I Studied Beheading in a Mental Institution.

Lin Qiye calmly pulled out the straight knife, shook off the green blood stains on the blade, and slowly inserted it back into the sheath.

Not far away, the light of three flashlights rushed over quickly.

Cao Yuan walked in front with a flashlight and a sheathed straight knife in his hand. Seeing that the giant ant was dead, his expression was completely relaxed.

It's not that he doesn't want to help, but that once he makes a move, the stamina is too great. In this primeval forest, if [Black King Kills] goes violently, it will only cause trouble for Lin Qiye and the others.

"Aren't you injured?" Cao Yuan glanced at Lin Qiye and asked.

Lin Qiye shook his head, "It's just an ant in the 'Sichuan' territory. It's not a big threat. If it didn't attack too suddenly, here is a deep mountain and old forest. I can kill it at the beginning."

Baili Pangpang rubbed his butt, and said in grief and indignation: "So, I became the only victim..."

An Qingyu shone the light of the flashlight on the corpse of the giant ant, narrowed his eyes slightly, squatted down beside the giant ant, and looked up at Lin Qiye with a questioning look in his eyes.

Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, then nodded.

An Qingyu took out a black box from his backpack and opened it. There were more than a dozen blades of different shapes neatly inside. He took one out of it, gently squeezed it in his hand, and began to dissect the giant blade. Ant corpse.

When Baili Pangpang saw this scene, a look of bewilderment appeared in his eyes.

He turned his head to look at Lin Qiye, his eyes seemed to say: What is he doing?

Lin Qiye shook his head at him, stretched out a finger, and gestured for silence.

About 10 minutes later, An Qingyu pinched the edge of the blade with both fingers, and a thin layer of frost covered the blade, and then flicked his fingers lightly, and the thin frost covered the blade with blood and residue fell to the ground.

He put away the blade, stood up slowly, pushed his glasses and said:

"This thing does not belong to the species in the category of modern knowledge. It should be 'mysterious'. Yes, from the perspective of traditional ant body structure, it should be a worker ant, and it seems to have just been born."

"Such a big body, or just born?" Baili Pangpang glanced at the sliced ​​corpse of the giant ant, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Don't try to explain the 'mystery' with common sense." Cao Yuan shrugged, "So, the 'mystery' that appeared this time is a gregarious one?"

"It should be." Lin Qiye nodded, "From the previous information, there should be more than one giant ant in this primeval forest, and if this kind of 'mystery' appears in the form of a group, there must be A sort of head-like existence..."

An Qingyu thought for a while, "Like that time with the Nanda snake demon?"

"No, the essence of the Nanda snake demon is to split the snake species to erode other individuals and make it its own clone. The current situation is more like the relationship between the ghost-faced man and the ghost-faced king in Cangnan."

"I see." An Qingyu nodded thoughtfully, "That is to say, in this primeval forest, besides these 'worker ants', there should be... an ant queen?"

Lin Qiye nodded.

"Just the 'worker ants' have the power of the 'Chuan' realm, so shouldn't the queen ant have at least the 'sea' realm?" Baili Fatty grinned.

"Isn't it expected to face the mystery of a 'sea'?" Cao Yuan asked.

"One more thing." An Qingyu pondered for a moment, then said again, "I just cut open its stomach and found that it was basically empty, which means that everything before it should be when it was extremely hungry. under the hunting behavior."

Chapter 345 The Hunting of Worker Ants

Lin Qiye and the three of them looked at each other, "So?"

"For the ant colony, the worker ants will carry all the collected food back to the nest, and will eat the rest after the queen ants have finished eating. Since the worker ants came out to hunt on an empty stomach, that is to say ...they may have run out of food."

Lin Qiye seemed to realize something, and frowned slightly.

Baili Pangpang on the side was still bewildered, "And then?"

"If the food in the nest is exhausted, then these worker ants will definitely search around for food frantically, otherwise once the queen starves to death, the whole colony will be finished." Lin Qiye said slowly,

"And here, there is an uninhabited virgin forest. If these worker ants want to get enough food to feed the entire group, they can only continue to explore the periphery and expand the hunting range...

"This is also the reason why we encountered worker ants not long after we entered the forest. You must know that it is still two hours away from the place where we saw the 'mystery' for the first time."

Cao Yuan frowned, "You mean, these worker ants will go in the direction of the town?"

"Not necessarily." An Qingyu shook his head, "Expanding the search area does not mean that they will all move to towns. Their lairs should be deep in the vast virgin forest. Even if they expand outward in a circular manner, it may not necessarily It just so happens to be headed in the direction of the town."

"But it's still possible, and the probability is not small." Lin Qiye glanced at the dead worker ants on the ground, "After all, we just chose a route at random, and we happened to bump into one, excluding the possibility of our being extremely lucky... It can only show that this giant ant colony has a large base of worker ants."

"Wouldn't those families on the edge of the town be in danger?" Baili Fatty's face changed slightly.

"The good news is that on the edge of Anta County, there are very few people close to the virgin forest, and it is at least tens of kilometers away from the nearest city center. It should not cause too much impact in a short time."

Lin Qiye took a deep breath, "Of course, the premise is that we can find their nest as soon as possible and kill the queen ant. If this drags on, the situation will really get serious."

Baili Pangpang looked around and sighed helplessly, "This forest is so big, we don't know how long it will take until we find their lair..."

Everyone suddenly fell into silence.

The biggest problem now is to find the ant nest in the vast forest. According to Lin Qiye's plan, they would have to explore the forest for at least half a month before they could find the ant nest. Judging from the current situation, they don't have so much time.

At this moment, Lin Qiye seemed to think of something, and a gleam appeared in his eyes.

"Next time, if we come across another worker ant, let it die..."

"Why?" Baili Pangpang asked suspiciously.

Lin Qiye looked up at the black sky above his head, wondering what he was thinking, "I have an idea, and I want to verify it."

……

Outside the virgin forest.

In the darkness, a few scattered old houses are located in the open wilderness, and a little light shines through the windows, slightly dispelling the surrounding night.

On the muddy path in front of the old house, the old man was wrapped in thick clothes, huddled up, holding the little girl's hand and walking forward against the cold wind, and finally stopped in front of an old house on the edge.

Pale light shines through the glass of the old-fashioned metal sliding door, and four large characters are pasted on the surface of the glass with red paper-cutting.

— Happy Hotel.

The color of the paper-cut has faded to white due to aging, and the corner of the wall in front of the door is full of spider silk, which seems to have been very old.

The old man led the little girl to the metal sliding door, grabbed the handle, and pushed the sliding door to the side with great difficulty, leaving a gap enough for one person to pass through.

The aged metal rubbed against the rails, making a harsh creaking sound, and as the sliding door was pushed open, a gust of heat rushed towards the face.

The old man stepped aside and let the little girl go in first, then went in by himself, and pushed the door behind him.

The old lady sitting behind a broken wooden table looked up at them and said slowly, "Check out before twelve o'clock tomorrow morning, and you will be charged more if you are late."

"I know I know."

The old man nodded, and led the little girl up the dusty stairs to the second floor.

It is said to be a hotel, but in fact there are only three rooms in two floors, and the small room on the first floor is still the residence of the old lady at the "front desk".

Although the facilities are crude, the old man doesn't seem to care, as long as there is heating, they can sleep anywhere.

When the two entered the room, the little girl took off her coat and threw herself on the bed. She was already exhausted after a day of running around.

The old man took off his gloves and hat, looked around the room, and said, "Tingting, you should rest first, and grandpa will go down and get you some hot water."

The little girl hummed.

The old man closed the door, went downstairs, and was about to ask the old lady at the front desk for a pot of hot water, when the sound of windows breaking suddenly came from the second floor.

boom--! !

The next moment, the little girl's ear-piercing screams came from upstairs.

The old man and the old lady were taken aback at the same time, the former reacted quickly and ran up the stairs quickly.

"Tingting! What's wrong Tingting!!"

He slammed the door open, and the whole person froze in place.

The cold night wind blew in from the broken windows, the yellowed curtains on both sides fluttered, the floor of the house was covered with glass shards, the entire bed was smashed into several pieces, and the little girl who was lying on the bed It has long since disappeared.

The old man rushed into the house, ran to the window and looked out, and saw a blood-red giant ant carrying the unconscious little girl on its back, crawling rapidly towards the forest at the edge of the dim light not far away. .

"Tingting!!" The old man yelled and jumped out of the window desperately.

Fortunately, the windows on the second floor are not high, and the old man's body is also strong. After rolling half a circle on the ground, he struggled to get up, but when he raised his head, the giant ant and the little girl's figure It has long since disappeared.

He widened his eyes and called out the little girl's name loudly, but the only response to him was the whimpering of the wind...

This 50-year-old man stood in the cold wind with his mouth wide open, his gray hair was blown flying, and the back of his hand cut by glass shards was dripping with blood...

He gritted his teeth, turned around quickly, and ran towards the darkness on the other side against the biting cold wind.

……

Two 10 minutes later.

Anta County Forest Service.

A rapid and heavy knock on the door awakened Li Deyang from his sleep.

Chapter 346 Abandoned Forest Farm

Li Deyang put on his military coat and opened the door.

In the biting cold wind, an old man stood there tremblingly, his ears were already red from the cold, and the tears frozen into ice marks were still frozen in the old ravines on his face.

"Father?!" Li Deyang was taken aback, and quickly took the other's hand to let him into the house.

"Deyang!!" The old man shook off Li Deyang's hand with his cracked palm, crying, "Tingting has an accident!"

Hearing these words, Li Deyang's expression changed instantly.

"What's going on?"

"After we arrived at the hotel, I went downstairs to pour Tingting a cup of hot water, and then I heard the sound of broken windows upstairs. I ran upstairs and saw a, a... monster, and caught Tingting Let's go!" the old man said incoherently.

"Monster?" Li Deyang frowned, "What kind of monster?"

"It's a bit like an ant, it's red, but it's very big! It's scary!" The old man said while gesturing.

Red ants?

Li Deyang's heart sank with a thump, "Did you see where it went?"

"Going to the forest!" The old man said anxiously, "Deyang! You are the captain of the Forest Ranger Bureau. You should quickly call the higher-ups and ask them to send people, helicopters, etc., and bring Tingting to the forest. Save me!"

"The higher ups can't control this matter."