After only ten minutes, Ye Han and the violinist crawled out of the sewer in disappointment.
The sewage condensed where they were, but the deeper they went into the sewer, the higher the temperature became. The sewage more than a hundred meters away was even in liquid form.
The mechanical spider only walked more than a hundred meters before it had nowhere to go. Not only because the sewage could not be frozen, but also because the main sewer pipe was blocked by a carapace from a giant cockroach. The gap between the carapace and the pipe continued to seep out.
Bits and pieces of sewage.
The unwilling luthier looked at several forked roads, but they were either too thin and short to pass, or were blocked by finger-thick steel grids.
There are dead ends everywhere, and staying down them is a waste of time.
In order not to bring the smell from the sewer into the armored vehicle, Ye Han and the violinist had to roll a few times in the snow and rub the soles of their shoes hard on the snow.
After entering the armored vehicle, the violinist immediately ordered: "Xiao Luo, drive south and enter the city!" After that, he whispered, "I hope we can find an ant nest in the city."
No one answered, the atmosphere in the car was a bit stiff, and even Ye Han began to doubt whether his judgment was correct.
But besides Linyi, he really couldn't think of any other place where boxer ants might be found.
In this way, a lonely armored vehicle wandered on the streets of Linyi in the night wind, stopping again and again, and left disappointed again and again.
The sewers in Linyi City run through the whole city, and there is a sewer well every certain distance. Ye Han and others no longer need to enter the well in person like before. They only need to find the sewer wells along the way to control the mechanical spider without interruption.
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Domestic sewers are actually sewage pipes. Those pipes with a diameter of two meters outside the city are simply the conscience of the industry. The diameter of the sewer pipes in the city is often only about one meter, and people will never be able to get in unless they climb.
After searching four streets, Ye Han finally realized that this was not the solution and stopped the violinist from continuing.
The violinist was also helpless and reminded Ye Han in a subtle way, asking him to carefully recall where he could find the boxer ants.
Ye Han rubbed his temples with a headache, turned his head and happened to see Xiao Yuan, and couldn't help being slightly startled: "Occupied area, occupied area is the most likely!"
"Yes, the occupied area!" Xiao Yuan nodded.
Seeing the puzzled look in the violinist's eyes, Ye Han briefly explained the situation in the occupied area: "When the troops withdrew, there were still many people in the occupied area. Boxer ants are most likely concentrated underground in the occupied area!"
The violinist forced a smile: "I hope so."
After being disappointed several times in succession, he no longer had any hope for this mission.
He didn't know much about ants. He only had a general understanding of their habits after receiving the mission. They would hide in their nests and hibernate in the winter. It would be easier to find giant ants. Boxer ants are only as big as a fist, so they really don't know much about them.
Easy to find.
It was already close to midnight, but no one asked for a break. The armored vehicle rushed all the way to the occupied area. When it was about to enter the occupied area, Ye Han suddenly saw a collapsed hole on the street.
A flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and Ye Han immediately shouted: "Stop!"
Luo Mingyu stepped on the brakes instinctively, and the armored vehicle slid more than 20 meters on the ice-covered road. When it stopped, the vehicle body was already lying on the road.
"What's wrong?" the violinist asked dissatisfiedly.
"The hole just now was dug by the giant cockroach. There is a lot of space inside. I think we should start from here!" Ye Han said loudly.
The size of giant cockroaches is the largest among all known giant insects, and any city that has been infested by giant cockroaches will have its underground dug beyond recognition. If the underground tunnels extending in all directions are reinforced and raised, there will be no problem in taking the subway.
The armored vehicle restarted. Luo Mingyu stepped on the accelerator. The rotating tires slipped on the icy and snowy road. Luo Mingyu released the accelerator and accelerated again. The armored vehicle started slowly, turned around and drove in the direction it came from, and finally stopped at the smuggling young man.
It was said that there was a cave about four meters away.
The four people stood on the edge of the hole with all their equipment. The hole was not vertical like an ant hole, but extended diagonally deep into the ground.
Although the headlights of the car illuminated the entrance of the cave, it was still pitch black and nothing could be seen, even with night vision goggles.
The piano master let out a sigh of relief: "If I can't find it again, I won't look for it today."
"I hope there will be something to gain." Ye Han said and walked into the cave. Xiao Yuan quickly followed. Ding Mo and the violinist looked at each other and followed side by side.
When we first walked into the cave, the cave walls were still covered with ice, snow and frost flowers, but after only walking a few dozen meters, the surrounding area turned into bare soil.
The burrows dug by cockroaches are very distinctive. The height is less than two meters, but the width is five or six meters. The arched top makes people feel strong.
Xiao Yuan curiously touched the soil above his head. He exerted a lot of force, but the soil was so hard that it left almost no trace. He couldn't help but gasped: "This soil is hard enough. Didn't cockroaches squeeze the soil into this hard state?"
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Ye Han twitched the corner of his mouth with a smile: "You have to ask the cockroach about this."
"Forget it." Xiao Yuan shook his head quickly.
There is no beauty in the construction of Cockroach. The only characteristic is that it is rough, and there are curves one after another. Even the seemingly straight sections are also curved.
Fortunately, there were no forks in the road. After about four or five hundred meters, Ye Han encountered the first fork in the road. Ye Han still chose the left and used his saber to draw an arrow on the cave wall as a mark - the arrow was not pointing.
The fork in the road you are about to enter points to the direction you came from.
On the ground, you only rely on a compass to travel, and the tunnels have complicated twists and turns. If you take a wrong turn, you might be trapped underground and unable to move.
Now is not the time when the city is operating normally. Not to mention Linyi City, the entire Linzhou Province cannot find rescue forces. Once trapped, the only result is to wait for death, so it is safer to mark the people honestly.
Powered armor does not seem to have the function of digging holes. After returning this time, should I report it to Qu Jiang to avoid encountering a similar situation in the future?
Forty or fifty meters after entering the fork in the road, the nearby space suddenly expanded, with a width of more than ten meters from left to right and a height of about three and a half meters, forming an underground space with an area of no less than one hundred square meters.
Along the way, only dirt can be seen in the underground cave. However, in the corner of this underground space, there are actually some scattered oversized insect carapace. The legs of the insects protrude from the gaps in the piled carapace. Black insects
The burrs on the legs are unusually conspicuous.
The violinist rushed to Ye Han's side in a few steps: "There aren't any ants in here, are there?"
"Probably not." Ye Han walked to the pile of shells, picked out a piece of carapace as thick as a fist and took it in his hand. He carefully observed the marks on the shell and soon found an inconspicuous mark on the edge of the carapace.
