Chapter 112: Strange Corpse
When the protagonist follows Rambotu's legion to the battlefield between Rambose's legion and the mysterious ants, he sees the remains of dozens of mysterious ants.
There are no corpses of the big-headed ant warriors, and their corpses have been hastily buried, and the surface is covered with sand, and the number is invisible.
The protagonist also does not know about his own losses from the information provided by the messenger sent by Rambosser, nor does he understand the tragedy of the small battle just now.
On the battlefield, dozens of enemy corpses are scattered all over the small battlefield, attracting the attention of the protagonist. Most of the corpses had their heads detached, and many of their arthrops and antennae had been severed. The whole battlefield was still shrouded in the faint sour smell and bloody smell of acid, which lasted for a long time.
The protagonist sees the mysterious ant up close for the first time, and has only seen it from afar in the information packet. Although amazed by the size of the mysterious ants, there are too many species in the insect world that are much larger than the big-headed ants, and these dead corpses do not give the protagonist a visual idea of their fierce power when they are alive.
The protagonist only takes a few glances before continuing to advance with the troops, and the corpses have not yet caught his attention.
The ant road crosses the battlefield, and the troops walk along the ant road, and when they move to the center of the battlefield, the protagonist suddenly stops.
The Praetorian Guards around her also stopped, and Mulan watched vigilantly - the protagonist's unusual behavior made the Praetorian Guards nervous.
When the swamp raiders were in the past, Mulan didn't follow, but stayed in [Qingqiu City], but as long as the protagonist returns, Mulan will always be the most loyal and reliable escort captain.
The protagonist stops in the pile of corpses, raising his antennae high, trying to discern something from the sound of ants marching and the background noise around them.
"Crackling", the protagonist hears this sound again, and it is this sound that makes him stop.
While marching, the protagonist keenly captures this sound from the background of the noisy environment, which seems familiar and strange, and has never been heard by the protagonist before in the ant world.
"Crackling", this is the kind of sound that resembles the explosion of electric sparks.
The protagonist follows the sound, the "crackling" sound is faint, but it is ringing regularly in a rhythm of several seconds.
The Praetorian Guard team hurriedly followed, and Rambotu, who was very close to the protagonist, immediately restrained the troops, telling them to stop and wait in place.
The protagonist walks through a huge mass of corpses, and at first he doesn't notice anything unusual. Until he stopped in front of the corpse of a mysterious ant.
Perhaps calling it a corpse is not appropriate, but the head and body of this mysterious ant have been cut open, which is the masterpiece of the jawknife of the Divine Envoy King's warrior. But there are still a few connections, which will not be broken, and the big jaws of this mysterious ant are still slowly opening and closing, although the light in the compound eyes has dimmed, but it is obviously not dead.
The protagonist listens carefully, and sure enough, the "pop" sound seems to come from the body of this mysterious ant.
He changed direction and stared at the section of the mysterious ant's wound, where a small amount of black body fluids and blood flowed, covering most of the section, and it didn't seem to be anything unusual.
But the protagonist soon realizes that since he came to this world, he has not seen any ants with black blood.
Blood, all vertebrates and most invertebrates use blood as a medium for transporting and exchanging oxygen and nutrients in the body. Blood is made up of plasma and the formed components that are freely suspended in the plasma. Common animal blood is red, but there are many animal blood that has other colors.
The color of blood depends on the color of the blood proteins, which in turn depend on the color of the metals that make up the blood proteins.
The blood of many vertebrates such as humans, frogs, snakes, chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, etc., is red because in their blood, the hemoglobin in red blood cells contains iron, which is red. However, the blood of many invertebrates such as shrimp, spiders, squid, etc., is cyan, and this blood contains a pigment called "hemocyanin"; The blood of some marine mollusks is green, and the blood contains the pigment "hemochlorin"; The blood of horseshoe crabs, which resemble ancient trilobites, is blue, and contains 0.28% copper; There is also a species of icefish that has yellow blood; In the Antarctic Ocean, the blood of some fish is translucent white; The most amazing thing is that its blood can change color, sometimes red, sometimes green. There are also invertebrates whose blood is purplish-red, green, and so on.
And the blood and body fluids of the ants,It's basically between transparent and light yellow.,The protagonist has seen a lot of blood on the battlefield before.,Today, when I first saw the black blood of the mysterious ant, I didn't react.,At this time, I finally saw the abnormality.。
Are there any animals in nature that have black blood? The protagonist can't think of it.
He carefully avoided the front of the head of the mysterious ant that had died ninety percent of them, to prevent the "corpse" from suddenly erupting, and cautiously came to the wound section and touched the pool of black blood with a small section of plant fiber.
Sticky, this is the impression of the protagonist, I don't know if it's because the black "blood" has been exposed to the air for too long, it has gradually solidified, and it is as viscous as engine oil to the touch.
At this time, the protagonist hears the "crackling" again, faint but clear, very close.
The protagonist was startled, although he followed the sound, but he never found the source of the sound, and at this moment the sound suddenly sounded close at hand.
He stared suspiciously at the "corpse" of the mysterious ant—the head of the "corpse" was still moving faintly.
The protagonist is silently vigilant, ready to enter the state of "gods descending to earth" at any time to defend himself, and then, he uses a small section of plant fiber to sweep away the black blood that is covered in the broken neck of the mysterious ant, revealing the cavity inside.
The outermost layer of the mysterious ant's body is the carapace, which contains muscles and cavities, as well as a series of tube-like structures, which look nothing out of the ordinary, except for the black blood that is stained everywhere.
The protagonist leans over, ignoring the disgust, and stares at the corpse.
At this moment, there was another "crackling" sound, and the protagonist clearly saw along the cavity in his neck that a little spark-like bright spot flashed inside the corpse, and then quickly disappeared!
The protagonist is full of suspicions, how can this mysterious ant who is almost dying have strange sparkles in his body? Coupled with the unique black blood, it immediately made the protagonist suspicious.
He was about to order his subordinates to dissect the corpse on the spot when Rambotu suddenly sent a messenger.
The messenger reported that Rambosser's 6th Legion was under a surprise attack at the front, and it was in danger, so it urgently asked for support!