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Chapter 77 - 77 49 Turbulent Heart_2

77: Chapter 49: Turbulent Heart_2 77: Chapter 49: Turbulent Heart_2 Qin Ming moved like lightning, swiftly following up with an attack on the special Flying Ant.

The second-level Mutant Flying Ant, trying not to pounce on Old Man Liu, was hit by someone from behind and quickly dodged.

It became enraged and flew towards Qin Ming, zipping left and right, continuously attacking.

Old Man Liu, cursing and grumbling, crawled out of the snowdrift and Swinging the Blade towards those fist-sized Flying Ants.

“How can such a big man like me be knocked down by an ant?

Have I lost all face today?

Could it be true that old age has made my legs weak and I can’t wield a blade anymore?

Ah…

a second-level Mutant super strong Flying Ant, Xiao Qin, can you hold up?”

Qin Ming quickly responded with a warning: “I’m fine.

Be careful yourself, there might be other second-level Mutant Flying Ants!”

Old Man Liu’s expression turned serious, “That’s right, the Ant Queen might be a third-level Mutant organism, but it’s not good at fighting, so they must focus on cultivating these Flying Battle Ants.”

Qin Ming swung his large-handle Wujin Hammer in succession, hitting the Flying Ant several times, sounding like striking iron, and actually producing a crisp clanging sound.

The creature was quite impressive.

However, it ultimately couldn’t withstand Qin Ming’s immense strength.

Each time it was hit, cracks appeared on its body, followed by a ‘pfft’ as it was smashed to pieces.

“This is bad, three more super strong Flying Ants have appeared.” Old Man Liu’s face changed.

At the foot of the mountain, three notably larger Flying Ants made a terrifying wing-flapping sound as they flew upwards, with six slightly smaller ones behind them, but far larger than the average Flying Ants.

“The nest of three second-level and six first-level Mutants is indeed tough to deal with!”

As for the regular Silver-headed Ants, some had already climbed up the mountain, and although the following troops slowed down, realizing that the two men were close at hand, they continued to surge upwards.

“It’s about time!” Qin Ming said as he blocked the three strongest Flying Ants.

Hearing this, Old Man Liu quickly lit the fuse, and with a loud bang, the pre-planted Dirt Explosives took effect, causing an avalanche, burying a large number of Silver-headed Ants below with a thunderous rumble.

They had timed it, thinking that the ant army was already close to being frozen, and being buried would mean most couldn’t climb out, with 90% likely to freeze to death.

“You think a tiny ant like you can knock me flying?

I can’t afford to lose that face!” Old Man Liu blocked a second-level Mutant Flying Ant and engaged in a fierce battle.

“Really tough, can’t even slice through!” Old Man Liu was flustered, as other regular Flying Ants surrounded him.

Qin Ming gave it his all, golden patterns appearing on his body.

Amidst the clanging sounds, he managed to explode two second-level Mutant Flying Ants one after another and then whirled the large-handle Wujin Hammer like a windmill, with continuous ‘puff’ sounds as ant corpses fell around him.

“Don’t move; let me handle this!” Old Man Liu, being competitive, finally killed that second-level Mutant Flying Ant.

After dealing with the Silver-headed Ants that had climbed the mountain and had not yet frozen, both men took a deep breath.

“We can consider this an early extermination of pests for the people.

If the Ant Queen mutates a fourth time, the number of Silver-headed Ants will explode, and nothing would be left where they pass.” Old Man Liu said, sitting down in the snow.

“It’s not over yet; a large group has emerged from the mountain crevices.” Qin Ming warned.

Hearing this, Old Man Liu’s face turned green, thankful that this time there were no second-level Mutant Flying Ants.

Ordinary Silver-headed Ants swarmed up again in masses.

“There aren’t as many as the last wave; killing these should almost be it.”

Now unable to trigger an avalanche, the Silver-headed Ants below seemed to receive orders, retreating to the nest before freezing.

“Let’s head down the mountain, lure them out by the Ant Nest, and kill them up close.”

Even Qin Ming was exhausted that day, having been killing ants the whole time.

But as Shallow Night was almost over, there were still many Silver-headed Ants crawling out.

As for Old Man Liu, he was already listless, hardly able to lift his blade.

Fortunately, this area was very remote.

No other creatures dared to nest near the Silver-headed Ants, which did not attract other Mutant creatures to pry.

“Let’s continue tomorrow!”

…

In the past two days, some villagers had entered the Underground Caves of Dalie Valley and brought out some fine weapons, causing a sensation and leading more people there in hopes of striking it rich.

Many of these weapons and armor were left behind by scions of great clans from Chixia City, all naturally top-quality items.

Qin Ming and Old Man Liu could never have imagined that they would keep killing ants for three consecutive days, starting from the first day, and still hadn’t completely eradicated them.

“I think it should be about done today; we could even break into the Ant Nest.”

“Don’t jinx it, old man; better not to say such things!”

On the fourth day, the two chatted as they walked by Dalie Valley.

Qin Ming paused, rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn’t seeing things, as he saw a dark mist moving swiftly like a spirit snake in the valley.

“Old man, look at the valley there…” Qin Ming gestured.

“What?

There’s nothing.” Old Man Liu expressed surprise, his face full of confusion.

Qin Ming stopped talking, pretending to have blurry vision.

He felt uneasy in his heart and secretly speculated that it must be because he absorbed the mysterious liquid that allowed him to perceive that abnormal dark mist.

“Did you manage to get in touch with those fallen households with some past significance, as I asked you to?”

Old Man Liu replied, “One of them has loosened up; I think it shouldn’t be a problem.”

“That’s great news!” Qin Ming was overjoyed.

“You two, come here!

What were you gawking at just now?” Suddenly, a voice came from the distance, and two figures appeared near the entrance to Dalie Valley.

Both exuded a strong aura, clearly very dangerous experts, which even made Qin Ming’s heart sink.

Old Man Liu, watching the emblem on the sleeves of the two men, whispered, “They have golden patterns on their sleeves, meaning they’ve been preliminarily recognized by the Golden Thieves.

Those two must be the leaders of Jinji Ridge, the strongest bandits there.”

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