70: Queen

Taros looked at the message from Professor Si Te De, a look of helplessness on his face.

Fight such a terrifying mutated beast?

This time, he didn't know how many brothers would die.

The only good news was that they were allowed to use weapons of mass destruction.

And the Tiger King's life or death didn't matter.

This would at least maximize their survival rate.

Thinking of this, Taros commanded, "Immediately put on our strongest equipment."

"Go hunt that Tiger King, who dared to try and escape from our hands."

"In this mission, the target's life or death doesn't matter!"

Meanwhile, Lin Tianwei, who was continuously climbing underground, was gradually approaching the Queen.

The soft sand was the best place for the Ultrasonic Wave to perform.

It could easily discern the structure of the entire region.

Even if the area of this sand was far more than a thousand miles.

It was still completely under Lin Tianwei's control.

Along the way, Lin Tianwei also encountered many Hellfire Ants.

They were no different from grains of sand, ubiquitous in this sandy area.

Upon sensing Lin Tianwei, this invisible enemy, they immediately launched an attack.

At the same time, they tried to summon companions through scent transmission.

To encircle and suppress Lin Tianwei.

However, how could Lin Tianwei give them such an opportunity?

He directly swallowed it at an extremely fast speed, considering it a snack before the main meal.

He didn't give it any chance to transmit its scent.

Just like that, Lin Tianwei continued forward.

His position was getting closer and closer to the Queen.

Beneath the sand, another team was also continuously moving forward.

However, they soon encountered difficulties.

The road ahead was blocked!

Lin Tianwei wasn't a fool; how could he leave such obvious traces?

After walking for a certain distance, he began to slow down, using the time to tidy up the mud and sand he had brought out.

Eventually, he formed a very misleading path.

These humans might be able to discover which path Lin Tianwei had taken.

But it would require more effort.

Anakin looked at the unknown path ahead, saying with extreme worry:

"Captain, we don't have much time left."

"If we don't leave here soon, once five hours pass, our protective suits will fail, and this place will be our grave."

"The kind where no corpse is found."

With the terrifying abilities of the Hellfire Ants, if they died here, they would definitely be eaten until not even bone fragments remained.

After a final glance around, especially at the several paths leading to the unknown.

Coupled with the difficult terrain of the sand.

Taros ultimately chose to give up.

How could he, like Lin Tianwei, move freely underground?

Taros gritted his teeth and commanded, "Retreat!"

"Continuing like this is just a waste of time, a waste of life."

"Once we have clearly detected the Tiger King's whereabouts, we will come down again to hunt him and bring him back."

Area C was incredibly vast.

Even though Lin Tianwei walked in a perfectly straight line, it took him a full thirty hours to approach the Queen's location.

The closer he got to the Queen's location, the more solidly the structure was built.

The Hellfire Ants' venom was not only effective against living organisms.

It could also bind sand, forming a stronger, rock-like substance.

This was also why the tiny underground world could support countless Hellfire Ants.

After all, they were not small ants in nature; they required a higher tolerance for the environment.

At the same time, the sand-rock bonded by ant venom did not completely lose its toxicity.

It also served to defend against enemy invasion.

Unfortunately, such an elaborately designed underground fortress still could not prevent Lin Tianwei's invasion.

Instead, it provided convenience for Lin Tianwei's actions.

Because at this moment, he had already seen the Queen, located at the very core of this underground fortress.

The Queen was an enormous ball of flesh.

Only a few suspicious protrusions indicated her identity as the ant queen.

Her blood-red color was identical to that of the Hellfire Ants.

She was currently frantically devouring the food provided by the worker ants.

Perhaps due to the restrictions of the Ismail Institute.

The Queen was not engaged in production.

Coupled with the continuous feeding from the Research Institute, this barely maintained the ecological balance of this sandy area.

Otherwise, a red tide would have long since engulfed all places they could reach.

Normally, a Queen is generally a useless creature that only produces.

But it was a mutated beast, so it couldn't be calculated by normal standards.

Therefore, Lin Tianwei had to be careful, extremely careful.

In the burrow.

Worker ants were busy everywhere.

They moved in an orderly fashion, diligently maintaining the operation of the entire ant nest.

Lin Tianwei's body was enormous, but also agile enough.

He easily bypassed countless busy worker ants and arrived near the Queen.

The Queen's strength was naturally not something those ordinary Hellfire Ants could compare to.

The moment Lin Tianwei appeared near her, she had already sensed him.

An invisible command emanated from the Queen.

The Hellfire Ants throughout the sand seemed to receive some order, frantically converging towards Lin Tianwei.

Those worker ants busy nearby were the first to gather.

A crimson torrent prepared to engulf Lin Tianwei once more.

However, Lin Tianwei didn't care about these weaklings at all.

His target had always been only the Queen.

Thinking of this, he moved.

He unhesitatingly launched an attack on the Queen.

His sharp tiger claws, carrying an unstoppable force, fiercely clawed at the Queen.

Attempting to instantly tear apart her plump body.

However, when his tiger claws touched the Queen's body, Lin Tianwei felt that his attack had completely failed to take effect.

The thick fat enveloping the Queen's body merely bounced slightly, completely dissipating Lin Tianwei's strength.

Not only that, but the Queen also twisted her head with difficulty, spraying deadly venom at Lin Tianwei.

Crimson.

Like the freshest blood.

With Lin Tianwei's speed, it was naturally impossible for him to not dodge this level of attack.

So this terrifying ball of venom merely grazed Lin Tianwei's body, flying into the distance.

It hit the converging Hellfire Ants.

The Hellfire Ants that were hit instantly suffered.

Their bodies seemed to encounter some strong corrosive substance, directly corroding into a pool of thick liquid.

They completely disappeared from this world, with only a wisp of smoke proving their former existence.

The other Hellfire Ants were even more cautious, bypassing this pool of venom.

This was enough to show how strong the toxicity of this venom was.

Meanwhile, Lin Tianwei had already bypassed the Queen's plump body and attacked her head.

For most creatures, the head is the most fatal weakness.

Unexpectedly.

The Queen also seemed to know her weakness.

Seeing that the venom could not directly hit Lin Tianwei's body.

She decisively adopted another method.

A large amount of venom continuously sprayed from her mouth.

Like a fountain, it launched an indiscriminate attack over the entire area.

The most fatal thing was that as the crimson liquid gradually stained Lin Tianwei's body.

His Stealth Talent also failed.

This would be a bloody battle!