“What’s going on?”
An Li Man turned his head and discovered mounds of earth scattered across the ground. The camels were beginning to get restless, rising to their feet.
The next second, the mounds cracked open and hundreds of desert army ants swarmed out, a continuous stream of them emerging.
“Desert army ants!”
Xue Li Yang’s face changed, as she noticed the mounds were everywhere near the ancient ruins.
Sheep, wolves, rats, monitor lizards, camels… countless animals ran out of the corners of the ancient city, charging towards the distance, kicking up a cloud of yellow sand.
“Run!”
An Li Man immediately hopped onto a camel and prepared to leave.
“An Li Man, hurry and take the camels away!”
Xue Li Yang was worried about Professor Chen and the others. She tossed out a sentence and ran towards the shelter, shouting to Lu Feng as she went: “Lu Feng, get out of here!”
“Got it.”
Lu Feng wasn’t in any hurry to leave.
As soon as the mounds appeared, he knew. From his vantage point, he could see nearly a thousand sand mounds within his line of sight, each one spewing out countless army ants.
They stretched out in a continuous sheet like a tide!
Some animals got caught in the pits created by the desert army ants as they ran, thousands of ants leaping onto them and gnawing at them. Powerful formic acid quickly brought them down.
There were many such pits.
The entire ancient city ruins were like the army ants’ hunting ground.
Lu Feng remembered there was a queen ant here as big as a calf, with six pairs of transparent wings, completely exceeding the normal boundaries of living beings.
Given his digestive capacity, eating this queen ant shouldn’t be a problem.
If not, his Darpu Ghost Worm could eat it, right?
On the other side.
Hu Ba Yi and the others rushed out of the army ant’s encirclement, quickly slapping away the desert army ants on their bodies.
“Damn it, almost got eaten by ants!”
Wang Pang Zi sat down with a thump, his face still pale with fear as he cursed: “I told you not to dig, but you wouldn’t listen. Now are you satisfied?!”
Hao Ai Guo knelt on the ground, weeping towards the direction of the shelter.
Chu Jian and Ye Yi were trembling, still shaken, the sight of Sa Di Peng’s death would become their lifelong nightmare, something they would never forget!
Professor Chen’s lips trembled, his eyes red-rimmed.
“Professor Chen, Hu Ba Yi, are you alright?” Xue Li Yang hurried over. “Where’s Sa Di Peng?”
“He fell into the ant pit. I saw with my own eyes how he was enveloped by the ants, like a dumpling, and then he stopped struggling after a few seconds…”
“Don’t talk about it. Just leave this place. An Li Man has already driven the camels out of the city.”
“What about Lu Feng?”
“He’s fine. He’ll catch up with us soon.”
“Okay.”
After Hu Ba Yi and the others had moved a few hundred meters away from the ancient city, they finally collapsed onto the ground and began to treat the bites inflicted by the army ants.
While they weren’t poisonous, they were still red and swollen, causing pain.
“I’ll go check on Lu Feng.”
Xue Li Yang was still worried about Lu Feng. She took a tear gas canister and headed back.
BOOM!!
The shelter they had been hiding in collapsed, and a huge ant emerged from it.
“What is that?”
Xue Li Yang gasped.
The ant was over a meter tall just lying on the ground, and it had six pairs of transparent wings on its back, twelve wings in total.
An unknown number of desert army ants gathered from all directions, a sea of red, as if flames had ignited in the desert.
“My God!”
Hu Ba Yi saw the queen ant through the telescope and was shocked, his eyelids twitching.
“That thing came out from under our shelter?”
Wang Pang Zi’s back felt cold. They had been sleeping right above the queen ant last night?
At this moment.
Lu Feng was also staring at the queen ant.
“Finally came out.”
Lu Feng leaped, soaring over twenty meters. The wind he kicked up as he landed sent the nearby army ants flying, and within a few seconds he landed on top of the queen ant’s head.
He used the Thousand Jin Drop, stomping towards the queen ant’s head.
The queen ant flapped its twelve wings and instantly darted off.
Lu Feng’s foot landed on empty space, and he looked back at the queen ant with surprise, before charging forward again.
The queen ant opened its enormous mandibles, trying to bite Lu Feng.
BOOM!!
The queen ant flew backwards several meters!
Lu Feng also retreated a few meters.
Ants can lift things 400 times their body weight, and carry objects over 1700 times their body weight.
This queen ant was nearly four meters long, and it must have weighed three or four hundred pounds. How powerful could it be?
“No wonder I didn’t kill you with one punch.”
Lu Feng took a deep breath, his bones moved, and his power churned and accumulated: “Too bad your defense and speed are your weaknesses.”
He exploded forward, reaching a speed of over 100 meters per second, instantly appearing beside the queen ant.
“Eight Extremities Fist!”
The queen ant couldn’t dodge in time. Its eyes rolled, and it watched helplessly as Lu Feng’s fist landed.
BAM!
Its head exploded from the blow.
“It’s dead just like that?”
Xue Li Yang’s mouth could have fit a duck egg inside.
She knew Lu Feng was strong when they were in the Kunlun Mountains, but she had never witnessed him kill the Overlord Salamander and the Ghost Mother Zombie.
Seeing this with her own eyes now, she was truly shocked.
Suddenly.
The queen ant’s body disappeared into thin air.
“That’s…”
Xue Li Yang’s pupils constricted. What had happened?
As she was still in a state of shock, six male ants emerged from the sand.
They were only half the size of termites, and they also had transparent wings. They bared their teeth and claws, lunging towards Lu Feng.
Lu Feng slapped one of their heads off with a single hand, eliminating the male ants in an instant. The headless corpses also disappeared as soon as Lu Feng touched them.
“Let’s go.”
Lu Feng clapped his hands and turned, heading towards the team.
When he found the team, Xue Li Yang’s expression was strange.
“What’s wrong?”
“Are you alright?”
“I’m fine.”
Lu Feng smiled.
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi also ran over to ask what had happened.
Lu Feng learned that Sa Di Peng had been eaten by the desert army ants.
Professor Chen, Hao Ai Guo, Chu Jian, and Ye Yi had all been bitten by the army ants, and they were badly injured. Their current condition was quite bad.
Most of their supplies had also been lost, probably destroyed by the desert army ants.
Lu Feng also saw Hao Ai Guo and the others with sorrowful expressions, as if they had lost their souls.
“Xue Li, go talk to them. We need to keep moving.”
“Okay.”
Xue Li Yang nodded and went over to comfort Professor Chen and the others.
Ten minutes later.
They walked over.
Professor Chen’s face was full of shame and apology: “Comerade Lu Feng, we really regret not listening to your warning, and it led to this situation.”
Lu Feng mounted his camel and said: “Alright, let’s get going!”
Professor Chen and the others exchanged glances and all got onto their camels.
At this moment.
An Li Man was a little panicked.
Because he had run around like crazy yesterday, trying to escape the sandstorm, he couldn’t find his way back to the original path.
With the amount of water they had left, they wouldn’t even last a day.
In other words.
They were out of water!
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