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What is the worst way to die?
I think it is death by ants.
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In Equatorial Africa, a layabout drunk or African gutterpunk well pickled on last night's excess wakes up to a more active and malignant form of elf; the blind killing machine that is the African Driver Ant. These slow moving dwellers of the African Rain forest destroy human beings that have been giftwrapped by fate: a state of complete oblivion, old age, infancy or injury.
Drunks and opium addicts fit this bill nicely and any that find themselves nodded out in the path of an ant horde can expect to wake up with thousands of ants slashing their way across every available surface of flesh, the wickedly sharp mouthparts drawing blood with each tiny bite. A standard colony of these ants can have numbers upward of twenty million, representing a total biomass of 30,000 hungry and purely carnivorous lbs. This cloud of slicing pain crawls and engulfs the prey searching for soft, succulent flesh and inevitably finds it on the wet lips and nostrils of their breathing feast. Ants that find this soft flesh and easy pickings release formic acid, letting the others know where the most nourishing bits are easily accessed. Once this happens, the ants begin inexoriably migrating into the lungs and esophagus.
By the time it comes to this point, the victim probably has been rolling around in a sea of pain and darkness for a few minutes, every inch of exposed skin covered in blood and tiny cuts that have grown together to form ulcerating surface wounds. The soft eyes are the first to go, a sea of ants crawling under the eyelids, breaking up the thin skin and carrying it away.
With the lungs and bronchials invaded, the prey now drowns on snipping thousands of razor sharp mandibles that are already packaging the flesh into morsels for the queen ant and her brood. The lungs rapidly flooding with blood and fallen ants, the human weakens; the madness of these DT's giving way to an ever darkening dream where thousands of living needles become background noise to a growing weight. Choking, it lays twitching on the forest floor, arms and legs pumping instinctively as this bum go through death throes, now slowing as the ants continue to eat, gain access and release scent for the others to follow. In a few minutes it's all over.
Once driver ants make a large kill, they must put in some time to break up their prey. A large hoarde can skeletonize a human in about four hours, the muscle and soft parts carried away in scoops for the good of the queen and the future generations of larvae. Any inedible human remains of a Driver Ant attack usually end up looking like the cover art from an old Exploited T-shirt.
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