Early the next morning, the floods had completely receded, leaving only some potholes and puddles of standing water. Although the heavy rain has stopped, the drizzle continues, so the ground never gets dry and the sky never clears up.
In this kind of weather, Shen Cong's modified wired drone 2.0 cannot take off for operations.
I can only continue to be bored in the King Kong, learning knowledge, or teasing the mature larvae.
By noon, both mature larvae and ant pupae have changed.
It can be seen that after eating the powder ground from the dog crocodile plate armor last night, the mature larvae have stopped eating and began to surround the ant pupae and keep rubbing their bodies. There were already two mature larvae the size of salad oil barrels, and the skin on their bodies slowly began to fall off.
This is the third molt.
It completely overturned Shen Cong's knowledge. Generally, ant larvae molt twice before pupating. I have never seen one molt three times.
The mature larvae that have shed their skin have active radiation that is very unstable, and they also appear to be a little irritable emotionally. He also tried to hit the ant pupa with his body. With the mature larva's current size, the impact was too strong. Shen Cong even saw it dent the ant pupa that was one size smaller than itself.
"Quiet!" Shen Cong used his sensory connection to convey his emotions to the mature larvae, and then picked out the ant pupae.
Sensing Shen Cong's emotions, the mature larva conveyed a "submissive" emotion. He was no longer so irritable, but still kept rubbing his body against the plastic box.
Under Shen Cong's observation, after about ten minutes, the skin of the mature larvae successfully fell off, revealing its new body.
The color of the new mature larvae's body surface has changed somewhat. It is no longer crystal clear and milky white, but the outer skin is shining with silvery white luster, giving it a metallic texture.
"The mature larvae have become metallic?"
Shen Cong was surprised and immediately sensed the level data of the mature larvae.
In the past, the mature larvae were lv0.231, pk0.095, and gs0.411, but now they are lv0.251, pk0.157, and gs0.625. The level has not improved much, but the pk value and gs value have made a qualitative leap. .
Especially the gs value, in Shen Cong's understanding, it is an individual's talent potential and a fixed value.
Unexpectedly, the mature larvae actually increased his talent to above 0.6, which is close to the talent of the Bull Demon King.
"Can talent or activity source also be improved?" Shen Cong frowned as his hand felt like a mature larvae of soft metal. This was another situation beyond his expectation.
In Shen Cong's understanding, talent is like a bottle filled with water, and evolution is like filling the bottle with water.
You can hold more or less water, but the bottle cannot be made larger or smaller at will. Even if it is a King Kong that can accommodate "liquid" activity, its talent has always been gs1.584 and has not changed.
"Is it because the mature larvae swallowed too many active cores?" Shen Cong thought of this, and instantly thought of what Wang Gen's men said in order to prove their innocence when they wiped out Wang Gen's group.
The subordinate said that Dahaizi once let slip that they regarded other evolved beings as "blood food".
Shen Cong has never understood the concept of "blood food". In his opinion, eating evolved beasts, evolved fish, evolved birds, and fruits of evolutionary trees can all be regarded as blood food, and there is no need to engage in cannibalism. However, it now seems that blood food is probably related to the talent of individual evolution.
"The reason why mature larvae can improve their talents is probably because they eat too much of the active core of the short-term ant colony!"
"Perhaps, the active cores between the same kind can produce some kind of promotion effect, enhance the potential of individual evolution, and allow the talent value to grow!"
Thinking about it again, Shen Cong had a new guess: "Is the reason why I want to swallow the raw metal of the Humvee also because the King Kong swallows the raw metal of the Humvee, which can increase the talent value? "
"King Kong can't alloy the original metal of the Humvee... Do you really want me to eat these metals one by one?"
Although the devouring desire has always been strong, Shen Cong really has no appetite for metal at all.
I don't even think my teeth can chew metal.
Temporarily suppressing the idea of eating the raw metal, Shen Cong took the mature larvae out of the plastic box. The mature larvae are now very large and obviously cannot move out of the box. The metallic luster of the skin, coupled with the huge body shape, and the closeness of perception made Shen Cong no longer disgusted by the mature larvae.
He turned over the mature larvae and looked over them, but found nothing too special.
No part of the suspected active core was found.
"How many times do you have to shed your skin before you pupate?" Unable to figure out the reason, Shen Cong put the mature larvae back again, and then threw a piece of the door that was removed from the Hummer for the mature larvae to eat.
When he was about to put the ant pupae into the plastic box, suddenly there was a sound of cracking from the ant pupae. Shen Cong was startled: "It won't be smashed by mature larvae, right?"
It was not smashed, but there was movement inside the ant pupa.
The ant larvae that pupated for several days finally grew into a large ant. This big ant has a pair of huge and powerful upper jaws. After a little struggle, it stretched its curled body, burst the ant pupa, and crawled out.
Shen Cong was able to see its entirety.
It is difficult to tell whether this ant is a worker ant or a soldier ant. Compared with the short-term worker ants and short-term soldier ants that Shen Cong saw before, it is not only larger in size, but also in proportion to its head. , the color is also darker and brighter. The pair of upper jaws are active cores and are at least twenty centimeters long.
"Come here." Shen Cong ordered.
The newly emerged ants immediately crawled to Shen Cong's hand and were very obedient. The two tentacles on their heads kept touching Shen Cong's arms to show their closeness.
"Let me measure it for you."
Shen Cong took out a steel tape measure and carefully measured the length of the big ant - the overall length was 62cm, including a pair of upper jaws that were 21cm long, a head of 11cm, a chest of 8cm, nodules in total of 6cm, and an abdomen of 10cm. The legs are 25cm long, the antennae are 22cm, and there is a 6cm sting at the tail.
Weighing 14kg, the shiny black exoskeleton has obvious signs of metal gradient and feels cold like metal.
"There is no way to define whether you are a soldier ant or a worker ant, but let me give you a name first... Seeing that you are so majestic, why not call me the Ant Power God? No, the Ant Power God should be given to mature larvae, and only the mature larvae deserve it. Such a domineering name... Since your head is big, dark and shiny, let’s call it Black Head.”
After choosing the name, Shen Cong always felt it was a little strange, but he couldn't say what was strange about it.
However, Blackhead showed excitement about his name. After turning into a pupa, Blackhead's emotions were richer and clearer than when he was a larva.
Able to understand many of Shen Cong's commands.
Including asking him to fetch the wrench on the table, this kind of command with relatively strong logical concept, after giving a few more instructions, the black head was able to complete it smoothly.
Perhaps the body size has increased and the brain capacity has also increased.
The growth of blackhead's IQ is terrifying.