93. The Adventures of Ant Nest
Xiao Chen smiled and shook his head: "No, Dad gave you something. After you drink it, the little ant will treat you as his own." After that, he took out a bottle of lilac potion from the storage bag and handed it to Nini.
This bottle of potion is called "camouflage potion". It is a product of alchemy. Drinking it can confuse the other party and make the other party mistakenly think it is the same type. It lasts up to 24 hours. It is one of the essential potions for lurkers and assassins.
Nini took a small sip, and the taste was slightly sweet, with a bit of a blend of grapes and oranges. Xiao Chen also took a sip. Now, in the eyes of the ants, they are already the same.
"Okay, let's go into the ant nest to explore. Remember not to be afraid, and don't touch the ant's body casually to avoid suspicion." Xiao Chen reminded Nini a few times, then took her hand and walked towards the nearest ant.
The black ant discovered Xiao Chen and Nini. It took the initiative to walk in front of them and gently touched Xiao Chen and Nini's bodies with the two tentacles above its head. Under the action of the camouflage potion, the feedback message the ant received was: They are of the same kind.
Nini remembered Xiao Chen's words and endured herself to not touch the ant's tentacles.
"A ant nest is a huge kingdom, which is divided into two types: worker ant and soldier ant. Worker ant is responsible for the work and soldier ant is responsible for the war. They all serve the queen. Does Nini know which kind of ant is in front of us?" Xiao Chen asked while explaining the knowledge of ant to Nini.
Nini looked at the black ant in front of her and guessed: "It should be a worker ant, because it looks exactly the same as the ants carrying candy pieces."
Xiao Chen nodded in praise: "Very good! Nini observed it very carefully. These are all worker ants. Soldier ants usually rarely come out in the nest, and they are also very large."
It was the black ant who circled around Xiao Chen and Nini, then returned to the team and continued to carry candy pieces into the nest.
"Dad, let's go in too!" Nini said to Xiao Chen excitedly.
"Okay, wait for dad to take a few photos first." Xiao Chen took out the camera from the storage bag and took a lot of photos at the ants. These photos can be kept as souvenirs for Nini.
The photo was taken, Xiao Chen took Nini's hand and followed the ant army slowly walked into the huge ant nest.
There is no light in the ant's nest and the sun cannot shine in, so it is very dark.
The ants are familiar with the road, but Xiao Chen and Nini cannot see the road ahead. There are many forks in the ant nest, and there are even ones that go straight up and down. Once you step on a short distance, it is similar to falling off a cliff!
So for safety reasons, Xiao Chen took out two fluorite lamps and wore them on his head by himself and Nini, so that the situation in the cave would be clear at a glance.
"Wow! There are so many passages here. Which side should we go? Dad." Nini looked at the four or five forks in front of her, not knowing how to choose.
"The terrain here is very complicated, and my father doesn't know which way to take. Why don't we just follow the worker ants and see what they are going to do?" Xiao Chen replied.
So, the father and daughter chose a worker ant carrying candy cubes and followed it into a passage.
The tunnel was very long. Xiao Chen and Nini followed the ants for a long time and finally walked into the passage. It turned out that this was a small warehouse. They saw various grains and food residues such as rice grains and bread crumbs, and even the corpses of other insects in the warehouse.
Xiao Chen took a photo and took Nini to continue tracking the worker ant to see where it was going next?
The black ant took Xiao Chen and Nini into another passage. After walking for a long time, they came to a very spacious space. There were many small squares on the walls of this space, full of larvae of ant. Their bodies were transparent and very thin, and they were being fed by workers.
Nini looked at the scene in front of her with a surprised look and turned around and asked Xiao Chen: "Dad, is this ant's kindergarten? These are all ants babies, right?"
"Yes, they have to hatch and grow up here, and then some of them become worker ants, and the rest become soldier ants." Xiao Chen explained patiently. In fact, he had never learned professional knowledge about ants. These were the ones he followed in Ruolan Continent to drill into an insect nest. The insects are very similar to ants and are also in groups. There is an insect expert in the team, and all this knowledge was learned from him by Xiao Chen.
The father and daughter were chatting and observing, and suddenly two large yellow ants crawled behind them. They touched Xiao Chen and Nini's backs with their tentacles, which scared them.
"Ni Ni, don't move around. These two are just soldiers and ants. They should be responsible for patrolling nearby and letting dad see what they want to do." Say that, Xiao Chen activated the beast taming skill.
The ants can't speak or scream. They communicate through their tentacles and smells. When the tentacles touch Xiao Chen's body, Xiao Chen understood their intentions.
It turned out that it was the queen of the ant who asked them to come to find Xiao Chen and Nini!
This is strange. What did the queen of the ant want to do when he finds Nini and Xiao Chen? Could it already know their true identities? Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. Will an ant have this kind of wisdom? Moreover, Xiao Chen and Nini also took camouflage potion. How did the queen of the ant find it?
While they were wondering, more soldiers and ants surged out from the passage from all directions. They all surrounded Xiao Chen and Nini, and the tentacles on their heads were swinging wildly, as if urging them to leave quickly.
"Dad, what should we do?" Nini looked at Xiao Chen nervously and asked in fear.
Xiao Chen was not afraid of this situation in front of him. He was just a few ants. Xiao Chen had many ways to protect himself and Nini. In comparison, he was more curious about what the purpose of this queen had? How did he discover them? So he comforted Nini and said, "Don't be afraid. Since the queen is looking for us, we will go and meet it."
Xiao Chen replied to the soldier ant through his beast taming skills: "Take us to see your queen!"
The soldiers and ants understood Xiao Chen's words and immediately made a pass to the Queen's residence, where there were many soldiers and ants handles, and ordinary ants were not allowed to enter, so they were strictly guarded.
Xiao Chen pulled Nini and walked over with a swagger. Through this long passage, they came to the "King Palace" of the Queen of the Ant, a larger and more spacious space than the incubation room just now.
The huge queen ants was lying at the end of the palace. It had a pair of wings, dragging its huge belly, and two pairs of tentacles on its head pointed at Xiao Chen and Nini, which was conveying its message.
Xiao Chen felt it for a while and finally understood the meaning of the queen ant.
"Dad, is that big-bellied ant the queen? What is it doing?" Nini asked curiously.
Chapter completed!