Chapter 276: Underground Vision

After Tonino Harvey came to his own conclusion, his face was full of confidence. He turned to look at Chi Yao and said.

"Second brother, since we already know how to deal with the fire ants, we must set out immediately and go deep into the fire ants to find their nests!"

Chi Yao did not intend to tell the truth, so he simply let Tonino Harvey make the best of it, so he did not refute.

"You are right, we have to hurry up, so the remaining fire ant will be useless."

As he said, Chi Yao took a few steps forward and threw the knife in his hand suddenly. With the blessing of energy attachment, the knife directly penetrated the head of the still paralyzed fire ant. The fire ant suddenly seemed to have a last burst of light and struggled desperately.

After a moment, the fire ant settled down, and the breath of life had drained away from it.

There was no information prompt of Paradise, but a green treasure chest appeared on the body of the fire ant.

There was no killing prompt, and there was no reward for killing the enemy.

Chi Yao asked Paradise with some guesses.

[The hunter is participating in a small special plot event (underground mystery), and the rewards will be distributed uniformly after the event ends. ]

Looking at Paradise's explanation, Chi Yao also understood, 'There was no prompt for killing underground creatures before, and it was indeed judged as a plot event. '

Chi Yao picked up the treasure chest and put it into the storage space, looking at Johns and others who had been standing aside for a long time, and said.

"It's done. The current goal is to find the nest of the fire red ants. Isley, you know the route deep in the mine better, continue to lead the way."

Babbitt, who was standing aside, heard that Chi Yao and Tonino Harvey wanted to go deep into the ant nest, and his expression stiffened a little. Can the weakness of the fire red ants be determined by the experiment just now?

Babbitt's heart was panicked, and his face became deeper. What if the method Chi Yao and the others found out is ineffective for other fire red ants?

Isley nodded with a serious expression, took out the map and direction dial drawn by his many years of mining experience, and walked forward.

"Your Highnesses, the next path will be a bit bumpy, please pay attention."

Seeing that Isley had found the right direction, the rest of the people followed, but the formation changed slightly. Chi Yao followed Isley at the front of the team, while Tonino Harvey, who had already demonstrated his strength, simply chose to fall behind the team, and the rest of Johns' team members were in the middle. For a moment, the positions of several people were completely reversed.

Now, it was Chi Yao and Tonino Harvey who were protecting Johns' team and letting Johns' team lead the way.

In this way, everyone continued to go deeper, and the surrounding environment became more and more sultry. The color of some soils turned red, and a few areas were even bright red.

These red soil areas can be seen almost everywhere in the intricate tunnels, which means that high-quality round sun stones are buried under this soil, and its fiery characteristics have gradually affected the surrounding soil through the ore itself.

For Chi Yao and others, these red soil areas are equivalent to a high-temperature dangerous area, and the bright red soil area can even be called a fire trap.

For the safety of the team, Isley can only choose a tortuous route to avoid these high-temperature dangerous areas, which greatly reduces the speed of everyone's progress.

But there is also good news. It seems that because of the appearance of the fire red ants, the underground creatures that originally entrenched here have disappeared. These underground creatures have been driven out of their territory by the fire red ants.

Chi Yao maintained his perception. Within the perception range of 200 meters, Chi Yao could find several sporadic teams of fire red ants, which were also dark. This phenomenon confirmed Chi Yao's guess.

At present, the mining area with a depth of more than 800 meters belongs to the outer area. The quality of the round sun stone can only be regarded as the upper-middle quality between the second and third grades, which is the "defective product" left for the dark fire red ants.

Based on the information he sensed, Chi Yao constantly guided Isley to fine-tune the route, trying to avoid the places where the fire red ants were. If he couldn't avoid them, he would take action with thunder and kill the dark fire red ants instantly.

After advancing for three hours, Chi Yao and others arrived at the dividing line of 900 depths, tired after a day of trekking.

Johns looked back at his teammates worriedly. Their condition was not good. The hot and humid environment under the mine vein, coupled with the continuous long-term trek, the members of his team were already tired, and Chi Yao and Tonino Harvey were in a slightly worse state, but they were still energetic.

Johns couldn't help but walk forward and look at Chi Yao beside him. He coughed lightly to ease his throat, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"Well, Your Highness, we have been advancing for nearly 7 hours. Should we take a break?"

Chi Yao knew that there was no need to push Johns' team to the limit. Now they really needed to rest for a while.

Chi Yao looked around, sent out his senses, and quickly found a relatively stable place.

So, Chi Yao stepped forward and stretched out his hand, manipulating the earth element to separate the rock wall in front of him, artificially creating a cave.

At the same time, Chi Yao also tried to secretly mobilize the scarce ice and wind elements underground to cool the inside of the cave.

Chi Yao pointed to the inside of the cave and said.

"Then rest for half an hour. After half an hour, we will continue to set off."

Tonino Xavi frowned slightly, but did not object. It was absolutely necessary to adjust the team's status in half an hour.

After receiving Chi Yao's approval, Johns and others breathed a sigh of relief, entered the cave and sat on the ground, took out dry food and water from their backpacks, and quickly replenished their nutrients.

Jack immediately rushed to the front. He felt a chill and immediately touched the floor of the cave in surprise.

"Huh?! It's actually cold inside this cave and on the ground!"

Johns and others also noticed that the opened cave seemed much cooler. It should have been done by Chi Yao, but they did not dare to ask.

Tonino Harvey glanced at Chi Yao curiously, felt the coolness in the cave, and sat down nonchalantly. Although he didn't consume much energy on the way, it was good to take a rest.

"Second brother, did you do this?"

Chi Yao nodded slightly without explaining in detail.

"Easy to do."

Chi Yao waited for everyone to enter the cave and sealed the door of the cave, leaving only small holes for ventilation. This was to prevent fire ants from getting "lost" here and discovering them.

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Another place is 1085 meters deep under the No. 6 vein.

This is a huge underground cave, and in the center of the cave is a triangular pointed object, covered with strange lines, and threads are flowing under the light of the exposed high-quality round sun stone. Red light.

With this triangular object as the center, the entire cavity is filled with nearly three hundred red fire ants. These are the bright red fire ants in the active period of their lives! Moreover, they are larger in size, the carapace on their body is more ferocious, and the flame patterns on the carapace also appear lifelike.

These bright red fire ants are constantly busy, lining up the collected high-quality round sun stones and placing them inside the triangular object one by one.

In a short period of time, several cubic meters of ore were fed into it, and the inside of the triangular object seemed to have infinite space. All comers were swallowed one by one, leaving only the dark void at the bottom to let out the light of the round sun stone. Swallowed up.

Suddenly, the triangular object seemed to have received some signal. The entire pattern lit up instantly, and circles of invisible ripples spread out from the triangular tip at the top. This ripple seemed to give some order to the busy fire ants, and suddenly A team of 20 bright red fire ants left the hole, heading in the direction of Chi Yao and others.

Ahem, one update first.

It's still stuck. Good night, readers. I'll try to make up for it tomorrow.