Chapter 66: Seedlings
86_86900 people concocted the same method, put the freshly killed animals in each prepared trap, and then waited for the ant hunting team to come, and then directly set fire to the pit, and by the time the last pit came, the number of ant armies visible to the naked eye was far less than the first time.
Qing Dai unleashed the ghoul vines, blocking the last few fleeing ant colonies, forcing them back into the flames. It's hard for girls to have any sympathy for bugs.
"How many did we burn?" Du Qinyue played with the fireball in her hand, and she was still unsatisfied with the previous "battle".
Zhang Hongjun took a look at the situation, and calculated with Lian Qingyun again, and then said with a wooden face: "Strictly speaking, this kind of worker ants have always been in shifts, and the number of ant nests in the whole should be several times more." ”
Du Qinyue was stunned for a moment, and said involuntarily: "No, then, there are many more, what should we do?" How many more times? ”
Even Qingyun said solemnly: "At present, we should be startling the snake, no matter how stupid the ants are, they will not continue to be fooled, so the next step, we should call the door." ”
"Wait." Du Qinyue felt wrong: "Hit the grass and scare the snake? You say it's a scare for snakes? So happy to work? ”
Zhang Hongjun shook his head helplessly and sighed: "Have you been scared stupid by the bugs?" The number of ants has reached this point, and we can only weaken it step by step, and one ring follows another. ”
Du Qinyue looked back at Qing Dai with a wooden face, and found that she was also looking at herself a little strangely, and found that she was really stupid, so she had to ask depressedly: "The next step is to go to their lair?" ”
Zhang Hongjun then showed a teachable expression and said: "Originally, the best opportunity was to pursue it now, but it's not early, we still have to make some preparations, let's stop here today." ”
"Ready?" Du Qinyue asked curiously, "Don't you still rely on me to burn it?" ”
Zhang Hongjun looked at this Qingmei, who had completely given up thinking and was waiting to charge, and really didn't want to speak.
Qingdai was also a little funny about her best friend's current state, but seeing that several men were too lazy to communicate, and Du Qinyue was about to jump up, she had to come out and say, "Xiaoyue, if you can burn it, the ants will come out and burn it for you." Of course, they have to find a way to force the ants out. ”
Du Qinyue blinked her eyes and suddenly realized: "Then they are going to dig a pit again?" No, what are they looking for for foreign aid? ”
Qingdai didn't understand very much, she just pulled Du Qinyue to eat, lunch was spent watching ants, no one had an appetite, she didn't eat much at all, and she must eat better now.
As for what these smart people thought of, they followed the work, and it wasn't tiring to think too much.
The twins were so happy to see that everyone was back, and they spent the whole day worrying, even if they washed the dirty car twice along the way.
Qing Dai looked at the fear and worry of the two children that could not be concealed or eliminated, and she was a little out of line, and sure enough, it was as simple and frank as Du Qinyue. In such troubled times, it is far better to cherish the present than to worry about the future.
Qingdai originally thought that the solution discussed by Zhang Hongjun and Lian Qingyun was to find a natural enemy to deal with ants and make trouble with the ant nest, but they didn't expect that their decision was to use explosives!
When she saw that Xu Sheng was also dragged away and arranged a simple explosive device together, Qingdai could only reflect silently, she still underestimated human technology too much, and believed too much in the natural world. Human beings can occupy the world hegemony with wisdom instead of minions, no matter whether they encounter heavenly changes or zombies, as long as the human mind does not change, the future status will not change.
Now that they have Du Qinyue's humanoid lighter, some of the detonation devices of the bomb can also be more simple and crude, so they spent more time calculating the weight of the explosives, as well as the strategic layout to be made after alarming the ants.
The role of Qing Dai is still to build a strong barrier and watchtower with corpse vines, ensuring that everyone can occupy the high ground without being harmed by the crazy ants.
Next, Qing Dai watched Du Qinyue, under the command of Zhang Hongjun, first release a small fire to detonate the explosives, and then ignite all the preset flammable items around the ant nest in turn, making sure that they were not killed, and the ants that escaped from the ground were all buried in the fire.
Maybe it's because I've seen too much the day before and I'm numb, or because today for safety, everyone is far away from ants, Qingdai found that she was able to calmly look at those black insect tides, watch them be hit by the air waves of explosives, and crawl out of the cracked hole frantically, and then be squeezed into the raging flames by the companions behind, making all kinds of strange and creepy sounds.
No one spoke, until the flames died down, and there were only black and quiet insect corpses left around the cave, and there were no moving ants in sight.
"How's it going?" Zhang Hongjun asked suddenly.
Qing Dai came back to her senses and looked at her companions a little stunned.
"General." Lian Qingyun still said in a deep voice: "Queen ant, it seems that she is very hidden, and her intelligence is not bad. ”
Du Qinyue squinted and estimated for a while, and suddenly said: "The number of ants that died today is about the same as yesterday, what should I do next?" ”
Zhang Hongjun glanced at Du Qinyue: "The most effective is the three-plate axe, of course, it is the one that was made yesterday." ”
Du Qinyue saw that this guy actually despised his own IQ, and said angrily: "What kind of eyes do you have? How can ants be fooled when they are so smart? ”
Even Qingyun saw that Zhang Hongjun began to pack up his things and prepare to leave, and replied coldly: "If you are smart, you have to eat, especially when half of the nest is destroyed." ”
Du Qinyue habitually raised the bar: "Can you be sure that half of it has been blown up?" With such a small number of ants, it won't make the ant nest hurt. ”
But no one responded to her, and several people had already climbed down from the corpse vine to prepare for the next one.
Qing Dai looked at Du Qinyue's increasingly irritable temper, and always felt a little strange, and while pulling her, she asked, "Xiaoyue, have you been in a bad mood lately?" They have all collected information and measured the depth of the ant nest, and you believe them very much, why do you always have to talk to them? ”
Du Qinyue paused for a moment, and then looked at Qing Dai: "I'm probably a little irritable." She scratched her head, then continued, "Lately, my abilities don't seem to be improving, and I seem to have hit a bottleneck, and I'm a little rushed to speak. But they should have seen it, they didn't mean to bother with me, so let them bear with it. ”
Qing Dai was speechless for a moment, not knowing whether to be glad that Du Qinyue would never push negative feelings onto her best friend, or sympathize with those bamboo horses who were treated as trash cans.
Although the ant colony is strong, the humans with the help of mutated plants in the woods are indeed superior in strength, and after three days of various ant extermination activities, the number of ant colonies has been reduced to the limit, and the egg-laying queens are finally forced to leave the deep nest and crawl out to deal with these hateful enemies due to lack of food and insufficient troops.
And Lian Qingyun, who had been prepared for a long time, exploded the queen's fat body with one shot.
The final battle ended quickly, but everyone was physically and mentally exhausted.
Even if you are numb to the dense insects, the visual effect of that wave of insects will not be eliminated for a while, and it should take a long time for the scene of the barbecue insects to fade the shadows.
Qing Dai remembered that the ancients used to attract locusts and eat them when there was a locust plague, and she had the urge to share the story - but fortunately she finally suppressed it.
Now that the potential ants have been eliminated, the trade between the green daisy and the jujube tree can naturally be discussed.
Qingdai called all the laborers, including the twins, to the jujube tree together, ready to harvest a handful of mutated jujubes to eat, take as much as you can, look at the number of fruits on the tree, it is not a problem to pack ten bags of eight bags (sacks), I believe that the jujube tree will not be stingy.
Without waiting for Qingdai to express her idea of climbing the tree and picking dates, countless dates fell as if it were raining.
Everyone cheered, and they all happily picked up dates, they didn't have to climb the tree, this date tree is still very intimate and familiar, give it a thumbs up.
Qingdai was also very happy, released her ability, and said thank you to the jujube tree.
However, what I didn't expect was that the jujube tree actually added another sentence: "Thank you...... At...... ...... under your feet"
There's something strange about Indigo, underfoot? It dropped the dates, and it was indeed under its feet, but why emphasize it? They're already picking it up, and they're sure they don't waste it.
Before Qing Dai could think clearly, she felt as if her feet had been rubbed by something.
Qing Dai slowly lowered her head, and then saw a small sapling thirty centimeters tall leaning on her feet, writhing around like a child.
Qingdai felt that she was really well-informed, so she was not surprised. The state of this little sapling, just like the gardenia she had encountered before, can run around from the land, and the roots become feet, which is a great innovation of mutation.
Looking at the childish behavior of this little sapling, Qingdai still raised her head and communicated with the jujube tree: "This, is it your child?" Why is it a thank you gift? ”
"It's not...... Gu Miao ...... "The jujube tree seems to want to explain clearly, but it can't use reasonable words.
Qingdai tried to communicate for a while, but she couldn't figure it out, but she was able to determine that this sapling was not a jujube tree, but the benefits that the jujube tree gave them. Decide for yourself the specific functions.
Qingdai is not greedy, her original intention is to get dates, which is not only food, but also the seeds of the date tree. On the one hand, the purpose of exterminating ants is to gain the favor of the jujube tree, and on the other hand, it is necessary to eliminate some potential dangers, the latter reason is obviously more important and has been recognized by peers.
Now that the jujube tree has given more benefits than expected, then of course they will not refuse, let alone be dissatisfied.
Thanks to the fact that the strangers are all strong men, they put the dates given by the jujube tree into the storage box on the roof of the car twice, and everyone studied the small saplings in Qingdai's hand and started a new journey