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Chapter 278 Lord of the Ants
The Diye Mountains traverse Tianzhu from east to west, dividing the entire subcontinent into two parts, north and south.

On the northern plateau, there are hundreds of city-states, large and small.

Surrounding the city-state are many tribal villages, ruled by local elders.

At this moment, it has entered summer here, but there is surprisingly little rain, the earth has been dried up, and many streams have dried up.

Men and beasts were weary and languishing in the unbearable heat.

However, the more this is the case, the more local Brahmin elders want them to offer sacrifices to the gods.

From food to livestock, to young girls, a large number of sacrifices were sent to the temple, and large gatherings were held again and again, but the drought did not improve at all.

On the contrary, it became more and more serious, and all the city-states were facing widespread famine, and the peasants were in unspeakable hardship.

In a village called Elan, the local Brahmin elders, looking at their house full of offerings, did not worry at all that they would not be able to survive this drought.

But he was very worried about the safety of the gods.

Because he had learned of the chaos in the world of heaven and man through prayer.

There is a terrible demon king who destroyed Mandala Mountain, sealed and slaughtered the gods.

How can this be?How could the gods suffer such a tragic disaster?
The elder was worried and angry, took his wife and children, cursed the devil day and night, and prayed devoutly for the gods.

In Tianzhu, the power of blessings and curses is quite powerful.If countless people curse one person, then Brahma will make it come true, and if countless people bless one person, it will also come true.

On this day, he gathered all the villagers together, knelt outside the temple, and prayed together.

Many people in the crowd were hungry and passed out after kneeling for a long time.

Seeing this, the elder was furious and ordered the servants to drag them out and whip them dozens of times.

Several people were killed on the spot.

Until evening, a skinny woman led her daughter to the edge, boldly came here, looking for her husband.

There was not even a single grain of food in the house, and she had to wait all day without daring to find it, because women were not allowed to participate in this puja.

But now it was too late and hungry, so he took his daughter to wait and see from a distance, intending to remind her husband to ask the elders for some food after the puja.

Unexpectedly, I saw her husband's body from a long distance, and several neighbors fell in a pool of blood.

She was completely stunned, she didn't care much, and rushed forward crying.

When the daughter saw her father who was whipped to death, she also cried out in horror.

The noise collided with the prayer meeting, and the elder said angrily, "You servant's daughter, how dare you approach this place and make noise!"

"People have been praying for the gods all day, and you have ruined it, and everyone's efforts are in vain!"

After saying this, the crowd immediately stared at the mother and daughter with fury.

They have worked hard all day, but it turned out to be in vain, how can they not be angry?

"Your husband interrupted his blessing and was beaten to death by the elders. You and your daughter also rushed and made noise. Your family is a pariah full of sins!"

The woman didn't know what was going on, but after hearing this, she finally couldn't help but said, "My husband has dedicated everything to God, and even entrusted his eldest daughter to you, just so that the gods can save him from suffering and let the whole family have something to eat. .”

"Now that we have prayed again and again, many people in the village will starve to death, but the suffering is still increasing. Is this also our problem?"

"You killed my husband and left me and my daughter with nothing. How are you going to live?"

Her words aroused resonance and commotion among many villagers. Indeed, many of them could not hold on anymore.

After praying so many times, the gods have not solved the suffering. Isn't this a problem of the ability of the Brahmin elders?
Unexpectedly, the elder was even more angry: "Don't you know that the gods are fighting against the devil, and it is the time when the world needs sacrifices?"

"Pray for the gods and help them defeat the devil, and you will get blessings. Even if you starve to death, you will still be a clean soul. In your next life, you will be born into a noble family and escape from suffering."

"You still ask me how to live? For a pariah like you, life and death, crying and joy are not important in the world. Follow the righteous law, dedicate yourself to God, and wash away your sins is the first priority,"

"Even I will teach you this, so it shows that your heart is impure and full of dirt! You make a lot of noise at the puja, and dare to question the authority of the Brahmins?"

"Not only will you be reborn in the realm of hungry ghosts, but you will also add to the sins of others!"

After saying a few words, the woman couldn't refute, and she wept silently, holding her daughter tightly and trembling.

The rioting villagers immediately pointed their finger at her.

Yes, all the sufferings in this world are trials. The more difficult the suffering, the more willing it is to serve the gods wholeheartedly and follow the righteous law.

Only in this way can one wash away one's own sins and enjoy blessings in the next life.

The woman turned back to the Brahmin for the sake of food and the death of her husband, it is putting the cart before the horse!Forget why you live!

Adding to one's own sins and harming others.

"You woman who harms others and yourself, beat her to death!"

"Send her to hell!"

Angry villagers picked up stones and threw them at the woman, who cried and hugged her daughter and ran away desperately.

The Brahmin elder shouted for people to chase, and immediately many people picked up sticks and chased the mother and daughter.

The woman's mind went blank, and she just kept running away.

The villagers were also very hungry, and their legs and feet were numb after kneeling for a long time, so they couldn't catch up, so they could only throw stones from a long distance.

Just like this, they chased all the way to the bottom of a rocky mountain in the Diye Mountains before they finally gave up.

The terrain here is complicated, with dead trees and rocks everywhere. The villagers thought that she would not be able to survive as a woman in this wilderness, so they went back cursing.

The sun was setting, and the woman was walking staggeringly with her child in her arms.

Her head was bleeding and her body was covered in stone wounds.

Bare feet, stepping on the rocks, is also a blood mark on each foot.

The woman's eyes were blank and hopeless. Originally, it was difficult for her to survive when her husband died. Now that she was kicked out of the village and left with nothing in the wilderness, she would surely die.

In this way, she took the child numbly deep into the mountains, hoping to go to other villages.

Although there is famine for hundreds of miles, maybe there is a slight chance of survival in other villages?
She didn't want to die with her children, and she didn't dare to die, after all, she had sinned deeply.

"Plop!" Finally she couldn't walk anymore and fell down beside a rock.

"Mom...you don't want to die." The daughter was in a panic. She was only five years old, skinny as a stick, and didn't know what to do.

"I won't die. Mom just stopped and prayed to the gods to forgive our sins." The woman said weakly.

The mother and daughter lay beside the stone, curled up and praying.

However, the gods she knew, begged over and over again, but there was no response at all.

Only the prayers of Brahmins will be answered by God, and she just has nothing to do at the moment.

"Great God, please guide me, and spare the poor man the suffering."

Suddenly, she heard a wolf howling, and couldn't help but tremble.

Some time ago, she heard that a pack of wolves came up from this barren mountain and could eat people, but she did not expect to encounter this.

She was so frightened that she got up and resisted to transfer.

But no matter how she walked, the howling of wolves was getting closer and closer.

At this moment, night is about to fall, and the shadows of wolves can be vaguely seen in the dim distance.

"It was my blood that attracted the wolves..."

The woman was extremely desperate, knowing that she couldn't run away, she covered her mouth and wept, trembling all over.

But seeing her daughter, she mustered up her courage again, hid the child on the mountain, and ran to the other side by herself.

"Child, you are not injured. The wolves can't find you."

"Mom, don't go...I'm afraid..." the little girl cried in depression.

The woman was also crying: "Mom has already prayed to the gods, and the gods responded to my mother, saving you from suffering, and the gods will protect you."

Unexpectedly, the little girl grabbed her tightly: "I don't want a god, I just want a mother."

"..."

Seeing the pack of wolves getting closer, the woman refused to leave, so she could only run away with her in her arms.

But she couldn't run far, and when she came to a dead forest, she stopped decisively and pulled the dead branches and leaves on the ground.

An ant nest was dug out by her.

But she didn't care, just gathered sticks and tried desperately to start a fire.

While she was lighting the fire, she was still praying, hoping that the gods would focus all the sins on her and forgive the child.

However, she had no tools, her hands were worn out, and she had no fire.

The wolves approached from all directions, staring straight at the mother and daughter.

"Aww!" A wolf pounced on it, tearing wildly.

Followed by other hungry wolves, they rushed forward, and the woman instantly felt that she was bitten in several places on her body.

The severe pain instantly made her scream: "Run! Run!"

She pushed her daughter away, hoping that she could run away, but the next scene was a wolf attacking from behind, throwing the girl down in an instant.

Hearing her daughter's cry, she finally broke down completely, crying and screaming.

He cursed desperately in his mouth, and resisted desperately in his hands.

The gods have only given her suffering, and now she can only rely on herself to fight against the wolves.

I can't wait to become Shura in my heart!
However, even if she died, she would never want to turn into an Asura, because the Asura Tao is the "upper three realms", second only to the heavenly beings, and more noble than the Brahmans in the human world.

She is just a pariah, not worthy of being reincarnated as a demon, and it is considered a blessing to be an ant in the next life.

"Pfft!"

When she was hysterical, blood splashed and fell into the ant nest, soaking it.

I don't know what caused the alarm, a domineering attack, the wolves suddenly let go of their mouths like a frying pan, and barked at the ant nest!

While barking wildly, the hungry wolf stared at the nest and backed away, not daring to approach it.

The lair exuded an astonishing arrogance, which became more and more shocking, causing all the wolves to froze and fled whimpering with their tails between their legs.

The woman was also stunned, lying on the ground dying, she struggled to get up.

I don't know where this shocking aura came from, but when she locked her eyes on the ant nest and confirmed that it was emanating from there, it became even more terrifying.

Because she can feel that this is a kind of royal breath.It seems that there is a unparalleled king in the mound!
Swallowing mountains and rivers with anger, domineering and shocking.

A mound where ants live, and a king?These two are not compatible!
Is it God?Or a ghost?Or is it an artifact?The woman can only guess that there may be something like a god and demon buried under the mound.

But she didn't care about these soon, and now she doesn't care about gods and demons.

At this moment, he just crawled towards his daughter crazily to check the injury.

Seeing her daughter was bitten and covered in blood, she sobbed to stop the bleeding, regardless of her own bleeding.

But fortunately, the daughter is not in danger of her life, and she is still crying in anger.

"It's okay...it's okay..." the woman comforted, leaning against a dead tree.

She was so weak that she could barely move anymore.

His eyes were fixed on the ants' nests, where countless ants came out and crawled around in a black mass.

Obviously, they were also startled by the sudden appearance of domineering.

What's more, she saw a huge ant queen crawling out with a bloated belly.

After a while, the domineering disappeared, as if nothing had happened.

The colony of ants was protecting the queen, wandering around the ground twice in a daze, apparently not knowing what was going on.

"There must be something terrible hiding down there."

The woman guessed, but what could she do?Almost unable to move, helpless, can only just lie on the edge of the nest.

No matter what it is, even if it's a monster, she doesn't care.

As long as the child survives, she is willing to feed her body to the devil.

Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her foot, followed by bursts of itching.

Looking sideways, a group of ants were attracted by her bloody smell and climbed onto her body.

"Ugh!"

These are fire ants on the mountain, and their bites are extremely painful.

The itching was unbearable, the woman struggled and twisted, and slapped desperately.

But her whole body was covered with wounds, her robe was stained with blood, and it was difficult to move. The ants just gathered more and more.

For this reason, she didn't struggle at all, she just separated her daughter and let herself be bitten by ants.

Then he freed his hands and continued to light the fire.

I don't know how long it took, but she endured thousands of ants eating her body and losing too much blood, and finally lit a fire.

She hastily roasted herself with fire, and immediately crackled, many ants curled up and fell.

In this way, I scorched it with flames back and forth, smoked it with smoke, wiped it with soot, and finally got rid of all the ants on my body.

And she was also covered in pitch black, her eyes were darkened, and she was lying there to the limit.

Suddenly, she felt something crawling on her body.

Wei Wei lowered his eyebrows and saw that there was an ant left on his hand.

It is a worker ant, very small in size. Compared with other worker ants, it is obviously not born for too long, and the shell has not fully hardened.

At this moment, it was scorched and curled up, and some limbs had already melted, but this didn't seem to affect the ant.

So much so that after it casually bit the blood scab twice, it revived and dragged its remnant body alive.

Because it ran too happily, the little ant actually tore off its already burned leg.

At this scene, it also froze for a moment, turned around, and shook its tentacles, seeming a little confused.

"call!"

The woman didn't think much, raised her hand slightly, and smoked it in the smoke of the fire, trying to roast it off.

Unexpectedly, the ant did not know what was going on, but it was not afraid of the high temperature.

The woman approached the fire, and the small flame ignited for a while, and then her pupils shrank: "What? No damage at all?"

"Obviously there are traces of being roasted on the body."

Just when the woman was startled, the little ant tilted its head, shook its tentacles, and burst out a burst of flame.

The flame was extremely blazing, soaring into the sky, like a shooting star reversing the sky, piercing straight into the clouds!

"boom!"

The terrifying explosion swept away in the clouds, and the powerful shock wave swept all directions.

The dark clouds suddenly repelled!For a while it seemed cloudless!

Only the flames were left in the sky, turning the night into red!

The woman was stunned, what is this?She released a powerful ball of fire in her hand?

No, it was the little ant who let it go!

She looked at the ant, and the ant was standing on the back of her hand with its tentacles facing the sky, as if sensing something.

And it wasn't until then that the shock wave from the explosion in the sky spread down!

Rumbling, the whole mountain resounded, echoing sound waves, flying sand and rocks in front of my eyes.

"It's too powerful! It seems to blow up the sky!"

"Fire ants really breathe fire?"

The woman was seriously injured, and her head was buzzing at the moment, not knowing what was going on.

But she soon realized that this ant was probably the owner of the domineering aura before.

Fortunately, she thought there was something magical buried under the mound, but it turned out to be just a small ant.

Bugs... what kind of god is this?Or is it a demon?
Lord of ants?God of Zerg?

……

　PS: sorry.

　　
　
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