Adopting A Stray Cat Chapter 1366: Ant Queen

Chapter 1366: Chapter 1366: Ant Queen

After being struck by the Vigor Gold Knife, the red ant finally trembled and fell down, its body quickly disappearing in the flas.

However, as one red ant fell, more red ants rushed forward.

After the body of the red ant was burned, a large group of red ants, each about a ter long, appeared from behind, aggressively charging towards Ye You and Qin Sisi.

Ye You’s expression remained unchanged as he raised his palm to gather the Fire Attribute Magic Power, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to these bold yet insufficiently powerful red ants like before.

Just as he was about to unleash the Magic skill, the red ants suddenly halted, then promptly turned around, swiftly heading towards the other end of the passage, disappearing from their sight shortly after.

Qin Sisi observed the strange behavior of the red ants and asked in confusion, "Are they... scared?"

Ye You pondered for a mont, shook his head and said, "It doesn’t seem like it. I feel as if they’ve received so sort of command."

Qin Sisi’s expression tightened, and she said quietly, "It seems the intelligent creature capable of controlling the red ants is just ahead."

"Hmm, let’s go and see," Ye You said as he cautiously advanced forward. Even though the passage was now devoid of red ants, he remained alert, observing his surroundings vigilantly.

After advancing several hundred ters, they finally saw the end of the passage, where faint light was shining through.

Qin Sisi and Ye You exchanged glances and nodded at each other, slowly approaching the end of the passage, getting closer to the faint glow.

Finally, they erged from the long passage into a spacious underground hall.

The entire hall was approximately elliptical in shape, with four passage entrances distributed along each of the two longer edges, aning there were eight passages connected to the hall.

In the center stood twenty tall and sturdy pillars, ten on each side. Underneath each pillar stood a robust red ant about two ters long.

At the end of the corridor ford by the twenty pillars, a wall displayed a vividly colorful mural depicting a group of smaller red ants fighting against a large and burly bug.

The red ants worked in unison, wielding various weapons against the large bug, which appeared embarrassed and fearful before the small ants, as if it would beco a feast for the ants the next mont.

The material used to make the mural was unknown, but it emitted a faint light in the dark underground world, which was what Qin Sisi and Ye You had seen from the passage.

Below the mural lay an exquisite and luxurious, shimring seat, upon which sat a large red ant nearly three ters long, overlooking Qin Sisi and Ye You, the two intruders.

Qin Sisi had always thought that ants were insignificant creatures due to their size.

In childhood, watching ants move ho, after a while she found it boring, as the ants did little else besides incessantly carrying tiny grains of sand in and delicious food out.

She had indeed seen scenes similar to the mural, where a group of small ants managed to bite a much larger bug to death and worked together to transport it into their nest.

But in Qin Sisi’s mory, she didn’t quite recall how the small ants managed to move the large bug into their nest, which was a longstanding puzzle for her—how could a small ant’s tiny nest possibly fit that plump bug?

Now she sowhat understood; ants may be small, but their nest isn’t small. It’s not only spacious but also well-equipped and orderly organized.

For instance, this spacious hall before her, first of all, is intricately connected, the most convenient place for transportation within the ant’s nest. Additionally, the pillars serve not just decorative purposes but are crucial in supporting the ceiling, making the hall sturdier.

From previous knowledge, Qin Sisi knew the smaller red ants that attacked them before were worker ants, female but infertile, primarily tasked with seeking food, protecting ant eggs, and caring for young ants.

The robust red ants standing beneath the pillars were male, tasked with mating with the Ant Queen, assisting her in producing eggs continuously, and expanding this ant family.

The exquisite and luxurious shimring seat was likely the throne, and the largest and slender red ant on it was the queen of this ant family.

The Ant Queen is the only fertile female ant in the ant family, her primary role being egg production and commanding other ants; she is the treasure of the ant family, all ants must protect, respect, and obey her.

The red ants preparing to attack Ye You and Qin Sisi were summoned back by the Ant Queen, as she was intelligent and knew those ordinary red ants were not opponents to them. Sending more would only be futile deaths; hence, she ordered the ants to retreat, intending to act herself.

She sat gracefully on her throne, her red body vivid as if wearing a splendid red dress.

In her hand was a scepter, its long handle dark golden, emitting a dim light, and the top of the scepter embedded with a silver sphere the size of a basketball, semi-transparent and glowing silver, revealing the outline of a red ant within.

With cold glints from her elliptical large eyes, the Ant Queen’s anger was palpable to Qin Sisi despite the distance.

Indeed, upon entering, they had burned nurous red ants and destroyed many ant eggs, surely provoking the Ant Queen’s anger.

But they also had no choice; they hadn’t intended to enter, it was the red ants that forcibly brought them in.

Both sides silently confronted each other for a while before the Ant Queen suddenly stood up from her throne, raising one foreleg slightly as earthen boards fell simultaneously at the hall’s entrances, sealing them.

Following that, the Ant Queen lightly twirled the scepter in her hand, releasing a bright light from the silver sphere on the scepter’s top directly at Ye You.

Ye You swiftly dodged to the side, while gathering Fire Attribute Magic Power in his palm, casting a teors Rain of Fire towards the Ant Queen.

teors with purple flas engulfed the space, hurtling towards the Ant Queen, yet she remained motionless, neither dodging nor defending, with an aloof expression as if prepared for it all.