Life was just too hopeless.
After following Ye Chuqi halfway around the dome, the boys discovered there was more inside it than met the eye. Besides the Bone-Rot Soldier Ants scurrying wildly in every direction, two black masses of ants had gathered like seething sludge, grim and terrifying.
It didn't take much imagination to guess that one of those black masses contained Kang Nan. All the boys could feel was admiration.
Their senior truly was something else. To endure that? They would have lost their minds long ago.
Chapter 23: Lost Forest 07 — The Disheveled Boys
With Ye Chuqi leading them, a simplified Demon-Trapping Formation to help, and little medicine packets that confused the Bone-Rot Soldier Ants' senses, wiping out the ants was only a matter of time. But there were so many of them, and the students couldn't keep going for long.
They had already exhausted themselves before this and had barely rested along the way. They had made it here on sheer determination, and the ants' defenses were still too much for them to handle.
Soon, they could no longer fight. They could barely keep up with Ye Chuqi without falling behind. It drove home just how vast the gap was between them and the girl before them. They were about the same age, yet she could do so much more.
If their lives hadn't been on the line, that realization might have broken their spirits on the spot.
Ye Chuqi stopped and swatted away a Bone-Rot Soldier Ant that was about to attack one of the boys. "Tired?" With the branch in her hand, she drew a circle on the ground. "Too bad you can't leave even if you are. This place only lets people in, not out, unless I destroy the entire Formation. But then