As soon as everyone walked out, a giant ant as big as a mastiff jumped out of the bushes. Its upper body was as scarlet as fire and its abdomen was black. It looked like a bull ant magnified tens of thousands of times!
"Good guy, I beat the little one, and then the big one comes! Will there be elder ants and immortal ants taking turns to appear next? This is all a bloody fantasy drama!"
Gao Fei complained while opening the astrolabe to detect the mutated bull ant on the opposite side.
There are three kinds of mutated bull ants in the monster illustrated book collected by Tiangong, namely queen ant, male ant and worker ant. The queen ant is the largest, followed by the male ant, and the worker ant is the smallest. It is the only one among the three that cannot fly and has the lowest challenge level.
The one in front of Gao Fei is a worker ant. It is a medium-sized mutant insect with a challenge level of level 3. Although its wings have degraded, it has strong climbing and jumping abilities.
The attributes of this mutant bull ant are strength 18, agility 18, constitution 15, intelligence 1, perception 15, and charm 11.
The innate characteristics of ant-like creatures, including dark vision, tremor perception, and sensitive sense of smell, are all retained after mutation. They also have talents such as "robustness", "proficient jumping", "dexterous movements" and "weapon proficiency".
The mutated bull ant's chitin exoskeleton provides level 3 natural defense, and in terms of attack, it has two powerful chemical weapons, formic acid and toxin!
The powerful serrated mandibles of the mutated bull ant bite the prey and inject poison into it, paralyzing the prey. When it stings the prey with the poisonous needles of its tail, it can also cause an additional 2d6 points of acid damage.
Among Gao Fei and his team, the one who is most familiar with the mutant Bull Ant is the mutant Echidna who lives in the same mountain forest and often conflicts with it.
Before the bull ant mutated, it was a frequent visitor to the echidna's diet. It finally mutated into a giant ant. If it couldn't take revenge and counterattack its former natural enemy, wouldn't the mutation be in vain?!
It is with this mentality that the mutated bull ants are particularly hostile to echidnas. Once they encounter them, they will kill them quickly!
So when it smelled the unique scent of the echidna from a distance, it immediately rushed over with murderous intent!
If an ordinary echidna encounters such a ferocious and poisonous giant ant, its only chance of survival is to quickly dig a hole in the ground and escape.
Even mutated echidnas usually do not actively provoke mutated bull ants similar in size to themselves.
The problem is not whether it can survive the attack, but the special structure of its snout, which determines that the mutant echidna can only prey on small insects.
The mutated bull ant is too big for it, and there is no point in fighting it. Why do it do such a thankless thing?
If forced to fight, the mutated echidna will also shrink into a circle of spiny balls and take a defensive position, leaving the mutated bull ants with nowhere to eat and eventually retreat.
However, this time, perhaps because the mutated echidna knew that there was a group of "thighs" behind it and knew that it would never suffer, it acted with rare arrogance and attacked the giant ant opposite with its claws and fangs.
Phew!
With a sharp sound of breaking wind, two spikes shot out.
One of them hit the huge abdomen of the mutated bull ant and penetrated deeply. Light brown body fluid overflowed from the wound, emitting a sour and pungent smell.
Giant ants have no pain-sensing nerves. The moment they are attacked, they jump five meters high as a conditioned reflex and pounce in the air.
The mutated echidna resolutely shrank into a ball of thorns, with only a pair of shrewd little eyes peeking out through the gap between its head and tail. It looked both vulgar and funny.
The mutated bull ant rushed forward, trying to pry away the curled up prey, but was afraid of the spikes all over the opponent's body. He hesitated, twisted his butt, and wanted to sting the opponent with his tail needles, but was depressed to find... his own tail needles.
, not as long as the opponent's thorn.
Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, the mutated mantis beside Qi Tian became impatient and rubbed the two serrated swords together with a rattling sound.
"Xiaotian, send the mantis up there too, let's see who is more powerful, it or the giant ant." Gao Fei said.
"Then my big mantis must be more powerful!"
Qi Tian confidently made an attack gesture, and the mutated mantis immediately jumped over and slashed at the giant ant with two swords.
It is also a mutated insect. The mutated mantis is slightly larger than the mutated bull ant, and its strength attribute is also two points higher. It can cut off the opponent's two forelimbs with just one move of the knife.
The mutated bull ant was still unconvinced and rushed forward bravely, biting its opponent who was stronger than itself.
While the two giant insects were fighting fiercely, the mutant echidna blinked its small eyes, spread its body obscenely, and trotted all the way around behind the mutant bull ant, aiming its plump butt at it.
The mutated mantis leaned forward and charged in a tacit understanding, pushing the giant ant backwards and falling, and happened to sit on the back of the mutated echidna.
Poof!
Countless sharp thorns penetrated deeply into the back of the giant ant.
The giant ant struggled and danced its claws, and finally managed to break free. The wound was torn apart by the barbs, and several barbs fell off the mutant echidna's back and became embedded in its body, causing continuous bleeding damage.
The mutated mantis took the opportunity to swoop up, clamped a pair of huge toothed swords at the juncture of the giant ant's slender chest and abdomen, pulled hard, and sawed it into two pieces.
The mutated bull ants were still twitching and emitting strong pheromones, which were blown away by the wind.
There are many mutated bull ants in the nearby mountains and forests. They smell the breath of their kind when they are about to die, and they all rush towards them.
The trees swayed, and the giant ants quickly moved from far to near.
Gao Fei sensed that something was wrong and immediately cast the "Entangle Technique", spreading vines all over the place to block the swarms of giant ants.
At the same time, Ma Yun also used the "spider web technique" to stop the giant ants running from the other direction.
Compared with the 1st level "Entanglement", the 2nd level "Spider Web" has stronger stickiness and a greater binding force on the target, but the coverage radius of the spider web is only 20 feet, while the field control radius of "Entanglement" is
There are 40 feet.
A total of ten mutated bull ants were blocked from the outside and could not cross the vines everywhere for a while. However, they were able to fly directly over the area covered by the spider web with their super jumping power and appeared in front of Gao Fei and others.
Seeing that he was about to be surrounded by a swarm of ferocious ants, Tangning suddenly took two steps forward, radiating a circle of substantial magic power around him, forming a 60-foot-wide mysterious barrier with himself as the center, and at the same time, he shot out a circle.
String casting gestures.
Gao Fei could tell at a glance that she was using the "Whip of Thorns", but the next scene was a bit unexpected.
Tang Ning summoned not one but ten thorn whips out of thin air. They appeared in front of a mutated bull ant respectively. After being whipped, they became entangled and dragged backwards.
Ten strong giant ants were whipped at the same time. They suffered little damage, but they were forcibly dragged back into the trap. They were immediately entangled in the spider webs or vines under their feet and were unable to escape for a while.
