The light of the flashlight illuminated the cave in front, and Gu Chen looked inside. The area of this semi-enclosed cave was about twenty or thirty square meters, and there was nothing else inside except a few piles of weathered gravel. Although in terms of defense,
It may not provide convenience, but the cave entrance has a stone wall that blocks light and shadow, so it should be able to be used as a temporary resting place.
Wild monsters emerge from objects and are naturally good at camouflage and concealment. Therefore, even if there is no problem at first glance, there may be wild monsters lurking in them, ready to sneak attack on the resting pioneers. However, Gu Chen’s pure eyesight
Being able to directly see the spirit Brahma vomiting out from the monster, it is impossible for the monster to hide it no matter how good it is in disguise, so there is no need to worry.
"Miss Red Fish, it should be safe here."
After confirming that the cave was safe, Gu Chen waved to the back.
The female flame wielder holding the staff walked in slowly while holding on to the rock wall. The red fish who walked in was unexpectedly pale and her eyes were dark. Judging from the fact that she had to lean half of her body weight on the rock wall, even if she was inexperienced
A layman can also clearly understand that her condition at the moment is quite bad.
"Are you okay?" Gu Chen asked worriedly.
"No problem, just take a short rest..." Red Fish raised his head bravely, but his knees suddenly lost strength.
"careful!"
When the red fish lost its balance and fell to the ground, Gu Chen stretched out his hand to hold it up in time. Although the female Yanshi was extremely powerful, her weight was unexpectedly light. The slender waist with no fat at the beginning made Gu Chen
His mind wandered slightly. For the first time, he realized that the situation was not right. He quickly gathered his energy and warned in a low voice.
"Don't force it. Those red stone ants are much more difficult to deal with than the small stone ants. Besides, we have encountered five groups of ants in half a day. Regardless of the physical consumption, if you continuously release such a big move, your energy consumption will be almost the same.
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"...It's really embarrassing."
Hongyu bit her mouth unwillingly, but she didn't refuse Gu Chen's help even though she lacked the strength to spare.
Gu Chen helped the overstretched red fish to the depths of the cave and let her slowly sit down against the stone wall. He also sat next to the red fish and slowly exhaled the air in his lungs.
"I was too naive about this matter. I thought that after the mineral veins were eaten up, the stone ant colonies would move elsewhere, but I didn't expect that there would be so many stone ants active..."
Not only were the number of stone ants active in the ant nest exceeding Gu Chen's expectations, but their quality was also quite strong. For example, the groups of red stone ants we encountered earlier were larger than the small stone ants, and their bodies were much stronger than the former.
For example, when the red fish first faced the enemy, they used "Flaming Bee" to deal with it. Different from the "Flaming Butterfly" that used lighting warning, the Flame Bee has the penetrating power of high-speed bullets, and basically kills grass monsters and vine monsters with one blow. However,
The bodies of those red stone ants are not only strong but also flexible, so the damage caused by the fire wasps is quite limited.
Seeing that the red stone ants that had eaten several inflamed bees were still rushing towards this direction without slowing down, the red fish had no choice but to use its ultimate move "Flame Horse".
The Flame Horse is a wide-area destructive technique that summons a blazing red horse of flames and tramples everything in its path with ultra-high-temperature explosions. It can exert its maximum power in traverses with limited dodge space. Those red stone ants trampled by the flame hoofs
They were turned into ashes one after another, and even half of the cave was turned into an impassable scorching melt zone, making Gu Chen once again shocked by the strength of the red fish.
In fact, if the battle position configuration is complete, and there are vanguard assistants to help hinder the red stone ants, the red fish can also use fire spells that consume less energy. However, Gu Chen is a healer with no combat power, and the red fish itself is not good at it.
In hand-to-hand combat, once the red stone ants rush in front of them, it will be difficult to deal with them. The red fish can only use large-scale moves to clear the area before it evolves into that situation.
The Flame Horse is extremely powerful, but consumes a considerable amount of energy.
The flame horse trampled half of the cave into an impassable scorching melt zone. As a result, Gu Chen had to take the red fish to find another passage. Moving forward in the winding ant nest, Gu Chen and the others encountered stone ants several times.
If there are small stone ants, you can still use Flame Bee to deal with them, but if you encounter red stone ants, you have to use Flame Horse to clear the area.
Even though the red fish's energy is amazing, it has almost reached its limit after being consumed for half a day. Especially considering that she had been attacked by a stone python before and lost a lot of blood, but she still hasn't fallen down yet, regardless of her mental or physical strength.
All quite remarkable.
"Huh...huh..."
After leaning against the rock wall and panting for a long time, Red Fish finally regained some strength to speak and looked at Gu Chen.
"Gu Chen, this ant nest is indeed abandoned, right?"
"Yes, this can be confirmed." Gu Chen nodded. The scenery along the ant nest looked like it had been abandoned for hundreds of years, and the stone ant colonies were obviously not being maintained.
"Then why are there so many stone ants still active? Do they want to move back?"
"Well, I don't think a land lacking mineral veins will be very attractive to a colony of stone ants. It's possible that they might take the road, or they might be looking for something..." Gu Chen rubbed his chin and thought for a moment.
, then he waved his hand as if to cut off distracting thoughts.
"Forget it, although we don't know what those stone ant colonies are doing, but in our current state it's better not to go any further... I think it's better to just think about how to find the exit now."
"That's right. Invitations from the King of Hell are often sent to those who don't know how to advance or retreat. Only by ensuring a retreat can they live longer." Red Fish also nodded in agreement after hearing this, and unknowingly showed his attitude towards his companions. "But we are in Ant.
The nest is going around and around, now we have deviated a lot from the original path, right? Gu Chen, can you still grasp the direction?"
"I've generally taken notes, so it shouldn't be a big deal... I'll take care of this aspect. Miss Hongyu, please drink this first." Gu Chen poured out a glass of water from his portable kettle and handed it to her.
To redfish.
The red fish took the water glass in confusion, tasted the grass juice-like liquid in the glass, and immediately frowned.
"What is this? It's so astringent!"
"It's a semi-finished product of dust-cleansing water, right? The spiritual essence of longevity fruit is blended into it, and it can play some role in restoring physical strength. Because it was refined in a hurry, there was no equipment on hand to filter out the impurities, and the taste was poor.
Please bear with me."
"It was refined...you refined it on the road!?"
It took Red Fish a while to understand what Gu Chen said, and then he exclaimed in surprise.
"Fortunately, I picked up a few missed longevity fruits yesterday, which came in handy."
Gu Chen shrugged his shoulders, feeling a little ashamed in his heart. It was Xiao Yi who took out those longevity fruits while Guo Bei's team was resting. At this moment, he could only lie to protect the little white ape. But the refined dust
The water was also used on the red fish, so it can be regarded as returning to its original owner.
"Yes, you are a master. You can refine any elixir you want at any time..." Red Fish murmured to himself, looking at Gu Chen with rather complicated eyes. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and raised the water glass to take a drink.
And finished.
The bitter potion made the red fish cough uncontrollably, and Gu Chen expressed sympathy in his heart. Then he adjusted the flashlight slightly and compiled a route out of the ant nest in his notebook.
Maybe it was due to too much fatigue accumulated in the past, or maybe the dust-cleansing water was working to some extent. In short, when Gu Chen came to an end, the red fish next to him had already fallen asleep leaning against the rock wall.