Chapter 279: Chapter 272: Zombie Ant 1

He decided to first take pets such as Termite and hurried to the scene to check it out.

If the situation looked grim, and Elder Jiu Yin was too powerful, then he would quickly run for it. If Elder Jiu Yin and Vice City Lord Bai were evenly matched, he would seize the opportunity to strike decisively and eliminate the old Jiu Yin.

After Qin Niu made up his mind, he promptly led his pets and rushed to the battleground.

This time, in addition to bringing a large number of Termite, War Bee, Red-eyed Golden Toad and other pets, he also brought along the successfully evolved, strong Green Ox with pincers.

In terms of the lineup of pets, this was already very powerful.

For others, having an insect with special abilities would be considered good enough, but his Termite all had special abilities almost without exception.

The villagers saw him taking a small water buffalo and hurriedly running towards the outskirts of the village with a large basket on his back.

They began to discuss furiously.

“I heard that the Nine Insect Gang’s army has already attacked Jade Stream Town! Master Qin must have received the news and is rushing to escape!”

We should also pack our valuables quickly and take our families to escape! It’ll be too late if we wait any longer!”

“How about we wait and see! We common people don’t fight in wars, so we should be fine, right?”

“Hey, are you stupid or naive? The Nine Insect Gang captures men to use as furnaces for raising insects and young women to serve as female slaves. When your wife and daughter fall into the hands of those devils, just think about how tragic their fates will be!”

“Then… then I will hurry up and take my wife and children to run for our lives!” When the villagers saw even Qin Niu running away, panic quickly spread among them.

Even Wang Furen quickly packed his valuables and told his daughter to be ready to flee at any moment.

Wang Wanyan, however, thought that Qin Niu couldn’t possibly just run away without alerting anyone else.

But she also knew about the ferocity and terror of the Nine Insect Gang, and immediately packed important items, preparing to escape.

Qin Niu quickly arrived at the site of the battle between the two sides, located in the town.

Jade Stream Town was not large in terms of its communal area, and its construction was not very impressive.

Due to its remote location and underdeveloped trade, it was mainly inhabited by local people. There were hardly ever any foreign merchants or travelers.

At that moment, at the entrance to the town, both sides were engaged in fierce combat.

Giant Corpse Bees could be seen flying around everywhere, looking for targets to attack.

But in the center of the battle, there was a dense fog that made it impossible to see from the outside.

One could only hear the “boom boom boom” sounds of collision; the fight was extremely intense.

Amidst the fog, one could vaguely see the Black Armored Soldiers lined up and charging into battle, with continuous shouts and orders. This was the Black Tiger Gang’s army.

Qin Niu secretly observed for a while, and it seemed that the Black Tiger Gang still had the upper hand.

Those Corpse Bees, each at the Bee General Level, made Qin Niu envious.

Having fought against Old Master Huang before, he guessed that these Corpse Bees were most likely pets of other Insect Masters from the Nine Insect Gang, and he immediately ordered Fourth to find an opportunity to control one of them.

When a Corpse Bee discovered Qin Niu, it dived towards him.

Fourth did not give it any courtesies and led the Puppet Ant army to directly take control of it. Qin Niu had already prepared a bag, and with one slash, he cut the Corpse Bee in half and then put it into the bag.

He carried out his usual method, focusing on capturing Corpse Bees around the peripheral area.

In just a while, he had already killed seven or eight of them.

“Where did this yellow-haired kid come from, daring to destroy my Divine Bees? I won’t let you off easily.”

A large group of Corpse Bees rushed towards Qin Niu.

At the same time, there was also a swarm of Dark Red Ants on the ground.

I he cultivation of Elder Jiu Yin’s Corpse Bees was not easy, and having them killed one after another already drew his vigilance.

Upon taking a moment to check, he immediately discovered Qin Niu, who was sniping from the sidelines.

He immediately ordered the Fire Ants and Corpse Bees to attack Qin Niu together.

“Heh, finally encountered someone who plays with ants.”

Qin Niu’s termites, though not ants, were also a type of ant species.

Up until now, he had only battled the army ants of Old Master Huang.

Back then, Old Master Huang had coated his army ants with poison powder. After the termites fought with the army ants, they would quickly become poisoned.

This time, Qin Niu was extra cautious.

He sent out a few termites to test the waters first.

He found that the enemy’s dark red ants were mostly Grade Three, with the strongest being Grade Four soldier ants, but he did not find any Grade Five ants.

Qin Niu’s termites were also mostly Grade Three, which made them evenly matched in terms of level.

However, the number of the enemy’s fire ants was beyond imagination, dense like a tide of water surging forward, the sheer quantity was alarming.

“Could the person who spoke in the fog just now be Elder Jiu Yin? It must be him to have such grand resources.”

While Qin Niu was secretly astonished, he immediately ordered his termite army to meet the onslaught of the dark red fire ants.

The more they fought, the better trained they became.

During this trip away from home for a few days, his number of termites had increased by several thousand.

Among them were special ant species like demon ants, elephantic ants, and strong ants.

In fact, strong ants and poisonous ants no longer counted as special species.

On average, one in every ten termites had the strong trait.

Three out of every ten termites had poison sacs and poison stingers, and their venom was extremely toxic.

So, these two ant species were now capable of mass production and could only be considered regular species.

But demon ants, elephantic ants, healing ants, and gold devouring ants were all considered rare special species.

Especially the gold devouring ant, which none have appeared so far.

Additionally, among the new species, there was another new type – the zombie ant.

Although he didn’t know their abilities, the propagation rate for this ant species wasn’t low. About two out of every hundred newly born termites were zombie ants.

This time, Qin Niu brought nearly a hundred zombie ants with him.

Only he hadn’t trained them yet, and he didn’t know their abilities.

These zombie ants were a dead ash color all over, only the top of their head had a yellow stripe. They crawled slowly, even much slower than swift ants.

They couldn’t compare to lightning ants at all.

Qin Niu watched them sluggishly follow at the back of the termite army off to battle and couldn’t help shaking his head.

What kind of miraculous ant species was this?

He needed to check their attributes when he had time.

One hundred and seven Grade Three zombie ants, life span 30 years, special abilities (basic exoskeleton, basic self-healing, super strong biting, corpse poison attack, assimilation (enemies that are bitten have a high probability of being assimilated). Night devil (this ant species’ combat power doubles in the dark or in an environment with heavy Yin energy, and their self-healing ability becomes extremely strong).

Seeing their special abilities, Qin Niu got excited, realizing he had struck gold.

Originally, feeding the corpses of corpse bees to the Ant Queen, allowing it to eventually evolve the special ability to reproduce zombie ants, he thought these slow-moving zombie ants were surely worthless.

He never expected their special abilities to be so bizarre.

Even when compared to the demon ants, they are not to be underestimated.

“Since zombie ants are so powerful, it’s a good opportunity to get more of these Bee General Level corpse bees to feed to the Ant Queen back home.”

Qin Niu looked toward the large group of incoming corpse bees.

He wasn’t scared at all.

The King Pig Leather Armor he was wearing was already emitting a faint glow, with a layer of air armor covering his body, securely protecting its master.