Free Web NovelChapter 1165: Chapter 1164: Cannibal Ants
Lin Fan hurriedly retreated!
As the wall plaster fell off piece by piece, two large characters actually appeared on the stone gate!
"Palace Gate!"
Lin Fan said, "This stone gate very likely leads to the center of the ancient tomb, and is the final master’s gate. If we open it, we can find what we want!"
"Boss! Look quickly, what’s appearing on the master’s gate?" Nie Lei pointed at the master’s gate and suddenly exclaimed!
Lin Fan immediately followed Nie Lei’s direction and looked over, seeing a small slot on the master’s gate, roughly the size of a tablespoon!
"Boss, there are words here too!" Shunzi simultaneously chimed in!
Lin Fan looked again, but these words were not in modern Chinese, rather they were ancient characters that Lin Fan did not recognize!
"Let me take a look!"
Xiang’Er hurriedly stepped forward, wiped it clean with her hand, and seriously examined the characters!
Quickly, Xiang’Er said, "These ancient characters say that only someone related to the master of this ancient tomb can open this stone gate by putting blood into this blood slot!"
"Someone related?"
Chu Lingtian frowned!
The ancient tomb buries a group of valiant warriors who came from ancient grasslands, but here, none of the people are related to the grasslands!
"Let’s try mine first!"
After saying this, Lin Fan hastily cut his finger, letting drops of fresh blood drip into the blood slot!
However, there was no reaction from the stone gate!
"It seems I am not related to the master of this ancient tomb," Lin Fan sighed.
"Try mine!"
Nie Lei volunteered, cutting his finger, and similarly dripping blood into the blood slot!
As expected, similarly, there was no reaction, and the stone gate stood firmly in front!
Next, Shunzi and Nalan Qiankun also tried!
Unfortunately, still no response!
"This ancient tomb is beneath our Miao Village, and we Miao People have been guarding this secret. Let me try my blood, perhaps it will work!" At this moment, Miao Qiaomei suddenly spoke up.
"That makes sense! Please!" Lin Fan earnestly said to Miao Qiaomei!
After Miao Qiaomei nodded, she quickly walked forward, cut her finger, and fresh blood dripped immediately from her finger!
A sound of "drip-drip" echoed!
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a loud noise echoed, and the stone gate trembled violently!
Upon seeing this, Lin Fan and the others showed great joy on their faces, saying, "It’s working!"
Miao Qiaomei also showed joy, then cut another finger with a knife, letting blood drip simultaneously into the slot from both fingers!
"Clatter-clatter!"
However, suddenly at this time, a strange sound echoed from within the hall!
Lin Fan’s keen senses caught the sound, and he immediately turned to look!
"Boss, what’s wrong?" Nie Lei asked in confusion.
"Did none of you hear a strange sound?" Lin Fan frowned.
"Clatter-clatter!"
The strange sound echoed again!
"There really is a strange sound!"
Nie Lei was shocked and quickly grabbed his heavy weapon, looking cautiously around, ready to start a massacre at any moment!
At this time, Lin Fan was surprised to see two small stones rolling out of one sculpture’s eyes! At the same time, the other sculptures experienced the same phenomenon!
Then, a surprising scene appeared before Lin Fan: an ant the size of a baby’s fist crawled out from the hollow eyes of the sculpture!
Moreover, it wasn’t just one ant, but swarms of ants; there were dozens of stone sculptures in the hall, each with two hollow eyes, making hundreds of hollows, and from each hole, swarms of ants crawled out rapidly. In no time, they gathered on the ground in masses, at least tens of thousands!
"What the heck are these things? How can there be such large ants!" Nie Lei shouted.
"These are... Cannibal Ants! I’ve read in books that once these Cannibal Ants move, it’s a large swarm, and they’re extremely fierce, able to rapidly devour human flesh!" Xiang’Er said in terror!
"Devour... human flesh..."
Nie Lei shivered, equally terrified!
"Don’t let them get close!" Xiang’Er warned!
"Attack immediately!" Lin Fan yelled urgently!
Nie Lei and the others were already ready to attack, sweeping with heavy weapons, bullets "da-da-da" poured out wildly, madly firing at the swarms of Cannibal Ants in front!
Although these Cannibal Ants were terrifying, they weren’t invulnerable to bullets; bullets would penetrate their bodies, oozing green blood!
"Da-da-da!" "Da-da-da!"
For a moment, only the sound of bullets echoed throughout the hall!
Even though Lin Fan and others had heavy weapons, the Cannibal Ants were too many and kept crawling out of the sculptures!
Soon, a magazine of bullets was exhausted, with at least a few hundred Cannibal Ants eliminated!
However, in the tens of thousands of Cannibal Ants, these hundreds were so insignificant, these Cannibal Ants like a black wave, crazily rushing closer, getting nearer and nearer to Lin Fan and the others!
"Damn it, I’ll kill you all!"
Nie Lei roared loudly, crazily pulling the trigger, the gun muzzle spewing tongues of fire!
Lin Fan hurriedly asked Miao Qiaomei, "How’s it going? How much longer?"
"Almost there! Just hold on a bit longer!" Miao Qiaomei replied, hastily cutting all her other fingers with the knife!
Under the intense bullet suppression, these Cannibal Ants didn’t slow down their pace!
This was a race against time for Lin Fan and the others!
Soon, several Cannibal Ants approached right in front of Lin Fan!
Lin Fan wouldn’t dare neglect; gripping the Soft Sword, he easily killed off several Cannibal Ants with each swung cut!
However
After killing a few, many more followed; before long, Lin Fan and the others were forced back to the stone gate, with the Cannibal Ants filling the hall, a pitch-black scene!
"Ah~"
Nie Lei, Nalan Qiankun, Shunzi, while screaming, fired bullets crazily!
Lin Fan’s arm moved as if mechanical, the Soft Sword slicing out time and again, effortlessly killing several Cannibal Ants with each swing!
After repelling one wave, a second wave immediately followed, then the third wave, the fourth wave, countless in number!
"Crack!"
At this critical moment, a crisp sound suddenly came from the stone gate!
Following that, the master’s gate trembled and slowly retracted to both sides, opening a gap!
"The gate is open!"
Miao Qiaomei exclaimed in joy!
