Chapter 448: Chapter 436 Who is Speaking [Subscribe Please]
In the blink of an eye, half of the underground space was enveloped by acid rain, with no room for dodging.
At that moment, Chen Fan released the bowstring, and accompanied by a booming sound, the arrow shot out.
The huge amounts of acid in front evaporated immediately due to the substantial true qi attached to the arrow.
The remaining acid fell to the ground and walls, producing sizzling sounds.
The Bloodthirsty Ant King’s exposed massive eyes showed a hint of human-like shock.
It then opened its mouth again, releasing a large amount of acid.
Differing from last time, this time it wasn’t a torrential downpour of acid.
Instead, it gathered into a fountain-like burst, colliding with the incoming arrow.
The true qi attached to the arrow was consumed at a startling rate.
Consequently, the arrow’s velocity also slowed down.
"The Sun-Shooting Arrow’s speed is still too slow."
Seeing this, Chen Fan thought to himself.
When dealing with the Dragon-man earlier, the Sun-Shooting Arrow he shot out could easily be evaded by the opponent.
Now, even at such a short distance, the Bloodthirsty Ant King reacted quickly enough to use acid to block.
However, this Bloodthirsty Ant King is not simple.
With just a bit of acid, this guy can come up with so many ways to use it.
If this guy successfully infiltrates Anshan City,
many people will die from this kind of indiscriminate attack.
"Unfortunately, it won’t have the chance."
Chen Fan murmured to himself, producing a second arrow and nocking it on the string.
"Boom!"
The second arrow rushed forward.
The Bloodthirsty Ant King noticed the arrow and spat out a second stream of acid, intercepting the second Sun-Shooting Arrow in mid-air.
However, visibly, the second stream of acid was smaller compared to the first, and the rate at which the true qi on the arrow was corroded slowed considerably.
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Chen Fan frowned, then sneered.
There weren’t many arrows in his space items, but he did have around one or two hundred.
How much more acid could this guy spit out from its mouth?
While thinking this, the ground suddenly began to tremble.
A large number of Bloodthirsty Ants erupted from the ground.
Some opened their iron pincers, ferociously charging at him.
Others pounced towards the two airborne arrows.
Chen Fan seemed to not notice, aiming at the Bloodthirsty Ant King, consecutively firing three Sun-Shooting Arrows.
"Boom!"
With a loud explosion, countless Bloodthirsty Ants were blasted to pieces.
And that Bloodthirsty Ant King also sprayed out a third stream of acid.
However, there were simply too many incoming arrows.
The fourth arrow directly hit its body, blasting open a huge hole, and the acid spraying from its mouth ceased abruptly.
Subsequently, several arrows hit it in unison, reducing the Bloodthirsty Ant King to merely a pincer.
Seeing this, Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
The sudden appearance of so many Bloodthirsty Ants,
was because the Bloodthirsty Ant King knew it wasn’t an opponent and deliberately ordered its subordinates to launch a kamikaze attack.
Unfortunately, the strength gap between the two sides was too vast.
Quickly, all the surrounding Bloodthirsty Ants were killed by Chen Fan.
Just as he thought, there weren’t many Bloodthirsty Ants, only around one or two hundred.
Chen Fan walked up to the Bloodthirsty Ant King, bent down, and stored the iron pincers on the ground into his space items.
Then, he took out the map given by Meng Xue, examined it for a while, and continued moving forward.
The Bloodthirsty Ant Swarm actually had two Commander-level Bloodthirsty Ants.
One was the Bloodthirsty Ant King just encountered, responsible for guarding the Bloodthirsty Ant Swarm.
The other was the Bloodthirsty Ant Queen, responsible for reproduction; in fact, the entire Bloodthirsty Ant Swarm, including the Bloodthirsty Ant King, was born from it.
Compared to the Bloodthirsty Ant King, the Bloodthirsty Ant Queen’s body was enormous, but it was slow, and its combat ability was not impressive.
Despite this, Chen Fan hastened his pace towards the Queen’s location.
Along the way, not a single Bloodthirsty Ant appeared, as if all the underground Bloodthirsty Ants were dead.
Until about three or four kilometers away, the situation changed.
A tide of Bloodthirsty Ants surged from the passage in front, dense and endless.
Chen Fan was fearless, channeling true qi into his fists and feet, and charged forward.
Ahead was the Bloodthirsty Ant Queen’s location; if you don’t cut the weeds and remove the roots, they will regrow with the spring wind.
These Bloodthirsty Ants controlled by the Queen naturally would not retreat an inch.
But as always, the strength gap between the two sides was too big.
The Bloodthirsty Ant King couldn’t last more than three breaths in Chen Fan’s hands, let alone these High-level Fierce Beast level Bloodthirsty Ants.
Yet countless companions fell, and the remaining Bloodthirsty Ants kept charging forward.
Until no Bloodthirsty Ant remained alive.
Chen Fan took a deep breath and looked ahead.
There lay a Bloodthirsty Ant about twenty to thirty meters long, sprawled on the ground, approximately twenty meters tall.
It didn’t have the massive iron pincers of the Bloodthirsty Ant King, its chest legs were very small, barely able to support its body, and its abdomen was tremendously large.
Behind its body lay piled countless man-sized eggs, densely packed, innumerable.
Noticing Chen Fan’s approach, many of the eggs began to crack open, and numerous Bloodthirsty Ants covered with mucus pounced towards Chen Fan.
They were killed by his Protective True Qi before they could even get close.
"So this is the Bloodthirsty Ant Queen."
Chen Fan looked up at it, and couldn’t help but feel goosebumps.
Just as he was about to take out his bow and arrow, a sense of crisis suddenly emerged.
A Mental Shock fiercely attacked his spirit.
He quickly mobilized all his spiritual power to resist, subsequently feeling his head pierce with pain as if thousands of steel needles stabbed at once.
Thankfully, the pain came quickly and disappeared just as swiftly, like an illusion.
But Chen Fan knew that it wasn’t an illusion.
Because just now, his spiritual power had been consumed by more than half.
Chen Fan’s gaze at the Bloodthirsty Ant Queen became serious.
He initially thought that the opponent had no offensive power; after all, its immense size made even moving a challenge.
But he hadn’t expected that the opponent excelled at spiritual power attacks.
That Mental Shock certainly would have doomed an average A-level Awakened.
The Bloodthirsty Ant Queen seemed surprised that this human could block its full-force attack and suffered a backlash, its aura significantly dwindling.
"Is it over?"
Chen Fan sneered, readying himself for action.
"Human."
A weak, pleading voice suddenly echoed in his mind.
"Please, spare me. My children have all been killed by you."
Chen Fan paused, his hands hesitating.
He glanced around and then fixed his gaze on the Bloodthirsty Ant Queen in disbelief.
Was this thing speaking to him?
A talking Fierce Beast?
"Our species has always lived peacefully here, never attacking human cities, nor have we wronged you, right?"
The Bloodthirsty Ant Queen stared at Chen Fan.
Evidently, it was speaking, but not with its mouth; it was communicating mentally with Chen Fan.
Chen Fan squinted his eyes.
Was this a Commander-level Fierce Beast? Truly?
To his knowledge, only Beast King-level Fierce Beasts could communicate mentally.
And Beast Emperor levels could speak human language.
He tried several times to mentally communicate his thoughts.
Finally, it worked.
"Are you a Beast King-level Fierce Beast?"
Chen Fan asked.
"No, no,"
The Bloodthirsty Ant Queen quickly denied, responding:
"According to your human classification of our Fierce Beast strengths, I’m not a Beast King level, just a Commander level, but my spiritual power is stronger, thus I can use spiritual power to communicate with you."
"I see."
Chen Fan nodded.
The Bloodthirsty Ant King encountered previously was just a guard commander for this Bloodthirsty Ant Queen.
The Bloodthirsty Ant Queen was the true leader of the Bloodthirsty Ant Swarm.
This creature’s overall strength was Commander level, while its spiritual aspect had reached the threshold of Beast King level, able to use rare spiritual attack skills.
Apart from spiritual attacks, its combat ability wasn’t even top tier among Commander-level Fierce Beasts.
It had one exceptional trait though—high reproductive ability.
Just one of it meant an entire swarm; even if the whole Bloodthirsty Ant Swarm died, leaving only it, given some time, it could produce thousands more Bloodthirsty Ants and new Bloodthirsty Ant Kings.
"Human, spare me."
The Bloodthirsty Ant Queen continued to plead.
"I promise to leave this place and will never harm humans again."
"Really?"
Chen Fan sneered.
It could have begged sooner, but chose not to.
Instead, it attempted to kill him with a Mental Shock first, and after suffering backlash, it began to beg.
This showed its deceitful nature; its words were not trustworthy.
Even if the Queen’s words were true,
the Bloodthirsty Ants lived nearby; even if they didn’t attack human camps previously, it didn’t mean they wouldn’t in the future.
He trusted Meng Xue’s predictions.
Her forecasts had never been wrong till now.
These Bloodthirsty Ants would emerge during future beast tides, attacking people inside Anshan City.
He couldn’t take that risk.
"Sorry, I think seeing you as a corpse will make me feel safer."
Chen Fan said, drawing his bow and aiming at the Queen.
"Human!"
The Bloodthirsty Ant Queen panicked, its body trembling, "Don’t kill me! Spare me, and I will serve you forever."
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The successive Sun-Shooting Arrows whistled through the air, representing Chen Fan’s reply.