"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 blowfly with more active meat at night, and observed the eggs laid by the blowfly. 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 egg hatches into a mutant fly, then he will have another understanding of 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 could be hatched and raised from an early age, I don’t know what the effect would 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 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 pour the formic acid in the mutated ant's crops into different containers according to strong formic acid and super strong formic acid. Acids cannot be used in plastic bottles, so Shen Cong took out a few bottles of canned fruit, ate the pulp and juice inside, and used them as containers.
After pouring out the crops of 221 short-term worker ants, only two 1-liter full bottles and one half bottle were obtained. The crops of 53 short-lived soldier ants yielded a full bottle of 1 liter.
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 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 sections, the basal section, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsus. The basal section belongs to the leg root and is severely ossified and cannot be eaten. The turbulence is a joint and cannot be chewed. The tarsus belongs to the claws and 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, they are put into a carton and can be eaten just like French fries. If you add more 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 queen ant can be eaten as food. The queen ant's ant legs are as thick as a mineral water bottle cap and longer than a human arm, and they emit rich active radiation.
Now it's Shen Cong's turn to worry about excess food.
Tumor pig steaks, Tai Ritian's dog legs, fried ant legs, and queen ant meat ingredients. Unfortunately, Shen Cong had no 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, easy-to-preserve foods.
As for the car refrigerator, there was a small compressor refrigerator that got water in during the heavy rain. The internal system was broken and it was never repaired. And even if it was repaired, it would not be large in size and the cooling effect would not be good. He simply made one at the time and did not prepare much for this.
In order to store short-term food, it is not cost-effective to design a refrigerator that takes up space, consumes electricity, and has poor performance.
As a result, there is so much meat now that it will rot if not thrown away.
"It's a waste. If we find a survivor base, we might be able to exchange mutated monsters for supplies... When we 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 was 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 burst and one of the tires in use has also burst, posing 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 state.
At around one o'clock in the middle of the night, the spare tire was finally completely repaired, and Shen Cong went to bed.
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The next day was cloudy.
The weather in the last days was very extreme, with a storm that lasted for a month, followed by a period of sunshine, then a heavy rainstorm, and then another period of sunshine.
It's rare to see a cloudy day.
Shen Cong was almost frightened when he saw the cloudy sky for the first time, and was about to drive to the high ground, but there were no dark clouds on this cloudy day. It's just that on a cloudy day similar to haze, the free activity in the air is much stronger than on a sunny day, and the number on the Geiger counter has increased by 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, which was 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 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 Highway 208.
The face of Shijian Town was completely revealed to Shen Cong after half an hour. There are no buildings still standing, but the original sites of most buildings can still be vaguely seen. The road under the gravel was easily found, 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, and Provincial Highway 208 runs through the valley. The originally green mountains have turned into pure limestone, which is gray-white, and may be mixed with kaolin. Both rocks are white and look like dirty snowy mountains from a distance.
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 sections of road surface. 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 stamp his feet even more was that five kilometers away, a landslide occurred, and a large amount of gravel completely blocked the road. This forced Shen Cong to turn the car around, return to the fork in the road, and take a detour from the village access road in the direction of Taiping Township. The width of the King Kong was so wide that it would cover the two village access roads, which would 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, and the signal that appeared that day was never found. Shen Cong bit an ant's leg and felt 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.
Verdant green.