31: Chapter 31 Ant Swarm vs. Fruit Wine Monkey
Upon receiving the command, the Ant Soldiers surged toward the cave entrance like a black tide.
The 150 Ant Soldiers born afterward were all of the improved breed. Chi Anlin had once made the two types of Ant Soldiers fight, and after the improved Ant Soldiers sustained only minor injuries, they slaughtered the old Ant Soldiers.
The Ant Soldiers were all close-combat fighters, so this time, it was basically four Ant Soldiers surrounding and killing one Fruit Wine Monkey. The new breed of Ant Soldiers could use the venom from their tails to attack the Fruit Wine Monkeys' eyes, causing blindness, and then slowly tear them to death.
After obtaining the blood energy this time, Chi Anlin planned to add the genes of the Chinese Tiger Beetle to these Ant Soldiers, so that the Ant Soldiers would not only have the ability to fly but also have their speed greatly increased.
Riding on Xiao Yue, Chi Anlin arrived at the battlefield first. He used the breath concealing ring to mask his presence. He did not intend to join the battle; this kind of war was not a one-on-one fight, and if he were to be swarmed and accidentally fell here, it would not be worth the loss.
Before long, four Mortal Grade Second Stage Ant Soldiers swaggered into the Fruit Wine Monkey forest and were quickly discovered by a Fruit Wine Monkey searching for insects under a tree.
"Ooo! Ooo!" The Fruit Wine Monkey shrieked excitedly. It had encountered many such ants last time, and it had been quite frightened back then.
However, after the Ant Soldiers were driven away later, it had developed a bit of contempt for these dark-black ants. Several Ant Soldiers had died before even engaging in battle, and their corpses were divided and eaten by the monkey troop.
This time, four more Ant Soldiers had come. It had shared a leg of an Ant Soldier back then; it was crunchy, and it was the best snack for grinding teeth.
This cry attracted the surrounding monkeys. When a dozen monkeys discovered these four Ant Soldiers, they didn't even throw stones, instead running over excitedly, fearing that if they were too slow, they wouldn't get a share of the insect corpses.
The rest of the monkeys realized that there were too many monkeys going to surround the Ant Soldiers, so they gave up on the idea and continued doing their own things.
High up in the giant tree, the Monkey King also noticed all of this. It did not speak out to stop them; with the strength of these Mortal Grade Second Stage Ant Soldiers, a dozen monkeys were more than enough to handle them.
In recent days, there had occasionally been one or two Ant Soldiers entering the territory and being surrounded and killed, so it did not pay much attention to these four Ant Soldiers.
Upon hearing the commotion, the four Ant Soldiers quickly ran toward the outer perimeter of the Fruit Wine Monkey forest.
These four Ant Soldiers were Chi Anlin's bait. Before the war began, he intended to lure out a portion of the monkeys to surround and kill them. This method could only be used once; after all, the monkeys were not stupid. If they saw their clansmen disappear, they wouldn't dare to continue splitting up and heading out.
Soon, the Ant Soldiers arrived at an open space, and the dozen or so Fruit Wine Monkeys chased after them, excitedly preparing to attack the Ant Soldiers.
At this moment, rustling sounds came from all around. The Fruit Wine Monkeys turned their heads to look, and seeing hundreds of antennae poking out, they were immediately terrified and began to shriek.
"End this quickly!" Chi Anlin transmitted the message to the Ant Queen, and soon, all the Ant Soldiers surged out, beginning their attack on the Fruit Wine Monkeys.
The monkeys in the Fruit Wine Monkey forest heard the death shrieks of these Fruit Wine Monkeys and all began to howl. For a moment, the monkey troop was in chaos, and the Fruit Wine Monkeys fell to the ground one after another.
"Roar! Roar!!" The Monkey King's roar sounded, and for a moment, the sounds of the Fruit Wine Monkey troop slowly quieted down.
The Monkey King did not hesitate either, calling out and letting all the monkeys in the troop follow it to go and rescue them.
On the other side, hundreds of Ant Soldiers directly submerged these Fruit Wine Monkeys. The suppression of numbers caused these Fruit Wine Monkeys to be unable to even fight back before their limbs were bitten off, becoming food for the ant colony.
[Kill Mortal Grade Second Stage Fruit Wine Monkey, gain 200 blood energy]
[Kill Mortal Grade Third Stage Fruit Wine Monkey, gain 450 blood energy]
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Message after message popped up. These dozen or so Fruit Wine Monkeys brought Chi Anlin nearly 4000 points of blood energy income, filling the deficit of blood energy he had used in the Blood Energy Space.
The Fruit Wine Monkey troop was about to arrive for reinforcements. Chi Anlin ordered these hundreds of Ant Soldiers to prepare to continue the battle; his goal this time was to completely eradicate this tribe.
The Fruit Wine Monkey troop had limited the area he could explore on the map. If it were a lone monster, even a Mortal Rank Five monster, he could surround and kill it by sacrificing a portion of his Ant Soldiers. But this race was too united; as long as one Fruit Wine Monkey was attacked, the other Fruit Wine Monkeys would rush over, making them difficult to root out.
The prey around the campsite had almost been hunted to extinction; he needed to expand his territory.
Soon, the Monkey King brought a pile of elite monkeys and rushed over. Upon discovering that its clansmen had already been divided and eaten by the Ant Soldiers, it roared in anger.
Although there were many Ant Soldiers, its monkey troop was not to be trifled with. These hundred or so Ant Soldiers were all Mortal Grade Second Stage, and their overall strength could not compare to the monkey troop.
The great battle was on the verge of breaking out, and at this moment, the rest of the Ant Soldiers crawled out from the cave one after another, surrounding the monkey troop.
He hadn't let these Ant Soldiers come out before mainly because he was afraid that if there were too many, they would scare the monkey troop away. He really couldn't catch these monkeys when they were in the trees.
This open space was specifically cleared by the ant colony at Chi Anlin's request to prevent these monkeys from using their agile movements to jump around in the trees and avoid the ant colony's attacks.
Seeing these Ant Soldiers, the Monkey King's pupils constricted, and it let out a terrified roar. However, very quickly, a hint of blood-red flashed in its eyes; even if it were surrounded and killed by this swarm of Ant Soldiers, it would carve out a bloody path!
"Roar!"
Fruit Wine Monkeys had short tempers. Even under the threat of genocide, they would not compromise. Instead, they would directly destroy their wine cellars. Therefore, in the face of such a situation, although the monkey troop was very terrified, they did not flee directly but instead began a suicidal battle.
The Monkey King leaped into the ant colony. These Ant Soldiers were all Mortal Grade Second Stage and were very easy to kill. Just after entering the swarm of ants, it tore apart several surrounding Ant Soldiers.
Just as it was preparing to slaughter, a sharp pain suddenly came from its right foot. It kicked out violently and discovered that, amidst a pile of Mortal Grade Second Stage Ant Soldiers, a gigantic Ant Soldier shook its body and crawled out.
The Monkey King's right foot was bitten until it was bloody and mangled. Just now, the Mortal Grade Sixth Stage Ant Soldier had relied on the cover of the other Ant Soldiers to get close and successfully attacked the Monkey King.
The Monkey King was even more enraged inside. Ignoring the injury to its right foot, it swept away the Ant Soldiers in front of it and charged forward.
The next moment, the Monkey King fell to the ground, and the ice on its left leg instantly shattered. While it was furiously charging, Xiao Yue had frozen its left leg.
The snow-white Wolf Beast leaped down from the tree, rushed in front of the Monkey King, opened its bloody maw, and prepared to bite toward the Monkey King's head.
The Monkey King roared, struggled to get up, and reached out to grab Xiao Yue's mouth, wanting to tear it apart. Meanwhile, a human-like smile appeared on Xiao Yue's face.
Inside its mouth, the figure of an Ant Soldier flashed by.