Poison Valley 4
For the average army ant, it is common to spend the night in a temporary campsite.
At night when the temperature drops, they gather together to protect each other, and when the sun rises and the temperature rises, they immediately begin to move.
But it didn’t seem like that for them.
It is not known how much of the food they have been collecting has been consumed, or if the queen has laid eggs, but they have been spending three days in their temporary camp.
What we can guess from their behavior is that they usually wander around like crazy, looking for food, and then settle down for a few days when food is gathered.
What made me think that it hadn’t completely stopped was that they weren’t going out to forage.
That wasn’t a bad story for us either, because it gave us time to get to the main force led by my older sister.
Since the main camp had bamboo cages for gathering and things like food, if we were to carry out the plan I suggested of running ahead and collecting poisons, we would need to join up with the main force or meet them at least once.
And with the arrival of my older sister, I could see why the Tang family’s warriors, except for my grandfather and a few poisonous men, had such expressions on their faces at my amusing suggestion.
“oh my god···.”
My sister looks surprised at the sight of ants across the river.
But my sister’s astonishment did not end there, as her eyes widened at the suggestion that they run in front of them and catch the poisonous creatures as they begin to move.
“Those guys, they’re running in front?”
“Yes, when their line surges forward, the ones hiding in the grass, rocks, or crevices of rocks, etc., get startled and come out. If you target those guys, you can catch them with poisonous substances very easily. Those guys who get startled and run forward are easy to catch.”
My older sister stared blankly at my face for a while and then muttered to herself.
“···After the bee, is it the magpie? It hasn’t been long since I jumped in front of the bee···.”
The reason why the Tang family’s warriors, except for Grandfather and a few poisonous men, had strange expressions on their faces.
When I think about it, it was because they were all experienced.
Thinking about what my older sister said, the Gupae Daeju, the Dokhyeol Daeju, and several of the Dokhyeol Dae’s warriors were already experienced.
In the race to death.
This was because he had already experienced a desperate race from the entrance of Yunnan to Dangga during the reign of King Geummobong.
“But didn’t you say that you had really good results last time?”
“Well, that’s true···.”
To be honest, I felt a little sorry towards my older sister at the time.
Although the sight of my tired older sister was attractive, my pretty older sister was drenched in sweat and couldn’t sleep or eat properly for days before running to the party.
He had to carry me because I couldn’t do light air.
But what helped me feel less sorry was my grandfather’s words.
‘Still, I told you that you got a chance because of me.’
The reason why my older sister couldn’t refute my request for good results was because, according to my grandfather, not only was eating the Qingbanwu Gong’s inner pill a coincidence, but the dash to death was also a coincidence.
Even if you ingest elixirs or internal energy, it takes a considerable amount of time for that energy to completely melt and become your own energy through the inner method. But my older sister, by running towards death and using up all her internal energy until it completely runs out, was able to quickly convert most of that energy into her own energy?
That’s why I held my sister’s hand tightly and said.
“Now that Wukong has no need to consume the energy flowing out of the inner chamber, let’s clean up the remaining energy this time.”
It may seem a little mean, but it’s true, so what can you do?
Isn’t it because I’m doing this for my own good, to become your blood, flesh, and inner strength?
As my sister’s lips moved as if she wanted to say something, I heard my grandfather’s voice from next to me.
“Come to think of it, then you should run with me too, Soryong? Then run with Hwaeun tomorrow.”
“me too?”
My light-weight skills are not that good yet, so my grandfather was going to carry the kids and run with them when they moved, but he suddenly told me to run next to my older sister.
As I blinked, wondering what he was talking about out of the blue, my grandfather pointed to my chest and said,
“Didn’t you eat it too? The elixir.”
“Huh!”
Yeah, come to think of it, I also ate the royal jelly that the King of Gold gave me.
In other words, it meant that I also needed to gather my energy.
The corners of my sister’s lips, which had been sulking, rose slightly.
After my grandfather finished speaking, my older sister smiled and held my hand tightly.
“Little Dragon, run alongside me tomorrow. It’s nice to run with Little Dragon. Hehe.”
I wondered if it was just my imagination that my sister’s face looked so delicious, like she had eaten mealworms.
‘No way, right?’
***
I snuck over to the front where I expected the guys to move last night and took up position.
I don’t know how long they’ll be staying, but I’d go early and reserve a spot.
The distance between them is about sixty chapters, or about two hundred meters.
When the guys started to move, I planned to close the distance to within thirty to a hundred meters and run while maintaining some distance.
Of course, the main force will receive the poisonous insects and snakes we caught and slowly follow us across the river.
Because we decided to put the poison we caught in a cage and throw it on the other side of the river.
It was when I thought I had dozed off for a bit while looking forward to tomorrow’s gathering.
A sudden, shivering sound is heard.
-Shoot!
When I opened my eyes, it was bright morning, and as the sun rose and shone down on the basin, I could hear the bamboo grove rippling like a colony of ants starting up.
Clearly, a perimeter had been set up with warriors, but there was no need to set up a perimeter.
Because the guys were giving off such loud signals that they were starting to move.
“So, So-ryong, wake up.”
“It happened. Hwa-eun.”
My older sister, who sleeps curled up next to me and shakes me awake.
After washing up and everything, I got up straight away and tied a string around my forehead.
Even the Tang warriors who had already experienced running once were seen with strings tied tightly around their foreheads.
My older sister also quickly tied a string on her forehead.
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This was something we already talked about yesterday, but I was wondering why I had to do this, and it turns out that if the sweat from my head gets into my eyes, my eyes sting?
I decided to follow the advice of experienced people.
‘When I ran a marathon in my past life, I wondered why I had tied a string on my forehead. Turns out there was a reason for it.’
In my previous life, I thought it was just cool, but it seems there was a reason for everything.
After finishing the preparations, the Wukongs told me, the Seokchuks told their older sister, and the Yohwa told me yesterday that she was confident that she could run, so I decided to believe her for now.
If the magic doesn’t work, you can always cross the river.
And so, as we all finished preparing, the red waves finally began to form under the basin.
-Shoot!
A wave of ants rushing in.
As expected, the leader was a large worker ant.
They are friends who take the place of the soldier ants, and they charge forward at the front of the line.
As the guys make their way and protect the procession on the left and right, large and medium-sized worker ants pass through the middle, which is the moving procession of army ants.
“The ones at the front are said to be hunting parties, so you have to be careful because they will bite anything that comes in front of them.”
“Oh, I understand, Little Dragon.”
The leader of the army ants is a hunting party, a very aggressive group that attacks anything they see.
As I watched the guys approaching, I thought it was time to start moving.
-Keeeeee!
The screams of beasts are heard.
A deer or roe deer suddenly jumped out between us and the ants, startled by the ants, ran towards us, then got startled by us and ran in the opposite direction.
Ants at the back, people in front.
The guy was probably more scared of us than he was of us, but his choices led to terrible consequences.
-Kee! Kee!
A guy who screams and jumps up and down when his hind legs are bitten by the giant hook of the leading large worker ant.
The guy tried to rip the large ant off his thigh by jumping around, but the large ant would not come off.
Primitive tribes in Asia and the Amazon use large worker ants as staplers when they are cut with knives or something similar, because once they bite, they never let go.
Eventually, the struggling guy fell down in front of the ants, and the red waves swallowed him up.
And at that sight, all the Tang family warriors rushed forward without exception.
Because the deer was completely torn apart.
“So, So-ryong, let’s go too.”
I hear my sister’s voice from next to me.
When I turned my head, I saw my older sister already in the standing start position with both arms raised.
It feels like your mind is already running forward while your arms are raised.
The ant nodded, looking ahead as it approached the back.
“Let’s go!”
It was the beginning of a full-scale poison collection.
***
The army ants have virtually no eyesight, so they don’t chase us, but they still move forward at a considerable speed.
The average speed is the speed at which a person jogs quickly.
However, when a fight broke out over food in front, other guys quickly joined in from the back.
Just by running for half an hour, we already had one bear, three wild boars, and two deer swallowed up before our eyes.
It felt like the guys were running along the riverbank to target animals that came to drink water.
It was when I was running, picking up the poisonous things that were jumping out in front of me, leaving behind the vain sight of the creatures melting into the red waves.
I heard the voice of the old lord who was looking in the opposite direction from me.
“Little Dragon! There’s a big snake up ahead! Is that a net snake?”
‘A large snake!? A net?’
When I turned around at the shout of the Great Leader, who was calling out for a large snake, I saw a large snake crawling towards me with all its might in front of a swarm of ants.
Glossy scales, large body.
The official name for the thing crawling this way is the Burmese python!
“Silky snake! I have to catch that one!”
The Burmese python is the largest python and is among the world’s five largest snakes.
In addition, Burmese pythons are a relatively docile species and are not difficult to raise.
I absolutely couldn’t miss that.
‘It’s not poisonous, but it’s fun to raise.’
Then, the old man made a bewildered expression.
A loud roar came out of Daeju’s mouth.
“Master So-ryong, didn’t you say the same thing when the whip scorpion came out a little while ago? And before that, when the toad came out… If that’s the case, why don’t you just catch them all as they come out…?”
The reason why the old master is making such a fuss is because he said that he would only catch the ones that were worth catching, but he keeps telling me to catch everything that comes out.
But what can I do when they are all worth seeing for the first time?
‘It’s really hard to command people. Are you really leading by example?’
So let’s run towards him quickly, people shouting in surprise.
It was because the guy was closer to the ants than expected.
“Little, Little Dragon, it’s dangerous!”
“Little dragon!”
I quickly ran and surrounded the guy, leaving behind the shouts of the Tang family’s warriors and my older sister.
“Wow, this guy is no joke.”
The Burmese python, which grows up to six meters, was about three meters long, and when I grabbed its head and wrapped it around me, I felt its heaviness.
As I took a step forward carrying the guy, I heard an eerie sound behind me.
-Crunch.
As I ran forward and looked back, a large ant had already approached me.
The jaws of a large worker ant, designed for cutting and crushing, were swinging as the worker ants approached closely.
The sight of ants that were much closer than expected.
The moment I took my foot off the ground at the sight of the ants getting too close and the weight on my shoulder.
I slipped and fell on the grass.
-Whew.
“Oh my.”
Then, the eyes of the older sister and the old man widened.
My older sister and the Great Lord of Gupae immediately came running with surprised eyes and lightness in their eyes.
I looked back and saw a swarm of ants rushing towards me.
“Little dragon!”
“Little Dragon!”
When my sister and Daeju’s cries were drowned out by the sound of ants swarming, and I thought that it would be the end for me to be less greedy.
-Whoa.
My body suddenly feels like it’s being dragged forward.
My body slid across the grass and was dragged forward.
The place I was dragged to was right in front of the demon, and before I knew it, the demon had wrapped a spider web around my body.
-Kissit! Kissit!
Immediately, the demon started scolding me as if he was scolding me, and my older sister also spoke up from the side.
“You did a great job! Please scold me! Little Dragon! I won’t let you get too close to the ants anymore!”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
I was so greedy that I almost ended up like a meat ball.
After clearing his mind once, he followed the demon quietly, only giving orders to his warriors without directly participating in the gathering.
Not only was it an accident, but the witch had wrapped a spider web around my neck and wouldn’t let go.
‘No, I’m not a pet either···.’
“Hey, Yo-hwa, can you let me go of this?”
-Kissit!
A firm voice that didn’t even work after trying several times.
Eventually, I had to follow the demon quietly until the sun began to set and the ants began to stop on the other side of the hill.
It was at that moment that I was dragged over the hill by the demon.
At the bottom of that hill, something like a gate began to come into view, and the unmanned soldiers running out from that direction stopped us and shouted.
“From here on out, this is the land of the Beast Palace! Intruders, reveal your identity!”
Among those who ran out, the leader of the group was a man who was dragging out a wolf-like thing with a leash around its neck. He looked back and forth between me and his wolf, who was caught in the trap with a leash, with a surprised expression on his face.
“uh···.”
‘No, it’s not what I imagined. It’s not that···.’
