Chapter 447: Chapter 435 Bloodthirsty Ant King [Subscribe Please]
The several groups of Bloodthirsty Ants touched their pincers together, then merged into one group, moving in the same direction.
At this moment, an angry and pained roar echoed from nearby.
Curious, Chen Fan approached.
He saw a bear-like fierce beast, standing eight or nine meters tall, being surrounded and attacked by a swarm of Bloodthirsty Ants.
"Is that the Earth Bear?"
Chen Fan exclaimed in surprise.
The Earth Bear was an Elite-level Fierce Beast, known to be troublesome in this part of the rainforest.
Yet, this moment, it was surrounded by these Bloodthirsty Ants, with dozens of them climbing up its legs and attacking its body with their sharp pincers.
Logically, these Bloodthirsty Ants were just High-level Fierce Beasts, and some smaller ones were even Mid-level Fierce Beasts, not capable of breaking the Earth Bear’s defense.
However, these Bloodthirsty Ants could spit out a highly corrosive liquid, burning large patches of the Earth Bear’s skin, then attacking the weakened spots with their pincers.
Just imagining it made one realize how painful it must be.
"Roar!"
The Earth Bear, with its massive paws, swatted at its body, killing several Bloodthirsty Ants with each swipe.
However, there were too many Bloodthirsty Ants, relentless and fearless, charging forward ceaselessly.
Within two or three minutes, the Earth Bear let out a sorrowful cry and fell to the ground.
The surrounding Bloodthirsty Ants swarmed over, quickly ensuring the Elite-level Fierce Beast was completely dead.
Of course, they paid a hefty price, losing over a hundred Bloodthirsty Ants in this battle.
But this loss was acceptable to a swarm of around fifty or sixty thousand.
The Bloodthirsty Ants began cutting up the Earth Bear’s body, seemingly intending to take the pieces back to their nest.
Chen Fan drew an arrow.
The bowstring sound resonated.
Hundreds of Bloodthirsty Ants, along with the Earth Bear’s corpse, were instantly blasted to pieces.
The surviving Bloodthirsty Ants quickly sensed danger and scattered, soon disappearing into the ground.
"They really can run."
Chen Fan muttered.
He didn’t pursue them but turned to approach a cave entrance.
The entrance was about two meters in diameter, pitch black, with no end in sight.
Even though Chen Fan was prepared psychologically, he still hesitated.
But you can’t catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger’s lair.
He took a deep breath and jumped in.
The sound of wind whooshed past his ears, and he was surrounded by darkness, with the air filled with a rotting smell, making him nauseous.
"Thud!"
Chen Fan landed with a light sound.
The cave remained pitch black, his hand invisible before his eyes.
Even with his eyesight, visibility was only twenty to thirty meters.
The good news was that the tunnel was much wider than he expected, around four or five meters high and two to three meters wide.
But then, a rustling sound came from not far away.
Clearly, his landing had disturbed the surrounding Bloodthirsty Ants, and they were quickly approaching from all directions.
"Good, saves me the trouble of finding them."
Chen Fan smiled.
He waited for about three seconds.
Ground tremors ensued, and black shapes surged from both directions, closing in rapidly.
Chen Fan drew his bow and fired an arrow forward.
"Boom!"
A deafening explosion followed, and dozens of Bloodthirsty Ants were blown apart.
He turned and shot another arrow behind him.
Again, dozens of Bloodthirsty Ants were blown apart.
But new Bloodthirsty Ants quickly filled in from both sides, launching fearless attacks at Chen Fan.
Suddenly, a figure burst from the ground, a meter-long pincer clamping towards Chen Fan’s leg.
Moreover, Bloodthirsty Ants were emerging from all around Chen Fan, spitting acid at him.
Above him, more Bloodthirsty Ants appeared, spewing acid like artillery shells at Chen Fan.
"Hiss..."
However, before the acid could touch Chen Fan’s body, it was evaporated by his protective True Qi.
The Bloodthirsty Ant trying to sever Chen Fan’s legs was blasted away, exploding in mid-air.
"This won’t work."
Chen Fan frowned.
Though he could attack the Bloodthirsty Ants with his bow and arrow,
the ones above and below were hard to target.
Even if he could, the efficiency was very low.
"Bows and arrows really aren’t suited for fighting in such narrow spaces."
He sighed softly.
In that case, he would use martial arts.
He put away his bow and arrow, lunging into the Bloodthirsty Ant swarm like a fierce tiger.
The air crackled, Powerful Qi surged, and Bloodthirsty Ants burst apart one after another, their bodily fluids splattering the tunnel walls, filling the air with a pungent smell.
There was indeed a faster way to kill these Bloodthirsty Ants than with his fists and feet.
The Vajra Lion’s Roar.
This martial art was powerful in its own right, and in this enclosed environment, its power would be greatly amplified, though it wouldn’t help increase his Basic Martial Arts level.
Thus, Chen Fan was willing to spend more time to level up his Basic Fists and Feet.
Fortunately, these Bloodthirsty Ants were truly simple-minded and strong-limbed.
Despite the deaths of numerous companions, more Bloodthirsty Ants kept coming, launching suicidal attacks on Chen Fan.
Their fearless nature was terrifying to other fierce beasts.
For Chen Fan, though, it was a great advantage.
A tunnel originally two to three meters wide and four to five meters high was turned into a three-room apartment by Chen Fan, almost punching through the ground.
He glanced at his experience points after an indeterminate amount of time.
He was almost shocked.
His experience points had increased by nearly five million!
From three hundred thousand, it had now accumulated to eight million.
And it was still jumping at thousands or tens of thousands per second.
Though these Bloodthirsty Ants were only Mid to High-level, each one gave only tens to hundreds of experience points.
Yet there were so many of them, concentrated in one place.
A single palm could kill dozens, so the experience points accumulated rapidly in thousands and tens of thousands.
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind surged from behind, and a Bloodthirsty Ant, larger by half, pounced.
Its pincers were almost two meters long, with tips gleaming coldly.
An Elite-level Bloodthirsty Ant.
Chen Fan turned and struck with his palm.
"Boom!"
With a loud explosion, the Elite-level Bloodthirsty Ant and dozens of normal ones were blasted apart, turning into a rain of flesh.
His experience points increased by over a hundred thousand.
Chen Fan was momentarily stunned.
What happened? How did they increase so much?
Could it be that he had just killed a big one?
No point dwelling on it, the corpse was untraceable.
He turned and punched again.
Dozens of Bloodthirsty Ants exploded.
Such situations where experience points increased by tens of thousands happened a few more times, the highest being three to four hundred thousand at once.
During that time, Chen Fan saw clearly.
Among the Bloodthirsty Ants he had killed with one palm, several were Elite-level.
But, be it Elite or Commander-level, they were all killed by one slap, differing only in the experience points they gave.
As time passed,
Chen Fan sensed something was amiss.
Fewer Bloodthirsty Ants were coming.
Now, there were no more living Bloodthirsty Ants around, and no sound could be heard.
He calculated that the swarm was close to sixty thousand, and he had killed about thirty thousand.
Which meant half of them were still alive.
But they had ceased their attacks.
"It seems the Commander-level Bloodthirsty Ant has ordered a retreat."
Chen Fan thought.
Realizing that direct attacks weren’t working, sending more would be futile.
"What a pity."
Chen Fan sighed.
He wasn’t bent on extermination, but if he didn’t do it, the people of Anshan City would suffer.
He continued deeper into the cave.
Not encountering any Bloodthirsty Ants along the way.
Chen Fan pressed on.
His intuition told him, this was just the calm before the storm.
The tunnels became wider, turning from passages to underground spaces.
Even Chen Fan felt amazed.
Suddenly, a huge figure appeared ahead.
Over ten meters long and more than four meters tall, pitch black with red streaks, its pincers exceeding three meters in length, and its mouth filled with sharp teeth.
Chen Fan halted.
Clearly, this was the leader of the Bloodthirsty Ants.
An intelligent being, waiting here for some time.
The Bloodthirsty Ant King, seeing Chen Fan arrive, showed fiery rage.
Its mouth opened like a machine gun, spewing dozens of acid pools.
Their speed was so fast, even a True Essence Realm Martial Artist would struggle to react.
Chen Fan dodged, the acid corroding the ground into deep pits.
Undeterred, the Bloodthirsty Ant King spat out more acid, like a relentless cannon.
"No wonder it’s alone, afraid of friendly fire."
Chen Fan thought.
He drew his bow.
To catch the thief, capture the king first.
Killing this one would leave the rest mindless.
Sensing a life-threatening crisis or frustrated by missing so many times,
the Bloodthirsty Ant King poured out even more acid like a storm.