Hunter's Honeymoon Handbook

Kate stepped on a two-meter-high strange creature that looked like a rabbit but not a rabbit, and looked like a pig but not a pig, and lowered her head to study the protruding joints on its limbs.

I squatted down and scratched its insect-like mouthparts.

"It's a chimera ant."

Kate said with certainty.

We were all taken aback, especially Qi Ya, who had been attacked by this kind of ants before, and was even more puzzled.

"So big? Isn't the one that attacked me just the size of a thumb?"

He compared the length of his index finger and thumb, and I nodded in agreement.

"Although the size is thousands of times larger... But in terms of characteristics, it is indeed a new species of Chimera ants. Maybe there is a mutation somewhere, which is troublesome." Kate wiped herself with a clean handkerchief The sticky green blood on his hands, he frowned, "This

But a very scary kind of ant, I haven't explained it clearly to you before, now I will introduce it to you formally. "

"This guy is probably just a worker ant with the lowest level in the ant colony. I don't know when the queen of this colony started to reproduce, but if he breeds for a little longer, the Hunter Association will not be in vain. If you think about it, then assuming that she only had one at the beginning, and that she has been breeding since we first set foot on the NGL...then until now, it has thousands of compatriots."

"scare?!"

We were all shocked.

How many days have we set foot on the land of NGL?In other words, in the past few days, the ant colony has grown from a single queen ant to a colony of thousands of ant colonies that have just taken shape, which sounds like a fantasy.

"Maybe that doesn't sound convincing."

Kate put her arms around her chest, explaining to us, and writing the letter she was about to give to Issie.

"But what if I say that this race does not reproduce in the usual way, but relies on food for sex?"

"Feeding... copulation/mating?"

We don't understand this term very well, so we continue to look back at Kate full of doubts.

Kate raised her hand and pressed the beret.

"Feeding and mating, that is to say, what kind of food the queen eats, then she can give birth to dozens of new ants that combine the characteristics of ants and food within an hour. The offspring incorporated more of the animal's traits, the ones that were missing before

These young people were probably caught by the engineers of the queen ant and used as bait. "

"They... eat people?"

At the end, I clenched my fists.

"Well, of course, and in this forest, the most and the easiest to catch are not all humans."

Kate nodded.

I gritted my teeth.

I never thought that this situation would turn out to be like this, that is to say, those people who disappeared before should all be buried in the ant belly... It's ridiculous that the agreement between me and the village chief will probably never be fulfilled.

Qi Ya saw that I seemed to be in a tangle in my heart, so he stepped forward and patted my shoulder.

"Don't be discouraged, Xiaojie, this is just the beginning."

"We've got to keep our heads down."

Although I could see that his heart was also touched a lot, he was able to calm down before me and comfort me instead.

Qi Ya's heart is getting stronger and stronger, which makes me envious.

"Kiya is right."

Kate cuts/cuts into our conversation.

"As I said just now, these are just ordinary worker ants. In terms of the internal system of Chimera ants, on top of this, there are small captains who command a small number of ants, and army commanders who command major troops. Due to the short time , it is impossible for the ant king to be born."

Seeing that we were all listening attentively, he had a gratified smile on the corner of his mouth.

"But what I just said, don't be too ambitious."

"You know, this one would have almost destroyed Xiaojie's left hand just now, if I hadn't made a move to save the situation."

Kate stretched out her foot and kicked the ants that had fallen to the ground. I felt a little embarrassed when I heard that, and touched my dislocated and swollen left arm, and dared not answer.

Qi Ya approached me worriedly and put his arm around my shoulder.

"But that's good too. There must be quite a few monsters like this in front of us. It's convenient for me to practice your actual combat experience. After that, if there are worker ants or small captain ants again, I won't intervene."

"Try your best to temper yourself between life and death."

Kate glanced at our interaction, raised her hand to call the messenger eagle to her hand, and prepared to put the letter she just wrote into the box.

We listened to Kate's lesson and nodded solemnly.

I watched Kate pack the letter paper and tied it to the foot of the messenger eagle. Suddenly, I had a flash of inspiration and blurted out.

"By the way, Kate, do you think it's possible..."

"Ok?"

Kate stopped what she was doing, turned her face sideways, and waited for my next words.

I was a little hesitant.

"Do you think it's possible that the ant eats the person with the ability to read... Its next generation will have read."

Kate opened her eyes wide, as if hearing thunder.

He took off the bound letter paper, rested his chin in one hand, thought for a moment, raised his hand to brush and wrote two sentences on the paper, tied it up again, and let the messenger eagle fly.

"You're right, Xiaojie, I didn't think of that."

Kate patted my head encouragingly.

"In this way, I have to remind the president to change tactics."

"President?"

Chi Ya and I asked in surprise at the same time.

"Is it President Netero?"

"Ah."

Kate nods.

"If this kind of Chimera ants is not controlled, it will be a huge disaster in a month. We must kill them in the cradle before the queen ants of the population give birth to the king ant, so the Hunters' Association came forward. necessary."

"Just considering the form that Xiaojie just said, I'm afraid the association will have to select some people to come to support, and it may have to wait a few days."

"Is it a small number of elites...?"

Qi Ya said to himself.

After Kate finished speaking, she walked away.

"No matter what the follow-up is, we just move forward now, and if we are lucky, we can go straight to the ant's nest."

Kate waved with her back to us, and we hurriedly followed.

Straight to the ant nest?

Under the protection of thousands of powerful ants of that kind, no, there must be many ant nests protected by more powerful ones.

Do you want to break into that...hellish lair?

To be honest, I was still a little nervous, but I had no fear, and even a little excitement.

I stole a peek at Kiya's face exposed in the dappled shade of the tree, and saw the same excitement in his round, bright cat eyes.

Our practice never stops.

Along the way, there are always some unexpected troubles waiting for us to solve, waiting for us to surpass, even if the gap between life and death is uncertain, we can still have the confidence to find a breakthrough.

This is just... fantastic.

The two of us smiled knowingly.

80km away from the trio, in an empty mountain basin full of forest vegetation, a huge ant nest suddenly rose from the ground, towering into the sky.

Tens of thousands of nest-building ants with a height of half a person are busy on the surface of this mountain-like ant nest, working hard to fill the clay used for nesting.

And it was dusk at this time, countless small black spots surrounded the ant nest, passed through the low-altitude clouds, and hovered in mid-air. If you look carefully, the densely packed small black spots are all as tall as a human being one after another. Ant.

These ants have various kinds of animals on a small part of their paws, but the most diverse... is human beings.

At this time, an ant with a protruding face flapped its wings and landed on the high platform in the middle of the ant nest.

Another ant in the shape of a penguin came up to him.

"Colt, you're back."

The penguin trotted over with the book in its arms, and looked up at the ant named Colt.

Colt hummed, looked around, but couldn't find the figure that should appear, so he couldn't help frowning.

"Where's Burrett?"

What Colt was talking about was a small captain under him, a rebellious ant with a rabbit head and bird wings, who often went out to hunt casually without obeying his discipline, and repeatedly hunted and even tortured some young ones against his wishes Humanity.

"Uh, I seem to have seen it just now, maybe I went out with the head of the Zadan division."

Penguin looked left and right for a while, a little embarrassed, but still reported the truth carefully.

"Hey."

Colt frowned in annoyance.

"This guy, do you still think he is my subordinate... Just follow the other division commanders to hunt like this? Penguin, where are they going, please guide me."

Colt waved his wings, leaned slightly, and looked at the penguin.

"Well, it's probably the south side, over there."

The penguin tilted its head and thought for a while, then raised its short forewings and pointed in a direction beside the guide.

Colt followed Che's guidance and looked over, his stern face turned black again.

"That guy Zadan... I told her, I have already hunted in that direction, and the remaining old and young humans can't provide Her Lady Queen with the nutrition that meets the standard. Kill them all?"

"Zhadan is also for the good of Her Majesty the Queen..."

Penguin kneaded its wings and wanted to say a few words for his colleagues, but was interrupted by Colt raising his hand.

"Thank you for your hard work, but don't need to say much."

Colt turned away, shaking his wings.

"I'll take care of that lawless guy. I'll tell Zadan that I'm leaving first."

"Hello, Colt—"

Penguin wanted to say a few more words, but was staggered by the oncoming gust of wind. When he stabilized his figure and looked again, Colt had become a small dot on the horizon.

"Oh, really."

Penguin scratched his thick eyebrows in distress.

"The characters of the legion commanders are really different. There are arrogant guys like Zadan, and serious guys like Colt. Even I... Although I gained more power because of eating humans, I was still affected by it. Has it affected the innate personality of human beings?"

He raised his eyes, looking anxiously at the setting sun in the sky.

"Human personality..., this is something that goes against the iron-blooded discipline of the ant colony."

"I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."