Ant Forest

"Hey." Lin Yi could only laugh dryly.

"Okay, hurry up and follow me." Ge stroked the tentacles, trying to straighten them, but glanced at Lin Yi from time to time, as if Lin Yi didn't follow him, he would kill him his appearance.

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded, "I'll go to the old...priest first." Lin Yi grinned at Sheng.

"Go." Sheng glanced at Ge lightly, and patted Lin Yi on the head.

Lin Yi followed Ge, not forgetting to take Da Mao with him.He didn't dare hand over Da Mao to Sheng, because he always felt that Sheng looked at Da Mao strangely.Intuition tells Lin Yi that it is better not to let Da Mao and Sheng get along alone.

Ge led Sheng through the passages and kept going up. The tree nest was not known how deep it was. Anyway, Lin Yi had never gone through it all, and of course, there was no such thing as an underground nest.

The atmosphere was a bit heavy, and Ge didn't want to talk to Lin Yi at all.Lin Yi made him suffer so badly these days, so he didn't want to talk to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi noticed Ge's mood and was a little embarrassed.

"We're here, let's go in." Ge led Lin Yi to a nest room, opened the leaf door, and said angrily to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi had no choice but to get in by himself.

As soon as he entered the nest room, Ge put down the leaf door, and he did not follow in.

Lin Yi squinted his eyes, and smelled a faint herbal smell, which was very similar to the traditional Chinese medicine he had drunk.This lair is not dark, there are light holes in the wall.The faint light shone in, and Lin Yi even heard the sound of rain.

Has the rain outside stopped?

"You are here." An old voice sounded, startling Lin Yi.Taking two steps back, Lin Yi saw an ant coming out of a compartment.

It was the ant priest.

Lin Yi didn't quite understand what position the priest occupied in the ant nest, so all the ants respected the priest and didn't dare to go beyond the rules, but Lin Yi looked at the old ant openly.

"Ahem, come here." The old ant waved its tentacles at Lin Yi.

Lin Yi saw the trembling body of the old ant, as if he was about to fall in the next second, so he quickly walked to the old ant, supported him, and complained, "The ant is old, don't be brave, Don’t worry about getting bumped, it’s still me who suffers in the end.”

The old ant was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly, "You're still the first ant who dares to talk to me like this, little guy, not bad, not bad."

Da Mao snorted in horror, coiled tightly on the tree fork, not daring to move.

The old ant glanced at Da Mao calmly, "This little bug is not bad."

Lin Yi thought, this old ant wants to eat fresh meat, right?He looked into Da Mao's fear, that guy was sharp, so Lin Yi hurriedly said, "Da Mao is not food, you can't eat it."

The old ant laughed so hard again, "You little guy is really cute."

Lin Yi blushed, thinking that you, an old ant, are not easy to serve.

The old ant laughed enough, and suddenly pointed to the rows of wooden shelves, "Do you know the things on it?"

Lin Yi took a look and saw that there were dried grasses, dried flowers, fruits and other things, as well as some weird spherical objects wrapped in something unknown.

Lin Yi shook his head frankly, the knowledge he had learned would no longer work here, and he seemed to be illiterate.

"It's okay, learn a few things from me every day." The old ant said with a smile.

"Ah?" Lin Yi's eyes widened, "But..." Lin Yi wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by the old ant, as if he called Lin Yi here just to give him a lesson, except if necessary, He refused to say anything.

Lin Yi felt extremely weird, but in the next few days, he would be taken to that nest room by Ge every day, and then the old ant really just picked a few things to explain to Lin Yi in detail, so Lin Yi had no choice but to put the questions in abdomen.

Maybe, the old ant called him over just to give him a little treat?Well, maybe he is a genius, so that the old ants chose him from such a distance, Lin Yi couldn't help thinking narcissistically.

This day, Lin Yi put Sheng aside as usual, went to the old ant once, and learned a few new things.Just as Lin Yi was recalling what the old ant had taught him over and over again, panic suddenly broke out in the nest.

what happened?

Lin Yi felt a tense atmosphere, and quickly grabbed an ant and asked.

"Don't you know? Many soldier ants fell ill!" The ant ran away quickly after saying this.

What!Lin Yi only felt that there was a rumbling in his head, that he was sick, and there were still many more!

The words "infectious disease" immediately made Lin Yi dizzy.

"Sheng!" Lin Yi yelled, and ran towards the opposite direction where the ants gathered.

When Lin Yi ran to the destination, the place was already blocked by the soldier ants.

"Let me in!" Lin Yi said anxiously.

"No!" The guarding soldier ants sternly rejected Lin Yi, "The priest didn't say anything, and all ants are not allowed to approach that side!"

"I want to go in, I..."

"Small!"

As soon as Lin Yi froze, she felt that she was hugged vigorously.

"What are you doing here?" Sheng was trembling with anger, even the forelegs that hugged Lin Yi were trembling.

"I..." Lin Yi only felt that his whole body lost strength, and he collapsed all of a sudden.

Sheng felt that the little thing in his arms lost his strength all of a sudden, and he was terrified, "Xiao Yi, what's wrong with you?" His voice had changed.

Lin Yi held Sheng tightly, "It's okay, I'm fine." He just thought of some bad cases, and he got confused because he was concerned.

"This place has been blocked, let's talk about it after we leave." Sheng picked up Lin Yi, turned and left.

"Eat this." Sheng carried Lin Yi to the side of the reservoir, dipped in clean water and wiped Lin Yi's body over and over again, and finally stuffed a black thing into his mouth.

Lin Yi found that the water was also soaked in that kind of dark thing. The old ant told him that the thing was a kind of fruit on a tree, and it could cure many diseases after drying.

Crowds of ants gathered by the pool, lined up to get water to wash their bodies, and they also smeared each other's saliva on each other, which is a very common disinfection method in ant colonies.

Lin Yi hadn't seen this kind of "saliva bath" for a long time, and was very embarrassed for a while.

In order to divert attention, Lin Yi quickly asked in a low voice, "Sheng, what's going on?"

Sheng took a deep look at Lin Yi, hugged Lin Yi and squeezed outside.

"They were attacked by bugs in the ground, and finally hunted and killed those bugs, but no one thought that there seemed to be something on those bugs. They didn't find it at the time, and when they came back..."

Before Sheng's words were finished, Lin Yi could probably imagine that it must be some kind of bacteria or virus on the insects, which infected the few ants that were fighting with them.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi was also a little scared.Ant colonies lived in a nest, and once something spread, he couldn't imagine what the consequences would be.And now it seems that the food reserves in the nest are obviously very tight, and the ants even started digging the ground to find prey, which is not a very rational approach.

"Where are those bugs now?" Lin Yi asked.

"They didn't bring them up, they're still underground." Sheng also seemed to be a little thankful, "The priest once said that we must be careful enough when encountering such underground creatures."

Lin Yi nodded, the old ant's words were very reasonable.

Sheng took Lin Yi back to his room, "Xiao Yi, you stay here well, I'll come back when the matter over there is finished, you have to be obedient, do you understand?"

"Wait, what do you want to do?" Lin Yi held Sheng back.

Sheng paused, "The priest said that there might be such bugs underground, we have to find them and either kill them all, or block the underground passages to prevent them from coming up."

Lin Yi became anxious, "You clearly know that those bugs are not clean!"

Sheng just smiled, "So Xiaoyi, are you willing to protect me?"

Protect?How to protect?Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and then he figured out what Sheng meant, and smoke rose from the top of his head.

Seeing that Lin Yi was at a loss, Sheng said in frustration, "It seems that I can only ask Fan to help me."

team leader!How about that?Lin Yi immediately yelled, "No, I'll come!"

Sheng just laughed, and whispered in Lin Yi's ear, "Then please take care of Xiaoyi."

Lin Yi gritted his teeth and nodded, how could he let the captain take advantage of Sheng?

"Also." Sheng said naturally, "Xiaoyi also needs protection, I don't want anything to happen to you, Xiaoyi, just in case."

There was a bang in Lin Yi's head, and his face burned even more.

……

Sheng left the room contentedly, his body already covered with the protective layer of his little love.

Lin Yi wrapped himself tightly in the grass blanket, and Da Mao kept moaning and moaning around the small bed, but he couldn't get his head out.

There was no panic in the lair, and the priest quickly took control of the situation.

What made Lin Yi feel relieved was that the symptoms of the sick soldier ants did not spread. Maybe the disease was not spread, maybe it was because the priest controlled it well.In short, Lin Yiwei, who had been struggling ahead, felt a little better in a trembling mood.

When the priest called Lin Yi over again, Lin Yi had already lost a lot of weight.

Sheng didn't go back and didn't know what was going on. Lin Yi couldn't eat well or sleep well.

Seeing Lin Yi's appearance, the priest couldn't help but slap him with his tentacles.

"Stinky boy, why are you like this?" the priest said angrily.

Lin Yi's shoulders loosened. The old ant seemed to be in good spirits, so he didn't have to worry too much about him.

"How's the situation underground?" Lin Yi asked hastily.

The priest immediately felt sour, this brat didn't care about the old man first, he has no conscience!

"I don't know!" The old ant raised his beard and exclaimed angrily.

Lin Yi was dumbfounded.