One night passed, and the sky became white outside.
After all, the plastic rabbit didn't bring much of the activity Shen Cong had hoped for, and the quality of its meat was not as good as that of mutated ants. I originally looked down upon it, but in the end it didn't have the slightest impact on Shen Cong.
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Do morning exercises, repair the King Kong, collect ant legs, and then start studying the queen ant.
The head of the queen's corpse was well preserved, and the chest and abdomen had been smashed into rotten flesh by the King Kong's bulldozer. The original appearance could be vaguely seen.
There is not much difference in structure from ordinary ants, but the chest of the queen ant is not composed of three back plates as a whole, but is made up of bony plates stacked one by one. One of the bony plates has a basin. Large and small, it emits rich active radiation and is obviously the active core of the queen ant.
With a click, Shen Cong pulled down this piece of plate armor, which was more active than the full-moon scimitar of the tumor pig.
This piece of plate armor can be simply modified as a shield. If it is too small, it can be embedded into the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor and used as a breast shield, which will surely greatly improve the defense.
In addition to the active plate armor, Shen Cong also chopped off two antennae and several legs of the queen ant as food reserves, but only three and a half of the six legs were left, and the rest were eaten by the mutated ants.
After checking the head and chest, Shen Cong's eyes focused on the already pulpy abdomen.
He saw mutant ants before and took out a few ant eggs from the abdomen of the queen. He didn't know what they were used for, but they must be valuable, otherwise the mutant ants wouldn't carry one in a small group and then leave.
"Is it to hatch new queen ants?"
Open the shell of the abdomen and push through the thick, condensed white liquid - this white liquid was read by Shen Cong last night. It is the blood of ants. It has a relatively high white pigment content and therefore appears white - you can see the abdomen of the queen ant. There are many intestines, and inside these intestines are broken ant eggs one by one.
The force of the bulldozer's impact was so great that almost all the ant eggs were smashed, and a few intact ones were even taken away by the mutated ants.
However, Shen Cong still found three intact ant eggs under the opened shell. He wiped off the mucus on the surface and found that they were crystal clear egg-shaped, not much smaller than short-lived worker ants, with some bumps on the surface. They were a little heavy at first, so the eggs There is a black spot at one end, which is probably the fertilized egg.
After much searching, only these three intact ant eggs were left.
No crop or sting found.
After a while, the anatomy research data and illustration information about the queen ant were entered into the computer by Shen Cong.
"The queen ant, a mutated ant-like insect, is temporarily classified as a genus of ant colony. It is speculated to be a mutation of the queen ant of the yellow-legged ant. It is huge, slow in movement, and has almost no attack power. Its IQ is unknown. , can see through the camouflage of active frequencies, and has the ability to command the ant colony.”
Later, Shen Cong continued to type a line of text: "The short-term ant colony should retain the living habits of the ant colony, and the queen ant serves as a reproductive tool and directs the entire ant colony..."
However, after thinking about it, Shen Cong marked this paragraph in red again, and added three words at the end - there is ambiguity.
He had just read the information about ants last night, and the habits given in the information were obviously different from the habits of the mutated ant colony.
According to records, the ant colony is a group with highly bonded interests. There is no distinction between individuals, only the division of labor. Rather than saying that the queen is the ruler of the colony, it is better to say that the relationship between the ants is mutual utilization. In the end, it is just the founder of the colony and an egg-laying machine, and occasionally needs to hunt by itself.
It does not dominate the behavior of the colony as a whole. Sometimes the colony will select and kill the queen ants, and even become food for the larvae.
However, the mutant ant colony that Shen Cong encountered had traces of a hierarchical concept. The queen ant can rule other mutant ants.
This doesn't look like ants, it looks like termites.
Of course, they are definitely not termites. The termite queen is purely a tool for laying eggs and cannot move at all, just like maggots.
"Maybe it's because the mutant ants are all produced by the mutant queen, so they obey the queen's command?"
Shake his head.
Shen Cong doesn't plan to delve into the inconclusive speculation for the time being.
Just record your research results.
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Driving back to the car wreckage square, Shen Cong felt a little emotional on the way.
There are too many things that need to be done, and time seems to be insufficient - the activity needs to be studied, the activity needs to be ingested, weapons need to be built, food needs to be stored, and supplies need to be found. Also, the King Kong was bitten by mutant ants and a tire was blown and there was no time to replace it. , it cannot be replaced, and the tire that was bitten by a prehistoric giant crocodile has not yet been repaired.
After several twists and turns and crises, the activity distribution of King Kong has never reached 100%, which is a huge regret.
Fortunately, every crisis stimulates Shen Cong's understanding and mastery of activity.
The lost activity can be replenished, and the acquisition of knowledge is priceless. This is the difference between him and the beast. The beast can desperately increase the activity, but does not know how to use it. In the end, it just provides him with meat.
"It would be nice if we encountered a mutant monster like a plastic rabbit again..."
Within a few minutes, we reached our target location.
The body of the mutated ant that died yesterday afternoon was still lying on the same spot. Shen Cong put on the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor, equipped himself with weapons, carried a large canvas bag, and began to harvest active cores, ant legs and crops on the ground.
This job took a full two hours.
Finally, Shen Cong counted the harvest, the total amount obtained yesterday and today.
The worker ant has 1,433 legs, 221 unbroken crops, 206 pairs of active cores on the palate, 18 pairs of active cores on the antennae, 9 active cores on nodules, and 4 active cores on stings.
The soldier ant has 357 legs, 53 unbroken crops, 52 pairs of mandibular active cores, 6 pairs of antennae active cores, 4 nodule active cores, and 3 stinging active cores. There is also a short soldier ant among them. , gave birth to a pair of palm-sized bony wings, and they were active cores.
The total number of carcasses of the two mutant ants was probably more than 320.
However, there is only a small amount of formic acid in the crops of many mutant ants, which was probably consumed by the previous siege of the King Kong. The active core, radiation intensity and size of the mutant ants are far inferior to mutants such as Tairitian and Digger. monster.
After cleaning up enough materials, the King Kong set off again, away from possible dangers. The metal and corpses in the car wreckage square were likely to attract more mutant monsters, and Shen Cong didn't want to get into trouble again. The King Kong had already suffered several The trauma now needs time to repair.
I drove manually for an afternoon. The driving distance was not ideal and there was no smooth road. It was quite painful for a heavy truck.
Especially the current ground surface has increasingly undulating slopes and has reached hilly terrain.
When the Golden Crow fell to the west, Shen Cong's vision appeared in the ruins of human life surrounded by desolate hills. He saw the ruins of a row of houses. Buried in rubble, there was also a complete section of the wall. You could vaguely see it above. Yes, there was once a signboard with iron characters.
“Shijian Hotel.”
Shen Cong immediately recognized where this place was, Shijian Town, Wuwei County.
"You haven't left Wuwei County yet?" Shen Cong frowned. Shijian Town is more than 20 kilometers away from Chaohu City and about 20 kilometers away from Wuwei County. In other words, geniuses like Shen Cong have only been away from Wuwei County for two years. Ten kilometers.
Although the driving distance is shorter than expected, knowing that this is Shijian Town, Shen Cong can easily set the correct driving route based on the map.
"The north of Shijian Town is a mountainous area, which is not easy to walk. It seems that we must find Provincial Road 208 and go straight along the provincial road."
Seeing nightfall, Shen Cong parked the King Kong at the entrance of Shijian Hotel and began his evening homework.