Mice dominate the dungeon

Upon hearing Korgan's battle report, Tucci slowly walked into the hidden chamber before him.

The chamber was now littered with severed limbs and torsos, and pale yellow bodily fluids were splattered on the surrounding walls like paint.

The bloodshed was tinged with a strange beauty.

As Twitch used his claws to brush away the dust floating in the air, he observed the giant burrowing ants not far away.

In fact, when Twitch saw the burrowing ant burrow, he had already guessed that there would be a second queen ant.

The burrowing ant in front of us also has a huge abdomen that symbolizes absolute status, and enjoys the treatment of being protected by many guard ants.

However, the guardian ants that protected it all went to heaven before it did...

If it weren't for the fact that this queen ant was significantly different from the previous ones,

Twitch was starting to wonder if the queen ant he had eaten had used some forbidden magic to be resurrected...

Compared to the previous queen ant, this one is more brightly colored and much larger!

This can be seen in the burrowing ants and the queen ant that besieged his park.

Tucci walked through the swarm of mice and stood before the queen ant.

The queen ant, lying on the ground, raised her small head when she saw Tucci, and her trembling mandibles made a sound that was hard to understand.

In order to be able to communicate amicably with the burrowing ants, I specially brought Ai Xiao along this time.

Tucci looked at Ai Xiao, who was standing to the side, and said.

"Translate it!"

"Boss, it says you're a hybrid..."

"Stop!" Before Ai Xiao could finish translating, Tu Qi quickly stopped him.

Then, it extended its claw and pointed at the queen ant, saying:

"You'll get to experience the treatment the queen ant didn't get today."

"The rat is coming!"

At Tucci's command, six soldier rats came to either side of the queen ant's body and placed her bulky body on a rough and coarse tree trunk.

Immediately afterwards, three soldier rats on each side dragged the queen ant's huge abdomen and rubbed it back and forth on the tree trunk, like wasabi being ground bit by bit on a grinding board.

"@#￥%—￥+—?&*!"

"%#><#......"

"Boss..."

Seeing Ai Xiao preparing to translate, Tuqi interrupted again, saying, "I know that, the Queen Ant is definitely cursing me again!!"

"Didn't you eat?!" Twitch ordered the soldier rats, "Grind them hard!!"

Intense screams echoed from the queen ant's mouth, chilling the entire chamber to the bone.

After a while, Ai Xiao saw that the queen ant's huge abdomen had been torn open, and light yellow blood was flowing out. She couldn't help but whisper to Tu Qi:

"Boss, the queen ant was actually... surrendering and begging for mercy..."

"Huh?" Tucci was taken aback, then said somewhat awkwardly, "Why didn't you say so earlier? This is such a mess."

Immediately, he ordered the six mill-pulling rats to stop.

Twitch brought his head close to the queen ant, revealing a sunny smile:

"Why did you send a swarm of ants to attack my park?"

The smiling one translated the words to the queen ant.

The queen ant, her compound eyes filled with fear and pain, replied briefly: "Revenge."

revenge?

Tucci stroked his chin with his paw, and, combining the information he had received from the male ants, asked again:

"Do you know the queen ant I wiped out before?"

"We know each other; we both come from the same place."

Tucci keenly sensed the hidden meaning in the other person's words.

"Aren't you two from the West End?"

The queen ant nodded to Twitch.

So it turns out they're from out of town!

"So, which section of the ninth floor are you from?" Tucci asked, hands on his hips, clearly annoyed. "East section, North section, or South section?"

The queen ant shook her head upon hearing this.

"Neither?!" Tucci was immediately surprised. "Then where did you come from?"

"hole."

The queen ant looked up, her gaze seemingly able to penetrate the anthill and land on the earth.

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Tucci looked away and then slowly pulled his little head back from above the hole.

That bottomless hole was like a jagged crack in the vast earth, with no regular edges, only jagged, scorched earth and rocks collapsing inward.

The inside of the cave was as if it were shrouded in darkness, with no light and no bottom in sight; even a glance inside would vanish without a trace.

Every now and then, a cold, damp wind would surge up from the depths of the cave. It wasn't a natural wind; it carried a sticky chill and an indescribable, unfamiliar aura.

The chilly wind pressed against his skin, making the back of his neck feel tight.

When the queen ant explained the location of the hole in detail, Twitch sent the mouse to conduct a simple reconnaissance and found that it was not far from the side of the ant nest.

So they took the queen ant and headed there together...

"You said you migrated from deep within this cave?"

Twitch stared incredulously at the bloated, fat queen ant beside him.

"I was very thin back then!!" the queen ant retorted.

"..."

"Where does the other end of this hole lead?" Twitch stopped worrying about the other person's weight. "The tenth level of the dungeon, or some deeper area?"

"I don't know..."

Seeing that Tucci's expression was turning unfriendly, the queen ant quickly explained, "After I was born, I stayed in the anthill like a backup burrowing ant and never went out."

"It wasn't until we received a special signal from the queen ant that we, the reserve burrowing ants, began to metamorphose, grow wings, leave the anthill, pass through the hole, and fly here in our nuptial flight."

"Before entering the hole, I took a look at the terrain that housed the anthill."

"It's strange, if I had to describe it..."

"It looks like a maze!"

Upon hearing the information from the queen ant, Twitch frowned.

When he woke up, he was on the ninth floor. He knew nothing about the other places, especially the floors below the ninth floor.

After a moment's thought, Tucci picked up a stone beside him, walked to the edge of the hole, and threw it in.

After waiting for a long time, there was still no movement.

Twitch could only summon a soldier rat, which he then ordered to climb down the irregular wall of the hole.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the soldier rat went down, Twitch discovered that the soldier rat had lost connection with him.

Twitch then tried a few more times, with the same result...

Disconnect.

This greatly troubled Tucci, as he had no way of further determining whether the rat soldier had suddenly lost consciousness, died, or had its web signal blocked...

"Never mind..." Twitch sighed as he stood at the edge of the hole.

Whether this hole leads to the tenth level or an even deeper area, it's not suitable for me to explore it with my current strength!

Even if they manage to explore the other side, they'll only end up being eaten as snacks.

Let's play it safe and develop our resources in the shallow areas of the first nine levels for now...

But intelligence still needs to be gathered; Twitch needs to have a certain understanding of both the surface world and the Ash Dungeons.

Otherwise, you will be in a very passive position when dealing with emergencies.

Now, many of the mice in our park can speak a common language.

So...

The Adventurers Contact Program has officially launched!