Picking Up Attributes From Today
chapter-101

Chapter 101: A Tragic Ant Monarch, The Reason for the Ant Tide

Little Gold’s IQ was clearly higher than Teddy’s as right after the contract was signed, it could communicate spiritually with Meng Lei. It was far beyond Teddy!

“Little Gold, why are you here?” Meng Lei asked his first question, a question that he and Ol’ Amos were both concerned about.

By right, the ant monarch should stay underground. A new and young ant monarch like Little Gold should stay in its home even more.

Coming out to run around? What if it got caught by bad guys?

You see, you see, didn’t I catch it now?

Sob, sob~

Little Gold started sobbing. Its tears dropped continuously, and it looked like a young wife who had suffered great grievances.

It really was the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant Monarch. But, tragically, less than one month after it had inherited the ant monarch’s position, it had suffered an attack from another race of the underground world—Underground Cave Magical Spiders!

They were Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts that lived underground. Their individual strength was much stronger than the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants’, but their numbers were relatively smaller.

Therefore, the overall strength of the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants race and the Underground Cave Magical Spiders race was comparable, and both were powerful races that dominated the underground world.

However, the two races couldn’t get along since the beginning of time.

Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were large in numbers and occupied large swaths of land. Underground Cave Magical Spiders were smaller in numbers, yet they hunted Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants for food.

Over hundreds and thousands of years, the two races kept clashing, with countless wars happening, and they both wanted to eliminate the other.

Unfortunately, the two races were similar in strength, and neither could overcome the other.

This status quo remained as such until one month ago.

The old ant monarch passed away from old age one month ago, and Little Gold had to be crowned as monarch at its infant age.

However, the Underground Cave Magical Spiders, which had gotten the message, did not pass on this extremely rare opportunity. A great war that determined the fate of the two races had broken out like this.

The results were predictable. The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were badly defeated. Not only did the Underground Cave Magical Spiders broke through their home base, but also Little Gold, the new ant monarch, was chased out of the “royal halls” before it could stabilize its rule. Under the protection of a group of followers, it had escaped the underground world in fear.

Eventually, it met Meng Lei.

“…”

Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos looked at each other and didn’t know what to say. Little Gold’s fate was really too bad. It had suffered such a great tragedy right after becoming the ant monarch and finally broken out of the siege, only to almost become Meng Lei’s slave…

For a proper ant monarch to come to such a sad situation, it was really… sad!

Sigh, poor child.

“Little Gold, don’t cry!” Meng Lei stroked its head and comforted it. “When we have more strength next time, we’ll go back to the underground world and kill the Underground Cave Magical Spiders for revenge!”

“Okay!”

Little Gold nodded its golden head hard, and a firm look filled its eyes. It was an ant monarch, so it had to slaughter its way back to the underground world and take back everything that belonged to it. This was its mission!

“So, what you have to do now is to work hard to improve your strength. Become strong as soon as possible to seek revenge!” Meng Lei encouraged it.

“Got it!”

“That’s right!”

Seeing that Little Gold’s mood improved, Meng Lei felt relieved. After taking care of Little Gold, it was time to continue killing the ant tide to earn gold coins.

“Wait!”

Meng Lei froze, suddenly realizing that the matter was a bit embarrassing. Since Little Gold was the ant monarch, was it really good for him to slaughter so many of its kind?

“It’s not right! Since Little Gold is the ant monarch, why do I still have to kill the ant tide? They are my army now!”

Meng Lei’s eyes widened!

Kill?

To hell with killing!

After killing them, how else could he find such a mighty ant tide army? Wasn’t it better to keep them? They could do many things!

Meng Lei immediately became excited at that thought. “Little Gold, you should be able to control the ant tide army, right?”

Upon hearing that, Ol’ Amos’s eyes shone. If Little Gold really could control the ant tide army, this disaster would be resolved right away.

Unfortunately, the two were meant to be disappointed.

Little Gold shook its head. “I only just recently became the ant monarch. My spiritual power is still very weak. Without using the race-ruling divine weapon, I can control at most 2,000 subjects!”

(⊙_⊙)

“Huh? What!?”

Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos were stunned.

Without using the race-ruling divine weapon, it could only control 2,000 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants? For real?

“Juvenile ant monarchs are generally weak in spiritual power, and they are totally unable to control their massive subjects. To resolve this problem, the greatest ant monarch of our kind specially made a race-ruling divine weapon—the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest!”

Little Gold explained, “Making use of the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest, the juvenile ant monarch can indirectly control all the subjects. Unfortunately, the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest is connected to the ant nest, and there was no way for me to take it away.”

“So, the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest is left in the underground world?”

Meng Lei slapped his forehead and felt completely speechless.

Little Gold, Little Gold, you are such a failure of an ant monarch. You not only got chased out of your home, you even lost your race-ruling divine weapon!

This is honestly too…

Ol’ Amos thought of another matter. “In this case, the ant tide in the Magical Beast Forest has completely lost control?”

“Yes! I can’t control them, and they can’t go back underground. Thus, they can only travel aboveground! They are done for, they will be killed sooner or later!”

Little Gold shook its head and sighed.

“They are done for?”

The corner of the old man’s mouth twitched. He was afraid it wasn’t them, but others, who were done for. An ant tide beyond control was completely unimaginable.

“Ol’ President, what to do now?” Meng Lei also realized the seriousness of the problem. “The ant tide has lost control, and it can’t go back underground.”

The old man’s facial expression looked heavier than ever. “They will go around aimlessly like flies, eating away anything edible! After they finish with the Magical Beast Forest, they will rush out of the forest and go to other places!”

“An ant tide outbreak… is already inevitable!” The old man took a deep breath. “Meng Lei, the ant tide this time is fundamentally different from the historical ones. It will be fiercer and more terrible than any of the past ones. You have to be mentally prepared!”

“Understood!”

Meng Lei’s heart chilled. Then, he looked at Little Gold apologetically. “Little Gold, to protect my fellow humans from being eliminated by the ant tide, I have to be unfair to you.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Little Gold shook its head. “Ordinary subjects’ lives are short. Even if they aren’t killed, they will die naturally very soon. They won’t live to see me reach adulthood!”

“I’m assured then.”

Meng Lei heaved a sigh of relief. So long as Little Gold didn’t hate him because of this, the matters were much easier. “Let’s go, Little Gold. We’ll go to… Well, the next place.”

“Wait for me first.”

Little Gold rapidly crawled to the side of the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants’ carcasses and did something that shocked Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos greatly.

A golden ray of light suddenly shone from its two golden antennae, and circles of golden light spread out to cover a radius of a hundred meters.

In the next moment, an inexplicable scene happened.

The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that were illuminated by the golden light actually quietly melted up like ice that met strong sunlight and turned into splashes of red liquid.

Buzz!

Little Gold opened its mouth to suck, and these red liquids strangely floated up. They then flew into Little Gold’s mouth like birds returning to their nests.

Burp~

Little Gold burped, and its aura actually… grew a little?

“This…”

Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos looked at each other, both stunned!