"His companions said that he escaped from death in the Dark Worm Valley with injuries all over his body. When he was unconscious, he kept calling for the Ghost-striped Ant Queen. I guess he may have met the queen in the Dark Worm Valley."
Andrew reached out and cut a large piece of roast meat on the yellow sheep's ribs, and said to Suldak.
…
The next morning, Andrew saw Suldak walking out of the barracks and reported to him that Bob Cobden had woken up.
Suldak walked into the tent with Andrew and happened to see his companion feeding him wheat porridge. His face was still very weak.
Seeing Surdak walking in, the companion immediately stood up and saluted Surdak.
Bob Cobden was lying on the bed. Although he was very weak, he looked at Suldak with gratitude. He wanted to say something to Suldak urgently, but his throat could only make a gurgling sound.
Suldak checked his throat and found that it was only inflammation in the throat that temporarily prevented him from speaking.
"Have a good rest and your voice will recover soon." Suldak said to Bob Cobden.
Bob Cobden looked towards Suldak with a grateful face, but could not make any move.
When Suldak left, the companion who had been taking care of Bob Cobden took the initiative to send Suldak and his party outside the tent.
…
When Suldak came back to check on Bob Cobden's injury in the evening, he found that under the blessing of the powerful God, his injuries had basically formed a layer of oil film, and many places healed very quickly.
Bob Cobden sat on a box, and his companion fed him some water.
This time he was able to speak, but he couldn't speak continuously for too long and had to drink water frequently to continue speaking.
Bob Cobden first expressed his gratitude to Suldak, and soon talked about the Dark Worm Valley. He knew exactly what Suldak wanted.
So he lay down in this tent and began to talk about some of the things he had encountered when he sneaked into the Dark Worm Valley alone.
"I just wanted to walk around outside that day. Unexpectedly, after leaving the camp, I happened to see a mane beast in the jungle on the edge of the poisonous mist swamp. This kind of monster is very rare in the area south of the Rift Valley, so
I plan to kill this maned beast and then return to the Qiaotou camp with the loot."
"Before I could touch it, I saw a huge roc falling from the sky above my head and killed the maned beast."
"I lay in the corner and didn't dare to move. I thought I could escape by taking the maned beast away."
"I just didn't expect that I managed to escape the giant mouth of the Peng bird, but became the prey of a group of ghost-marked red ants. Seeing that I couldn't escape, I had to pretend to be dead in desperation..."
"I may look like a grain of food in their mouths, being pinched around the waist by a ghost-striped worker ant's giant pincers, and then being carried by the ghost-striped worker ants into the burrow, across the poisonous fog of the swamp, and all the way across the stone bridge
, and finally we entered a huge cave.”
"The stone bridge spans the entire lake. After passing the stone bridge, the entrance to the crypt is actually not too far from the stone bridge."
"The cave was not dug vertically. Instead, it was dug seven or eight meters deep and then extended downwards at an angle. Because the cave was uneven, I couldn't feel myself going down even when I was in suspended animation."
"After passing through an underground tunnel about three to four kilometers long, you will enter the interior of the Dark Worm Valley."
"I found that this place is more like a small basin. Standing in the wide open field, you can actually look up at the starry sky above your head."
"The cave is very spacious, far from the deep cave we thought."
"Then I walked around this huge basin and discovered a row of ring-shaped entrances. At that time, I thought again that this was probably the real entrance to the cave of the red ant."
"And that huge basin gave me a very strange feeling."
"It looks like a huge tree hole, and the entire tree roots are completely hollowed out. It's very similar, but I can confirm that those mountain walls are very hard rocks, not rotten tree roots."
"I was lifted high into the sky by a giant claw of a ghost-striped worker ant. At that time, my waist was almost broken by the worker ant, and then I entered the underground ant nest."
"These ant nests are criss-crossing underground, with winding passages, and countless ghost-striped red ants are walking through them. There are huge caves not far apart in these passages, and some are places where a lot of non-perishable food is stored."
"Go further inside and you will see an incubation chamber filled with fraternal eggs hanging on the top of the cave. There are many such chambers, and some ghostly patterned soldier ants will guard these stone chambers."
"I was taken deep into the cave. During this period, I tried to find opportunities to escape, but unfortunately I failed."
"It looked like a castle until I saw the huge thing in the deepest part of the cave."
"To be precise, half of his body should be connected to a huge castle. Those one-meter-high white giant eggs are squeezed out of the twelve castle doors. Next to each door are ghost-patterned soldiers waiting.
Ants, they will move the hatched fraternal eggs into the incubation room."
"It was only after I came here that I had the idea of escape..."
"I am an assassin. I have learned how to fake death and how to hide. I can cover up the smell of my body and hide in any dark corner without being noticed."
"Unfortunately, when I was escaping, the queen ant found me. Although she couldn't move, it seemed that the entire ant hole was full of eyes. No matter where I was hiding, they would easily find me."
"It commanded a group of ghost-striped soldier ants to capture me in the cave, and I first hid in an incubation room. Unfortunately, every time I went to an incubation room, I was always quickly found by these ghost-striped red ants."
"In the end, I couldn't hide, so I opened a fraternal egg and got in."
When Bob Cobden talked about this, his eyes tightened, as if he was recalling the scene he least expected to see.
"At the beginning, the fraternal egg had clear egg liquid inside, and there was no special feeling except that it was covered in sticky liquid."
"It's a pity that I couldn't escape at that time, so I kept hiding in that fraternal egg."
"Until the fraternal egg slowly deteriorated, the egg liquid gradually turned into sour liquid under such circumstances. I soaked in it..."
"The group of ghost-striped red ants discovered the broken fraternal egg. A ghost-striped worker ant threw the fraternal egg out of the cave, and I was able to escape. However, by then the acid liquid had corroded my whole body. I
I must have fainted and died in the fraternal egg. I don’t know who saved me!”
The companion who had been taking care of him spoke at this time:
"The ones who rescued you were our colleagues. At that time, they thought you were an egg-laying human. You crawled out of the fraternal egg all wet, which shocked them. They rescued you, and they were originally planning to sell you to magic.
The union later discovered that you were actually a member of the adventure group, so we took you back to the Qiaotou camp. At that time, we saw that all the skin on your body had been corroded, and we all bought a coffin for you..."