"Forget it, let's talk about it when we get to Jinan." In the past, it took about five hours to travel from Qingdao to Jinan by car. Now Liu Chang can run no slower than a car, but the jungle is so dangerous, even if it is the dead night. , The winter is deep, but as long as the animals and plants still need nutrients, then avoid the situation of not being able to hunt.
Liu Chang ran all the way here. In fact, he has experienced several dangerous situations and encountered several attacks by animals and plants. Some places have strange things growing, so he dare not set foot in them, and even have to detour - this is a big problem. His travel itinerary was ruined.
In fact, the jungles in each place have their own unique natural barriers—this is a kind of self-protection of the jungle. Not to mention the distance, just before the end of the day, when the evolution of animals and plants was not very advanced, the road section from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou - there are countless difficulties and obstacles, and there are even bright red flowers Such a bizarre plant.
Afterwards, from Henan to Hebei, I encountered a strange phenomenon of "coordinated evolution of groups" in which the entire huge forest is all pure red, such as the "hidden forest". Therefore, in the wild now, not just anyone can pass through.
Even Liu Chang has to be careful—because the wild is like an underwater world with a lower risk factor. Liu Chang jumped into the sea, and within ten minutes, he encountered giant eels, which he couldn't beat at all. Among them, there are not a few such creatures, not to mention that he doesn't have any guns in his hands now.
He left in a hurry this time, except for the big knife because he went out in the morning because he wanted to dig up snake meat, so he didn't take the rest - even the meat gun fell on the base of Dahuzi in Qingdao.
Therefore, after enduring on the spot for a while, Liu Chang didn't choose to make troubles, but still started to run.
However, I don’t know if the heavens heard the call of his body’s hunger and thirst, or the jungle’s rule of “the distance between the water source and the water source cannot be too far away” played a role. After resting for a while and accelerating again, Liu Chang didn’t run very far. , I smelled the breath of water in the cold wind.
It was the smell of fresh water—there was no smell of sea in the air, nor the bitter salty smell unique to Yanba. Liu Chang was sure that there was a large lake in front of him.
Just as I was about to sleep, someone came to deliver a pillow. With such a huge water source in front of me, there was no reason not to take a sip. Anyway, it was not far away, and his body was extremely tired and short of water, so Liu Chang simply ran towards the water source. The nose could smell it, so naturally it would not be too far away. After running about 3,000 meters, Liu Chang saw a frozen lake.
The surface of the lake is frozen, but the lake is like sea water, with many breaches—some creatures in the lake are rolling in it, and there are still many temporary breaches that have been frozen, which are obviously from land creatures who came to the lake to fetch water. Biologically created. If they want to drink water, they have to break the ice. Creatures before the doomsday have the intelligence to break the ice to get water. After the doomsday, this matter is not difficult for smart animals. It's just that the temperature is too low, so it's very difficult to break the ice, and you need very strong or groups of animals to break the ice successfully.
Those small, incapable species may have to survive by picking up ice debris.
And not only that, in this weather where water is splashed into ice, even if a hole is broken, it will be frozen again in an instant—Liu Chang sometimes wonders if the lake is not deep enough, should it be completely frozen — and don’t know what to do with the creatures inside.
However, these scientific questions just flashed through his mind. Liu Chang is now chasing something that kills him, and he didn't have time to think about it this time. After a little observation by the lake, he found nothing dangerous or strange. , he slowly approached the lake, and then took out a large piece of ice on the lake, put it in his mouth and chewed it with a "crack" and "crack".
The reason why Liu Chang didn't go to the oxygen outlet to get water was because Liu Chang didn't want to encounter any dangers. After eating a few mouthfuls of ice to replenish his body's water, he picked up a few more to prepare for the road. When he was about to leave, he suddenly smelled a strange smell.
The smell of ants.
Every insect has a unique smell, and many insects have a little smell of traditional Chinese medicine - ants, as a species that is spread all over the continents in the world before and now, also have their own unique smell. Therefore, when Liu Chang first smelled this smell, he aroused a little curiosity.
Because judging from the intensity of the smell, Liu Chang can basically determine that this coming creature is very large - he has hardly seen a giant ant before, and the biggest ant he has seen after the end is the size of a washbasin ——It seems that their unique structure like a generator makes it difficult for them to grow too large. Recently, Liu Chang is eager to obtain the power of ants, so it is rare to risk the arrival of these creatures.
He wanted to see if the ant could maintain that formidable proportional force after it got bigger.
So, he found a rock by the lake, hid behind the rocks and tree trunks, and waited quietly for the arrival of these strange things.
Ants live in groups, and workers, soldiers, and queens have a clear division of labor. After waiting for a long time, Liu Chang saw a group of black ants about the size of a person carrying a bright red ant about the size of three people to the lake.
"Queen of ants?" Ants are creatures with strange intelligence - if they are alone, their intelligence is very poor, not even as good as most insects. But after living together in groups, it seems to be able to produce a kind of symbiotic wisdom. The ability of the group allows them to create miracles that are difficult for other creatures to achieve-and this kind of creature has almost no vision, and its vision is two-dimensional-that is to say, they can only Seeing things on the plane, but not feeling three-dimensional. And in the previous world, there was even a saying that ants had no eyesight, and their main sensory organs were antennae.
But after the end, all kinds of ants appeared—Liu Chang even saw ants with several pairs of fly-like compound eyes—this allowed them to see everything around 360 degrees clearly and use it to sense danger and hunting and information gathering.
But squatting behind the tree, Liu Chang found that the ant in front of him obviously had no such thing as "vision". Its bare body was covered with the hard shell of that kind of ant, and there were no sunken eyes at all, but its antennae were extremely developed. The stumps are as thick as arms, and as they move, they are constantly swinging in front of the body.
"That big red ant seems to be sick?" Liu Chang looked at the strange scene in front of him—the smaller worker ants seemed to have received some kind of order, and carried the big red ant all the way to the lake. Then two of them went to the ice layer of the lake, and with the sharp and hard pliers, they made a hole in the frozen ice layer in a few strokes, and then put the queen ant into the pit. edge of the hole.
"Creak" "creak" Then the queen ant made an unpleasant sound from her stomach—this sound was loud and unpleasant, even Liu Chang, who was tens of meters away, felt a little harsh—this unpleasant sound was somewhat similar to The sound of the steel drill drilling the steel plate, accompanied by the sound of "cuckoo" bubbles, reminded Liu Chang of the picture of himself living in the stomach of an eel.
From a distance of tens of meters, he seemed to see the scene of the queen ant's stomach bulging, and not long after that, he heard a "crack" sound, and a black "iron drill bit" came out of the queen ant's stomach. abdomen.
"My God, what's that?" The iron drill slowly drilled out of the queen's ripped stomach, causing the queen to let out a cry of pain, and also made the worker ants below panic.
Afterwards, the sounds of "crack" and "crack" were endless, and Liu Chang saw black things like thick wires bursting out of the stomach of the queen ant, and then twisted their bodies and burrowed into the broken hole on the lake. Inside the mouth, finally drilled through the thin layer of ice that was frozen just after digging, and entered into the water surface.
The queen ant also twisted her body twice in pain before dying on the edge of the lake.
"What's the situation?" Liu Chang didn't understand at all what the situation was - first of all, he didn't know what the thick wire-like creature that had been ripped out of the queen ant's belly was - let alone why the queen ant ordered The worker ants move here from a place as far away from the ant nest (usually the queen will not leave the ant nest), and after such a disgusting process, they die.
"Does this count as suicide?" Liu Chang was thinking about this somewhat philosophical question, but suddenly saw the group of panicked worker ants rushing towards him like crazy.
"Did they find me long ago?" This group of worker ants charged in a very neat formation, lying there one by one larger than a human, very fast and powerful, and their slender and tough ant feet landed on the ground every time. Sliding, you can dislike a whole layer of sand, gravel and mud on the ground. Under the strong reaction force, the worker ants hit each other like cannonballs.
"It's really strong!" The ants are strong, but not flexible enough. With Liu Chang's powerful dynamic vision, it's easy to avoid their collision.
After all, no matter how powerful and fast, it is not as fast as a bullet. Liu Chang can cut bullets as small as peanuts with a sharp blade, so it is too easy for an ant so big to avoid them. Even on the way to jump out, Liu Chang took time to figure out why the ants found him as soon as they came out.
"Creatures that don't rely on their eyesight to catch their prey, it's really unnecessary for me to hide behind a tree!" Liu Chang muttered, and slashed the big knife at the ant's head.