129 Chapter 129 - Bone Ant Lair (1/2)
Cheng Yang showed great interest for this Bone Devouring Ants that was trying to escape. Regarding his understanding on enchanted beast, monsters that doesn't have a high enough intelligence wouldn't had been able to ignore the mortal hatred between enchanted beasts and humans, let alone escaping in the midst of a battle.
Seeing that this monster had wanted to flee, it's identity was definitely not simple. Who knows, maybe it was the one that developed the plan that almost caused him his life just now.
When he recalled his experience, Cheng Yang couldn't help but shudder. That experience, he absolutely didn't want to go through a second time.
As soon as the ant was released from the frozen state, it quickly crawled forward. But its speed was much slower than Cheng Yang. Cheng Yang dashed up and directly grasped it.
Cheng Yang felt a sharp pain coming from his hand the moment he caught the Bone Devouring Ant, and noticed his health reducing at a rate of 3 points per second.
”It's a first late-order Bone Devouring Ant. It seems that plan really was created by this slick thing.” Cheng Yang muttered. As for the pain coming from his hand, he ignored it. As a profession tempered for a year in the apocalypse in the previous timeline, pain was already a normal everyday occurrence. If Cheng Yang couldn't endured the pain during the fierce fighting just moment ago, he wouldn't had been able to survive.
This Bone Devouring Ant desperately tried to struggle out of Cheng Yang's hand, but its power was barely at the same level as him. After being grasped in his hands, it was simply unable to break free. Taking advantage of this time, Cheng Yang made another round of ice thorns, solving the lives of the few remaining Bone Devouring Ants.
Staring at the Bone Devouring Ant's leader still struggling in his hands, the corner of Cheng Yang's mouth lifted into a smile. It's seems this trip's harvest was pretty good. Originally, he had intended to completely exterminate this colony of Bone Devouring Ants. He didn't expect that he would capture the leader of this colony of Bone Devouring Ants. Cheng Yangi felt as if he'd been smacked on the face with a pie that fell from the heavens.
Was the Bone Devouring Ant's leader useful? As an enchanted beast, there was no value to it. It has no fur to peel off or bones that could be used. There was only one reason why Cheng Yang would keep it alive, it was for the Bone Devouring Ant's lair.
Enchanted beasts could build their own lair. Its role was to speed up the reproduction of the racial group. If all the monsters of this particular lair were killed at once, the lair would lose its effect and be discarded. But if the leader could be captured alive and had its blood sprinkled over the lair, the lair would continue the reproduction of the race. And over time, the lair's reproduction capability would gradually increase, both in quality and quantity.
Now that Cheng Yang had captured the Bone Devouring Ant's leader alive, his next scheme of plan was naturally the lair. He wanted to make this lair a fixed spawn point for Luo Feng Village.
For Cheng Yang who had experienced a lifetime, he was clearly aware that with the passage of time, as the number of enchanted beasts in groups becomes larger, building a lair would become the inevitable choice for all the enchanted beast's groups. Correspondingly, as the number of enchanted beast lair increased, the respawn rate of the monsters in the wild would also gradually reduce. So much that after several months, the sight of monsters being spawned in the wild would become very rare.
At that time, although the enchanted beasts produced in the lair would still leave their territory, and fight over the lands and resources with the humans, but it was after all a minority. More often than not, these enchanted beasts would stayed in their lair. Fighting enchanted beasts within their lair would no doubt caused humans to lose their home field advantage. It would become very challenging and dangerous to fight against even a single enchanted beast inside.
But if you could have a lair that produced enchanted beast automatically, and killed them the moment of their spawn, you could easily imagined its value. Someday in the future, when humans wants to obtain power value in other ways, perhaps apart from the instances, another way would be through such an enchanted beast lair.
Immediately, Cheng Yang carried the struggling Bone Devouring Ant's leader forward. Soon, he returned to the location of the lair.
This Bone Devouring Ant's lair was roughly the height of two people, and covered an area that was no less than 40 square meters. It was a magnificent sight that was on par with buildings built by mankind.
In the previous timeline, Cheng Yang didn't personally see a Bone Devouring Ant's lair. However, listening to what other people in the forum had mentioned, this lair could only be regarded as a level 1 Bone Devouring Ant's lair. Everyday it could produced only a thousand Bone Devouring Ants.
And in the previous timeline, the largest Bone Devouring Ant's lair mankind saw was only level 2. Moreover, this Bone Devouring Ant's lair was later abandoned. This lair appeared near the main city of a state and in order to exterminate this Bone Devouring Ant's colony, the main city paid the lives of nearly 50,000 professions. The high price made people sigh with emotions.
Cheng Yang didn't want to waste time, he threw the Bone Devouring Ant's leader above the nest and shot out an ice puck. The Bone Devouring Ant's leader was killed in the blast.
The leader's hard exoskeleton couldn't maintained its shape after withstanding the impact of the ice puck. After being torn to pieces, green blood immediately penetrated the lair.
These blood didn't seeped that deep into the lair, when suddenly the lair flashed a slight glow before returning back to normal.