Mice dominate the dungeon

Deep in the corner, there was a huge chamber that had been gnawed smooth.

There was a burrowing ant nesting inside.

Although it's called a burrowing ant, the size of this burrowing ant in front of me is far beyond what I've ever seen before. Compared to the busy soldier ants around me that are only a few centimeters long, it looks like a giant beast that has taken up residence deep in a temple.

Its size is even more exaggerated than the largest giant soldier rat in Twitch!

However, what shocked the rat the most was...

This behemoth has proportions that defy the norm for the flesh of a burrowing ant, and an almost bizarre organ—a massive abdomen!

Its enormous belly is a translucent milky white, barely encased by a few chitinous rings. The inside is bulging, like an overfilled grain of rice. Through the taut membrane, one can even vaguely see countless wriggling, soon-to-be-formed eggs inside.

Its enormous size and bizarre appearance made the rats uneasy.

But it is precisely this strange posture that makes it the absolute core of this anthill palace!

Queen Ant!

At this moment, the queen ant dragged her enormous abdomen heavily behind her.

With each breath, its abdomen rises and falls rhythmically, and every few seconds a tiny, translucent egg is produced from the end of its abdomen.

Immediately, the eggs were carefully caught by the guard ants waiting nearby with their mouthparts and then piled up on the ground.

Normally, these eggs need to be placed in a special nursery immediately after being laid.

But now the guardian ants have noticed that from the very beginning, the queen's pair of knee-like antennae have been pointing upwards, as if sensing something.

As soon as the guard ants looked up, they were met with a highly aggressive gaze, which was intensely scrutinizing them.

When he saw the queen ant's true form, Tucci did not act as cautiously as he would with the ant nest. He did not choose to kill all the burrowing ants first before entering.

With a leap from its hind legs, the entire mouse jumped into the underground chamber.

Upon entering the chamber, Tucci could clearly feel the stuffy, murky, and dense air, as if he were in a steamer.

In addition, there was a muddy smell mixed with a slightly sweet smell, which was the secretion of the queen ant.

As soon as Twitch regained his footing, he saw a guard ant attacking him!

As the guardian ants grew larger in his field of vision, Tucci remained calm, bent down, and casually picked up a thin stick.

The tender pink claws gripped the wooden stick slightly, and the ant took a step to the side to avoid the guard ant's spike.

Immediately, his arm bulged slightly, and he suddenly chopped downwards with force!

[Slash LV2]

Although it's not a brand new, newly upgraded LV3 cleaver, it's enough to deal with a single guard ant.

The wooden stick whistled through the air, transforming into a sharp, afterimage.

The guardian ant that passed by had its lower body split in two!

As a mouse clone carrying Twitch's consciousness, it was naturally not stingy during the customization process, with most of the skills suitable for self-defense and combat crammed into this body.

The other three guard ants standing next to the queen ant were surprised to find that this little mouse was so powerful.

It took care of their partner with a single blow.

Despite their fear of the enemy's strength, as the queen ant's protectors, they are determined to fulfill the most important mission of their lives, even at the cost of their lives.

The three guardian ants' antennae collided, and after a brief exchange, they surrounded and killed Twitch in a pincer-like formation.

"Is this how you treat your distinguished guests?"

Twitch flicked the slime off the stick, revealing his front teeth as he assumed an offensive and defensive stance.

[Rapid Movement] [Flying Kick] [Slash] [Precision Strike]

Several skills work together seamlessly, with no sense of sluggishness.

Twitch displayed unparalleled combat talent when surrounded by three guardian ants, like a seasoned warrior.

After the last guard was killed, Twitch shook his aching arm and looked around through the corpses of the guard ants.

With the guardian ants gone, the chamber is now filled only with worker ants and a few smaller, darker-colored male burrowing ants, who are the queen's mates.

Completely incapable of fighting!

Tucci ignored them completely, turning his gaze back to the queen ant with a harmless smile.

"Hey~ my dear neighbor, how rude of you! On our first meeting, you just watched your men bully a weak and pitiful mouse like this."

"Rustle, rustle!"

The queen ant's antennae trembled slightly, and she opened her mouth, which was full of saliva, and growled.

Although Twitch couldn't understand the language of the burrowing ants, he could sense their extreme anger.

But what good is anger...?

Twitch had already realized that the queen ant was almost unable to move.

Its six legs, compared to its bloated and fat belly, appeared so small and powerless that it could only weakly claw at the soil beneath it to move, in order to coordinate with the peristalsis of its abdomen.

Not to mention fighting...

Faced with Twitch's arrival, all the queen ant can do now is keep reproducing!

It has been completely reduced to a living, highly efficient reproductive machine, with all meaning in its life compressed and refined into an instinct.

Proliferation...

Even in the face of crisis, or when life is about to end, all that remains is the ceaseless swelling and contraction of the abdomen.

It places its hopes solely on its descendants and people...

The queen ant is like a deity worshipped, or a prisoner confined in darkness.

It spent its entire life shaping a vast empire!

How tragic!

Twitch felt that the queen ant was not as free as his soldier rat Korgan!

For some reason, Twitch suddenly lost the desire to communicate with the queen ant...

Although he had lost the desire to communicate with the queen ant, he still had great expectations for her body!

Besides punishing the burrowing ants for repeatedly destroying his traps, the purpose of this expedition is to obtain more resources and see if they can be broken down into a large amount of [gold coins] and [holy water].

The abundance of supplies depends on how well the queen ant in front of us performs!

Twitch did not immediately attack the queen ant, but instead walked to her side.

Tucci bent down and picked up the eggs from the ground.

Looking at the crystal-clear egg, which resembled corn kernels, Tucci opened his mouth and stuffed it in!

Chew, chew, chew~

[Bingeing Triggered]

[Start breaking it down...]

Twitch's mouse clones can also trigger gluttony, but there's a problem.

Mice can digest and break down what they eat, but due to their physical condition, the breakdown speed is much slower than that of the food itself.

Unless the distance is too far to be moved back to the park, Twitch usually just lets his clone mice test the poison and check its purity!

Hmm~~

It's bursting with juice and has a rich, magical flavor, but it's on the sour side and contains impurities!

Although the quality of the eggs is barely passable, the queen ant that produces them is far more delicious than that!

Even Tuchi, who was at the park's main base, couldn't help but swallow hard.

Meanwhile, the queen ant crawling nearby also sensed an extremely primal greed!

This gluttony stems from binge eating!