197: The Queen Ant's Ride!

Rumble!

The enormous fiery meteorite plunged between the cliffs, and the immense impact directly destroyed the outer ant nests.

The fierce flames, like a flood with its gates unleashed, poured into all the passages of the ant nest.

The raging flames ravaged everything within the ant nest; the piled-up giant ants' corpses in the passages instantly evaporated, leaving no ashes behind.

Even though the Ant Queen had evolved into a Mysterious being of the Klein Realm, the fear of fire was etched into the insects' genes.

This human actually possessed such terrifying ability to manipulate fire.

A strong sense of crisis made the Ant Queen make a decisive move; it opened its huge mouth, and its bulging abdomen compressed violently, spraying streams of light green liquid from its oral cavity.

An invisible wind wall blocked Song Zhong's path, causing all the light green liquid to splash away.

However, the surrounding rocks were not so lucky; the light green liquid possessed extremely strong corrosive properties.

Upon contact, a huge pit was corroded into the rock's surface.

A thick, yellowish-white smoke spread out, and the Ant Queen's figure quickly disappeared into the smoke.

The highly acidic gastric fluid was not only the Ant Queen's means of attack but also an excellent way to conceal its tracks.

The thick smoke obscured vision, and the strong irritating smell prevented tracking by scent.

The Ant Queen's speed was extremely fast; it lightly waved its scythe-like limbs, striking at a large rock.

With a puff.

The sharp limbs, like a keen blade cutting tofu, split the hard rock in two, causing it to fall to both sides.

A deep, dark passage appeared before the Ant Queen.

This was its secret passage, leading to that Mysterious and dangerous underground world.

As soon as this passage appeared, the Ant Queen frantically burrowed into it.

It didn't know why its [Killing Intent Shock] had no effect on Song Zhong, but at this moment, escaping was the correct choice.

Getting rid of that human's pursuit was the most crucial thing right now.

The Ant Queen went downward; the passage was very narrow at first, but eventually, the surrounding space became increasingly vast.

After an unknown period of travel, rows of walls began to appear in the surrounding darkness.

Those walls were constructed from bluish-grey long bricks, and surprisingly, even after the erosion of time, the walls remained tightly sealed, showing no signs of damage.

Upon seeing this wall, the Ant Queen immediately felt relieved; it continued along the wall, and before long, a magnificent and ancient bronze door appeared in the center of the wall.

Directly below the bronze door was an earthen hole, and around the hole in the wall, some soil was scattered.

This was the passage through which the Ant Queen had originally escaped.

A complex expression flashed in the Ant Queen's eyes, and then it resolutely burrowed into the earthen hole.

Shortly after the Ant Queen entered the bronze door, a group of light, fluttering paper figures gathered.

They aimlessly wandered around the entrance for a long time, not finding anything unusual.

In frustration, they had no choice but to disperse.

Hidden in the darkness, the Ant Queen breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the departing paper figures.

These paper figures were very troublesome Mysterious beings; although they appeared to have no attack power on the surface.

In reality, these paper figures possessed the eerie ability to convert Life Qi and Death Qi.

Once a living creature stepped into the territory of Fengdu Ghost City, they would immediately detect it and exchange the Death Qi within their bodies with the intruder's Life Qi.

At that time, the intruder would become a new paper figure, and the paper figure would seize everything from the intruder.

Fengdu Ghost City, living beings forbidden.

However, the Ant Queen was, after all, a Mysterious being that came from here; although it inevitably accumulated some Life Qi during its time living on the surface.

But the moment it entered the door, it immediately used the Death Qi hidden within its body to conceal its Life Qi.

Upon seeing all the paper figures retreat, the Ant Queen's antennae waved up and down, quickly determining a direction, which was towards the core area of Fengdu Ghost City.

"Thank you, my friend."

In the dim underground space, a hoarse, low voice came from behind the Ant Queen.

Before the Ant Queen could turn its head, it felt something jump onto its back.

Not good, there's something dirty!

Without thinking, the Ant Queen's middle pair of limbs bent back at an anti-joint angle, directly striking the unknown object behind it with its sharp red armored scales.

"Hehe, I just rode on your back; there's no need to welcome me so enthusiastically, is there?"

Song Zhong's bluish-grey hands directly grabbed the Ant Queen's pair of limbs.

Clang!

The hard red armored scales and the bluish-grey Zombification hands collided and wrestled.

A metallic sound was even produced during the friction.

Song Zhong was calm and composed; he exerted a slight force with his hands, directly breaking the Ant Queen's pair of limbs.

Then he freed his hand and directly plunged it into the back of the Ant Queen's neck.

Hiss hiss hiss!

The Ant Queen's mouthparts rubbed frantically, emitting a spine-chilling hissing sound.

It was terrified; the Ant Queen, of course, knew how hard those red armored scales were after evolution.

But these incredibly hard scales were actually easily broken by that person; how terrifying was that force?

And the most bizarre thing was, wasn't this person blocked behind by its illusion in the ant nest?

How did he appear in Fengdu Ghost City?

Moreover, he should be a human, right?

If he was human, why hadn't those paper figures, who loved to strip away Life Qi, appeared?

The Ant Queen's brain spun rapidly, trying to find a possible explanation from the various incomprehensible phenomena.

Song Zhong's hand stirred inside the Ant Queen's body, directly severing its nerves using [Wind Scythe].

The Ant Queen could still think, but it had lost control of its body.

With a thud, the Ant Queen's body fell heavily to the ground.

Its enormous compound eyes tried to search around, but still no paper figures appeared.

Song Zhong jumped off the Ant Queen's back, walked in front of the Ant Queen, and began to soothe its emotions.

"Don't worry, your body will be entrusted to me; I will cherish it well, not wasting a single bit."

The Ant Queen was numb; looking at Song Zhong in front of it, it confirmed one thing.

This guy in front of it was definitely not human; he was a devil from Hell.

Only this could explain why he appeared silently behind it.

Only this could explain why the opponent possessed the mighty power to break its scales.

Only this could explain why, even now, those paper figures had not appeared.

The light in the Ant Queen's eyes gradually dimmed, and finally, it weakly lowered its head, completely losing its aura of life.

Song Zhong touched the Ant Queen's head and smiled.

When he was cutting the Ant Queen's body, he had left a mark on it.

Although the Ant Queen later successfully evolved, those marks did not disappear.

So Song Zhong adopted the same strategy: he let the Ant Queen run slowly, and then he used [Firefly] to directly enter the interior of Fengdu Ghost City.

The plan went very smoothly. As for why the paper figures couldn't sense Song Zhong's Life Qi?

Hehe, what Life Qi does a zombie have?