Ye Han's vision suddenly went dark. If a giant fly appeared one day that only pooped while eating... would it let people live?
Lao Lao and Hu Ya didn't think much about it, and looked like they had learned something.
Ye Han was about to ask what kind of research that institute had done, but found that the call had been interrupted. There were two signals in the corner of the screen, but now they were cleared and no signal could be received.
Bai Xiaoting, who was far away in Beidu, called her several times before she realized that the call had been disconnected. The result of the call back was that she was not in the service area without any suspense.
Bai Xiaoting couldn't help but mutter: "There's not even a signal, where did this kid go?"
Ye Han turned off the phone helplessly. After such a long delay, no giant ants appeared. It was certain that there was no ant nest nearby, and the three of them returned to the station.
There was no talking all night, and early the next morning, the troops marched into the primeval forest area.
The situation in the mountainous area is very complicated, and it is impossible to disperse the attack like in the plains. Therefore, the whole battalion is divided into companies, and each company's route into the mountain is different.
Each company commander is commanding his own troops. Only Ye Han is commanding Hu Ya and Lao Lao. There are three of them in an eight-meter-long wheeled armored vehicle!
The situation is very strange. Although Ye Han went into the mountains with the troops, he was not under the jurisdiction of any company commander and had complete autonomy in action.
Long Jianguo's order to him was to take a walk around and tell me if you have any ideas!
This is a proper free-range care!
Ye Han still hasn't figured out what his position is. In short, he is not under the jurisdiction of any company commander, but directly under the battalion commander Long Jianguo. No matter how you look at the work he does, he is like Long Jianguo's assistant or a private person.
A sort of.
If Long Jianguo was a regiment commander, Ye Han would have given himself a title such as chief of staff. The problem is that Long Jianguo is still far away. There is no such position as chief of staff in the battalion-level establishment. Every time he thinks of this
Every time, Ye Han was filled with resentment.
What the hell is going on?
After officially entering the mountainous area, Ye Han discovered that the situation was not as serious as he thought in advance. Since this was once a key forest area, there was actually no shortage of roads in the virgin forest. However, most of the roads deep in the trees were simple dirt roads opened during logging.
Although it is well connected in all directions, the road conditions are very poor.
In addition to the dirt roads used for logging, there are also many cement roads leading to various villages in the forest area. In addition to national and provincial roads, the huge virgin forest has actually been divided into blocks by various roads, and the area of each block is
not very big.
This creates conditions for hunting giant ants. The soldiers only need to seize the advantage and throw pheromones, let the pheromones spread with the wind, and wait for the giant ants to run out of the forest.
The method is very effective, but the action is not always smooth sailing.
The soldiers of the second company were victorious. They overturned two unlucky giant ants and happily arranged a dozen white phosphorus incendiary bombs on the giant ants.
However, after the giant ants woke up, they did not return to the nest as the soldiers expected. Instead, they looked for food everywhere and circled around the armored vehicles, refusing to leave.
The time bomb was set to explode in one hour. Halfway through the time, the two giant ants still had no intention of leaving. The soldiers were so shocked that they broke out in cold sweat. They quickly knocked the giant ants over and set off the explosion.
The time is set twenty hours later.
Twenty hours later, it was the third watch of the night. According to the giant ant's daily routine, he would definitely hide in his nest and sleep at night. The incendiary bombs on the giant ant's body were just in time to wipe out the entire nest of ants.
From then on, when the soldiers of the Second Company caught giant ants, they would always catch giant ants at night, so as to prevent the giant ants from not returning to their nests after waking up from anesthesia.
The soldiers of the second company were very lucky. The first company was not so lucky. After a paralyzed giant ant woke up, it turned around and scattered the bushes, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
The soldiers all thought that the giant ants had returned to the nest and were about to rush to the next target. There was a sudden muffled sound only one or two hundred meters away from the ambush point, and the smoky white phosphorus collapsed into the sky, falling like a rain of flowers all over the sky.
The soldiers looked at each other and were all dumbfounded. The company commander Lu Qingzhi was completely confused. Why did it explode?
Why else? Of course the giant ants refused to return to their nests until they found food, and were wandering around looking for food!
Fortunately, it is not the fire prevention period. No matter how overbearing the white phosphorus incendiary bombs are, they will not be able to ignite the lush and humid virgin forest. After a while, all the white phosphorus will burn out.
If it is spring and autumn, it might be a huge forest fire.
The two events took about the same amount of time, and the reports were sent back to the battalion headquarters almost at the same time.
Long Jianguo knew a lot about giant ants, and he immediately gave the latest instructions, either to prepare prey for the ants, or to set the detonation time at night... Then he suddenly realized that this was inappropriate, and canceled the preparation of prey for the ants.
The reason why it was successful in the plains was that the troops attached incendiary bombs to the dead ants that could not move, and the worker ants moved the dead ants back to the nest. No matter where the worker ants went, the dead ants remained in the nest, so the detonation time was not important.
But now we are using live ants. Even if these things return to the ant nest, they may leave the nest again in search of food. No one can guarantee that the live ants will definitely be in the nest when the incendiary bomb explodes, so it is best to detonate it at night.
Insurance.
The nest ant operation in the mountainous area is finally on the right track. However, the terrain here is complex with high mountains and dense forests. It is almost difficult to move even once you leave the road. The advancing speed of the troops is much lower than that in the plains.
Within a few days, Ye Han also made some different discoveries.
It was originally thought that the mountainous areas were rich in natural resources and the number of giant ants here would far exceed that in the relatively barren plains. However, the actual density of ant nests was not as high as expected.
Continuing to observe and investigate, we found that the number of animals in the forest was pitifully small, but there were a lot of flying insects. Sanlian even encountered a giant mosquito that was nearly one meter long.
This thing really made everyone panic for a while, but they soon discovered that this thing is a rare and protected species in the primeval forest and is rarely seen again.
The soldiers sent photos of the giant mosquitoes back to the camp headquarters, and it turned out that all the soldiers encountered were male mosquitoes that did not bite humans, and not a single blood-sucking female mosquito.
This incident caused a small sensation in the army, but everyone quickly figured out the reason - the female mosquito lives by sucking blood, and all the animals in the forest were eaten by the giant ants, and the female mosquito had nothing to suck.
They all starved to death.
Male mosquitoes live by sucking plant juices. There are plants everywhere in the forest, so naturally they can't starve.
Time is also fate, and mosquitoes also have their bad days, which is really satisfying.
