Chapter 292: Windfall
Although the flashlight was not bright enough, as the only light source in the dark forest, the changes were very obvious, and as the light source flickered on and off, the surrounding environment and Chang Zhaowen's face also became cloudy.
The flashlight flickered as if it conveyed different messages depending on its frequency and length, and Chang Zhaowen guessed that it might be a bit similar to Morse code, but he could only stare at it now, because he didn't know anything about the laws of Morse code.
MD, books are rarely used when they are used!, but it won't be ordinary books that can teach Morse code.
Although I can't understand the message that the flashlight wants to convey, but fortunately, Chang Zhaowen can be tested in other ways, and there are only a few kinds of information expressed by the flashlight anyway.
Just now he tested the stream with his hands, the water is not deep, and the current speed is not fast, it can be completely crossed. Chang Zhaowen took off his shoes and put them on the side of the stream, and stepped into the stream with a pair of bare feet, the cool stream water did not reach his ankles, and the cold feeling made him shiver, but he quickly adapted to the water temperature, but felt that the feeling of his feet soaking in the stream made him very relaxed, and the bottom of the creek was dissatisfied with the round pebbles that had been washed by the stream all year round, which gave him the illusion of foot massage.
Although the stream was shallow but not small, about 3 or 4 meters wide, he had just taken two steps to the opposite bank after entering the water, and the frequency of the flashlight flickered a lot faster, and he hurriedly withdrew from the stream. It seems that the flashlight is warning him that he is on the edge of exploration and cannot go any further.
Well, then he'll look along the stream, and maybe he'll find some berries around here.
Resting his flashlight on a fairly dry rock, he sat down on the ground and began to put on his shoes, and when he bent down to tie his second shoe, suddenly the light around him dimmed!
Hey?!
Chang Zhaowen was stunned to see that the flashlight that was originally placed on the stone seemed to have long legs, and actually moved, went down to the flat ground along the surface of the stone, and retreated backwards against the ground......
I, Cao, Chang Zhaowen rubbed his eyes, it turns out that his text forest is so evil, even the flashlight has become a fine and ran away by himself?
However, in the blink of an eye, the flashlight "walked" out of his side for five or six meters and got into a small mound of dirt.
Hey, stop!
I didn't care that the shoelaces hadn't been tied yet, Chang Zhaowen rushed to the edge of the mound in three steps and two steps, if it weren't for the flashlight that was still shining, the target was obvious, and it was easy to find. If the flashlight is extinguished, it is estimated that it will really not be found if it is so dark.
This is...... I see!
Chang Zhaowen couldn't laugh or cry, where did this flashlight run by himself, this was obviously a theft, no, it was a blatant robbery! It was an organized criminal gang that snatched the flashlight under his eyelids in front of his master!
In the dim light, under the flashlight lying horizontally were dense black dots, which were carrying torches many times larger than their size to continue to drill into the mound.
He is no stranger to this kind of small black dot Chang Zhaowen - ants, ants everywhere, he is just a little curious, why do ants "grab" his flashlight?
Most ants rely on their sense of smell and exchange pheromones to obtain information about the external environment, of course, I have heard that there is a kind of hunting sickle ant that has good eyesight and can see things within a meter, but I have never heard that they need to rely on external lighting!
Strange things happen every year, especially today.
Seeing that half of the flashlight had disappeared into the mound, it seemed that the mound was a hollow cavern. Chang Zhaowen raised his foot and kicked at the top of the mound!
The demolition began.
The dense black ants seemed to be at a loss, they didn't understand what they were attacking.
A swarm of red ants swarmed out of the depths of the cave in an orderly manner, it seems that these are some soldier ants, the accident just now activated the "emergency mechanism" of the ant colony, and the soldier ants began to search for the attacker.
As a primate higher creature, Chang Zhaowen obviously didn't take these arthropod warriors seriously, and at the moment he was peeking down from the cracked hole above the mound to peek down into the secrets of the ant colony.
So that's what happened!
Chang Zhaowen couldn't help but let out an "ah", he didn't expect that this group of ants was far smarter than he imagined, this was like a small intelligent society with a tight organization.
The mound is really hollow inside, and the half-meter-high outer layer was forcibly opened by him, surrounded by a circle of earth walls is a piece of decaying organic matter, on which grows a large white mushroom, the largest one is as big as his two palms together, and the light pillar of the flashlight is shining on the big mushroom, as if a person is standing on the stage and is illuminated by the spotlight, this mushroom is extraordinarily crystal clear, like a piece of rare jade.
These ants also know about photosynthesis! And they can also do agriculture, and this is clearly a mushroom garden for ants!
The red soldier ants surrounded this mushroom field, and they arched their bodies one by one, and the tentacles on their heads trembled violently, as if they sensed an unknown enemy in the air, and a big battle was about to break out.
Chang Zhaowen decisively reached out and pulled his flashlight out of the mound, pulled out the radish and brought out the mud, this time he pulled out the flashlight and brought out the ants.
Chang Zhaowen squeezed his arm hard, most of the ants were thrown off the flashlight under his action, and some of them were fierce, crawling down the flashlight to his hand and "declaring war" on Chang Zhaowen.
"Whew!" Chang Zhaowen exclaimed in pain, and the place on the back of his hand that was bitten by ants was covered with red and swollen particles.
He quickly slapped the ants off the back of his hand, it hurt! His face was a little deformed because of the pain. Well, don't do it and don't do it!
He simply put his hand into the hollow mound again and plucked the largest mushroom directly.
Unexpectedly, this mushroom not only looked like a jade carving, but there was a comfortable coolness when the hand touched it, really like a piece of cold jade. If it weren't for the fact that it also exudes a unique fragrance of wild mushrooms, Chang Zhaowen might have really thought it was a jade carving that was moved to a hole by ants.
This cool touch gave him a new inspiration, Chang Zhaowen tore off a small piece of skin from the root of the mushroom, and gently applied it to the back of his hand where he had just been bitten by ants, which was really amazing, and the redness and swelling on the back of his hand immediately faded by half, and the pain disappeared.
Could it be that this thing specializes in treating snake and insect bites? It seems that he has found a treasure this time, and Chang Zhaowen hurriedly put this mushroom in his bag.
Hey, what's that?
The demolition has also been completed, and the vegetables have been stolen, so when will it not be withdrawn at this time!
When Chang Zhaowen was about to run away, another thing in the mound caught his attention again.