After eating and drinking enough, Ye Han licked his teeth, which were still filled with unfinished thoughts. The delicious fragrance remaining between his teeth spread over the tip of his tongue, making him have the urge to eat two more buns.
But the six buns had already filled his belly and he couldn't eat any more.
After walking around the armored vehicle for a few times, the feeling of fullness finally dissipated. From a distance, he saw two companions walking out of the dining car. Ye Han waved to them, and the three of them boarded the armored vehicle and set off again.
The morning fog had long since dissipated, and the bright sunshine was shining on the earth. As he walked along the railway, not long after passing the front of the train, Ye Han saw mountains of ant corpses.
They were the carcasses of giant ants discarded by the train factory. The shells several meters high were piled up like a mountain. The ant meat in the shells had long since rotted. Countless big-headed flies were circling and flying in and out of the mountain of shells. A pungent stench spread far away.
People want to vomit.
The accumulated ant carcasses extend close to the railway towards the ant-occupied area, with a length of nearly one kilometer.
All the ant corpses are production waste dumped in the past few days. This situation occurs because the train factory does not have the energy to dispose of the excess ant corpses, so it can only discard them on the spot and let the ubiquitous microorganisms naturally decompose the ant corpses.
Let it return to nature.
At present, the ant-occupied area is expanding at an average rate of about 200 meters per day. In order to ensure a safe distance, the train factory has to retreat a corresponding distance every day. After a few days, it has retreated one kilometer toward Fuyun, and the discarded ant corpses will be scattered.
It gradually extends as the train factory retreats.
Based on Ye Han's experience, the spread speed of giant ants is definitely more than 200 meters per day. However, as the area occupied by the ants expands, the ant colony gradually splits into several different groups. The smell of each nest of giant ants is different.
Ant colonies hear each other and hate each other, so it is difficult to maintain peace, even if they come from the same source.
Due to the lack of food, civil strife often breaks out among the ant colonies. While the civil strife consumes a large number of giant ants, it also limits the spread speed of the giant ants. Otherwise, the spread rate of the ant-occupied area will definitely exceed 200 meters per day.
With useless and confused thoughts running through his mind, the armored vehicle gradually approached the ant-occupied area. It was still more than 200 meters away. Ye Han suddenly saw a group of giant ants lingering on the edge of the ant-occupied area.
Ye Han patted the roof of the car: "Stop!"
"What's wrong, platoon leader?" the driver asked curiously.
The veteran in the same car banged his head on the driver's helmet: "You are the only one who has a lot of things to do, and I haven't said a word yet (sound ni), what are you asking!"
The driver chuckled, showing a thick fang: "Platoon leader, the veteran bullied me again!"
Although Ye Han was borrowed by Long Jianguo, the soldiers didn't know the inside story and only regarded him as a newly transferred platoon leader.
Ye Han was wearing a Mao Yi, and he was doing the job of a platoon leader. He was too lazy to explain so much to the soldiers, so he just made mistakes.
"How dare you complain!" The veteran's eyes widened and he was about to strike, but Hu Ya quickly shrank his neck.
Ye Han chuckled: "There are a few ants in front, we don't need to run in this time, Huya, come closer!"
"Okay!" Huya agreed, and the armored vehicle rumbled forward without fear of being discovered by the giant ants.
After this period of induction, the ant-catching team has mastered some of the behavioral characteristics of giant ants. They know that worker ants move by smell and are very insensitive to odors other than pheromones. The two oversized compound eyes are no different from decorations.
The situation of soldier ants is slightly different. In addition to recognizing smells, this creature also likes to chase sounds.
The soldiers summed up a set of effective experiences and made up a few jingles: The worker ants throw bottles, the soldier ants make noises, the queen ants don't worry about it, she will be exhausted and can't find it.
Anyway, the military does not need giant ants. Since Long Jianguo, no one from the ant team has been rushing around to find the queen, and they can continue to ravage worker ants and soldier ants with peace of mind.
The armored vehicle was still 180 meters away from the giant ants. Ye Han unexpectedly discovered that the giant ants suddenly climbed up the railway and jumped to the other side of the roadbed.
Ye Han punched the roof of the car in frustration, and then ordered: "
At this time, those giant ants hurriedly ran back across the railway, each holding a piece of ant shell that was full of stinking odor.
Ye Han was a little stunned, what's going on?
He only knew that giant ants have a habit of moving their dead comrades back to their ant holes. The reason why they do this is because the dead ants emit some kind of strong pheromones.
Could it be that these stripped glands and fragmented ant shells can also emit some kind of pheromones?
"Whatever you want!" Ye Han no longer hesitated, got out of the carriage and held the ant fork gun, preparing to shoot at the giant ants.
But he seemed to see something moving in the corner of his eyes. He turned his head subconsciously and was stunned.
The pile of corpses on the other side of the roadbed had been crawling with giant ants for some time. They crawled out of the anthill in a line, meandered all the way under the pile of corpses, and piously picked up a piece of ant shell and turned around silently.
The efficiency of the ant colony was terrifyingly high. It only took a short while for the giant ants traveling back and forth to move all the ant shells away.
Ye Han immediately realized that the reason why the ant colony was here was because the boundary of the ant colony had just extended to the vicinity of the corpse pile. It was probably a giant ant out foraging that accidentally discovered the corpse pile, which attracted a large number of people.
force.
Based on Ye Han's understanding of giant ants, the stubborn ant colony will definitely move all the ant shells back to the nest. With the efficiency of the giant ants, it won't take long to move away all the ant corpses accumulated in the past few days.
At this time, the ant colony will approach the train factory one kilometer away, and may even be attracted by the ant corpses in each workshop and launch an attack on the train factory!
Thinking of this, Ye Han didn't dare to neglect, and he didn't want to catch any giant ants. He took off the walkie-talkie and pressed the call button: "Old Long, something happened!"
Huya and the veteran looked up together, but they couldn't see Ye Han's expression as he was blocked by the carriage.
"So awesome?" the veteran muttered dissatisfied. He turned around and saw Huya looking at him, and immediately glared: "What are you looking at? Just drive your car."
There were hundreds of people in the whole camp, but Ye Han was the only one who dared to call the camp leader Long. Long Jianguo didn't care at all and kept smiling all day long.
Just kidding, Lao Long is a tough trainer. From top to bottom in the whole battalion, who wouldn’t be shocked when mentioning the military madman Long Jianguolong? Ye Han is the only one who stands out. If there is no one above Ye Han, who would believe it?
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Huya looked away in grievance, feeling full of anger and nowhere to vent his anger.
At this time, the two people heard Long Jianguo's voice coming from the intercom: "What's going on?"
Ye Han briefly recounted what he saw and talked about his worries.
"Understood, withdraw immediately." Long Jianguo ordered.
Ye Han retracted into the carriage: "Huya, retreat!"
"Okay!" Huya agreed, and the armored vehicle made a big circle and quickly evacuated towards the train factory.
