Chapter 345 – Hunting of the Worker Ants

　　Lin Qiye and the other three looked at each other, so what?

　　For ant colonies, worker ants will carry all the collected food back into the nest and only eat the rest when the queen has finished consuming it, and since this worker ant came out to hunt with an empty stomach, that means …… that they may have run out of food.

　　Lin Qiye looked like he realized something and frowned slightly.

　　On the side, Baili Chubby was still full of confusion, and then what?

　　If the food in the nest ran out, then these worker ants would definitely frantically search around for food, otherwise once the queen starves to death, the entire colony would be finished. Lin Qiye slowly spoke.

　　This is a primitive forest with no people, so if these worker ants want to get enough food to feed the whole colony, they can only keep exploring the periphery and expanding the scope of their hunting area. ……

　　This is also the reason why, we only just entered the forest not long before we encountered the worker ants, knowing that this place is still a full two hours away from the location of the first sightings mystery.

　　Cao Yuan frowned and opened his mouth, are you saying that these worker ants will go in the direction of the town?

　　Not necessarily. An Qingyu shook her head, expanding the search area does not mean that all of them will move towards the town, their nests should be in the depths of the vast primitive forests, even if they expand outwards in a circular and large scale, they may not happen to go in the direction of the town.

　　But it was still possible, and the probability wasn’t small. Lin Qiye glanced at the worker ant corpses on the ground, after all, we just randomly chose a route and just happened to bump into one, ruling out the possibility that we were extremely lucky …… would only mean that this giant ant colony has a large worker ant base.

　　Then wouldn’t those homes on the edge of the town be in danger? Baili Chubby’s face changed slightly.

　　The good news was that there were very few homes near the primitive forest at the edge of Anta County, and it was at least a few dozen kilometers away from even the nearest city center, so it shouldn’t cause too much of an impact in a short period of time.

　　Lin Qiye took a deep breath, of course, provided that we can find their nest as soon as possible and kill that ant queen, if we delay any longer, the situation will be really serious.

　　Baili Chubby looked around and sighed helplessly, this forest is so big, waiting for us to find their nest, I don t know how long it will take ……

　　The crowd fell into silence.

　　The biggest problem right now was to find that ant nest in the middle of this vast sea of forest, before according to Lin Qiye’s plan, they had to explore this forest for at least half a month before they could discover the location of the ant nest, but in the current situation, they didn’t have that much time.

　　Right at this moment, Lin Qiye seemed to have remembered something, and a shimmering light appeared in his eyes.

　　Next time, if we come across a worker ant, leave it alive ……

　　Why? Baili Chubby asked suspiciously.

　　Lin Qiye looked up at the black sky above his head, not knowing what he was thinking, I have an idea that I want to verify.

　　Beyond the primitive forest.

　　In the darkness, a few scattered old houses were situated in the empty wilderness, dots of light filtered out from the windows, slightly dispersing the surrounding night color.

　　On the muddy path in front of the old houses, the old man, wrapped in thick clothes, huddled his body, holding the little girl’s hand against the cold wind and walked forward, finally stopping in front of an old house at the edge.

　　Miserable white light filtered through the glass of the old metal sliding door, the surface of which was plastered with four large words in red cut-out paper.Happy Inn.

　　The color of the paper cutouts had nearly faded to white from aging, and the corners of the door were littered with spiders, so it looked very old.

　　The oldest man led the young girl to the metal sliding door, grabbed the handle, and with difficulty pushed the sliding door to the side, leaving a doorway large enough for one person to pass through.

　　The aged metal rubbed against the track with a harsh creaking sound, and as the sliding door was pushed open, a rush of warm air greeted them.

　　The oldest man stepped out of the way, allowing the young girl to walk in first before entering himself and pushing the door to the room closed behind him.

　　The old lady sitting behind a broken wooden table looked up at them and slowly opened her mouth, checking out before twelve o’clock tomorrow morning, and charging more for being late.

　　I know know.

　　The old man nodded, and led the little girl to step on the dusty stairs, toward the second floor.

　　The hotel, in fact, two floors together, there are only three rooms, which the first floor of the small room or the front desk of the old lady’s residence.

　　Although the facilities were a bit rudimentary, the old man didn’t seem to care, as long as there was heat, they could sleep anywhere.

　　The two walked into the room, the little girl took off her coat, then directly jumped on the bed, this day running down, she has long been tired.

　　The old man took off his gloves, took off his hat, looked around the room, spoke: Tingting, you first rest rest, grandpa went down to give you some hot water.

　　The little girl hmmm.

　　The old man closed the door of the room, walked downstairs, and was about to open his mouth to ask the old lady at the front desk for a pot of hot water, when the sound of a broken window suddenly came from the second floor.

　　Bang–!

　　The next moment, the little girl’s piercing scream came from upstairs.

　　The old man and the old lady froze at the same time, and the former quickly reacted and flew up the stairs.

　　Ting Ting! What’s wrong Ting Ting!

　　He violently pushed open the door to his room, and his entire body froze in place.

　　The cold night wind rolled in from the broken window, the yellowed curtains on both sides flopped, the floor of the house was full of broken glass, the entire bed was smashed into several pieces, and the little girl who was originally lying on the bed had long disappeared.

　　The boss rushed into the house and ran to the window to look out, only to see that not far from the edge of the dim light, a blood-red giant ant was carrying the unconscious little girl, crawling rapidly in the direction of the forest.

　　Ting Ting! The boss shouted and jumped out of the window without thinking twice.

　　Fortunately, the window on the second floor wasn’t too high, and the boss’s body was hardened, and after rolling halfway on the ground, he struggled to get up, however, by the time he lifted his head, the giant ant and the little girl’s form had long since disappeared without a trace.

　　He stared wide eyed and shouted the name of the little girl, and what responded to him was only the sound of the whimpering wind ……

　　This fifty-something year old man stood in the cold wind, his mouth wide open, his white hair was blown over and over, and strands of blood dripped from the back of his hand that had been cut by the glass slag ……

　　He clenched his teeth, turned around quickly, and ran towards the darkness on the other side against the piercing cold wind.

　　Twenty minutes later.

　　Anta County Forest Ranger’s Office.

　　A sharp and heavy knock on the door woke up the sleeping Li Deyang.