The instant he sensed the inexplicable gaze.
Cheng Han was both bewildered and alarmed.
What is this thing? It can pinpoint me so accurately even inside the underground Central Tower?
Just then.
An illusory sound suddenly rang in his ears.
"Squeak! Squeak!"
It was an exceedingly faint cry.
"Rustle! Rustle!"
It was an exceedingly faint crawling sound.
"Crack! Crack!"
It sounded like gnawing.
Cheng Han had heard these sounds countless times lately.
Because they were precisely the various noises made by the Sand Ant Swarm.
He was immediately startled, and a thought involuntarily surfaced in his mind. Could this be the ants' collective consciousness?
At that moment.
A strange consciousness descended.
It was somewhat cold and somewhat sluggish, lacking the liveliness of the Forest Will.
It was also mixed with much chaos, giving the impression that its mind was not entirely clear.
This was something Cheng Han had never encountered before.
Yet he became increasingly certain. This is definitely the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness.
True World Wills, such as the Forest Will of the Senluo Realm or the Will of the Sea in the Abyssal Mist Realm, naturally encompassed the subconscious wills of vast numbers of intelligent lives.
That was why they were full of vitality and possessed the thought patterns of intelligent beings.
But the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness was different.
Sand ants were small creatures with rather low intelligence, so their collective consciousness naturally could not be very powerful.
Furthermore.
Sand ants were a general term for all ants in the desert, and were in fact divided into many different varieties.
Some species of sand ants only moved underground, while others preferred activity on the desert surface.
Different kinds of sand ants had vastly different habits.
Since no single species of sand ant held a dominant position, the