For the next one week, Lenny went about his daily routine which was: Wake up, Daily quest, Eat the cotton worm and the hearts of the Praying mantis, rest, eat so more, rest and then go out for extra points.
As much as possible, he avoided the centipede Chira ant whenever he saw them.
It was not long before he noticed that they were also other variations of insects in this nest.
It was no wonder that the System called them Chira Ants.
However, to the best of Lenny's knowledge, such a mixture shouldn't be.
In fact, according to what he knew of insects, all this insects had different live style and living habits. tthey were all unique in their own ways, and should not mix.
Even if they mixed, he expected natural selection to take place.
There was supposed to be a struggle of sorts for space, resources, and food, but the classification of these creatures was just abnormally compatible with one another.
Lenny could not help but feel as if there was a greater hand at work here.
Even though it is clear that these creatures were brought here by the demons, sothing still felt off.
Lenny could not put a finger on it. It was just his intuition that he had honed for many many years raising its head.
However, in this place, there was only so much he could do.
For one week, he explored the place, always trying his best not to pick a fight with the giant Preying Mantis. Even though he had beco significantly stronger than he used to be since in got into this place, whenever he used Surveyor on the Giant Chira Preying Mantis, he still could not see its Stats.
This ant that there was still a distance for him to go.
Also, he kept his eyes open for the likely hood of spotting any humans around the place.
however, he soon discovered that he had also underestimated the size of this colony.
It was very very large.
This was practically an underground city.
Every ti Lenny went exploring, the Satan system would help him map out the place.
In his exploration, he found two other safe spots.
He used these areas in relation to one another whenever he went hunting.
And whenever, the Chira ants were after him and he could not handle them, he would run and hide in the safe zones.
In this manner, a week passed. He did not have any hidden quests. Just the usual daily or side Quests.
His strength increased again an he beca level 5.
At this point, Even Lenny had started to notice that becoming stronger by Killing Chira ants was becoming a Drag.
At it least for the Chira ants he was killing, it was definitely not enough.
Even for Lenny, Life was beginning to beco Modane. At least it was until he ca across them.
It happened when he ca back from one of his usual daily hunts.
He laid at a corner and in the safety of one of the Safe zones.
He was having a little nap. He suddenly felt sothing approach him in his perception range.
Imdiately, he opened his eyes. he was an assassin and even without the perception ability, he had a sensitive system for the change in his environnt.
Even so much as the wind changing directions could wake him up.
However, he was too slow, or rather, his opponent was too fast.
The last thing he saw was a man holding the Carapace of a Chira Ant and using it to Smack his face.
*Bam!*
One Aggressive hit to the face and It was lights out for him.
With the Alert from the system, he opened his eyes.
Lenny opened his eyes to the world moving around him.
Through the pain on one side of his face, he slowly opened his eyes as he looked around.
The world was truly moving around him.
He blinked a few tis and tried to wipe his eyes, but he discovered that he couldn't as his hands were tied front of him.
He tried to move his legs too, but his legs were constrained. In other words, they were also tied.
He looked around and the current situation made him frown.
He was currently being Carried like a pig for the slaughter.
His hands and legs were tied to a long stick.
One side of the stick was on the shoulder of the person in front, and another was on the shoulder of the person behind.
both of which were big hefty n.
Apart from Lenny, they also carried bags on their backs that were made from Cotton worm skin.
Lenny tried to struggle free but the ropes that were used to tie his hands were very strong.
Also, his mouth was stuffed shut with Cotton from Cotton worm
Through the cave walls, the n carried him.
They even ca across the younger Preying Mantis Chira ants twice, and this n butchered them without even dropping Lenny for even a second.
Nothing that ca to obstruct their path was capable of holding them back.
Surveyor.
He frowned at this. It was no wonder he went lights out with just one hit. Just one of these guys was already four levels above him.
They took Lenny through parts he had never explored before.
Through wide openings and a strong gathering of bugs.
Sotis, the bugs even avoided them and let them pass which surprised Lenny.
Along the way, they ca across a flow of an underground river.
They stopped by it and went to the river to drink water.
All through the journey, Lenny had pretended to still be fainted.
Now that they had put him down, he used it as opportunity to pick and hide a small sharp and pointy stalagmite.
He was an assassin. Even if he was given a needle. in his hands, it was a weapon.
Once the big Burly n were done with their drink at the river, they ca back for him.
Of course Lenny imdiately shut his eyes in pretend.
They took him through different turns. Surprisingly, apart from the younger Preying mantis that was easier to kill, they did not co across the really big and scary ones with Black and red Carapace.
They did not even co across the Centipede Creatures.
If Lenny were to make a wild guess, then he would say that these guys knew this place so well that they knew the safe paths from the dangerous ones.
This was incredible and yet scary.
For Lenny, it had not been easy to map the area as much as he had done.
In fact, he had more dangerous paths on his map than safety zones.
Also, he had only explored for about two hours a day.
However, these guys had been carrying him for six hours straight, and yet the danger was next to known.
He could not imagine the amount of danger they had to go through to achieve this.
The scars on their burly bodies suddenly made sense to him.
After a while, he could see a big do shaped Stone far ahead.
It looked like a giant mushroom. But it was made entirely of stone.
It was extrely wide and for so reason, he could tell that tha bugs were avoiding the place.
It took another fifteen minutes of working.
After which they reached it.
On the ground, and around the Giant Mushroom shaped Rock, Lenny could see the all too familiar glowing mushroom.
"No wonder the insects are staying away," he thought to himself.
There was a stone slab in front.
The n put him down and proceeded to open it.
As there did, Lenny saw the inside and he was speechless for words. (author: then again, he had cotton stuffed in his mouth...LoL)
It was just as the system had stated.
This, was a village.
All around, he could see children who were either naked or half naked playing around.
The n took him up and entered into the Do before sealing shut with the stone slab.
As they went through the village, he could see mothers nursing their babies and he could see also see as Cotton worms were reared in pens for food.
He could see so other selected insects in cages. From the looks of things, it was also for food.
There were huts that were made from the Carapace of insects all over the place.
As the n took him through the village, the children that were running around naked ran towards them to welco them.
So of them poked at Lenny.
They looked at him with curiosity and so even poked at him.
the n waved to the children.
"Ahhh!!! My children, you are back!" Lenny heard the scream of a loud aged voice. "What did you find?"
One of the burly n carrying Lenny waved as he laughed out loud, "we found food!"
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