pertwk Chapter 103 Ant Nest
Chapter 103 Ant Nest
Chapter 103 Ant Nest
The alarm clock woke Li Jiuhe from his sleep.
He opened his eyes, and the scene before the mission reset flooded his mind.
With a slight frown, Li Jiuhe couldn't understand how this strange sequencer or sequenced object had disguised itself as him and entered his sleeping bag without anyone noticing.
Keep in mind that he had just gotten up and left the tent before the mission was reset, and he had even zipped up the tent entrance to prevent the night wind from blowing in and waking Luo Shuo.
Moreover, from the time he got up until he left the tent, he could see very clearly that the space inside the tent was simply not enough for another person to hide.
So how exactly did this other self come about? Was it created out of thin air?
Li Jiuhe quickly sat up after opening the sleeping bag halfway and picked up the silver-corroded dagger that was inside.
Without hesitation, he turned to Luo Shuo, who was fast asleep in the sleeping bag next to him, and plunged the knife into his forehead.
If that silver-etched dagger were just an ordinary dagger, it wouldn't have the hardness to pierce human bone. But with the enhancement of the rune pattern, the dagger easily pierced the opponent's skull.
The man impersonating Luo Shuo, who was fast asleep, suddenly trembled, opened his eyes abruptly, and revealed an expression of shock and anger.
Visibly, his forehead suddenly split open rapidly from the edge of the silver-corroded dagger, then dissolved and collapsed to both sides.
Li Jiuhe immediately sensed something was wrong, pulled back the silver-corroded dagger, stood up and moved away.
He soon discovered that there seemed to be many densely packed things wriggling inside Luo Shuo's sleeping bag, but the dissolving and collapsing corpse was probably corrosive, so he dared not linger any longer.
He quickly opened the tent and crawled out, only to see Luo Shuo emerging from behind a large tree not far away, shaking slightly.
Upon seeing him, the other person immediately said, just like before, "Did I wake you up? I'm sorry."
"No," Li Jiuhe shook his head, "Someone impersonated you and crawled into your sleeping bag."
"Ah!" Luo Shuo exclaimed in surprise, realizing, "My weapon is still in my sleeping bag."
"It's alright, I've already killed him," Li Jiuhe said.
As he spoke, he turned to look into the tent and could vaguely see that Luo Shuo's sleeping bag was intact, as if the substance had not been corrosive after dissolving.
But strangely, the sleeping bag he had just gotten out of was now slowly bulging up.
Could it be that another version of me was created out of thin air?
Li Jiuhe was deeply surprised.
At the same time, Luo Shuo also witnessed this scene. He pointed at Li Jiuhe's sleeping bag and reminded him, "You—look!"
A human figure was now fully visible inside the sleeping bag.
Li Jiuhe took out his rune pistol: "It's alright, I brought all my weapons with me."
Just then, the walkie-talkie the two had placed in the tent suddenly made a sound; it was Tong Cheng.
"Kill the imposter."
The person inside the newly formed sleeping bag suddenly jolted, clearly having also heard Tong Cheng's words.
The sleeping bag was suddenly opened, and a guy who looked exactly like Li Jiuhe immediately stood up and tried to pounce into Luo Shuo's sleeping bag next door to get his weapon.
But the next second, Li Jiuhe pulled the trigger, and the bullet with rune patterns accurately entered his side rib.
The man's body jolted and immediately collapsed. His body quickly began to disintegrate, looking bizarre.
Luo Shuo's exceptional tracking ability came into play at this moment. He was slightly startled and blurted out, "It's a kind of insect! Its body is made up of insects!"
Li Jiuhe took a few steps closer and looked closely. Sure enough, he found that the dissolved body had turned into a large number of densely packed insects, all of them tiny black dots, crawling and dissipating in all directions.
At that moment, he suddenly realized why this thing was invisible in the tent but could quickly form another version of itself in the sleeping bag. It turned out that it was formed by a large number of insects rapidly gathering together.
Luo Shuo made another new discovery, looked down at his feet, and took several steps back.
"Brother Li, these bugs—they should be ants."
Li Jiuhe looked down and saw several tiny black ants crawling on the leaves. They looked flustered and their crawling patterns were chaotic.
"These ants can take on the appearance of humans? Not only can they imitate us, but they can also know our thoughts!" Li Jiuhe was somewhat surprised.
At the same time.
During the day, Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo went to the middle of that low-lying swamp.
Tong Cheng stood on one leg on a slightly firm spot, with a rock in the mud beneath his feet that provided support for his body.
At this moment, Tong Cheng's eyes were like arrows, fixed on a certain place deep in the swamp.
Just as Li Jiuhe had initially guessed, this swamp had become a swamp capable of swallowing people when it reached this location.
Even Tong Cheng dared not step directly onto it, because the depth of the swamp was unpredictable.
After searching for a while, he finally located the guy who was impersonating his teacher and Li Jiuhe's daughter.
This creature could be described as one, or it could be described as many.
Even Tong Cheng had never seen a Sequencer of this caliber before, and he had already tracked down the guy's core.
With his right hand, he made a delicate, orchid-like gesture and gently flicked it towards the swamp in front of him. A phantom red curtain rose up and quickly covered the swamp area.
At the same time, he spoke sternly, chanting: "You audacious demon, show yourself!"
The resounding sound echoed outwards, and the red curtain, as if empowered, surged directly into the swamp with a whoosh.
A few seconds later, the swamp churned up rapidly, bubbling up like boiling water.
Bang!
A huge, milky-white object shot out of the swamp, trying to escape in another direction.
But it was immediately caught by the red curtain that was chasing after it. The curtain shook violently and bounced it towards the direction of Tongcheng.
Before even getting close to Tongcheng, the guy spewed out a mouthful of black mist, which all rushed towards Tongcheng's face.
Upon closer inspection, these black mists were not mist at all, but rather a dense swarm of black ants.
Tong Cheng did not retreat, nor could he retreat at this moment. Instead, he reached out, took out a Nuo opera mask, and waved it in front of him.
The eerie face in the mask seemed to come alive, its mouth wide open, a long, thin tongue sticking out and suddenly swirling in mid-air to scoop up all the ants into its mouth.
It smacked its lips, and the expression on the Nuo opera mask seemed to suggest that it hadn't had enough, but there weren't any more ants nearby to feed it.
Tong Cheng then carefully put away the mask and covered it with his clothes.
The red curtain completely enveloped the incoming milky-white object. He held one end in his hand, turned around, and quickly ran towards the edge of the swamp.
Dragging along the illusory red curtain, Tong Cheng quickly returned to the camp.
At this moment, Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo were still packing up the sleeping bags in the tent. The sleeping bags were filled with a large number of black ants, but strangely, these ants had already disintegrated and scattered and fled.
However, the sleeping bag was still covered with a dense mass of dead ants, and it would take a long time to clean it.
Tong Cheng threw the red curtain he was holding onto the ground: "The culprit has been found!"
The red cloth was unfurled, revealing a large, milky-white worm curled up inside, its segments of fat slowly wriggling.
At first glance, it looks a bit like a Michelin tire.
This large worm was almost the length of an adult human, and it was actually almost evolved into a human shape. To be precise, it looked like a woman, with a feminine face that looked dignified and plump. However, its whole body was greasy as if it were coated with a layer of sticky solution, and it had a sharp tail barb on its rear end.
"Holy crap!" Luo Shuo stared in astonishment at the scene. "This...worm...worm...does...looks like...it looks like..."
"It's the queen ant."
Tong Cheng said, "The entire ant colony has awakened and gained sequence abilities. They are native to this area, so it's highly likely that this queen ant has seen the abandoned wooden house."
As soon as the words were spoken, the fat queen ant quickly twisted her milky-white body, opened her mouth which was disguised as a human, and made a human-like sound.
"You mean that wooden house? I've seen it, I've seen it. As long as you don't kill me, I'll tell you everything I know!"