Chapter 972 Starlight of Life

After the competition, Sandstone invited Gordon and others to visit their camp on behalf of the Wasteland Guardians.

After thinking about it, Gordon declined.

At present, it seems that the Guardians’ Detel and the Qimian tribe led by the Golden Priest are likely to be in competition or even hostile relations.

The Qimian tribe’s festival will begin the night after tomorrow. Don’t make any more accidents. It’s better to reduce contact.

After parting with the Guardians’ Detels, it was still early. According to Gordon’s original idea, he could actually ride the pterosaur all the way to the southern swamp.

The distance is “a bit” far, but with the speed of the pterosaur, it should be able to arrive shortly after nightfall.

From the map, we can see that the investigation team also built a camp in the swamp area in the south of the wasteland. Go to the camp there to rest for a night, have fun all day tomorrow, and come back to participate in the Qimian tribe festival the day after tomorrow. The itinerary is perfect.

However, after everyone discussed it, they decided not to be so wasteful.

Although the main purpose of this mission has been basically achieved, they are guards after all. It is really too much to sneak from the northern wasteland of the Great Ant Mound to the southern swamp.

If there is any unexpected situation with Mr. Monroe and his team, let alone rushing back in time, I am afraid that they will not be found.

"Let's go to the swamp next time." Hayata comforted Gordon, "There will be a chance in the future."

Faced with her tone of comforting a child, Gordon was a little helpless, "I don't want to go to the swamp so much.

There are many things to see in the northern part of the Great Ant Mound Wasteland. Let's go around here for the next two days."

"Didn't you say that the night view of the Great Ant Mound is very special?" Pig Chop suggested, "It happens to be quite hot now, meow, meow, we can go back to the camp to rest first, and then come out after nightfall meow?"

Gordon and Hayata looked at each other.

"That's it!"

The sun has completely set.

The temperature difference between day and night in the Great Ant Mound Wasteland is not small. When the sun is strong during the day, taking a deep breath will make your throat a little hot, but the temperature drops quickly after nightfall.

Of course, there is still a gap with the extreme temperature difference in the Dede Desert in the Old World, where people can be sunburned to death if they don't drink cold drinks during the day and can be frozen to death if they don't drink hot drinks at night.

But there is also a feeling of quickly entering autumn from midsummer.

After resting for an afternoon, Gordon and Hayata walked out of the camp one after another. They climbed along the rock wall, left the small canyon where the camp was located, and looked at the world in front of them.

Falling into a brief silence.

"That's it?" Xianglan spoke out their thoughts, "That's it, that's it?!"

The weather is pretty good tonight, there are no clouds in the sky, and the sea of ​​stars is as bright as ever.

Well, although this starry sky is beautiful, it is no different from the sky seen in the Star Base. It's a bit too much to say that aesthetic fatigue is a bit exaggerated, but there is indeed a feeling of getting used to it.

The scenery on the ground can only be said to be unsatisfactory.

Gordon really likes the desert scenery of the sand sea under the moon. The desert covered by the starlight and moonlight will show a faint blue color. If there is no wind, the endless undulating sand dunes will look like a still ocean.

The night hunting in the battle of the unicorns left him with a deep impression of the night view of the desert.

But the scenery in front of him was a little difficult for him to appreciate.

The large rock platform, the rock mountain eroded into a strange shape by the wind and sand, and the tower-shaped transport anthills, divided the wasteland in front of him into pieces.

During the day, it still gave people a kind of "natural workmanship of nature", but at night, all that was left was weirdness.

The areas where the starlight could not cover, such as the depression of the rock mountain and the edge of the stone platform, were full of shadows, and it seemed that some monsters would jump out at any time, which was a headache.

"Actually, you can't say that the scenery is ugly." After taking a deep breath of the cool night breeze, Hayata commented: "It's just that I heard more than one person say that the night view of the Great Anthill is extraordinary, so the expectations are a bit too high."

"Yeah." Gordon shrugged, "Maybe the scenery here is just not good enough. Let's go further north? I feel that the view there is wider."

"Yeah."

The two people and two cats started their night tour with a negative mentality of "I'm here now".

They didn't call the pterosaur, just ran all the way north. Obviously, they were in the mood for fun at first, but they ran out of the feeling of a late-night cross-country training.

The mood was a bit subtle.

The night gradually deepened, the stars became brighter, the temperature gradually dropped to about 20 degrees, the breeze in the middle of the night was very refreshing, and the disappointment in Gordon and others' hearts also dissipated.

Even if there is nothing worth appreciating, it's not bad to run at night occasionally?

Their pace began to speed up, and finally they simply ran.

With a shout of "Go meow!" from Pig Chop

The two Elu immediately ran on all fours, "Meow ha ha ha!", followed closely by Hayata who was also laughing.

Gordon, whose only weakness was speed, was left behind. He was furious but had no choice but to run wildly.

Just as he was about to get angry, he grabbed a few fruits growing on the vines on the roadside, hung up the projector, and prepared to turn this race into a prop race.

A giant shadow with a bright light crashed into his field of vision, and he subconsciously shouted "Something's going on!"

Hayata and the others, who had already run a long distance, immediately stopped and surrounded them in a vigilant posture.

Gordon looked vigilantly at a huge anthill not far away that was as big as two houses stacked together.

He just saw that this thing was glowing.

The light reminded him of the lightning bugs on the Thunder Wolf Dragon. When he tilted his head to take the fruit, he even thought there was a Thunder Wolf Dragon lying in the shadow.

Hayata and the others gathered together, and after listening to Gordon's statement, they also turned their eyes to the anthill.

"Where is the light meow?" Xianglan tilted her head and looked at Gordon, "Could it be that you can't run away and are cheating meow?"

Gordon flicked Xianglan's head, and then made a "silence, hide" gesture.

The two people and two cats squatted on the spot, staring at the anthill dozens of meters away.

After waiting quietly for a while, a few inconspicuous fireflies shone from the anthill. As time went by, more and more lights lit up.

The fireflies flickered, and it was easy to mistake them for some living things at a glance in the dark night.

"Why didn't we notice the meow just now?" Xianglan licked her paws.

Hayata thought about it, and suddenly clapped his hands hard a few times.

The sensitive little lives on the anthills were frightened, and the dots of fluorescence disappeared instantly.

"Maybe we laughed too loudly just now." Hayata laughed dryly: "When they are not flashing, these anthills are no different from ordinary rocks, so they can't be noticed."

"Let's not run, be quiet, and walk quietly." Gordon suddenly laughed, "This should be what they call 'special night view'."

They came to the big anthill quietly.

Only when you look closely can you see that there are many finger-long worms crawling on the big anthill. They have huge claws, and their soft abdomens are flashing with fluorescence.

Under the temptation of these fluorescent lights, the larvae of the transport ants in the anthills are attracted out, and then they are taken into the mouths of these worms with large claws to chew.

Strangely, the adult transport ants seem to be completely unaware of them, and they still let these worms lie on the anthills to eat the larvae.

Just the anthill in front of them was shining with thousands of fireflies. Every point was a trap. Every moment, hundreds of ant larvae were eaten by these glowing worms.

"Damn it, meow, if this goes on, the larvae will be eaten up!" Xianglan felt sorry for the mindless ant larvae and stretched out her claws to grab the glowing worms.

Hayata pressed her claws, "This is a part of nature's self-regulation.

If it weren't for them, the whole anthill desert might have been eaten up."

Gordon whistled and signaled his companions to turn around.

Everyone looked into the distance. As far as the eye could see, there were tens of millions of fireflies shining on every anthill, from the smallest less than a person's height to the largest like a towering mountain.

Under the fireflies, countless cruel killings were going on.

But this is the starlight of life.

Ps.

I didn’t notice the scene of the flashing insect-eating larvae of the big anthill when I was playing the game, but I noticed it later when I was watching the ecological video of "Roman Investigator 027" on B station.

The night view of the big anthill wasteland is indeed not beautiful, but with this ecological detail, it feels that nothing else matters.