"Yes, there are many kinds of ants in the world. The color of the body of the ants has a lot to do with the environment and soil quality of each place. Most of them are jet black. The ants in western Hunan also belong to this category. The maximum length is only one meter.
A little more than 1cm, I have never heard of a Pangasius ant that is three to four centimeters long and dark green in color, let alone seen it." Professor Ma Yong said solemnly: "The largest ant in the world has been discovered so far.
, are bull ants, their longest body length is only 3.7 centimeters, and of these ant workers, I just saw a few of them crawling into the ant ###, and judging by visual inspection, they should be more than 4 centimeters."
Qin Xiang also squatted down and saw Professor Ma Yong picking up a small branch and saying: "And look -"
Qin Xiang looked intently and saw Professor Ma Yong holding a small branch in front of an ant worker, and suddenly stabbed its head hard. The ant worker suddenly raised his head and bit the branch with a "Gah" sound.
The pointed end of the knife made a "Gahba" sound, and a small piece of it was immediately bitten off.
Professor Ma Yong continued: "This branch is very hard, but this ant bit off the hard branch in an instant, which shows that the power of its teeth has reached a terrifying level. The most important thing is, look at this ant nest
The surrounding soil is all brown. The surrounding soil is completely different, and it is also different from the soil in the Huping Mountain area.
"There are many soil types, which can be divided into 6 soil categories, 12 subcategories, and 22 soil genera. According to historical data and field surveys, the soil zone of Huping Mountain is roughly divided as follows: red soil, red lime soil below an altitude of 550m,
Dry farming soil and paddy soil; 550-800m, the soil development degree is low and the zonality is not obvious; 800-1500m is mountain yellow soil, yellow lime soil, dry farming soil; 1500-2000m is mountain yellow brown soil, black lime soil; above 2000m
It is mountain meadow soil.
"The altitude here is about 800 meters, which is a mountainous area between 800 and 1500 meters. It should be yellow soil, yellow lime soil and dry farming soil. I just looked at the surrounding soil and it is consistent with the data. But the area around this ant nest
But it’s all brown soil, and you see, the deeper you go into the nest, the darker the brown color becomes.”
As he spoke, he pointed to the deeper part of the ant nest that he had dug with branches. The soil inside was indeed much darker than the soil outside the nest.
"The most important thing is that although this brown soil is extremely dry, it still has a very strong fishy smell and does not have the fragrance of ordinary soil." Professor Ma Yong said solemnly: "So, I suspect that these mutant species
The distal ants are all highly poisonous."
"Who has silverware on him?" Qin Xiang stood up and turned around and asked.
"I never wear silver jewelry." Shen Shiran shook her head and said. Feng Xiaoxiao and Shan Di both shook their heads, as if they didn't have any silverware on them.
"I have." Yan Zhuhai said loudly.
Qin Xiang walked over, stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me."
Yan Zhuhai took off a silver ring from his finger and handed it to him.
"If this ring is not a gift from my girlfriend or a family heirloom, I will buy it from you." Qin Xiang smiled and said, "Because this ring will no longer be a ring after a while."
"I don't have a girlfriend." Yan Zhuhai smiled awkwardly and said, "It's just a small ring. I made it myself. It's not worth much. Classmate Qin can just use it."
Qin Xiang nodded without being wordy. When he returned to the ant nest, he straightened the silver ring, pinched the two ends with four fingers of both hands and pulled hard, and the silver ring was pulled by him.
It became a long silver needle.
Ma Yong saw him pulling the silver with his bare hands, just like pulling a rubber band. He was stunned and remembered his shocking skill on the Jishui River yesterday, and he didn't think there was anything strange about it.
Qin Xiang looked at the silver needle, dipped it in some water, and then inserted the silver needle into the brown soil. After a while, he pulled it out and saw that the part of the silver needle under the soil had turned gray-black, and clicked on it.
He nodded and said: "This soil is indeed highly toxic."
Professor Ma Yong said worriedly: "I walked around just now and found that this ant nest is just one of many ant nests. There are many more going forward. If this area is full of poisonous mutated distal ants,
This would be a very scary thing."
Qin Xiang said: "What Professor Ma means is that you are worried that these poisonous mutant ants will bite people?"
"Yes, ordinary ants will not take the initiative to bite people, unless they are those legendary man-eating ants." Professor Ma Yong said solemnly: "But after these ants have mutated, no one knows whether they will take the initiative to attack humans.
.According to the route map previously provided by classmate Shen Shiran, we will continue to move forward, and we will reach the entrance in about a few miles. However, poisonous alien ants appear here, and we don’t know what else will happen ahead."
Qin Xiang suddenly grabbed an ant in her hand. Professor Ma Yong was shocked and shouted: "Be careful it bites people -"
Qin Xiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, it can't bite me."
Professor Ma took a closer look and found that the ant was unable to move at all in Qin Xiang's hand.
"Generally, it takes about half a month for ants to grow from eggs to workers. Professor Ma, please see if this ant is a young worker." Qin Xiang handed the ant to Professor Ma and asked.
Professor Ma looked at it carefully, nodded and said: "Judging from the abdomen of this ant, it should have just come out of the early stage of pupa. Judging from the time, this ant should still be considered a young ant, and the age of the ant is about one month."
about."
The reason why Qin Xiang asked Professor Ma was because from previous exchanges, he knew that this old man Ma was not only an archaeological expert, but also a biologist, with in-depth and detailed research on various plants and animals.
Qin Xiang nodded, put down the ant, and caught several more ants in succession for Professor Ma to check. The results were the same. These ants were all young ants.
Seeing that he had stopped catching ants for age testing, Professor Ma asked: "Classmate Qin Xiang, what are you—"
Qin Xiang whispered: "In order not to cause panic, I can only tell you about this now, Professor Ma. The one who provided us with the entrance to the ancient tomb was still alive and was poisoned by the extremely powerful cold corpse poison. I
It is suspected that these ants mutated after taking the Cold Corpse Poison. As you just saw, these mutated ants are all about one month old. In other words, these ants mutated after more than a month.
Months ago.”
Professor Ma said solemnly: "According to your opinion, this large area in front may have been contaminated by Cold Corpse Poison?"
Qin Xiang nodded and whispered: "Yes, so, I think we need to discuss carefully whether we want to continue this archaeological activity. Although everyone was prepared to encounter danger when they came out,
I never expected the situation to be as bad as it is."
Professor Ma nodded and said: "Yes, if the large area ahead is contaminated by Cold Corpse Poison, every step forward may cost lives. However, this is just speculation between the two of us. We want to cancel this time
of archaeological activities, I’m afraid it’s not convincing enough.”
Qin Xiang stood up and said: "Let's do this, Professor Ma, you discuss it with everyone, I will explore the front to see how the situation is. If our guess is correct, this event must be cancelled."
Professor Ma thought for a while and said solemnly: "Okay, but classmate Qin Xiang, you have to be more careful. I also know something about the Cold Corpse Poison. At present, there is no way to find anti-toxic drugs for this virus. Once
Poisoning, the consequences will be disastrous."
Qin Xiang smiled and said: "Thank you, Professor Ma, for your concern. Don't worry, I will be fine."
After that, he walked up to Feng Xiaoxiao and the other girls and said, "The area ahead is probably contaminated by poison. I'll go over and check it out."
After explaining to Shen Shiran again, he turned around and left.
"Xiangzi, be careful!" Shen Shiran confessed from behind.
"Xiao Xiangzi, I'm waiting for you to come back." This was Feng Xiaoxiao's voice.
————ps: The third update is here. Xiaoding endured the pain and coded words, just to ask for——red——flower——!