Xu Jiaye's expression froze and he looked to Brother Yi for help.
Brother No. 1 asked curiously: "What is a water bear?"
"I can't explain it in one sentence or two, so you can go online and read it yourself." Professor Qin said weakly.
He also knew that his inference was too shocking and he did not expect Brother Yi to believe it. However, when this scene really happened before his eyes, Professor Qin still felt an inextricable sense of frustration.
Professor Qin felt quite highbrow at this time.
Xu Jiaye and Brother Yi quickly searched for information about water bears on the Internet. Both of their eyes were as wide as bells. Xu Jiaye looked at Brother Yi's expression calmly and asked first: "Mr. Qin, what's going on in the world?"
Could there be such... uh, magical creatures?"
"Nature is so miraculous." Professor Qin said wisely.
"So, what you mean is that the boxer ant is the giant version of the water bear?" Xu Jiaye's tone suddenly became higher.
"It's possible, it's possible that boxer ants have evolved the ability to acquire foreign genes," Professor Qin said.
The tardigrade is very small, while the boxer ant is only as big as a fist. Judging from the size difference between the two, the boxer ant is indeed like a giant tardigrade. The problem is that the appearance of the tardigrade and the original ant are too different, even if these two creatures
They both contain a large number of foreign genes, and we cannot forcefully say that they are the same organism.
"The adaptability of boxer ants..." Xu Jiaye suddenly paused mid-sentence.
He originally wanted to ask whether boxer ants' adaptability was as strong as water bears, but he remembered that the military used shelling and fire to destroy a large number of boxer ants, and he swallowed his words again.
Xu Jiaye thought for a while before continuing, "If the boxer ant continues to evolve, will it gain the adaptability of the water bear?"
"I personally think it's impossible." Professor Qin said, "Water bears cannot adapt to all environments. They can only live in normal environments. In extreme environments, they can only rely on cryptobiosis to maintain life.
It is very important to be able to move freely in various environments. Let’s put it this way, if a water bear is as big as a boxer ant, the process of dehydration and water absorption is definitely not that simple, at least hundreds or thousands of times more complicated, so I think boxing
Ants can't possibly have this ability."
Xu Jiaye frowned in confusion: "Then I don't understand. Since the boxer ant is not as powerful as the water bear, what can it do even if it evolves?"
Professor Qin sighed helplessly: "Why don't you understand what I mean? Evolution is not scary, what is scary is the absorption of foreign DNA and targeted high-speed evolution!"
Xu Jiaye still looked confused, and Brother Yi couldn't hide the confusion in his eyes.
Professor Qin continued: "To put it more mysteriously, after absorbing human genes, it is possible to grow a brain similar to humans. In this case, the insects will have the basis for generating intelligence..."
"Isn't it possible?" Brother Yi said blankly.
"I'm just making an analogy," Professor Qin said, "and it's not enough to have a basic foundation. Wolf children are also human beings, but do wolf children have wisdom?"
Xu Jiaye pinched the corners of his eyes angrily: "I almost made you faint."
Brother Yi nodded secretly with deep sympathy.
Professor Qin secretly cursed: It was just speculation, you had to let me say it!
But he couldn't say this clearly, so he could only purse his lips: "In short, I think boxer ants are ten times and a hundred times more dangerous than all previous giant insects put together."
"Understood." Brother No. 1 nodded cautiously, "Mr. Qin, thank you for your explanation. It's getting late. You should go back and rest first."
After cutting off the video communication, Xu Jiaye was the only one left on the screen. Brother Yi asked: "Xiao Xu, what do you think?"
"Chief, I'm still dizzy now." Xu Jiaye smiled bitterly.
Brother Yi thought for a while and suddenly said: "Xiao Xu, I have been paying more attention to Professor Qin's experimental results recently. Please report any progress as soon as possible. Do you understand?"
Xu Jiaye nodded and said: "Yes, Chief."
He agreed happily, but he couldn't help but wonder in his heart: Are you concerned about the situation in the laboratory, or do you want to control the situation in the laboratory?
With his political IQ, he really can't figure it out.
After the communication ended, Brother Yi sat quietly for a while before sorting out the messy thoughts in his heart. After returning to the office, he called Qiu Tianning: "Lao Qiu, the situation has changed. Linyi can't delay it any longer."
Already."
"what do you mean……"
"Execute the annihilation plan and do your best on the rescue mission."
Qiu Tianning's heart trembled, and he persuaded in a low voice: "The boxer ants can't leave the nest, should we wait a little longer?"
The plan to annihilate the boxer ants has been made for a long time. Once this plan is implemented, the boxer ants will definitely die one after another, but the people captured by the boxer ants will not escape death either.
"You can wait in Linyi City first, there is no need for the ant nest outside the city." Brother Yi said.
"Yes, I understand!" Qiu Tianning quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Linyi City must also be under control. You can control this yourself." Brother Yi said again.
"good."
After the communication ended, Qiu Tianning looked solemn, thought for a moment and said: "Notify Linyi to temporarily stop the rescue, and first find out the ant nest clearly."
The order was transmitted to Linyi via radio waves, and the difficult rescue operation came to an abrupt end.
Not only that, but no, there are only four powered armors in the entire brigade that can move freely, and the rescue operation requires the joint efforts of thousands of officers and soldiers in the entire brigade, rather than the individual heroism of four outsiders.
Even if Ye Han and others don't care about gains and losses, regardless of exhaustion, the battery pack still has to find time to charge, right?
Although the operation was suspended, the troops did not withdraw from the underground cave. All the armored vehicles that could enter the underground cave were scattered out and drilled everywhere in the ant nest underground in Linyi. The electronic ant nest map in the headquarters expanded rapidly.
Winding and criss-crossing passages, large and small caves, an underground river network with dense tributaries...a giant underground "city" that is almost half the size of Linyi gradually unfolded in front of everyone.
Everyone was stunned by this huge ant nest. With such a large scale, there would be no problem even if it hid millions of soldiers and civilians.
Finding out the situation of the underground tunnel network is only the first step. What is more important is to assess the safety of each location.
Time waits for no one, and the headquarters has initially divided the underground network into three levels. The first is the safe area. There is no danger of landslides in the tunnels at this level and there are no underground rivers. Armored vehicles can come and go freely without any danger; the second is the hidden danger area, such as water seepage.
Or other dangerous factors that may cause landslides; the third is critical areas, that is, areas that have collapsed, been flooded by underground rivers, etc. and are inaccessible.
In order to complete this map, the headquarters even put aside counting the number of "granaries". It was not until the map was completed that they began to count how many granaries the troops had discovered.
It’s not that I didn’t know, but I was shocked. The whole brigade actually found more than 270 granaries, with hundreds of people at least, thousands of people with more. According to incomplete statistics, about fifteen humans were captured by boxer ants.
To 170,000, not counting those eaten by boxer ants.
