319: Chapter 319: Ants Have Armor

"What's there?" Ling Tian seemed to be asking Ling Su, but also talking to himself.

"Senior Brother, I don't know either," Ling Su replied.

"What's there?" Ling Tian looked at the screen, still asking.

"Senior Brother..." Ling Su wanted to comfort him, but didn't know what to say.

"What's there? What exactly is there? This is impossible! How could it disappear?" Ling Tian still refused to believe, muttering to himself repeatedly.

"Senior Brother, don't be like this, this is just a small accident," Ling Su said anxiously, trying to comfort him.

"Right! You're absolutely right, this is just a small accident." Ling Tian took in that sentence.

"Ling Su, immediately order the Dung Beetle Legion to stop their attack and set up camp on the periphery," Ling Tian commanded.

"Okay! I'll go now," Ling Su acknowledged the order and turned to leave.

Soon, the dung beetless stopped their attack. They moved in a small area on the outer edge of that circular boundary, with not a single one crossing the line.

...

Inside Shen Tu Zheng Hao's command center.

"In a temple? How many people are there?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.

"Less than three thousand people, mostly research personnel and some detained Citizens, with little combat capability," Dai Zheng replied.

"Then have you detected where the captured Chinese Citizens are being held?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.

"No, we haven't," Dai Zheng shook his head.

"You know about the Citizens of Bayan Sumu Settlement being abducted?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao suddenly felt something was off.

"This... I don't know!" Dai Zheng almost gave himself away and quickly denied it.

According to Niu Xingwang's explanation, Dai Zheng and his group came to investigate the Modified human laboratory, and since they were not an official organization, they shouldn't have known about this matter.

"Since you don't know, why did you say 'no'?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.

"It's just... we just didn't find any other Chinese Citizens," Dai Zheng was not very good at lying and immediately became a little nervous.

"Which areas have you investigated?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked, taking out a tablet.

The tablet displayed a map of the entire Batuo City.

"We have investigated the entire Batuo City," Dai Zheng said.

"What? You've investigated everywhere?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao was a bit disbelieving; this efficiency was simply too high.

He knew very well that even Dark Night Squad didn't have such efficiency.

"That's right!" Dai Zheng replied.

In fact, they didn't need to investigate themselves.

They only needed to place a Bee Queen here, and the rest would be taken care of. In less than a day, the Bee Queen could thoroughly investigate the entire city.

At the same time, the Bee Queen would also share the investigation results with them in real-time.

Therefore, it couldn't be said that Oriental Chen's Special Operations Team was much stronger than the Dark Night Squad; it could only be said that the technology they possessed was on a different dimension, with no comparability whatsoever.

"Then tell me, what have you found?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.

Dai Zheng wore a Digital Eye and could check the investigation results at any time, so answering such questions was effortless.

"You see, this is Gaole District, this is the main road of the city, and here, here, and also here, there are several department stores and large underground parking lots. These places are gathering tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Armored Ants. And also..." Dai Zheng took the tablet and introduced it skillfully.

"Wait, wait. What do you mean by Armored Ants?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.

"Oh, that's a name I came up with myself. They are mutated Antss, but unlike ordinary mutated Antss, they are equipped with light and heavy firepower. There are also some Antss that are fitted with steel armor. So I gave them the name Armored Ants," Dai Zheng explained, speaking in a casual tone.

But these words sounded like a thunderclap to Shen Tu Zheng Hao's ears.

"Antss have armor?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked loudly, his face full of disbelief.

"At first, I didn't believe it either, but it's a fact, so I had to believe it," Dai Zheng said.

"How is this possible? Have the Antss become spirits?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao still didn't believe it.

"Commander, in my opinion, it's not that the Antss have become spirits. These armors and weapons, as I judge, should have been installed by humans," Dai Zheng said.

"Installing weapons on Antss? Can Antss use them?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao continued to ask with wide eyes.

This was like listening to a celestial book, unheard of and unseen.

"Commander, haven't you noticed? Why did those dung beetless attack us in a unified manner? Don't you find it strange?" Dai Zheng asked.

In fact, Dai Zheng didn't have this kind of intelligence, but someone behind him taught him.

"You're right. The behavior of the dung beetless is somewhat similar to the Rat Rabbits. Oh, Rat Rabbits are also something we only discovered a few days ago. They have a unified pace, as if controlled by someone," Shen Tu Zheng Hao explained.

"Exactly, since the dung beetless and the Rat Rabbits you mentioned can be controlled by humans, why can't Antss be controlled?" Dai Zheng said.

Shen Tu Zheng Hao nodded, indicating his agreement.

"So, it's not that the Antss themselves can shoot, but that someone is controlling all of this," Dai Zheng said.

Alright, Dai Zheng, with his clumsy eloquence, finally achieved information sharing with Shen Tu Zheng Hao.