Law of the Swarm

Chapter 88 Volcanic Eruption

Small insects that live underground are naturally sensitive to earthquakes. During the past six months, there was a small earthquake in Lierte Forest.

That time System happened to be in a deep sleep, but he was still awakened, and then directed some ant people to escape from the nest.

But that earthquake was actually not that big, the ground just shook a few times before it was over.

In fact, although his ants were a little flustered, they would not have evacuated from the ant nest at all if System hadn't been too nervous to direct them.

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But this time, System and his ant people didn't feel any signs of the earthquake.

Even System's [intuition] only felt it a few seconds before the earthquake.

The sudden earthquake was extremely strong, and the small meat ball next to System was like a bean on a hot pot, because the ground trembled non-stop.

The surrounding unfrozen loose soil kept falling, and in less than a second, the connection between the empty room where System was located and the lair passage collapsed.

[Mind Network] Activate!

System instantly activated the ability of [Mind Network] to connect the spirits of dozens of ant people within one meter around them.

System felt the panic and uneasiness of the ants. Some of the ants also expressed pain, and two ants completely lost their movement during this period.

Afterwards, accompanied by a strong sense of uneasiness from [intuition], the empty room where System and the little meat ball were located also collapsed amid violent shaking, and it didn't take long for System to be buried in the soil middle.

The shaking amplitude of the earthquake became larger and larger, and System had a faint feeling that the epicenter of the earthquake was in the west.

But there was no time for System to think about how the earthquake happened. The violently trembling soil squeezed System's body and small meat balls into the soil.

The trembling soil seemed to be boiling, rolling back and forth beside System.

System could feel the crackling sound of the exoskeleton on the wings on his back. It was some frozen soil fragments that cracked his exoskeleton under the heavy pressure.

Even he suffered some damage from the pressure of the soil, and the ant people who had not pupated twice were obviously unbearable.

In [Spiritual Network], there are more and more ant people that System feels painful emotions, and nearly ten ant people have completely lost their movements.

It seems that most of the empty chambers of this underground lair have collapsed due to the sudden earthquake.

The strong vibration and shaking made System more and more tightly wrapped by the mud, and the breathing holes in his abdomen were also tightly wrapped.

If it goes on like this, even he will die from suffocation.

System flicked the surrounding soil with his tentacles indiscriminately. It took him a lot of effort to make his abdomen touch a gap, temporarily losing the danger of suffocation.

But the violent tremors produced by the earth continued...

System felt something around him touching him. It turned out that the small meat ball changed shape and turned into a strange appearance with several claws growing out. It dug into his side during the earthquake.

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The strong earthquake lasted for 10 minutes, and System finally felt Shava's spiritual message at the end of the earthquake.

After another 3 minutes, Shava, whose body was emitting a faint white light, finally broke through the dirt and came to System's side.

"Little meat ball, follow the direction of the [mind network] to rescue those injured worker ants. Sawa, you and I will go to the empty room of the ant queen Linda to see the condition of those ant larvae and the ant queen Linda."

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After nearly two hours of busy work, more than 100 ants living three to five meters underground have basically been rescued by the ants themselves.

The ants themselves are masters of digging. After rescuing an ant, the ant will immediately become a member of the rescue team.

Of the 127 adult ants in the nest, 67 ants, including the Knights of Ants, suffered no obvious physical damage. There were 19 seriously injured ants, and the corpses of another 17 ants were found by System.

Some of the more than 20 remaining ants may have been buried in the soil as corpses and were not found. Others may have escaped because they escaped from the nest on the upper layer of the nest, or were searching for food outside the nest when the earthquake occurred.

Through [Mind Transmission], System could feel that several worker ants were digging down above the nest that had not been completely dug through.

Compared with the adult ants, the 23 ant larvae in the empty room of Queen Linda were seriously injured. All of them were squeezed by the soil, and either their bodies burst or they suffocated to death.

However, although the ant queen Linda and the 12 ordinary ant pupae next to her were also squeezed, they all survived intact because of the hard shell of the pupae and low requirements for breathing.

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However, just as System led the ant team to save themselves and was about to dig up and return to the ground, the ground trembled again.

Although it was not as violent as the first wave of earthquakes, System's ant people were still in a lot of trouble, and many ant people were buried in the collapsed soil again.

Fortunately, the aftershocks were not too strong, and his ant people basically did not suffer any casualties.

But the aftershocks seemed to never stop. Every few minutes of rest, there would be another few minutes of shock, and System's excavation progress had also been stagnant.

System has also been unable to transfer the ants from the relatively dangerous underground to the ground...

A full eight hours passed, and at night, after the aftershocks had completely subsided, System took his ant people to dig from the ground to the snow-covered ground.

System found the two soldier ants guarding the entrance of the cave and the five worker ants digging from top to bottom. It seems that the earthquake lost more than 70 ant larvae including some serious injuries. It is the dead ant people, and nearly half of his ant people have been lost.

System didn't pay attention to the ants for too long. By digging through the gap in the nest, System smelled a strange smell of gunpowder smoke, and discovered the orange fire in the sky, which was in the direction of the Lierte Mountain Range. .

As System crawled out of the lair, the collapsed trees and the broken and uneven snow-covered ground also came into System's eyes.

It seemed that the earthquake was much more serious than what he felt underground. Fortunately, there was no stratum fracture near his lair, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

But compared to these, System's attention was all focused on the flames coming from the west, which seemed to be what happened in the Lierte Mountains.

In the direction of the Lierte Mountain Range, System noticed the orange flames shining in the sky and the thick black smoke...

System spread his wings, and he found that there seemed to be more than a dozen active volcanoes in the Lierte Mountains thousands of kilometers away. These active volcanoes erupted flames at the same time, and fiery red magma flowed from the Lierte Mountains covered with ice and snow. down...

(End of this chapter)