In Fang Senyan's world, according to some common sense he learned, the habits of ants in each region are also different.
Ants in Africa like to live in "buildings". Even if there is no condition, these guys will use trees as their skeletons to build towering anthills and ant hills by themselves. When the big ax cut it, sparks flew everywhere, and it couldn't damage its appearance at all.
Most ants like to live underground. Compared with their small size, the construction area of underground ant nests can even reach tens of square meters, similar to storage rooms, nursery nests, queen rooms, tunnels, small rooms, Residence... The division of labor is different, and all kinds of supporting facilities are complete. In fashionable words, it simply surpasses the CBD.
For this group of one-horned flying ants on the planet Eporos, they have the habit of both.
Its worker ants all make their nests on the mushroom rock, because if they do this, they can make full use of the condescending advantage, live high and see far away, monitor their entire territory like sentinels, and swarm if there is any accident The team swarmed out.
The queen of the one-horned flying ants and the male ants of the personal guard live comfortably in the magnificent underground nest under the mushroom rock, warm in winter and cool in summer, and are supported by worker ants.
If half of the Mushroom Rock hadn't collapsed suddenly, and the two or three hundred worker ants hiding in it had been wiped out, it would have been impossible for Fang Sheyan and his party to come here and carry out such a clean-up work on the sacred nest of the ant colony.
Although Aldarius had just fled for his life in a hurry before, and had never gone so deep under the Mushroom Rock, this did not prevent him from finding the entrance of the underground ant nest quickly, because these unicorn flying ants crawled here all day long, although they were hunting When it is time to fly, but when it is carrying food to feed the male ants and queen ants, it is crawling in and out. So you only need to see where there is no grass growing, and it is as smooth as a trail, then just walk along it.
The entrance of the underground ant nest is just below the rocky mountain at the root of the Mushroom Rock. Because the size of the one-horned flying ant is similar to that of a lion, the entrance of the ant nest is tall and spacious, and it is very smooth and flat without bad smell. It looks like a dark hole.
From this time to the present, Paul's powerful metal puppet Hercules is still leading the battle. The surface of this huge puppet has also been corroded by a lot of formic acid sprayed out, and the originally smooth surface is also full of bumps.
More importantly, there are many magic circles engraved on the surface of the metal puppet. Once activated, the energy of those magic circles will quickly show signs of net-like flow, emitting bursts of red light, and play the role of blessing "the power of bulls" ", "anti-gravity technique" and so on.
At this time, after being corroded by formic acid, most of the magic circle on the metal puppet was also destroyed. When it walked, it obviously felt a lot heavier, and the joints would make harsh creaking sounds, as if it hadn't been oiled. In general, the speed of action is also extraordinarily cumbersome.
At this time, Paul had to support the operation of the metal puppet all the time, and the consumption of mental power was also very large. After coming here, he could only watch the two make a helpless gesture. Fang Senyan and the two knew that he must have a hole card, but after all, it was Paul who made a lot of effort to fight all the way, so it is impossible to demand him any more at this time.
So Sheyan asked Paul to put his metal puppet Hercules in without saying a word, and then let Ramtas come out to block the front.
In fact, this is also where Paul's scheming is deep. He deliberately proposes his metal puppet Hercules to lead the battle, the purpose is to let his puppet experience a relatively small battle intensity, but a long-lasting battle.
And no one knows how powerful the queen ant is, it is very likely that there will be a crazy attack, causing the metal puppet Hercules to be completely destroyed, so it is only natural to make a look of exhaustion before facing the queen ant.
Of course Fang Sheyan is very thorough about his calculations, but because he is an MT himself, he doesn't care about Paul's actions. After all, there is a saying that tolerance is great, you can't ask everyone to give selflessly to you , in short, as long as it does not exceed certain bottom lines, then his behavior can be tolerated.
Because the ant colony relies on touch and pheromone activities in the nest, there are no luminous objects in the dark holes in the nest. However, before departure, human beings in the future have long expected that there may be cave adventures, so give them In the configuration menu, a special detector called "Ladybug" is listed.
This high-energy special detector is about the size of a tennis ball. It uses gravity countermeasure technology to suspend in the air. It can fly nimbly at high speed, and can spread an ultrasonic network exploration and drawing rays up to 50 meters long around it, accurately drawing the cave's location. Geological conditions and associated organisms. (Well, it’s actually the thing in Prometheus)
Because the price of ladybugs is quite expensive, Fang Sheyan and the others only used one ladybug to fly 30 places in front, and to do lighting work along the way. After walking about 40 meters into the ant nest, I feel that the quality of the air is still very good, and there is wind from time to time.
Although the worker ants' claw marks on the cave wall are clearly visible, they are quite smooth. Although it is certainly not comparable to human buildings, if you look closely, the wall is hard and smooth as if coated with a layer of glaze. Tapping lightly with your fingers will even make a dull sound of "shell shell shell". Even if you splash water on it, it will flow directly down and will not soak in.
After continuing on for about 100 meters, everyone felt a sudden enlightenment in front of them. The passageway of the ant nest was originally about the size of a train tunnel, but now it seemed that they had entered a temporary platform. The "ladybug" also flew directly into the air 20 to 30 meters high, illuminating the audience, and one could clearly see that this place should be the storage room of the ant nest.
There are many roots, fruits, and of course the corpses of wild animals piled up here in different categories. The fur and the like are divided into piles, and the edible meat is clamped into fists by worker ants. The dehydrated and air-dried piles are stacked together, and the rotten smell can only be smelled if you get close.
Looking at the dense crawling tracks on the ground, everyone felt a sense of fear in their hearts. If this is a trap of an ant colony, and dozens of worker ants rush out from all directions to encircle them, then they will really die. .
The most regrettable thing here is that the furs of many wild animals are quite precious, but unfortunately they were all corroded by formic acid when they were hunted down. Considering the huge cost of bringing these damaged items back from the planet Eporos to the Alps 7 base, and even more and better loot that may need to occupy space in future adventures, it can only be given up.
Continue to move forward from the storage room, but there is a three-way intersection in front of you. At this time, Ramtas's fat nose is twitching non-stop, and then he aimed at the road on the left and began to roar excitedly. There was also a continuous pig snort, as if there was a female wild boar in heat inside.
Fang Senyan originally planned to take the biggest intersection, but under this guy's strong request, he had to change the route.
But this time, when I walked about fifty meters into the passage, I smelled an indescribable smell. The smell was like the smell of urine from washing the urinal with hydrochloric acid. Going inside, the breath gets thicker. For example, both Aldaris and Paul couldn't help but put on gas masks.
When he reached the end of this passage, there was also a spacious hall. Many grid-like caves were excavated in this hall. After entering this hall, Sheyan felt relieved. The ant colony is indeed at the end of the road, without any tricks, because no ant colony can afford such a price to confuse the enemy.
This is the nursery of the ant colony. When the queen ant lays eggs, the worker ants carry the eggs here for hatching, and the hatched larvae are also taken care of by them.
Because the worker ants are almost all dead, it can be said that it has been in a state of disorder for a long time.
According to the information provided by Artificial Man No. 1, after the larvae of the unicorn flying ant are born, they eat nearly ten times a day (24 hours), all of which are fed by worker ants. food.
Most of the larvae will be fed with the "chyme" processed by the powerful mandibles of worker ants. After chewing the fruit and a lot of meat of the plant, the worker ants will mix it with their own saliva and store it in the crop to feed the larvae. They are at least You have to eat more than four kilograms at a time to be full. The larvae that eat the "chyme" eventually hatch into worker ants.
While a very small number of larvae are fed "chyme", at least one meal a day is fed "ant dew", which is similar to royal jelly, and is usually the exclusive food of queen ants. The larvae will then be hatched into male ants for career-changing combat and mating.
Only when the queen dies or the ant colony divides, will the larvae be eligible to eat all the "ant dew", and it will be the queen as soon as it is hatched.
At this time, the incubator has lost the care of the worker ants for at least dozens of hours. Driven by instinct, the hungry larvae naturally attack the eggs and siblings around them, oh no, it should be... The smell from the corpses of rotting larvae or eggs was the source of the stench Sheyan and the others smelled.