In the afternoon, two things gave Shen Cong more fun in his boring life.
One was the pupa of a second-generation mutated maggot, which finally hatched into a blowfly. Six blowflies the size of a baby's fist were buzzing in the glass bottle.
The levels of these six blowflies are between Lv0.037-Lv0.039. Their active cores are no different from variant No. 1. They are all beaks in the mouthparts.
Shen Cong named these second-generation blowflies.
Shen Cong fed the reserved carrion of the Bull Demon King to one of the slightly larger second-generation blowflies; the other five second-generation blowflies were kept in a bottle to test whether the second-generations born in the same litter would They will kill each other. Shen Cong has lost interest in feeding blowflies, which will make the smell inside the King Kong very unpleasant.
Keep two of them until the comparison test between the No. 1 variant and the second-generation blowfly is completed, and then use them all as bait for fishing.
Facing the blowflies, Shen Cong could decisively declare their fate, but facing the two ant larvae that had just hatched, Shen Cong didn't know what to think.
Almost at the same time that the flies emerge from their pupae, the ant eggs hatch out.
Two maggots, slightly smaller than a mineral water bottle, were crawling around happily in the transparent plastic box. Especially when Shen Cong came over, the two maggots immediately crawled towards Shen Cong. The activity exuded, Shen Cong could easily feel their admiration and closeness to him.
This feels bad, very bad.
Although they will become ants when they grow up, many people like to raise ants before the disaster these days. But at present, they are still in the image of maggots, with crystal clear bodies covered with tiny flagella, squirming slowly, and there are still some insects in their bodies. There is a black core, probably an organ.
It felt bad to have established a connection with the maggots, so Shen Cong's face was dark at the moment.
"Get away!"
Shen Cong tried to release his emotions to the ant larvae through the connection between activities.
This is meaningless venting.
However, what Shen Cong didn't expect was that the two ant larvae actually squirmed to the side obediently and did not dare to approach Shen Cong anymore.
Faced with this discovery, Shen Cong immediately changed his attitude and became interested.
It is indeed not good to establish a sensory connection with small insects, but it would be much more interesting if you could command small insects. The level of these two larvae in perception is about Lv0.036, which is very weak.
"come over."
Shen Cong released his thoughts again.
Two ant larvae crawled over obediently.
"Go away."
"come over."
"Go over there."
"Roll over!"
The first three commands were executed perfectly, and the ant larvae were indifferent to the last command to roll. Moreover, a confused consciousness came back to them. They probably did not understand what "roll over" meant.
"Turn your body over." Shen Cong tried to change his mind, but the ant larvae was still confused.
This IQ is obviously very low.
However, insects are still the weakest larvae and cannot be expected to have a high IQ.
It didn't take a while.
Two ant larvae expressed the feeling of "hungry" together.
Ant larvae generally eat food that is semi-digested by worker ants. They can be omnivorous, carnivorous, or vegetarian. However, Shen Cong really doesn't know what the mutated ants should eat. What he saw before was a colony of short-term ants gnawing. Metal.
"Feed some leaves first."
Throw the leaves in, and the ant larvae won't get close to them at all.
"Feed more beef and sashimi."
The ant larvae stayed away from sashimi, and even gave up beef after a few bites.
"If you are such a picky eater, do you really need to feed some metal?" Thinking about it, Shen Cong threw a piece of scrap iron into the plastic box. He didn't quite believe that ant larvae would eat metal. This fat meat maggot, no. It looks like it can chew metal.
However, the next moment the ant larvae proved that even if they were larvae, they were mutated larvae.
Squeak, squeak, squeak!
Two ant larvae happily gnawed on the metal, scraping their mouthparts on the iron piece, and a lot of iron filings were eaten away. Shen Cong looked carefully and could see that the mouthparts of the ant larvae had a ring of sharp teeth, which could Easily scrape off a layer of iron filings on the surface of the iron sheet.
In more than three minutes, the palm-sized piece of iron was eaten clean by two ant larvae, leaving nothing behind.
"Okay, you guys eat this, I have plenty."
Shen Cong directly threw a pile of scrap iron materials left over from welding hunting clips into a plastic box. Ant larvae have no excretion holes, and all the iron filings they eat accumulate in their bodies. It can be seen from the translucent body , a large amount of iron filings accumulate in the black organs, and are then continuously digested.
The size of the larvae is also growing rapidly, and soon exceeds the size of a mineral water bottle, and is still greedily eating metal. The body color has also changed from the previous transparent milky white to light yellow, and has been deepening in color.
Shen Cong was busy welding hunting clips nearby to facilitate the observation of ant larvae.
An afternoon passed in an instant.
After the ant larvae grew to almost the size of a large bottle of Coca-Cola, it finally stopped eating. Its entire body turned dark brown and it swallowed five kilograms of metal.
After stopping eating.
Two ant larvae began to approach each other and rub their bodies.
"What is this!" Shen Cong looked at the ant larvae curiously, some strange thoughts passing through his mind.
Soon he figured out what the ant larvae were doing - shedding their skin.
They rub against each other and shed each other's skin and their own skin. This is the transition from first-instar larvae to second-instar larvae. Generally, many insect larvae will undergo two molts. Before molting, they are called first-instar larvae. The first molt is The latter are called second instar larvae, and those after the second molt are called third instar larvae or mature larvae.
Then it begins to pupate, form a cocoon, and transform into an adult.
What Shen Cong was curious about was that he did not see this change during the development process of the second generation blowfly. It just eats and drinks normally, then grows to a certain size and begins to pupate.
"Perhaps the second generation is a breakthrough from ordinary flies to mutant flies, and has not fully evolved?" Shen Cong speculated that it was artificial intervention after all, forcibly transforming the descendants of ordinary flies into mutant flies.
He shook his head, no longer paying attention to this unanswerable question, and continued to focus on the second instar ant larvae.
The skin shed by the first-instar larvae is dark brown, but the skin of the fresh second-instar larvae is still transparent and milky white, and the body shape remains the size of a large bottle of Coca-Cola. The activity level has increased from the previous Lv0.036 to the current Lv0.048. Made great progress.
What makes Shen Cong embarrassed is that the connection between the first-instar larvae and him is still vague. By the second-instar larvae, the connection between the activities is a bit clearer. It seems that the emotions of the second-instar larvae are more intense than those of the first-instar larvae. The reason for emotional richness, or increased IQ.
Shen Cong does not believe that the second instar larvae have increased IQ.