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The ant team climbed down the cliff, and a thick white mist hit their faces.For a few seconds, Mai was afraid that there was poison in the fog, but immediately, he was only worried about whether he would fall off the cliff.

The white mist obscured the sight, and the ants held the snake slough tightly with their mandibles, walking on the cliff as if walking on the ground.But they clamped the snake slough, but they didn't clamp the person in the snake slough, so Xiaomai felt that he was falling all the time, and subconsciously clung to the snake slough.Fortunately, this kind of snake slough is many times stronger than ordinary snake slough, almost like a chemical fiber sack, and it has never broken.

The feeling of falling down gradually eased, until he could feel the movement of the ants under him, Xiaomai dared to open his eyes, his palms were wet with sweat, and his knuckles were already a little stiff due to too much force.But after he opened his eyes, he realized that they had not reached the flat ground, but entered a cave, or rather, entered a passage.The passage is narrow, and wheat is lying on the ant's back, and from time to time he can feel something touching his nose and forehead.He didn't dare to move, so he could only slowly turn his head to let his nose suffer less.

The passage was narrow, and the ants lined up in a long line. Xiaomai couldn't see the snake slough where Shao Jing was, so he couldn't help feeling a little anxious.Now he has guessed that this passage should be an ant hole, but he doesn't know where the ants will send this batch of food, whether to store it or eat it directly?If it's the latter...

Before Xiaomai could finish thinking, his whole body was suddenly suspended in the air. The sudden weightlessness made him almost cry out, but a few seconds later, he fell heavily, and then things kept falling on him, and the last hit was a bit heavy. , Fortunately, I don't know what is placed under the body. It is not flat but very elastic, and it doesn't hurt when I fall.

The surrounding area was very quiet, Mai Mai looked around through the translucent skin of the snake slough, and it seemed that those ants were no longer there.He was hesitating whether to climb out, but suddenly his eyes went dark, his body was pulled up, and Shao Jing's voice rang in his ears: "You can come out now."

The gradually drying snake's slough is tightening, it's really not easy to get out.Shao Jing made several cuts with a knife, let Maimai drill out his head and limbs, and the rest of the snake's slough was still wrapped around his body: "This thing is strong, it's better to wear a leather armor, it's always good."

Wheat looked around.This place is like a big pit, filled with the remains of various insects, and there is a strange slightly fishy smell all around, like half-rotten things emanating.

"What is this place?" The pit is very deep, and there seem to be many entrances and exits above the pit mouth.

"It should be the place where ants store food." Shao Jing turned out the backpack and carried it: "Come on, let's climb up."

"The ant nests are built like a maze, how do we get out?"

Shao Jing squatted down and asked him to step on his shoulders to climb up first: "I remember the way. There are seven right turns in total, three downhill and one uphill."

Wheat was not without admiration: "You can really imagine it. But..." He climbed up the pit and found that there are more than a dozen holes around. Which one did they come in?

Shao Jing threw the backpack up, and climbed out of the pit after a few run-up steps: "I made a mark."

Mai Mai immediately noticed a deep scratch on one of the holes, which was different from the marks left by insect feet at the other holes: "I saw it. But I remember that the passage is very narrow, just in case you encounter returning ants..."

Shao Jing was also not sure: "We have to go out the same way, otherwise we may get lost, and if we encounter soldier ants, we will be in big trouble."

Mai Mai nodded, thinking that this was the only way.However, the plan never changed quickly. Before they could act, there was a rustling sound coming from the entrance of the passage, and it was getting closer and closer.Mai Mai and Shao Jing glanced at each other, but had no choice but to hide in a nearby hole first.Sure enough, after a while, a group of ants crawled out of the hole, threw a bunch of something into the pit, and then turned around and went out along the same road.

Shao Jing couldn't help frowning.With this frequency, before they get out of the ant nest, they will encounter another group of worker ants.But the trouble wasn't over yet, another group of ants crawled out of another hole, with something in their mouths, and crawled towards the hole where Mai Mai and Shao Jing were hiding.

"Damn!" Shao Jing couldn't help cursing in a low voice, and pulled up Mai Mai to retreat into the cave.I don't know what this team of ants is doing, are they also worker ants delivering food?So why not just throw the food in the pit?

The ants walked steadily and quickly in the dug tunnel, which Mai Mai and Shao Jing did not have.The rustling sound behind them was like chasing souls, and the two had to crawl desperately to avoid being caught up. At this time, they couldn't care less about what was going on ahead.After climbing for about half an hour, both of them were sweating profusely in the airtight anthole. The front suddenly became clear, but a strong smell also rushed over.The wheat crawling ahead was dumbfounded as soon as he looked up. There was a big hole in the ground in front of it. Inside--in it was a pile, a pile of monsters... ring-shaped bodies, some with half eggshells on them, constantly twist...

"It's young ants. This is the nursery in the ant nest." Shao Jing poked his head out from behind him and took a look, but heaved a sigh of relief, "Hurry up and wipe the wet liquid from the young ants on your body."

Wheat felt sick for a while.Young ants are nothing, but young ants of this size...it would be better if they had already turned into ants, but now, they are in the form of maggots...Damn it, why do ants have to be completely metamorphosis?

In fact, Shao Jing also has psychological barriers. No one can stand such a large pile....So he could only pull off the egg shell from a young ant, and wipe the mucus inside on himself and the wheat.Before they finished wiping, the team of ants came in, and it was only then that Xiaomai saw clearly that what they were biting in their mouths looked like mushroom fragments, and as soon as they climbed in, they fed their young ants mouth to mouth.

Shao Jing grabbed Mai Mai: "Go back. These are nurse ants, I don't want them to come and feed us later."

Mai didn't know whether to cry or laugh.Fortunately, the number of these nurse ants was not enough. After they finished feeding about half of the young ants, the food was exhausted, so the nurse ants turned around and crawled out again, obviously to carry food again.

"Let's go." Shao Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief, "With this scent, at least we won't be regarded as enemies or food." Just in case, he also packed two fist-sized unhatched ant eggs, Prepare to wait for the mucus on your body to dry before knocking it open.

Unfortunately, they got lost... Shao Jing didn't have time to mark the action that was forced out by the nurse ants, so they crawled for a long time according to their memory, and found that the front was not the food pit, but another room , with some sort of fermented blades of grass covered with white mycelium.This is where the ants grow mushrooms...

There are many worker ants there chopping up the brought back grass and leaves with their mandibles and pile them together.As soon as Mai and Shao Jing entered, a worker ant was startled. It waved its antennae and approached.

"What does it want?"

"Calm down." Shao Jing lay still on his stomach, "We have the smell of ant eggs on us, so it shouldn't attack."

The worker ant did not attack. After touching Shao Jing and Mai with its tentacles a few times, it turned around and went to cut the leaves again.Shao Jing was a little proud: "How is it? It regards us as young ants running around. But we have to be careful not to run into nurse ants, otherwise we will be sent back to the nursery."

Wheat worried: "Even if they don't attack us, it's not a problem..." Although the anthole extends in all directions and is extremely large for the ants, the highest place can only barely allow them to sit up. For the passage, you have to climb.If it goes on like this, when will we be able to climb out?And even if they can get out, Gu worms only have a lifespan of 24 hours, can they still find the stone room in time?

"Where's the Gu worm?" Mai Mai remembered at this moment that he had forgotten about the Gu worm.

"Here." Shao Jing carefully opened his collar a little, Mai Mai saw two Gu worms crowded together and landed on his chest.There is a scar there, it was scratched by Jiaozhu when he was in Haishi, and the scab has just formed, and it has been torn apart due to the violent exercise, and some blood oozes out.

"How?" Mai Mai wanted to tear a piece of cloth and wrap it around him.Because of Hengrou's death, he had a very deep impression of the danger of seeing blood in the Gu Dao, "By the way, what about the injury on your hand?" After Shao Jing told him how to enter the Gu Dao, he immediately He found a few women in the woods to chew and apply the grass he had used, but he had only seen that kind of grass once, and he was still a little nervous about finding the right one.

Shao Jing shook his hand and buttoned up his collar: "It's okay. You have a snake slough on your body, it's not easy to get rid of it, and it's the same when you go out to wrap it up again. And with this pair of Gu insects around, I guess no 'chiggers' would dare to get close."

What he said made sense, and Wheat could only obey.The two climbed for a while, and although they didn't meet the nurse ants, they still couldn't find the original food pit. Instead, they felt that the light in the passage was getting darker and darker.

"What's going on?" Mai looked around.He didn't know where the light in the ant nest came from. According to the little insect knowledge he had seen, there should be a light opening in the nest, right?

Shao Jing knew no better than him: "It shouldn't be dark at this time..." But the light of the ant nest did dim rapidly, and the sound of insect feet scraping the ground in each passage became louder, as if there was something more Many ants are walking around.

"I don't see it right. Anyway, let's find a place to hide first. It's so dark, and we can't find the exit."

Of course wheat is okay.Walking through the darkness is even more frightening, there are rustling sounds all around, who knows if you will run into a group of ants head-on in the next moment?I don't even know if the smell on them still works...

The so-called hiding place in the ant nest can only be a hole. At the corner of the passage, Shao Jing dug it a little deeper with a knife, and the two of them stuffed it in and huddled together, blocking the backpack in front.Although it can't stop anything, I always feel safer psychologically.It is naturally impossible to fall asleep under such circumstances, Mai Mai whispered: "Do you think these ants are also mutated Gu insects?"

"No way..." Shao Jing lightly rubbed his face, rubbing his lips behind his ears, "Gu worms must devour each other, these ants don't attack living things."

"Oh, that's right." Mai Mai recalled what the woman said, "She told me that you can't eat anything that has entered the Gu Dao, you can only eat mushrooms that have been bitten by insects. Devour..."

The ant nest was completely dark, and I couldn't see my fingers. The rustling noises around me also disappeared, and it became a complete silence.Mai Mai panicked: "Can we find a way out?"

"Of course." Shao Jing still focused on his ears.The two of them groped in the woods for a few days, and then burrowed through the ant nest. It was so dirty that they were inhuman. The only place where they could kiss was the small piece of skin behind the ear.He didn't want to do anything, but he just felt that this kind of kiss would make him feel more at ease, "There is really no other way, we can find a worker ant to follow, it will go out."

In fact, this approach is good, at least in theory, of course, it is hard to say what it will look like in practice.Mai Mai wanted to laugh, but couldn't.The darkness and tranquility are hypnotic, and they were so tired that almost at the same time, both of them fell asleep.

They were awakened by the noise.Very lively, the ant nest can be described as lively, the sound of ants crawling everywhere.

"What's going on?" Mai Mai spoke almost in a breathy voice.The ant nest is already bright, similar to when they came in yesterday.

"Hush--" Shao Jing took out the two eggs and smashed them open, and then spread the juice on the two of them, then removed the backpack, and the two carefully climbed out to have a look.

The ant nest is unusually lively.During the first period of darkness in the ant nest yesterday, they scrambled and somehow crawled to the side of a wide passage.Now this passage is full of ants, some are huge and some are smaller than ordinary worker ants. The same thing is that they all have four transparent wings on their backs.

"Ah!" Shao Jing immediately understood, "It must have rained yesterday, and today is the wedding flight of ants."

Ants marry and fly, and wheat knows it.The mating of male and female ants is carried out in the air. At that time, both female and male ants will fly out of the nest, which is usually carried out in the morning after the rain.

"Let's go out with them!" Mai Mai and Shao Jing said in unison.This may be the best opportunity.

"Wait!" Shao Jing was busy tearing off the spider silk rope, struggling to disassemble it.

"What?"

"Weaving a net." The ants will take off from the height of the ant nest. The female ant is so big that if it can catch two or three in the net, it will probably bring us to the ground safely.

time is tight.There are strict conditions for the wedding flight of ants. If you miss it, you will have to wait for a few more years.Mai and Shao Jing used their teeth, and finally broke down the spider silk rope into dozens of strands, and weaved a very clumsy web.Then they climbed out of the aisle and squeezed into the wedding flight line.

The body shape of female ants is several times larger than that of ordinary worker ants, so the exit they need is particularly large.Hundreds of female ants and more male ants have to go out through this road, one can imagine how chaotic it is.It was under such circumstances that Mai Mai and Shao Jing could get in.

It's honestly not a good feeling to be huddled with these huge ants that are half the length of their own body.Some ants feel that something is wrong. How can there be young ants at the scene of the wedding flight?But the time was up, all the reproductive ants were crowding out, no one cared to catch these two young ants running around, so Mai and Shao Jing mixed in the team and crawled to the exit.

The sun is shining and the air is fresh.The females ascend in groups, followed by the males.An extremely romantic sky wedding, but Mai Mai and Shao Jing have no intention of admiring it.The two of them were tied together with a few strands of spider silk, and then when a few female ants took off, they suddenly opened the net and covered it.

A total of three female ants were covered.Rather than covering it, it is better to use the stickiness of the spider silk to stick it.The three female ants flapped their wings, but fell straight down under the weight of their bodies.The worker ants in the ant nest realized something was wrong at this time, but they had no wings and could not catch up. They could only watch helplessly as Mai and Shao Jing took the female ants, who kept flapping their wings, as a parachute, and swirled down in mid-air. ...

The spider web fell off in mid-air, Mai Mai and Shao Jing suddenly fell, and the female ant finally struggled out and flew away.

There was a series of sounds of branches snapping, and Mai and Shao Jing fell on the dense canopy.Fortunately, the place where they fell was only seven or eight meters high from the crown of the tree, so after breaking the branches all the way, the two of them finally stopped the force of rolling down.

"How?" Shao Jing dazedly grabbed a branch, and tried to find a point of strength with his feet.

Wheat was worse than him, because it got stuck on a tree branch and couldn't move for a while: "It's okay, it finally came down, and it didn't fall to death."

"Then--" Shao Jing froze before he could say a good word--not far from him, a pair of tentacles emerged from the leaves, followed by huge compound eyes and vise-like mouthparts. Finally, there was a half-upright body with feet on both sides-it was a huge centipede, probably... as thick as a chimney...