Five Poison Gates
-Tch!
A thread started from the fairy’s buttocks and shot towards the cliff near the second entrance of the bottle where people were gathered.
Then, a spider web was created connecting the sharp rock in the center and the cliff, and as soon as the line was completed, the demon hugged me and started to climb the web.
-Kissit! Kissishi! Kissit!
He kept nagging me while I was walking the tightrope. If I could translate the Chinese characters, I guess it would be something like that.
‘I’m really upset! I’m going to tell my sister to give you a good scolding!’
It’s just a picture of a man without a wife.
Seeing my older sister like that really gave me the feeling that something was bothering her.
-Tsrrrr!
There, the hawk seemed to understand what the falcon was saying, nodding its head and tapping its shoulder in agreement.
After being bitten by a frog, we started to avoid each other, but it felt like we just became best friends.
‘Yes, you all come together and be one. I will sacrifice this body for the peace of the family.’
-Whew.
A fairy who leisurely crosses a spider web over waves of giant ants that rotate with a noise.
As the demon lowered a rope over people’s heads and fell down, the first one to run was, as expected, my older sister.
“Little Dragon! Are you okay? Wasn’t there any poison in the demon’s teeth? I told you not to get hurt like that… Blood!?”
My injuries weren’t that serious, but my sister got really upset when she saw my wounds.
Even at the beginner level, if you use your internal energy well, you can prevent your muscles from being torn, so the only wounds are raw skin scrapes, but it feels like you’re seriously injured.
And while my older sister was making such a fuss, the surroundings gradually began to become shady, and when I felt the surroundings getting darker and turned my head, I saw the Beast Palace people surrounding us, who had approached me at some point.
Just as my older sister was about to roll up the clothes on my legs, the princess of the Beast Palace let out a loud shout.
“The Beast Palace has received a great favor!”
“““I have been blessed!”””
Behind him, a giant vortex of ants swirled, and the people of the Beast Palace were prostrating themselves, looking at him with gratitude and respect.
‘Sister, get out of here. Let’s take off those legs that were raised up···.’
It was a cool scene where I felt like I was getting high for the first time in my life, but I was going to the rice paddy field and I was falling for my older sister.
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-Whoosh.
-Shoot···.
If the sound you heard at first was the sound of bamboo groves swaying in the strong wind, now it’s just a light breeze.
Even that gentle breeze was slowly dying down.
The fiercely swirling whirlwind of ants began to produce stragglers on the edge as it entered its second day.
And on the third day, the circular pasture was covered with dead and fallen ants.
Ants can survive for two weeks without food, but can only survive for about five days without water.
But since they were moving without resting and without eating or drinking, one by one they started to drop out and now there are only a few moving around.
On the first day, the influx of ants into the bottle entrance was completely cut off.
It was clear that if all the guys inside died, this colony would be extinct, and only the slightly sour aftertaste of ant pheromones would remain inside the valley.
-simplicity and honesty.
An ant breaks away from the line, staggers towards my feet, then curls up and crouches down.
The voice of the Beast Princess who had trampled it to death was heard.
“Is it almost over now?”
“Yes, maybe···.”
And then I heard a tone of voice that was a bit unpleasant.
“But···. I’m going because it was my benefactor’s request···.”
The reason why the Beast Princess trails off with unpleasant words.
The reason we were heading to the center of the extinct army ant colony was to do me a favor.
Originally, I could have moved only after all the ants were dead, but there was no particular reason for me to move into the ant colony where there were still many living, though tired, ants.
Because I’m going to collect things.
It’s not just any other collecting, it’s ‘queen ant collecting’.
Since most of the ants are dead, there will be no ants left to guard or care for the queen, which means that this is your only chance to face the queen.
As for whether or not I could raise them, I decided to go out collecting them since I could just catch them and decide.
Ants are the ones who protect their queen ants the most.
Because the queen ant will not die yet.
Since I am a poison expert, ants are a bit different, but ants are a fundamental part of pet insects, so I could never avoid them.
Among children who have become adults, which one doesn’t have memories of catching and raising ants?
‘Ants have a childhood romance.’
-Kkwak.
The heads of ants walking listlessly were stepped on here and there, and here and there, pupae dying from lack of care came into view.
When we arrived at the bottom of the pointed rock in the middle of the circular field, we saw a huge pile of ants.
I shouted at the warriors who followed me.
“Just look for the one with a bigger belly than the other guys.”
“Understood, Benefactor! Did you hear everything?”
“””yes!”””
Not long after the princess, the snow leopard, and the beast palace warriors scattered to confirm and kill the living ants and begin to search for the queen ant, the warriors’ voices were heard from the other side of the sharp rock.
“Benefactor! You should come this way!”
‘Did you find it?’
It was when I quickly ran to the other side of the rock at the sound of Musa’s shout that he had found something.
What caught my eye was a large ant picking at dead ants from among a pile of ants and stuffing them into its mouth.
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-Crack. Crack.
A huge ant the size of a five or six year old child was busy eating its own kind without even noticing our approach.
-Gulp.
And a pile of pure white eggs flowing out of the ship.
Most of the eggs were dying and turning black, perhaps because they were not being cared for, but the creature still did not stop eating and laying eggs.
‘Something is strange?’
Except for some ants that start out as parasites in the burrows of other ants, the queen of any ant colony usually starts out alone.
After mating on their honeymoon flight, they come down to the ground, dig a hole on their own, lay eggs, and raise the group.
That’s why all ants practice cannibalism.
When they first start out alone, there are no worker ants to bring them food, so they eat the eggs they lay and grow the colony.
If they first laid five eggs, they would eat one, raise four, and as they grow, they would catch one of them and feed it to the other ants. This is how an ant colony began.
But that only happens in the early stages of a colony.
In such large colonies, the queen ants never eat their own kind.
But do they eat their own kind like that?
No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t normal.
Moreover, the queen ant was now putting dead ants into her mouth indiscriminately, but this was an even more incomprehensible sight, because this is an ant’s way of eating living ants.
Because ants never eat living adult members of their own species.
“It’s strange that a demon eats its own kind, and a living kind at that.”
“Little Dragon, isn’t that thing that the magician is eating already dead?”
At the mention of eating my living ants, I heard the voice of my older sister, who had been following me as my guardian and watcher, behind me.
But there is a reason why I told the queen ant, who was already eating dead ants, to eat live ants.
The queen ant is now eating a dead ant, but even if the ant is already dead, it is not a dead ant to the other ants.
Ants do not detect the death of a fellow ant immediately, but they do detect it about three days after the ant has died.
About three days after an ant dies, a substance called oleic acid is produced in the dead ant, and only then do the ants recognize that their fellow ants have died.
So, no matter how you look at it, a queen ant eating her own children who died not long ago is clearly in a strange state.
It’s like stuffing your own living children into your mouth.
Everyone was just blankly staring at the guy, his appearance almost seeming mad.
“Little Dragon, over there.”
Something was shining on the forehead of the ant at the tip of my sister’s finger.
At first I thought it was a shell or a single eye, but it wasn’t, and it was clearly golden.
Something was shining between the ant’s antennae and in the center of the ant’s forehead.
“That?”
“It’s strange, it’s like a golden needle.”
When we say gold needle, we are referring to a needle made of gold that is sometimes used in the Tang family’s medical clinic.
My older sister carefully placed her hand on the head of the queen ant that was greedily and mindlessly devouring her dead child.
“be careful.”
My older sister nodded at my words and carefully brought her hand to the gold needle, and soon a long needle that looked at least ten centimeters long came out of the ant’s head.
Then, the queen ant, still in the same pose as she was eating, sagged.
It was a miserable moment when the queen of the army ants of a huge kingdom, with a swarm so great that it could even knock down elephants, breathed her last.
“Why is there a gold needle on the demon’s forehead….”
“Does the young lady of the Tang family know what it is?”
In response to the princess of the Beast Palace’s question, the older sister wiped the gold needle on her sleeve, looked at it from side to side, and shook her head.
“Well, our family also uses this kind of gold needle, but this length and shape are a bit strange. Huh?”
“Why are you doing that?”
My older sister tilts her head while examining the gold needle.
My older sister looked closely at the gold needle and said with a strange expression.
“The center of the golden needle is empty. It looks like it contained some kind of drug or poison…”
Then the Beast Princess bursts into rage and shouts.
The Beast Princess roared like a tiger.
“So there’s something sinister about all this!? Who dares to enter our Beast Palace!”
The appearance of an ant that clearly looks like it has been touched by a human hand.
When I thought carefully about the Beast Princess’s cry, something was definitely strange.
If these guys were the ones living inside the Poison Valley, there would be no reason for them to suddenly burst out like this and escape the valley.
“If it was done by human hands, I will definitely find the villain and not leave them alone!”
It was when the Beast Princess was so angry.
A person flying into the room.
People from Sacheondangga flew into the arena together with Grandfather Mandokshingun.
“Hwa-eun! So-ryong!”
“Little Dragon!”
Grandfather and Gupae Daeju came running and examined my body.
I had already sent the letter using the owl of the Beast Palace, but it seems that you were still worried.
It felt like he came running as soon as the ants disappeared.
“grandfather.”
“I’m sorry for worrying you, Grandpa.”
“Yeah, it looks like Soryong is a little hurt. It’s not that bad, is it?”
“Yes, thanks to the railroad tracks.”
After that brief reunion, the princess of the Beast Palace came to greet us.
“This Beast Palace owes a great favor to the son-in-law of the Tang family. I, the Beast Palace Master Maengho, would like to thank you.”
“No, not like that···.”
The grandfather looked quite flustered at the princess’s greeting, but his older sister quietly relayed to him the reason why he was flustered.
[Although my grandfather’s distribution in the martial arts world is higher, it is exceptional for the princess of the Beast Palace to be treated with such respect.]
“I am the Lord Mandokshin. I thank the princess for showing respect to an old man.”
“It is the right thing to do. We will treat you, the eldest of the family, with the utmost respect, so please come into the Beast Palace.”
“Okay, thank you.”
Our party members needed a rest after wandering in the jungle for several days.
Of course, the invitation was accepted, and as I was about to step inside, my grandfather smiled and asked me.
“Wherever Little Dragon goes, there is never a quiet day. Haha. I have so many questions, so you should tell me everything. By the way, what were you doing here?”
It seemed to mean a troublemaker who keeps causing trouble, but when I scratched my head and laughed awkwardly, my older sister asked my grandfather while holding out the gold needle she was holding.
“The little dragon came to find Queen Ma-yi in a group, and this was stuck in Queen Ma-yi’s head. Grandfather, it looks similar to the gold needle of Tang Family. Have you ever seen this?”
My older sister gave my grandfather a gold needle.
The old man, who had briefly glanced at the golden needle, opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“Hey, where was this!?”
“On the head of the Queen’s horse···.”
Grandfather ran to where his older sister was pointing, examined the queen ant again, and found two more gold needles on her head.
It seems to have been hidden in the ant’s cheek and not visible to our eyes.
“Sir, do you know what that is? It looks like it belongs to the evil bastards who caused this.”
A cool question from the Beast Palace Princess.
My grandfather answered in a calm voice.
“It seems that there are still people alive who hold grudges against the Sacheondangga and the Namman Beast Palace.”
“Anyone who holds a grudge against the Sacheondangga and the Namman Beast Palace?”
‘No, someone who holds a grudge against both our party and the Beast Palace? A brazen bastard like that?’
As I looked at my grandfather with an expression of disbelief, a familiar name came out of his mouth.
“The Five Poison Gates···.”
At the same time, the Beast Princess’s eyes widened in disbelief.
