Last Totem Novel - Chapter 174

Chapter 174 Soldier Ant
Tie Zha tilted his head and looked at Mu Qianhe unhappily, but the latter did not seem to notice the strange look in his eyes. She stretched, yawned, and said, “I’m so sleepy.” Then she lay down. Not long after, she actually fell asleep under his gaze …

Seeing Mu Qianhe sleeping soundly, Tie Zha scratched her hair and covered her with the marching carpet beside her. He then gently pulled open the canvas curtain and drilled out. He could not stay in the tent, for the most taboo thing about marching in war was that the officers played with women, and the soldiers suffered from the cold. Such behavior would create a huge psychological imbalance, causing most of the soldiers and officers to be centrifuged, leading to a decline in the cohesion of the team. However, he felt a headache when facing this girl who was somewhat similar to Lena. Perhaps it was because of the accumulated power of the months and years that he felt helpless towards a creature like Lena.

If you can’t afford to offend me, then just hide …

There was a rain shelter in the open space in front of him. At this moment, Wang Hu, Giant Amu, and Ren Yunfei were roasting around the kerosene stove. Seeing the Guild Leader arrive, Wang Hu took the lead and stood up. His military posture was tall and upright, and he performed a standard military salute.

Tie Zha pulled out a marching chair and sat down by the kerosene stove, asking why they hadn’t slept yet. Wang Hu said that tonight was the first night. He, Ren Yunfei, and Giant Amu were in charge of guarding the first half of the night. Tie Zha nodded and said that everyone had worked hard. Giant Ah Mu smiled foolishly and said that it wasn’t hard. It was his fortune to be able to fight with Brother Tie. Tie Zha nodded and didn’t say anything else. Next, he quietly looked at the flames jumping in the kerosene stove and was stunned for a long time.

The canopy was in the middle of the camp, and Tie Zha’s tent was right in front of it. Just now, when Wang Hu saw Mu Qianhe enter, he could guess that the Guild Leader was staying here to avoid suspicion. So he suggested that the Guild Leader go to his tent to rest.

Tie Zha shook his head and said that he wasn’t sleepy, just sit here and roast the fire. Wang Hu saw that he had already made up his mind, so he didn’t say anything else.

But in reality, he was indeed a little sleepy. However, at this moment, Mu Qianhe was sleeping in his tent, if he went to Wang Hu’s tent to rest. Then tomorrow morning the soldiers will not see him and will mistakenly think that he is enjoying the soft/warm smell of meat in the tent. In order to avoid suspicion, he had to sit here so that everyone could see him.

After a few hours, the vigil changed groups and Wang Hu and the others returned to their tents to rest.

The sky was still raining, and the raindrops fell on the canopy, making a faint sound. It was early in the morning, and the vigil had changed waves after waves, while the iron slag was still sitting by the kerosene stove, staring at the flames that were beating.

“Winter is coming, eternal night is coming” Cozan’s voice still echoed in his ears for a long time.

The next morning, the rain stopped. Mu Qianhe crawled out of the tent and looked at Tie Zha, who was sitting in the canopy. His expression became somewhat complicated. About half an hour later, everyone packed their bags and set off again. The jungle after the rain was wet and muddy everywhere. The troop’s speed was extremely slow. They walked for a whole day before they advanced 12 km.

On the third day, it rained again. Everyone felt as if they had been pulled out of the water. Not a single part of their body was dry. Tie Zha ordered the troops to stop moving and reorganize.

At noon on the fifth day, the rain finally stopped. The sun shone through the thick leaves on the ground, and the forest was warm. Everyone took advantage of the fine weather to quickly pack their bags and head towards their destination.

But not long after, it rained again. It was raining cats and dogs this time, and the sky and earth were completely dark. Even the calmest Wang Hu couldn’t help but curse, “What the hell!”

In this way, the team walked for eleven days in the harsh environment and finally arrived at the destination 30km away. In the meantime, they encountered a few lonely weeping flies. In just one confrontation, the weeping flies were swept to death by the soldiers and turned into beehives.

At this point, they will leave the coverage of the satellite signal if they move a little further. All satellite communications equipment, including telecommunications and coordinate positioning, would then be rendered ineffective.

After entering the periphery, Iron Slag sat on the locomotive and raised his hand to signal for the troops to stop moving. Then, he ordered in a low voice.

“Alice, activate the life scanner.”

‘”Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.”

[My apologies, Guild Leader. The life scanner is based on the body temperature of the organism, while the colony of bees and ants is lower. In addition to the dense vegetation in the jungle, the life scanner has a lower detection range than the visual scanner.]

“Do you have any suggestions?”

[Team refurbished in place and dispatched two three-man teams into the missing satellite signal range, searching for nearby areas and making plans for the next step depending on the situation of reconnaissance]

Just as Iron Slag and Alice were communicating, a miserable scream suddenly came from behind the group.

“Thorn worms! Thorn worms!” “Everyone, be careful!” “Quickly find a cover!” “Everyone, squat down!” The troops stirred and the soldiers looked around nervously. Tie Zha hurriedly turned the car around and rushed back. Not far ahead, a transport worker was nailed to the rubber wheel of the woodland truck by a pale spike.

In less than a few seconds, the workers stopped struggling. He rolled his eyes and stared blankly at the sky. White smoke was constantly coming out of his chest, and a “chi chi chi” sound could be heard. At this moment, the air was filled with a pungent sour smell. The sour smell was mixed with the smell of burnt skin and flesh. It was disgusting. However, no one dared to come forward to help the worker, and just watched him melt away.

According to the textbook’s analysis, the spike that killed the worker was a long-range weapon of the thorn insect. Inside the spike was a pipe filled with corrosive acid. When the spike hits the target, the acid pours into the target and corrodes everything.

“Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada …”

Suddenly, someone accidentally fired. The soldiers opened fire one after another, aimlessly shooting towards the dense forest in front of them. In an instant, dense bullets pierced through the woods, sending wood chips flying everywhere and leaves flying.

“Stop shooting! Stop shooting!” Wang Hu shouted. At this moment, a pale spike quietly flew over and plunged into the ground beside Wang Hu. Wang Hu looked at the spike’s parabolic trajectory and locked onto a spot in the dense forest. He then shouted, “Fire at three o’clock!”

“Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada … Dada …”

The soldiers frantically pulled the trigger and emptied the magazine of all the bullets. After a burst of intense gunfire, there was a soft howl from the dense forest. “Stop shooting and retreat!” Iron Slag shouted, taking advantage of the gap between rounds. As he shouted, he rushed towards the source of the sound. At the same time, he pulled out the shotgun behind him and opened the gun with a “crack”. He stuffed two red shotguns into it.

“Turn off the safety bolt. Whoever dares to shoot, I’ll shoot him!” Seeing Tie Zha rush into the forest, Wang Hu shouted loudly. The soldiers raised their guns and retreated.

At the same time, not far in front of them, Tie Zha was following the wailing sound as he rushed forward. He jumped over a few bushes and caught up to a fleeing thorn insect. The thorn insect was more than two meters tall, and its lower body was like a python, covered in fine scales. At this moment, it was twisting its body and winding forward, leaving behind dark green mucus on the ground.

“Boom!”

The moment he saw the thorn insect, Tie Zha shot out. The scorching iron sand hit the shell on the back of the thorn insect, causing it to stagger and smash into the tree trunk in front of it. Seeing that the attack had worked, Tie Zha did not rush to catch up. Instead, he stayed where he was and loaded the bullets. With a cracking sound, two red shotguns slid into the barrel of the gun.

The thorn insect shook its body, seemingly on the verge of collapse. However, all of this was an illusion. The next second, it suddenly turned around and shot out a pale spike. However, its opponent was already prepared. The human’s body slightly tilted to the side, easily allowing the spikes to pass.

Whoosh! With a soft sound, the pale spikes flew backwards against the clothes made of iron slag and nailed it to a tree trunk. At the same time, Iron Slag raised his shotgun and aimed it at the ferocious head of the thorn insect. In an instant, countless lead bullets struck the front of the thorn insect, causing mucus to splatter everywhere and sharp claws to fly!

Immediately afterwards, a huge force pushed it back for a distance, until it heavily smashed into the tree trunk, stopping it from losing its momentum. At this moment, Tie Zha pulled out his single-edged straight sword and walked over step by step. In the blink of an eye, the thorn insect let out a sharp hissing sound, raised its remaining sickle-like forefoot, and rushed towards Tie Zha. At this moment, one of the two large sickle feet of the thorn insect was blasted away, while the small sickle feet used to cut food were all broken, leaving only the back half hanging on the insect’s body.

Facing the stinger insect’s final struggle, Tie Zha slowly walked forward. When it reached its body, he suddenly raised his saber.

With a soft “chi” sound, a piercing cold light streaked across the thorn insect’s body from bottom to top. In an instant, dark green mucus sprayed out. Tie Zha flashed sideways, avoiding the splashing mucus.

In the silent silence, the tall thorn insect tilted its body and its upper body fell to the ground. Tie Zha turned around and spat out a mouthful of saliva on the stinger’s wound.

Moments later, large red ants with ferocious faces, spiked carapaces, and six slender limbs emerged from the stinger’s flesh. According to the usage of this ant some time ago, the iron slag called it the scouting soldier ant, which was named after Wu Congyun’s “scouting worker bee”. Currently, the greatest use of scouting ants was to investigate their surroundings. Their vision and sense of smell would immediately be transmitted to the iron slag’s mind. After a series of tests, he discovered that the range of the scouting ants could not exceed two thousand meters. Moreover, the closer he got to the limit, the more blurry his perception would become.

Not long after, the corpses of the thorn insects gradually dried up, and the number of scouting soldiers gathered in front of the iron slag reached about thirty. Right at this moment, the sound of footsteps came from behind him. With a thought, the scouting ant immediately rushed into the depths of the forest.

A few seconds later, Wang Hu and his team arrived at the scene. Tie Zha raised his hand to signal for them to retreat. Wang Hu immediately nodded his head and silently led his team back to their original location.

When they were far away, Tie Zha recalled the scouting troop and ate all the stingers’ flesh and blood before scattering the remains and dragging them into the depths of the forest. After doing all of this, Tie Zha’s mind moved, and the scouting ants immediately scattered in all directions, crawling into the depths of the forest …

A few minutes later, Tie Zha returned to the team and gave Wang Hu the latest order: “Set up a defensive line and fix it on the spot.” The latter loudly accepted the order and then gathered his teammates and transport workers to set up a temporary defense line.

While the team members were busy, Tie Zha climbed onto the roof of a mountain bike and stared into the depths of the forest. At this moment, his gaze became incomparably profound. The jungle in front of him that was hiding dangers had gradually turned into his own backyard, as if everything was under his control.

At this moment, 600 meters away from the forest, a scouting soldier ant crawled out of the bushes and “saw” a wandering thorn insect.

At the same time, a red silhouette appeared in Tie Zha’s line of sight. Immediately after, he took off his psionic warrior rifle, pulled open the bolt, and stuffed a psionic blank bullet into it. Then, he picked up his gun and began to accumulate psionic energy. A few seconds later, the translucent stardust gradually flowed into the blank bullet along with the texture of the gun body

In the next moment, through the dense jungle, he aimed at the red silhouette 600 meters away. He firmly pulled the trigger the moment the charging was complete.

“Bang!”

With the sound of a long and far-reaching gunshot, a blue light pierced through countless leaves and brats, fiercely hitting the wandering thorn insects. Bang! Blue light pierced through his chest and took away a large amount of organs. Before it could let out a mournful cry, it had already fallen to the ground. The psionic armor piercing bullet caused a huge wound on its chest. However, this was nothing. The wound on its back was even more shocking, as big as a basin.

With a thought, the scouting ants rushed over from all directions, preparing to eat the corpses of the thorns.