Ashen God
Chapter 246 - 245: Annihilation of the Crimson Iron Ant Swarm

Chapter 246: Chapter 245: Annihilation of the Crimson Iron Ant Swarm

Because Crimson Iron Worker Ants were still continuously pouring into the area where Zhang Yanhang was located, he was not in a hurry to release the Death Wave Skill immediately. He figured waiting a bit would allow him to kill more at once, as there was no rush for time.

Zhang Yanhang once again activated the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill to sense the surrounding environment and noticed that nearby Crimson Iron Worker Ants were still moving toward the area without any hesitation, which made Zhang Yanhang nod in satisfaction.

"Hmm? Eh?! What?!!" As he continued to use the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill to scan the vicinity, Zhang Yanhang realized there seemed to be a major issue with some very important details.

While scanning the Crimson Iron Worker Ants, Zhang Yanhang also checked the corpses of the dead ants, and most importantly, the Drop Treasure Boxes.

To his surprise, although the nearby corridors were filled with the bodies of over two hundred Crimson Iron Ants, there were only twelve treasure boxes dropped, including one from a Crimson Iron Flying Ant; otherwise, there were only eleven boxes from the Worker Ants alone.

"I clearly killed over two hundred Crimson Iron Worker Ants, why are there only eleven treasure boxes? Could the random drop rate fluctuation be this huge today? But that doesn’t make sense..."

Zhang Yanhang distinctly remembered that previously, when he was hunting monsters in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, he usually needed only eight or nine Crimson Iron Worker Ants for a treasure box to drop, but now the drop rate had drastically halved, needing around twenty Worker Ants per box—a truly Epic-grade weakening.

"Could it actually be that a reduction in treasure box drop rate was the ’unexpected’ aspect noted in the options?" Thinking this, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but immediately activate the Death Wave Skill once again, eager to find out whether this change in the drop rate was a coincidence or a new standard.

Buzz—

A transparent wave of distortion once again spread out from Zhang Yanhang as the center, causing the exoskeleton of some Crimson Iron Worker Ants that had already climbed onto his Energy Shield to instantly shatter, spewing out a large amount of dark red sticky fluid from their mouthparts, even including some glandular tissue fragments that seemed to serve no purpose.

The now silent bodies of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants slid off Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield, but the strangely shaped glandular fragments stuck to the Energy Shield due to their high viscosity.

Zhang Yanhang, feeling a bit disgusted as he looked at these forcibly squeezed-out glandular fragments, maneuvered the Energy Shield to perform a simple contraction, flinging them all onto the nearby ground or walls, which were completely covered in dark red sticky fluid.

Although Zhang Yanhang, especially after cleaning up Raccoon City and its sewers, had seen quite a lot and had a higher tolerance for such things, disgusting things were still disgusting.

Besides, if he just left them sticking on the Energy Shield, it would be rather unsightly, and every sighting would disgust him, so it was better to clean them off sooner rather than later.

[Successfully killed First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Common)’ ×1, Soul points +3.]

[Successfully killed First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Common)’ ×1, Soul points +3.]

"[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Worker Ant (Common)’, Soul points +3.]"

...

As the continuous buzzing sound resonated, transparent distorted waves kept spreading, putting every Crimson Iron Worker Ant they encountered into a silent state. Each impacted by the distorted waves seemed as if struck by a giant hammer; their exoskeletons shattered, and their fragile appendages broke at the joints revealing simple blood vessels and crimson-red flesh inside.

At the edge of the Death Wave’s coverage, there were several dozen Crimson Iron Flying Ants that were just beginning to make their way towards the C-shaped passage where Zhang Yanhang was located.

As the transparent distorted waves spread, the thin wings composed of exoskeletons of these several dozen Crimson Iron Flying Ants shattered and burst outward. The underlying flesh covered by the exoskeletons, while being torn apart, also squeezed out a large amount of viscous crimson-red bodily fluid that splashed in all directions.

"[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Flying Ant (Elite)’, Soul points +7.]"

"[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Flying Ant (Elite)’, Soul points +7.]"

"[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’Crimson Iron Flying Ant (Elite)’, Soul points +7.]"

...

Dozens of Crimson Iron Flying Ants’ bodies simultaneously crashed to the ground at the same time, but they landed on different Crimson Iron Worker Ants—some previously dead and some killed alongside them.

The previously dead batch of Crimson Iron Worker Ants had their bodily fluids nearly dried up and showed no reaction even when hit by the bodies of the Crimson Iron Flying Ants.

However, the recently deceased batch was different. They still contained plenty of viscous crimson-red bodily fluid within. When hit by the falling bodies of the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, this viscous crimson-red fluid was immediately squeezed out by the impact and splashed onto the surrounding walls as well as onto the corpses of the Crimson Iron Ants.

The splashed crimson-red viscous fluid briefly soared into the air before quickly dripping back down, mingling with the large pool of similar fluid on the ground.

In this small area, Zhang Yanhang had continuously killed about four hundred Crimson Iron Ants. Their inner crimson-red viscous fluid had already formed a river on the ground, a pure stream made up solely of Crimson Iron Ants’ bodily fluids, flowing further away under the influence of gravitational potential energy.

When this crimson-red river first formed, it was extremely quiet—only the dripping of the viscous red fluid from the bodies of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants caused minor ripples. However, the bodies of the Crimson Iron Flying Ants that had just crashed from the sky caused a significant tremor in the river, making its surface continuously quake.

Although these ripples on the river’s surface soon disappeared, merely a few seconds later, intense vibrations once more stirred a large series of ripples and waves in the crimson-red river.

But this time, the vibration wasn’t due to more bodies of Crimson Iron Flying Ants falling; rather, other Crimson Iron Worker Ants from different passages were continually pouring into the area where Zhang Yanhang was, showing an unyielding spirit despite the area already having swallowed four hundred Crimson Iron Ants.