“Yes, yes!” Little Gold was terribly worked up. Tears of joy trickled from its eyes.
“Haha, let’s go,” Meng Lei replied with a laugh.
Then, with Little Gold in his arms, he charged into the dense and dark forest.
…
Be it to humans or to Magical Beasts, the current Magical Beast Forest was an absolute forbidden zone. The ant tide wandering about everywhere ripped every lifeform it encountered into shreds.
Meng Lei, however, advanced unopposed and moved about unrestrained. Under Little Gold’s guidance, he found an entrance in no time and entered the underground world.
The so-called entrance was actually a cavern leading to the underground. Deep, quiet, and dark, it was as tall as a few people and dead silent.
Meng Lei found it especially novel. He looked around everywhere while Little Gold introduced the underground world to him.
“The underground world is shrouded in mystery and is even more complex than the world aboveground. There are numerous layers of space sandwiched in between one another, and many underground lifeforms live in these spatial layers.
“These spatial layers pass through innumerable caverns and are linked to countless tunnels. It is just like an underground maze. It’s very easy for one to lose their way if they don’t have any underground lifeform leading them.
“Once they are lost, they’ll be trapped underground. When that happens, they’ll be doomed for sure.”
“Lost?” Meng Lei was startled.
“Yes, lost!”
Little Gold nodded. “Take us, the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants, for example. With our headquarters, the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest, as the center, the whole area within a radius of several dozen million square kilometers, belongs to us, the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants!
“And distributed within this area are a total of several billion underground caves, burrows, passages, and tunnels of various sizes. Just like tree branches, they are scattered about in every corner of our turf.
“Dense, packed, and countless.
“The entire ant nest can be said to be a gigantic maze. Without any guidance, outsiders can forget about finding the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest. It is also the home that we, the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants, depend on for survival and our habitat that we rely on for self-protection.”
Little Gold’s head was raised, its eyes brimming with pride. However, it hung its head again very soon. “It’s just a shame that the Underground Cave Magical Spiders are an exception. They have been enemies with us, the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants, for generations and have a very thorough understanding of the ant nest’s distribution. That was why…”
Chapter 117: Bloodthirsty Golden Nest, The Ant Tide Concludes
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The Underground Cave Magical Spiders and the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants had been at war for tens of thousands of years. Ultimately, it was the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that had lost in the end, and it had been a terrible defeat at that.
If not for Meng Lei, even Little Gold, the current ant monarch, would have been wiped out by the Underground Cave Magical Spiders. This could be said to be an utter defeat for them.
With regard to this, Little Gold was filled with dejection.
“Little Gold, you’re still young. This isn’t your fault.” Meng Lei patted Little Gold on the head. “Besides, the final outcome is that you’re still alive, while the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor is dead. That’s the most important thing, isn’t it?”
“Yes, yes!” Little Gold repeatedly nodded, its grief turning into joy.
Yes, I’m still alive! It’s only when I’m alive that there’ll still be hope.
They went down the meandering path.
Sometimes it was spacious, and sometimes it was narrow.
Sometimes it was filled with jagged, strangely-shaped rocks, and sometimes it was surrounded by cliff and precipitous rock walls.
Sometimes there were undercurrents and corridors, and sometimes there were bottomless pits that stretched all the way down.
The terrain was very irregular, and it was dark and lightless. If not for Little Gold guiding him, Meng Lei really wouldn’t have the guts to continue forward.
One would lose their way going about in a place like this the moment they got a little careless, and once they lost their way, only death awaited them. There was no way they would survive at all.
“Ol’ President, have you ever been to the underground?”
“No…”
They chatted idly as they walked.
At last, an especially spacious underground cavern finally appeared ahead of them. Little Gold introduced the place and said, “This is one of the spatial layers.”
“One of the spatial layers?” Meng Lei turned to look.
The spatial layer was very big, and one couldn’t see to the end of it at one glance. It was also 1,000 feet tall and appeared exceedingly wide and spacious.
The amazing thing was that there were patches of glowing plants growing on the ground, walls, and ceilings, making it look as if it was a forest, and they lit up the spatial layer very brightly.
“It’s gorgeous!”
Meng Lei was astounded by the sight. The glowing forest in front of him was as if twinkling, brilliant jewels. They gave off a dreamy glow and looked splendid and magnificent.
“Even the scenery in Pandora’s night forest in the movie Avatar is nothing more than this,” Meng Lei murmured to himself.
“Who would have thought that a beautiful place like this would actually exist in such a dark and quiet underground? The Creator is amazing, indeed!”
Ol’ Amos was also pretty astounded. He stroked his beard as he gazed at the glowing forest, his speech full of admiration.
Rustle, rustle!
Just as the two of them were immersed in their feelings of astoundment at the beautiful scenery in front of them, dozens of grayish-white Underground Cave Magical Spiders suddenly emerged. They trampled freely on the glowing forest, plowing several deep ditches in the forest.
What a blot on the landscape!
“Underground Cave Magical Spiders,” shouted Little Gold, its eyes full of hatred and fury.
This particular spatial layer had originally belonged to them, the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants and Underground Cave Magical Spiders were forbidden from entry. Yet these vile invaders were actually walking about in here unbridled now. It was simply too infuriating!
“Underground Cave Magical Spiders?”
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