Last Totem Novel - Chapter 381
Chapter 381 Aphids
Lilith, who had been rescued, smiled foolishly as if she was drunk, as if she could not feel the pain on her body. After everyone threw her onto the cart, they continued to set off. After all, the people who could come here were not simple. Even women possessed extremely strong vitality. As long as he was still alive and breathing, there wouldn’t be a big problem.
A few hours later, Lilith got up. The anesthetic effect of the insect poison had passed, but there were still other toxins in her body. It was as if thousands of insects were crawling through the flesh between her chest and abdomen, itching her to the point that she was about to go crazy. So she asked for the antidote from Hagrid, but was rejected on the spot because the ant lion larva’s poison was not fatal and could not be wasted.
Helplessly, Lilith had no choice but to pull out her short knife. It was so itchy that she cut herself.
“Ah … it hurts … it hurts …” Every time she finished cutting, she would hum hum hum hum hum for a long time.
Tie Zha, who was lying on the side resting, was awakened by the sound. Seeing her cut herself into miserable screams, he couldn’t bear it for a moment. He took out a dose of antidote serum from the academy from his bag and threw it to her casually. But as soon as she took it, she discovered that it was a rare concentrated antidote serum. Then, she revealed an indifferent expression and snorted as she put away the potion. She would rather endure the itch than use it …
Looking at this little miser, Tie Zha couldn’t help but roll his eyes and ignore her.
“Ah … Ah … It hurts …” Not long after, Lilith screamed miserably again.
Tie Zha, who was dozing off, was so annoyed that he tore off a canvas covered with supplies and said to Lilith with his hands behind his back, “Come on, open your mouth.”
Lilith thought he was going to feed her medicine, so she obediently opened her cherry mouth, so Tie Zha stuffed the cloth into it.
Lilith, who was basking in the cloth, was immediately speechless. Just as she was about to spit it out, a sparkling Atonement Coin appeared in front of her.
“Don’t spit this out, I’ll give it to you.” Said the magnetic voice seductively.
Lilith hurriedly nodded her head, then snatched the coins and stuffed them into her pocket. At this moment, the Black Pig King, who was sitting on another cart, was turning around. When he happened to see this scene, he immediately burst into laughter.
When Lilith heard the laughter, she immediately followed the sound and stuck out her tongue at the Black Pig King. Then, she pulled up the canvas covering the supplies and drilled into it.
The next day, Lilith’s wound started to scab. It seemed that she also had the ability to recover from worms. Otherwise, the wound wouldn’t have healed so quickly. Tie Zha inquired from the sidelines, but Lilith told him without concealment.
“I have the ability to regenerate aphids.” Lilith whispered while there was no one around.
“Rare level regenerative ability?” Tie Zha hesitated for a moment and couldn’t help but ask, “What’s the difference between it and bug regeneration?” Bi Qinglan had this ability, but Elder Ebony had only told him the name, not the specific effect.
Lilith then explained that bug regeneration was a basic level ability, so it could recover faster, but it could not repair permanent injuries, such as losing an organ or breaking limbs. Aphid regeneration can accomplish organ reconstruction and limb regeneration.
“Sounds good.” Tie Zha commented.
‘”Actually …” Lilith hesitated for a moment, then bit her lips and said resolutely, “Aphid regeneration has a very nasty flaw. Moreover, mutated gene fragments can only exist in the gene chain of female insecticides, and are completely ineffective against male insecticides.”
Some of these abilities are gender-limited. For example, male glands in Tie Zha can only be absorbed by males. Even if they are absorbed by females, they will not have any effect.
“What flaw?” Tie Zha asked casually.
‘”Ah” Lilith blushed and whispered, “This is a girl’s secret. I can’t tell you.”
Tie Zha expressionlessly took out an atonement coin.
‘”I really can’t …” Lilith lowered her head and blushed.
Tie Zha took out another atonement coin.
“You can’t say it even if you die” She tugged at the corner of her clothes and insisted.
Tie Zha immediately put away the coins and didn’t ask any further.
“Don’t you want to know?” Seeing the cooked duck fly away, Lilith hurriedly raised her head and asked.
Tie Zha grinned, but didn’t say anything, because he had already guessed …
Looking at his expression, Lilith was silent for a while. Finally, she sighed bitterly and said, “Perhaps you think you guessed it, but it’s not as simple as you think.”
Facing her temptation, Tie Zha remained indifferent. He leaned back and fell asleep on the pile of supplies.
‘”Hmph ~” Lilith looked at the sleeping Tie Zha and muttered to herself, “No matter how much money you give me, I won’t tell you …”
In fact, Tie Zha only guessed one thing, but he didn’t guess the other, the third …
Female insecticides with aphid regeneration have long been the dream partners of male insecticides and even of all male humans.
Aphids, also known as honey worms, have a harmonious symbiotic relationship with ants and can secrete honey dew containing sugar. In addition, the female aphid is not only fertile, can reproduce 10 to 30 generations a year, but also has the ability to “parthenogenetic reproduction”, does not need a male to be able to conceive. The particularity of aphid regeneration lies in the fact that besides the regeneration ability of limbs and organs, it also inherits other characteristics of aphids.
However, female insecticides with aphid regeneration are extremely rare, and the vast majority of people are unaware of the benefits of this ability, even fewer knowledgeable, in addition to research and discussions on a comprehensive ban on insecticidal capacity in the Temple and the World Assembly. Even Bi Qinglan had consulted a large number of ancient books to find out the characteristics of this ability. She tore the ancient books into pieces and threw them into the furnace on the spot. As a result, another record of aphid regeneration was missing from this world. At least, it was extinct in the temples of the Spirit Snake bloodline.
About half an hour later, the group passed through an open space. The fog around them suddenly surged, as if space had distorted. Seeing this scene, the faces of the hunters at the front of the group suddenly changed. As they ran back, they shouted loudly, “Run! Run! A large number of cemetery marching ants appear in front of them! A large number of cemetery marching ants appear in front of them!”
Just as the roar fell, the rustling sound rushed over like an overwhelming wave, sweeping across the entire area like a hurricane. In an instant, even Hagrid, who had always been calm, revealed a trace of fear.
Cemetery marching ants, one of the most terrifying existences in the southern cemetery, are located at the top of the food chain. Although their individual strengths were limited, their numbers were enormous. They moved like a flood that broke a levee. There was not a single blade of grass in the place where they struck, and bones were everywhere. Even if it was a pack of insect-like wolves, they still had to retreat.
Looking at the abandoned supplies and the running team members, Tie Zha did not retreat but instead flew forward. He spread his membrane wings and jumped into the air, flying forward.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak …”
In an instant, an indescribably dense hissing sound came from below. Through the faint mist, the ground was crawling with dense bright red ants, like sloping water, causing one’s scalp to go numb.
The reason why Tie Zha didn’t escape was because he had already consulted the information about the army ants in the cemetery and had a way to deal with them. In terms of numbers alone, no creature could compare to his scouting ants.
“Fifth brother! Fifth brother!”
In his thoughts, a rough voice came from behind him. Turning around, Hagrid was flapping his membrane wings and flying towards him.
“Hurry up and leave. If you fall, you will die.” Hagrid said hurriedly.
“It’s fine, I have a way to deal with them.” After saying that, Tie Zha took off a broken grenade and smashed it down with a “clang” sound.
Two seconds later, there was a flash of fire below, “Boom!” With a loud sound, countless broken limbs and broken arms mixed with sand and juice soared into the sky. Waves of air pounced towards him, lifting up a large area of fog. Immediately after, Tie Zha spat out a mouthful of saliva into the center of the explosion.
A moment later, countless smaller red-winged ants emerged from the pile of corpses of the army ants in the cemetery, flapping their membrane wings and flying into the air.
“Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz …”
A few minutes later, hundreds of scouts formed a red cloud above the marching ant colony.
Looking at the shocking scene ahead, Hagrid couldn’t help but open his mouth wide.
“Go!”
After assembling, Tie Zha thought and commanded the soldiers to attack. Compared to the cat-sized cemetery troop ant, the scouting troop ant was much smaller, but because of its small size, the roles of both sides were changed.
Hunters become prey.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak …”
The colony of soldiers dived down from above and pounced into the marching colony. The battle had been one-sided from the beginning, and the marching ants in the cemetery had no choice but to carry the scouting ants on their backs.
Somewhere in the battle, several scouts raised their long, pointed forelegs high and stabbed into the ant’s abdomen. After fixing their bodies, they opened their sharp mouths and bent down to bite the carapace beneath them. Then, they desperately twisted their necks. Finally, they forcefully swung them and tore open large wounds. As they swallowed their flesh and blood, they injected new parasitic cells into their bodies. In the next moment, the marching ant let out a fierce scream, its entire body twitching as it shrank into a ball on the ground. Not long after, new soldiers emerged from the wound on its abdomen and pounced on its next target.
Bite, devour, hatch!
In less than a quarter of an hour, the red tide had transformed into thousands, thousands, and thousands, forming an overwhelming momentum that engulfed the entire marching ant colony.
Miserable screams, struggles, collapses!
Standing at the top of the food chain of the cemetery, overlooking the crowd, the army ants in the cemetery were like a piece of fat cake, cut into pieces and eaten without leaving a single piece of meat.
They were in a mess, fleeing in all directions, panicking all day long, until in the end, with the exception of those who had fled into the depths of the fog, all of them died in battle.