I Can’t Explain This. My Novel On Relics Became Reality

Chapter 22: Improvised Molotov!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the face of such terrifying monsters, some people felt their legs go weak, while others wanted to escape by themselves.

At that moment, Aika was also barely supporting her body.

However, she was also barely holding on.

For a girl to do this, she was already stronger than most of the other boys.

The audience in the live stream room suddenly lost their composure. They had never encountered such a situation before.

“There are more ants in this f*cking pillar than in my house! This is too terrifying! Oh my God!”

“My myrmecophobia is about to strike. Will these densely packed things eat people?”

“Run! Stop the live stream! They are f*cking charging over!”

At that moment, the desert army ants seemed to have smelled Ian and the others.

Thousands of black army ants separated from the black tide and charged toward the excavation team.

Everyone in the excavation team was scared out of their wits.

They used their hands and feet and fled in all directions with fear in their eyes.

Ian was a little anxious.

The survival rate could only be guaranteed if the team gathered together.

If they fled in all directions, they would only be killed by these desert army ants that ate people and would not spit out their bones.

“Gather over here!” Ian shouted, pulled a team member, and poured out the gasoline out of the barrel he carried on his back.

He poured the gasoline into a wall with one hand.

The other hand did not hesitate to ignite the fire and throw it onto the gasoline.

Teng!

A wall of fire rose, guarding the excavation team.

Many team members also noticed that the wall of fire had risen and subconsciously gathered near Ian.

The desert army ants also got a foreboding feeling.

However, the arrow had already been released, and the flood-like army did not last long before it came into contact with the wall of fire.

Crack! Crack!

The ant colony that came into contact with the wall of fire was immediately burned into charcoal, and the desert army ants slightly stopped from advancing.

Only then did everyone let out a slight sigh of relief.

However, there were too many desert army ants, and they did not hesitate to continuously rush toward the wall of fire, trying to use the advantage of numbers to suppress the flames.

The hearts of everyone who had just calmed down started beating again. If the fire wall could not block it, they could only use their bodies to block it.

Ian’s hand that was holding the shovel was also sweating. According to the system’s hint, desert army ants were weak against fire, so their resistance to fire was not high. That was why they carried a lot of gasoline with them.

“System, don’t play tricks on me!” Ian was muttering in his heart.

The burning ability of gasoline was not to be underestimated. The ant colony could not cross this wall of fire.

Thousands of army ants were burned into charcoal quickly.

Everyone immediately cheered.

The bullet comments were also stunned by Ian’s response.

“Awesome! You can even think of that! It’s really reassuring to have such a leader.”

“Mr. Ian, are you interested in being our guide? You can name the price.”

“Are you kidding me? You’re the youngest best-selling author in history. Does he need money? Ian, I Love You!”

“…”

While everyone was praising him, Ian frowned.

This batch only had a few thousand army ants, so it was naturally easy to deal with them.

If there were more coming next time, no matter how much gasoline there was, it would only be a matter of time before the ants overcame it.

Taking advantage of the time window, Ian told everyone to grab their luggage and equipment and retreat immediately!

Before they could react, they saw dozens of desert bighorn sheep, camels, sand wolves, gerbils, and hyenas scurrying around the excavation site after the army ants came out.

At this time, the hole that was dug out had already expanded several times.

Desert army ants appeared in many places.

Some animals ran a little slower and were immediately covered by the desert army ants.

The desert army ants had a large amount of formic acid in their mouths. When thousands of them gnawed together, even an elephant could not bear it.

Some sand wolves and desert bighorn sheep collapsed on the ground.

After the desert army ants passed, they were only left with a pile of bones.

The desert army ants near the pyramid were more than 10,000,000.

It was as if the ruins were a huge ant nest.

Ian could only keep sweeping away the scattered army ants that followed him with shovels.

He felt that things were getting worse.

At this rate, that thing in his novel would also appear…

While Ian was thinking, he saw a broken wall collapse and a large ant, the size of an ordinary house dog, crawled out.

It was a queen ant with six pairs of large transparent wings. The sandstorm had probably alerted the queen ant hiding in the depths of the nest.

When Ian saw the queen ant, he immediately found out the reason for the large-scale ant outbreak—they were ready to migrate!

Just when they were about to migrate to other places, the ant colony passed by the base and seemed to smell the aroma of food. Thus, they began to attack the base.

This made all the members of the team jump up in anxiety.

Schubert was still in there receiving treatment!

They couldn’t let anything happen to their leader!

Everyone looked at Ian.

They couldn’t help but think of Ian as the backbone and leader.

Upon seeing the queen ant’s momentum, Ian didn’t hesitate. He took off the scarf used to block the wind and sand, shoved most of the scarf in the gasoline barrel, took out a lighter, and lit a corner of the scarf.

An improvised molotov was thus created.

Ian first went to a high ground, where it was the safest.

He saw a big bulge in the middle of the tide.

If he was careless and fell down, he would definitely be gobbled up.

Ian looked in the right direction and threw the improvised molotov at the queen.

Although it didn’t hit accurately, Ian threw it toward the queen’s mouth.

This trick was surprisingly effective. The fire borrowed the wind’s power, and the gasoline quickly spread.

The weak fire burned the ants into charcoal.

A swarm of ants frantically scrambled to the center, trying to protect their queen.

However, this allowed the flames to quickly reach the colony.

A sea of fire formed in the middle.

The flames immediately surrounded the giant queen, and the transparent wings on its back were quickly reduced to ash.

The ant queen felt the pain and struggled to roll on the sand.

But the more the fire burned, the bigger it became.

This kind of compressed fuel only needed a little bit to burn for more than ten minutes, not to mention the slow barrel on Ian’s body, which was several liters in weight.

The fire on the ant queen’s body burned bigger and bigger, and the more it burned, the hotter it became.

The desert army ants around them were like a camp that had been bombed. They rushed at the ant queen desperately, hoping to use their numbers to put out the fire on the ant queen’s body.

The ant colony that was originally charging towards the base also turned around and pounced toward the queen ant.

Countless desert army ants were rolling around like a pot of red and black seawater.

This time, the base was no longer in danger.

Many of the team members sighed.