In Fang Senyan's world, according to some common sense he learned, the habits of ants in each region are also different.
African ants like to live in "buildings", Even if there are no conditions, these guys will use trees as skeletons to build towering anthills, ant hills, up to several meters, ranging from more than ten meters, to be extremely hard, an adult to cut it with a big axe, it is actually a spark splashing, can not damage its appearance in the slightest.
And most ants like to live underground.
Compared with their small size, the construction area of the underground ant nest can even reach dozens of square meters, similar to the storage room, nursery nest, queen room, tunnel, small room, residence division of labor, all kinds of supporting facilities are so complete that in fashionable terms, it is simply more than CBD.
And for this group of one-horned flying ants on the planet Epulos, they have the habit of having both.
Its worker ants make nests on top of the mushroom rocks, because if they do so, they can make full use of the condescending advantage, live high and see far away, monitor their entire territory like sentinels, and swarm out in swarms if there is any accident.
The queen ant and the male ant of the one-horned flying ant live comfortably in the magnificent underground nest under the mushroom rock, warm in winter and cool in summer, and are fed by the worker ants.
If it weren't for the collapse of half of the mushroom rock and the tragic annihilation of the two or three hundred worker ants hiding in it, Fang Senyan and his party would not have been able to come here and carry out such a simple clean-up work on the sacred nest of the ant colony.
Although Aldaris had only fled for his life before, he had never gone so far beneath the Mushroom Rock.
But this did not prevent him from quickly finding the entrance to the underground nest, because these unicorn flying ants crawl here all day long, although they fly when they go out hunting, but when they go to feed the male ants and queens, they crawl in and out.
So you just need to see where there is no grass and it is very smooth like a trail, then you can walk along it.
The entrance to the underground ant nest is just below the stone mountain at the base of the mushroom rock.
Because the size of the unicorn flying ant is similar to that of a lion, the hole is also tall and spacious, and it is very smooth and flat without bad smell.
It looks like a black hole.
At this time, the battle has been fought until now, and Paul's powerful metal puppet Hercules has been the main force, and the surface of this huge puppet has also been corroded by a lot of formic acid sprayed.
The originally smooth surface is also pitted.
What's more, the surface of the metal puppet was originally engraved with many magic arrays, and once it was activated, those magic arrays would have signs of rapid flow of energy, emitting bursts of red light, which played a role in blessing the "power of the bull", "anti-gravity technique" and so on.
At this time, after being corroded by formic acid, most of the magic array on this metal puppet was also destroyed, and when it walked, it obviously felt a lot heavier.
There is also a screeching sound at the joints, as if it has not been oiled, and the speed of movement is extremely heavy.
Paul had to support the operation of the metal puppet all the time at this time, and the consumption of mental power was also very large, after coming here.
I could only watch the two of them make a helpless gesture.
Fang Senyan and the others knew that he must still have hole cards, but after all, it was Paul who had made a lot of effort to kill all the way, and it was impossible to demand him anymore at this time.
So Fang Senyan didn't say a word, and asked Paul to take in his metal puppet Hercules, and then let Ramtas come out and block the front.
In fact, this is also the depth of Paul's scheming.
He deliberately offered his metal puppet Hercules to take the lead, in order to allow his puppet to experience relatively small but long-lasting battles.
And no one knows what the combat effectiveness of the queen ant is, and it is likely that there will be a crazy attack, resulting in the complete destruction of the metal puppet Hercules, so it is natural to make an appearance of incompetence before facing the queen ant.
Of course, Fang Senyan is very thorough in his calculations, but because he himself is the identity of T, he doesn't care about Paul's actions, after all, there is a saying called tolerance is great, you can't ask all people to selflessly dedicate themselves to you, in short, as long as it does not exceed certain bottom lines, then you can tolerate his behavior.
Because ant colonies rely on touch and pheromone activities in the nest, there is no luminous light in the black hole in the nest, but before leaving, humans have long expected that there may be cave adventures in the future, so they are equipped with a special detector called "ladybug" in the menu.
This high-energy special detector is about the size of a tennis ball, and uses gravity countermeasure technology to levitate in the air, can fly at high speed and dexterity, and can scatter ultrasonic network exploration mapping rays up to 50 meters in the surrounding area, accurately mapping the geology of the cave and related organisms.
Well, it's actually the one in Prometheus Because the price of ladybugs is also quite expensive, Fang Senyan and the others only used one ladybug to fly thirty places in front of them, and carried out lighting work by the way.
After walking about 40 meters into the nest, I felt that the quality of the air was still very good, and the wind was blowing from time to time.
Although the claw marks of the worker ants on the cave wall are clearly visible, they also appear quite smooth, although they certainly cannot be compared with human buildings, but if you look closely, the walls are like a layer of glaze, hard and smooth, and when you tap them lightly with your fingers, you 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 infiltrate it.
After continuing to move forward for about 100 meters, there was a sudden feeling of enlightenment in front of everyone, and the passage of the ant nest was originally the size of a train tunnel, and at this time it was as if it had entered a temporary platform.
The "ladybug" also flew directly into the air twenty or thirty meters away, shining on the whole field, and you can clearly see that this should be the storage room of the ant nest.
The rhizomes and fruits of many plants were stacked in different categories, and of course the carcasses of wild beasts, and the furs and the like were divided into piles, and the edible meat was pinned into fist-sized by the worker ants, and the dried beef was dehydrated and dried like beef jerky, and it was necessary to get close enough to smell the smell of decay.
Looking at the dense crawling traces on the ground, everyone had a feeling of fear in their hearts, if this was a trap for an ant colony, and dozens of worker ants suddenly rushed out from all directions, then they would really be undead and would shed their skin.
The most regrettable thing here is that there are many beasts whose fur is quite precious, but unfortunately they are all corroded by formic acid when they are killed, otherwise, it will be a huge fortune, and although it is still worth a lot now, but considering the huge cost of bringing these destroyed items from the planet Epulos back to the Alpine VII base, and even in the future adventures, there may be more and better loot to take up space, so it can only be abandoned.
Continuing from the storeroom, there was a three-way intersection in front of him, and at this time Ramtas's fat nose twitched, and then he excitedly aimed at the road on the left and began to roar, and by the way, there was a continuous pig snort, as if there was a female boar in heat.
Fang Senyan originally planned to take the largest intersection, but under the strong request of this guy, he could only change the route.
But this time, about fifty meters into the passage, I smelled an indescribable smell, which was like the smell of urine scale in a urinal washed with hydrochloric acid, and the sour smell was suffocating, and the further I walked inside, the stronger the breath became.
For example, both Aldaris and Paul couldn't help but put on gas masks.
When he came to the end of this passage, it was also a spacious hall, and many lattice-shaped caves had been dug out of this hall, and after coming to this hall, Fang Senyan was relieved, it seemed that this ant colony had indeed reached the end of the road, and there were no tricks, because no ant colony could bear the price of confusing the enemy like this.
This is the nursery of the ant colony.
When the queen ants lay their eggs, the workers bring the eggs here to hatch, and the hatching larvae are also cared for by them.
Because almost all of the worker ants are dead, it can be said that this place has been in a state of disorder for a long time.
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According to the information provided by Cyborg 1, the unicorn flying ant larvae are fed nearly ten times a day 24 hours a day after birth, all of which are fed by worker ants, who feed different foods according to the queen's orders using pheromones.
The vast majority of larvae will be fed to the "chyme" processed by the worker ants with a strong jaw, and after the worker ants chew the fruit of the plant and a large amount of meat, they will mix their own saliva and store it in the sac to feed the larvae, and they will eat at least four kilograms at a time to be full.
The larvae that eat the "chyme" eventually hatch into worker ants.
A small number of larvae are fed "chyme" at the same time, at least one meal a day will be fed "ant dew", which is similar to the existence of royal jelly, which is usually the exclusive food of the queen ant, and this part of the larvae will be hatched into male ants for combat and breeding.
Only when the queen dies or the colony is divided, will the larvae be eligible to eat all the "ant dew", and it will be the queen as soon as it hatches.
At this time, the hatchery room has lost the care of the worker ants for at least dozens of hours, and the hungry larvae, driven by instinct, naturally attack the eggs and siblings around them, oh no, it should be the smell of the rotting larvae or the corpses of the eggs, which is the source of the foul smell that Fang Senyan smelled
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