the ants we usually see to survive."

"Comrade Hu, do you know what kind of ant this is?"

It was unknown when Hubayi had squatted at the place where Ye Tong had just been bitten. After hearing Hubayi's voice, Professor Chen turned around and found Hubayi looking at the tiny red ant on the ground with a serious expression.

"These are desert army ants. They are carnivorous, and they usually move together in large groups. I'm afraid it's not safe here. We have to leave quickly."

Huba urged Wang Kaixuan to pack up his things, put on his backpack, and planned to open the door and leave.

"Hu Bayi, are these desert army ants as powerful as you say? Aren't they just a group of ants? Can they eat people?" Old Shen couldn't help but sneer as he looked at Hubayi, who was facing a formidable enemy.

"Professor Shen, you are an archaeologist and you don't know much about these animals. I understand that, but you can't be so ignorant as not to know the harm of desert army ants!"

After hearing what Lao Shen said, Hubayi turned around, walked up to him and growled.

"Professor Shen, desert army ants usually have one to two million members in a colony. They are migratory ants without a fixed residence and are accustomed to finding prey on the move. And based on their movement paths, I'm afraid Miss Ye Tong only encountered the advance team, and the main force should be here soon." Yang Xueli has a wide range of knowledge, and her face also changed drastically when she heard about the desert army ants.

"Desert army ants! Mr. Hu, you are not seeing things! Are they really desert army ants?" Anliman grabbed Hubayi and asked anxiously as if he was facing a great enemy.

"Although I don't want to admit it, it is indeed a desert army ant, because the characteristics of a desert army ant are too obvious, with a black body and a blood-red tail, and the ant's foot is as big as a knuckle!"

"They are really desert army ants, they are really desert army ants, we are all finished!" Anliman's legs suddenly went weak, fortunately Huba supported him.

"What happened to Anliman?" Hubayi and Wang Kaixuan each supported one side of Anliman who was falling down.

"Yes! You keep shouting, 'It's over, it's over'. What's going on? Just explain it clearly! Won't it drive people crazy if you only finish half of your sentence?" Wang Kaixuan kept pulling Anliman, asking the crying and shouting Anliman in confusion.

"Because desert army ants can eat a grown man in a split second. When the desert army ants are gone, all you will see is a white human skeleton."

Xiao Zhang and the others had also packed up and followed Zhang Qiling. Zhang Haihua saw that when danger was approaching, this group of people were still arguing there, without any sense of crisis. He could only frown and explain to them.

"Well, Old Hu, I suddenly feel that it's quite safe outside. How about we go out and wait?" After hearing what Zhang Haihua said, Wang Kaixuan was suddenly no longer in a hurry to see what Anliman had done. He dragged Anliman and Hubayi and walked out the door.

Yang Xueli also pulled Professor Chen out of the door. Old Shen was still disdainful of the tiny ants having such great power, and firmly asked several male students to help him slowly pack up the equipment.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Suddenly, several ants crawled onto a boy's body. The boy frantically slapped the ants off his body. When Professor Shen and several other students saw it, they saw a humanoid creature lying on the ground, covered with dense ants. After the group of ants left, only a skeleton was left there.

The other boys were so frightened that they dared not stay there any longer and ran out of the shelter crawling.

Professor Shen stood there with trembling legs, staring blankly at the empty eye sockets of the skeleton's head, as if asking him why he should stay. He was only in his early 20s! His life had just begun.

In the end, Professor Shen was dragged out by Huba.

Professor Shen collapsed to the ground the moment he was dragged out, tears streaming down his face. "It's all my fault. If it weren't for me, Chen, Chen Xiaodong wouldn't have died! It was all because of my stubbornness that I killed him! He was only in his early 20s! His wonderful life had just begun!"

The people around watched Professor Shen crying and hitting himself in the face.

Professor Chen couldn't bear to see Professor Shen like this, so he walked over, patted him on the shoulder and comforted him.