Going Deep into the Nest

Besides being able to confirm that his sister did not appear, Tom also received two unexpected news.

Among the survivors of the aquarium, a female waiter had indeed seen her sister Luo Xuan meet Zhao Manqing. While cleaning the guest room, she met Zhao Manqing who came back, along with Luo Xuan. The waiter left immediately, but she could see that the two of them were quite polite, unlike the celebrity fan interaction mode.

Tom remembers Ni Peiyun, a former senior executive of a state-owned enterprise who provided him with clues about his sister, saying that Luo Xuan was "very capable of fighting". Combined with the description of the waitress, he felt that his younger sister's life over the past decade must have brought her good development.

Another piece of news is expected.

As long as it is an ant, there is a nest and an ant queen.

They have seen the queen of this nest of ants appear near the aquarium more than once, and eventually leave through the broken glass door. The nest is located outside under the five needle pine trees in the green courtyard.

The broken glass door was actually knocked open by Zhao Manqing and others while parachuting, and it was the hole that opened that allowed the mutated ant colony that had been outside to enter.

Tom had originally planned to immediately return to the 6th floor camp with the survivors, but seeing that they were still weak and the team had suffered casualties from the venom attack of the flying ants, he decided to temporarily stay in this relatively safe aquarium for the night.

However, for safety and harvest considerations, he decided to attack the ant colony at night and eliminate the queen ant.

This large-scale attack by the ant colony must have been discovered by the worker ants hiding outside the restaurant. After giving back to the queen ant, the queen ant organized an attacking team.

If it weren't for the uncoordinated attack of the ant colony, their losses would have been even more devastating.

Compared to attacking from all directions in open areas, entering the ant colony, the environment where one path rushes to the bottom is more suitable for him.

So he decided to bring three armor awakeners and enter the ant nest wearing male ant armor.

This decision is a bit risky, as their mission is only to search and rescue survivors. It's not necessary to take such a risk without news from my sister and Zhao Manqing.

But Tom had a vague premonition that the ant colony might have unexpected gains.

The dark red powerful red crystal has been fully charged by Zhao Xin's team members. He first put on worker ant armor and tried to experiment, but did not reproduce the previous blood steaming effect.

After careful consideration, I finally discovered the trick to using this move.

At that time, he was bitten by a bell, and in order to create a false impression of exhaustion, he removed the fourth level red crystal enhancement effect from the worker ant backpack. The defense solidification ability is combined with the dark red powerful red crystal on the arm and the spare energy changing blue crystal in the backpack.

After Bell thought he no longer had the strength to resist, he relied on his solidified defense abilities to support him. At the same time, he suddenly reactivated the level 4 powerful red crystal in his backpack, activating power enhancement, which caught Bell off guard and successfully broke free.

At that time, the energy of the dark red powerful crystal remained in the coolant of the worker ant armor. After supporting and consuming a part of it, the energy enhanced by the power activated by the 4th level red crystal also poured into the coolant.

Perhaps it was precisely under the combined action of these two energies that he unexpectedly activated the ability to control the Metamorphosis Blade and Metamorphosis Shield.

After several experiments, he reproduced this magical scene.

When he retrieved the lost deformation shield, people led by Liu Lian shouted loudly, "Captain America!"

After testing, he found that this ability not only summons equipment back, but also enhances the hardness of the shield and can absorb some impact. The result is that the shield thrown is harder and the damage is higher.

This is clearly reflected in the full attack of Zhao Zijian, the captain of the Pasha team.

As for the deformable broadsword, it has also been strengthened, becoming harder and sharper. With blood vapor enhancement, the efficiency of cutting wood has been significantly improved.

Later, Tom tried other weapons and unfortunately found that the enhancement of the blood mist could only be applied to this pair of shield swords, even the worker ant armor itself could not be strengthened.

Without giving up, he changed Zhao Xin's Jade Rabbit Type II armor and found that he could still strengthen his shield sword through blood steaming. This also proves that Tom's ability was not achieved through the use of worker ant armor modified from the Jade Rabbit type.

So why can Tom enhance his shapeshifting shield and shapeshifting sword through the Blood Steaming effect?

Tom couldn't explain to everyone, it could only be attributed to the result of being absorbed and locked by these two equipment when this ability was first triggered.

However, the fact is that both of these equipment were crafted by him using mind controlled metal. This may be the reason why he was able to strengthen them.

If given the opportunity, what if all the armor is made of mind controlled metal?

Perhaps it could really be like the movie Iron Man, where after activating his power, all the armor would automatically fly over and be worn by him.

Of course, this is just an idea, and now we should focus on what we are about to do.

After testing, Tom can use blood vapor enhancement just like wearing male ant armor. This provides him with more ample security for his night exploration of the ant colony.

At the suggestion of Ouyang Haotian, Tom decided to give a name to the ability that was defined as "super kill" or "ultimate move".

After much thought, he only thought of a name for Blood Steaming Kill, but Liu Lian, who was well versed, gave it an interesting name, "Shield Sword Trembling".

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Tom and Ouyang Haotian put on male ant armor, Zhao Xin, and another Awakener named Cheng Haidong from the Pasha team. They left the aquarium with four people, one big and two small, three armor, and a mutated black cat bell. Using the two searchlights on the head and waist of the male ant, we walked all the way out of the glass window to the outside of the restaurant, the outer garden on the 28th floor.

As a supplement to the Japanese restaurant, this rooftop garden naturally features a Japanese courtyard style. Green meadows, bamboo forests, small paths and flowing water, arched bridges, and five needle pine, along with the most unique pouring bamboo tube, collectively form the iconic symbols of Japanese courtyards.

Pouring bamboo tube, also known as Awakening Bamboo, or Water Bamboo, Bamboo Jian, Bamboo Water Bird.

Two sturdy bamboo tubes, one end cut open and supported in the middle with a frame. Due to the absence of a bamboo joint on one end of the cut, and the heavier joint on the other end that was not cut, it sank onto the slate like a seesaw while lifting up.

The flowing water falls onto the raised end of the bamboo tube, and as the tube becomes full and sinks, it falls down, lifting up the other end with bamboo knots. The water in the bamboo tube poured out due to falling, becoming lighter again, causing the heavier end to sink and hit the slate, making a crisp sound. Originally, this thing was meant to startle the birds that fell into the courtyard, as well as the timing function. Gradually, this unique tapping sound became an unattainable note of tranquility in the courtyard of flowing water.

Of course, now that the micro disaster has passed for more than half a year, without electricity, the once flowing water has become a stagnant pool, and the occasional tap sound no longer exists.

At this time, the courtyard garden was already overgrown with weeds, and many places were blown upside down. Unknown flowers, plants, and small trees were even uprooted by the typhoon, blowing everywhere.

Only the bamboo forest and the five needle pine survived two rounds of typhoons and still stood tall in this courtyard.

Through the bamboo forest, Tom and his companions arrived at the largest five needle pine tree. There are several large holes in this muddy land, which must be the entrance for those large mutant soldier ants to enter and exit.

The first ones to discover them were the worker ants busy entering and exiting near the cave entrance. It was the three big ones that faced them, and the smaller worker ants were not at all capable. Quickly, mutated soldier ants crawled out. These were not the big guys that were 15 centimeters tall like the armor of male ants, but just mutated soldier ants that were taller than ordinary people.

The mutated ant Tom encountered in the rental building had a short mutation time and an unstable structure with an enlarged body. Therefore, when encountering an open flame, it quickly ignited and became a walking fire source. This gave Tom, who had just been downsized, a great advantage without any self-defense skills.

However, now the mutated body structure of ants seems to have matured and is no longer flammable. But their shells still cannot withstand the scorching heat, which is different from the mutated ants in Zhenhua Machinery Factory who have dark red crystals inside their bodies.

Faced with these fierce threats, we must eliminate the invaders and defend our homeland with mutated ants. Zhao Xin and Cheng Haidong didn't need to use firearms and went straight up with a flamethrower in each hand. The blazing flames swept over and scorched the group of mutated soldier ants, causing them to retreat in succession.

The rear retreated slowly, and the ants in front who didn't have time to escape from the flames turned over and straightened their bodies in a few moments.

The male ant armor, which is 16 centimeters tall, and the mutated black cat, which is 21 centimeters tall, are standing on the side without leaving.

Under the sweep of flames, the undead ants scattered and fled in all directions. One mutated soldier ant was caught by the male ant, and Tom's hand grabbed it. The control green crystal activated it, simulating pheromones with accompanying commands inside its body.

"Go back and find the queen."

With this command, the mutated soldier ant, whose legs were intentionally broken by him, limped into the cave entrance.

Tom greeted the bell and asked it to guard outside the cave, and then led Zhao Xin and Cheng Haidong to follow the mutated soldier ant into the cave.

The typical roof garden is buried around 15-40 centimeters, while the Jinrui Hotel is buried 90 centimeters. This way, suitable shallow rooted trees can be planted.

Tom and his companions made several turns along the slanted passage and encountered some fierce mutated soldier ants along the way. However, due to the passage, they could only line up one by one and could not pose a threat to them.

The four of them quickly entered the open space, which was the hall where ants lived. As more and more ants grow in size, they are also constantly expanding the hall. You can see some piled up broken soil around, which is clearly caused by the collapse during the expansion period, and then dug out again by the large mutated soldier ants.

This time they finally had to face a large number of ants, mutated worker ants, soldier ants, and even mutated soldier ants rushing towards them.

This was clearly the last most powerful armed force in the ant colony. Tom had Zhao Xin and the others lean against the wall to defend, while he controlled the male ant armor to stride forward and activated the great move of shield sword tremor.

The strengthened shield can withstand venom attacks without being corroded at all. Whether thrown or swung, these mutated soldier ants cannot withstand the power of a single blow, even if their heads are iron.