Forests Don't Support Idle Goblins

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"Those goblins have all been killed," Charles said with a sigh, looking at the queen ant.

"Those two species are indeed ferocious. Many of my children were eaten by them," the queen ant said, shaking her antennae, clearly saddened. "You were the ones who helped my children just now, preventing those giant bees from rushing into the cave."

"Yes, they just help each other out; they also eat goblins," Sharl nodded.

"I never expected that during this time, those goblins would stop coming to trade and be captured and killed. Perhaps our fate will be the same." The queen ant touched the worker ants around her with her antennae, as if giving orders.

"What did they exchange with you?" Charles asked, intrigued.

"They will gather many flowers and exchange them for our soft, white ants. My children need to eat honey to grow after they hatch, and I also need honey to restore my strength." The queen ant calmly said, her large compound eyes scanning the busy worker ants in the cave. "However, my life is coming to an end, and I will not have the strength to produce the next queen. This colony will soon perish."

"Disappear?" Charles immediately tensed up. "If you disappear, what will happen to your children?"

"Without my command, they will either die here or be devoured by those two enemies." The queen ant lowered her head and kept stroking the worker ants below with her antennae.

Charles pinched his chin, hurriedly thinking of a solution. He knew that there was only one brain that gave orders in the entire ant kingdom, and that was the queen ant. If he wanted to maintain his mount plan in the long term, the queen ant had to exist, otherwise he would soon run out of things to do. Moreover, these were relatively docile herbivorous ants, not those ferocious carnivorous ants that spared no one. This was simply a mount bestowed by heaven.

Not to mention that if all the ants die, their own colony will be the next to suffer.

"Didn't you ever think about resisting before?" Charles asked, looking at the queen ant.

"My children searched for their nests before, but none of them returned. They must have all been killed. We don't even know where their nests are now," the queen ant said regretfully. "And even if I give birth to a new queen ant with all my might, these two enemies won't give the new queen ant time to grow up."

Charles looked at the ant queen in front of him, whose movements were somewhat slow and who seemed to be very old, and thought for a few seconds. "I have a way to change the current situation, but I need your children to cooperate with me."

"What do you need my child to do, goblin?" The queen ant lowered her head and pressed her black tentacles against Ciel's face.

"I'll give some worker ants my orders," Charles said calmly, looking at the queen ant.

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"Sura Sura," a burrowing wasp crawled through the underground passage of its nest. It stopped and looked back at the wall, where there seemed to be a blue stone. However, nothing else changed around it, and it continued its patrol.

The blue stone slowly slid down the wall, then turned into a ball, floated forward, and came to rest at the entrance to an underground space.

Two small white circles rose up on the blue sphere, blinking twice like two eyes, and then it cautiously peered inside from the entrance.

This is a burrowing chamber for bee pupae. Inside are many pale yellow bee pupae. After confirming that it had reached its destination, the basketball darted into the hole and turned into a stone as smoothly as liquid flowing out of a bottle.

After the patrolling burrowing wasps crawled past, two white eyes appeared on the blue stone, which looked around.

Then the "stone" moved its body slightly, slowly approached the bee pupa, and finally stopped next to the bee pupa.

It remained still, and after the patrolling burrowing bees passed by, it instantly wrapped a bee pupa in its arms and then slowly moved out of the tunnel.

"Chief, this is the fifth one," the lame man said, looking up.

Charles looked at the blue arcane servant in front of him. It slowly shed its wrapping, revealing a pale yellow bee pupa inside.

"That's about enough," Charles nodded.

At first, he arrived here by taking a roundabout route with red eyes and a limp, riding three worker ants, and then had the worker ants hide under the tree.

After getting as close as possible to the entrance of the cave bee's nest, Charles had the lame man release his arcane servant.

"You really have a talent for thievery, kid," he said with a smile, looking at his new subordinate.

The lame man controlled the arcane servant and stole a total of five bee pupae without being discovered by any of the cave bees. These predators simply regarded the arcane servant as a blue stone.

"Let's go, let's hurry back to the worker ants." Charles tied the two bee pupae together with a cloth strip and carried them on his back.

Red Eyes also carried two on his back, and put the remaining one on the lame man's back.

They returned to the shade of the trees, where the three worker ants were waiting. At this time, the worker ants had a leather strap with characters engraved on it at the base of their antennae.

He knew that ordinary worker ants did not have brains and only received colony commands issued by the queen, and that they communicated pheromones by contacting each other through their antennae.

After numerous failures, Shir finally found a way to get the worker ants to receive his commands.

"Are you ready?" He looked at Red Eyes and Lame, both of his men nodding heavily.

Char fastened another leather belt, engraved with runic words, around his forehead, and then tried to issue a command.

The worker ants beside him lay on the ground as Shir instructed, making it easier for him to climb onto his back by stepping on his leg segments.

Soon, all three goblins climbed onto the worker ants.

"Let's go, let's give the cave bees a try," Charles called out with a smile.

Then, three worker ants emerged from the shadows and crawled around the underground beehive, during which Charles deliberately held up the bee pupa as a gesture.

Soon, the surrounding burrowing bees discovered them, especially the five bee pupae on their backs.

Shire knew that bees were very protective of their pupae, and now that they saw a goblin stealing a pupae, they would definitely report it to the queen bee in the hive, which would then cause all of them to come out.

"Buzz buzz buzz," more and more cave bees crawled out of the hole and flapped their wings. When Xia Er saw that a lot of them had crawled out, he immediately shouted.

"run."

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The lame ant clung tightly to the worker ant's carapace, afraid of falling off.

This was the first time he had experienced such a fast pace of movement, and now the worker ants beneath him were swinging their six legs and moving forward at full speed.

Behind them, many cave bees were buzzing and chasing after them in the sky.

"Yo-ho!" Red-eyed ant shouted excitedly from its back.

The lame man looked at him enviously, thinking that this guy was really carefree, still having the mood to play at a time like this.

He knew that the burrowing wasps were after the leader and the insect eggs on his back. Although they couldn't catch up with his three goblins yet, there were simply too many of them.

The worker ant ran swiftly, its limp leg watching its leader running ahead. The leader was even able to look back at the sky; truly worthy of being called the leader.

Before the operation, the leader fed each of the three worker ants a piece of honey, saying it was a combustion aid. The lame ant didn't quite understand, but he had seen the leader feed the queen a lot of honey before leaving the anthill.

Three worker ants quickly crossed the rugged path and passed through the bushes. The limp ant had to lower its head and body several times to avoid being swept by branches.

"This is much faster than walking," he said with a grin, as the sound of the wind rushed into his mouth.

Because of his disability in his left leg, he walked much slower than other goblins, but the leader did not look down on him. Instead, he solemnly said, "You are the most important person in this operation. You are the key to success."

The lame man was delighted to be chosen by the leader, because he had heard that many goblins enjoyed working with the leader, experiences they could never have had in their entire lives digging mouse holes and raiding bird nests in the forest.

"We're almost there." The leader's voice came from over. The lame man looked up and saw the leader pointing in a direction.

"Run over there," he commanded the worker ants beneath him.

Before the leader took action, he told himself that as long as he did as he was told, he would be safe and sound. Before he could even react, Chi Mu was already nodding vigorously.

It seems that apart from the slight bumpiness of riding on the worker ant's back and the need to hold on tightly, there's nothing dangerous.

Instead, he fell in love with the feeling of speed, which made him temporarily forget about his left foot.

"Yo-ho!" He whispered, mimicking the red-eyed maneuver, and felt even more relaxed.

"Yo-ho!" the lame man shouted.

He saw the leader turn around and smile at him.

Soon, he saw the leader signal them to stop, and then three pieces of flaming glue were thrown out.

Looking at the white threads on the ground and those on the surrounding trees, the lame man knew he had entered the territory of the giant spider.

"Squeak, squeak," a piercing sound rang out, and several black spiders crawled out of the burrow ahead. They seemed to have noticed the movement on the web and were preparing to crawl towards it.

"Throw the bee pupa over there!" Upon hearing the leader's shout, the lame man immediately hurled the bee pupa away with all his might.

Then he lowered his body again, gripped the worker ant's carapace, and followed the leader south. The giant spiders chased after them, while the other giant spiders that had crawled out were already fighting with the cave wasps in the sky.

The worker ants ran quickly, keeping a distance from the spider.

But gradually, the lame man felt that the worker ants beneath him seemed to be slowing down. He kept looking back, afraid that the spiders would catch up.

He was terrified when he encountered the spiders in the forest earlier. Those spiders were enormous, especially their eight hairy legs and two black pincers, which could pierce him without much effort.

Later, in the underground stone chamber, he saw the cocoon and the bones inside. The leader said that they were the goblins who used to live there.

"How awful," the lame man thought to himself, as a spider was still relentlessly chasing after them.

"Blazing glue, throw it!" he heard the leader shout.

Then, under the tree in front, his companions stepped forward and threw blazing glue at the giant spider behind them.

"It's going to die," the lame man chuckled.