Transmutation

The deformed big knife, emitting a red light, cut into the head of the mutated queen ant, and the originally hard head shell was cut open like tofu chunks. The blade unleashed a violent impact in its head, crushing its brain in one fell swoop.

Hoo! With a muffled sound, the ant's pale yellow blood splattered everywhere, and it was the first to pour the armor of the male ant closest to it. Subsequently, these blood once again joined the ranks of blood vapor, turning into more scattered light, illuminating the entire cave.

Tom's mind turned and he once again gathered the strength in his hand, sucking in the shattered light.

As more and more fragmented light was absorbed, the shapeshifting knife became brighter, and the intense red light reflected on the cold face of the male ant armor helmet, revealing a cold killing intent.

But in the next moment, the red light suddenly extinguished, and the blade once again emitted many shattered lights, swaying and drifting towards the top of the cave.

"No... Stone, why did it wither?" Ouyang Haotian was about to shout along and was shocked when he saw this situation. "I even thought of the name for the next move."

One side of Zhao Xin couldn't help but complain, "You just want to shout Bancang's big move."

Tom glanced at his right arm and said, "The energy of the dark red crystal has been depleted."

"Damn it, that doesn't work. Hey, so many ants have come over. What strategy mode should we use?"

Tom thought for a moment and looked at the mutated ant queen who had her head blown off by him. He had an idea in his heart: "I have a solution, Zhao Xin, Cheng Haidong, cover me!"

"Okay!"

"Understood!"

The two of them met the approaching ant colony, and their flamethrowers once again spewed out long tongues of fire.

Tom used the scattered light floating in the air to press his hand onto the queen ant again, and then closed his eyes.

The death of the mutated queen ant comes from the destruction of the brain, and the vitality of the body and tail has not yet been cut off. The mutated organ that can remotely command offspring should still be functional.

Tom quickly imitated the thoughts of the queen ant through the world of thought, transmitted them to it, activated that organ, and issued a command that made the ants, big and small, leave immediately.

This command was very effective. The originally fierce ant colony suddenly stopped, turned around, and executed the command without any discount, leaving the cave where the queen ant was located.

"Done, An Shitou, amazing!"

Tom nodded and then asked Zhao Xin and Cheng Haidong to guard, while he used male ants to dissect the body of the queen ant on the scene.

It is indeed a level 5 yellow energy storage crystal, complemented by a level 3 green energy control crystal. In addition, there is actually a level 2 blue energy conversion crystal.

This trip has yielded rich rewards, and even the level 5 energy storage crystal is very rare. With the elimination of the queen ant who can command the ant colony from afar, this nest of ants is no longer their hidden danger.

As for the remaining ants and the incubated ant eggs left by the mutated queen ant, the lights are currently dark and Tom doesn't care about them. Moreover, they will leave early tomorrow morning, and there is no need for them to worry anymore.

Returning from the original path to the ground, the mutated little black cat had already run to the other side to play and found Tom carrying the one person high level 5 yellow energy storage crystal, which was extremely excited and jumping around wanting to eat. But upon closer inspection, it was not the blue crystal it loved to eat, and immediately lost interest.

Considering that in the evening, it helped itself fight against those mutated soldier ants, Tom asked Zhao Xin to take out the level 2 blue energy crystal he had taken out from the back of the ant and give it to the bell.

The bell, holding the crystal in its mouth, was extremely excited, but it was not in a hurry to swallow it. It jumped all the way and followed Tom and others back to the restaurant, back into the aquarium.

The survivors cheered excitedly when they learned that the threat posed by the ant colony, which was suffering from a serious illness, had been eradicated. Especially the girl named Zhou Yiqian, who was hugging Tom's face, which had just emerged from the male ant armor and was covered in sweat, gave him a sweet kiss, which made Tom blush and feel very embarrassed. In exchange, another burst of laughter erupted in the crowd.

After this battle, not only the survivors, but also ordinary soldiers and members of the Pasha team led by Zhao Zijian, have raised their respect for Tom to another level.

Everyone cheered to celebrate Tom's triumphant return. Coincidentally, there was a survivor in the camp who was a chef and made a delicious meal with ready-made food ingredients, treating the soldiers who participated in the war well.

After transferring some of the cars and supplies into the aquarium, Tom left the bell outside and everyone returned to rest in the aquarium. Here, it is very safe.

Nevertheless, Tom still arranged for personnel to patrol and watch at night, as he had left the shelter and arrived outside, so he could not be careless at any time.

Of course, he himself was not excluded from the watchlist, but with the insistence of Zhao Zijian and others, he appropriately reduced his patrol time.

At 4:30 in the morning, Tom changed jobs with Zhao Xin and others. Just as he returned to his temporary bed and lay down for a while, Zhao Zijian woke him up with an ugly face.

"Tom, they're coming up."

"Who came up?"

"Come on!" Zhao Zijian didn't explain, just asked him to leave quickly.

Tom followed him back to the glass wall and saw only two cars parked outside, with a few people looking tired at them.

Tom recognized that there were 5 members of the Pasha team who were left at the 6th floor camp. In addition to them, there are also the surviving couple Du Yanxin and Chen Ya, who were rescued by Tom on the ninth floor.

At this moment, Zhou Zhengping was already standing in front of the glass wall, waiting for Tom to decide whether to open the glass wall and let them in.

Judging from their nervous expressions, there must have been something unexpected on the 6th floor. Tom immediately asked Zhou Zhengping to open the glass wall and let them in.

"Captain!" The leading members of the Pasha team reported to their captain Zhao Zijian in person, without putting Tom, the true leader, first.

Zhao Zijian understood his teammate's mentality and glanced at Tom. Seeing that Tom was not unhappy, he immediately felt relieved and quickly asked, "What happened?"

"I... we... fell into a coma at noon, and when we woke up at night, there was no one in the camp... I mean, except for us, everyone else went missing."

Tom didn't think it was good after listening and quickly asked, "Are you saying that except for a few of you, everyone else has gone missing?"

The team member had some resistance towards Tom, but Zhao Zijian immediately scolded, "Tom is our leader, and the 17th is not here. He is our highest commander."

After listening for a while, the team members couldn't accept it anymore. How could their captain actually take care of Tom. But the situation was urgent at the moment, and he couldn't bear to think too much. He immediately replied, "Yes, Captain An, the entire camp is gone, only a few of us are left."

"Just a few of you?" Tom glanced at them and said, "They are all awakeners."

The team member was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at the others for a moment, then thought again, "Almost... there's one more... and Dr. Yan, he's also here, but he's not in good mental condition, lying in the car."

"Yan Xuebing?" Tom quickly walked to the front of the car and opened the car door, only to see Yan Xuebing lying in the back of the car, weakly panting. He put his hand over, his forehead was very hot, which may be due to a fever.

Tom and 23 each took half of the three Awakeners from this expedition, while the remaining five from the Pasha team stayed at the 6th floor camp. Now they say the others are gone, leaving only a few of them, which gives Tom a bad feeling.

Suddenly, he remembered that when he rode the bell down to report, he found that the mental state of the entire camp was not very good.

Combined with the fact that there were no insects on the fifth or sixth floor, and the strange plant outside the garden, Tom felt that the situation revealed something eerie.

So he walked back quickly and said to Zhao Zijian, "I'll ride a bell to check. You can bring Yan Xuebing in and take care of him."

Zhao Zijian nodded calmly, but Tom asked, "Zhao Zijian, do you believe me? Will you obey my orders?"

"Of course, Tom!"

"I know they are your team members, but before I come back, all those who escaped from the 6th floor will be temporarily quarantined. Can you understand what I mean?"

Zhao Zijian didn't expect Tom to give such an order, but after thinking for a moment, he immediately understood and nodded again, "I understand. Don't worry, in order to be responsible to others and them, I will strictly monitor the team. I promise you that I will not be selfish!"

Tom patted his shoulder hard and then went back to arrange with Ouyang Haotian, Zhao Xin, and others before asking for help to put on his worker ant armor. Bring your weapons and equipment out of the aquarium, awaken the mutated little black cat bell, ride on it amidst its unwilling cries, and quickly leave the restaurant and head down the stairs.

If you walk with your feet, these 19 floors will take a lot of time. However, for a cat, it was a very simple journey.

Quickly, one person and one cat arrived at the safe stairwell outside the sixth floor, facing the door, but the bell refused to go inside.

Tom touched it and realized that there was something here that made it uncomfortable, and it didn't want to get close.

Tom didn't feel anything unusual, but perhaps it was in the senses of these animal insects that they could clearly feel uncomfortable that they refused to enter this sixth layer, so there were no threatening insects visible on the sixth layer.

Tom didn't force it either, so he let the bell guard the hallway and walked in on his own.

After walking for over twenty minutes, we finally arrived at the campsite in the center of the hall.

The Awakened One, who mobilized the wooden ability, built four high walls with vines. There were two entrances and exits to the campsite, both of which had a watchtower. The bright searchlight shone on the ground ten centimeters away from the camp gate, providing Tom with a good direction.

He walked into the camp by the light, and it still maintained its original appearance.

Bullets from heavy machine guns, boiling water from a kettle on a brazier, an open sleeping box, and various note texts piled up on the table in the tent are used for vigilance. This kind of decoration reminded Tom that there were still many people in the previous lesson at this camp. At this moment, all the people in the camp had left, even though they were still patrolling, preparing to drink coffee, sleeping, and even calculating research data.

Then the next moment, under the unified command, they put down everything in their hands and left in such an orderly manner.

There was no attack, no panic, and even the water bottles and oil drums lying on the ground were not overturned, so they left calmly.

Upon learning about this, Tom, who came down to see it, was shocked by the eerie sight. Moreover, the members of the Pasha team woke up from their sleep and saw the situation around them, so the fear in their hearts was naturally beyond measure.