The appetite of blackheads is much smaller than that of mature larvae.
Perhaps it is already an adult, and its body has stopped developing. It only needs to maintain daily consumption, so it eats less.
Interestingly, when Shen Cong threw the scrap metal to Blackhead, Blackhead would not eat it directly. Instead, he would hold the scrap metal in his mouth, run all the way to the plastic box, and deliver it to the mature larvae. Make sure that the mature larvae would not eat it. I only took a few bites and then threw it aside.
"What kind of behavior is this? Surrender? It doesn't look like it. There is no hierarchy in the ant colony. Individual members are equal. Then, it should be feeding. The blackhead may be a worker ant that picks up food from outside and brings it back. The nest feeds the larvae.”
"However," Shen Cong lamented regretfully, "just two ants cannot form a colony at all, unless the mature larvae are queens. But the queens do not mate and cannot lay eggs."
Queen ants are female ants with wings. Female ants of different colonies mate during the nuptial flight season. After mating, the female ants take off their wings and start building a nest to become the queen ant. The male ant's sperm can be stored in the queen's body for several years. Time is enough for the queen to lay eggs anytime and anywhere when necessary.
Then Shen Cong thought that when the queen ant died, there were several groups of ants, each picking up a few eggs and leaving.
Perhaps some of those eggs can develop into male and female ants, and when they grow, they can form new colonies.
Shaking his head, Shen Cong no longer thought too far ahead.
He decided to raise Black Head like a dog and train it to accept various commands while Black Head was still a blank piece of paper. With this additional task, the boring weather suddenly became much more interesting.
"Heitou, bring me my welding gun!"
"Clamp it gently so it doesn't get damaged!"
"Heitou, go outside and bring me a rock. That's the rock."
"Very good and well behaved. This is your reward. Eat it."
"Heitou, break this bone for me. Yes, that's it."
"Heitou, pass me the rhinoceros horn cup and don't spill the water, otherwise you won't be allowed to eat iron today!"
During the training process, Shen Cong found that Blackhead's ability to accept instructions was still very clear. However, he could not let him do too detailed work, such as carrying a rhinoceros horn cup. When the rhinoceros horn cup reached Shen Cong's hand, half of the water was spilled. Not to mention, there are two marks on the surface of the cup caused by blackheads.
Blackheads cannot control their own power in subtle ways.
It can roughly lift a 30-weight stone with force, but clamping a cup requires gentle force, which Blackhead cannot master.
Another point is that the blackhead talent has increased, the level has increased, and the combat effectiveness has been strengthened, but the utilization of activity is still zero.
Its upper jaw can theoretically cut metal easily. After all, since larvae, they can scrape off metal powder and swallow it.
But in fact, blackheads still use their mouthparts to bite metal, scrape off the debris and swallow it.
Instead of using the upper jaw, cut the metal into small pieces.
Shen Cong couldn't teach it this, the activity was too complicated.
"The blackheads and ant force gods have grown in size. It is a bit inconvenient to continue to keep them in the King Kong. Moreover, insects are insects after all and need to be guarded against. If I had known better, I should not have dismantled the Hummer and converted it into a nanny car. Throw the blackheads and ant power gods in and raise them."
When they were larvae, Shen Cong raised these two ants, which was quite interesting.
But the King Kong was loaded with too much stuff, and except for the aisle in the middle of the carriage and the utility room at the rear door, there was basically no extra space to move around.
The kitchen and bedroom are not places where blackheads and ant force gods can go.
"Furthermore, the King Kong has already alloyed most of my supplies, and there are not enough resources in the car to alloy them. Speaking of which, it would be great if we could build another carriage. It can not only provide the alloys needed by the King Kong, but also serve as a The breeding room of Black Head and Ant Power God can also store some unimportant supplies to make room for the King Kong carriage."
"Go to the main city and look for any abandoned truck beds."
The sky cleared up in the evening, just in time to see the sunset and a rainbow hanging in the sky.
it's beautiful.
Shen Cong was not in a hurry to drive the King Kong down the mountain. He planned to camp on the top of the mountain for one night and go down the mountain early tomorrow morning. Then he would walk around the main city area, looking for evolutionary trees that might bear fruit, and strengthen his physical fitness. If you go up there, it will be at least on par with the King Kong.
This is the only way to completely eliminate the siphon phenomenon.
When Shen Cong got up the next morning to check his surroundings, he suddenly discovered that Qishan had changed.
Yesterday it was a bare barren mountain, but today it is a dark green mountain. On the ground, a layer of black and green stuff is densely covered with the entire Qishan Mountain. Even the King Kong is surrounded by this stuff.
"What's this?"
Shen Cong carefully collected some of it with a fork and put on plastic gloves to examine this kind of thing.
"It's very similar to the lichen, but it's a little different. I can't tell what the difference is." Shen Cong broke open the lichen. It felt very tender and soft, almost like fungus.
This is indeed the local dish that Shen Cong has eaten.
Lichen is a common strange plant, also called lichen. To be precise, it is a symbiosis of fungi and algae. The algae photosynthesize to produce nutrients, and the fungi plunder them and surround the algae, isolating it from the outside world, so that the algae can only Relying on fungi to provide the materials needed for growth to achieve symbiosis.
"Has this type of vegetable been mutated?" Shen Cong could feel that the vegetable was emitting weak active radiation. Only mutated animals and plants would emit active radiation.
It is difficult to define whether a turfgrass is a plant or a fungus.
However, since it had mutated, Shen Cong treated the Dipi Cai as mutated animals and plants, and carefully studied the Dipi Cai. He named the mutated Dipi Cai "Iron Pei Cai" and recorded the data of the Dipi Cai.
"Tiebaicai, a mutated lichen-like creature, cannot be divided into attributes. Its growth situation is not much different from that of ordinary lichen. However, it can spread over a small hill in one night and its reproductive capacity is amazing. Level data 0083, 0001, s0012, belongs to me. The weakest mutated creature ever."
The emergence of ferngrass gave Shen Cong a new perspective on the ecological environment of the barren zone.
The mutation brought about by activity may not simply destroy the ecology of a place. Although the disaster has led to the extinction of most species and the food chain has become fragmented. But mutation has also caused variables in the evolutionary direction of organisms, such as this Iron vegetables.
Before the heavy rain, Shen Cong didn't think that such low-level creatures would survive, but after the heavy rain, the iron bark quickly occupied the entire Qishan Mountain. In terms of survival ability, it was obviously more powerful than higher animals and plants.
And with the presence of iron-leaf vegetables, there may be evolved beasts that make a living by eating iron-leaf vegetables, thereby replenishing the complete food chain.
Then the question came. Shen Cong looked at the tin vegetables on the ground: "Are the tin vegetables edible?"