It's hard to understand Shen Cong's mood at this time.
Looking at the two fat maggots rolling around in the plastic box, what was he thinking in his heart.
After a long while, Shen Cong said to himself: "Did I keep two pet ant larvae?" He had never kept pets before the end of the world and there was no need for them.
After the apocalypse, when I occasionally feel that I am too lonely, I want a dog, just like Will Smith's German Shepherd in "I Am Legend" or He Jiong's Husky in "Zombie Nation". However, I met several dogs along the way, and they all turned into evolved beasts.
Instead of raising a dog, he raised two ants.
After adding enough metal scraps to the plastic box, Shen Cong no longer paid attention to the ant larvae. The fire clouds in the evening burned half of the sky red, and the earth was coated with a layer of blood, which looked strangely beautiful. Shen Cong half-buried more than twenty welded hunting clips in the sand and gravel around the King Kong.
Because a strong storm is the biggest bait, Shen Cong did not add bait, but just placed it on the path where the evolved beast might pass.
Do it all.
Shen Cong returned to the car, turned on the computer, and began to learn knowledge related to the various electronic components of the King Kong. In six years, he renovated the King Kong, but more of the parts he needed were purchased from outside parties rather than designing and developing them himself. Now he was required to repair tiny electronic components himself, which required exposure to entirely new knowledge.
Who would have thought that the King Kong would be hit by a dog and a crocodile in heavy water.
So badly damaged.
Anhui Province is not located in a low-water coastal area. Shen Cong seldom worries about floods and other problems. There are no volcanoes nearby, and earthquakes are rare. Moreover, at that time, he believed in the idea of the end of the world. Rather, it was a stubborn belief of his. He designed his chariot based entirely on the doomsday scenarios of war, viruses, and wasteland.
He has watched too many movies and TV series about killing zombies in the apocalypse. "The Walking Dead" is his favorite. He has seen all kinds of intrigues in it, fighting zombies and humans. He felt more and more that he could not trust anyone easily. Only he and his own chariot were reliable.
Therefore, he modified the King Kong into a combination tank and RV. It was not completely designed according to the battle fortress, and many places were inevitably not ideal.
Time passes by every second while studying.
King Kong, who was in a strong storm, worked tirelessly to absorb free activity and exchanged it with Shen Cong's activity from time to time to strengthen Shen Cong's physical fitness.
This feeling of making progress even while lying down made Shen Cong feel relaxed and happy.
The Bull Demon King totem can be called his biggest discovery and invention in the apocalypse. Now, he is waiting for the moment when the King Kong breaks through level 1 in one day.
…
On August 10, the weather was fine, and the sun had been shining brightly for many days.
The hunting traps outside did not yield any results, and the evolved beasts were rarer than Shen Cong expected.
The water level in the small river bay is visibly dropping day by day, and the soil on the shore has begun to crack. In the past, you could catch evolved fish and dry them into sashimi for storage. Now Shen Cong discovered that evolved fish are becoming increasingly rare. It seems that the water level dropped, and the evolved fish swam away from the small bay and returned to Yuxi River.
But Shen Cong didn't dare to go fishing in the Yuxi River. Just this morning, he was going to check out the situation in the Yuxi River, but he found a huge head sticking out of the river - that of a dog crocodile.
Shen Cong was so frightened that he quickly ran away. He didn't want to provoke a bug-like evolutionary beast like the dog crocodile at the moment.
"There are dog crocodiles in Yuxi River, and there is also a dog crocodile in Dagu Reservoir. There are many dog crocodiles. I don't know which one bit me... It must have swam from the Yangtze River."
Anhui is crossed by the Yangtze River. The riverside is a good habitat for crocodiles. The Alligator Sanctuary is located along the riverside and other places. Many farmers along the river are engaged in crocodile breeding. That heavy rain may have turned the entire Yangtze River to Chaohu Lake into a swamp, so the crocodile-like evolved beasts near the Yangtze River ran over.
Evolved fish can no longer be caught, which does not affect Shen Cong because the sashimi stocked up is enough for him to eat for more than a month.
The King Kong will reach the critical point of level 1 tomorrow night, and the entire vehicle will be 100% active.
After evolving to level 1, Shen Cong didn't know what changes would happen, but it was conceivable that his level of evolution far exceeded the evolvers in the south of the city and even in the nesting area.
It's time to go into town.
…
The five second-generation blowflies did not kill each other, even though they were too hungry to fly. This is very different from the fight between variant No. 1 and variant No. 2. In the beginning, variant No. 1 ate variant No. 2. This made Shen Cong guess that they might be flies from the same nest, and they are connected in perception, so they can coexist peacefully.
Combined with the coordinated hunting of the short-horned ant colony and the seven fanged wolves, it can be inferred that the evolved beast has indeed been greatly affected by mutation, including IQ and personality, but it is not only a brutal side, but also has an emotional side.
Even ant larvae have feelings of admiration and intimacy towards Shen Cong.
"It's really touching." Shen Cong commented boredly and threw a second-generation blowfly into the glass bottle of variant No. 1.
The next second, variant No. 1 began to hiss like a second-generation blowfly like crazy. In terms of body shape, variant No. 1 is obviously dominant, being about the size of a fist. The second-generation blowfly is higher in rank than variant No. 1, but is only about the size of a baby's fist and is not of the same size.
Therefore, after several bites, the second-generation blowfly was bitten to death and swallowed by the No. 1 variant.
It turned into a few drops of fly excrement.
Shen Cong simply threw the remaining second-generation blowflies into the glass bottle of variant 1 to see if the four smaller ones could kill the larger one.
Originally, he planned to fish with flies, but now there are no evolved fish in the creek.
We can only use waste and do experiments.
The result was not too frustrating. The four second-generation blowflies were still no match for the No. 1 variant and were bitten to death and devoured one by one.
Now, of all the mutant flies, only a second-generation blowfly raised alone and the No. 1 variant remain.
The second-generation blowfly raised alone was codenamed "Avenger" by Shen Cong. He originally planned to cultivate it and compare it with variant No. 1 in all aspects, and experiment with natural mutation and second-generation mutation to see what the difference is. There—the final battle is inevitable, and this second-generation blowfly will avenge its brothers and sisters.
At present, the Avenger is already on par with Variant No. 1 in terms of size, and continues to grow. The level has reached lv0.042, far behind the lv0.033 of Variant No. 1. However, the battle is not all about LV. Whether the Avengers can succeed in revenge is still an exciting part.
When dealing with the pest blowfly, Shen Cong has a completely experimental mentality.
When it comes to ant larvae, Shen Cong's mentality is unclear. At first, he resisted the perceptual connection, but now he feels that raising two ants might not be a bad idea.
Watching the ant larvae shed their skin for the second time and become mature larvae, Shen Cong looked forward to the day when they would pupate into short-lived ants.
If it is really a giant ant that understands human nature, it seems good.
…
Another day passed in a hurry, and the King Kong changed to a new camp. At 9:36 in the evening, it welcomed the most important one.
The level has reached lv0.999, and continues to absorb the free activity in the strong storm.
"call."
Shen Cong's heart was racing, and he was about to witness an unknown future.