After driving the four of them back into the cavern hall, the Gold-Eating Ants did not rush to attack. They merely watched the four from afar, occasionally spraying a mouthful of poisonous mist at them, clearly intending to slowly wear down their spiritual power with the toxic fog.
"Look, there's no poisonous mist over there."
Mo Yexue pointed toward a corner of the cavern hall and shouted.
The place she pointed to was at the edge of the cavern hall.
The poisonous mist there was exceptionally thin, practically negligible to Song Wen and the others.
The area where the poisonous mist was sparse was not merely a single corner, but a long, narrow stretch, like a poison-free corridor.
Lan Chen glanced in the direction Mo Yexue indicated and said,
"That should be deliberate on the Ant Queen's part. It wants to force us into the trap it has laid."
"You're not fools after all, to have seen through my plan. But what can you do about it? You still cannot escape my ant nest." The Ant Queen's voice rang out.
"This beast is quite cunning!" Mo Yexue cursed, then shifted the subject and asked Song Wen and the others, "You three, do you have any way to break this deadlock?"
"The key lies with the Ant Queen. The ordinary Gold-Eating Ants, including the fourth-rank ones, are not very intelligent. As long as we kill the Ant Queen, the ant swarm will be a dragon without a head, and dealing with them will become much easier," Song Wen said.
"Yinshuo is right."
Lan Chen swept her icy gaze around the surroundings and continued.
"The Ant Queen should not be far from us. If we find its location and get rid of it, we can escape smoothly. Perhaps we may even find