Volume 1 Chapter 13 Planting Ants
After capturing the ant queen, Fu Hongyang was ready to be besieged by the big black ant. In his opinion, although the big black ant was a bit big and fast, it was still just an ant.
If you can't even bite Doudou's fur, how can you bite yourself?
Just step on all the big black ants to death, and the queen can only be the toy to dispel boredom by obediently. This is indeed a good toy. The ants that ordinary people play with are only as big as rice grains. The queen is a big fist in her hand, and there is a little ghost umbrella on the top of her head.
"There is a glass jar of pickled vegetables in the tile house. I look back and find it to be a new home for the queen." He had a very good idea.
However, the siege of the big black ants did not happen. On the contrary, these big black ants did not crawl, just raised their heads and waved their tentacles, not knowing what movements they were doing.
"Strange thing!"
Fu Hongyang was a little panicked when he saw this. The behavior of these big black ants was too abnormal.
The queen of the ant in her hand also stopped struggling and also waved the two tentacles above her head. I don’t know what it meant. He looked at the big black ant who continued to crawl for a while, then turned to look at Doudou who took the opportunity to sweep the half of the little ghost on the wooden board.
It feels inexplicably absurd, and the ants are too abnormal.
Doudou was about full, and the remaining half of the little ghost head did not move. He ran over and circled around Fu Hongyang and the big black ants that did not crawl around Fu Hongyang, circled one left and one right. It was not until Fu Hongyang glared at it that it was honestly lying on the ground and observing the big black ant.
Fu Hongyang tried to leave the big black ant colony, but still could not see these ants crawling, as if they were being used to impose a detent technique.
Just when he was puzzled, the queen of the ant in his hand suddenly had a new movement. It stopped dancing the tentacles, but began to shake the little ghost umbrella above his head. The originally semi-ovate light yellow little ghost umbrella was spread out like an umbrella, and tiny white seeds fell from it.
The seeds emitted a faint fragrance, which shocked him: "The familiar food fragrance is similar to the fragrant black seeds and mulberry fruits!"
He hurriedly caught the white seeds with his other hand. Not many, only a dozen of them were totally about the size of a sesame seed.
Doudou smelled the fragrance and rushed over with a quick step, sticking out her tongue to please her, wanting to eat it.
Looking at the dozen seeds in his hand, Fu Hongyang's doubts became even stronger, but his brain was particularly clear and he kept analyzing various possibilities: "The mutated queen ant, isn't right, the little ghost umbrella should be symbiotic with the queen ant, otherwise the queen's head would not have a little ghost umbrella on top of the queen's head, and would not actively release the seeds...or spores?"
He remembered that the seeds of fungi seemed to be called spores, and there was also a type of spore plant in the plants, and the seeds were also spores.
Spores grow into mycelium, and mycelium grows into fungi, and this is how mushrooms come about.
The queen in her hand is indeed a living big ant, but it cannot be ruled out that it was parasitized by the little ghost umbrella and turned into a zombie ant. It is just strange that the parasitic queen seems to be able to continue breeding. The large black ants on the ground have learned to vomit mycelium, which is obviously the descendant of this queen.
"It's probably a special mutation, and the IQ of this queen should have increased a lot. She actually knows to give food and beg me for mercy?"
He was not sure whether the spores of the little parasites were poisonous. These dozen sesame seeds that emitted a faint fragrance were poisonous.
Doudou just wanted to eat with a shy face, so she shook off four of them.
Doudou stretched out her tongue and stuck all four spores, stuffed them into her mouth, and then continued to stretch her tongue to please Fu Hongyang, wanting to eat the remaining spores.
"There are indeed a little less four. It is difficult to judge whether they are poisonous. Forget it, let's give it to Doudou." He shook all the spores off.
In fact, I feel that these spores should not be poisonous, after all, the little ghost umbrella is not poisonous.
Doudou was always here. After eating the remaining spores, he looked at Fu Hongyang with a gaze. After confirming that there were no spores in Fu Hongyang's hand, it stared at the mutated queen ant, and saliva flowed out from the corner of his mouth.
Fu Hongyang did not intend to give Doudou the mutant queen, but he had not observed enough - although he was not a scientist and could not even be considered a scientific researcher, he still hoped to understand as much as possible about the disaster caused by haze, which was related to his future.
"I originally planned to keep you in cans, but since you paid tribute to your spores, I will give you some benefits."
He held the mutant queen in one hand and pulled out a wooden board covered with densely packed umbrellas from the pile of wooden boards with the other.
Put the queen of the ant on it: "You will live here from now on. This wooden board is specially used for you to plant umbrellas in the little ghosts. Don't try to escape, I will..." Halfway through his words, he suddenly stopped, feeling that threatening an ant like this was an insult to his IQ.
It was about the past ten days that I got used to talking to myself.
That's why it's so naive.
The queen placed it on the wooden board and quickly wanted to escape. The large black ant colony on the ground also began to move in an instant, surrounding the queen and fleeing out.
Fu Hongyang took a step forward, grabbed the queen of the ant, and then put it back on the wooden board.
After several times of this, the queen seemed to understand her fate. She lay on the wooden board and did not move. The big black ants around her stopped fleeing and began to cultivate the umbrella of the little ghosts step by step.
"That's right. You will give spores, which means you have some IQ after the mutation." Fu Hongyang smiled slightly. He had no hope at all. Releasing spores from the queen ant can only be regarded as a survival instinct, which does not mean that it really has an IQ - a small creature that doesn't even have a brain, what kind of IQ is it.
This kind of arrest is more to develop a conditioned reflex.
At least during the day, the queen of the ant couldn't escape, so she could only stay on the wooden board to continue planting the umbrella of the little ghost. He also took the opportunity to observe carefully.
At this time, Doudou stretched out her head.
He was driven away by Fu Hongyang: "While playing, I will go back and give you the fruit of the basil tree to eat. It is forbidden to harass the big black ants again."
Then, he squatted beside the wooden board and watched how the big black ant planted the umbrella of the little ghost. After only less than five minutes of watching, he made a surprise discovery, which made him incredible.
The mycelium spitting out by those big black ants not only grew a little ghost umbrella, but also occasionally grew a white insect pupa. The insect pupa began to turn black at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then gradually contracted into the shape of a big black ants. It took only an hour from beginning to end to run.
"Oh My God!"
"This mutation is too thorough, right?"
The little ghost umbrella grows on the head of the queen ant, and can also release spores, which is enough to make Fu Hongyang feel that his views are subverted.
Now the big black ant was not born from the queen, but was planted from the ground through mycelium, which further subverted his three views - this kind of reproduction method is impossible on earth.
"Don't all insects have such mutations?"
"What the hell is this mutation?"
"Did mutant bacteria invade ants, or did ants mutate?"
Soon, he thought of himself again: "I have eaten black seeds and bauble fruits. I also have green fibers in my body, and the three small saplings that I don't know whether they are true or not... Could I have become a big black ants like this... mitosis, sexual reproduction, and can I still farm?"
Chapter completed!