Last Totem Novel - Chapter 380

Chapter 380 Ant Lion
Hagrid narrowed his eyes and exchanged glances with the Blood Eagle before leaving with Tie Zha.

“Hagrid, how many Northays do you have left?”

However, just as they reached the door, Blood Eagle’s voice sounded from behind them. Hagrid paused, but did not respond. He continued forward. But at this time, Tie Zha, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn’t help but turn around and return to Blood Eagle. He stared into his eyes and said, “Although there are very few of us, we have never been afraid of any faction.”

“Who are you?” Blood Eagle asked with a taut face.

“I am Tie Zha Northess, the guardian of the Holy Wolf.” Tie Zha replied with a taut face.

“Tie Zha, since you guys are so powerful, why are you asking me for help?” Blood Eagle sneered and asked.

“Blood Eagle, don’t go too far.” Hagrid said with a gloomy face.

“Don’t you dare to answer my question?” Blood Eagle stared into Hagrid’s eyes and slowly said, “If I were you, I would find a corner to hide and preserve my family’s bloodline before coming to be an Earth Walker.”

“You don’t need to worry about that.” Hagrid paused for a moment, then said, “Don’t talk so much nonsense. Help me if you want to. Forget it if you don’t want to.”

“In order to save those 20 reckless ghosts, but put the other 20 people in danger, why?” Blood Eagle asked.

“There are many things in the world that cannot be measured in terms of benefits.” Hagrid said.

“That’s why you became an Earthwalker, completely ignoring your actual situation.” Blood Eagle commented.

“I’m not here to listen to your nonsense.” Hagrid frowned and said impatiently.

“I won’t help you. You guys go.” After saying that, Blood Eagle turned around and looked at the decorations on the wall.

A moment later, Hagrid and Tie Zha left the meeting hall and returned to Long Water Bar. After some discussion, the two of them decided to wait for another day tomorrow. If no one really joined, they would go over and take a look first. After understanding the situation, they would make their plans.

But the next morning, just as Hagrid hung up the blackboard with the recruitment message, several hunters came to apply. There weren’t many of them, there weren’t many of them, and there were exactly twenty of them. Hagrid laughed happily, for they were obviously sent by the Blood Hawks. However, apart from the normal hiring fees, these people have all made requests for “no access to underground shelters, only support on the ground”. Although the conditions were harsh, the result was already satisfactory to him.

After gathering all the personnel and piling up the supplies on the sleigh, the search and rescue team set off.

Two hours after leaving Blackwater Lake Stronghold, the team entered the high radiation zone. The entire Blackwater Lake was shaped like a “U” shape, with its opening facing north and its bottom facing south. The Blackwater Lake stronghold was located at the bottom of the “U” shape, surrounded by water on three sides and land on one side. Because of the terrain, the surroundings of the Blackwater Lake stronghold were low-radiation zones, allowing insecticides to stay for a long time.

As the target location was about 300 kilometers south of Blackwater, the team had to make a big circle, first heading north, then heading south along the lake bank. It wasn’t hard to see from the route that it was the fastest way to cross the Blackwater Lake directly, but no one dared to sail on the lake. Because in the southern cemetery, mutated creatures in the water are much more dangerous than they are on land. It was said that there were also “water insects” in the lake. Like ice insects, water insects were close relatives of sand insects. However, compared to sand insects, water insects were very large.

According to the scientists’ analysis, the first sandworms came from the depths of Desert Five and entered Silver City around BDr2200 years ago. They like fluid environments, such as deserts, snow, lakes, but strangely enough, they don’t like the ocean.

Walking by the lake and looking at the calm surface of the lake, Tie Zha suddenly had the idea of hunting water insects. The Black Pig King looked at his expression and quickly guessed his intentions. He whispered, “Don’t try to turn me into anything else.”

“Are you saying that you can become a water worm?” Tie Zha asked.

“Heavens … what am I talking about …” The Black Pig King immediately patted his forehead, looking extremely painful.

“Can you maintain your insect form forever?” Tie Zha asked.

“A month or two is fine, but I can’t take it anymore.” The Black Pig King replied.

As the two chatted, Lilith leaned over and asked with a smile, “What are the two handsome guys talking about?”

“Call me uncle.” The Black Pig King said with a straight face.

“You guys talk first. I’ll rest for a while.” After saying that, Tie Zha jumped onto a cart pulled by a fire mule and lay down on the supplies to sleep.

Five days later, the team arrived at the edge of Blackwater Lake and continued to head south. After leaving the lakeside and entering the ruins of the city, the surrounding environment became dangerous. After being attacked by a few swarm of insects, the troop’s speed slowed down.

The air was filled with mist-like spores, and the visibility was very low. Black moss covered every corner that could be seen, and there were half-human-tall fungi everywhere. Prior to the Ancient Great Nuclear War, this was one of the largest cities in the southern continent-New Lilo, so hunters called this area the Dark Fog Forest of New Lilo.

As its name implied, this place was covered in black moss, and was filled with fungi. It had accumulated aerosol-like spore clouds all year round, and dangerous mutated creatures lurked everywhere. It was a truly dark place.

However, the hunters in the team were experienced and experienced. Thus, although there were endless dangers along the way, they were still able to solve them smoothly without any dangers.

On the fourth day after entering the Fog Forest, the team encountered a mutated ant lion larva lurking in the shallow soil. Ant lions, also known as “sand bulls” or “sand monkeys”, are carnivorous insects. Academically Neuroptera, Ant Chrysopidae, feeds on other insects. Larvae live under dry ground and dig funnel-shaped traps in sandy soils to lure prey.

The mutated ant lion larva has a large head with a large scythe-shaped palate at the front and an oval sandy-gray abdomen covered with a mane. At that time, Lilith was humming a tune and happily walking beside the group, but she accidentally stepped into the ant lion’s trap. In an instant, she had barely had time to scream when she was dragged into the soil. Because they were afraid of accidentally injuring her, everyone didn’t dare to shoot easily and squatted on top of the trap to watch.

Based on the habits of the mutated ant lion larvae, Lilith would not be in any danger for the time being. She would only suffer a little torture. Ant lion larvae usually spit out slimy soil and store their prey in cocoons.

After observing for a while, one of the hunters stood up and said, “Let me go. I have an earth bug hiding place.” With Hagrid’s consent, the hunter let out a low shout, and a mirror-like shell immediately grew out of his body. Then, he bent down and kicked into the loose soil.

At this moment, Lilith, who had been dragged into the shallow soil, was twisting her body, her hands desperately grabbing the soil around her. However, all her struggles were in vain. Dozens of knuckles in the lower abdomen of the ant lion larva tightly wrapped around her body. Some of the smaller knuckles stabbed into her chest and abdomen, slowly injecting paralytic toxin.

As time passed, Lilith’s struggle became more and more powerless. Just as she opened her eyes in despair, the earth above suddenly surged. Lilith was delighted to know that someone had come to save her. But before she could be happy, she felt the ant lion larva raise its head and its abdomen rapidly expand.

“Ji!”

In the darkness, with an ear-piercing scream, the ant lion larva spat out a pillar of sand!

“Aggressive!”

In the next instant, the hunter who had just approached was knocked head-on by the pillar of sand. He was directly sprayed out of the ground and fell from a height of more than ten meters. The moment the pillar of sand rushed out of the ground, Hagrid bowed and jumped, catching the insecticide that had fallen.

“Don’t … don’t come over.” Lilith screamed in despair.

After chasing away the intruders, the ant lion larvae cried out excitedly, stretched out a needle-shaped mouthpiece, stabbed into the neck of the prey, and greedily sucked up blood.

“I’ll do it.” When the Black Pig King saw this, he exerted all his strength and burrowed into it with worm shells.

But not long after, with a sharp howl, a pillar of sand soared into the sky and spat out Big Black Fatty. In the sandstorm, the Black Pig King, who fell to the ground, cursed, “I’ll kill you.” He drilled in again, and in the end, a few seconds later, he was sprayed out again …

“This thing is really troublesome.” The Black Pig King looked at the sand cave on the ground and shook his head helplessly.

At the same time, the ant lion larvae that had been continuously interrupted from eating let out an angry hissing sound and tightened their grip on Lilith’s knuckles, causing her bones to creak. In an instant, Lilith was in so much pain that tears began to flow out of her eyes.

“There’s no way to get close.” The Hunter who had just entered echoed.

“Can you confirm its general location?” Tie Zha pondered for a moment before getting up and asking.

“Probably” The hunter gestured, explaining to him the depth and location of the ant lion larvae.

“Let’s go down together and drill in different directions.” Said Tie Zha. After they were ready, the three of them simultaneously grew out their insect shells and plunged into the sand.

In the darkness, Tie Zha nimbly pushed away the sand and crawled through the soft shallow soil like swimming.

“Aggressive!” A muffled sound came from the right and the Black Pig King was spat out. Taking advantage of the gap between the ant lion larvae and the rest, he accelerated his crawl.

“Aggressive!” Not long after, a muffled sound came from the left. It seemed that he was the only one left. Seeing that there was still a few meters to go before the next spray, Tie Zha immediately stopped moving and remained motionless on his knees. After being silent for about ten seconds, another movement came from above. It seemed that the Black Pig King and the others had reacted quickly and drilled down again to attract attention.

“Aggressive!” “Aggressive!” “Aggressive!” “Aggressive!” “Aggressive!”

Tie Zha took advantage of the gaps in each eruption to advance bit by bit. Finally, after five eruptions, he climbed a meter away from the ant lion larva. He took a deep breath and suddenly shouted loudly. A knot jumped out from his back, pierced through the soil, pierced into the target’s body, and a large number of parasitic cells immediately poured out.

After a successful attack, Tie Zha was blown out of the ground by a pillar of sand. He flipped backwards in midair and landed firmly on the ground.

When everything above calmed down, the ant lion larva let out a joyful cry. Just as it was about to enjoy the delicious food, it felt intense pain all over its body, as if thousands of ants were biting inside its body.

“Chi chi chi chi chi” The tearing pain bit its nerves like a tide. It immediately released its prey and began to roll and struggle in the soil.

“Buzz … buzz … buzz … buzz … buzz … buzz … buzz … buzz … buzz … buzz …”

Moments later, large red ants drilled out of the ground, shook off the fine sand on their bodies, and flapped their wings.