The appetite of blackheads is much smaller than that of mature larvae.
Perhaps it is already an adult, and its body has stopped developing. It only needs to maintain daily consumption, so it eats less.
What's interesting is that the scrap metal that Shen Cong threw to Black Tou would not be eaten directly. Instead, he would carry the scrap metal in his mouth and run it all the way to the plastic box and deliver it to the mature larvae. After making sure that the mature larvae would not eat it, it simply took a few bites and then threw it aside.
"What kind of behavior is this? Surrender? It doesn't look like it. There is no hierarchy in the ant colony. Individual members are equal. Then, it should be feeding. The blackhead may be a worker ant that picks up food from outside and brings it back. The nest feeds the larvae.”
"However." Shen Cong lamented regretfully, "Just two ants cannot form a colony at all, unless the mature larvae are queens... But the queens cannot ejaculate and lay eggs."
The queen ant is a female ant with wings. Male ants and female ants in different colonies will mate during the nuptial flight season. After mating, the female ant takes off her wings and starts building a nest to become the queen ant. The sperm of the male ant can be stored in the queen's body for several years, enough for the queen to lay eggs anytime and anywhere when necessary.
Then Shen Cong thought of how when the short fierce ant queen died, there were several groups of ants, each picking up a few eggs and leaving.
Perhaps among those eggs there are eggs that can develop into male and female ants, and when they grow up, they can form new colonies.
Shaking his head, Shen Cong no longer thought too far ahead.
He decided to raise Black Head like a dog and train it to accept various commands while Black Head was still a blank piece of paper. With this additional task, the boring weather suddenly makes the day much more interesting.
"Heitou, bring me my welding gun!"
"Clamp it gently so it doesn't get damaged!"
"Heitou, go outside and bring me a rock... that's the rock."
"Very good and well behaved. This is your reward. Eat it."
"Heitou, break this bone for me. Yes, that's it."
"Heitou, help me pass the rhinoceros horn cup, don't spill the water, otherwise you will not be allowed to eat iron today!"
During the training process, Shen Cong discovered that Heitou's ability to accept instructions was still very clear. But you can't let it do too detailed work, such as carrying a rhinoceros horn cup. When the rhinoceros horn cup was in Shen Cong's hand, half of the water was spilled, and there were two marks on the surface of the cup due to blackheads.
Blackhead is unable to control his power in subtle ways.
It can roughly lift a 30kg stone, which only requires force, but clamping a cup requires gentle force, which Blackhead cannot master.
Another point is that the blackhead talent has increased, the level has increased, and the combat effectiveness has been strengthened, but the utilization of activity is still zero.
Its upper jaw can theoretically cut metal easily. After all, since larvae, they can scrape off metal powder and swallow it.
But in fact, blackheads still use their mouthparts to bite metal, scrape off the debris and swallow it.
Instead of using the upper jaw, the metal is cut into small pieces.
Shen Cong couldn't teach it this, the activity was too complicated.
"The blackheads and ant force gods have grown in size. It is a bit inconvenient to continue to keep them in the King Kong vehicle. Moreover, insects are insects after all and need to be guarded against. If I had known better, I should not have dismantled the Hummer and converted it into a nanny car. Throw the blackheads and ant power gods in and raise them.”
When they were larvae, Shen Cong raised these two ants, which was quite interesting.
But the King Kong is loaded with too much stuff. Except for the aisle in the middle of the carriage and the utility room at the rear door, there is basically no extra place to move.
The kitchen and bedroom are not places where blackheads and ant power gods can go.
"Furthermore, the King Kong has already alloyed most of my supplies, and there are not enough resources in the car to alloy them. Speaking of which, it would be great if we could build another carriage. It can not only provide the alloys needed by the King Kong, but also serve as a The breeding room for Black Head and Ant Power God can also store some unimportant supplies to make room for the King Kong carriage."
“Go look around the main city and see if there are any abandoned truck beds.”
…
The sky cleared up in the evening, just in time to see the sunset and a rainbow hanging in the sky.
it's beautiful.
Shen Cong was not in a hurry to drive the King Kong down the mountain. He planned to camp on the top of the mountain for one night and go back down the mountain early tomorrow morning. Then walk around the main city area, look for evolutionary trees that may bear fruit, and strengthen your physical fitness to at least be on par with the King Kong.
This is the only way to completely eliminate the siphon phenomenon.
When Shen Cong got up the next morning to check his surroundings, he suddenly discovered that Qishan had changed.
Yesterday it was still a bare barren mountain, but today it is a dark green mountain. On the ground, a layer of black and green stuff is densely covered with the entire Qishan Mountain. Even the King Kong is surrounded by this stuff.
"What's this?"
Shen Cong carefully collected some of it with a fork and put on plastic gloves to examine this kind of thing.
"It's very similar to the lichen vegetables, but it's a little different. I can't tell what the difference is." Shen Cong broke open the lichen vegetables. They were very tender and soft, almost like fungus.
This is indeed the local dish that Shen Cong has eaten.
Lichen is a common strange plant, also called lichen. To be precise, it is a symbiosis of fungi and algae. The algae produce nutrients through photosynthesis, and the fungi plunder them and surround the algae, isolating it from the outside world. In this way, the algae can only rely on the fungi to provide the materials needed for growth, thus achieving symbiosis.
"Has this type of vegetable been mutated?" Shen Cong could feel that the vegetable was emitting weak active radiation. Only mutated animals and plants would emit active radiation.
It is difficult to define whether a turfgrass is a plant or a fungus.
But since it had mutated, Shen Cong treated it as mutated animals and plants, and carefully studied the ground vegetables. The mutated Dipicai was given the name "Ironpicai" and the data of Dipicai was recorded.
"Tiepicai, a mutated lichen-like creature, cannot be divided into attributes. Its growth situation is not much different from that of ordinary lichen. However, it can spread over a small hill in one night and its reproductive capacity is amazing. Level data lv0.083, pk0.001, gs0 .012, among the weakest mutant creatures I have ever seen.”
The emergence of ferngrass gave Shen Cong a new perspective on the ecological environment of the barren zone.
The variation caused by activity may not simply destroy the ecology of a place, although the disaster has led to the extinction of most species and the food chain has become fragmented. But mutation also causes variables in the evolutionary direction of organisms, just like this iron-skinned vegetable.
Before the heavy rain, Shen Cong didn't think that such low-level creatures would survive, but after the heavy rain, the iron bark quickly occupied the entire Qishan Mountain. In terms of survival ability, it was obviously more powerful than higher animals and plants.
And with the iron vegetables, there may be evolved beasts that eat iron vegetables for a living, thus replenishing the complete food chain.
So here comes the question. Shen Cong looked at the tin vegetables on the floor: "Are the tin vegetables edible?"