121: Chapter 121 Pursuit

"It's over! The Anteater's movements are too slow; it can't do a thing against the D-rank mutant flying ants!"

Fatty looked a bit worried.

"At this rate, the Anteater is going to be worn to death!"

Ants can bite an elephant to death; Fatty's worry was not without reason.

"Don't rush! Although the Anteater's agility isn't high, it's not completely defenseless either!"

Seeming to echo Chen Ze's words, the D-rank Anteater suddenly thrust out a scarlet long tongue that far exceeded its normal length!

Just moments ago, its long tongue had only maintained a conventional length to reap the ground soldier ants.

Enraged at this moment, its muscles tensed to the limit, and the entire sticky long tongue suddenly surged by several meters, lashing fiercely into mid-air like a long crimson whip that had been charged for a long time, carrying the sound of breaking air!

The speed of the long tongue was extremely fast, almost leaving afterimages.

High in the air, those three D-rank flying ants were mixed among the ordinary flying ants, preparing to pounce and bite its vital points while the Anteater couldn't distinguish targets.

But the Anteater had long since firmly remembered the aura of these three enemies that had dealt it heavy blows.

The scarlet long tongue swept across, completely ignoring the large number of ordinary flying ants around, and directly locked onto the targets hidden inside the insect swarm.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Amid a series of explosive sounds, more than a dozen flying ants were hit, their bodies instantly shattered by the immense force and firmly stuck to the mucus.

Among them was one D-rank flying ant that failed to dodge in time.

Although its carapace did not shatter, the mucus on the long tongue tightly bound it, making it completely unable to break free!

Seeing that it was about to be swallowed into the belly of the opponent, it relied on a final trace of fearless instinct to frantically twist its remaining body.

"Crunch!"

The sharp giant mandibles clamped tightly onto the Anteater's long tongue, instantly tearing open a terrifying wound as blood flowed freely.

Immediately after, the venom gland in its abdomen contracted violently, and a large amount of highly corrosive formic acid was fiercely injected along the bitten wound!

"Aow~~!!!"

The Anteater let out a miserable howl, its long tongue retracting abruptly as it swallowed all the ant corpses directly into its mouth.

A burning pain instantly came from inside its oral cavity; not only that, but that terrifying formic acid was spreading at an alarming speed.

As the natural enemy of ants, the Anteater wouldn't lose its life because of this, but the paralyzing effect was completely unavoidable.

Unwilling to retreat just like that, it endured the sensation of paralysis and spat out its long tongue to attack once more.

But this time its speed was noticeably much slower than before, and the remaining two D-rank flying ants simply shifted direction slightly to easily dodge it.

At this very moment, a large number of worker ants had completely climbed onto the Anteater's body.

Dense and numerous, viewed from afar, it looked as if the Anteater was wearing a pitch-black, heavy armor.

Countless E-rank worker ants spread across its limbs, back, and neck, swarming toward wherever there was a wound.

The torn wound on its nasal wing became a heavily afflicted area, with a dense, dark patch of worker ants clinging tightly to it, their mandibles constantly chewing on the rotting flesh.

Piercing pain struck in waves, causing the Anteater to continuously shake its head, its semi-paralyzed long tongue lashing back and forth across its face to desperately sweep away the worker ants on its nose.

Swallowing one batch, a new wave of worker ants immediately filled the gaps, as if the sole meaning of their existence was to throw away their lives.

The ant race inherently disregarded individual survival and only obeyed the will of the Ant Swarm.

Their role at this moment was to disregard life and death to help the D-rank flying ants contain the Anteater!

"Bzz~~!!"

Seizing this prime opportunity, the two D-rank flying ants vibrated their membranous wings violently, transforming into two black shadows carrying strong winds as they dove straight down.

One aimed for the eyes while the other lunged straight for the ear, their division of labor extremely clear.

The Anteater's entire attention was focused on those worker ants, and before it could react, the two onslaughts had already descended.

The eyes were fine; it had thick eyelids that could stall for a split second.

The flying ant's sharp giant mandibles savagely bit and tore at the eyelid, ripping the skin and flesh as fresh blood instantly gushed out, yet failing to pierce the eyeball in a single instant.

However, the one attacking the ear encountered no obstruction; it drove straight in, burrowing into the deepest part in an instant.

"Creak!"

This D-rank flying ant bit fiercely onto the Anteater's eardrum!

The eardrum was instantly bitten through, a violent, piercing agony exploded, and a dizzying sensation of the world spinning swept violently across its entire body.

"Awoo!"

The Anteater let out a shrill roar, its massive head shaking frantically as fresh blood gushed out in streams from its ear canal, constantly dripping down and dyeing the beast fur on its neck red.

The pain did not stop; it could feel that the flying ant was still inside its ear canal, desperately burrowing inward at this moment.

The sharp pain drilled into its cranial cavity, and the Anteater raised its front paws to clumsily scratch at its ear hole, but it was completely futile.

"Boom!"

The Anteater's huge body collapsed, the pain causing it to roll around wildly.

In an instant, a series of snapping crackles burst out one after another, and large batches of the E-rank worker ants crawling on its surface were crushed into pulp, dark brown insect fluids smearing patches of filthy stains.

"Brother Ze! The Anteater looks like it's failing! Should we make a move?"

Fatty spoke.

Chen Ze saw it clearly; the Anteater hadn't sustained any excessively heavy external injuries from start to finish.

The root cause of why it was reduced to such a wretched state right now was entirely due to that D-rank flying ant inside its ear.

"Wait a little longer!"

"Still waiting? Those mutant birds have already gone up; if we wait any longer, I'm afraid it'll be too late!"

High above in the sky, the flock of birds that had been circling for a long time could no longer hold back, and quite a few had already swooped down, targeting those Mutant Ant corpses crushed into slag.

"Never mind them; we just need to keep our eyes glued to that big guy!"

From beginning to end, Chen Ze's target was that D-rank Anteater. He didn't believe that just because a bug crawled into its ear, the other party would be completely helpless.

Right at this moment, a sudden change occurred!

"Roar~~!!"

The Anteater let out a roar, abruptly stood up, and sprinted wildly toward the depths of the forest like a madman.

The Ant Swarm was delayed by the mutant birds; right now was its best opportunity to escape!

Its heavy beast body rampaged blindly, and bowl-thick trees along the way were forcefully snapped by it, with branches flying everywhere.

"Not good! That guy is running away!"

Fatty said anxiously.

"Pursue!"

Chen Ze didn't talk nonsense; wielding the longyin saber, he rushed out, his speed not a bit slower than the Anteater.

Fatty and Xingzhe Sun didn't dare to delay either, immediately following closely behind.

This chase lasted for a full half-hour and more.

Along the way, the Anteater rampaged without any intention of stopping, as if it had a clear destination in mind.

The vegetation in the forest became increasingly dense, and the vines crisscrossing underfoot forced their speed to slow down.

Fortunately, the Anteater left behind plenty of traces along the way, plus with Xingzhe Sun guiding from up high, they didn't lose track of it.

"Xingzhe Sun! Is that guy still running?"

Unwittingly, they were about to enter the true core of the forest. If the Anteater continued to go deeper, Chen Ze would have to give up this operation.

Xingzhe Sun descended from the treetops.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

"No, the big guy burrowed into the water, right up ahead!"