Dragon Elephant Valkyrie

Chapter 256 Food Crisis
That night, not long after the herd of ghost beasts appeared, there was a commotion.

The Nether Beast howled terribly, and then fled in all directions.

The merchant martial artist originally thought that the ghost beasts would retreat after midnight, but not long after nightfall, the ghost beasts ran away howling wildly.

Shang Qingqiu felt something strange, so he asked Shang Bie to take someone out to have a look.

Shang Bie led a few martial artists out of the camp, and within a short distance, he saw the corpse of a Nether Beast on the ground a few feet away.

Taking a closer look, I saw ants the size of soybeans crawling all over the Nether Beast.

These ants ate up a Nether Beast in the blink of an eye, leaving no bones left.

Shang Bie was terrified, hurried back to the camp, and told Shang Qingqiu what he saw.

"There is a kind of ant here, which can devour a ghost beast in the blink of an eye. It is extremely terrifying."

Shang Qingqiu frowned, and asked, "Can you recognize what kind of ant it is?"

Shang Bie took out a porcelain vase and said, "I've never seen this kind of strange ant, but I caught one back."

Qin Yu was listening on the sidelines, and knew very well that the ants Shang Bieli was talking about were the gold-eating ants he released. Hearing that he had caught one, he raised his eyes and stared at the porcelain vase in his hand.

All the high-status merchants gathered here, and they all stared at the porcelain vase in Shang Bie's hand.

Shang Bieli uncorked the bottle and poured it on the table, but nothing came out.

Immediately, someone with sharp eyes saw a small hole in the bottom of the porcelain vase, and quickly reminded: "There is a hole in the bottom of the porcelain vase, be careful! That ant has come out."

Shang Bieli was startled, he was holding the porcelain vase in his arms just now, he jumped up quickly, opened his clothes and shook vigorously.

After a few shakes, an ant the size of a soybean fell onto the table, and it was a gold-eating ant.

The gold-eating ant raised its head, opened its strong and mighty mandibles, and shook the people around it a few times.

"Has anyone seen this kind of ant?" Shang Qingqiu looked at the crowd with a solemn expression, and said worriedly, "It appeared in the Emperor's Ruins, and it is probably also an ancient species. If there is a large ant nest here, it will be bigger than the Nether Ants. Beasts are more terrifying."

This is indeed the case, ghost beasts are afraid of light, and they can be guarded against.

Gold-eating ants are so small that they are impossible to guard against. As long as groups of gold-eating ants crawl on them, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Master Xu stared at the gold-eating ants on the table, and suddenly took out a dagger and said, "Why don't you let me do some research to see if this kind of ants are poisonous and what value they have, maybe they can be used for refining medicine."

Qin Yu hastily stretched out his hand to hold the gold-eating ant, squeezed it and shook it, and said with a smile to everyone: "I recognize this kind of ant, it's called the gold-eating ant, and it's an ancient species like the six-eyed black snake, with sharp teeth. , gold and iron can bite through."

When everyone heard that Qin Yu recognized this kind of ants, they immediately turned their heads and listened carefully.

Qin Yu put the gold-eating ants in his palm, and continued: "This kind of gold-eating ants usually only prey on monsters and rarely attack people, but the premise is that you don't try to hurt them, otherwise I don't know what will happen. So, I suggest not to provoke these gold-eating ants."

"You know?" Master Xu was a little suspicious.

Qin Yu twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a smile, "That's right, I know. I advise you not to touch these gold-eating ants. Don't blame me for not reminding you that the sense of smell of gold-eating ants can cover a range of more than ten miles. One of them died If you do it, it will attract a group of people. If you don’t believe me, just try it.”

Qin Yu said and threw the gold-eating ants in his hand to Master Xu.

Master Xu trembled in fright, quickly backed away, and repeatedly shouted: "What are you doing!"

The gold-eating ants fell to the ground, moved their tentacles, looked for the direction, and crawled towards the place where the gold-eating ants gathered.

Seeing that the gold-eating ants did not take the initiative to attack people, Shang Qingqiu felt relieved, and didn't want to cause trouble, so he sent an order to the merchant martial artists not to provoke these gold-eating ants.

……

Since Qin Yu released the gold-eating ants to hunt, the night has returned to tranquility.

It's just that the process of finding the Emperor's Blood Flower is still not smooth.

For four consecutive days, Shang Qingqiu and his team searched all the corners near Shishan Mountain, but they still couldn't find the legendary Emperor's Blood Flower.

The merchant's cousin was also constantly questioned by the merchant, and he was about to collapse.

After the merchant team was attacked by the six-eyed black snake, many carriages were damaged and they were forced to sell a lot of food.

After so many days of traveling and searching, the food I brought was about to run out.

There is a backlog of despair in the team. If the night has not become calm, some people may have been unable to hold on.

The food was about to run out, Shang Qingqiu had to start abstaining from food rations, and each person could only eat half of the original food every day.

"Brother Qin, I'm really sorry, I'm sorry, the food I brought in is running out, so I need to save some. To express my apology, I gave this pot of fine wine that I kept privately to Brother Qin." Shang Bieli followed Shang Qingqiu's instructions. Order, come to appease Qin Yu.

Shang Qingqiu wants to reduce the food ration, as long as it is not enough to starve to death, the merchants will not have any complaints.

However, Qin Yu and Xu Zhen, the other alchemy master, needed to be appeased a bit.

Qin Yu didn't care. He picked up the jug and poured a glass into the glasses of the two of them. He touched it and said, "Have a drink."

Shang Bieli quickly picked up the wine glass, raised his head and drank it down.

"I don't really care. It's just saving food and clothing. Brother Shang doesn't need to come here to appease me." Qin Yu laughed casually.

In fact, Qin Yu knew that things were far worse than what appeared on the surface.

Because it was still in the Emperor Ruins at this time, the food was almost gone.

Even if they return by the same route now, it will take more than ten days to get out of the Emperor Ruins.

Therefore, merchants can only hope that when they return to the original road, they can find the lost food, otherwise they will suffer from hunger.

Even if they are not starved to death, there are still dangers lurking in the dark. If all the merchants and martial artists lose their combat effectiveness due to hunger, the consequences will also be very serious.

Just when Qin Yu and Shang were chatting away.

suddenly!

Bang!
Master Xu on the bronze chariot slammed the plate angrily, and cursed: "I am a dignified medicine king, so let me eat these pig food. Now I can't even eat enough. Before I came in, your business was not Said so!"

Shang Bieli heard the sound of being smashed and looked at Qin Yu helplessly.

Qin Yu smiled lightly and said, "Brother Shang, do as you please."

Shang Bieli clasped his fists together, jumped out of the carriage, and went to appease Master Xu.

After Shang Bieli got off the car, Qin Yu took out the spirit insect tube, brought it close to his eyes, and looked inside.

The gold-eating ants were still the same as usual, lying neatly on the wall of the tube, taking turns to feed the queen.

The gold-eating queen ants eat and lay eggs tirelessly, almost without a moment's rest.

Because this is how gold-eating ants survive. For the survival of the group, worker ants need to go out to hunt for food. When food is in short supply, they will use themselves as food for the queen to eat.

For the survival of the colony, the queen's duty is to eat and lay eggs.

However, this time, Qin Yu found something new in the spirit insect tube, beside the gold-eating ant queen, there were grains of golden sand piled up.

"Hey... what is this?"

(End of this chapter)