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Yan Jinsu swore that she had just casually pointed, merely to relieve her own embarrassment.
However, Xie Jingchen’s expression changed, and he immediately enveloped that area with his spiritual power.
Underneath that huge rock, revealed by the spiritual power, was actually hollow, filled with countless ’Black Head Ants’ beyond measure!
Moreover, the location where the flare had exploded earlier was this very rock. At the edge of the rock, a slightly blackened glossy spot could be seen, a vestige left by the flare’s fire point.
Despite the rock’s large and seemingly heavy appearance, Xie Jingchen discovered through his spiritual power that anyone approaching the rock, even with a slight weight, could trigger the mechanism, causing the massive rock, supported by obviously man-broken branches, to tilt—
Xie Jingchen cautiously took a step back. If he hadn’t followed his wife’s words and checked for anomalies with his spiritual power, approaching it could have triggered the mechanism, causing them to be covered with ’Black Head Ants’ the size of thumbs, whose bites could rot the skin and would require burning to neutralize the ant venom!
Whoever could conceive such a trap surely enjoyed unconventional strategies!
Yan Jinsu, not using spiritual power, immediately realized she had dodged a bullet upon seeing Xie Jingchen backtrack.
"Brother Chen, what’s inside?" Yan Jinsu, resting her ’Soul Crystal’, could only be figuratively ’blind’ now.
"Black Head Ants!" Xie Jingchen replied, exploring further with his spiritual power: "Underneath the ants, there’s black oil."
If it were merely Black Head Ants, a fire would suffice to deal with them.
However, the designer of this trap profoundly understood the nature of Black Head Ants, even thinking to add black oil inside, which not only enhances the toxicity of the ants’ venom but is also their favorite food.
"Black Head Ants are afraid of fire, but the placement of sufficient black oil by the opponent clearly bets on you not burning down the forest just to kill these Black Head Ants! However..."
They had just discovered the enemy but were already facing the first challenge!
"Does wife have any clever ideas?" Xie Jingchen’s eyes sparkled, sensing an implication in Yan Jinsu’s words.
"Although Black Head Ants feed on black oil, they are most afraid of fire, which everyone knows. But there’s another thing they fear, which is unknown to others!" Yan Jinsu smiled, whispering into Xie Jingchen’s ear:
"It’s simple, the ants’ greatest fear is ’white vinegar paste’!"
"White vinegar and paste?" What on earth...?
Xie Jingchen couldn’t figure out how these two things could become the nemesis of Black Head Ants.
"Hmm, let’s just try and see. I’ve got a lot of white flour in my Space. Let’s pour the flour inside that rock now, and Brother Chen, you smash the white vinegar into the rock. Oh right, you need to add water to make the flour into ’paste’!"
Yan Jinsu, seeing that Xie Jingchen had understood, moved out five big bags of white flour from her Space, making two cuts in each bag before seeing Xie Jingchen toss the five big bags of flour into the rock.
Plain white flour is not feared by Black Head Ants. But when flour meets water and becomes paste, it turns extremely sticky, preventing the Black Head Ants from moving freely.
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