Chapter 63: Xiaoqiang who can't be killed
Playing small, the creature that disgusts the protagonist the most is the cockroach, to be exact, the American cockroach, there is no "one".
Cockroach is a common name, which generally refers to insects belonging to the "order of cockroaches", belonging to the phylum of arthropods, insecta, and cockroaches. It is distributed in a wide area from the cold to the tropics and subtropics, and especially prefers to live in the warm field or indoors.
The American cockroach is the largest insect in the cockroach family, with an adult body length of 29-40 mm, about the size of a kidney bean to an apricot, and dozens of times the size of the German cockroach nicknamed "Xiaoqiang" by the northern people.
The cockroach has a disgusting reddish-brown body color, wings long at the end of the abdomen, long antennae, large butterfly-shaped brown markings in the middle of the dorsal plate of the prothorax, and a complete yellow band on the hind edge of the markings. From physiognomy to patterns, everything is ugly.
In fact, the name of the American cockroach is "America", but it is native to northern Africa, brought to the Americas by ship around the 17th century AD, and was discovered in the Americas in the 18th century.
It has a wide range of diets, is good at crawling, can also swim, has a certain ability to fly, and likes to live in a dark and damp environment, so it is also found in the plain territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion, but it is rare, and it mostly hides in the dead branches and leaves of the woods. But it's common in this swamp. When the protagonist learns that his ants occasionally hunt cockroaches, he orders that the food provided to him must not have anything to do with it, and his disgust can be seen!
It's not just the protagonist who hates cockroaches, in the human world, cockroaches are notorious pests, contaminating food, spreading diseases, and of course, being extremely beautiful is also one of its original sins. A large country in the East has long listed it in the four pests, and a large country in the West spends billions of dollars every year to eliminate cockroaches.
However, even if they are hated by humans, cockroaches still get away with it, and even benefit from the process of human urbanization. These cockroaches are not so easy to eliminate, so they are called "unkillable Xiaoqiang", which can be called the most tenacious insects, even if the head is cut off, it can survive for up to nine days, unlike the dragonfly that the protagonist just killed, the brain is destroyed and immediately dies.
They have an extremely complex diet, with almost all organic matter being used as food, and a cockroach has even been found in Germany to live in television sets for life, feeding on a small amount of rubber inside.
Cockroaches are also super fertile, and a pregnant female cockroach can lay hundreds or even thousands of eggs. And the pregnant female cockroach has also been strengthened to escape most dangers. The cockroach's egg sheath also ensures its hatchability. It is said that just one sight of cockroaches means that there are at least 20,000 cockroaches in this place. And now, the protagonist sees three ...... at once
Humans are almost helpless against cockroaches, and even if humans or ants become extinct, cockroaches cannot be extinct. If one day there was a nuclear apocalypse on Earth, all living things in the biosphere, whether humans, fish, or most insects, would become extinct, and only cockroaches would continue their lives! Normally, the amount of radiation that the human body can tolerate is 5 rems, and if the total radiation exceeds 800 rems, death is inevitable. However, the German cockroach can tolerate 9000~105000rems, and the American cockroach reaches 967500rems (rems represents the radiation dose, and the rem dose equivalent units are rem (rem) and She[Walter] (Sv), where 1Sv = 100rem).
So, even nuclear weapons can't get rid of cockroaches. As for insecticides and the like, they will only make the cockroaches gain resistance quickly.
Now, there is a hard-to-kill parasitic cockroach (American cockroach) lying outside the protagonist's window, constantly exploring the house with its antennae. I used to feel sick when I saw cockroaches that were so much smaller than myself, but now I see a cockroach dozens of times my size and a hideous face, and even the protagonist has a chill, uncomfortable, and itchy head.
The protagonist retreats to the corner of the dormitory, picks up the stone and smashes it at the parasitic cockroach like a cannon, with the blessing of nausea and fear, the protagonist unconsciously enters the state of "God descends to earth", the hit rate is extremely high, only to see the stone bullet in the cockroach's head How to open a blood flower, the white tissue fluid seeps out of the broken carapace, the cockroach's entire head has been unrecognizable, compound eyes and mouthparts are almost all destroyed.
But the parasitic cockroach really didn't die, and after the attack, the parasitic cockroach disappeared in the blink of an eye at a speed comparable to that of a high-speed train.
The protagonist chased to the window and saw that the cockroach, which had almost lost its head, had fled to the shore at great speed, hesitated at the water's edge and did not enter the water.
Next, a scene that made the protagonist chill appeared, the other two parasitic cockroaches seemed to smell the smell of blood on their companions, and immediately followed them, and then the two healthy parasitic cockroaches immediately held the corpses of their injured companions one by one, regardless of their struggles, and began to feast.
Huge wounded parasitic cockroaches, which were quickly eaten from both ends of the head and tail, leaving a brownish-red carapace and wings to be abandoned.
Soon, the two parasitic cockroaches, who had eaten and drunk enough, discarded the corpses that could not be eaten, and their torsos also accepted the parasitic bacteria transferred from the dead cockroaches.
The parasitic cockroaches then returned to the anthill and began to gnaw at the anthill shell along with the parasitic locusts.
To the benefit of the protagonist, the parasitic cockroaches no longer run to their windows to disgust themselves.
The parasitic locusts are not very efficient at gnawing at the ant mounds, and they are not able to threaten the ants inside for the time being. The protagonist turns his attention to today's new parasitic cockroach, which makes him discover the problem.
Although the mouthparts of parasitic cockroaches are not as developed as those of locusts, they do not seem to be able to gnaw at ant mounds. However, the protagonist notices that the parasitic cockroaches have some white secretions in their mouths, and at first the protagonist thinks that these secretions are blood, and that they have damaged their mouthparts when they gnaw on ant concrete, just like parasitic locusts.
But if you look closely, these white secretions are thicker, and there will be a trace of white gas dripping on the ant concrete, which seems to corrode the ant concrete. Next, as the parasitic cockroach continues to gnaw on the shell of the anthill, these corroded parts become very soft.
In the end, these parasitic cockroaches are more damaging to the ant mounds than the parasitic locusts, and they are second only to the water cannons of parasitic dragon lice.
Water cannons, corrosive fluids, and mouthparts, I didn't expect the parasitic beasts to have so many means to destroy the ant mound, and the base that the protagonist thought was safe is now in danger.
"It can't go on like this!" The protagonist immediately realizes that hiding in the anthill and waiting for reinforcements is not a good idea, the enemy may completely destroy the anthill at any time, and the army of the god envoy king will lose its only stronghold and support.
Tomorrow, we must start fighting back!