Chapter 279 The Queen Ant's Abilities

While Chi Yao rushed forward, he also tried to control the rock wall on the retreat path of the four fire ants. Unfortunately, the distance was too far and the precision of the control was reduced a lot.

Moreover, the four fire ants activated the skill of Burning Body. With the high temperature of their bodies and their body structure specialized for digging, they quickly dug out a new passage in the blocking rock wall!

Tonino Xavi also realized the seriousness of the matter, and immediately caught up with Chi Yao and said to Chi Yao.

"Second brother, can you guarantee the authentic sound transmission effect? ​​Just like transmitting a message through a microphone, do you understand what I mean?"

Chi Yao understood what Tonino Harvey wanted to do. He stretched out his reverse finger and pointed it at the rock wall beside him. He controlled the earth element to close all the tunnels within his control range, forming a complete enclosed passage.

Chi Yao spoke up.

"I understand, but I can only try my best to ensure that the nearby tunnels are closed. You can try your best."

Tonino Xavi nodded solemnly, took a deep breath, and folded his hands to his mouth. Compared with the previous "big trumpet shape", this time the shape was more like a "cylindrical microphone shape".

In previous battles, he had tried to combine various high-pitched frequencies that he often used, but none of them worked. Tonino Xavi felt that he needed to try other frequencies. Once he made up his mind, Tonino Xavi's eyes became firmer.

Buzz————

A deep voice came out from Tonino Harvey's mouth. Under his control, the sound wave rotated and continued to propagate forward in the closed tunnel. In the layers of back and forth refraction, the power of the sound wave did not decrease, but was strengthened a lot.

The speed of sound was naturally far faster than that of Chi Yao and Tonino Harvey, and also far faster than that of the four fire ants. In less than a second, Tonino Harvey's low sound waves caught up with the fire ants!

Boom!!!

The sound waves hit the four fire ants accurately, and Tonino Harvey seemed to have better luck. The frequency of the sound wave attack he used seemed to hit the fire ants' weaknesses. The four fire ants froze instantly, and their trembling claws could no longer support their bodies, and they fell flat on the ground.

Tonino Xavi was very excited when he saw this scene.

"Brother, I succeeded! I found the weakness of this fire ant, it's the bass!"

Chi Yao responded to Tonino Xavi's enthusiasm with a smile and suggested.

"I think this red fire ant is an evolved species. Maybe we can call it a scorching fire ant. What do you think?"

Tonino Harvey touched his chin and walked to the four paralyzed fire ants on the ground. He looked at their body shapes that were completely different from ordinary fire ants and nodded.

"Okay, you're right. Since you discovered it first, why don't we call it the Fire Ant?"

Seeing Tonino Xavi heaved a sigh of relief, Chi Yao pretended to have a gloomy expression and reminded him in a heavy tone.

"Brother, this is the first time we have discovered this type of fire ant. This means that in the two months since the fire ants appeared, they have gradually evolved in this unknown deep underground!"

"Who knows how many more of these fire ants there are in the caves of the ant nest? There may even be more advanced fire ants!"

"We must rush to the ant nest as soon as possible and stop this before things get too irreversible!"

The scene described by Chi Yao made Tonino Harvey shudder and murmur.

"Yes, in just two months, the fire ants have undergone this kind of evolution. If we give them more time, what kind of monsters will they become?"

Tonino Harvey immediately realized the serious consequences of allowing the fire ants to continue evolving. If high-level fire ants even eliminated their weakness in sound waves, there would be no hope of a solution.

Seeing that Tonino Xavi was lost in thought, Chi Yao immediately killed the four paralyzed fire ants and took the Reverse Fate back to the storage space.

Because I suppressed my luck and accumulated good fortune, a total of twenty fire ants only dropped five blue treasure chests. This drop rate is not unacceptable, at least it is much better than someone who only drops one treasure chest from dozens of monsters.

Chi Yao also brought back Johns' team that was hiding behind the previous cave intersection, and Tonino Harvey quickly calmed down, and everyone prepared to continue their journey.

When the members of Johns' team came, they saw the earth-shaking changes in the terrain caused by the battle between the two people along the way. They couldn't help but swallow their saliva and became more and more in awe of the strength of Chi Yao and Tonino Harvey.

Following Chi Yao's suggestion, everyone chose to trace the fire ants in the opposite direction.

This time, Jack's ability to blast the ore was not fully utilized. He was quite depressed and could not help but scratching his head and asking in confusion.

"Why do you want to go from here?"

Chi Yao glanced at Jack, who was confused, and Babbitt and others who were equally curious, and explained.

"Fire ants are ant-shaped creatures. According to common sense, there must be a queen ant in the ant colony. The queen ant is responsible for laying eggs and can give orders to the ant colony."

"I suspect that the queen ant has a high degree of control over the ant colony and can even sense the situation of all the fire ants."

"This team of fire ants was sent by the queen ant to investigate the situation. What are they investigating?"

"Of course, we are investigating the disappearance of the fire ants in the outer areas, that is, the fire ants we killed along the way."

Hearing this, Babbitt frowned and spoke.

"That doesn't sound reasonable. Ants communicate through antennae and pheromones. Your Highness, what you said is a bit..."

Chi Yao smiled helplessly.

"A bit fanciful? Hey, don't be ridiculous. This is deep in the Yuanyang Stone Mine. It is normal for the Fire Red Ants to have abilities that are different from those of ordinary ants."

Babbitt paused and realized that he had entered a dead end in his thinking. Now the fire ants can spit fire. How can this be compared with ordinary ant colonies?

"That's right. You are right." Babitt nodded and said no more.

Next, Chi Yao and the others continued to move forward, but strangely, as they went deeper, the traces of the fire ants seemed to disappear. After encountering that team of twenty incandescent fire ants, they never encountered any incandescent fire ants or fire red ants again!

After walking for a while, everyone reached a depth of 1,000 meters.

Chi Yao looked at the empty, stuffy cave illuminated by the round sun stone, paused, and had some bad guesses in his mind.

Tonino Harvey noticed Chi Yao's abnormality, walked up and asked.

"Second brother, what's wrong? Did you find anything?"

Chi Yao scanned the area within his perception range but still found nothing unusual. He hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke.

"No, it's nothing. Judging from the surrounding environment and temperature, we are not far from the center of the ant nest. We need to be more careful."

"The queen ant has probably gathered all the ants in the center of the nest, waiting for our 'visit'."

Tonino Harvey frowned and couldn't help but speak.

"You mean, the queen ant noticed our danger and chose to gather all her forces together to protect herself?"

Chi Yao shook his head, spread his hands in front of him and said.

"It's just a guess, this is still the best case scenario."

Tonino Harvey raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion.

"Best case scenario? What about the worst case scenario?"

　Second update.

　　A successful day of full attendance! Ahem, by the way, the story of going to the mine will be finished in two chapters tomorrow, and there are about 3~4 chapters left for the story of the Kingdom of Tyria.

(End of this chapter)