0223 The Curse
I don’t know if it was Zhou Qingfeng’s toughness, or if the queen of the ant realized the reality and wanted to catch any life-saving straw. In short, the acidic ants compromised. Instead, they did not pursue the attitude of this group of outside adventurers, but instead led them from prison to a deep pit.
This is probably the deepest part of the ant nest, quiet and quiet. The glowing moss illuminates the road, and only breathing and footsteps echo while walking. Outside the deep pit, the flying ant suddenly stopped and said, "Please go ahead, you can see it yourself."
Alas...
Zhou Qingfeng found that his current location was like a dividing line. Behind him there were a large number of acidophile ants moving, but there was not even an ant in the deep pit.
What kind of existence is something that even countless acidophile ants are extremely afraid of?
Everyone was confused and confused. The queen of the ant stopped explaining, and only looked at the pit and knew it. Zhou Qingfeng had no choice but to say that he said to the necromancer, "Look a fire, I want to see it clearly."
The little trick ignited the everlasting fire and illuminated the large pit with a diameter of more than ten meters. The hole was dark and unfathomable. But when you stood by the pit, you could see a large number of ants piled up inside.
To be precise... it is a huge number of corpses of acidophile ants.
This is a huge corpse pit, and there are thousands or tens of thousands of ants filled in it. They are layered and huge in number, almost filling the deep pit. The corpses exude an indescribable sour smell, which is disgusting and even more terrifying.
Xili looked at it and turned her head. The other people frowned when they saw it. No one expected that this Ant Kingdom hidden underground would even be so exaggerated to create a corpse pit.
However, "Jiying" stumbled on the long monster's head and asked strangely: "What's wrong with these ants? I seem to see a white and fat man, that's..."
"That's the previous ant queen." Feiyi said calmly.
The last queen was huge in size, about four or five cows. However, the queen's white body was covered with black spots, and it seemed that she was ulcerated wounds, and some places were even dissolved.
"Jiying" was even more surprised, "Queen Ant, you will grow up so big? How much do you have to eat?"
The queen ignores this stupid problem.
Zhou Qingfeng turned around and asked, "The unrest happens inside you?"
"There will be no turmoil in the ant colony, we are one." said the queen.
“Then this is…”
"It's a plague."
As a priest of the disease, Old Borg interrupted. He looked up again and found that there were pipes leading from all over the ant nest to the place above the deep pit. From time to time, these pipes would slide out the corpse of an acidophile ant and fall into the deep pit.
As soon as Mondino waved his hand, he summoned him to the front of him before the body of an ant fell. Everyone watched carefully from close range - the falling ant was not dead yet, and its tentacles were still dancing. However, its body was ulcerated in many places, its limbs were weak, and it was already dying.
Is it really a plague?
Zhou Qingfeng was shocked. There was a plague in the closed space of this underground country? He was so angry that he complained, "No wonder the queen of the ant said earlier. If I knew that this ghost place had a plague that caused such a large-scale death, I might as well do my best to do it outside."
but......
Zhou Qingfeng avoided a few steps and shouted loudly: "Okay, don't be afraid. We have old Borg who believes in the 'Mother of Epidemic' here. He is best at this, so there must be a way."
The Queen's tone of the Ant was slightly improved, "It would have been a good idea if things could be solved so simply, but the situation might be worse than you think."
Old Borg also said in a deep voice: "I have never seen this kind of plague. Maybe it can be studied, but I am not sure."
Zhou Qingfeng suddenly felt a chill in his heart...
The queen continued: "To be precise, this is a 'rot curse'. It has been with us since our acidic ant tribe was born. Even the queen of the ant cannot escape the infection of this plague. We can only endure it and face death directly.
You see that deep pits are not the only ones among the ant nests. In fact, after we lived there, dozens of similar deep pits have been dug. Each deep pit can be used for about a year. After filling tens of thousands of ants, you can only cover it and then dig another one.
In order to fight this plague, we have thought of many ways, but none of them work. We have long been accustomed to being with this curse. A single death is not terrible, as long as the race is still there.
The plague will screen out elderly and weak individuals, making the entire ant tribe stronger. But this time there is a new situation..., cases have also appeared in the hatchery that has never been infected in the past and are spreading rapidly.
If all the ant eggs are infected, our tribe will be ruined. I won’t kill you, but I will lead you in, hoping that someone can break the curse that the ant tribe has endured.”
Zhou Qingfeng forced himself to interrupt and asked loudly: "There was such a curse when the acid-loving ants were born? That's at least decades. What you can't handle for decades, can we do it? Are you trying to die?"
The queen of the ant was still calm, "Don't complain, although I know that you have little hope of finding a solution. But I have no other way to go. Don't expect a group that is about to perish and can reason."
"You..." Zhou Qingfeng felt really cold in his heart now. Everyone felt cold in his heart. They were staying in an ant nest deep into the ground, or an ant nest where the plague broke out - God knows whether the plague will be transmitted to people?
Because I can't handle this plague, the entire ant nest's acidic ants rushed to the ground to escape. So the monsters in the black forest ran everywhere? So I destroyed the harmonious village that had been established for only half a year?
This is not a fight, killing, and it cannot be solved no matter how many times you read it. Could it be that you can only abandon the foundation of Harmonious Village and go as far as you can?
Zhou Qingfeng was full of unsolved problems.
The queen said, "I don't know if you can come in handy? But if you have any ideas to solve the plague in the ant colony, you can just mention whatever you need, and I will be as satisfied as possible.
If you can succeed, I will give you unimaginable wealth and treasures. The collections that the acidophila has accumulated for decades will be open for you to choose from.
But if you want to escape, or if you wait until this deep pit is filled, you can't find any way. You will also be thrown into the deep pit for funerals, I will do what I say."
Everyone looked at Old Borg, and the dwarf witch doctor shrugged and said that he had no research on curses.
Everyone looked at Mondino again, and the necromancer smiled bitterly, saying that although he knew some of his knowledge of death and soul, the curse was also the most mysterious part of the mysticism.
Everyone looked at Xili again, and the elf girl shook her head slightly and said that the curse was ever-changing, both strong and weak. The curse that could last for decades was definitely not easily solved.
Finally, everyone looked at Zhou Qingfeng. The old man scratched his head and spread his hands and said, "At most, I can use a knife to chop people, and I don't know any curse."
Chapter completed!