Chapter 5.11 The Tao is the Ant(1/2)
Wei Keng, escorted by three mechanical beasts, advanced west along the Huaihe River system, and passed through the old Anhui cities such as Beng and Xinyang along the way, and penetrated into the northern part of the Dabie Mountains.
Finally, when entering southern Henan, to be precise, it was the northern section of the Dabie Mountains where Huoqiu was originally located, and the population became sparse.
The radiation influence of the city-state group centered on Jianye is here.
The gravel road maintained by someone ends with a checkpoint entering the mountainous area of northern Anhui.
On the road outside this end, there are traces of trainers stepping on mechanical beasts. These sheep intestinal paths that are walking out will be flooded by plants at any time, so some eye-catching marks will be placed along the way.
Field marking is also a science.
For example, on the fork: a round stone means that the placer completes a round trip,
The stone on the flat top means that the genetic community ahead is active during the day.
The point of the stone is facing upward, which means that the gene community ahead is nocturnal.
As for stones with a sank pit at the top, it means that it is highly dangerous. The deeper the sank, the more obvious the danger information is.
As for some specific information, there will be some complex situations as an example, leaving stone powder of different colors, which also means the level of the gene community ahead.
Such knowledge has a complex system. In fact, it is also used in Guangdong, where the original Ji'an City is located.
But now, no one is used in Tongfa District. The grass in Tongfa District is all the grass of the Human Emperor. The trees in Tongfa District are the building materials of the Human Emperor.
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In addition to carrying tents, water source filtration and other equipment during this trip, Wei Keng carried the overall dry food in five days.
However, according to the data, there are high-energy foods that can be collected in the target area, and the real situation can be supported for ten days.
Entering the ecological zone with individual power, I remember that the last time I was still exploring multiple individuals in northern Guangdong, but later they were raided by multiple node organisms, causing major casualties (major under Wei Keng's standards).
As for now, the combat mechanical cat lifted up a huge axe and claws to slap the leaves and branches in front of them, and the green leaves and leaves fell all over the ground. A path was opened in the place where there was no road, and arboreal insects that had no time to escape were rolling in the fallen leaves.
Wei Keng tightly held the large-caliber gun in his hand, and the rapid-fire gun at his waist was ready to start at any time. At the same time, he directed his fast mechanical cat to investigate around him.
Ten minutes later,
Wei Keng built a tent and rubbed the giant cat's head back.
Wei Keng somehow realized the culture of mechanical beasts in this era. In this strange forest, all sides are unknown. At this time, there are only war beasts that absolutely obey their orders, so human emotions will indeed regard mechanical beasts as partners who depend on each other.
However, the goal of adventure is for oneself, the emotional needs generated during the adventure process, and there is nothing worth understanding by the world.
Wei Keng: "My adventure goal is not for myself. So~" Wei Keng patted the cat's head and comforted it: "This action is for the human civilization system. So as one of the participants, you will be treated humanitarianly and your bloodline will also be given priority for breeding."
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After walking out of the last level, I advanced for three days and finally arrived at the target area, which was marked as red on the map.
After passing through the jungle and seeing this bare and rocky hill, Wei Keng held his breath.
The entire area forms an irregular but line-filled structure.
From the mountain to the bottom, it is filled with concave and concave gullies like chocolate patterns. The raised areas have holes of one centimeter in size. The holes do not directly face the sky, but have a cover like a cat's ear, while the concave gullies are very smooth because this is a drainage channel.
This is the territory of ants. When all the large plants are eaten up, the mountains, rivers, water and soil will lose the protection of trees. In order to protect their mountain nests, ants have carried out such engineering construction!
Wei Keng couldn't help but sigh at such infrastructure: "It's worthy of being a Chinese ant!"
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Ants are a widely distributed species around the world. Before the arrival of Pandora Field, they evolved a true social attribute, that is, social communication is carried out through the transmission of various pheromones.
Of course, in the era of human civilization, no scholar believes that the true social evolution of such species is promising.
Because each ant may have unique skills, which can build leaf nests, build complex caves, and breed them, but before each ant evolves its unique abilities, it has become a new species. Under reproductive isolation, the skills they evolved cannot meet with each other.
Ant, a species that existed 100 million years ago, has only one skill slot no matter how it changes!
But with the advent of the Pandora era, termites, red ants, marching ants, and other real social things of different categories began to communicate with each other.
If conditions permit, ants in a region may intersect each other's genes in a certain battle and become new gene species.
Due to the similar genetic structure, it is easier for ants to exchange genes than among higher species.
For example, because primates and ungulates have completely different dietary and motor forms, most genes are unavailable after gene exchange changes, but all ants do not have the difficulties of the ecosystem.
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The ants that broke through the genetic shackles have an opportunity to take off!
This is the case with the South American plateau. The ants in the upper Amazon basin became larger and larger when the Pandora era arrived, and there were more and more species in a single nest. The breakthrough was soon completed and became a diversified Zerg true social civilization.
For example, termites are specially specialized into agricultural ants that decompose fibers to produce organic matter. The paint bucket is three meters long and crawls underground like a worm. Countless secretion contacts provide replenishment of other functional ants.
The combat ants are getting bigger and bigger. It is nothing to break through Hu Feng's size. The real combat ants are moving forward in the cave, as big as Teddy. After leaving the cave, they unfolded the horny gland syringe and the big turtle foot. Their teeth and claws look as big as Husky.
Moreover, as a Coleoptera, it can fly. Although its flying ability is only about ten meters, ants are fighting animals, and dozens or hundreds of them are rushing over in a row. This flight distance of more than ten meters is definitely not a shortcoming that can be ridiculed.
Finally, South America evolved from Tallinn Nest Lord, such an apostolic-level existence.
Before the Pandora era, ants, no, should be the entire insect species, have not reached the top of the biological chain in the long ecological evolution, but after the arrival of the Pandora era, it has been done here.
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When we returned to the Shanghuai area, the luck of the ants here was slightly worse. Since the Pandora Field first spread from the Americas, when it spread to Asia, the global human power had been compressed into the only remaining area. In the midst of dying struggle, humans paid more attention to the races that were most likely to evolve large communities around the settlements, and also strangled many potential communities in advance. This includes the ant tribes in the Shanghuai area.
After the human civilization completely collapsed, there was a huge Yucheng community to the west, the irritable Tianfenglong community to the east, and the north and south were also human city-state areas. In addition, the fierce competition among small and medium-sized communities around it, the group of ant communities in the upper reaches of the Huai River were always limited to some original mountainous areas.
Although these native ants in East Asia cannot establish Tallinns like South America, and absorb light energy at the maximum efficiency, they still have established complex tunnel systems in the mountains.
The former mining economic zone has now been transformed into nests. The buildings and machinery left by humans are no longer visible, and all disappear under the corrosion of formic acid.
Moreover, while dealing with the interference of other surrounding communities and even humans, the ants have also begun a strange evolutionary path, that is, fire spitting!
That is, after spraying chemicals, they quickly hit their jaws to complete the fire. This is a skill they could not use in the past, because releasing flames is a skill point that wastes more energy than creating venom for the creatures on earth!
Large predators have this point, but all points are more efficient on the muscles. And the flame output can only turn the energy that penetrates the bones into burning a layer of skin. There is no advantage of killing efficiency in open areas.
However, when the minions and muscles cannot be deployed during the excavation process of mountain tunnels, the digging ants can seize the nodes of an area with one fire, and consume the oxygen in a area, completely suffocating the invaders.
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But it is precisely because the flame skill consumes too much energy and is not strong on the surface, so the local ant colony cannot expand its solar energy collection mode that is beneficial to it.
Therefore, compared with the apostolic ecological group like the Tallinn Nest Master, this small scale and poor foundation have a difference in the ecological community of ants, and it is impossible to actively launch expansion to the outside world.
In short, the skills are very awesome, but they just lack blue (not enough ecological energy)! If the Tallinn Nest Master in South America is allowed to merge this community, it would be awesome. But across the Pacific Ocean, the Tallinn Nest Master is a terrestrial gene community and cannot rush to it.
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Wei Keng lay in this ant mountain area. After a full day of recording and investigation, he knew it. He arranged his mechanical beast in a camp on the next hill and began to investigate alone.
After confirming the hole of an ant, a large bottle of sulfur powder is sprinkled from head to toe.
Although after hundreds of years of barbaric evolution, the communication of ant gene communities has relied on the effect of life radiation, the ability to recognize pheromones is still retained, so this detail must be prepared.
Wei Keng, code-named Zhenxinzheng, just got into the ant hole and got into it.
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The supervision space was very lively~ Before that, no time traveler did this. The ladies of Bai Linglu's team had also seen Wei Keng's mission style.
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I encountered dozens of ants in a row in a row. Wei Kengtie passed by them in the tunnel.
When rubbing these black beetles with their backs, you can even feel the spikes on the ants on the spine. Thanks to the enough scent of sulfur, the smell secreted by mammals when they are nervous did not make these ants smell delicious.
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As for how this "hello" is done?
After humans learn to use language, they have a very strong ability to imitate sounds. Some learn to use dogs to bark "Wang~ang", some learn to bark "Meow~", some laugh like pigs, and some people can blow the whistle to imitate goshawks.
These are all imitations at the sound level. As for things like snakes and insects that have low or even no hearing ability, the developed human figure imitation ability is to play the piano for cows.
Now in the Pandora field, all gene communities are pulled to the communication method of life radiation frequency.
In such an environment, the Weikeng cluster developed a spiritual language, which is a tool that crushes the animals with orders of magnitude in information carrying density.
On the same frequency band, the high-end is compatible with the low-end.
Wei Keng, who was on the surface, listened to the situation underground, and after systematic analysis, he inferred eighty-seven major instructions and one thousand four hundred and eighty-five minor instructions.
It must be noted that the information of ants' life frequency bands has no language system, that is, each of their instructions is single, and there is no possibility of combining to generate new information.
Wei Keng released the news that "I carried important information" along the way, and sneaked into the nest system through the way these ants gave.
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After diving into four hundred meters,
Wei Keng took a breath and continuously emphasized the instructions with his spiritual language: "I am an awesome ant, I have information, I have made meritorious service, and I want to see the owner of the nest", so the brain consumes a lot.
Moreover, due to the emphasis on too singleness, several trace elements such as "silicon manganese" consume very much protein.
As for why we have to emphasize it with high intensity all the way? It’s not that we don’t have pheromones on ourselves, so we must use our spiritual language to confuse it.
[Recent research can regard mental fluctuations as an electromagnetic wave frequency band under the Pandora field. When electromagnetic waves are emitted, mobile phones need to consume the energy of inorganic substances such as lithium batteries, while life needs to consume organic substances.]
Fortunately, I rely on the mountains to live and rely on the water to live.
To be continued...