Night Without End
Chapter 76 - 76 49 Turbulent Heart

76: Chapter 49: Turbulent Heart 76: Chapter 49: Turbulent Heart Qin Ming and Old Man Liu were busy with various tasks such as chopping wood, paving roads, and hunting beasts.

Everything was ready to go.

“Silver headed Ants have diverse diets and keen olfactory senses, particularly sensitive to their favorite smells, and now it’s really showing!” Qin Ming said.

He and Old Man Liu had paid a high price for some honey, and they had also prepared plenty of Beast Blood, sprinkling the blood along the way and occasionally smearing honey, from far to near.

As soon as Qin Ming and Old Man Liu entered along the fissures in the mountain, the two scents had stimulated those motionless Silver headed Ants to begin their Resurgence.

“Some have started moving, light the Fire quickly!”

“Be careful, don’t burn yourself!”

The two of them threw several buckets of Kerosene over, and as soon as they tossed the torches, they turned and fled.

Boom!

Flames shot up, and all the Silver headed Ants in the mountain belly were awoken.

Although many were burned to death by the Kerosene, there were simply too many of them, dense and squirming together.

Moreover, the Ant Nest structure was complex, and there were many places that the fire couldn’t reach.

In an instant, the Silver headed Ants were enraged, surging out of the ground fissures like a tide.

“Come on, it would be best if the Ant Queen came out too!” Old Man Liu shouted, holding his thick-back broadsword.

“Let’s go, they’re already charging over!” Qin Ming pulled him and started running up the mountain.

The two were not worried about the Silver headed Ants not pursuing them, as they had laid down traces of honey and Beast Blood along the way.

Plus, these creatures were no longer ordinary ants; they had a strong territorial consciousness, were extremely ferocious, and would retaliate on the spot if anyone dared to invade their nest.

“How come some Silver headed Ants can fly?” Qin Ming hadn’t even run a hundred meters away when his back started making clanking sounds.

“What’s going on?” Old Man Liu was also confused.

There were at least a hundred Fist-sized Flying Ants charging over, far surpassing their kin.

“Are you asking me?” Qin Ming sensed trouble—the old man seemed unreliable, wasn’t he supposed to know the mountains inside out?

And yet he didn’t even know there were flying Silver headed Ants!

While Old Man Liu was hacking at the Flying Ants with his thick-back broadsword, he responded, “It must be because the Ant Nest contains an abundance of Spiritual Material, causing some Silver headed Ants to evolve—I saw none of this five years ago!”

“You…

your information is five years outdated?” Qin Ming brought down the hammer on the Fist-sized Flying Ants, finding them surprisingly hard, a normal person definitely wouldn’t be able to smash them with one blow.

The Flying Ants were dark red, with brighter and more prominent silver patterns on their heads and transparent wings.

The sound of their wings flapping was eerie as it echoed above the snowy field.

Their mandibles were like a pair of large pincers, blood-red in color.

When they landed on a person, the sound of their bite clanging against armor was loud, one could imagine how strong their attack was.

Just the hundred or so that appeared were enough to clean up an ordinary person in an instant.

“No worries, there aren’t many Flying Ants, these hundred or so are not enough for us to kill,” Old Man Liu continued Swinging the Blade while making sure to protect his face.

He had just finished speaking when several hundred more flew out of the fissures in the mountain.

The terrifying wing-flapping noise sounded like metal scraping, utterly chilling.

Qin Ming’s face changed color.

If they kept coming out endlessly, in the thousands, that would be big trouble.

The two had good stamina and ran to the top of a low hill in one breath.

Hundreds of Flying Ants, crazed, pounced at them.

Even in this bitterly cold environment, their speed was unaffected.

It was like forging iron here; Qin Ming hammered down one after another, constantly smashing the vicious insects charging at him.

Old Man Liu was also decisive, swinging the broadsword in his hand.

The crisp sounds of cutting continued amidst the gleaming light, and beneath their feet, the corpses of the ants piled up.

Standing on the hill and looking down, the dark red mass truly was dizzying—large swathes of Silver headed Ants were crawling up the snow.

In fact, they didn’t need to sprinkle Beast Blood or honey; these vicious insects were too vengeful, with an exceptionally developed sense of smell, they had picked up the scent of the two men and followed.

“In this extreme cold weather, why isn’t their speed slowing down?”

“It’s slowed a little, but we haven’t had enough time yet, we need to hold on.”

The two didn’t flee while standing on the low hill.

They fought against the ferocious Flying Ants while watching the army of Silver headed Ants coming up the hill, getting closer and closer to them.

“Their speed is slowing down; I guess if we give it some more time, they might really get frozen.”

“Let’s set fire to a batch first, warm up their bodies, and try to lure out more Silver headed Ants from the Ant Nest.”

The two Swinging the Blade and hammer, without forgetting to light torches.

To enter the Ant Nest, they had to eliminate the army of Silver headed Ants below.

“Be careful, don’t throw the torch in the wrong place!” Old Man Liu warned, actually afraid that Qin Ming’s clumsiness might prematurely detonate the Dirt Explosives.

These were by-products from Alchemy Powder production by outsiders, and eventually, people began to utilize them.

“Don’t worry!”

Soon, some areas of the low hill covered with firewood caught fire.

The fire was fierce due to the Kerosene, and many Silver headed Ants burned to death.

However, it only provoked the ferocity of the ant army, who, heedless of death, continued to surge upward.

“The second wave of the ant army has emerged from the nest!” Old Man Liu said.

The worst scenario did not occur—the Flying Ants weren’t as numerous as imagined.

Suddenly, Old Man Liu shouted.

With a clang, he was knocked down by a giant Flying Ant and plunged headlong into a snowdrift, immediately swarmed over by a large group of Flying Ants.

Qin Ming’s heart skipped a beat as he saw a Flying Ant larger than a human head, its main body blood-red and covered in silver patterns.

It had not only mutated but had likely undergone two such mutations.

He immediately rushed over, swinging the hammer to smash.

However, this twice-mutated Flying Ant was extremely fast, dodged in an instant, and dove towards Old Man Liu in the snowdrift.

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