When there is insufficient light, the viewing distance and clarity of the full-color night vision device are not ideal, and it will even automatically switch to low-light mode. Therefore, what Ye Han sees is not a normal picture, but various shapes and sizes.
three-dimensional outline.
The underground lake is relatively closed, and everything here is different from the ground. It is difficult to judge the specific conditions here based solely on the life experience on the ground.
So Ye Han took out a fluorescent stick, bent it, shook it, and threw it on the shore. The dim fluorescence looked like a high-power searchlight in the lens of the night vision device, illuminating this small piece of lake shore.
The blurry outline finally became clear. Ye Han's eyes fell on the shore and he was immediately startled.
There was actually a group of lake worms lying seven or eight meters in front of them. Looking further away, countless lake worms were layered on top of each other, like mountains about to collapse, and they might swamp this thin team at any time.
Everyone got alert at the same time, raised their rifles in unison, and got ready for battle.
But the strange thing is that everyone has been ashore for a while, but the lake insects have remained motionless.
Ye Han's heart moved. He picked up the light stick at his feet and threw it, hitting a lake insect in the butt. The small and light light stick actually knocked the two-meter-five-meter lake insect sideways!
Everyone looked at each other, and Liu Bin blurted out: "Insect slough?"
Ye Han took a few steps forward and finally saw the crack behind the lake worm: "Yes, it's the worm's slough."
Xue Ju was immediately dumbfounded: "Isn't this too much?"
You won’t know it until you look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it. Seven or eight meters from the shore, there is a border made of insect sloughs. There is nothing on one side of the lake, but on the other side there are giant insect sloughs layered one on top of another. I don’t know.
Whether the terrain is getting higher or there are too many insect sloughs, the insect sloughs dozens of meters away turned into a hill with a height of no less than ten meters!
"Hey, dear, with so many bugs emerging in this place, how many wolf bugs have been raised?" Liu Bin was speechless.
Xue Ju immediately objected: "Don't draw conclusions so early. It's hard to say whether this thing is a wolf larvae. I can only say that it is possible."
"Maybe, what else is there besides wolves and worms in this ghost place? Can you find the second kind of worm?" Liu Bin said dissatisfied.
"Then let me ask you, where are the wolves?" Xue Ju retorted without giving up, "I admit that your speculation has some truth, but we have been in the cave for so long, who has seen the wolves? We must find evidence.
Only when we come out can we tell whether this ghost place is an insect nest or not!"
"Why are you so stubborn!"
"I'm being cautious!"
"Okay, why are you making such a fuss!" Ye Han shouted to stop, "Can you talk well?"
The two people immediately shut up and did not dare to say another word.
Ye Han took a few steps and kicked away a worm slough: "Didn't it say that we have never seen the larvae of wolf worms? If wolf worms are like dragonflies and have been in the water when they were young, wouldn't it make sense?
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After the dragonfly larvae come ashore, they shed their skin and become adults, which seems to be very consistent with the situation of wolfworms.
Xue Ju looked confused: "Chief of Staff, we haven't seen lake worms shed their skin, and we haven't found wolf worms. This..."
Ye Han waved his hand: "I understand what you mean, I mean it is possible."
"It shouldn't be possible... isn't it said that wolves evolved from ants?" Xue Ju said weakly.
Ye Han was startled. He vaguely remembered hearing this statement and couldn't help but be startled.
"What nonsense!" Liu Bin retorted, "Who saw the ants mutate? They say this and that, but in the end aren't they all guesswork? Is there any evidence?"
Use Zi's spear to attack Zi's shield, it's refreshing!
"This is really true..." Xue Ju's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke.
"Then tell me what evidence you have." Liu Bin was at odds with Xue Ju.
It wasn't the first day he met Xue Ju, but they hadn't had much contact before. It was the first time he knew that this guy had such a stubborn temper. He dared to argue with the chief of staff over such a trivial matter. His brain was burned out, right?
Xue Ju said plausibly: "Why is there no evidence? Ants and bees are the only insects that are social. Wolves live in groups. If they are not ants, are they still bees?"
This sentence choked Liu Bin and he rolled his eyes. He searched his liver and intestines but couldn't find a strong rebuttal.
Ye Han nodded thoughtfully: "It makes sense, but just like what you just said, before we find any evidence, all guesses can only be guesses. If insects evolve so fast, they may suddenly evolve sociality."
Liu Bin immediately responded: "It's also possible that the larvae mutated into lake worms because they were close to the water."
"Can we stop talking nonsense?" Xue Ju asked.
"Who are you kidding? Think about it, dragonflies and mosquitoes were all in the water when they were young, right?"
"Is it related to the wolfworm?"
"Why doesn't it matter? All animals come ashore slowly from the water. What if the puffed virus activates the wolf's atavistic gene?"
Xue Ju was surprised: "Hey, can you explain this?"
"That's enough. Is there something wrong with you two? Why don't you two say that wolfworms are a hybrid of two kinds of insects? Can you do something serious with this time!" Ye Han scolded dissatisfiedly.
"Then let's continue looking for wolf insects?" Xue Ju said this in a daze before his mind could turn around.
Ye Han almost laughed out of anger: "It's time to find someone, it's time to find something, let's find a way to get back first."
Only then did Xue Ju realize that he had made a fool of himself.
Ye Han looked around, frowned and said, "Everyone, gather to me!"
Everyone gathered around immediately, Ye Han was the first to sit down, and the others followed suit and sat back to back in a circle.
Ye Han said: "Let's analyze the situation first. The hole we came down to is nearly 200 meters away from the shore and more than 50 meters high. It is impossible to climb up in any case. No matter what you think, I think the mission is not as important as life.
The road was cut off and I had no intention of carrying out any more missions, so I decided to give up the mission and find a way back to the ground as soon as possible. It will be convenient for me to stay or leave by then, what do you think?"
"The chief of staff is right, and the sooner the better, we must return to the ground before the battery runs out!" Liu Bin raised his hand in agreement.
The battery capacity of the power armor is limited. If we can't return to the ground before the power is exhausted, everyone will be trapped here alive. Even if there are no wolves in this hole, everyone will be trapped alive.
"I agree." Xue Ju said, "It's not a burning mission. Let's find a way back first so that everyone won't be worried. If we stay, we won't be interested in looking for wolves."
"That's right, it's right to find the way first!"
"The words of the Chief of Staff have struck a chord in my heart. Who can even think about looking for bugs if my life is about to be lost?"
The soldiers all agreed. They were all good-looking young men in their early twenties, and most of them were unmarried. They all had good minds. If you didn't find a way to leave quickly even though you knew your way back was cut off, what else was it if you weren't courting death?
I haven't been in a good state lately, but I'm doing fine today!
Having said that, today is the first time in a month that I have had a proper rest. I was so tired last week that my whole body ached, so it’s strange that I’m in good shape.
