Novel Full Chapter 963 - 361: Subduing the Ant Queen
Chapter 963: Chapter 361: Subduing the Ant Queen
Large raindrops fell onto the Mulberries, refracting the light, making these fruits resemble sparkling pure crystals.
Even though Liang Yuan was about ten meters away from this king tree, he could still smell the fragrance of the fruit on that tree, as well as the rich aura of Superpower Energy.
He took a deep breath, as if trying to inhale all of this aura into his body.
Even Dong Yan, standing beside him, couldn’t help but say, "What a sweet aroma."
Gao Jie also said, "This is the mutant Mulberry. Look at the second high branch on that tree!"
Liang Yuan and Dong Yan looked in the direction she was pointing.
They saw a huge black nest on the second high branch of the enormous Mulberry tree.
This black nest was built up with mud, with branches inside as a framework. At a glance, it looked to be about three or four meters in width and height.
At the entrance of the pitch-black nest, black ants the size of fists were coming in and out occasionally.
"A Black Stone Ant nest?" Liang Yuan asked.
Gao Jie nodded and said, "Yes, that’s the Black Stone Ant nest. Without a doubt, the Black Stone Ant Queen is inside."
"We’ve long discovered that the worker ants of the Black Stone Ants around here search for food everywhere, then line up to deliver it here, feeding it to the nest inside."
"If it weren’t for the Black Stone Ant Queen, it would be impossible for it to have this ability, to command the entire Black Stone Ants to serve it."
Liang Yuan nodded slightly and said, "You two stay here, I’ll go take a look."
"Brother Liang, be careful."
Dong Yan quickly shouted.
Liang Yuan waved his hand, his body leaping up and landing silently on that enormous Mulberry tree.
His body was as light as a breeze, falling silently when he landed on the tree.
Liang Yuan spread his Spiritual Power, quickly probing into the dark muddy nest.
Inside the mud nest was pitch black, even with Spiritual Power penetrating it, nothing could be seen at all.
This made Liang Yuan narrow his eyes slightly: "This mud-built ant nest surprisingly has the effect of preventing Spiritual Power from probing?"
He was a bit amazed, was this Black Stone Ant Queen so formidable?
Or was there something special about this mud?
His figure flickered, jumping down from the tree, and then said to Dong Yan and Gao Jie, "You two leave the vicinity, I’ll lure it out."
The two understood immediately what Liang Yuan intended to do.
At once, they both quickly retreated, swiftly leaving the area.
After the two had backed off, Liang Yuan reached out both hands, his Spiritual Power transforming into two hands, grabbing two glittering black Mulberries.
"Boom boom!"
The two Mulberries trembled violently, and under the manipulation of Liang Yuan’s Spiritual Power, they were pulled down.
"Woo woo—"
Inside the black mud nest, two strong waves of angry sonic booms suddenly erupted.
Followed immediately by a black figure emerging from within the nest.
As this sonic wave sounded, a powerful wave of Spiritual Power immediately dispersed, fiercely colliding with Liang Yuan’s Spiritual Power.
With a bang, as the two Spiritual Powers clashed, Liang Yuan suddenly felt he lost control over the Mulberries.
His Spiritual Power wavered slightly, and outside the sea of consciousness, a foreign Spiritual Power fiercely attacked Liang Yuan’s sea of consciousness.
But it was instantly blocked outside by the Spirit Turtle Shield.
Liang Yuan looked up at the ant nest on the tree.
Inside the nest, a large black head emerged, two antennae swaying, dark compound eyes fixing on Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan vaguely sensed a wave of anger being communicated.
This Black Stone Ant Queen indeed possessed a certain level of intelligence!
"Woo—"
A strange hissing sound, and the next moment, the ground trembled slightly, and a massive wave of black ants rapidly emerged on the ground.
These ants had strong limbs, seemingly packed with powerful muscles.
Each one was the size of a volleyball, at this moment swarming towards Liang Yuan!
This kind of ant was completely different from the fist-sized ants Liang Yuan saw on the tree before, evidently larger by more than a size.
Moreover, these ants had more developed mandibles.
"Soldier ants?"
Liang Yuan speculated, recalling that ant colonies have divisions of labor.
A mature ant colony, once having a queen, certainly has worker ants and soldier ants.
Worker ants are typically the smallest individuals within a colony, but the most numerous, skilled in running about, and incapable of reproduction.
Their duties primarily include building and expanding the nest, gathering food, feeding larvae, and the queen.
Whereas soldier ants are different, "soldier ants" are the common term for large worker ants among certain ant species, which are sterile female ants.
They have large heads, developed mandibles, capable of crushing hard food, becoming weapons in defending the colony.
At this moment, those swarming giant ants must be the soldier ants.
Liang Yuan took a quick glance, seeing there were at least several hundred soldier ants.
No wonder the patrolling team couldn’t penetrate here, with so many soldier ants, just employing the ant swarm tactic could drive away any enemy.
Liang Yuan leapt up, quickly jumping out of the encirclement of the soldier ants, rubbing his hands together, and instantly two mass of flames roared to life.
Yet those soldier ants fearlessly surged forward again.
In an instant, there were black ants all around, making one’s scalp crawl.
Without a word, Liang Yuan unleashed the Fire Dragon Dance, and in a flash, flames roared in all directions.
Under the sweep of the fire dragon, the surrounding ants were instantly incinerated by the high-temperature flames.
A strong burned smell came, accompanied by the crackling sound of burning.
Liang Yuan’s eyes showed a cold smile, staring at the ant colony within the sea of fire.
These ants might have extraordinary Physical Defense, but their flame resistance was not high.