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 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.
Two maggots, slightly smaller than mineral water bottles, were crawling around happily in the transparent plastic box. Especially when Shen Cong came over, the two maggots immediately crawled towards Shen Cong. Shen Cong could easily feel their admiration and closeness to him from the activity emanating from them.
This feels bad, very bad.
Although they will become ants when they grow up, many people like to raise ants these days before the disaster. But for now, they still look like maggots, with crystal clear bodies covered with tiny flagella, slowly squirming, and a black core inside the body, which is 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 active connections.
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's really not good to establish a sensory connection with small insects, but it would be much more interesting if you could command small insects. The perceived level of these two larvae is around 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, but the ant larvae were indifferent to the last command to roll. Moreover, a confused consciousness came back, and they probably didn't 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.
Didn't bother for a while.
The 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 is really not sure 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.
"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, Shen Cong threw a piece of scrap iron into the plastic box. He didn't quite believe that ant larvae could eat metal. These fat flesh maggots didn't look like they could 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 chewed on the metal, scraping their mouthparts on the iron piece, and many iron filings were chewed off. When Shen Cong observed carefully, he could see that the mouthparts of the ant larvae had a ring of sharp teeth that could easily scrape off a layer of iron filings from 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 leftover from welding hunting clips into a plastic box. Ant larvae have no excretion holes, so all the iron filings they eat accumulate in their bodies. It can be seen from the translucent body that a large amount of iron filings are accumulated in the black organs, and then they are continuously digested.
The size of the larvae is also growing rapidly, and soon it is larger than the size of a mineral water bottle, and it is still greedily eating metal. The body color has also changed from the previous transparent milky white to light yellow, and the color has been deepening.
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, and some strange thoughts passed through his mind.
Soon he figured out what the ant larvae were doing - shedding their skin.
They rub each other and shed each other's skin and their own. This is the transformation from the first instar larvae to the second instar larvae. Generally, the larvae of many insects will undergo two molts. Before molting, they are called first-instar larvae. After the first molt, they are called second-instar larvae. After the second molt, they 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 of the second-generation blowfly. It means eating, drinking and having sex normally, and then it 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 offspring of ordinary flies into mutant flies.
Shaking his head, he stopped paying attention to this unanswerable question and continued to focus on the second instar ant larvae.
The shed skin of 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 embarrassed Shen Cong was that the connection between the first-instar larvae and him was still vague. By the second instar larvae, the connection between these activities has become somewhat clearer. It seems that the second instar larvae has more emotions than the first instar larvae, or it may be that the IQ has increased.
Shen Cong did not believe that the second instar larvae had increased IQ.
So he communicated his thoughts: "Roll over."
The next second...