Zhou Qingfeng sat cross-legged in the prison. Not far from him were two acidophilic soldier ants guarding the door. In the long-term dim environment, the compound eyes of the large ants have severely deteriorated, and they cannot see objects at close range. But they use the ants on their heads to
The hairs on the antennae and legs provide a superior sense of smell and vibration.
Adrian was talking about the results of his inspection of the ant nest, and suggested opening the prison floor and escaping through the ventilation ducts. But Zhou Qingfeng, who had just returned from reading the file, knew that no matter what method he used, he would inevitably have to face a large number of acidophilic ants.
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Do you want to read an earlier archive? But the good things in the warehouse at the bottom of the ant nest are hard to part with. Medeisi offered a portable alchemy workshop to buy the demonic equipment in the warehouse, which is worth 100,000 points.
Just thinking about it again and again, the number of acidophilic ants is really puzzling. There are at least hundreds of thousands of ants in this ant nest, and they can't be killed all. Adrian's escape plan was rejected by Zhou Qingfeng, so he must think of something else.
idea.
Several members of the expedition team sat together to discuss, and ‘Quick Shadow’ also came forward.
After hearing several unreliable ideas, Dead Horse couldn't help but say: "Master, the mysterious monster you threw into the underworld is not dead yet. The last time I came out, it scolded you and said it was willing to cooperate.
"
Mysterious?
Zhou Qingfeng tricked the devil in the Bloodstream Canyon and threw it into the underworld, thinking that it was already finished.
'Jiying' said: "The mysterious monster's body is just a stone, and even the strong negative energy in the underworld cannot kill it. If we ignore it, it will stay there all the time. It said that we will definitely encounter acid-loving ants, and also said
Know how to break the ant colony curse."
Zhou Qingfeng turned his mind around, opened his own passage to the underworld, and said to 'Jiying': "Go and ask clearly what that mysterious monster has in mind. Tell it that I will not easily believe in a devil.
If you are dishonest, you will stay in the underworld forever."
'Swift Shadow' went to the underworld and brought back a mysterious answer: "It said that acid-loving ants once entered the canyon and were swallowed by it. It knew that there was a curse crisis in the ant colony, and it was willing to use spiritualism to help us save the dead."
The new queen ant shouted out and asked about the source of the curse."
Necromancy is a specialty of certain monsters, used to summon dead souls. This is more advanced than the "talking with the dead" of the necromancy system. Devils who are good at playing with souls often have this ability.
As for the source of the curse, Zhou Qingfeng really didn't think much about it. Because he and his teammates had no solution to the curse and didn't know what to do.
"What are the conditions for the mystery monster?"
"It doesn't want to go back to purgatory, nor does it want to stay in the underworld. It wants to stay in the main material world."
"It wants to continue to stay in the main material world to harvest souls, and its plan is quite good." Zhou Qingfeng laughed at this, and then looked at Mondino, "Ask the old hag, I have a mysterious projection here, it
Are you interested?"
Mondino followed the question, but after a while he shook his head and said: "The old hag is not interested in the mystery monster. It said that this kind of devil is of no use except playing quizzes. But it also said that if we want to deal with the mystery monster,
It can provide some help."
The help of the old hag will not be free. Zhou Qingfeng spent a thousand points to exchange for red crystal, in exchange for a contract scroll written with the blood of a high-level devil. This scroll will forcibly bind a low-level devil,
No need to know its real name.
'Quick Shadow' used this scroll to go to the underworld again, and pulled the unlucky mysterious monster over again. This guy returned to the main material world and wanted to unfold the illusion and control all intelligent beings in the field, but found that he was the one being captured.
controlled.
"You are so shameless and despicable." The lion head and the sheep head shouted at the same time, angrily. "When did humans become so bad? They actually deceived us devils?"
The mysterious monster still looked like a stone sculpture weighing more than 100 kilograms, with two animal heads staring at Zhou Qingfeng and cursing non-stop. The latter only curled his lips and said, "Stop talking nonsense, tell me about your psychic skills."
Controlled by the forced contract, the mystery monster could only succumb: "Send me to the body of the previous ant queen, and I can summon her dissipated soul back. All questions will be answered. But don't let the acidophilic ants know that you want to
Doing this should be the secret of the ant colony."
Zhou Qingfeng looked at Adrian. The clown nodded and took out many small bottles from his treasure pocket, "I can make the ants guarding the prison temporarily unconscious, and they won't know what happened when they wake up. But the duration is not long.
It will take too long.”
A few people did what they said. The clown released some rosemary dust to make the soldier ants guarding the prison lose consciousness. Zhou Qingfeng and Todd lifted the heavy mystery monster and quickly ran towards the corpse pit deep in the ant nest.
They must rush back again before the patrolling soldier ants find them, otherwise the acidophilic ants will look around manically again.
The corpse pit exudes a sour smell and is extremely cold and deserted. The acidophilic ants instinctively do not want to rely on this place of death. In just two or three days, the fat white corpse of the previous queen in the pit was covered by other ant corpses, which shows that the ants
The death toll within the nest is quite staggering.
"Hurry up and cast your psychic skills, we don't have much time." Zhou Qingfeng urged.
The two heads of the mysterious monster made a new request, "We need a red crystal to cast the spell."
"What?" Zhou Qingfeng glared, "Don't cause trouble for me, you devil. Don't forget that the forced contract is still valid."
The two beast heads shook their heads together, "We are not looking for trouble. Red crystal is a casting material for necromancy and is a necessity."
Damn the devil, he made the request at the last moment. He had clearly planned it long ago. Now that he had to make a move, Zhou Qingfeng could only exchange a thousand points for another red crystal and give it to the mysterious monster.
The two animal heads laughed at the same time, and they really started to use psychic skills now, chanting in a low voice: "On the principle of reciprocal exchange, use the corpse of the deceased as a spiritual medium. Void, I ask to recall a deceased soul.
."
The red crystal gradually turned into powder and floated into the void. The corpse of the queen ant in the ant corpse pit randomly became rotten and decayed. As the spell became louder and louder, a flow of air came from all directions and gradually gathered above the corpse pit.
Fat and white, with a huge body, swaying antennae, and degenerated legs and feet, the soul of the previous queen ant was recalled from the past time by necromancy. As soon as it appeared, the spiritual link directly penetrated everyone's consciousness, and an ethereal voice sounded.
"Humans and devils, why did you summon me?"
Zhou Qingfeng took a step forward, raised his head and said, "Because I have a question. What happened in the ant nest that caused the ant eggs to begin to be eroded by the curse?"
The current ant queen forcibly imprisoned Zhou Qingfeng and others, asking them to solve the plague but deliberately concealing the cause of the plague. Let another ant queen answer.
According to the rules of spiritism, the summoned soul must answer the summoner's questions. Zhou Qingfeng and others stood in front of the corpse pit, waiting to know what was the root cause of this unreasonable disaster?