Chapter 252 - Chapter 252: Chapter 245 Combat Chicken in the Meeh Suit_1 (2/2)
“Madam, insects have come. It would be best if you hid in a large urn. As long as you secure the lid tightly, you should be able to escape this disaster.” Qin Niu, having eaten a big bowl of noodles, naturally had something to repay.
“Okay!”
The old woman replied, already heading toward the kitchen.
Clearly, she’d taken Qin Niu’s advice to heart.
“Lead the way!”
Rescuing someone was as urgent as putting out a fire; having gotten clear
directions, Qin Niu didn’t dawdle.
He directly had another soldier who stayed behind guide him.
Soon, the two arrived at the docks of Luoshui Town.
This was where eleven soldiers were stationed on guard.
It was also the passageway into the market town from the Tianshui River.
“Insects, it’s these insects! Master Qin, be careful!’
The soldier, holding a torch, hadn’t even reached the docks when he spotted the insects attacking from the ground.
They surged like a tide, numerous in number.
Hurriedly crawling forward.
The wooden hut ahead was the temporary camp for a dozen soldiers, from inside which desperate cries still emerged, indicating there were survivors.
“Just follow behind me.”
Qin Niu, with the Termite Army, wasn’t afraid of these crawling ground insects.
The priority was to rescue the people first.
Over sixteen thousand termites in the Termite Army cleared the path ahead.
The remaining over four thousand, which had the ability to launch mental attacks, directly climbed onto Qin Niu for combat.
Rather than engaging in close combat, it was better to let their long-range attack capabilities assist.
The insects on the ground were a type of black armored beetle.
Slim and elongated, they moved with extraordinary agility. Upon closer examination, Qin Niu identified them as ground beetles. They belonged to a particularly fierce category of omnivorous insects. It must be emphasized that not all insects are called insects. Termites, bees, ground beetles are all insects. But spiders, centipedes, and such are not considered insects.
They can only be called bugs.
Centipedes, millipedes, both belong to arthropods.
Ground beetles are Coleoptera.
Coleoptera, a superfamily of insects, are characterized by their hard exoskeletons.
For example, rhinoceros beetles are the favorite of insect enthusiasts. Not only are rhinoceros beetles large, but they also possess two impressively long horns and have tremendous fighting strength. They are well-known powerhouses, and their defensive abilities needless to say.
Even praying mantises have to detour around them. Ground beetles, however, belong to the smaller-sized insects within the Coleoptera.
They are known for their swift movement, ferocity, and many naturally have stink glands which allow them to spray toxic gases from their tails. If sprayed on a person’s hand, it immediately causes redness and pain, and the smell is very unpleasant.
However, they differ from the stink bugs found among Hemiptera, colloquially known as stink bugs.
The gases released by stink bugs indeed smell terrible.
And also carry a certain toxicity.
In a fight, ten stink bugs wouldn’t stand a chance against a single ground beetle.
They are the ‘bantam fighters’ among the ground beetles.
The ground beetles crawling on the ground were obviously bred and enhanced by an Insect Master.
Their mandibles had evolved extreme biting strength, and they had developed venom glands in their mouths.
That was the most frightening part.
Once they bit someone, they immediately injected their venom.
“My god, the weakest are Grade Two ground beetles, most are Grade Three, and their numbers are so vast.”
Qin Niu felt a wave of numbness in his scalp.
Insect warfare has two developmental directions.
One is to win through quality, breeding insects so tough that they are impervious to weapons and resistant to elements, with great mobility and toxicity. To possess just one could allow one to snatch the enemy leader with ease, as easy as reaching into a bag.
Even Buddha, back in the day, was once stung by Scorpion Spirit.
This serves to illustrate how terrifying the toxicity of insects can be.
The second direction is to win through numbers.
On top of having a certain quality, breeding a large number of insect swarms to reach a terrifying figure.
This approach is equally horrifying.
Especially against ordinary humans and skilled fighters, it is almost guaranteed success.
When it comes to explosive reproduction, the Termite Queen of Qin Niu was second to none, and likely no other insect would dare claim to be first.