The Ultimate Evolution Chapter 22: Deep into the ant den

In the world of Fang Senyan, according to some common knowledge he learned, the habits of ants in each area are also different.

Ants in Africa like to live in "buildings",

Even if there are no conditions, these guys will use trees as skeletons to build their own tall anthills and anthills, which can be as high as a few meters or more than a dozen meters, and they are extremely hard. It was actually Mars splashing around, and in no way could damage its appearance.

And most ants like to live underground,

Compared to their small size, the construction area of ​​the underground ant nest can even reach tens of square meters, similar to the storage room, nursery nest, queen room, tunnel, small room, residence ......... Different division of labor, The various supporting facilities are so complete that in fashionable terms, it simply surpasses the CBD.

And for the group of unicorn flying ants on the planet of Epros, they have the habit of having both,

The worker ants are all nesting on the mushroom rock, because if they do this, they can make full use of their superiority, they can live far away, and monitor their entire territory like a sentry. If there is any accident, Flocks of people swarmed out.

The queen ants of the unicorn flying ants and the male guard ants of the guards lived comfortably in the magnificent underground nest under the mushroom rock, which was warm in winter and cool in summer and left to be supported by worker ants.

If half of the mushroom rock collapsed suddenly, and two or three hundred worker ants were hiding from it, it would be impossible for Fang Senyan and his party to get here, and to do such a clean work on the sacred ant colony.

Although Ardaris only hurried to escape before, he did not go so deep under the mushroom rock. But this does not prevent him from quickly finding the entrance of the underground ant nest, because these unicorn flying ants crawl here all day. Although they are flying when they are hunting, when they bring food to feed the male ants and queens, It is crawling in and out. So you only need to see where the grass is not growing, it's smooth like a trail, then just go along.

The entrance to the underground ant nest is just below the stone mountain at the root of Mushroom Rock. Because the size of the unicorn flying ant is similar to that of a lion, the hole is tall and spacious, and it is very smooth and flat without bad smell. It looks black.

At this time, the battle is still headed by Paul's powerful metal puppet Hercules. The surface of this huge puppet has also been corroded by a lot of formic acid sprayed out. The originally smooth surface was also bumpy.

More importantly, the surface of the metal puppet was originally engraved with many magic circles. Once activated, those magic circles will quickly show signs of energy flowing in a net shape, and emit red lights to support blessings. "Bull power", "anti-gravity" and so on.

After being corroded by formic acid at this time, the magic circle above this metal puppet was also destroyed by half. When walking, he obviously felt a lot of heavy. The joints will also make a squeaking crunch, as if they are not oiled, and the speed of movement is particularly cumbersome.

Paul has to support the operation of metal puppets at this time, and the consumption of mental energy is also very large. After coming here. Can only watch the two made a helpless gesture. Fang Senyan and the two knew that he must still have a hole card, but after all, they were all killed by Paul, and it was impossible to demand him any more.

So Fang Senyan said nothing, let Paul take in his metal puppet Hercules, and then let Ramtas come out and block it in front.

In fact, this is where Paul ’s scheming is deep. He deliberately proposed that his metal puppet Hercules take the lead, the purpose is to let his puppet experience relatively low combat intensity, but the battle lasts a long time.

And no one knows the fighting power of the queen. It is very likely that there will be a crazy attack that will cause the metal puppet Hercules to be completely destroyed. Therefore, it is natural to make an unsupported appearance before facing the queen.

Fang Senyan is certainly very thorough in his calculations, but because he himself is the identity of MT, it does not matter what Paul does. After all, there is a saying called tolerance is great, you ca n’t ask everyone to You are selflessly devoted. In short, as long as you do not exceed some bottom line, then you can tolerate his behavior.

Because the ant colony relies on tactile and pheromone activities in the nest, there is no luminous substance in the black hole in the nest. However, before departure, humans have long expected that cave adventure may occur in the future. Therefore, in the menus configured for them, a special detector called "Ladybug" is listed.

This high-energy special detector is about the size of a tennis ball. It is suspended in the air using gravity countermeasure technology. It can fly at high speed and dexterity, and it can spread up to 50 meters of ultrasonic mesh exploration and drawing rays around it. Accurate drawing The geological conditions of the cave and related organisms. (Well, it's actually the stuff in Prometheus)

Because the price of ladybugs is also quite expensive, Fang Senyan only used a ladybug to fly in the front thirty places and incidentally carried out lighting work. After walking forty meters into the ant nest, I feel that the air quality is still very good, and there are winds from time to time.

The claw marks of the worker ants on the walls of the cave are clearly visible, but they are also quite smooth. Although they certainly cannot be compared with human buildings, when you look carefully, the walls are like a layer of glaze, hard and hard Smooth, tap gently with your fingers, and even make a dull sound of "shell shell", even if it splashes on the water, it will directly flow down and will not infiltrate.

Going on for about a hundred meters, there was a sudden and cheerful feeling in front of everyone. The passage of the ant nest was originally the size of a train tunnel. At this time, it seemed to have entered the temporarily stopped platform. "Ladybug" also flew directly into the air of twenty or thirty meters, shining the audience, you can clearly see that it should be the storage room of the ant nest.

There are various types of piled up roots, fruits, and of course the beasts of beasts. The fur and the like are divided into a pile. The edible meat is fist-sized by worker ants, like beef jerky. Such dehydrated and air-dried piles are piled up close together to smell the rot.

Looking at the dense crawling traces on the ground, everyone felt a sense of fear. If this is a trap of ants, suddenly dozens of worker ants rushed out from all directions to join, then they really have to take off if they are not dead Layered.

The most regrettable thing is that there are a lot of beasts whose fur is quite precious, but unfortunately they were corroded by formic acid when they were killed, otherwise, it will be a huge asset, and although it is still very valuable , But to take into account the huge cost of bringing these damaged goods back from the planet of Eplos to the Alpine VII base, and even in the future adventures, there may be more and better loot that needs to occupy space, so you can only give up.

Continuing forward from the storage room, there was a three-way junction in front. At this time, Ramtas ’s nasal wing was twitching nonstop, and he was very excited to point at the road on the left and began to roar. Along the way, there was a continuous pig hum, as if there was a passionate female wild boar inside.

Fang Senyan originally planned to take the biggest intersection, but under the strong request of this guy, he could only change course.

But this time about 50 meters into the passage, I smelled an indescribable breath. The smell was like the smell of urinary scales washed with hydrochloric acid. , And the more you walk inside, the stronger the breath. Both Aldaris and Paul couldn't help wearing gas masks.

When we reached the end of this passage, it was also a spacious hall. Many lattice-shaped caves were excavated in this hall. After arriving in this hall, Fang Senyan was relieved to see This ant colony is indeed at the end of the road, without any tricks, because no ant colony can bear the cost of confusing the enemy.

This is the nursery room of the ant colony,

After the queen lays eggs, the worker ants will bring the eggs here to hatch, and the hatched larvae will also be taken care of by them.

Because almost all worker ants are dead, it can be said that they have been in a disordered state for a long time.

According to the information provided by Artificial One, after the larvae of the flying ant are born, they will eat nearly ten times a day (24 hours), all of which will be fed by worker ants. Feed different foods.

The vast majority of larvae will be fed by worker ants with a strong jaw. The worker ants chew the fruit of the plant and a large amount of meat, and store their saliva in the crop to feed the larvae. , At least once they eat more than four kilograms to be full. The larvae that eat "chyme" will eventually hatch into worker ants.

However, while a few larvae are fed with "chyme", at least one meal will be fed with "antew" every day. This is similar to the presence of royal jelly and is usually the exclusive food for queens. , This part of the larvae will be hatched into male ants for job transfer and breeding.

Only when the queen is dead or the ant colony is divided, will the larvae be eligible to eat all the "ant ant", and it will be the queen once hatched.

At this time, the care of the worker ants has been lost for at least dozens of hours. Under the instinct of hunger, the hungry larvae naturally started to work on the eggs and siblings around them. Mouth ... the smell of rotting larvae or egg corpses is the source of the foul odor they smell. () {飘 天文学 www.piaotian.comThank you for your support, your support is our biggest motivation}