“But still, we’re surrounded by the ants!” exclaimed Xiaotao.

“No worries,” I replied. “I’ve got the magic weapon right here!”

I grabbed another fistful of sugar and flung it to the corner of the room. No matter what kind of ants they were, they wouldn’t be able to resist sugar.

The sea of ants that were about to engulf us immediately receded and rushed towards the sugar. When they all clumped together near the sugar, they formed a raised bump on the floor. I then understood why I saw the woman’s head earlier.

I led Xiaotao out of the room when the bullet ants around us had all gone after the sugar sprinkled on the floor instead. When we got out to the hallway, we saw that it was full of bullet ants too, so I sprinkled sugar at the end of the hallway to lure them all there.

Had Dali not carelessly bought white sugar instead of salt, we might have actually all died in that mansion that night!

When we reached downstairs, I saw Dali rolling on the floor. His body was covered in a swarm of bullet ants. I quickly took off...