Chapter 125
[TL's note]
It's the third night since I left Faymbaum.
I stared at the green flickering light from the distance in the darkness, puzzled. I wondered what it was.
--In the end, this trip to return Ferris turned out to be a week-long round trip.
We were almost to the base, but it seed that Ferrari, the red ant, couldn't travel at night, so we decided to rest and not strain ourselves.
As I was gathering branches to build a fire, I suddenly saw nurous green lights in the distant mountains where the base should be.
My heart jumped, wondering if we were being attacked by humans, but when I listened carefully, I didn't hear any sounds of battle, and there were no flas. It seed that we were not being attacked or anything.
In the end, I concluded that Titania would contact again through the Miller if sothing happened, so I decided to wait for dawn.
As I calmly looked at it, I noticed that its green luminescence was slowly flickering repeatedly. It was quite quaint. It was like a light in the urban city scene at night.
Then ca the dawn .
Early in the morning, with the sun still low in the sky, I hurried to the Ferrari and looked at the mountain, stunned.
--What the heck is this ......?
That one phrase sums up my thoughts.
What I saw in front of , illuminated by the morning sun, was an unexpected sight.
The original base cave should have been located on a mountainside in a valley, with a dense forest of trees covering the area.
But what about now? Not a single tree remains, and the ground is completely stripped bare. The whole area has been transford into a rocky mountain. The rough, uneven, reddish-brown surface of the rock was clearly different from the surrounding soil.
And if I looked closely, I could see sothing - probably insects - crawling around on the surface. Only its head was big and brown, the rest of its body and legs were a pale white. They looked like termites, except they were bigger. The sight would make a faint-hearted person faint.
As I was desperately trying to figure out this mystery, I saw a figure stepping out of the cave.
It was Titania.
"Gevaudan," a lustrous voice echoed in the center of my brain.
I'm ho.
After seeing wave my hand, Titania smiled at . Her hands crossed in front of her, her figure as elegant as ever. In addition, to my surprise, she was wearing a white dress this morning.
It was so gorgeous. I wondered if it was made of the sa spider silk, and with all the glittering glitter all over her body, she looked, how to say it, divine. I felt she's like a goddess.
I got off the Ferrari.
I quickly ran up to her and held her in my arms.
The sweet scent of flowers rising from the nape of her neck made my head spin. She seed to be happy as she rubbed her cheek against my thick chest. A touching reunion. Shall we eat? A bath? Or ----?
--Just as I was starting to imagine.
I saw the color drain out of her happy expression with a puff.
She pulled her body away and started rubbing my body with her hands. Looking serious.
Not knowing the aning, I had no choice but to wait while patting her head.
Titania's hair is smooth and silky through my fingers, yet it has a strange texture to it. Every ti she moves, a nice scent rises up from her head. It's a srizing black hair that I can stroke endlessly and never get tired of.
After doing so for a while, she eventually stopped moving and quietly looked up at .
Titania softly utters the words "Gevaudan ......" and reaches out to take my arm. And the next mont--
Crack!
And then, sparks flew like static electricity, causing her fingers to spring away.
Titania reflexively pulled her hand away, and her face went stiff with surprise.
From her mouth, I heard a tsk sound ...... a click of her tongue.
--Now, for a mont, a very scary face appeared.
I didn't do anything,......, but I was scared,.......
Titania's golden pupils shine with a mysterious glow as she holds her hand out to , just within touching distance of my frightened face. Her left palm was blazing hot with white fla.
--Your hand is on fire, are you okay ......?
In spite of my worries, she began to work on , circling and fluttering around . She examined my stomach, then my arms, then my back, then stretched up to examine my head. She was as eager as a police officer checking for a smuggler's goods.
After checking my entire body, Titania finally put her hand against my chest and nodded her head.
Hah. ......And she let off a one big, loud sigh.
The next ti she looked up at , she had a look of disappointnt on her face.
Mmmm ...... It's the face of a wife who is disgusted by her douchebag husband's returning ho from the brothel.
No doubt, what Tiriel did to has affected you. I want to make so kind of excuse, but I can't.......
--No, I don't have any excuse.
I rember Tiriel explaining so skills to , but I actually wasn't really listening. All I could think about was how I was going to get into her ass and make love to her. This is the epito of the dumbass at its finest.
In general, the aliens are difficult to talk to. When they get into sothing complicated, they suddenly start talking too fast. I don't think that's good, difficult things need to be broken down and said slowly.
Titania put her fingers to her temples in a worried gesture and paced back and forth ...... back and forth ...... for a while.
It's not comfortable to feel like I have done sothing very wrong.
However, It's not the ti to beg for forgiveness by flirting with her like I usually do. She was in serious mode. That's why I stood still and quiet. I beca one with the trees around and beca transparent. I waited in a state of nothingness. I'd like to be sentenced to no dinner, please. Please don't sentence to ejaculation denial.
After much thought, a resigned smile appeared on her face, as if to say, "Well, I guess it can't be helped."
Finally, with a small sigh, Titania grasped my fingers and pulled along with her, leading into the rocky wall. The tense atmosphere I had felt earlier was gone.
Foolishly not knowing what she was angry about or why she forgave , I followed behind her with confusion in my heart.
We were greeted by mantis-like guards standing on either side of the entrance, and we entered the place.
Inside a huge stone barrier that had engulfed the mountainside around where our base was supposed to be was a dark, incredibly long, and intricate underground passage.
When I touched the inner wall of the tunnel with my hand, I found it to be strange to the touch, made of a material similar to rough, granular concrete. The cross-section of the tunnel was round and semi-cylindrical. It was large enough for two or more people to walk through side by side.
As I walked along the underground passage, I noticed countless green light sources glowing on the walls in the pitch darkness. It gave a strange feeling as if I was walking through the green tunnel hovering in the darkness.
I took a closer look at the light source and found that there were little caterpillar-like creatures attached to the walls and ceiling, and their butts were glowing.
I wondered if it was a firefly. I rembered that both eggs and larvae of fireflies glow. It's the sa color I saw yesterday.
The light emitted by a single larval firefly is only as bright as phosphorescent light, but when so many fireflies are gathered together, they produce a fair degree of light. I guess these are the ones that made the light I saw last night.
In the tunnel, we pass a number of large dog-sized termites and Ants. They seem to be at work.
--I had an idea of what they were doing.
It's an Anthill.
While I was gone, the anthill had engulfed not only the base but the entire mountain. What a surprise.
As I walked around, watching and scurrying with excitent, Titania saw and took the ti to show the various rooms. She was huffing and sowhat proud of herself. How cute.
Suddenly, I ca upon a room that slled strangely savory and delicious. It slled so good that I was tempted to go inside.
The room was warm and humid, and the floor and walls were covered with spongy lumps the size of soccer balls.
I snatched one of them up and held it close to my nose. Sniff, sniff. It slled just like the scent that ca from the room. What is this?
As I gazed at the lump, Titania snatched it up and held it out to Diamond, who was attached to my shoulder. Then Diamond happily gobbled it up.
I realized that it was a mushroom.
The ants are growing mushrooms in this room.
Mushrooms are dangerous. Sotis they sll good, but ninety percent of the ti they are poisonous. What is non-toxic to humans is toxic to dogs, and vice versa. There is no easy way to tell the difference. In a Survival situation, it is a massive risk. Even in Fox, eating mushrooms was considered a no-no. I'd rather starve to death than eat so random mushrooms. It's much easier to die that way. Just because diamonds can eat them doesn't an I can.....
Yummy!
And what's on my tongue is protein. It's a nutritional powerhouse.
--I see.......
So it looks like Titania is planning to let the bugs live inside the anthill and feed them with the mushroom farm. amazing.
There are many other rooms in the anthill, and not only the ants, but all sorts of insects are housed in these rooms. Caterpillar No. 5's room was as big as a last-boss room.
The scale of the anthill was far beyond my imagination. The anthill was not just on the surface of the mountain but had been built by hollowing out the mountain itself and tunneling deep underground.
--This was the scale of a castle. This is an anthill castle.
Titania seems to have built this castle using the entire mountain. And it only took a week. The manpower of these insects is insane.
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