Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

A mysterious island, somewhere in a tree cave in the dense forest.

Xu Yue, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the tree hole, slowly opened his eyes. The soft light emitted by the control ball on the dome immediately came into view. He looked around, and the wide and monotonous space of the tree hole was immediately visible.

The newly transformed porcupine is lying on the left side of the tree hole. The black and white spikes on its body are growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Now the number of spikes on its back is considerable.

On the opposite side of the porcupine, Ah Fu was cooking bird eggs on a stone slab. The rich aroma of fried eggs gradually rose and filled the space. He was wearing observation glasses and was currently observing the picture on the mirror. , while sprinkling some kind of dark red suspicious seasoning on the omelette.

Just by looking at it, Xu Yue could be sure that the thing was definitely not any seasoning contained in the "field seasoning jar" he carried.

While cooking, Xu Shi noticed a line of sight from not far away. Ah Fu made a movement with his hands. He turned his head and looked in the direction of Xu Yue and said respectfully:

"Sir, has the mental body of the snapping turtle been resolved?"

Xu Yue nodded, then stood up and stepped forward.

"How's it going over there at the lake? Are there any signs of civilized life?"

When talking about business, Afu's expression immediately became serious. He raised his hand and pressed a small button on the glasses frame next to his ear. Suddenly, a light screen was projected from the frame, forming on the flat inner wall of the tree hole. Get a clear picture.

"It has appeared, and there are two civilizations, but they are not human."

"It's not that humans have expected it, but what if two parties appear at the same time? Are they hostile parties?"

While speaking, Xu Yue looked intently at the projection screen beside him, and saw a tragic battlefield scene appearing before his eyes.

It is still the same lake we saw yesterday, but now the lake is surrounded by dense ant colonies. The main body of the ant colony is black, with some scattered areas that are either fiery red or yellow-brown.

The number of ant colonies is like a ring of black tide, completely covering the entire light red lake, making it impossible to estimate their specific number.

And not only on the lake shore, but also on the lake surface, there are a large number of ants. Although the sizes of these ants vary, the shortest among them is almost the same as Xu Yue.

They gathered in groups on the lake and spread out into floating irregular platforms. Now they are constantly salvaging and transporting various corpses in the lake.

Thanks to their unremitting efforts, the large number of corpses of aquatic creatures that were all over the lake last night were now reduced to some fragmentary parts. However, the number of dead ant remains was even more remarkable.

Of course, since this is a battlefield, there will definitely not be only one force. In the sky above the ant colony is the location of the protagonist on the other side of the battlefield.

Above the black tide, a yellow curtain was overwhelmingly covering the ant colony. The curtain was so wide that it covered the entire lake, including the surrounding lakeshore plain.

The density of the curtain was so great that it blocked most of the skylight above. At this time, the red sun was rising, and the sky was bright, but the light was shining down. After passing through the curtain, only sporadic light spots were left. On the surface, this also caused the entire battlefield to look particularly dark.

As the picture gradually zoomed in, Xu Yue also saw clearly the actual appearance of the yellow curtain, which was a turbulent wave composed of countless bee swarms. The individuals among them were mainly carnivorous wasps, mixed with a small amount of bees, but despite the species They are different, but their bodies are all huge.

Although there was no sound in the picture, just from the size of the bee swarm, Xu Yue could roughly imagine how shocking the buzzing sound of the membrane wings on the battlefield would be.

In the picture, ants and bees are fighting each other for ownership of the lake, but they rely not only on their tail spikes and mouthparts and mandibles, but also on a variety of simple weapons.

Compared with other creatures on the mysterious island, these two insect groups are very different, and the most significant difference is that they can use tools.

Looking around, between the yellow bee swarms and the black ant swarms, countless thick spears and large falling rocks were flying up and down.

The bee swarm took advantage of the airspace. They picked up large rocks and heavy objects and flew to the sky above the ant colony. They released them together. In an instant, the rocks fell like a rain curtain. A large number of ants had no way to escape on the plain, so they were hit by the rocks falling from the sky. Falling down, the bones may be broken, the tendons may be broken, the limbs may be separated, or the skull may be shattered, the flesh and blood may be turned into mud, resulting in extremely heavy casualties.

The ant colony is naturally not without means of counterattack, because the sky above the mysterious island is the territory of birds, so the flight height of the bee colony is controlled to no higher than Lin Shao, and this also gives the ants an opportunity to fight back. Opportunity.

They all carry a bundle of rough wooden or stone spears with them. Under the powerful strength of the ants, the spears are thrown out with their flexible front legs. Thousands of spears rise through the air and hit the falling rocks that block the road. After being broken into pieces, they flew into the canopy of the bee colony above. Suddenly a large number of wasps were shot down by spears. Once they fell to the ground, even if these wasps were not killed, they were completely torn apart by the surging ant colony. end.

The entire battlefield became particularly fierce during the fighting between the two groups. Soon, the lake was covered with the corpses of massive ants and wasps. During this period, ants were constantly smashed by boulders, and bees were constantly shot down by spears. , in just the ten minutes that Xu Yue watched the battle, the number of dead and wounded insects on both sides was at least tens of thousands.

"When did the two parties appear around the lake?"

After hearing Xu Yue's inquiry, Ah Fu recalled what he had observed through his glasses and replied:

"Not long after we left the lake, around midnight, wild beasts began to appear at the edge of the lake. After realizing that there was no danger, more and more alienated creatures gathered. They fished for carcasses in the lake without interfering with each other. Drink to your heart’s content from the lake.”

"At three o'clock in the morning, the ant colonies appeared. They poured out simultaneously from all directions in the dense forest. They surrounded the entire lake area and began to advance layer by layer. As they advanced, they killed all the creatures in the encirclement. Then they began Carrying the bodies into the lake."

"An hour later, the wavelet swarm appeared over the lake, but it did not launch an attack. It just monitored every move of the ant colony. The ant colony tried to expel it, but to no avail."

"At five o'clock in the morning, the bee swarm completed its assembly at an alarming speed. The number far exceeded the ant colony, completely covering the entire ant colony, and a small-scale attack between the two sides began."

"It wasn't until half an hour ago that the battle entered a fever pitch and has continued until now. In the meantime..."

In the tree hole, Xu Yue listened quietly to Ah Fu's information. At the same time, his eyes kept moving on the projected picture, especially the anthropomorphic front legs of these two insects for a long time.

And finally his eyes fell on a tall black ant in the ant colony with membrane wings on its back and an erect height of 2.67 meters.

Although the opponent's lower body still has an oval-shaped ant belly, the upper body is upright and has some obvious anthropomorphic features, especially the two front feet, which have directly evolved into carapace palms that are convenient for holding objects.

At this time, the black ant was constantly wandering among the ants, the two tentacles on its head trembling rapidly, and from time to time it would look up at the swarm in the sky, as if directing the battle.

"Ants and bees? As expected, the insects are the ones most likely to evolve into civilized creatures."