Chapter 40 - Chapter 40: Chapter 35 Escape from Predicament i (1/2)

Chapter 40: Chapter 35 Escape from Predicament i

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At this critical moment, with his life hanging by a thread, seeing Fourth arrive, Qin Niu felt a sourness in his nose and truly wanted to hug it and give it a fierce kiss.

At this moment, he no longer regarded the termites as pets, but as comrades who shared life and death with him.

Fourth and the Ant Queen risked their lives to come in and rescue him. How many dangers they had encountered along the way, how many difficulties they had faced, no one knew.

To save their master, they overcame all obstacles, dodged various dangers, and rushed to Qin Niu’s feet without looking back.

This loyalty and devotion to saving their master was something that Qin Niu would remember for a lifetime.

Fourth’s life was actually very short, just four months.

That was after drinking bear blood, which extended its life by a month.

Otherwise, it could only live for three months.

After escaping this time, Qin Niu was determined to find a way to extend its life.

“Go, lead the way ahead!”

!!..

Qin Niu, fighting against the drowsiness that assailed him, urged Fourth to lead the way quickly.

As the canopy pressed lower and lower, the cold energy that fell became denser, turning from a fine drizzle into a moderate rain.

It was also fortunate that he had practiced the Everlasting Spring Technique, and had managed to accumulate some skill, which barely allowed him to resist.

But he definitely couldn’t hold out for much longer.

Fourth’s crawling speed was astonishingly fast, this was still the first time Qin Niu had seen it display its full strength after the power boost.

It waved its antennae constantly, and every short distance there was a worker ant waiting ahead.

They were very intelligent.

They were using this method to rescue their master.

The crawling speed of the five strong worker ants was much slower than Fourth’s.

To hasten the escape, Qin Niu grabbed them directly in his hands.

With Fourth leading the way ahead, every time he encountered a worker ant waiting ahead, Qin Niu would quickly bend down and grab it in his hands.

After traveling some distance, possibly seventy or eighty meters, he suddenly felt as if he had passed through an invisible curtain of water. Following closely, the invisible pressure on his head and the cold energy falling like raindrops all disappeared.

When he looked up at the sky again, he could no longer see the canopy of the Ancient Banyan Tree.

Instead, it was a darkening blue sky.

“We’ve made it out alive!”

He exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

Looking back, he saw that the large banyan tree was still the same as before.

There was nothing unusual about it.

The only abnormal thing was that it was terrifyingly quiet.

There was no sound of birds singing, nor the calls of insects, behind him there was silence as if it were the forbidden land of life.

“Fourth, let’s go home.”

Qin Niu had barely escaped and did not dare to study it too much.

The sky was already darkening fast, and night would fall completely soon, so he needed to leave the mountain quickly.

Fortunately, his cultivation level had shot up a great deal, reaching over 70, and even if he encountered two Black Bears he could take them down instantly.

But when it came to creatures close to supernatural beings like the Ancient Banyan Tree, his level of cultivation was not even enough to be stuck in its teeth.

Fourth led the way ahead, and not far away, the Ant Queen lay quietly.

Around her, two strong Soldier Ants stood guard.

The Ant Queen was the most important existence in the entire ant colony. Not only was it an egg-laying machine, maintaining the renewal and expansion of the entire ant colony, but the pheromones it released were also extremely important for the entire ant colony.

“Smart little fellow!”

At first, Qin Niu did not quite understand why the Ant Queen stayed motionless outside.

Now he understood.

To the entire ant colony, it was like a beacon.

As long as it stayed outside, continuously releasing pheromones, Fourth and the other worker ants could find their way home.

This was also why the Ancient Banyan Tree couldn’t trap Fourth and the others.

Fourth’s intelligence was on par with the Ant Queen’s; it had inherited its mother’s qualities quite well.

It had even merged many of its father’s strengths.

For instance, its swiftness, a combination of Soldier Ant and Worker Ant, these were qualities other worker ants did not possess.

“Let’s go, I’ll take you home.”