Back to the Peak

Chapter 64: Birthday and the Queen Ant

Maybe it was because Shi Qingyang killed too many ant beasts a few days ago. Now ant beasts no longer passed through the passage where Shi Qingyang lived when entering and leaving the nest. Even the caves around this nest had been emptied out. Don’t even mention ant eggs, there wasn’t even a single ant foot.

Ant beasts were really strong in some ways. They would eat other beasts completely, and that included their own kind.

“Ranran, today I’ll go further out to find ant eggs. Be careful and don’t push the hole open easily.” Shi Qingyang looked at the only two ant eggs left in the cave and decided to go out and be an egg thief.

In fact, this nest of ant beasts here was really unlucky in some ways. They were even hunted by him twice… Of course, it was just too bad for them. Shi Qingyang would never sympathize with mutant beasts. He clearly remembered that he once saw human combat clothes in the nest room where the queen ant lived in his last life.

Monsters and humans were completely hostile to each other. Twenty years later, these monsters even overran Central City.

“Can you not go? There are so many ant beasts, you might be in danger.” Cheng Ran was a little worried.

“Don’t worry, it’ll be fine. If I find myself in a tough spot, I’ll hide,” Shi Qingyang said. In fact, nearly 20 days later, he had killed at least half of the ant beasts in this ant cave, even the male ant beasts. He was familiar with the situation of this ant cave, so as long as he was careful, he didn’t have to worry about his life being in danger at all.

Cheng Ran hesitated for a moment and nodded. In fact, he didn’t want Shi Qingyang to take risks, but he wouldn’t object if Shi Qingyang wanted to go.

Shi Qingyang’s own battle suit was very generic, and it had long been broken. This time, he changed into Gu Changjin’s battle suit and took a little medicine. Then he climbed out carefully.

After leaving the cave, he climbed down slowly while looking for a place he could hide.

The intelligence of beasts was not high, and they all acted on instinct. Ant beasts naturally were the same, so Shi Qingyang didn’t have to worry about falling into a trap. But on the other hand, ant beasts could also quickly discover his traces.

Shi Qingyang knew this very well, and became more careful as he acted. At the same time, he turned on the mutant beast detector on Gu Changjin’s combat suit to detect the surrounding situation.

He remembered that at the bottom of this passage, there was a large nest room. The nest room and its entrance were both very wide, making it easy to get in and out. He had entered it in his last life, and saw a lot of ant eggs in it, surrounded by many ants.

In the end, he led the ant beasts away by throwing ant eggs, and he escaped. This time around, the place he was most likely to get ant eggs at was most likely there.

If only relying on force, even level-5 radiation warriors would be slowly ground to death by ant beasts in this ant nest; but as they were humans, they still had their brains.

As he approached slwoly, far beyond the range that ant beasts could detect, Shi Qingyang sent out a wind blade to kill two ant beasts wandering nearby, and then quickly dashed into the nest room…

While Shi Qingyang was busy with the food situation, Cheng Ran looked at Gu Changjin: “Grandpa Gu, can you teach me how to use rad-energy?”

“Of course. I’d originally studied this information just so that I could teach you. Who would have thought Shi Qingyang would have been lucky enough to learn from me in the end.” Gu Changjin couldn’t move now, but he was still very happy to teach Cheng Ran. But before that, he asked anxiously, “Ranran, is there really radiant energy in your body?”

“Grandpa Gu, it really is radiant energy. Except for it not being violent at all, everything about it is exactly the same as ordinary rad-energy.” He and Shi Qingyang had repeatedly confirmed this, so there could be no mistake.

“I don’t know what’s going on here… Ranran, your radiation might be different from normal, and this matter cannot be known to others,” Gu Changjin added. Cheng Ran’s situation was too special. No, it should be said that Cheng Ran’s situation had always been very special.

Usually when people encountered a child in his situation, they would take their child to be checked up, but Cheng Hong ha always refused to let Cheng Ran go to the hospital…

“Grandpa Gu, I know.” Cheng Ran nodded solemnly.

“Then let’s start learning combat skills.” Gu Changjin smiled and explained slowly.

Although Cheng Ran was no longer afraid of external radiation, he had very little radiation energy in his body. It was the same amount of energy ordinary people had after they had just injected a radiation inducer. With such a small amount of radiation energy, it naturally wasn’t easy to induce the surrounding air. Cheng Ran tried for a long time, but the radiation didn’t respond.

But he didn’t feel frustrated. Shi Qingyang kept moving his hands as practice every time he was free. Cheng Ran had only tried a few times; how could he give up so easily?

The weak energy in his body seemed to have reached his hand. Cheng Ran tried to affect the surrounding radiation with this energy, but found that the radiant energy around him was motionless.

Maybe the radiation in his body was too stable, and he couldn’t resonate with the surrounding radiation.

“Young master, what’s the matter?” Gu Changjin asked.

“Grandpa Gu, is the radiant energy in my body able to induce the radiant energy around me? What should I do?” Cheng Ran said with some annoyance. He wanted to become very powerful and help Shi Qingyang, but he didn’t expect that he’d still encounter an obstacle here.

Gu Changjin pondered for a moment, and then said, “Wait for a while, ask Shi Qingyang first.” He was a level-5 rad-warrior, but somehow, he sometimes felt that Shi Qingyang knew more than he did.

Gu Changjin had just mentioned Shi Qingyang when the stone at the mouth of the cave was pushed away, and Shi Qingyang came in from the outside.

It was not just him that crawled in. After he entered, a male ant beast also wanted to climb in, but before it managed to, Shi Qingyang had sent out several wind blades one after another to cut it off. After all this, Shi Qingyang quickly pushed the stone to block the hole, and then collapsed beside it.

“Qingyang, are you all right?” Cheng Ran subconsciously looked over Shi Qingyang’s body, but found that Shi Qingyang’s body was covered with a mucus which looked like it came from… ant eggs?

“I’m fine, but this time, probably even the queen ant hates me. Fortunately, this tunnel is vertical, and the queen ant’s size is too large to come after me,” Shi Qingyang said with a wry smile.

“What did you do?” Cheng Ran asked curiously.

“Smashed hundreds of ant eggs…” Shi Qingyang was a little embarrassed. There were more ant eggs in the nest room than he thought. Of course, there were more ant beasts. He got enough ant eggs, and then found that he seemed to be surrounded…

Finally, he had to use the method he had used in his previous life to smash ant eggs at those ant beasts. He smashed a lot in the cave to escape. Fortunately, after escaping, he didn’t have to smash any others.

Those smashed ant eggs were really a waste, but they really couldn’t eat that much…

“Wasteful, too wasteful!” Gu Changjin couldn’t help interrupting when he heard Shi Qingyang’s words. Those ant eggs were all good stuff!

“Grandpa Gu, but don’t you feel that the ant eggs that haven’t hatched at all are better than those that would be soon to hatch? I figured that the reason why these ant eggs are like this is because of the queen ant. It’s nothing to waste a few ant eggs,” Shi Qingyang added. He had indeed risen one level now, but he didn’t feel anything special from only eating ant eggs, and he couldn’t even clearly feel the changes of the radiant energy in his body, unlike in his previous life.

After thinking about it, he guessed that there was only one reason, that was, these light ant eggs were not enough. It must be the queen ant – he had eaten the queen ant’s meat in his last life.

“A kid like you still thinks about the queen ant? What are you going to do?” Gu Changjin asked.

“Grandpa Gu, let’s stay in this ant nest for a few more days, kill all the ant beasts here, and then observe the queen ant,” Shi Qingyang said. This was his decision after thinking about it.

In fact, he didn’t mind telling other people what was here and giving it to all mankind to study, but he finally gave up after considering his own experience in his last life.

In his previous life, he was educated to love the country, and he himself hated those big families who hid their medicine and combat skills. Therefore, he hadn’t hidden any of his successful research. The radiation energy blocking method was one of them.

Even when it came to his own strange situation, after he became stronger and stronger and reached level-7, and an official found him and wanted him to cooperate with the research, he had also agreed, and contributed some blood and hair. But no one could find anything at that time, because there was no problem with his cells. The only thing that was different about him from normal was that his radiation energy was relatively gentle.

As long as the radiant energy wasn’t violent, there was no need to worry that an increase of radiant energy would hurt the body, and one could naturally advance and upgrade faster and easier than others.

Nothing could be learned from him. At that time, he didn’t know that he had changed himself by eating the ant eggs and queen in the ant nest, so the research finally ended. Shi Qingyang felt very guilty at that time, and even went to dig out several ant nests with others in order to find the reason, but he wouldn’t have ever imagined that the research hadn’t stopped at all, and that the others had always thought that he was lying.

As for him, it was likely that his situation in this life was the same as how it was in his past life, with a mutation to his rad-energy. But Cheng Ran’s reaction was completely different from others. If other people knew Cheng Ran’s situation, what would those people do?

Moreover, some people saw him and Cheng Ran fall into the ant nest…

Anyway, Cheng Ran and his situation had to be kept confidential for the time being. However, he would do better to keep this secret until he became stronger and had the ability to protect Cheng Ran before revealing their situation for research.

He had experienced how to cultivate and become stronger. The younger he was, the better his body was, and the easier it was to make progress. Naturally, it would be easier for him to reach the level he’d reached in his previous life.

Of course, it was still empty words now, because he hadn’t yet been able to kill the queen ant.

“Do you want to kill all the ant beasts here?” Cheng Ran asked, and began to help Shi Qingyang clean up the mucus on his combat suit.

There was no cleaning robot in the ant nest. The only thing that could be used was the simple cleaner attached on the combat suit. This thing was very small, so it was very slow to clean.

“Sure.” Shi Qingyang nodded. In order not to affect his movements in battle, he only wore a thin coat under his combat suit. Now Cheng Ran was going after him. Who knew what was up with him, but he even had a bit of a reaction.

After Cheng Ran almost had an accident a few days ago, he became even clearer about his feelings. At this moment, this should be the time where they had a rapid emotional development, but because of Gu Changjin, he couldn’t do anything in the end, and now he had to endure

Of course, Shi Qingyang also knew that if he really did something, Cheng Ran and Gu Changjin wouldn’t really act against him. Gu Changjin even approved of him, but he was really embarrassed to do anything in front of others.

Shi Qingyang took a few deep breaths to relax, but Cheng Ran suddenly took off his helmet and kissed him on the face: “Happy birthday, Qingyang.”

Shi Qingyang was stunned. When he looked at the time again, he found that today was his birthday.

“I originally thought that ‘d pick another gift for you at Anhang City. I didn’t expect that we would be staying here now.” Cheng Ran was a little disappointed. He originally wanted to prepare a candlelit dinner and so on. Who ever imagined it would turn out like this in the end?

But now things were also good. He was no longer a useless waste… Thinking so, Cheng Ran gave him another kiss.

Shi Qingyang felt that if he didn’t kiss back at this time, he would be too unmanly, but he was wary of Gu Changjin getting upset. Unexpectedly, Gu Changjin suddenly turned off the contact terminal in his hand, leaving the nest room dark: “I don’t know how long we’ll want to stay here, so I’d better save the power.”

Shi Qingyang found for the first time that Gu Changjin was such a good guy!

Cheng Ran’s lips were soft, so soft that it was incredible. Shi Qingyang didn’t dare to push forward at all, only dared to lick them slowly. As a result, Cheng Ran suddenly laughed, “So ticklish!”

“Don’t talk!” Shi Qingyang whispered and kissed him heavily.

In the end, someone else was there, and Cheng Ran wasn’t over 18 years old. Shi Qingyang was naturally not enough of a beast to keep going. He soon opened the contact terminal, drawing a map as he ate ant eggs, intending to destroy the queen ant’s stronghold.

Seeing this, Cheng Ran helped to design the route, and couldn’t help but ask, “Do I smell a little now? I forgot that I haven’t brushed my teeth for a long time…” He had also studied up on first kisses, but he didn’t expect his to happen after he had gone a long time without brushing his teeth

“I must stink more than you… It’s all right. When we get out, we can clean ourselves up!” Shi Qingyang immediately said.

Who knew whether he was inspired by the birthday gift or whether it the thought of taking a good bath after going out. Shi Qingyang was extremely brave in the next two days, killing half of the remaining ant beasts.

In ancient times, there would be many ant beasts in an ant nest, but nowadays there weren’t too many ants in a single nest. After all, if there were too many, their food supply would become a problem.

There were around some thousands of ant beasts in this ant nest, but after being ravaged by Shi Qingyang, there were only a few hundred left now.

At this time, the queen ant finally couldn’t sit still. It crawled out of its egg laying nest and began to look for Shi Qingyang. Maybe it’s because the ant beasts gave her less food these days, when she walked around, she would eat her own eggs.

In fact, generally, after encountering such a situation, the queen ant would choose to abandon the nest and leave. This queen ant should have planned to do so in the beginning. The wings on her back were evidence. Unfortunately, she had grown too big, and the place where she lived was not possible to dig through, but a stone cave…

She probably hadn’t been this big when she first came to live here, but after only being responsible for eating, drinking and spawning for a long time, she became too big to go out.

This may be one of the reasons why those ant beasts hadn’t escaped.

Seeing this scene, Shi Qingyang couldn’t help thinking about whether she should keep the queen ant after all, but he soon gave up.

If it was the Yin family who chased him, as soon as he went out, this ant nest would be dangerous… In contrast, it was more realistic to save some ant eggs and some queen ant meat.

After making up his mind, Shi Qingyang suddenly found that this kind of queen ant was indeed strange. This queen ant seemed to have no radiant energy.