Ancient Invasion [End Times]

77 days after the invasion·【Part [-]】Ant colony: the importance of family planning

Although I don't know what's going on right now, but Du Nanrong and his group ran back in a hurry, which obviously explained everything.

"There are buildings ahead!" Zhang Hongfei roared.

Zhang Jiuzhang rushed into the building at the head, followed by others.

Du Nanrong hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Quick! Don't let them in! Take something and block all the gaps!"

"Fire! Who has fire? Hurry up!" Zhang Jiuzhang roared.

"It's in my dad's bag!" Du Jingshu remembered, and frantically opened Du Nanrong's backpack, and found a lighter and matches from it.

There is some hay in the warehouse, which is used to feed some experimental rabbits. Du Jingshu and Du Nanrong brought them in bundles and lit them on fire.

"What's the situation?!" Lin Qian was the last to run into the building, the door closed against his clothes, almost pinching Lin Qian, he gasped and asked.

"There are a lot of ants." Luo Xiaonan hugged Cheng Sheng's calf in panic, and was about to cry, "The grass was bitten off..."

Lin Qian was startled, and watched the saxifrage jerk up a leafless stem.

In order to protect itself, I had to cut off the leaves and throw them to those fierce ants.

"They came out of nowhere, and they gathered in the blink of an eye." Du Jingshu said with lingering fear, "Some were hiding in the fog, and some were crawling on the ground. We didn't find them until the fog was thinner. !"

Cheng Sheng's eyes darkened when he heard the words, and he immediately said to Zhang Hongfei and the others: "There is a storage room in the middle of the corridor on the right hand side. There should be some things in it that can be used. I found clothes and fabrics that were soaked in water, and blocked them in the cracks of doors, windows, and everything else. loopholes."

Zhang Hongfei nodded and acted immediately.

"Where did these ants come from? How could it be so... scary?" Du Jingshu asked with her lips pursed. She held back for a few seconds, only thinking of using "scary" to describe everything she saw.

Those ants were overwhelming, as if they could devour everything.

The leaf petals of the saxifrage fell into the ant colony, and they swarmed up in a dense cluster. After more than ten seconds, Du Jingshu looked back and saw that there was nothing left.

Du Nanrong and Zhang Jiuzhang were busy fuming the doorway and the gaps by the window. Hearing what Du Jingshu said, Zhang Jiuzhang and Du Nanrong spoke almost at the same time and asked Cheng Sheng——

Zhang Jiuzhang: "Are they marching ants?"

Du Nanrong: "Doctor, do you still study army ants here?"

Cheng Sheng nodded slightly.

The origin of the species of army ants can be traced back to [-] million years ago, which can be compared with the era of dinosaurs. It is hard to imagine that these little guys lived with dinosaurs in groups as early as prehistoric.

And after hundreds of millions of years, these army ant species have hardly changed.

Studying army ants can allow them to spy on fragments of time hundreds of millions of years ago.

This is the mystery and magic of science. It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine how they work and how they can see the world hundreds of millions of years ago from a small ant, but the fact is that they can indeed, and they will be able to create a new world for hundreds of millions of years later. Today's offers a qualitative leap forward.

——If it weren't for the disaster of the ancient virus invasion.

Cheng Shengguang thought of the army ants when he heard Luo Xiaonan say that the saxifrage didn't take advantage of those ant colonies.

He slid his wheelchair and quickly came to a compartment. The door of the compartment was opened, and a huge, human-height constant-temperature glass breeding box was overturned, rolled over on the ground, and a corner was broken. Thick soil, stones and broken bricks were scattered all over the place.

Lin Qian saw a label and a picture on the breeding box. In the picture, the ants had a pair of exaggerated giant jaws.

"Insecta, Hymenoptera, Sylvania, Arthropoda...Marchantinae?" Lin Qian skipped the middle series of classifications, and his eyes fell to the end, and it was indeed an army ant.

"Aren't these things too smart? They also know how to escape from the breeding box?" Lin Qian looked at Cheng Sheng incredulously, "Then this kind of thing hasn't happened here before?"

Cheng Sheng said with a cold face: "March ants have been in a cycle of moving, finding prey, and eating prey since they were born. Without the temptation of prey, they would not group up and overturn the breeding box with such a clear goal."

Luo Xiaonan gave a soft "ah", and looked at Cheng Sheng in panic: "Nan Nan heard that person calling them to come over, but then the sound stopped..."

"Which person?" Lin Qian asked.

"It's the dean." Cheng Sheng said, just like what Zhang Hongfei said before, the dean can control the mutated centipedes, so it won't be too difficult to control these ants.

Luo Xiaonan nodded.

The reason why these army ants did not target them until now is probably because the old dean was dealt with by them later, so that the signal was interrupted.

After these army ants had no target, they instinctively began to look for food and catch food in this area.

"How many of these are there?" Duan Yi asked.

Cheng Sheng paused, and said, "You have to know that for an ant colony, a million-level measurement is not an exaggeration."

Lin Qian gasped.

Zhang Jiuzhang looked at Cheng Sheng coldly: "You crazy people."

Cheng Sheng continued: "Although we only have a few hundred ants here, in order to observe the normal group activities of the ant colony, at least there are queen ants, soldier ants, drone ants, and worker ants. Their internal functions are completely complete."

"And queen ants can lay about 25 eggs per month on average." Cheng Sheng pursed his lips. The key to the problem is not how many eggs they raised.

"In normal times, we have workers who professionally raise ant colonies every day to confirm the status of the queen, and deal with the eggs laid by the queen in time to ensure that the number will not get out of control." Cheng Sheng said in a deep voice, "But the research institute After getting out of control, the ant colony here reproduces in a completely natural state, and no one interferes with their reproduction."

Du Nanrong understood, this is the importance of family planning.

"It takes a month for the ant eggs to hatch completely. Based on the time, only a small part of the ant eggs of these army ants should have hatched, and there must be more hidden in the ant nest." Cheng Sheng said.

Du Jingshu slowly backed out of the room. Holding back her nausea, she pointed to the top of the cabinet next to her, and saw a string of milky white things with a stringy viscous substance hanging down there, and asked, "Could it be that one?"

Cheng Sheng heard the words and looked over, and saw something wriggling in the string of milky white egg-shaped substances, he nodded: "That's it."

Without further ado, Zhang Jiuzhang lit the fire.

The scorching sound of "Zi Zi Zi" continued.

Cheng Sheng even saw sharply in the middle of the ant eggs, a marching ant that had neither mandibles nor wings, but only had a big belly, was sitting between the eggs, creaking and squeaking under the fire.

Before Cheng Sheng had time to say anything, he opened his mouth and closed it again.

He tilted his head and said to Duan Yi: "Quickly, go and check whether Zhang Hongfei and the others have filled all the gaps. Also, pay attention to the top of the head."

Duan Yi nodded, and said to Cheng Sheng in a low voice, "Be careful yourself."

After he finished speaking, he turned to Lin Qian and Xu Ying: "Lin Qian and Xu Ying, protect the doctor."

"Roger that!"

Except for the male ants, which have a pair of wings, other ant species cannot fly, but this does not prevent them from reaching mid-air to get the food they want.

——Other marching ants bite head to tail, forcibly building an "ant bridge", which can even hang down from the eaves to attack the beehive and obtain honey.

Now that Zhang Jiuzhang burned all the eggs of the army ants without saying a word, and even killed the queen, the army ants outside must have gone crazy.

Cheng Sheng took a deep breath, without the queen, the way he used to deal with the cockroach colony would be useless - there are hundreds or thousands of male ants in an ant colony, and Cheng Sheng can't control so many male ants.

"Everything is blocked!" Zhang Hongfei, Duan Yi and his group came back quickly. Some of them were obviously bitten while blocking the gap. The pain was unbearable, and they couldn't help scratching their skin.

Seeing this, Cheng Sheng immediately moved to the man's side, and quickly asked, "Do you have any allergies?"

The man froze for a moment, then shook his head quickly.

Cheng Sheng grabbed the man's hand and put it under the faucet, rinsed it with clean water, and said, "Put more soap on the wound, don't scratch it."

"There is compound dexamethasone acetate cream in the drawer...there is a cream packaged in red, take it out and rub it on the wound." Cheng Sheng changed his words, and looked at the others, "Everyone who was bitten did the same thing just now, Individuals with a history of allergies should stand up alone."

A relatively thin and small soldier stood up, panting a little too quickly.

Seeing this, Cheng Sheng immediately asked Duan Yi to calm him down. He took out an injection from the side drawer, patted the opponent's arm, and injected it into the vein: "Take a deep breath, you will be fine."

Zhang Hongfei was slightly taken aback: "What's wrong with him?"

"Allergies can cause respiratory failure and shock in severe cases." Cheng Sheng said, "Ants are basically poisonous, and they are allergic to formic acid. Of course, except for a very few."

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldier lying on the ground widened his eyes in fright.

Cheng Sheng glanced at him, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you're fine. I have the necessary medicines here."

Zhang Hongfei heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, he really didn't expect those army ants to cause them such a big trouble.

"They will only get crazier." Cheng Sheng warned, "We burned their queens and eggs, and those engineer ants and drones will go crazy once they touch the signal."

Zhang Hongfei nodded sullenly.

When they came out of the compartment, they realized that the light seemed to have dimmed, as if it was getting late.

"Time flies so fast?" Lin Qian muttered in a low voice.

Xu Ying tugged at Lin Qian with an ugly face, and pointed to the window outside: "It's those army ants."

Every window glass was densely covered with a layer of army ants, which almost blocked the light coming in from outside.

They were lying on the window, as if looking for a crack to get in.

The sound of "tick-tick" sounded on the window, which was the movement of army ants moving outside the window.

"What are they doing?" Du Jingshu couldn't help asking.

Cheng Sheng manipulated the wheelchair to move to the window. His pupils narrowed and he cursed, "They're biting the plastic between the windows."

After the plastic was eaten up, the ant colonies could only be blocked by those water-soaked fabrics, but Cheng Sheng knew very well that those water-soaked face cloths couldn't resist for a long time.

"Look! They built a bridge! What's this for?!"