Chapter 2008 - 2001: You’re Not Dead Yet
As the location where Zhang Menglong was standing overlapped with the red marker on the map, it officially declared that Zhang Menglong had arrived at that extremely dangerous Demon Ant Nest.
This mountain range is called the Moxuan Mountain Range, covering approximately 1 million square kilometers, almost equivalent to one-tenth of Huaxia’s former territory. The vast internal space of this mountain range has almost been completely hollowed out by the magical beasts known as Blood Demon Ants.
The hierarchical system within Blood Demon Ants is very strict. There is a powerful bloodline pressure between low-level and high-level Blood Demon Ants, with low-level Blood Demon Ants existing almost solely to protect the high-level ones; this is the meaning of their life.
"Hmm? Is there a sound?" Zhang Menglong was just about to enter the cave entrance when he suddenly felt a slight tremor on the ground. This feeling made him immediately freeze, as if something was approaching him!
Zhang Menglong immediately held his breath, suppressing his body’s power to the limit. Unless seen directly by the naked eye, he was almost indistinguishable from the stones and wild grasses by the roadside.
Sure enough, with a miserable cry, a figure unexpectedly rushed out from the entrance of the Blood Demon Ant nest. This was the most tragic person Zhang Menglong had ever seen; he was covered in blood, and one of his arms seemed to have been torn off directly!
That’s right, torn off! If it had been cut off, there should have been some relatively smooth wounds, but his flesh was gone, leaving only a small section of bone, looking cruel and bloody.
Fleeing from the Demon Ant Nest, some traces of joy appeared on his face; as long as he is not dead, his injuries and severed arm can be restored with things bought from the rule figure.
He had just gone through hellish dangers in the Demon Ant Nest; escaping from inside was already a case of narrowly surviving, and now he finally saw light!
Yet, as he looked back again, Zhang Menglong couldn’t help but gasp when he saw the tide of black; countless Blood Demon Ants surged like a wave out of the cave, even though the martial artist had already escaped from the Demon Ant Nest, they still had no intention of letting him go!
The martial artist truly considered himself unlucky; he had approximately 120 times the strength of Peak of Dao Realm, and recently, his survival base companions were hunting Blood Demon Ants here. The drop rate for Blood Demon Ants among Warcraft is relatively high, and the dropped items are rather rich.
Usually, they would only hunt on the first level of the Demon Ant Nest, where Blood Demon Ants typically have strength within ten times the Peak of Dao Realm; they would be relatively safe as long as they paid some attention.
Under normal circumstances, the Blood Demon Ants in the Demon Ant Nest indeed appeared in groups; their populations varied from thousands to tens of thousands, but almost never interfering with each other, maintaining a very safe distance, thus facilitating the martial artists’ hunting.
As long as their strength was enough to deal with one Blood Demon Ant colony, then they wouldn’t encounter any danger in the Demon Ant Nest.
Their survival base was large-scale; this time, there were 12,000 martial artists, most of them possessing strength from ten times to a hundred times Dao Realm. In the first layer of the Demon Ant Nest, they could completely defeat Blood Demon Ants numbering under fifty thousand.
And indeed, their hunting here was rather good; after half a month, everyone was quite satisfied with their gains.
But unexpectedly, just a few hours ago, the Blood Demon Ants in the whole Demon Ant Nest seemed to have gone mad.
They had just finished wiping out a group of Blood Demon Ants and were counting their battle gains when thousands upon thousands of Blood Demon Ant populations rushed toward them from one direction.
There were over ten million Blood Demon Ants!
They didn’t hesitate to run, but another direction was attacked by a larger group, plunging them into extreme danger.
Subsequently, these martial artists fought desperately, retreating toward the entrance of the Demon Ant Nest while crazily killing Blood Demon Ants. The Blood Demon Ants’ strength wasn’t formidable; the fearsome part was their Gift of strength. An ordinary level Blood Demon Ant’s strength equaled that of elite magical beasts or even Lord-level beasts of other races!
But their defensive power and life force weren’t as formidable as their Gift of strength; they fear no death, their sole belief being to drive these cursed humans out from the Demon Ant Nest!
In the process of retreating, the human martial artists fell one after another, then were devoured completely. The Blood Demon Ants left behind numerous corpses, and their dropped Supreme Coins were too numerous to pick up, their bodies not immediately disappearing, ultimately absorbed as food and nourishment by their kind.
Finally reaching the entrance, among the more than ten thousand martial artists, only one remained. His supplies were depleted, staying was entirely due to sheer willpower; both his body and spirit were at the limit.
In just a few seconds, tens of thousands of Blood Demon Ants surged out of the Demon Ant Nest, and this number continued to increase. Among those black-bodied Blood Demon Ants, there were unexpectedly quite a few red ones mixed in, larger than ordinary Blood Demon Ants. These red Blood Demon Ants were the elite among the Blood Demon Ants!
"Swoosh!" A fireball was spat out from the mouth of one Blood Demon Ant. If it were usual, that martial artist could resist it, but at this moment, he was at the end of his strength, unable to withstand the fireball!
The weapon in his hand fell, and he was fiercely struck to the ground by the fireball, leaving scorch marks all over him.
This time, he truly didn’t even have the strength to stand!
Soon, the Blood Demon Ants would devour him.
"Buddha’s Fury Lotus!"
A voice sounded in the sky behind him; a fiery Flame Lotus fell among the Blood Demon Ants like a meteor, the Flame Lotus blossomed, and countless Blood Demon Ants became corpses within the Flame Lotus.
"Rescued?" The martial artist didn’t look back, but he knew someone seemed to have come to save him.
Golden beams erupted from the bodies of those Blood Demon Ants, with the ground littered with items after each Blood Demon Ant’s death; after thousands of Blood Demon Ants perished, the surface was covered!
Tens of thousands of glistening Supreme Crystals sparkled brightly on the ground...
"I probably died, right? Hallucinating now." The martial artist showed a baffling smile; how could such a scene appear in reality!
He was either hallucinating or already dead! Anyway, everything before his eyes was certainly not real.
"Brother, get up," a hand fell on his shoulder, "Don’t doubt yourself, you aren’t completely dead yet!"