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Chapter 43: The blood-armored cicadas are attacking, kill the enemies in battle!
Seeing the newly appeared demon insect blood-armored locust flying towards the direction of the blood ginseng growth area, Qi Ping's face instantly became extremely ugly.

Not a coincidence!

The two times that the demon insects appeared, both came to the place where the blood ginseng grew!
The blood-marked locust before was one, and so is the blood-armored cricket this time!

"What is hidden under the ground where the blood ginseng grows?"

Qi Ping had always been wary of the things underground where the blood ginseng grew, so he had never dared to dig it up. Having a stable first-level intermediate spiritual land was more important to Qi Ping.

But now the magic insects have just been born, and in just a few days, two waves of magic insects have rushed to this location. This further proves that there may be dangerous things buried underground under the blood ginseng.

This made Qi Ping more vigilant about the underground things in the blood ginseng growth area.

In addition, Qi Ping has another question:
How did these two waves of demon insects find this place?

"Smell? Pheromones?"

"memory?"

But Qi Ping didn't think so. If it was a memory, it would be impossible for only two waves to come in such a long time. Moreover, the lifespan of the magic insects was not long, so it was difficult for them to leave any memories.

As for the smell, it is possible. Some imperceptible pheromones may be released here, which may attract any magic insects passing by.

It’s a pity that the demon worms are so brutal that the Beastmaster Druid is ineffective against them, otherwise he would probably be able to get something out of them.

"When we fight later, let's see if we can use the skill [Talk to Animals] to get some useful information."

The blood-armored cricket does not fly very fast, and it seems to be confirming its direction while flying.

At the same time, they seemed to be searching very seriously and even ignored the black bees they met nearby. Under normal circumstances, the black bees would have been eaten as food long ago.

Unfortunately, to Qi Ping's disappointment, although the blood-armored cricket made a sound, he could not understand it at all.
"Are creatures like demon worms not within the scope of the Beastmaster Druid? Not only does [Beast Becomes Friend] have no effect, even [Animals Speak] is ineffective."

This was the first time that Qi Ping encountered such a situation. During this period of time, from cattle and horses to spiritual beasts to ordinary mosquitoes and ants, there was no animal whose language Qi Ping could not understand.

But it doesn't work here with the magic insects!
"It seems that in the game, druids define animals as those that grow in the natural ecosystem, and demon worms are not normal products of the natural ecosystem, so they are excluded from the druid's concept of animals."

"The characteristics of the demon insects are bloodthirsty, murderous, and cruel. They are more like monsters, enemy demons, and the like."

Thinking of this, Qi Ping could understand.

"Since there is no value in communicating, let's kill them!"

There is no need for communication, so all that remains is fighting.

No matter what, Qi Ping would never let the magic insects invade his blood ginseng cultivation area.

Although the group of blood-armored crickets in front of him were very strong, Qi Ping was not unprepared.

"The number of blood-armored locusts is larger than the blood-marked locusts last time. There are fifty-six in total."

"Listen, follow the formation we rehearsed before, with ten bees in a group, and each group will deal with a blood cricket."

"The blood-armored cricket is almost entirely covered in armor, and it is difficult for your tail stinger to pierce it, so its eyes and butt are its only two weaknesses. As long as you get in and release the venom, you can win. Pay attention to helping other bees in danger."

"Buzz. (Yes! Boss!)"

"Buzz. (We have practiced this formation hundreds of times. We will never make a mistake!)"

After the golden bees finished speaking, they immediately rushed towards the blood-armored crickets. Qi Ping watched the 560 golden bees rushing towards him without blinking, feeling nervous but also looking forward to it.

He really wanted to see what effect it would have if the golden marrow bees killed the enemy in a military formation.

This was the method Qi Ping came up with a few days ago to deal with the demon insects.

He remembered that in the history of his previous life, an army with a well-organized formation could be more lethal than a scattered army that was ten times their size.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, unless a person's strength is so strong that it exceeds a large level, he will basically not escape death when facing the siege of ten well-trained people.

This is somewhat similar to the Golden Marrow Bee, because the battles between the Golden Marrow Bee and the Demon Bug are mostly close combat, so the battle formation should also be effective.

Moreover, the golden marrow bees are highly obedient, fearless, and trust each other 100%. As long as they are well-trained, the effect of their battle formation may be stronger than that of humans.

Therefore, Qi Ping specially customized a simple battle formation for the Golden Marrow Bees for training.

For example, if ten bees attack at the same time, the head and tail cannot take care of each other.
For example, the six sides of top, bottom, front, back, left, and right...

For example, some are responsible for containing and luring the enemy, some are responsible for rescue, and some are responsible for sneak attacks.
For example, when facing an overly powerful demon insect, you can even choose to sacrifice yourself to give other bees a chance to kill it.
The enemy that the Golden Marrow Bee is facing at this moment is the Blood-Armored Cricket. Although it is also a first-level intermediate magic insect, its combat power is much higher than that of the Blood-Veined Locust, and it is far higher than that of the Golden Marrow Bee.

[Blood-armored Cricket: A first-level intermediate demon insect, its body is covered with hard blood-colored armor, it has a pair of extremely lethal sharp front legs, and it is extremely powerful.]

Qi Ping estimated that in a normal melee, the fifty-six blood-armored locusts might even have a 1:5 or even higher casualty ratio with the golden marrow bees.
Because their blood armor is too hard, the mouthparts and stinger of the golden marrow bee can hardly break the defense of the blood armor cricket.

Although the Golden Marrow Bee has good defense and it is not easy to kill it even for a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining, it is hard to say how many moves it can last against the Blood Armor Cricket's front feet with super lethality.

This is the terrifying combat power of the magic insects, and it is also the reason why ordinary cultivators are so frightened when talking about the magic insects.

Therefore, in a normal melee situation, it is not difficult for a blood-armored locust to kill five or six golden marrow bees. This is also the reason why Qi Ping is worried.

The swarms of blood-armored crickets and golden-marrow bees soon approached, and a fierce aura spread.

Faced with golden marrow bees that were ten times more numerous than itself, the blood-armored cricket showed no intention of retreating in fear. Instead, it rushed forward with great ferocity.

The melee started almost instantly!

At this moment, Qi Ping's heart was in his throat.

Faced with the blood-armored cicadas that were far stronger than themselves, the golden marrow bees, which formed a battle formation of ten, would immediately send out a golden marrow bee to attract the blood-armored cicadas after selecting their opponents.

Once the fight begins, the golden marrow bee will hold the blood-armored cricket's head tightly and attack and bite the opponent.

This could probably hold off the blood-armored cricket for a few moments.

And these few moments of time are what it fights for the other nine golden marrow bees.

After the leading golden marrow bee dragged the blood-armored cicada, two of the other nine golden marrow bees quickly hugged and bit the blood-armored cicada's two wings.

Four other bees bit the six legs of the blood-armored cicada respectively.

These attacks happened almost at the same time!
Although the blood-armored locust is more powerful than the golden-marrow bee, it mainly relies on its hard blood armor and extremely lethal front legs. Its strength is limited compared to the golden-marrow bee.

So after its two wings and six legs were bitten by six golden marrow bees, its flying and movement abilities were directly restricted, and it fell straight down from the air!

This scene happened at the moment the two sides confronted each other!
With the extraordinary coordination of the golden marrow bees, fifty-six blood-armored cicadas fell from the sky one after another!
At the moment when the blood-armored cricket was restrained, the last three bees in the bee battle formation also seized the opportunity, and the stingers of two bees instantly stabbed the blood-armored cricket's eyes...

The last bee's stinger pierced into the blood-armored cicada's buttocks, and the bee venom was injected into it at the moment of stinging.
(End of this chapter)