140: Surround three and miss one

Qin Shilei arrived at the ant hole in the warehouse.

He first moved away the nearby grain and flammable materials, then took out gasoline and poured it into the hole.

Doused in gasoline, the ants seemed enraged and crawled out of the hole one after another.

Qin Shilei pointed the torch in his hand forward, and the flames instantly spread across the entire hole.

The ants, no longer concerned with attacking Qin Shilei, scattered in a panic.

To prevent the burning ants from running onto the grain and igniting it, Qin Shilei took out a fire extinguisher as a precaution.

After a short while, the burning ants had been incinerated, but the fire in the hole continued to burn, and the ants inside had already fled deeper into the burrow.

Qin Shilei once again took out a small bucket of gasoline and threw it into the burrow, allowing it to burn longer.

There were five ant holes in total: three inside the granary and two outside.

Qin Shilei used the same method to set fire to the remaining two holes inside the granary.

Then, he went to an outside hole and poured a large amount of gasoline into it.

He then threw the torch in his hand inside, and immediately, roaring flames shot up into the sky.

"Surround three, leave one open. I don't believe you won't come out." Qin Shilei rode Little Strong into the sky to monitor the last hole.

Lu Tian罡 and the others on the helicopter saw Qin Shilei setting fire inside the granary and immediately became worried.

"Commander, black smoke is coming out of the granary. He wouldn't be setting fire inside, would he?"

"I hope he doesn't burn all the grain."

"Commander, for the sake of eliminating the ants, this Qin Shilei is actually setting fire inside the granary. This is too reckless."

"Why didn't he discuss it with us first? We could try to have scientists develop some kind of poison to eliminate the ants. Using fire is too risky."

"Since things have come to this, we can only see if we can salvage more grain later."

Qin Shilei, riding Little Strong, guarded the sky above the last hole and found more and more ants crawling out.

Soon, the vicinity became an ocean of ants again.

"They're coming."

In Qin Shilei's sight, a group of giant ants, as thick as arms, crawled out behind the ordinary ants.

Their numbers far exceeded Qin Shilei's earlier expectations, and in no time, over a thousand giant ants had emerged.

Behind the giant ants, seven or eight super-giant ants, about the size of a dog, crawled out.

After her younger siblings cleared the way, the Ant Queen made a grand entrance.

The Ant Queen was shiny black all over, with her upper body the same size as a super-giant ant, but her abdomen was larger than that of a woman in her tenth month of pregnancy.

The two antennae on her head were nearly a meter long, and after crawling out, they kept swaying, as if communicating with her younger siblings.

"Little Strong, target the Ant Queen, charge!"

At Qin Shilei's command, Little Strong swooped down towards the Ant Queen like a bolt of lightning.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Perhaps hearing the sound of rushing air above her head, the Ant Queen looked up at Qin Shilei and let out a sharp hiss.

Immediately, the ant colony below became agitated and rushed towards the Ant Queen.

The Ant Queen even turned around, trying to burrow back into the hole.

However, she was already nearly two meters away from the hole, and Little Strong was too fast; she couldn't escape back into the hole before being firmly grasped by Little Strong's talons.

Little Strong flapped his wings twice and flew back into the sky before the ant colony could surround him.

The Ant Queen struggled frantically in Little Strong's grasp, and the antennae on her head even launched earth and stones at various parts of Little Strong's body.

Little Strong ignored the earth and stones, which caused him little harm, and swiftly flew towards a distant tall building.

The Ant Queen still tried to use her incredibly sharp mandibles to sever Little Strong's talons, but her body was held so tightly that she couldn't turn around.

Lu Tian罡 and the others, watching this scene from the helicopter, were astonished.

"So he set the fire to force out the Ant Queen."

"To capture the Ant Queen so easily, this large eagle's strength should not be underestimated."

"Is he trying to lure all the ants away with the Ant Queen? That's indeed a good idea."

Tens of millions of ants on the ground, after the Ant Queen was captured, followed the direction of Little Strong's flight.

At this moment, Little Strong had already thrown the Ant Queen onto the rooftop of the tall building.

Qin Shilei also jumped down from Little Strong's body, and as soon as he landed, he was met with an attack from the Ant Queen's mandibles.

He raised his Blood Soul and struck it with the flat of the sword.

Bang!

The Ant Queen flew up into the air and crashed into the concrete wall of the stairwell, creating a circle of spiderweb-like cracks in the wall.

Qin Shilei flashed, then charged again, continuously pounding the Ant Queen's body with his fists.

The Ant Queen resisted desperately, even waving her antennae multiple times to launch earth, stones, and earth spikes at Qin Shilei.

However, the difference in strength between them was too great, and the Ant Queen had no younger siblings to help her, so she was quickly beaten to a pulp.

"Surrender to me obediently, or I'll beat you to death."

Qin Shilei took out the contract scroll and tore it open.

The contract scroll immediately transformed into a white light that enveloped the Ant Queen.

"Ding, successfully contracted the Ant Queen. Please name her."

The Ant Queen struggled slightly, then surrendered under Qin Shilei's fists.

"Just call her Ant Queen."

"Naming successful."

Pet: Ant Queen

Cultivation: Bronze Four-star

Skills: Earth Spike, Rockfall, Quicksand.

Talent: Control Ant Colony.

Although the Ant Queen's strength was only one star lower than Little Strong's, if they were to fight one-on-one, she would be no match for Little Strong.

But with the Ant Queen's talent and her massive tribe behind her, was she the type to easily engage in a one-on-one fight?

"Let's go, let me review my tens of millions of younger siblings."

Qin Shilei smiled and jumped onto Little Strong's back, and Little Strong once again grabbed the Ant Queen from the rooftop with his talons and flew back.

Soon, they met the massive ant colony halfway.

At this moment, they were encountering the zombies in the urban area.

Zombies attack all living creatures, and of course, they wouldn't let go of the ants that dared to enter their sensing range.

The ant colony was now desperate to find their Ant Queen; they were like gods blocking, killing gods, and ghosts blocking, destroying ghosts.

As they swept through, zombies fell to the ground, dead.

Of course, a small portion of the ants were also killed or poisoned.

However, compared to the enormous number of ants, this was negligible.

"Ant Queen, order your younger siblings to return near the granary."

Qin Shilei commanded.

The Ant Queen clearly understood Qin Shilei's command, waving the antennae on her head and emitting invisible ripples. The ants on the ground immediately retreated like a tide.

"This is truly like a heifer riding a rocket, awesome to the sky."

The subdued Ant Queen could indeed control the ant colony as he had guessed. Qin Shilei looked at the vast black expanse of ants on the ground and couldn't help but exclaim.

From now on, I am also a master with tens of millions of younger siblings!

Inside the granary base.

Lu Tian罡 saw that the ants had been lured away by Qin Shilei, so he and his subordinates jumped back down to the ground.

They cautiously entered the warehouse; there were very few ants inside, and they showed no reaction to their arrival.

"Quick, let's get the grain."

At Lu Tian罡's command, his subordinates quickly took out a string of spatial rings and began loading grain, while he himself continuously collected grain into his ring, which had over ten cubic meters of space.

"Commander, that group of ants is coming back! Run!"

Just as they finished loading the grain, a subordinate's anxious shout suddenly came from outside.

Lu Tian罡 quickly ran out, looked up, and said, "What in the world is Qin Shilei doing? He actually brought the Ant Queen back again."