Chapter 281 Is This the Queen Ant?

Chi Yao took out a staff that had been stored in the storage space for a long time. It was the Ice Mirror Staff of Bing Ling, the contractor in the previous world.

Chi Yao held the staff made of ice crystals tightly, and injected 640 mana points with a thought, opening the Ice Mirror Realm with the maximum strength.

In the swamp where fossils turned into mud, the fire ants opened their burning bodies one after another, heating their shells to a very high temperature to break free from the shackles of the mud.

And the Ice Mirror Realm with the maximum strength released by Chi Yao using the Ice Mirror Staff, under Chi Yao's meticulous control, the originally circular field was like a fan that sprayed out, covering the entire area where the fire ants were located, and the pure white ice mirror spread out to bring severe extreme cold to this area.

Under the influence of this "Simple Field·Ice Mirror Realm", the originally stuffy cave almost instantly turned into a severe winter of minus 20 to 30 degrees!

The sudden change of environment, from scorching heat to extreme cold, the fire ants were trapped in place by the solidified soil under the transition of hot and cold, and their shells could not hold up.

"Crack, crack, crack--"

The crisp cracking sound rang out one after another, like a symphony that kept playing.

You can see that fine cracks appeared on the shells of the fire ants, and these cracks are still spreading and expanding, almost all over the body.

In the fully unfolded ice mirror world, the cold wind blew towards the fire ants imprisoned in place, forming a trace of frost on their bodies.

The bright ice mirror climbed up the moment it touched the body of the fire ants, and the cold ice power went deep into the body along the cracks in the shell, extinguishing their fiery life core and turning them into lifeless ice sculptures.

"Hu——" Chi Yao took a long breath. Using this domain-type skill consumes a lot of mana at once, which is a big burden on the body, and this is also with the help of the staff's own effect.

It can be seen that the originally snow-white body of the Ice Mirror Staff has become almost transparent. The ice energy stored in the staff has been consumed in the previous explosion. If you want to use it again, you have to wait for a 20-day cooling period.

Tonino Harvey, Johns and others were stunned and speechless, especially watching Chi Yao's silky combo to solve nearly 20 scorching fire ants and nearly 50 red fire ants.

Chi Yao waved his hand to collect the five blue treasure chests and ten green treasure chests that fell, and saw that everyone was still standing there, and immediately scolded.

"What are you daydreaming about? After the battle just now, the queen ant must have discovered our position, and she will definitely send troops to rush over."

"The nearest team of fire ants is just a few dozen meters away from us. We haven't completely broken out of the encirclement yet! Hurry up!"

Chi Yao's loud shout made everyone wake up immediately, and they quickly followed Chi Yao's pace, continued to move forward, and broke out of the encirclement of fire ants.

Tonino Harvey took a few steps and accelerated to Chi Yao's side, asking.

"Second brother, can you still use the freezing move you just used? With this move, we can be more confident in dealing with the queen ant!"

Chi Yao shook his head slightly and whispered, controlling the airflow around him so that Johns and others could not hear it.

"It can't be used. This is a big move that consumes a lot of energy."

"Just now, I had to use it in order to break out as soon as possible. If we are delayed, it is very likely that we will be surrounded by more than three teams at the same time. At that time, it will be difficult for us to get out even if we want to."

Tonino Harvey nodded solemnly and replied.

"Okay, second brother, adjust your state as soon as possible, and let me handle the difficulties on the road!"

After the two finished talking, Chi Yao looked at Johns and others behind him and gave instructions.

"Jack, divide all the explosives on you, let Johns and others help you place them in various places in the tunnel, and when the red ants behind you catch up, just detonate them!"

When Jack heard that he could explode as much as he wanted, he blinked happily and cheered.

"Haha! Explosion!"

"Great! Hehehe, Your Highness, you can leave the explosion to me! Don't bother Johns and others!"

"I promise that as long as those ants pass by, the fuse will explode immediately!"

Jack took out one after another of the strangely shaped explosives from his backpack, including square, spherical, round, and even triangular ones!

Jack set the parameters of each explosive quickly and threw them directly into the passage behind him!

As they walked, he threw explosives along the way. When the explosives in his backpack ran out, he took them out from his clothes. Even if the clothes were gone, there were still pockets. There were at least 200 explosives scattered around. I really don't know how Jack could store them all. Chi Yao even suspected that he had a "storage space" dedicated to explosives.

Jack looked satisfied after throwing the bombs, and even had an expression of no regrets in death.

They advanced a few hundred meters and dealt with several fire ants returning to defend on the road. Tonino Harvey seemed to have found a trick to accurately hit the weak frequency of the fire ants, causing a shock effect and then breaking the defense with one strike.

And Chi Yao also sensed that after 200 meters ahead, it suddenly became clear. It was a huge underground cave, and there were a lot of stable structures in the cave. These were not naturally generated, but artificial traces.

Nearly sixty incandescent fire ants and over a hundred red fire ants gathered in the cave. There was no need to explain what it meant to have so many incandescent fire ants and red fire ants lined up in an array guarding the entrance of the cave!

This hole is where the queen ant is, and it is also the center of the ant nest!

Tonino Harvey, Johns and others also saw the huge hole at the end of the tunnel, and the densely packed fire ants at the entrance were opening their ferocious jaws, ready to fight!

Compared with the previous formation, the position of the blazing fire ants was arranged to the back, as if they had become long-range output, while the larger number of fire ants were arranged in the front as cannon fodder.

Looking at the amazing number in front of him, Chi Yao's face was a little ugly. He had expected that the queen ant would leave some of the team to protect herself, but the number of guards was still a little beyond Chi Yao's expectations.

There are this number of guards alone, which means that the actual total number of ant colonies is more. Anyway, the original information given by Tonino Harvey was 500, which was much more!

Chi Yao couldn't help but glance at Tonino Harvey. This guy's wrong information led to his misjudgment.

Tonino Harvey obviously didn't realize this. He just looked at the many fire ants in front of him with a difficult expression.

Tonino Harvey looked at Chi Yao and asked.

"Second brother, I didn't expect there were so many of them. If we rush in directly, we might be in danger."

Chi Yao held the reverse luck and pressed against the rock wall above him, saying calmly.

"Then let's take a detour!"

"Detour, detour? How to detour?!"

Tonino Harvey was surprised. Before he finished speaking, he found that a passage was quickly opened up where Chi Yao's head was blocked by the reverse luck, and there were several footsteps on the passage.

"Follow me!"

Chi Yao shouted, jumped up, and jumped directly into the hole above his head.

The remaining Tonino Harvey and Johns looked at each other, but soon the restlessness of the ant colony not far away broke their concerns, and they immediately followed Chi Yao's steps and rushed into the passage above their heads.

Chi Yao forcibly opened up a passage in the hard soil affected by the round sun stone vein, and led everyone around from the side of the hole to the top.

Tonino Harvey was originally looking at the path that everyone was crawling on with concern, worried that the fire ants would catch up directly, but they didn't.

Chi Yao understood what Tonino Harvey was worried about, and he said.

"Don't worry, they won't catch up. I roughly guessed how this 'Queen Ant' detected us and how she commanded the ant colony."

Tonino Harvey asked immediately.

"What did the Queen Ant use?"

Chi Yao waved the reverse luck to move all the soil in front of him, and the hole just now appeared in front of everyone. Chi Yao led them around and dug a road from the top in another direction.

In the hole, the blazing fire ants and fire ants that were originally guarding the entrance were busy around the center of the cave, and the center was not the huge Queen Ant that was constantly laying eggs as everyone guessed.

Instead, it was a strange triangular pyramid-shaped object, covered with strange patterns, and even flashing red light.

Tonino Harvey and Johns couldn't help but exclaim.

"This, this is the queen of the red ant colony?"

Chi Yao knew that Tonino Harvey and Johns couldn't think of anything, but in Chi Yao's eyes, this triangular pyramid can be regarded as a signal base station, or a host, and the remaining fire ants and red ants are all slaves, completely controlled by the host!

Chi Yao's guess was right, the red ants were man-made mining tools, there was no queen at all, there was only a host that controlled all the slaves!

Second update.

Well, I wrote a little too much while writing, and I have to end the mining trip tomorrow.

Also, the ice mirror staff mentioned in this chapter is not a mechanical deity, it is mentioned in the chapters "Field" and "Buying a Staff".

It's just that I forgot to write about the scarlet card in the previous unboxing link. It was opened in the scarlet card, emmmm, now it has been supplemented in "Chapter 74: Energy Master".

The total number of words is almost 5,000 again~~.