After waiting patiently for a short while, a worker ant hesitantly crawled out of the anthill, swaying the tentacles on its head and crawled towards the broken glass bottle.
Ye Han rubbed his hands and opened the top cover, aiming the ant fork cannon at the giant ant, which was already ready for shooting.
There was a muffled bang, and the forearm-long ant fork from the barrel shot out like lightning, striking the giant ant's forehead heavily. The barb penetrated deeply into the ant's shell, causing the giant ant's head to shake, and its wide-open jaws to clenched instinctively.
On the ground, the supersonic jaws instantly closed and suddenly launched the giant ant into the air.
The rope pulley on the side of the ant fork gun rotated rapidly, and the more than 30-meter-long rope was quickly lowered to the end. Then the rope vibrated violently like a taut string, making a low buzzing sound.
It fell in mid-air and hit the side of the anthill heavily, destroying half of the anthill.
Ye Han chuckled and retreated into the car, patting the driver's shoulder: "It's done, get out!"
The driver started the engine, and a thick plume of black smoke spewed out from behind the armored vehicle. Then its eight wheels spun rapidly, and the armored vehicle dragged the struggling giant ants away.
Rushing out of the ant-occupied area in one breath, Ye Han got out of the car wearing a gas mask, holding a fist-sized glass jar filled with transparent liquid in his hand.
He slapped the roof twice hard, and the armored vehicle immediately slowed down and braked.
The giant ant dragged behind the vehicle rolled several times and stopped at the left rear of the armored vehicle. As soon as the giant ant stopped, it quickly jumped up.
At this time, the giant ant's body was covered with scratches, its left eye was sunken by one-third, and two of its limbs were broken. It looked extremely miserable. However, such injuries could only be considered minor injuries to the insect and hardly affected the giant ant's combat effectiveness.
Ye Han opened his arms and slammed the glass jar at the giant ant.
The glass jar crossed a distance of more than 20 meters and hit the feet of the giant ants who were trying to avoid it. The liquid in the bottle splashed everywhere, and a sweet smell immediately spread. The originally ferocious giant ants suddenly looked like they had drunk too much.
His steps were disordered like a drunkard's, and he barely managed to hold on for a few seconds before falling heavily to the ground and losing consciousness.
Ye Han patted the carriage, and the armored vehicle suddenly started, dragging the giant ant straight to the train factory.
Ye Han shrank into the armored vehicle, took off his gas mask, rubbed his nose and muttered: "This thing is quite easy to use."
Next to him was a foam carton filled with glass jars, with four large bold letters printed on the outside: Ethyl Acetate.
This thing is the "new equipment" that was just issued to the ant team today. Its function is similar to tear gas, but tear gas interferes with the sense of smell of giant ants and makes them lose their sense of direction; ethyl acetate is an out-and-out insect anesthetic.
, this thing can directly paralyze giant ants, making the most ferocious soldier ants unable to capture them.
The same scene not only happened here, but armored vehicles also appeared in other directions.
With the ant control operation in full swing, the military's demand for pheromones is increasing. Long Jianguo and his troops have almost become a full-time ant hunting team. Their daily job is to travel between factories and ant-occupied areas to capture giant ants.
A steady stream of them are hauled to the factory.
The method of catching giant ants has also undergone earth-shaking changes in the past few days. The military gave up expensive helicopters and switched to high-quality and low-cost wheeled armored vehicles. The capture efficiency did not decrease but increased. Only one battalion of officers and soldiers under Long Jianguo
, more than a hundred live ants can be used to refine antiquities every day, and there are at least more than three hundred dead ants.
The reason why it doesn't matter whether it's dead or alive is because the pheromone extraction will not be affected within two hours after the death of the giant ant. After two hours, the pheromone extracted will be mixed with a large number of impurities, resulting in a significant decrease in quality.
Any dead ants returned to the factory will be dragged back to the refining workshop as soon as possible, while the live ants will be temporarily locked up and refined again at night. They work 24 hours a day without stopping, and the refined pheromones will be continuously delivered
Go to the Northern Military District.
Despite this, pheromones are still in short supply. Xiyuan City, located on the north side of Jingjiang River, has also established a train factory, and the corresponding equipment is being debugged. As long as the Xiyuan Refinery is put into operation, Fuyun will no longer have such heavy production.
pressure.
When Ye Han rushed back to the train factory, there were already more than a dozen armored vehicles waiting to deliver giant ants to the factory, and two armored vehicles even captured the soldier ants.
To the refinery, there is no difference between soldier ants and worker ants. They are just raw materials for refining pheromones. The ant-catching team never picks apart, they just catch whatever they encounter.
The giant ants are sent one by one into the decomposition car of the train factory, where they are cut into pieces, the useless parts are discarded directly, and the parts that can provide pheromones are sent to the next car.
It was almost seven o'clock. After Ye Han handed the captured giant ants to the dismantling car, he headed to the dining car with his two companions.
The fat chef smiled broadly, and Ye Han said hello without warning: "Uncle Qi, what are you having for breakfast this morning?"
Chef Qi smiled and said: "Big meat buns and small steamed buns, stir-fried potatoes and peanuts, shredded pork and pickled mustard and boiled eggs!"
Ye Han immediately asked alertly: "What's the stuffing for the buns? Is it ant meat again?"
"If you don't want to eat steamed buns, we still have steamed buns, that's enough!"
Foodies are invincible. The research institute only extracted pheromones from giant ants, but foodies discovered a new source of meat in giant ants!
Although the strength of giant ants is not as exaggerated as that of ordinary ants, they are still very powerful and can easily carry ten times their own weight.
Strong strength is inseparable from the strength of muscles, so most of the muscles of giant ants are too rough to be eaten, but there are also a small number of ant meats that are delicate and delicious.
The car is disassembled and the ant meat is individually selected. After cleaning and packaging, it is sent to Fuyun in a refrigerated truck for sale. Its low price has attracted the favor of many consumers.
When everyone is asked to eat ants, few dare to try it, but ant meat is much easier to accept.
The long-established cooking skills of the Big Foodie Empire have given foodies unparalleled confidence. Various eating methods have taken turns. The foodies are thinking about ant meat, and they have found the best way to cook ant meat in more than a dozen ways, including frying, stewing, and deep-frying.
Best plan.
Careful people have discovered that all cooking methods for insect meat emphasize adding more oil.
This is because insects have no fat and their meat is all muscle fiber. Even the most tender ant meat tastes worse than the thickest beef.
To put it bluntly, it is chewy.
However, there are many people who like this taste, and the supply of ant meat put into Fuyun Market every day exceeds the demand.
The train factory near the water was the first to include ant meat in the recipe. At first, everyone rejected it collectively, but soon some people couldn't stand the aroma of ant meat and tried it. As a result, more and more people accepted ant meat.
Ye Han also accepts ant meat well, but he eats it every day. Even dragon meat sometimes gets tired of him. He hesitated for a while and finally chose to compromise: "Give me six steamed buns."
"Okay!" Chef Qi smiled until there were only slits left in his eyes.
