Tokyo underground city

Chapter 118 Cicada-Eating Ants

The next morning, Aizen's outfit shocked everyone.

She was wearing clothes borrowed from Lin Huai'en, a slightly oversized T-shirt, knotted at the waist, exposing her navel underneath. The slightly longer casual trousers were rolled back several times at the end and fixed with needlework.

She didn't have any equipment on her, but she had a pair of tactical gloves borrowed from Lieutenant Deer.

"I'll go with you." Her eyes were still calm, but it surprised everyone.

Officer Shao looked at her with interest and said, "Why? Don't you and Miss Senyan have a superior-subordinate relationship?"

"Yes, I have no personal relationship with her." However, Aizen nodded and said, "But she is one of the few people I recognize in the company. If it weren't for her, I would have resigned long ago."

"She has helped me a few times, and I will return the favor and try my best."

However, Officer Shao refused: "I'm sorry, although your wish is very good, I can't accept it."

He pointed at the gray card around Aizen's neck: "After the pass leaves you for a while, it will be automatically activated. Even if you take it back, you can't stop it. I can't let you risk your life to fight with us. .”

"But it's just as dangerous to stay in the shelter. The ant queen said she would surround us, and she kept her word - or do you think it would be better for us to stay here and wait to die instead of letting us become a fighting force in the team?"

Officer Shao was silent.

Lin Huaien knew that what Aizen said was true. The Goddess Sanctuary was not an absolutely indestructible safe house. As long as they were still on the fifth floor, Aizen and the others were at risk of being found and killed by the queen ant.

So Officer Shao finally gave in: "Okay, you follow us, and I'll ask other police officers to lend you some weapons."

"But I have a request." He added: "Without my order, you cannot engage the enemy. The weapons lent to you are only for you to protect yourself. If you cannot accept this, I would rather put you in the Goddess Sanctuary. Waiting to die——"

"After all, none of us know whether the queen ant will really come to attack."

Officer Shao finally said decisively.

His statement is somewhat tricky.

But Lin Huai’en understood what Officer Shao meant——

[Leaving rescued explorers in the shelter and sending a small number of police officers to stay behind] is a rule of the Public Security Bureau.

On the contrary, if Aizen and the others are allowed to act together with the police force, they will be scrutinized by the inspection department afterwards.

Therefore, no matter what Officer Shao does, he will bear certain risks.

And this is where the Queen Ant’s conspiracy lies——

Regardless of the outcome, their actions will have a certain impact on the rescue team.

It's nothing more than a matter of severity.

Aizen also knew this very well, so she nodded and said: "Don't worry, I just want to add more variables instead of becoming a burden."

After Officer Shao agreed, Lin Huai'en and other police officers distributed some weapons to Aizen and the others.

It's just that because there is no armor and the weapons are not of their usual style, except for Aizen, the others are obviously not so active. It's just that they are more afraid of being left in the shelter.

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The team continued to move forward and finally came to what Aizen called the 'ant queen's throne'.

It is also where the core of the dungeon is located.

"The guardian of the fifth floor of the dungeon is a giant vengeful red cicada, but after being killed by the queen ant, it turned into the queen's placenta." Aizen, who was walking in the middle of the team, based on the time when he became a soul prisoner ant The information obtained was simply recalled: "After consuming the corpse of the giant revenge red cicada, the queen ant did not leave. Instead, she built a huge ant nest in the suppression space and continuously hatched new offspring."

"Then...were the cicada-eating ants expanding to the first few floors?" Lin Huai'en asked.

"Yes." Aizen nodded: "The ants just want to occupy more living space. Conflict with us is not their original intention."

But Lin Huai'en is still a little confused: "So, is the queen of the cicada-eating ants the guardian, or the "abnormal body"?"

"It feels like the cicada-eating ant is an ordinary dungeon monster, but the queen ant took away the dungeon core... so where did she come from?"

"It's very simple." Lan Ranyan replied concisely and concisely: "The queen ant comes from the deep space below the 16th floor and is the loser in species competition."

"The queen's original cicada-eating colony was destroyed, so she had to move up and occupy the giant cicada monkeys' territory until they were wiped out."

"Moreover, as the queen ant's control over the underground city deepened, the cicada-eating ant colony fell into a population and food crisis after rapid prosperity, so they had to launch a foreign war to reduce the population and control the size of the population. "

"...and this is the so-called monster surge?"

Lin Huai'en asked with a somewhat bitter smile.

"Yes." Aizen nodded. "From the cicada-eating ant's perspective, that's it."