Chapter 8: The Lake of Death (Part II)
Thinking that if he hadn't had to save Squint, he stopped and let those pirates take over, and let them cross the river before the ponies rushed into the lake, Shi Shaoying's heart was beating wildly, no matter how confident he was in himself, he would never dare to bet on running into a saltwater lake with more than a hundred piranhas, and still be able to escape from it alive.
The squinting eyes suddenly shouted in Shi Shaoying's ear: "Be careful! ”
Shi Shaoying also clearly saw that there was a piranha more than 20 centimeters long that suddenly jumped up from the lake like lightning, but he walked into the lake with his slanted eyes, and there was no way to dodge or parry, looking at the two rows of neat and sharp teeth in the mouth of this piranha who aimed at himself, the first question that Shi Shaoying thought of was: Why do these teeth look so much like a walnut clipper?
There was a tingling pain in his left arm, and the piranha that had successfully bitten the muscle of Shi Shaoying's left arm just wanted to twist its body and tear the meat from its mouth from Shi Shaoying's arm, but it soon found that it was impossible for it to twist its body anymore. At the same time that its teeth bit Shi Shaoying, Shi Shaoying suddenly lowered his head and bit its body as well.
"Kara......"
The body of the piranha was under Shi Shaoying's teeth, and it suddenly made a sound like a wooden stick breaking, and when it was fighting for teeth, Shi Shaoying bit off its vertebrae, and as soon as Shi Shaoying let go, the poor worm that could survive the serial bombardment of twenty-seven grenades, maybe it was also a heroic "character" in the piranha, so he fell straight and straight back to the lake, splashing a bloody splash.
The pirates who were running for their lives around the lake suddenly let out a desperate scream, they jumped into the lake, stumbled and fled to the place where Shi Shaoying and his party were standing, and behind them was a dense army of man-eating ants that could barely be seen!
How many of these man-eating ants are there, a million, two million, or even five million and ten million?
Those pirates whose faces were full of panic and despair, before they ran to Shi Shaoying and them, there was a frightened and desperate cry in the air, seeing that their companions around them were drowned by the black ant tide and died miserably, and then look at the ant army that has formed an encirclement of them, and there is no gap in the encirclement, and it is obvious that they will never give up if they are not all eaten up, how can these pirates not cry?
Shi Shaoying frowned: "Flower Fox!" ”
Hua Hu Er said not to mention that he reversed the automatic rifle in his hand, and used the butt of the rifle to smash the face of one of the pirates who cried the most and shed the most tears the most, and the pirate who was hit hard in the face only let out a half-scream, and fell headlong into the lake.
The ferocity of the flower fox shocked everyone present, and the surroundings finally quieted.
"Squint, you are the most knowledgeable one among us," Shi Shaoying stared at the black ant tide on the shore and said in a deep voice, "Can you tell me about the characteristics of these man-eating ants?" ”
The squint did not disappoint Shi Shaoying, and he quickly replied after a little thought: "Man-eating ants are also called carnivorous ants, and there are many kinds of them, and the common thing is that they have a strong offensive carnivorous ant. Among them, the largest can grow to the size of a fist. They are subdivided by function and can be divided into three classes, the first level is male ants and fertile females, the second level is worker ants, and the third level is soldier ants; It was the soldier ants who attacked us just now! ”
"The biggest is the size of a fist?" Shi Shaoying stared at the army of man-eating ants on the shore and said indifferently: "It seems that our luck is not the worst. ”
"On the contrary, we're really in big trouble this time."
Squinted eyes and smiled bitterly: "Boss, don't look at these man-eating ants, the largest is only one centimeter, but their number is amazing, millions or even tens of millions at every turn, they are out in groups, even in the African savannah, they are firmly at the top of the food chain, whether it is humans or lions, tigers, snakes and leopards are within their prey range." In addition to their absolute superiority in numbers, the most terrifying thing is that they have stricter systems and disciplines than human armies. ”
Seeing that Shi Shaoying was still listening attentively, he showed a disapproving look on his face, squinting his eyes and knowing that his boss was once one of the most elite special forces members in China, he suddenly said in front of his boss today that ants actually have stricter discipline and systems than professional soldiers, and Shi Shaoying, who has always been proud of being a special forces, will instinctively reject this theory.
"Take the people who were gnawed into bones by the ants just now, the first to attack them was of course the largest soldier ants, and after they lost their resistance and were overwhelmed by the ants, the largest soldier ants would retreat, and the small soldier ants and worker ants would go in to enjoy the food. And they will quickly leave after biting a bite of food, and replace the second ant to enjoy the food; Also, when they attack their prey, the one who rushes first and follows behind is always the strongest of their group, and if there is a companion among them who has been injured during the attack, they will specially separate two strong black ants and carry them forward. Once they encounter danger during the attack, they will quickly deliver the message, and a force composed of tens of millions of man-eating ants will be fully transmitted within fifteen minutes, and the black ants behind the temple will immediately become the vanguard, and the forward at the beginning will be transformed into the rearguard. ”
Black ants, which are only one centimeter in size, can run rampant on the African continent with a complex and changeable climate, and they do not rely on "single-handed" combat capabilities, they have collective strength. Any one of them will be firmly attached to the collective for the rest of their lives until they die.
"One more thing, boss, you have to pay attention...... This black man-eating ant has a fatal drawback, they do not burrow and can only live on the surface. ”
"It's a good thing that they have shortcomings, and besides, they can't dig caves, so what does it have to do with us?"
"These black man-eating ants live on the continent, and during the months-long dry season, the African savannah is full of dry and dead grass, and a single spark can start a prairie fire. Boss, think about it, in the face of the fire of the prairie fire, how do these black ants ensure the reproduction of their race? ”
Shi Shaoying was really stopped by this question, in the African savannah, where there are dead grass everywhere and the air temperature exceeds forty degrees Celsius, once the fire rises with the wind, the speed of the fire can reach dozens of kilometers per hour, no matter how fast these black man-eating ants crawl, it is impossible to resist the speed of the flames on the grassland that rises with the wind. They can't even dig holes, and they certainly can't hide a few meters deep in the ground to escape the catastrophe.
"Boss, you don't have to guess," the squinted voice was full of bitterness, "see for yourself, they are ready to show us that they are more disciplined and united than human armies, and how they have escaped the fires of the African savannah." ”
Those ants turned their backs inward and their legs outward, holding one by one, and they used the method of stacking tarot cards, layer upon layer, to form a basketball-sized group of ants!
The basketball-sized ant group composed of tens of thousands of ants actually began to roll, rolling all the way into the lake, if you don't see this scene with your own eyes, you won't understand this moment, these little man-eating ants, to Shi Shaoying, a special soldier with eyes above the top, a shocking education lesson...... As soon as the basketball-sized ant group rolled into the lake, the ants on the periphery of the ant group began to paddle hard with their feet, and it was under the joint efforts of tens of thousands of ant legs that the ant group really began to roll and move slowly in the lake with them as the target.
Black man-eating ants really can't swim, in the outermost part of the ant colony, after they are immersed in salt water, no matter how hard they try, the ant colony still quickly becomes smaller in a circle visible to the naked eye, and soon a layer of black crow ants floats on the surface of the lake, some of them have been drowned in the sea, and some are still struggling in vain in the sea.
The first batch of more than 20 ant colonies rolled into the lake, and after turning in the lake for more than 20 meters, those ant colonies finally all dissipated in the lake water, almost without a pause, and more than 20 ant colonies that were obviously several circles larger rolled into the lake. This time, the ant group rowed nearly thirty meters forward in the lake, and tens of thousands of man-eating ants were still struggling on the surface of the lake, and the third group of man-eating ants rolled into the lake again.
In the face of this "miracle" landscape in front of him, even Shi Shaoying, who has always been not afraid of heaven and earth, also felt a burst of heartbeat, in the face of this tens of millions, and the number is still increasing, what special operations technology, what team cooperation seems so vulnerable, they clearly want to spread the entire lake with the corpses of the same kind at any cost, until all of them, human beings who rely on the lake to survive, become food!
It was only at this time that Shi Shaoying finally understood how these man-eating ants, who didn't look good and couldn't even dig ant holes, escaped the disaster of the fire in the African savannah in the dry season.
The black ants that can deal with fire are, of course, water, which cannot swim at all, and will be washed away as soon as they touch the water, and are more likely to drown, and when they face the flames, they use this method of hugging together to forcibly "roll" across the river. Although this method is too cruel, most of their companions will drown in the river, and only a few will make it to the other side alive, but as long as their females and males do not die, their race can continue to reproduce and redevelop in the vast and charming land of the African savannah.
Compared with the unity and sacrifice spirit of these man-eating ants, it is really dwarfed by the infighting at every turn, and from time to time there is a human being who rebels in the nest.
(To be continued)