Chapter 97: First time hunting alone in a secret place (3)

She was not worried at all that people from the camp would come to hunt. They were a private team, and having more people would mean delays and uncoordinated actions.

Although this is a bit of a stereotype, Ye Na firmly believes this and will not change it based on the information she overheard yesterday.

It would take at least till dawn for them to arrive, by which time she might have finished her work and left.

In the ant nest, the attack of the mycelium waves continues. The ants feel the danger, but they cannot resist and cannot find the enemy. Their only purpose is to become nutrients for the mycelium.

The mycelium found the ant eggs in the incubator, and of course not a single one of these protein-rich goodies could be left behind.

Ye Na took a look at the ant eggs and felt that they would arouse people's claustrophobia. None of the hatched eggs were pure white. As the hatching progressed, the eggs became more and more transparent. A small black dot could be seen in each egg, which was the embryonic ant baby.

They are piled up densely, doesn't it look scary?

Ye Nai sorted the ant eggs, picked out those without black spots, and used the ones with black spots as nutrients for the mycelium.

Blowing in the cold wind of the early morning, Ye Nai waited for several hours until daybreak. Then he heard the sound of cars approaching in the distance, and the hunt in the deep ditch was over.

Run away quickly.

Dozens of people came to the edge of the ditch with a lot of noise. It was daybreak, and they could clearly see a huge ant nest covering a large area from a high vantage point.

"Wow, it's so big!"

“It’s a good job.”

"Wow, who found it?"

"If we take this down, won't we get rich?"

"Hehe, after the money is divided, I will be a bridegroom every day."

While a group of people were talking about this, the three captains who organized the hunting trip called a few awakened people as planned, and used their exploratory psychic abilities to confirm the situation of the ant nest in the ditch.

After this check, these spiritual awakeners were dumbfounded. They checked it over and over again, but could not come up with a conclusion.

"What are you doing? Does it take so long to investigate?"

Several captains who were getting impatient shouted.

"Captains, something is not right."

These awakened ones looked at each other, and finally pushed forward one person to explain the situation.

"What's wrong? Explain yourself clearly!"

"This ant nest is empty and quiet."

"Yes, I checked several times and there was no sign of life."

"Nonsense!" A captain came out angrily and kicked the Awakener in front of him to the ground. "More than a dozen of my brothers died before tracking them down here. You say it's empty, so it's empty?!"

"Hey, Captain, send someone down to check and you'll know. It's really empty."

The Awakener who was kicked to the ground spit out blood and spoke with difficulty.

Seeing how confident the other team was, the three captains finally stopped hesitating, got together to discuss, and called on their men to bring the workers.

"Tie the rope and go down to see what's going on in the ant nest."

More than a dozen laborers were so frightened that their legs went limp on the spot.

"Captain, Captain, we are laborers, we move things, we don't do this."

"Bullshit! I give you two thousand a day, what do you think this money is?"

"You have to go down even if you don't want to. If you don't go down, you will leave your life up there."

The loyal subordinates immediately loaded their guns and pointed them at the laborers, threatening to kill them on the spot if they uttered any more objections.

"What do you think the secret wilderness is? It's a lawless place where no one will hold anyone accountable no matter how many people die."

"Stop talking nonsense, tie the ropes, and get down here. If anyone dares to make a noise, I'll beat them to death. Your flesh and blood will be used to attract the ants."

The laborers cried as they fastened their safety belts with shaking hands, holding pickaxes in their hands, and lowered themselves down one by one. After they got down, they used the pickaxes to smash the outer shell of the ant nest.

He smashed it hard, causing pieces to fly everywhere.

But not a single ant came out.

Even the patrolling ants outside the nest were not seen.

When the people standing above the ditch saw this scene, they all felt that it was not good.

"This isn't right. Ants are such sensitive creatures. Why don't any of them come out to check when an enemy comes to destroy their nest?"

“Isn’t it an empty nest?”

"No way? Didn't they say that a dozen people died here last time? That's why people know there's an ant nest underneath."

"But there's really no reaction at all. Where's the ant?"

The laborers at the bottom of the ditch, after hammering for a while, realized that there was no danger, so they became bolder and had more strength. A group of them gathered together and hammered one place, and with a loud bang, they smashed a hole out of it.

Even at this point, there was still no reaction, not a single ant in sight.

The laborers all felt that something was not right.

"No way? I was so scared that I peed myself, and it turns out to be an empty nest?"

"So the two thousand dollars a day was earned in vain?"

"Hey, that's good."

The captains on the deep ditch had faces that looked so ugly that black water could be squeezed out of them.

"Pull the laborers up, and let us go down and take a look."

After a while, the laborers pulled it up one by one, and another group of people went down again.

After these people went down, they enlarged the hole and even went so far as to dismantle the passages in the ant nest, but found nothing. The news they sent back made the captains above furious.

"Oh no, it's an empty nest."

"There was nothing in the nest, no queen cells, no ant eggs, it was empty, a completely empty nest."

"This may be an abandoned nest, but it was not abandoned for long, and traces of ant activity can be seen."

The furious captains grabbed the walkie-talkies and yelled.

"Find, find the ants' new nest for me!"

People from all over the ditch took action. If they couldn't find the new nest of the fire ants, their operation would be a complete failure.

But where can they find it? The nest is empty because someone got there first.

Ye Na ran a long way on foot before using a compass to find the direction of the road, then got on his motorcycle and continued running.

Because of hunting, we unknowingly got farther and farther away from the road. The road in the wilderness was difficult to travel on. I rode on the motorcycle for most of the day before I finally saw the road.

Then she crossed the road and went to the wilderness on the other side to continue her search for prey.

It’s still a long way to the New Year, so there’s no need to rush back.

While riding a motorcycle to find a camping site, Ye Na saw several fire-breathing rabbits passing by her.

There are also fire-breathing rabbits on this side of the road, but the land here is not marked on the rabbit hunting map. Considering that rabbits have always been able to reproduce, Ye Na has a clear understanding of the proliferation of rabbits.

Rabbits are great prey if there are enough of them to survive extinction.

After resting for a night, Ye Nai picked up the gun and started working ambitiously the next day.

After a day and a night, the space was empty again. The Fire Ants were all decomposed and digested, leaving behind a pile of valuable leftovers.

While searching for rabbits, the mycelium received feedback and discovered a nest of wild boars foraging for food.