In the dim cave, Lin Qiye sped forward.
Whether the Queen Ant had entered a final burst of vitality or had already begun to recover from her injuries, her crawling grew faster and faster. Within Lin Qiye's mental perception, the distance between them gradually widened...
In the end, the Queen Ant escaped Lin Qiye's perception.
However, Lin Qiye did not stop. First, there was only one passage in this cave, so there was no chance of losing her. Second, the Queen Ant's blood still stained the ground. As long as he followed the blood trail, he would eventually find her.
Lin Qiye pursued her through the dark cave for several minutes. Then, the narrow rock walls on either side suddenly vanished, and the space around him opened up.
Lin Qiye froze and gradually slowed down.
This was a vast, pitch-black underground space. Even when Lin Qiye stretched his mental perception to its limit, he could not detect its boundaries. In other words, this space had a diameter of at least five hundred meters.
Lin Qiye looked back and saw a circular cave several meters tall embedded in the smooth, flat wall behind him. That was where he had just emerged.
His brows furrowed slightly as he walked to the wall and gently rubbed its surface.
Unlike the rock walls inside the cave, this broad, level wall was built from grayish-blue bricks. They felt faintly cold against his skin. There was not the slightest gap between the bricks, as though they had grown together, and the craftsmanship was extraordinarily refined.
Broken bricks and dirt were scattered across the ground before the wall. They had likely been left behind when Worker Ants had damaged the wall while digging their tunnels.
"Man-made?" Lin Qiye stared at the grand grayish-blue wall before him, shock