Data Wasteland

"Squeak..."

One night a few days later, Chen Xing was sleeping when he was suddenly awakened by a sound of insects.

The sound came from the iron closet. Nothing was put inside, but the tunnel of the ant's nest. Su Na sent the worker ants to look for him at this point, it must be something urgent.

As expected, as soon as he opened the closet, a little termite kept calling at him, and bit his trouser tube and pulled it into the corridor.

"Wait, I want to get equipment." Chen Xing said. The little termite immediately let go, shrinking aside, and waiting.

After a while, Chen Xing changed his clothes, put on military boots, and carried an assault rifle with the little termite into the tunnel. The little termite seemed to be anxious, crawling very fast, and turned his head from time to time, calling at him as if urging.

Chen Xing couldn't help speeding up. Four primary agility potions increased his agility attribute to 18 points, and his traveling speed was much faster. If it had been before, he might not be able to keep up with the termites.

After walking a straight road, it started to go downhill, and then turned around. After five or six minutes of walking, there was a scream in front of him.

"grumble!"

There was anger in his voice. Chen Xing immediately recognized that it was the cry of the queen ant Su Na.

"Chi Chi Chi!" The little termite raised her head high, making a sharp croak like chicken blood, and rushed towards the hatching room.

Instead, Chen Xing slowed down, took off the assault rifle, held it in both hands, the muzzle was down, and marched forward in small fragments.

The screams in front of them are getting louder and louder. In addition to the sound of termites, there is also a relatively low insect scream, as if the two sides are fighting. Chen Xing bent over, drilled out of the tunnel, the beam of the flashlight shone through, and not far away, a group of immature termite workers were fighting desperately around two huge creatures.

From a fixed point of view, they were two huge mutant spiders. The whole body is covered with black hair, and there are two rows of eyes on the head, a total of twelve, which are exuding a scarlet light. Looking further down, there are eight long and thick spider legs, the ends of which are covered with dark yellow cuticles, which are hook-shaped and have very sharp ends.

At this moment, the fighting in the incubator room was fierce, with termite corpses and broken eggs everywhere on the ground. Su Na moved her huge body, rushing to the front line, waving seven or eight sickle-shaped feet, forcing one of the spiders to retreat.

The other one was slaughtering the little termites continuously, penetrating their bodies with a hook, and then putting them in their mouths and chewing.

Chen Xing raised his gun, aimed at the head of the big spider, and gathered his energy. The psionic factor escaped, gradually enveloping the bullet in the barrel.

"Boom!"

A few seconds later, a blue yingying bullet was born. The moment the gun blasted, the blue light illuminated the entire underground space like a vast ocean.

Guanghua quickly passed by and exploded on the head of the second mutant spider, and the blue star sand was scattered everywhere, like sparks of iron collision.

I saw the spider stand stiff on the spot, and when the brilliance dissipated, there was only a hole with yellow mucus from the original position of the head. Chen Xing was afraid of hurting Su Na, so he didn't choose the spider who was fighting Su Na as the target.

After killing one, the other cried long, then turned and ran. Chen Xing couldn't allow it to slip away, and another power warhead burst out of the barrel, punching a big hole in the abdomen of Big Spider.

Behind the big spider, dragged a long yellow body fluid. After running for a while, his body suddenly crooked and he couldn't move anymore. The remaining termite workers immediately swarmed and killed it completely.

"What's the matter?" Chen Xing put away the gun and asked Su Na who was scratched all over.

"I...I want my baby to find things there last time, those things my brother liked..." Su Na told Chen Xing about the situation through telepathy.

In order to please Chen Xing, Su Na asked the worker ants to dig through the tunnel that had collapsed, and wanted to go in and find those "funny little toys." Unexpectedly, as soon as they dug through, two big spiders ran out, swallowed these immature termite workers, and chased them all the way to the hatching room.

"How is your injury? Is it serious?" Chen Xing asked.

"Su Na is okay, it's just skin trauma, it doesn't hurt." Su Na said with a smile on her face.

Chen Xing walked around Su Na twice, but did not find any deep wounds, so he was relieved.

After these days of getting along, he felt more and more that this cheap sister was obedient and easy to use. Ye Yang Bailiu still has a little temper, and sometimes has to wait on her. This younger sister doesn't have a slight temper, she is docile and cute, thinking about her elder brother and giving her all good things.

To Chen Xing now, Su Na is like a beloved toy, which can't be broken by others.

"Brother, Su Na really doesn't hurt." Su Na groaned, seeming to be stared at by Chen Xing, a little uncomfortable.

"Why, can't it work?" Chen Xing asked with a cold face.

"You, you, look at it~" Su Na said eagerly, her face flushed.

"Okay, okay, just teasing you." Chen Xing said with a gentle smile.

Subsequently, Chen Xing let the little termites lead the way and collapsed the tunnel leading to the spider's nest to avoid another attack.

These two big spiders broke in and crushed at least one-third of the eggs in the hatching room and killed more than fifty small termites. It was a disaster and the loss was extremely heavy.

"During this time, you have digged down all possible dangerous passages. I will solve the food problem." Chen Xing said to Su Na after returning to the incubator room.

They had a detailed exchange before. Su Na told Chen Xing about the operation of the ant colony.

Normally, the life cycle of termite workers is two years, the larval stage is fifteen days, and the youth stage is forty-five days. From hatching to adult, it takes two months.

The life cycle of termite soldiers is ten years. But this ten years is a ten years in a dormant state. If the activity continues, the life cycle is very short, only less than one hundred and twenty days.

The larval stage of soldier ants is 20 days, and the juvenile stage is 70 days. From hatching to adult, it takes three months. After that, there is only a life cycle of less than 30 days. Must dig a hole to sleep, otherwise it will die soon.

Then there are the eggs.

Suna can lay more than 100 eggs per natural month. If she can obtain more resources, such as the corpses and crystal nuclei of advanced mutant creatures, or other psionic substances, as well as a sufficient amount of iron, she can evolve from "common termite queen" to "iron-clad termite queen" . In addition to covering the whole body with iron armor, nearly a thousand eggs can be produced every natural month.

If you further obtain resources, you can also ignite the "spiritual fire" in the crystal core, and evolve into a "Hundred Nest Ant Queen" that spawns more than 1,000 eggs per day and can move short distances and can even tear space in the legend. , The "star-eater queen" who devours the inner core of the planet.

All these information came to mind automatically when Suna became the termite queen, and belonged to the knowledge passed on by species.

At present, there are more than 700 eggs in the nest, and more than 60 young worker ants. It will take at least two months to recover and become self-sufficient. During this time, Chen Xing had to provide at least ten corpses every day to ensure the operation of the ant colony.

But this is not a difficult task. If you take people out for a round every day, you can get enough corpses.