First generation female Alpha

When Cen Zhao, Qu Yao and Zhong Liuying returned to the camp, they clearly felt a pressure.

At the periphery, the pheromones released by them can obviously disperse the overwhelming bugs, but within the range of the camp, this effect is greatly reduced. When the pheromones of the three people are superimposed, many bugs can still rush away from them Very close, and those bugs that can approach them with the pressure of pheromones are getting bigger one by one, and the biggest one is bigger than a normal basketball. When it flies by, it makes a sound like some kind of military Aircraft, sounds very impressive.

Cen Zhao and Qu Yao looked very serious, ready to strike at any time, Zhong Liuying shrank pitifully behind them, looking around every step of the way, for fear that a big insect would fly out of nowhere and attack him Create a threat.

In the camp, there were only fragments of the tents that could be seen everywhere before, and the living utensils placed in the tents were not spared.

It can be seen that those bugs are very destructive, but it is strange that they do not cause any damage to the trees and vegetation. They seem to only target artificial products. Except for the shrub branches that are crushed by flying and landing, they have not been seen eating plants. Qu Yao became curious about their recipes.

In her opinion, this kind of bug is a natural material that can be raised. If you can figure out their living habits and growth environment, follow-up resources will continue to flow, and it may not be possible to form a new industry.

Generally speaking, bugs that grow up like this will use plants as their main food source, but these bugs have not seen food since they appeared. Could it be that they have other prey targets?

animal?

But they didn't attack the living people in the camp before, did they?

Could it be a certain kind of creature?

After looking around for a while, Cen Zhao asked Qi Qi to turn on the holographic recording function, preparing to record everything that happened around him in detail, and then hand it over to experts for analysis. The only disadvantage is that once this function is turned on , Qiqi's other functions will be restricted to a certain extent, and will occupy her terminal network channel. If any dangerous situation occurs, the alarm may fail. However, she has a miniature mecha, so she is not afraid of anything .

The three stopped and walked, and soon saw the first hole.

The diameter of this hole is not big, Cen Zhao can cover it with a slap, and there is a half-foot-high bush next to it, if there is not a bug flying out of it, the three of them may ignore it.

Cen Zhao squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil at the entrance of the cave, and squeezed it, carefully feeling the difference between it and ordinary soil.

Most of the soil in the tiankeng is muddy gray with a little purple tone, and the soil has a strong sense of grain. If it is laid flat, it looks like some kind of frosted metal from a distance, but the soil at the mouth of the pit is blue. The hands are very sticky, and it seems to be mixed with mucus-like substances. It is non-irritating to the skin and has a strong stickiness. Put it under the nose and smell it. It smells a little fishy, ​​and the smell is familiar. Insects are similar.

As soon as Cen Zhao came to a conclusion, he heard Qu Yao who was also grabbing a handful of soil next to him let out a "Hey", then put the freshly grabbed soil directly in front of his face, sticking out his tongue to touch it.

Cen Zhao: "Hey, what are you doing!"

Qu Yao spat out what was on the tip of his tongue, his eyes widened, and he said with disbelief, "This stuff is so sweet!"

"Sweet?"

"Yes, you can try it."

Cen Zhao immediately threw away the remaining dirt in his hand: "No, it's enough for you to taste. Then, what are these?"

"The secretions of these insects, in addition to some protein substances that are common in insect secretions, there are many substances that I have not seen, and it is impossible to judge whether they are derived or original strains. Generally speaking, they are very complicated and require Professional equipment for analysis."

"Where does the sweetness come from?"

"Probably one of the substances that can numb the sense of taste, just makes the taste feel 'sweet', it does not mean it is sweet."

"Is there any content available?"

"Until the specific test results come out, we can't draw a conclusion, but according to my feeling, it should still have development value."

Cen Zhao glanced at the camp where the bugs were flying around, and nodded slightly: "Let's take a look inside."

So the three continued to go deep into the camp.

There are more and more holes on the ground, and they are getting bigger and bigger. It is less than 20 meters deep from the outside to here. The largest hole is enough for a person to go down.

Fortunately, although these holes are big, they were made by the joint efforts of those bugs, not a single bug. Otherwise, with this size, even if they are vegetarians, they will cause some trouble.

Walking, just when they were about to reach the core area of ​​the camp, the three of them stopped at the same time and showed shocked expressions.

Several mounds of blue soil about three meters high appeared in the core area of ​​the camp, which was empty before. The color was gradually changing, and the highest peak was dark blue. The color of the ground was almost the same as that of the normal land.

And on these mounds, there are more than a dozen large beetles that look similar to those flying beetles, but are more colorful, each of which is the size of a washbasin. These beetles seem to be unable to fly. The short legs crawled slowly on the mound, leaving some mucus-like substances where they crawled, and then dried up in just a few seconds, with no traces visible at all, and no use for it.

Of course, it wasn't just these mounds that shocked the three of them, but also the big holes surrounding these mounds.

Each of these large holes was the size of the entrance of an underground passage, and beetles of different sizes flew out continuously from inside.

Qu Yao swallowed, and said in a tone of toothache: "Is the thing you gave them just now effective? I think they should have gone down. If the thing can't last long, they may have an accident. "

Cen Zhao is very confident about this: "As long as they don't damage it, the effect can be guaranteed, but I'm not sure if all beetles are sensitive to pheromones, such as those colorful bugs over there, we are standing It's been a while here, but they don't seem to feel anything at all."

Qu Yao took out a ray knife from his bag, held it in his hand for self-defense, then licked his lower lip, and said with a heroic expression on his face, "I'll take a closer look."

Cen Zhao took a step back, raised one hand and made a "go" gesture: "Please."

Zhong Liuying followed with a pale face and took a step back, almost touching Cen Zhao's body.It can be seen that if possible, he wants to leave this ghost place now, and he doesn't know why he is so afraid.

Because of concerns, Qu Yao did not take back the pheromones when he approached those mounds, but what was unexpected was that the big colorful insects that did not respond to their pheromones suddenly stopped moving when Qu Yao approached, and the closest to her The two of them adjusted their direction and turned their heads towards her, as if people turned their heads to check the situation.

Qu Yao's footsteps stopped for a few seconds because of this change, but the big colorful bugs didn't make any further moves, so she took a few steps forward tentatively.

The tentacles of those bugs moved, and then moved backwards to the back of the mound, as if to avoid it.

Qu Yao cautiously walked to the edge of a big hole, knelt down and grabbed a handful of soil from the hole like before, put it under his nose to smell it, and then stuck out his tongue to lick it.

"Pooh!"

Although there was a distance, Cen Zhao still clearly saw the flash of pain on Qu Yao's face, and his heart suddenly rose.

"what happened?"

Qu Yao spit out a few more mouthfuls, then took out a bottle of oral spray and sprayed it into his mouth twice, before speaking: "It's dozens of times more irritating than the one just now, and it can already be regarded as a neurotoxin. Dip it in."

Seeing that she was fine, Cen Zhao was not overly worried, he just said, "Be careful."

Qu Yao nodded, got up and walked around the big hole, came to a mound of dirt, reached out and touched it twice.

"Huh? So hard!"

Qu Yao broke off a piece of soil with his hands for a long time, but finally dug out a piece from the top with a ray knife. Unlike the blue color on the outside, the inner cut surface presents a crystal clear gem texture. ,It looks very nice.

Because he didn't know what this thing was, and with the previous lessons, Qu Yao didn't put things into his mouth easily, but took out a portable testing device to test the hard object in his hand.

Even after a distance, Cen Zhao saw the dazzling radiance of that "stone" under the light.

"Is this a biogem?" she asked.

Qu Yao nodded: "I don't know if there are other things in it, but just looking at the appearance, it can indeed be listed in the gem category."

Zhong Liuying poked his head out from behind Cen Zhao: "Didn't those two people check these mounds before?"

Qu Yao looked around, but found no obvious traces of man-made exploration, shrugged nonchalantly and said, "Only they themselves will know."

While speaking, she stuffed the cut stone into her bag, then turned her head to look at the big hole she had just bypassed, as if she really wanted to go down and have a look.

The corner of Zhong Liuying's mouth twitched: "Sister, don't think too hard!"

Cen Zhao turned his head and glanced at him: "If you don't want to go down, you can stay on it and wait for us to come back."

Zhong Liuying straightened his back immediately, with a determined face: "No! I want to be with the team... my sister! Where is my sister, I am here!"

Just kidding, even if he goes down to the ground, he will be accompanied by someone. He stays on the ground alone, and God knows what will happen. His current personal combat power is not high, and his abilities are not effective at all times. He is not equipped like the captain. Without high-end individual equipment, if he really encounters any danger, he may only have a handful of ashes when the two big men return to the ground.

Seeing his reaction so big, Cen Zhao only thought it was funny, but he didn't say anything, he waved his hand to signal him to follow, then he raised his feet and walked towards Qu Yao, the two stood at the entrance of the cave and looked down.

The entrance of the cave was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, and the insects that frequently entered and exited the cave also disappeared because they stood here.

Cen Zhao turned on the searchlight to shine into the cave, and found that the inner wall of the cave was also blue, but it was far worse than the blue on the mound.

The inside of the cave is not straight down, but has a certain slope. The slope is uneven, which can effectively prevent slipping and is very convenient for pedestrians.

After watching for a while, Cen Zhao took the lead.

"Let's go."