Chapter 88: Volcanic eruption (middle)

　　 Small insects that live underground are naturally sensitive to earthquakes. In the past six months, a small earthquake occurred in the Lierte Forest.
　　 That time Sisterm happened to be asleep, but he was still awakened, and then directed the same ant people to escape from the nest.
　　 But that earthquake was actually not big, and the ground only shook a few times before it was over.
　　 In fact, although his ant people are a little flustered, they would not be evacuated from the ant nest if Sisterm were not too nervous to command.
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　　 But this earthquake, Sisterm and his ant people did not feel any signs.
　　 Even Systrom's [intuition] only felt a few seconds before the earthquake.
　　 The sudden earthquake was extremely strong, and the little meat ball next to Sisterm was like a bean on a hot pot, because the ground was trembling non-stop.
　　 The unfrozen loose soil around it kept falling. In less than a second, the connection between the cavity where Systrom was located and the lair passage collapsed.
　　 [Mind Network] is launched!
　　Sistem's ability to instantly activate [Mind Network] connects the spirits of dozens of ant people within one meter.
　　Sistem felt the panic and uneasy emotions of the ant people. Several ant people also expressed painful emotions, and two ants completely lost their movement during this period.
After that, with [intuition] there was a strong sense of uneasiness, the empty room where Systrom and the little meat ball were also collapsed during the violent shaking, and it didn’t take long for Systrom to be buried in the mud. in.
　　 The magnitude of the earthquake shaking became larger and larger, and Sisterm faintly felt that the source of the earthquake was to the west.
　　 But there was no time for Sisterm to think about how the earthquake occurred. The violent tremor of the earth continuously squeezed Sistem's body and small fleshy into the soil.
　　 The trembling soil was like boiling, rolling back and forth next to Sisterm.
　　Sisterm could feel the exoskeleton on his back wings making a click. Some frozen soil fragments cracked his exoskeleton under heavy pressure.
　　 Even he has suffered some damage from the pressure of this kind of soil, which is obviously unbearable for the ant children who have not been pupated twice.
　　 [Mind Network] There are more and more ant people who feel painful emotions in Systrom, and nearly ten ant people have completely lost their movements.
　　 It seems that most of the empty rooms in this underground nest have collapsed due to the sudden earthquake.
　　 The strong vibration and shaking made Systrom become tighter and tighter in the soil, and the breathing hole in his abdomen was also tightly wrapped.
　　 If this continues, even he will die from suffocation.
　　Sistem used his tentacles to sway the surrounding soil randomly. It took him a lot of effort to make his abdomen contact a gap, temporarily losing the danger of suffocation.
　　 But the violent shaking of the earth continues...
　　Sistem felt something touching him. It turned out that the small meat ball changed its shape and turned into a strange appearance with several claws. It dug beside him during the earthquake.
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　　 The violent earthquake lasted for ten minutes. At the end of the earthquake, Systrom finally felt the spiritual message of Shava.
　　 After another three minutes, Shava, who was emitting a faint white light, finally broke through the soil and came to Sisterm's side.
　　 "Little Meatball, please follow the directions of [Mind Network] to rescue the injured worker ants, Shava, you and I go to the empty room of Queen Linda to see some of the ant larvae and the status of Queen Linda."
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　　 After nearly two hours of busy work, more than one hundred ants living three to five meters underground have basically been rescued by the ants.
　　The ants themselves are masters of excavation. When an ant is rescued, the ant will immediately become a member of the rescue team.
　　 There were 127 adult ants in the entire nest. 67 ants including the Knights of Ants suffered no obvious physical damage. 19 ants were seriously injured, and the bodies of 17 ants were found by Systrom.
　　 Some of the more than 20 ants left may have become dead bodies and were buried in the soil and could not be found. Others may have escaped from the nest in the upper layer of the nest, or escaped by searching for food outside the nest when the earthquake occurred.
　　Sistem can feel that several worker ants are digging down above the nest that has not been fully dug through.
　　 Compared with adult ants, the 23 ant larvae in Linda’s empty chamber suffered heavy damage. All of them were crushed by the soil and either burst or suffocated and died.
　　 Although the queen Linda and the 12 ordinary ant pupas next to them were also squeezed, they survived intact because of the hard shell of the pupa and low requirements for breathing.
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　　 However, when Sisterm led the ant team to rescue himself and was about to dig up and return to the ground, the ground trembled again.
Although not as violent as the first wave of earthquakes, the ant people of Weststrom are still in a lot of trouble. Many ant people are buried in the collapsed soil again~EbookFREE.me~Good The aftershocks were not too strong, and his ant subjects hardly suffered any casualties.
　　 But aftershocks seem to never stop. Every few minutes of rest, it will shake for a few minutes, and the progress of Sistem's excavation has also been stagnant.
　　Sistem was also unable to move the ant people from the relatively dangerous underground to the ground...
　　 A full eight hours passed, and when the aftershocks stopped completely at night, Sisterm took his ant people from the ground to the snow-covered ground.
Systrom found the two soldier ants guarding the entrance of the cave and five worker ants digging from top to bottom. It seems that the earthquake, including those ant larvae, lost a total of more than 70, including some. The ant child who was seriously injured was dead, and his ant child lost nearly half.
Systrom did not pay attention to the ants for too long. Through digging through the gaps in the nest, Systrom smelled a strange smell of gunpowder smoke and found the orange fire in the sky, which was the direction of the Lierte Mountains. .
　　 As Sisterm climbed out of the nest, the fallen trees and the broken and uneven snow ground also caught Sisterm's eyes.
　　 It seems that the earthquake is much more serious than he felt underground. Fortunately, there is no stratum fracture near his lair, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.
　　 But compared to these, Sisterm's attention was all focused on the firelight coming from the west, it seemed that it was what happened in the Lierte Mountains.
　　In the direction of the Lilter Mountains, Sisterm found orange firelight and thick black smoke shining in the sky...
Sisterm opened his wings and found that there seemed to be more than a dozen active volcanoes in the Lierte Mountains thousands of kilometers away. These active volcanoes emitted flames at the same time, and fiery red magma flowed from the Lierte Mountains covered with ice. Down...