Chapter 173 Glowing Eyes

Paul’s eyes lit up as he listened to Fang Senyan's words. He had a good relationship with D'Artagnan, and the price of the fresh unicorn flying ant glands he brought back was tempting. Besides, plundering a monster's nest was a happy thing for anyone.

So Paul gritted his teeth and said without hesitation, "Then what are we waiting for? This damned place has much shorter days than Earth. If we delay any longer, it will be dawn, making things even more difficult."

Fang Senyan hesitated for a moment and said, "Then… shall we leave now? Should we call them?"

Paul, consumed by greed and as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, sighed, "You remember them, but they might not remember you! How can someone as shrewd as you be so muddled about such things? Aldaris escaped the pursuit of seven unicorn flying ants. He must be familiar with the terrain and routes around Mushroom Rock. We already have someone to lead the way, so what are we waiting for? If the other side gets there first, we can't just fight them."

Fang Senyan glanced at Aldaris, who said, "Okay, but traveling in the dark is much more dangerous than during the day."

Paul hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll use Heracles to clear the path. Sailor, have your Ramtas follow behind. Nothing should be able to stop us."

Fang Senyan's previous performance was all to get Paul to willingly and proactively say these words. Otherwise, if Fang Senyan had brought it up himself, Paul, with his suspicious nature, might have overthought things. How could it be as justified as it was now?

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Because the three of them had their data registered in the external fire control system, and the external machine gun turrets were constantly sweeping and roaring like a storm, the three of them left without causing any commotion, quietly sneaking out.

The night was without storms or lightning. Only a deep darkness shrouded the plains, providing camouflage for everything.

Looking up, the Euproes meteor belt emitted a clear yellow light in the sky, completely masking the starlight. It gently sprinkled onto the ground, creating a quiet feeling of moonlight if one only looked at the ground.

But the wilderness was not silent. A large number of insects chirped, some courting, some luring prey, and some warning.

More importantly, these sounds were not without danger. The most typical example was a creature called the spoon-headed cicada. It was as fat and solid as a spoon head. Compared to other cicadas, it differed in one thing: its diet.

Ordinary cicadas survive by sucking the sap of trees. Spoon-headed cicadas, on the other hand, are carnivores. The juice of rotten animals, blood, and so on are all on its menu. Fang Senyan had repeatedly been attacked by this perverted insect and it was very distinctive.

When you hear the drawn-out, special cicada sound rapidly approaching from afar, that is the spoon-headed cicada.

Its appearance is quite stunning, feeling like a high-speed diving bomber. Then its sharp mouthparts become engorged with blood, protruding forward like a horn, using the force of the impact to stab straight ahead—well, to put it bluntly, imagine Sister Furong, a burly nurse, holding a syringe and aiming at you to stab you hard.

And this is in the dark!

Under such a perverted attack, where it's all or nothing, not to mention human skin, even the thick skin of buffaloes and wild boars cannot withstand this perverted stab.

Fortunately, Ramtas's nature magic played a significant role. After he cast a "Nature Mark" spell on everyone, you could see the thing glowing from afar, like a clear hundred-watt light bulb attached to a bush branch, so you could prepare in advance to prevent it.

Along the way, Fang Senyan killed at least a dozen spoon-headed cicadas. At first, he tried to hit a few home runs like playing baseball. Later, he simply dodged, letting these kamikaze guys crash directly into the soft soil.

In that dark, humid place, their plump, solid wing muscles were a long-awaited delicacy for underground insects. These guys, who are good at seizing opportunities, would not give the spoon-headed cicadas a chance to fly again.

The three of them adapted to the strange attacks along the way. These special "cares" from the Euproes planet were endless. Fang Senyan was thick-skinned and fearless, but Aldaris and Paul inevitably suffered a lot. Although these sufferings were not fatal, they were extremely annoying.

Under the guidance of Paul's powerful metal puppet, Heracles, the three of them finally arrived at Mushroom Rock after an hour. At this time, Mushroom Rock still looked like a mushroom, but the cap had been bitten off a large chunk, and the rock peak was covered with cracks. It was estimated that after another two or three magnitude earthquake, the name Mushroom Rock would become a thing of the past.

The three people who came here, to put it nicely, were all meticulous; to put it bluntly, they were shameless characters with sores on their heads and pus under their feet. The detailed plan to deal with unicorn flying ants was naturally well known to them.

They directly threw out a piece of fresh ant gland previously stored in their personal space, and then ambushed, directly encircling it. According to the habits of unicorn flying ants, as long as they sensed the scent of their kind, they would most likely come to investigate. Then, the three of them would swarm forward…

Soon, a unicorn flying ant landed nimbly from the dark sky. Its body was not covered with the common skin membrane, but with chitinous wings like those of termites, which appeared transparent and thin.

In addition, its body was the size of a lion, but at least eighty percent of its appearance would remind people of ants. The bee-like tail kept stretching and contracting, and vaguely one could see the looming black poisonous stinger. Fang Senyan had already intuitively felt its power from the wounds cut open on Azisha and D'Artagnan, so he did not intend to try it himself.

"This is a male ant," Aldaris quickly sent a message to the two of them. "It only has two uses from birth. One is to mate, providing the queen ant with enough sperm. The other is to fight, so don't be careless."

"Well, so the male ant's gland should be more valuable," Fang Senyan immediately added. "What we got before was just the glands of worker ants, but now we have a guy who is specially used for reproduction and combat. From this, we can deduce two things. First, the ant colony must have suffered heavy losses, so that even this kind of guard is out doing odd jobs. The second thing is that this guy's gland is definitely twice, oh no, ten times the price of an ordinary worker ant!"

As soon as Fang Senyan finished speaking, Paul, without saying a word, controlled his giant metal war puppet to break out of the ground, and the giant club with amazing weight slammed heavily on the male ant. Then, Aldaris's dagger also slashed across the male ant's wings. What followed was, of course, a crazy beating without any Bushido spirit…

Even so, this guy persisted for nearly five full minutes before dying, and Fang Senyan's artificial human No. 1 was also pierced by the poisonous stinger. The terrifying venom crazily corroded even the plastic and rubber components for a while. If he hadn't accumulated some parts before, then it would have been declared scrap.

Regrettably, the male ant's fierce struggle before death destroyed the integrity of its gland, so the expected harvest did not appear. This made Paul feel extremely angry, and he even wanted to vent his anger on the corpse. However, under Aldaris's obstruction, the three of them, after committing the crime, cut off most of the male ant's corpse and put it into their personal space, and then immediately left the scene.

This was a lesson previously summarized by Hedi Curry and the others with their blood. Once a unicorn flying ant is killed, the ant colony will immediately rush to reinforce it through the pheromones it secretes. If you are not careful, you will have to wait to be trapped in a siege.

After hurriedly eliminating the scent, the three of them escaped. Through the cameras they left behind, they observed the situation on the previous battlefield. They found that the attention triggered by the scent of the male ant's gland was obviously much higher than that of ordinary worker ants. Five male ants quickly rushed to the scene, circled around, and then took away some of their companion's corpses. Three male ants were very unwilling to circle around nearby a few times before leaving.

In response to this situation, Fang Senyan and the others immediately formulated a more wretched plan, dividing the remaining corpse of the male ant just now into five parts, and then having four artificial humans take four of the parts and abandon them separately, and then escape. Because most of the artificial human's muscles are plastic and rubber, as long as they abandon the corpses and escape immediately, it will be difficult to be targeted.

With the help of this arrangement, the five male ants were separated again, and the fate was of course that one of them was hunted down. This time, Fang Senyan and Paul had experience fighting male ants, and they worked more efficiently.

In fact, when there were only four male ants left at this time, if Fang Senyan went all out, it would not be impossible for the three of them to join forces to kill them all, but he didn't bother to reveal all his cards now, so he continued to adopt a strategy of attrition.

It was only when the number of male ants was reduced to two that they learned their lesson. No matter how they were lured, they would not appear. However, for Fang Senyan and the three of them, the threat posed by the two male ants had been reduced to an acceptable level. At this time, they could drive straight in and point their swords at the ant nest under Mushroom Rock!