Chapter 434 Ant Factory

Now, what appears in front of Mike and others is a mushroom forest that is much sparser than the one before. But what is different from before is that the reason why the mushroom forest in front of everyone is so sparse is completely man-made.

Oh no!

To be precise, it should be ants.

Because what appeared in front of Mike and others at this moment was a busy construction site scene. Countless giant ants were shuttled through the mushroom forest, constantly gnawing at the roots of the tall mushrooms.

And once those tall mushrooms are bitten by them, ants will naturally come and drag the mushrooms to the open space further north.

With their collaborative work, this mushroom forest that should have been very dense was now sparse, with only a few small mushrooms less than a person tall and countless short and thick mushroom roots remaining on the ground.

"You guessed it right, these ants are really lumberjacks!"

Benjamin spoke slowly in a voice that was almost as if he was dreaming. If Benjamin, a smart man, usually agreed with Franklin, he would jump with joy, but at this moment, Franklin looked at the scene in front of him in confusion and said nothing. Not coming out.

And just when everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them, Mike took a deep breath and took steps toward this 'logging site'!

Through observation, he was almost certain that although these ants' physical strength was terrifying, they had the same weaknesses as living corpses - they were afraid of magic spells and high temperatures.

Armed with this information, Mike lost his fear of the ants.

Judging from the ant's kneeling performance before, Mike also came up with a very strange guess.

After ensuring his own safety, Mike began to verify his ideas without any scruples.

However, his move shocked Benjamin and others. The fifty elite wizards raised their wands almost instinctively, and Arthur even called out to Mike in a low voice, and pulled it out after receiving no response. The sword ran towards the direction of Mike's progress!

The movements behind him naturally alarmed Mike. He turned around quickly, put his index finger in front of him, and made a silencing gesture.

Arthur's body froze in place, but upon seeing this, Mike continued to walk towards the 'logging site'.

One step, two steps, three steps...

As the distance between Mike and the ants got closer and closer, the ants who were working hard finally discovered Mike, a human who had escaped from the invisible state and walked towards them openly.

Arthur's hand squeezed the hilt of the sword fiercely. If there was anything wrong, he would strike out and chop all these disgusting ants into pieces regardless of Mike's order.

However, he probably won't have this chance.

Because as soon as they discovered Mike, all the ants on the 'construction site' took the initiative to stop what they were doing, and just like the previous ant, they knelt down neatly in the direction of Mike!

Mike smiled very happily, and he spread his arms in the direction of the ants, as if an emperor was enjoying the kneeling of his people to him!

Everything in front of him has proved his suspicion. These ants kneeling in front of him have definitely been artificially trained!

Otherwise, how could a mere ant know how to perform such an advanced action as kneeling down to a human being?

At this time, someone else who was hiding in the shadows also came out, looking at the ants kneeling neatly, with surprise on their faces.

"How is this going?"

Arthur gasped and said in surprise, his hand still holding the silver sword tightly.

"As you can see, these 'lumberjacks' have the habit of kneeling before people." Mike said with a smile, "Do you know what this means?"

"This means there is a wizard behind them teaching them?"

"Bing Guo! That's the right answer!" Mike said excitedly, snapping his fingers, "If I guessed correctly, those wizards should be the targets of our trip. And now that we have met these 'lumberjacks', then It means we will reach our destination soon.”

After saying this, the smile on Mike's face disappeared, replaced by a serious look on his face, and he said to everyone:

"We are about to arrive at the battle location. We must all enter combat mode, turn on the stealth mode, and remember to mask the smell. Those ants are very sensitive to smell. Do you understand?"

No one responded to Mike's words, which was already a common practice in the team.

Everyone took action the moment they received the order and quickly entered a hidden state!

In just an instant, the small empty space beside Mike that was still full of people stood empty, and everyone disappeared.

The corners of Mike's mouth rose. He took a deep breath, looked at the broad plains to the north, and quietly entered the invisible state.

But when he disappeared, the ants who were still kneeling on the ground were stunned.

The two long antennae on their heads were shaking constantly, as if they were searching for temperature factors in the air, but after a long period of fruitless searching, the ants finally gave up.

They all got up one by one, returned to their posts and got busy, as if Mike and his team had never been here before.

But what no ant noticed was that along the highway transporting mushrooms among them, a series of tiny, almost undetectable footprints continued to spread into the distance.

…

Mike and his team were walking along the avenue where the ants were transporting mushrooms. They entered the invisible state due to the use of the disguise spell, and also used the special deodorant made by Benjamin (this was originally made for Victor, who didn't like to take a bath, So it smells bad) to take out the smell, so the ants who were hauling the mushrooms along the way did not find any trace of Mike and others.

This made Franklin a little proud. He even climbed onto the huge mushrooms that were being dragged, sat on them and let the ants drag him around.

Mike naturally didn't care about his behavior. He would only laugh at Franklin with a smile and then laugh it off.

But Benjamin obviously didn't think so. He stopped Franklin's behavior almost immediately and waved his arms to give Franklin a silent education!

Seeing Franklin's aggrieved look, the tension in the team eased a lot, and many people laughed.

However, they soon stopped laughing.

Because a brand new type of ant they had never seen appeared on the road next!

To be precise, it should be Ant-Man.

Because they were completely upright, their bodies were covered with a layer of jet-black beetles, a pair of huge black saw teeth opened and closed, and some sleeping mucus kept dripping on the ground as they moved, making a corrosive sound.

What shocked Mike and others the most was that these ants were still wearing clothes and holding weapons in their hands!

Although it was just a simple vest made of fibers from mushroom rhizomes, and although it was just a simple bone spear made of the bones of an unknown beast, there is no doubt that these ant-men are intelligent and they have mastered Learn how to use tools!

Mike and the others held their breath almost instinctively. Everyone knew that this seemingly intelligent ant-man should be the soldier ant in this ant group.

These intelligent soldier ants will never salute stupidly to strangers like them. If these soldier ants discover their whereabouts, then regardless of whether they can survive the siege of these soldier ants, first of all, their infiltration plan will be They will all be in trouble!

Everyone continued to move forward cautiously, and as the distance moved farther and farther, more and more soldier ants appeared in front of everyone.

The job of these soldier ants seems to be to guard the work of the worker ants. They stand on both sides of the avenue with weapons raised, and their tentacles are still touching each other, as if they are chatting.

Fortunately, the perception ability of these ant-men is not much stronger than that of the worker ants. Facing Mike and others who are trying their best to maintain concealment, they seem to be blind and unaware. This makes Mike and others They couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Ten minutes later, a building finally appeared in front of Mike and others.

It was a featureless square building. It stood abruptly in the open mushroom forest and seemed so out of place with the surrounding scenery.

The first time he saw this building, Mike knew that they had arrived at the destination of their trip. This kind of huge building with strong human characteristics was definitely not something that the ants could build.

The only people who can build such a building are humans, to be precise, wizards!

Everyone's pace couldn't help but speed up a lot. After so many strange things happened, everyone's nerves have been in a highly tense state. Now they can't wait to complete this mission and return to their base. Relax a bit.

After a while, everyone arrived directly below the building. There was an extremely spacious exit at the bottom of the building, which was also the end point of the worker ants' trip.

As soon as he entered the building, Mike found that there were a lot more soldier ants here. They all held weapons and watched closely as the worker ants hauled the tall mushrooms into the building. Then they turned around and returned to the mushroom forest, before starting again. hauling work.

Countless worker ants were also scattered throughout the hall on the first floor of this square building. They took over the huge mushrooms brought by other ants, used their sharp teeth to completely cut off the cap and rhizome of the mushroom, and then cut the two parts of the mushroom out again. Cut into small pieces of different sizes and thrown into two machines in this huge hall.

The rhizomes of the huge mushrooms were processed by the machine and turned into rough fibers and puddles of white mushy objects, while the umbrella caps were sorted by the machine into different types of squares according to different colors. sort.

Soon, another group of worker ants will swarm up and carry away all these things.

The fibers and canopy cubes were transported upstairs, while the white paste made from rhizome waste was sprinkled by the worker ants into a pond in the lobby on the first floor.

At first, Mike thought it was just a waste pool, but when he discovered that from time to time there would be worker ants crawling on the edge of the pond to suck the mushy juice inside, he realized that these mushy wastes were actually these worker ants. Their food, and this entire huge square building is also a huge mushroom processing factory!

Good guy, let these worker ants feed themselves. Mike has almost surrendered to the pure-blood wizards who built this factory. This is simply more evil than him!

After a brief visit to the work of these giant ants, Mike and others began to walk towards the second floor. Unlike the almost undefended first floor, which was only guarded by soldier ants, Mike discovered a very obvious place as soon as he arrived at the stairs. magic ban.

Although I don't understand the true purpose of this magic restriction, these simple magic restrictions are obviously not enough in front of Mike, who has mastered the ultimate curse.

After easily breaking the restriction, Mike and others finally reached the second floor smoothly.

The layout here is almost the same as that on the first floor. A huge platform that is fully open is filled with dense machinery, and the worker ants holding various mushroom cubes and mushroom fibers are walking through these machines in an orderly manner. And finally put these raw materials into different machines.

After observation, Mike discovered that the fibers separated from the mushroom rhizomes were put into an old, filthy machine and then made into rolls of white cloth.

These fabrics are very familiar to Mike. This is a special kind of fabric called Avery Magic Cloth. It has excellent anti-magic effects and heat resistance, and is extremely tough. These excellent properties make it expensive. Mike and others The lining of the combat uniform on his body is made of this special fabric.

The mushroom cubes of different colors will be crushed separately according to the pre-sorted colors, and mixed with many materials that Mike does not recognize at all, and finally made into bottles of viscous liquids of different colors.

Mike is also very familiar with this thing!

Avery's magic liquid, they had used these things when they were taking the magic class last year. The blue magic liquid has the ability to improve the effect of the magic liquid, the red one increases the probability of success in making it, and the yellow one improves the effect of the magic liquid. save time.

Like Avery's Cloth, these magic liquids should be valuable, because Snape was very careful when handling them, and even warned everyone not to spill them.

Both of these things are exclusively operated by a pure-blood family named Avery. Since it is a monopoly industry, it is understandable that the price is a little higher.

However, many people are very jealous of the huge profits of these two products, and have used many means to explore the production methods and origin of raw materials for these things, but they have all failed.

Mike didn't expect that he would accidentally discover the production base of these two things today!

Thinking of this, Mike couldn't help but feel hot inside.

If this base can be received intact, the size of the Los Santos Group will definitely increase dramatically!