Chapter 269: Everything In This World Has Its Own Place (1/2)

Throughout this whole journey, as long as we had the Black Blood Queen Ant lead the way in front of us, the golems would ignore us. This time was no different, or at least it should have been so. Heart pounding with anticipation, I had the queen ant proceed forward as always while Sasani carefully watched over him. With him there, that bug didn’t dare to try anything funny.

Yet what I thought would just be a routine flash of our insect access card ended up failing –those two golems actually prevented her from proceeding!

As before, the Black Blood Queen Ant gingerly approached the golems. Up till that point, we had all assumed that everything would work, though my breath and fists were all tight at that moment. Yet just as she was about to squeeze in between these two golem guards, they suddenly moved.

The two constructs stepped out in unison and stuck an arm out to block the queen ant’s passage. By doing that, they had not only blocked that flustered queen’s way, but they had also tossed an icy cold bucket of water over my burning heart…

Thanks to all our previous encounters with the golems, while that queen ant was also just as terrified as she was now, she had basically become accustomed to this sort of role. Thus, the fact that she failed now was truly a surprise for us all.

The queen ant immediately retreated backwards in fright while we swiftly entered a battle stance. Yet just when we thought that a battle was about to break out, the two golems suddenly stepped back, following the exact path they used to step forward as if they were some kind of rewound tape. The both of them had returned to their original positions like nothing had ever happened.

‘What’s going on here…rather, what are you two trying to pull here? We were all raring to fight already and you suddenly just pressed the rewind button on us? Are you messing with me here?!’

Faced with such an unexpected turn of events, no one had any idea in mind so they all turned to me. At times like these, the decision making was often left to me since I was the leader. I turned towards No.3 who was also waiting for my decision: “Have that bug continue trying.”

“Understood, Master.” Having received his command, No.3 walked up to the bug who was currently cowering behind a pile of crumbled rocks: “Get on it, keep walking towards them.”

“I’m…scared…”

“You’re scared of death then?”

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“Yesss…” She nodded her head.

Having his command rejected like that felt like a slap to the face of his ego so No.3 immediately lost his temper and yelled at the poor ant queen: “You might die if you crawl forward now, but if you continue to not listen to us, I’ll kill you right now! Don’t you dare doubt me! Don’t think for a second that you’re all that, we can simply find another queen ant to replace you! After all, we can easily just run away anytime but what about you?!”

“*weep*” Being yelled at like that brought the queen ant to tears.

At the side, Mo Na eagerly watched the spectacle with glee. The only thing she had to do now in order to qualify as a spectator was to clap her hands.

Probably noticing the growing aura of murder that was enveloping No.3, the queen ant promptly turned around once more to place herself in harm’s way. For that sliver of hope, she crawled ever so slowly towards the crack between the two golems. As she did that, she would turn around to find No.3’s terrifying gaze staring right back at her at which point she would quickly avert her gaze and continue crawling forward, never speaking for the entire way. At times, her attention would turn towards those three pairs of blood red doggy eyes staring at her…I bet she really hated those two right now.

Of course, it could just be me she hated.

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For the second try, the queen ant tried to take a test step forward but just as she did so, she was stopped once more by the golems. However, the golems merely blocked her way and did nothing else.

‘Ahhh, how annoying. It was working fine last time so why not now?’

With no other choice, the queen ant meekly crawled back to us. Seeing that, the two golems returned back to their posts as well. Had I not witnessed this entire process myself, I would have honestly thought that they had never moved at all.

Rebuffed, the queen ant was deathly afraid that she would be tortured for failing once more. However, after that display by the golems, I knew that this wasn’t the fault of the queen ant.