"At 19:28 on July 27, another blowfly died, leaving three remaining. The previous fly eggs have not shown any movement yet."
Shen Cong went to replace the blowflies with more active meat at night, and observed the eggs laid by the blowflies. A ball of fly eggs as big as a needle tip grew on the rotten meat like long hair, and they did not hatch out.
Shen Cong was looking forward to the fly eggs.
He speculated that the reason why the breviary ant colony has so many mutant ants is probably because the breviary ant queen mutated, resulting in all the ants produced being mutants. From this, it can be deduced that mutation, or activity, can be inherited... ...If the fly eggs hatch out into mutant flies, then he will have another understanding of the activity.
Of course, compared to his expectations for fly eggs, Shen Cong's biggest expectation now is the eggs laid by the three short fierce ant queens.
If mutant ants can be hatched and raised from an early age, I don’t know what the effect will be.
"These three ant eggs were taken out from the queen ant's body. I don't know if they are mature enough and can hatch. According to the data, it takes 14 days for the ant eggs to hatch. Let me try to hatch them."
Even if the hatching fails, they can still be cooked and eaten as eggs.
Since the arrival of the apocalypse, Shen Cong has changed his food objects. Basically, anything that contains active ingredients is finally on his menu.
Put the ant eggs into the box and wait for them to hatch.
Shen Cong started another task. He began to classify the formic acid in the mutated ants' crops into different containers according to strong formic acid and super strong formic acid. Acid substances cannot be used in plastic bottles. For this reason, Shen Cong I took out a few bottles of canned fruit, ate the pulp inside, drank the juice, and used them as containers.
After pouring out the crops of 221 short-term soldier ants, only two 1L full bottles and one half bottle were obtained. From the crops of 53 short-term soldier ants, one full 1L bottle was obtained.
Three and a half bottles of formic acid were collected by Shen Cong.
He doesn't have any use for this kind of thing yet.
Then tidy up the ant's legs.
The ant legs of the breviary worker ant are numerous, but they do not occupy much volume. One leg is only as thick as a chopstick, and its length is about the same as the body length. The ant legs of the breviary soldier ant are not much larger than those of the breviary worker ant, and the length and thickness are similar. .
Ant legs have five joints, the basal joint, the trochanter, the femur, the tibia and the tarsus. The basal joint belongs to the leg root and is severely ossified and cannot be eaten. The trochanter is a joint and cannot be chewed. The tarsus belongs to the claw. There is no meat, only the thigh joints and shin joints have meat, which is equivalent to thighs and calves. It tastes great.
Shen Cong simply cleaned out the basal joints, turbulent joints, and tarsal joints, leaving only the thigh joints and tibia joints, and then prepared to simply fry them and eat them as snacks.
"I'm eating fried ant legs in People's Square, and where are you at this moment..." Shen Cong hummed.
When fried, the ant legs give off an attractive aroma. After frying a batch, put them in a carton and eat them just like French fries. If you add some ketchup, tsk tsk.
After all the ant legs were fried, six shoe boxes were filled, enough for him to eat for several days, if they didn't spoil.
The legs of ordinary mutant ants can be used as snacks, while the three and a half legs and a pair of antennae of the short fierce ant queen can be eaten as food. The ant legs of the queen ant are as thick as a mineral water bottle cap, longer than a human arm, and rich in flavor active radiation is emitted.
Now it's Shen Cong's turn to worry about excess food.
Tumor pig steaks, Thai Ritian's dog legs, fried ant legs, and queen ant meat ingredients. Unfortunately, Shen Cong didn't have the idea of storing frozen meat before the end of the world. Because freezing consumes too much electricity, the cold storage was not added. Pack, store all dry and easy-to-preserve foods.
As for the car refrigerator, there is a small compressor refrigerator. Water got in during the heavy rain. The internal system was broken and there was no time to repair it. And even if it was repaired, it was not big and the cooling effect was not good. He was just I simply made one without much preparation.
In order to store short-term food, it is not cost-effective to design a refrigerator that takes up space, consumes electricity, and is not very efficient.
As a result, there is so much meat now that it will rot if not thrown away.
"It's a waste. If you find a survivor base, you might be able to exchange supplies with mutated monsters... When you find a survivor base and life stabilizes, the King Kong needs to be remodeled to better cope with the end of the world."
The current apocalypse is very different from the apocalypse he prepared for.
It's already nine o'clock in the evening.
Shen Cong originally planned to continue sorting out the active cores harvested today, but the repair of the King Kong needed to be solved urgently, so he chose to guide the active cores to repair the tires.
The King Kong has 22 tires and one spare tire. Now the spare tire has blown out and one of the tires in use has also burst, which poses a safety hazard.
He dragged the spare tire into the car, used the tire repair tool to complete the repair, and then used the active extension properties to restore the tire to its original appearance.
At around one o'clock in the middle of the night, the spare tire was finally completely repaired, and Shen Cong went to sleep.
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The next day was cloudy.
The weather in the last days was very extreme. First there was a storm that lasted for a month, then there was a period of sunny days, then there was a heavy rainstorm, and then there was another period of sunny days.
It's rare to see a cloudy day.
Shen Cong was almost startled when he saw a cloudy day for the first time, and was about to drive to the high ground, but there were no dark clouds on this cloudy day. It was just a cloudy day similar to haze, and the free activity in the air was stronger than that on a sunny day. Many, Geiger counter numbers went up more than nine times.
In the past, Shen Cong would avoid radiation. After he almost concluded that radiation was caused by activity, he fell in love with the air quality with explosive radiation.
With such rich dissociative activity, even the King Kong seemed to have a happy mood and fed back to Shen Cong.
The comfort of the body will contaminate emotions.
However, Shen Cong is a person who is not easily swayed by his emotions. He never loses his vigilance. When he left the King Kong activity, he was still wearing the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor and loaded with weapons.
After inspecting every corner, before starting to work, every few minutes, you have to look up and around, and every half an hour, you have to make another inspection.
Caution is the boat.
Putting on the repaired spare tire, Shen Cong got back on the road. He drove the King Kong and moved slowly among the ruins.
Look for Provincial Road 208.
After half an hour, the appearance of Shijian Town was completely revealed to Shen Cong. There were no buildings still standing, but the original sites of most buildings could still be vaguely seen. The roads under the gravel were effortless. We found it, but there was a fork ahead, and Shen Cong was observing.
"The main branch road on the left should be the county road leading to Moss Forest Farm, the one on the right should be the county road leading to Taiping Township, and the one in the middle is Provincial Road 208."
After determining the route, Shen Cong drove away without wasting time.
Shijian Town is close to the mountains. Provincial Highway 208 runs through the valley. The originally green mountains have turned into exposed limestone, which is gray-white, and may be mixed with kaolin. Both rocks are white, and they look like Like a dirty snow mountain.
The bottom of the valley that was supposed to be a provincial highway was covered with gray-white rocks, making it difficult to navigate in some places. Shen Cong had to use a bulldozer to clear the way, which consumed a lot of fuel and drove at a slow speed.
Perhaps due to the erosion of the heavy rain, there would occasionally be smooth roads. The apocalypse did not bring earthquakes, so there were only obvious potholes on the roadside, but there was no breakage, uplift, or subsidence.
Stop and go, slow down and speed up.
In half an hour, the King Kong had advanced less than five kilometers.
What made Shen Cong even more stomped was that five kilometers away, a landslide occurred and a large amount of gravel completely blocked the road. This forced Shen Cong to turn around and return to the fork in the road from the village access road in the direction of Taiping Township. Detouring, the King Kong's width will cover two village roads, which will definitely make it more troublesome.
But no matter how troublesome it is, there is still a road as the cornerstone. The King Kong's 1.5-meter tires can move forward as long as the terrain is not too bumpy.
It goes around every village and is surrounded by "snowy mountains" on both sides.
The car radio was always on, making constant noise, but no signal was found that day. Shen Cong bit an ant's leg, feeling a little tired. Driving alone for a long time on a bumpy road would inevitably lead to fatigue. .
Fortunately, the active heat energy produced by the ant's legs refreshes him from time to time.
Suddenly, in the corner of Shen Cong's sight, a touch of green appeared among the gray and white.