Zhang Yanhang felt this way largely because he knew that Crimson Iron Ants and zombies were fundamentally different creatures. Zombies lacked any form of intelligence, possessing only the instincts to bite and feed, and they showed no response to the loss of their fellows.
Crimson Iron Ants, on the other hand, were normal biological beings. Although their intelligence attributes were not particularly high, they were certainly far superior to zombies. Unlike zombies, they would investigate the mysterious deaths of their companions.
Although Zhang Yanhang had indeed stored some Crimson Iron Worker Ant bodies in his waist bag earlier, he had not taken all the bodies with him. Therefore, there was still a chance that some deceased Crimson Iron Worker Ants could be discovered by others wandering in from different directions.
However, by the time other Crimson Iron Worker Ants discovered the corpses of those killed by Zhang Yanhang, he had already left the area and could not possibly know that a new batch of Crimson Iron Ants had arrived.
Thus, this batch of Worker Ants who discovered their mysteriously deceased comrades would surely report the situation to higher-level Crimson Iron Ants. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ novel_fіre.net
And even if it were not for this reason, Zhang Yanhang’s trail was still quite easy to detect since no living Crimson Iron Ant survived wherever he had passed.
When the higher-level Crimson Iron Ants noticed a large empty area suddenly appearing inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, they would naturally want to investigate this section to find out what had happened. This investigation would easily lead them to the source of where Zhang Yanhang started hunting Crimson Iron Ants—in the C-shaped corridor he currently occupied.
The main reason was that during Zhang Yanhang’s last hunting trip to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, he knew he couldn’t clear out the entire nest in just three hours. Thus, he moved along mostly straight paths, leaving behind twisted corridors that contained only a few Crimson Iron Ants.
For this reason, simply by following the last area that Zhang Yanhang had cleared out and moving forward, it was easy to locate the C-shaped corridor he was currently in.
And what would the Crimson Iron Ants do upon finding the source of the intrusion?
Naturally, they would mobilize a large force to completely surround the location where the intruder might reappear next time, in order to defend against the invader’s attack and also to take revenge, which was exactly the situation Zhang Yanhang was currently facing.
After briefly contemplating the reasons behind the current situation, Zhang Yanhang profoundly felt the difference between zombies and Crimson Iron Ants—dead beings and normal biological beings were indeed entirely different things.
Zhang Yanhang, watching the Crimson Iron Worker Ants in front of him still spewing acid liquid, could not help but smile before he directly activated the Death Wave Skill.
A transparent wave of distortion radiated swiftly in all directions from Zhang Yanhang’s body in the blink of an eye, and the foremost were those Crimson Iron Worker Ants that, obliviously still tried to climb up his Energy Shield to bite him.
These were the same Crimson Iron Worker Ants that had previously climbed onto him, attempting to bite him, only to be repelled by the Energy Shield.
"But unexpectedly, when Zhang Yanhang used ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil’ to scan his surroundings, the Crimson Iron Worker Ants that had been blown away not only failed to learn their lesson but regrouped and climbed towards Zhang Yanhang’s position again. Their fearless spirit made them the first customers and experiencers of the ’Death Wave.’
In just an instant, the Crimson Iron Worker Ants, which had been full of vitality and climbing towards the energy shield, abruptly fell silent. Their exoskeletons cracked as if smashed by some heavy weapon, spewing copious amounts of red viscous liquid from the cracks in their exoskeletons and appendages in all directions.
However, the Crimson Iron Worker Ants inside the C-shaped corridor were still in the minority. Those outside the C-shaped corridor were the real problem. As soon as the transparent distortion wave had harvested the lives of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants in front of Zhang Yanhang, it immediately rushed toward the wall made entirely of hard crimson iron ore.
Accompanied by a buzzing sound, the Crimson Iron Ore Wall, which even a full-strength punch from Zhang Yanhang last time could only chip off a layer, was easily penetrated by the transparent distortion wave as if it were nothing and surged towards a large number of still oblivious Crimson Iron Worker Ants behind the crimson iron ore.
Even in the airspace within the coverage of ’Death Wave,’ there floated a few one-star first-tier elite monsters, the Crimson Iron Flying Ants. Although these Crimson Iron Flying Ants were stronger than the ordinary first-tier one-star monsters, the Crimson Iron Worker Ants, they could not avoid the same fate.
They were as if tightly grasped by a giant hand; their exoskeletons shattered piece by piece, squeezing out large amounts of red viscous liquid to splash onto the top of the corridor. The crimson iron ore, which was already a red color emitting a faint fluorescent light, became even more vivid and bright under the irrigation of the Crimson Iron Flying Ant’s red viscous liquid.
[Successfully killed a first-tier one-star monster ’Crimson Iron Flying Ant (Elite)’ ×1, Soul points +7.]
[Successfully killed a first-tier one-star monster ’Crimson Iron Flying Ant (Elite)’ ×1, Soul points +7.]
[Successfully killed a first-tier one-star monster ’Crimson Iron Flying Ant (Elite)’ ×1, Soul points +7.]
Accompanied by the whizzing of a transparent distortion wave, the corpses of a number of Crimson Iron Flying Ants fell to the ground simultaneously.
The already battered bodies of the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, upon crashing to the ground and colliding with the corpses of other Crimson Iron Worker Ants, squeezed out even more of the scant red viscous liquid inside, splattering it over the surfaces of the crimson iron ore walls around the bodies.
It was as if the scythe of the ancient Reaper was sweeping through, claiming lives. All of the Crimson Iron Worker Ants within the coverage of Zhang Yanhang’s ’Death Wave’ had large parts of their exoskeletons shattered, uncontrollably spewing red viscous liquid outward, their heads drooping to the ground; they all fell into silence within less than a second.
At this moment, the inside of the corridor, just like the last time Zhang Yanhang visited, was once again completely covered with thick red liquid and broken appendages and exoskeleton fragments. However, unlike before, the previous scene took about half an hour to create, but this time, it only took a second."