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 are no conditions, these guys will use trees as skeletons to build towering anthills on their own. The anthills are several meters high, ranging from several meters to more than ten meters, and they are so hard that if an adult cuts them with a big ax, they are actually Mars.
Splashing around will not 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, cells, residences...with different divisions of labor and various supporting facilities.
The facilities are so complete that, in fashionable terms, they surpass those of the CBD.
As for the group of one-horned flying ants on the planet Epros, they have habits of both.
Its worker ants all build their nests on mushroom rocks, because if they do this, they can take full advantage of being high up and see far away. They can monitor their entire territory like sentinels and swarm in case of any accidents.
The team swarmed out.
The queen and male guard ants of the one-horned flying ant live comfortably in a magnificent underground nest under the mushroom rock. They are warm in winter and cool in summer, and are supported by the worker ants.
If half of the mushroom rock hadn't collapsed suddenly and the two to three hundred worker ants hiding inside had been wiped out, it would have been impossible for Sheyan and his party to come here and carry out such a clean-up work on the sacred nest of the ant colony.
Although Aldaris had only fled for his life in a hurry before and had never gone so deep under the mushroom rock. But this did not prevent him from quickly finding the entrance to the underground ant nest, because these one-horned flying ants crawled here all day long. Although they were hunting
They fly when they are there, but when they bring food to feed the male ants and the queen, they crawl in and out. So as long as you see a place where there is no grass, it is as smooth as a trail, then just walk along it.
The entrance to the underground ant nest is just below the rocky mountain at the base of the mushroom rock. Because the unicorn flying ants are similar in size to lions, the entrance to the cave is also tall and spacious, and is very smooth and flat with no bad smell. It looks dark.
At this point in the battle, Paul's powerful metal puppet Hercules is still taking the lead. The surface of this huge puppet has also been corroded by a lot of formic acid sprayed out. The originally smooth surface is also full of pits.
What's more important is that there are many magic arrays engraved on the surface of the metal puppet. Once they become active, those magic arrays will quickly show signs of energy flowing in a network, emitting bursts of red light, and exerting the "power of the wild bull".
”, “anti-gravity” and other functions.
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. The joints also made a harsh creaking sound, as if it was not oiled.
Generally, the action speed is also extremely cumbersome.
Paul has to support the operation of the metal puppet at this time, which consumes a lot of mental energy. After arriving here, he could only watch the two people make helpless gestures. Sheyan and the others knew that he must have a trump card.
, but after all, it was Paul who put in a lot of effort in fighting all the way, and it was impossible to be harsh on him at this time.
So without saying a word, Sheyan asked Paul to take his metal puppet Hercules in, and then asked Ramtas to come out and block it.
In fact, this is where Paul's scheming lies. He deliberately proposed that his metal puppet Hercules take the lead, in order to let his puppet experience a relatively low-intensity but long-lasting battle.
And no one knows how powerful the ant queen is. It is very likely that there will be a crazy attack, causing the metal puppet Hercules to be completely destroyed, so it is natural and logical to act helpless before facing the ant queen.
Sheyan was of course very clear about his calculations, but because he was an MT himself, he didn't care about Paul's actions. After all, there is a saying that tolerance leads to greatness, and you can't ask everyone to contribute 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 pheromones to move within the nest, the nest is dark and there are no luminous objects. However, before setting off, humans in the future have long anticipated the possibility of cave adventures, so they 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 countermeasures technology to float in the air. It can fly dexterously at high speeds and can spread ultrasonic network exploration and mapping rays up to fifty meters long around it to accurately map the cave.
Geological conditions and related 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 and flew thirty places in front of them, while doing lighting work. After walking about forty meters into the ant nest, they felt the air
The quality is still very good, and there is still wind coming from time to time.
Although the claw marks of worker ants on the cave wall are clearly visible, they also appear to be quite smooth. Although it is certainly not comparable to human buildings, if you look closely, the wall seems to be coated with a layer of glaze, which is hard and smooth.
If you tap lightly with your fingers, it 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 into it.
After continuing for about a hundred meters, everyone felt a sudden opening in front of them. The passage of the ant nest was originally about the size of a train tunnel, and now it was as if they had entered a temporary platform. The "Ladybug" also flew directly there.
Twenty or thirty meters in the air, with the light shining down on the whole place, you can clearly see that this should be the storage room of the ant nest.
There are many plant roots, fruits, and of course the carcasses of wild beasts piled up in different categories. The furs and the like are divided into piles. The edible meat is cut into fist-sized pieces by the worker ants, and is wrapped like beef jerky.
The dehydrated and air-dried items are piled together, and you have to get very close to smell the rotten smell.
Looking at the dense crawling marks on the ground, everyone felt a sense of fear in their hearts. If this was an ant trap, and dozens of worker ants suddenly rushed out from all directions and surrounded them, then they would really die or shed their skin.
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The most regrettable thing here is that the furs of many beasts are quite precious, but unfortunately they were corroded by formic acid when they were hunted. Otherwise, this would be a huge fortune, and although it is still valuable now, it still needs to be
Considering the huge cost of bringing these damaged items from the planet Epros back to Alpine Base No. 7, and that there may even be more and better trophies that need to take up space in future adventures, we have no choice but to give up.
Continuing forward from the storage room, there was a fork in the road ahead. At this time, Ramtas' fat nose was twitching non-stop, and then he pointed at the road on the left with great excitement and started roaring. By the way,
It also made a continuous pig snort, as if there was a female wild boar in heat inside.
Sheyan originally planned to take the largest intersection, but due to this guy's strong request, he had no choice but to change his route.
But this time, after walking about fifty meters into the passage, I smelled an indescribable smell. The smell was like the smell of urine stains from urinals washed with hydrochloric acid. The smell was sour and suffocating, and it got worse and worse.
The smell became thicker as we walked inside. Both Aldaris and Paul couldn't help but put on gas masks.
When we reached the end of this passage, there was also a spacious hall. Many grid-shaped caves were excavated in this hall. After arriving in this hall, Sheyan felt relieved. It seemed that this
The ant colony has indeed reached the end of its rope and has no tricks left, because no ant colony can afford such a price to confuse the enemy.
This is the nursery of the ant colony,
After the queen ant lays eggs, the worker ants carry the eggs here for incubation, and the hatched larvae are also taken care of by them.
Because almost all the worker ants are dead, it can be said that the place has been in a state of disorder for a long time.
According to the information provided by Artificial Man 1, after the larvae of the flying ants are born, they need to eat nearly ten times a day (24 hours), all of which are fed by the worker ants. According to the order given by the queen using pheromones, different animals are fed.
food.
The vast majority of larvae will be fed "chyme" processed by the worker ants with their powerful jaws. After the worker ants chew the fruits of the plants and a large amount of meat, they mix it with their own saliva and store it in the crop to feed the larvae. They at least
You have to eat more than four kilograms at a time to feel full. The larvae that eat "chyme" will eventually hatch into worker ants.
While a small number of larvae are fed "chyme", they are also fed "ant dew" at least once a day. This stuff is similar to royal jelly and is usually the exclusive food of the queen ants. This part
The larvae will hatch into male ants used for combat and breeding.
Only when the queen ant dies or the ant colony divides, will the larvae be eligible to eat all the "ant dew", and it will become the queen as soon as it hatches.
At this time, the incubation room has lost the care of worker ants for at least dozens of hours. Driven by instinct, the hungry larvae naturally attack the eggs and siblings around them. Oh no, they should bite...
...The smell of rotting larvae or egg carcasses is the source of the stench that Fang Sheyan and the others smelled. () {Piaotian Literature www.piaotian.com thanks all book friends for their support, your support is our greatest motivation}