Chapter 96: First time hunting alone in a secret place (2)
She had been running in the wilderness all day, and towards evening she was chasing a big fat rabbit, intending to kill it and then find a place to set up camp.
The rabbit was almost unable to run as she chased it, and its speed slowed down. Ye Na raised her gun and shot, knocking it down with one shot.
Just as she ran forward to pick it up, she suddenly heard a gunshot and the bullet fell at her feet.
"Girl, that's our rabbit, get away from it!"
Ye Na stood up and looked back. There was a motorcycle and two men in leather jackets. The one who fired the shot was the man in the back seat.
When the two men saw Ye Na's face clearly, they whistled twice.
"Yo, she's still a young chick."
"With a gun this big, does this chick know how to use it?"
"Want to try a better gun?"
"Haha...ga..."
The laughter of the two men stopped abruptly as if their throats were suddenly strangled. They fell off the motorcycle in pain, opened their mouths wide, but could not breathe.
Ye Na picked up her rabbit slowly.
Then walk up to them.
"Where are you from? What are you doing here?"
"Spare your life...spare your life..."
"Where are you from? What are you doing here?"
Yenna asked again.
The two men were still trying hard to cry for mercy.
Ye Na curled her lips impatiently, "Forget it, let's go. Remember to be a polite person in your next life."
As soon as she finished speaking, the two people and their motorcycle disappeared from the spot and entered the space.
Two people, a motorcycle and a spear. Either one of them is a space dweller who is out hunting with equipment, or there is a large group behind them who have just set up camp and are out on patrol. In any case, they have to get rid of all the traces first.
The mycelium all over the ground guided Ye Nai to find a suitable camping site.
Just as she lit the camp light and packed up the tent, she heard the sound of cars and gunfire.
She quickly put the things into the space and hid them in the dry grass.
"Fuck, where did those two guys go?"
"The intercom has been disconnected."
"Is there really something wrong? Was he dragged away by a strange beast?"
"There are two of them, with guns and cars. What kind of monster can take them down at once?"
"Gathering?"
"Did you see any signs of herd animals?"
"You can't be running away because you're scared, right?"
"Whatever. If we can't find it, then we can't find it. Go back and tell them to keep an eye on the laborers and don't let them get away."
"Let's go, let's go. If we don't earn this money, we can get a little more."
"That's right, let's go." The sound of cars and voices gradually faded away. Ye Na walked out from the dry grass, released a large number of supernatural spores to catch up with the people in the car, left a mycelium signal, and then rode a motorcycle to chase them.
A laborer is a common name for a porter in the secret realm. They earn money by selling their labor, one thousand yuan a day. They collect the money first and then work, and their life and death are at their own risk.
But from what they said just now, it seemed like the laborers they hired had other uses.
Of course Ye Na had to follow and take a look.
After stumbling and chasing for about a quarter of an hour, Ye Nai saw a large camp with bright lights.
The camp was flat and it was obvious that it was built with supernatural powers. The dead grass that blocked the view around it had been cleared away, and Yenne hid far away so she was not seen.
She observed through the telescope for a while and found that from the angle she could see, there were more than ten people patrolling back and forth.
"It looks like there really is a big move going on."
Yenne muttered as she released another wave of mutant spores, allowing the newly grown mycelium to surround the camp and search for the target they wanted to hunt.
She wanted to see what good stuff was discovered by such a strict wait.
It takes time for the mycelium to grow and reproduce, so Ye Na quietly retreated and will come back tomorrow.
Before dawn, Ye Na came back quietly. In one night, the mycelium completed the task and found the target that the people in the camp wanted to hunt.
Two kilometers away from the camp, there is a deep ditch that people can go down. In the ditch there is a huge nest of fire ants.
The "sword-jaw" refers to the fact that the ant's mouthparts look like a sickle, and the "complex-scythe" means the double sickles, which are large and sharp and can easily cut off pieces of fresh meat. No matter whether it is an animal or a human encountering this ant, they will be torn into a clean skeleton in minutes without even a trace of meat.
Such a ferocious ant also has economic value because it is very large, with a body shape similar to the giant flying cockroach in the south, so the pair of double-jawed jaws and the bright red hard shell become practical.
When the mycelium responded that it was the Double-jawed Fire Ant, Ye Na felt that something was wrong. Those laborers were probably hired as bait.
Although the secret realm is full of dangers and everyone who enters is responsible for their own life and death, Ye Nai feels that deliberately using human lives as hunting bait is still beyond the bottom line of human morality.
Although she had no bottom line and would kill people at will, she believed that she had a strength, which was that she only attacked those who provoked her and never took the initiative to provoke others.
Yenne carefully bypassed the camp and headed straight for the deep ditch. Now that she had discovered it, it was hers.
The mycelium is already working.
They invaded the giant ant nest and rushed in wave after wave like a tide. Any ant they encountered, regardless of size, was taken into the space for decomposition.
The ant nest is interconnected and contains even greater numbers of hyphae. When they encounter a fork in the road, they split into two paths, leaving no space behind and heading straight for the queen ant's royal cell.
Even the plump, white, tender queen ant was no match for the mycelium. She died instantly after entering the space. Mycelium grew densely all over her body, making her look like a furry ball.
Yenna, who was still on her way, suddenly stopped, and the mycelium took out a bright red heart core as big as a pomegranate seed from the queen ant's body. It was the largest heart core she had ever collected.
Ye Na took out the heart core and examined it in the palm of her hand for a moment. After satisfying her gaze, she threw it back into the space without hesitation, allowing the mycelium to digest it and use it to expand the volume of the space, taking away all the ants in the nest without leaving a single one behind.
The queen ant’s heart core is indeed full of energy. The previous expansion of the space was silent, and if you didn’t measure it suddenly, you wouldn’t have noticed that it had expanded a little bit.
This time, Ye Na clearly felt the space expanding.
Ye Na took out the small box used to collect heart cores from the space, thought about it, and poured them all into the space to use up all the mycelium.
She collects this to satisfy her collecting habit, but she won't be stingy when it comes to using it.
You are the one who uses it, not someone else.
The larger the space, the more mycelium there is, and the faster the prey is decomposed and digested. When Ye Na finally ran to the deep ditch above the ant nest, all that was left of the first batch of ants collected were the valuable compound jaws and bright red shells, as well as a small pile of formic acid glands.
The fast speed made Yenne laugh out loud.
The ground is safe, there is mycelium under the soil. Ye Na sits here and takes out the food stored in the space to eat breakfast.