Chapter 2012 - 2005: It Should Be Worth a Lot, Right?
Entrance to the Demon Ant Nest.
A group of Martial Artists arrived here one after another. Although a long time had passed, they could still feel the scorching, fiery atmosphere lingering in the air around them.
"There was just a great battle here!" the leading Martial Artist said, "We can’t reach them, it seems our people must have met a grim fate!"
"Lumus!" At that moment, they finally noticed Lumus, who was still lingering at the entrance of the Demon Ant Nest. His injuries had almost healed, though he still appeared a bit weary.
"Captain Baidao!" Seeing his own people, Lumus found some sense of security.
"Where are the others? Why are you the only one left?"
A hint of gloom passed over Lumus’s face, "They’re all dead!"
"All dead?" The Martial Artist known as Captain Baidao was suddenly at a loss for words. He patted Lumus on the shoulder, "What happened here to you all?"
"For some reason, the Blood Demon Ants inside the Demon Ant Nest suddenly rioted. We were chased by tens of millions of Blood Demon Ants, and only I managed to escape." Although it was just a few words, everyone could sense the danger within. Even he barely survived against tens of millions of Blood Demon Ants.
"If you escaped, why haven’t you gone back to the survival base?" Baidao asked curiously.
"I’m waiting for someone!" Lumus recounted everything about meeting Zhang Menglong.
"Oh? Took out nearly ten thousand Blood Demon Ants in one move? This person’s strength is extraordinary, and he’s actually in the First-grade Dao Realm? He went in there alone?"
"The fourth layer is almost cleared out!"
Zhang Menglong swallowed a few elixirs and swept through the Demon Ant Nest from the first layer down, just like a Scavenger.
Over 20 million ordinary Blood Demon Ants were killed on the first layer!
Over 60 million ordinary Blood Demon Ants and over 8 million elite Blood Demon Ants were killed on the second layer!
million elite Blood Demon Ants and 1.8 million Lord Blood Demon Ants were eliminated on the third layer.
2.4 million Lord Blood Demon Ants and 200,000 King Level Blood Demon Ants were eliminated on the fourth layer!
In this fourth layer, Zhang Menglong encountered considerable trouble. The physical durability of the King Level Blood Demon Ants was comparable to that of King Level Warcraft. Even under Zhang Menglong’s Destruction Fire Lotus and energy blasts, many still survived, showcasing their formidable Life Force.
Though these Blood Demon Ants were difficult to deal with, they dropped abundant resources. The items dropped from them offered better efficiency and ease than ordinary Blood Demon Ants, but they still yielded things that couldn’t be obtained from low-level Blood Demon Ants.
The originally bustling Demon Ant Nest suddenly became quieter. Now in the entire Demon Ant Nest, only the Mother Nest of the Blood Demon Ants and its guards should remain.
According to the Demon Ant Nest’s description, there were four layers in total, but beneath these four layers lay a small space—the core of the Demon Ant Nest—where the Blood Demon Ant Mother Nest was located! Despite Zhang Menglong slaughtering so many Blood Demon Ants, as long as this Mother Nest continued to exist, countless Blood Demon Ants would soon be reproduced and restore them to their original numbers.
To this day, Zhang Menglong hadn’t discovered any clues as to why the Blood Demon Ants rioted, but he vaguely felt like they were protecting something.
After Zhang Menglong killed a vast number of Blood Demon Ants on the first layer, the remaining ones fled to the second layer. But when Zhang Menglong engaged them in close combat on the second layer, they fought desperately without retreating to the third layer. Their attack was even more intense than on the first layer.
It was evident these Blood Demon Ants were trying hard to stop Zhang Menglong from entering deeper, as the threat to the Mother Nest increased the further down he went!
"Where exactly is this Mother Nest?" Zhang Menglong searched around but couldn’t find the location of the Mother Nest. "Gou Dan, can you find it?"
[Dean, to your left front, there is a small lake; there’s a cavern underneath, it should be there.]
"Why didn’t you say so earlier!" Zhang Menglong muttered.
[You didn’t ask me...]
...
Zhang Menglong bantered with Gou Dan while flying in that direction, eventually finding a rather large underground lake in that area.
The lake was almost as large as a small country. Zhang Menglong noticed a meandering underground river, likely the water source for the entire Demon Ant Nest.
Zhang Menglong leaped directly into the lake; indeed, the depth exceeded even Earth’s deepest trench, the Lamania Trench. Guided by Gou Dan, Zhang Menglong found a solid rock wall with a rather large hole. Passing through that hole, Zhang Menglong finally reached the core of the Demon Ant Nest.
It was an empty cave inside the lake, vast in size. In the center... Zhang Menglong even felt compelled to use the term "chunk" to describe it; it really was a chunk of disgusting meat. Surrounding that chunk were the eggs of Blood Demon Ants!
"This must be the Blood Demon Ant Mother Nest, right?" Zhang Menglong looked at the revolting thing. It seemed to produce ten or more eggs every second, occasionally even larger, differently colored ones, which should be the elites, Lords, or even King Level Blood Demon Ants.
As described in the data, the Mother Nest possesses Dao Realm extreme Life Levels, but beyond hatching Blood Demon Ant eggs, it has no other abilities.
Zhang Menglong also noticed numerous powerful presences surrounding the Mother Nest. It’s said that there are King Level Blood Demon Ants guarding around the Mother Nest, all of whom the Mother Nest spent a tremendous amount of energy to hatch. They aren’t many, at most one or two hundred, but their strength is terrifying. Their mandibles can easily crush the Dao Weapons of Martial Artists, and only a Supreme Weapon might withstand such attacks.
As the mother of all Blood Demon Ants in the Demon Ant Nest, the Mother Nest’s awareness and spirit are connected to all Blood Demon Ants. It seemingly felt the large number of Blood Demon Ant deaths, accelerating its egg-laying pace.
Of course, the Mother Nest doesn’t lay eggs out of nowhere; every time it lays an egg, it consumes some of its energy. With the acceleration of egg-laying, the Mother Nest’s body visibly began to wither.
"Hmm? What’s that?" Zhang Menglong suddenly noticed in a corner of the Mother Nest was lying a silvery-white egg with golden patterns.
This egg was small, even smaller than ordinary Blood Demon Ant eggs, but the special patterns on it made Zhang Menglong feel it was certainly not a regular egg!
His intuition even told him that the Blood Demon Ant riot was possibly related to that egg!
"If I can get my hands on this thing, I should be able to make a nice profit, right?" Zhang Menglong’s eyes glinted slyly as the thoughts of a capitalist began to burn within him once more.