Chapter 189: The curse of the ant

The Ants do have amazing and amazing capabilities in digging and building. Hundreds or thousands of acidophilic ants are running back and forth, and just relying on the two antennae on top of their heads to communicate with each other, they can work together and work tidy.
The ants enlarged the narrow passageway in front of them, and when Zhou Qingfeng and others could pass, they immediately blocked the back passageway to prevent natural enemies from entering. During this period, we must maintain ventilation with the outside world, and be busy and orderly.
The ant guard carrying the queen queen marched slowly in front of him, and Zhou Qingfeng rode into the complex and delicate ant colony country by riding 'Shengying. After more than ten meters underground, the width of the passage suddenly expanded, and even spacious underground roads and buildings appeared.
"How did you do that?" Even Zhou Qingfeng, who had seen the world, was surprised. Other people around him even made a ‘wowa’ voice. Humans have very limited knowledge of ant nests, which means that they set foot in a completely strange country.
This is a huge and three-dimensional underground space where the acidophilic ants dig a big hole. The cave has a network of suspended traffic extending in all directions, just like human blood vessels, allowing ants to travel back and forth between them.
Just to support such a complex building system requires precise calculations and construction. This is by no means a task that ordinary wisdom can accomplish. Zhou Qingfeng repeatedly asked the queen queen, "How did you do that?"
The queen queen is accustomed to it, "This is the instinct of the ant colony, we are born."
"The ant colony here is under your control?"
"Human, you look stupid. This is also my instinct, nothing to be surprised about."
The temperature of the underground space is higher than the ground, which isolates the harsh natural environment outside and also prevents the invasion of various monsters. Zhou Qingfeng saw a large area of ​​glowing moss and ground colonies, and acidophilic ants planted these things underground to make food.
"Your life here is pretty good." Zhou Qingfeng felt that if he was content with the status quo, the underground days would be much stronger than the ground.
It's just that the queen doesn't think so. It leads the way, saying coldly, "I hope you will see the trouble you have to solve, and it will be so easy."
The team keeps moving forward and goes deeper. Zhou Qingfeng didn't know where he was and ended up outside a pit-like building. The queen queen stopped suddenly and said, "Trouble is ahead, you go and see for yourself."
Eh
Zhou Qingfeng suddenly found that his current position was like a dividing line. There are still a lot of acidophilic ants behind him, but there is no ant in the direction of the deep pit.
Everyone was puzzled, unknown. The queen did not explain it anymore, just talking about it in front of the deep pit. Zhou Qingfeng had no choice but to say to the necromancer, "Light a fire, I want to see clearly."
Lighting tricks ignite the immortal fire, accompanied Zhou Qingfeng to the edge of the deep pit. The diameter of this pit is more than ten meters, which is unfathomable, but standing on the edge of the pit can see a large number of ants stacked inside.
To be precise, it is a huge amount of acidophilic ant carcasses.
This is a huge corpse pit with thousands or tens of thousands of ants in it. They are stacked on top of each other in huge numbers, and they are almost full of this deep pit. The ant corpse exudes an indescribable sour smell that is disgusting.
Xi Li turned her head at a glance, and several others frowned. ‘Shadow’ looked into the long monster ’s head and asked strangely,
What ’s wrong with these ants? I seem to see a chubby, that ’s it.
"That was the last queen," said the current queen calmly.
The last queen queen was huge, about four or five cattle in size. But the white body of the queen queen was covered with black spots, and it looked like it was ulcerated wounds. Some places even dissolved.
"Shengying" was even more surprised, "You will grow up like this in the future? How much do you have to eat?"
The queen queen ignores such silly questions.
Zhou Qingfeng turned back and asked, "What's going on inside you?"
"The ant colony will not be disturbed, we are one," said the queen.
"Then this is"
"It's a plague."
As the priest of the disease, Justin interrupted. He looked up again, and the crowd found that there were a large number of pipes from the ant's nest to the place. From time to time, these pipes slide out of a carcass of acidophilic ants and fall into deep pits.
When Mondino beckoned, an ant's body had been dropped before he was summoned. They watched closely the falling ants before they died, and the tentacles were still dancing. But his body was ulcerated and his limbs were dying.
Is it really a plague?
Zhou Qingfeng was shocked. There was a plague in the enclosed space of this underground country? He was so angry that he slandered ‘no wonder the queen did n’t say earlier, if I knew that there was a plague that caused death on this scale, I might as well try to figure it out. ’
but
Zhou Qingfeng took a few steps and shouted, "Okay, don't be afraid. We are here with His Excellency Justin, the mother of the epidemic. He is best at this, and there must be a way."
The queen's tone increased slightly, "It would be better if things could be solved so easily, but the situation is probably worse than you think. I was caught by you because the plague in the ant's nest was out of control and I must escape. "
Justin also said in a deep voice: "I have never seen this kind of plague, but maybe I can study it, but I am not sure. And I believe that this is not a recent plague. The ants here are afraid that they have already followed this plague. Entangled for many years. "
Zhou Qingfeng suddenly felt cold
The queen queen continued: "We call this disease the 'curse of decay'. It has been with us since the birth of our acidophilic ants. Even queen queens cannot escape this plague infection. We can only endure this Facing death.
You see that deep pits are not the only ones in the ant nest. In fact we have lived here since dozens of similar pits have been dug. Each pit can be used for about one year. After filling tens of thousands of ant corpses, you can only cover it and dig another one.
We have thought of many ways to fight this plague, but none of them are effective. We have long been accustomed to such a curse. A single death is not terrible, as long as the ethnic group is still there. But this time there is a new situation
Cases have also appeared in hatcheries that have never been infected in the past and are spreading rapidly. If this continues, our ethnic group will be finished. So I bring you in, hoping that someone can crack the curse that the ants have endured. After all, abandoning the ant nest is too costly for us. "
Zhou Qingfeng forcibly interrupted and asked aloud, "You haven't been able to do something for decades, can we people get it? Don't you just want me to die?"
"Exactly not for decades, but for thousands of years." The queen is still calm, "Don't complain, although I know your hope of finding a solution is slim. But don't expect a community that is about to perish. Make sense. "
"You" Zhou Qingfeng was really cool now. Everyone was so cold in their hearts. Are they staying in an underground ant nest, or is it an ant nest that has a plague outbreak and knows whether the plague will spread to people?
The queen said: "Even if you need anything, I'm as satisfied as possible. But if I want to escape, I will throw you all into that pit that will soon be filled. I can do it."
A big crisis!
Zhou Qingfeng can only make a big move with Brother Sirek. Hurry up, I know you must have a way. You ’re such a big bad guy with ulcers on the head and pus on the soles of your feet, an old monster who has lived countless years and definitely knows how to solve it.
At this juncture, personal contradictions are set aside first. Don't hide it. Tell me what to do.
But Kirrick also sighed, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to break the curse of the ant tribe."