Chapter Eighty-Five: Brain Juice
Three dragons erupted, burning the ten ants that rushed to the front into a pile of charcoal.
"Sea shark, I'll go first, you cover." Yang Jingzhong took out a fragmentation anti-personnel grenade from his waist and threw it into a swarm of ants, the shock wave blew up the swarm of ants, and the flamethrower followed them and set them on fire.
"Hey, wait."
Yang Jingzhong turned his head and saw a round thing thrown by the sea shark, and subconsciously hurriedly caught it.
"This is the last antimatter grenade, don't use it until you have to." The sea shark dodged the acid sprayed by an ant and gave Yang Jingzhong a thumbs up.
Yang Jingzhong nodded emphatically, and took advantage of the gap in the flamethrower to rush out of the encirclement of ants with more than a dozen soldiers behind him. He didn't care about anything else, and went straight to the main road he had seen earlier.
However, just when everything was normal, sad news came from the flamethrower.
"Sir, we're out of fuel for our flamethrowers." The soldier showed Yang Jingzhong the dried flamethrower, and then threw it aside like garbage.
Yang Jingzhong looked at the white stone wall in front of him: "If we rush over now, the thin worms will inevitably get on our bodies, and if we look at this density, I'm afraid it won't take five minutes to get into the armor." ”
He took a few deep breaths, unlike the rebel flagships, which had the help of microbrains and maps, and now even if he knew that the road under his feet connected the mother worm's room and the hatchery, it was more than just two places.
Just like a big tree, Yang Jingzhong is stepping on the trunk of the tree, it does connect the roots and the treetops, but there is only one way from the roots to the treetops, plus the current ants are attracted by the battle, without the guidance of the ants, the passage to the mother worm's room can be called impossible to find.
"There's no way, it's come to this, you can only treat a dead horse as a live horse doctor." Yang Jingzhong walked to the fork in the road and opened Wolf, who was struggling to resist electromagnetic interference, "Wolf, help me scan the forks in front of me to see which road has the most footprints." ”
"Yes, long...... According to...... Leftmost ......"
"Come with me!" Wolfe's voice was intermittent and full of frosted paper-like noise, but Yang Jingzhong at this time couldn't take much care of it, since he heard the two words on the far left, let's go directly.
Yang Jingzhong was the first to rush into the fork, and similarly, there are still many forks in the back, but compared to the main road, the footprints of the fork here can be seen very clearly, and there is no need to spend time for Wolf to detect.
It's not that he hasn't thought about the method of dividing the troops, but now there are only a dozen people behind him, and they can't even fill a corner in the entire labyrinth-like nest, and once the personnel are dispersed, it is very likely to give the ants a chance to break through, and even if they find it, they can't tell others in the first place, let alone kill the mother worm.
The only comforting thing about the situation is that it seems that the ants in the nest are attracted to the past, Yang Jingzhong thought that there would be a fierce battle along the way, but who knows, the road is almost at the end, let alone an ant, not even an ant leg is seen.
"Boom!"
Yang Jingzhong was staring at the footprints on the ground with his headlights on, and ran all the way forward, Leng Buding hit his head against a wall, and the soldiers behind couldn't stop the car, followed by a long series of rear-end collisions.
"Spread out, don't huddle together." Yang Jingzhong shook his head and waved his hands to both sides.
The soldiers understood and immediately dispersed.
Yang Jingzhong only had time to check what was going on nearby, and he turned on the brightness of his headlamp to the maximum, and the light illuminated the entire cave.
"Well, it's over." He looked around carefully, it turned out that this is another grain depot, compared to the previous one, this grain depot is much larger, it should be the largest grain depot in the anthill, just looking up can not see the top, the size of the grain depot is estimated to be the size of two football fields, no wonder there are so many footprints. But this also means that they are completely on the wrong path, and by this time the ants should have rushed towards this side, and there is almost no possibility of changing paths.
"There is a situation, ready to shoot." The soldier who was serving as a sentry at the entrance of the cave shouted, and the soldiers suddenly tensed, and the laser rifles were all aimed at the passage.
"Don't shoot, it's us!" The sound of the sea shark came from the other side of the passage, and the soldiers immediately put away their guns, allowing the sea sharks to rush in.
Like Yang Jingzhong, each of them at this time was covered with snowflake-like thin thread worms, and many of the soldiers' armor had been damaged, and it was likely that they would be drilled into the skin surface by the thin thread worms in advance.
"Here, where is this?" The sea shark panted and looked around and asked in amazement, "Is this the mother's room?" ”
"No, it's the staple grain depot." Yang Jingzhong put down his rifle and collapsed in the corner.
"What then? We were full of ants, and we couldn't get out at all. The sea shark frowned fiercely.
"I, I don't know." Yang Jingzhong tilted his head to the side, unwilling to look directly into the eyes of the sea shark.
"We can't ...... Wait, what's the sound? The sea shark was just about to say something, but a crying sound came from his ears. His first reaction was that Yang Jingzhong cried, "No, big Y, the man doesn't flick if he has tears, I didn't cry after losing five provincial fleets, why are you crying there?" ”
"That's why I'm not called Big Y, and I didn't cry!" Yang Jingzhong replied angrily, if he wasn't too autistic now, he would definitely beat up the guy in front of him.
"And what did I hear?" The sea shark turned its gaze away in confusion and turned in the direction of the sound it had heard. What he saw was a pile of corpses covered in a white pile of worms, "If I heard me right, there must be something underneath that pile." ”
"What are you doing? Don't go over, you'll die faster if you get so many worms! When Yang Jingzhong saw that the sea shark wanted to use his hands to pick up the corpse covered with worms, he almost scared people stupid.
"Afraid of what? Anyway, if you can't find the room where the mother worm can't find it, there's basically no hope, instead of sitting here and waiting to die, it's better to see what is here, and then the next time you come, you'll have plenty of information. The sea shark said, grabbing the corpse and throwing it aside, "Why are you standing there stupidly, come and dig with me." ”
Yang Jingzhong's eyelids trembled twice, it was really disgusting to look at these piles of meat that didn't know what kind of meat, but just like the sea shark said, it would be a great loss to look for more information at this time.
The pile of flesh quickly dwindled under the digging of the two and three other soldiers, gradually revealing a film-like thing.
"What is this?" Without saying a word, the sea shark tore the film open, and a wave of heat hit the mask, forming a layer of mist on the mask, "What the hell, how can this be?" ”
Yang Jingzhong looked at it and was immediately stunned - under the film were dozens of living people, or rather, dozens of living officers, and their military ranks were not low, and the highest officer was actually a major general.
"Dig up here a little bigger." As if seeing a new continent, the sea shark vigorously pulled the membrane to both sides.
"Come, three people on one side, I'll count three, two, one and work together. Three, two, one, pull! ”
Yang Jingzhong used his strength to feed, and finally pulled the film apart with the sea shark.
The two walked into the space formed by the membrane, from the inside, it looked like the insects were specially built for these captives, and the cold under the cave was completely different, the temperature in the membrane could reach twenty-five degrees, which was almost the most comfortable temperature for people, and the entire membrane formed an egg-like appearance, as if these captives were considered creatures that could hatch.
"Wake up, friend, we're here to take you out." Yang Jingzhong shook the shoulder of the nearest lieutenant colonel, but the lieutenant colonel only glanced at Yang Jingzhong with empty eyes and did not make too many moves.
"No, these people are actually dead." The sea shark said calmly, as if these people were not human in his eyes.
"What? How so? Yang Jingzhong strangely observed the lieutenant colonel sitting on the ground, from the outside, the lieutenant colonel is no different from a normal person, even if his eyes are empty, it is just the same feeling as a normal person when he is in a daze.
The sea shark didn't speak, just walked up to Yang Jingzhong and pressed the lieutenant colonel's head down. Only then did Yang Jingzhong see that the lieutenant colonel's Tianling cover had disappeared, and was replaced by the same film as the outside.
"See, these people look alive, but in fact, they are just nutrients for the mother worm." The sea shark let go of the lieutenant colonel's head, "For the female worm, the brains of human commanders, especially high-ranking commanders, are very delicious nutrients, but just absorbing the brains will quickly be consumed by the mother worms, so the worms have come up with a way to use these commanders for a long time." ”
The sea shark smashed the lieutenant colonel's body into two pieces with the butt of a gun, and the original flesh and blood in his body were gone, replaced by a slightly reddish silk thread. The sea shark picked up the body of the lieutenant colonel and showed it to Yang Jingzhong: "See?" It's full of worms. The vast majority of worms can only release paralyzing neurotoxins in the human body, rendering people incapacitated, but a very small number of mutated worms can produce universal cells in the human body like fertilized eggs, and will also inject toxins into the human body that can produce hallucinations. ”
"When the captives' own brain plasma is sucked up, the cells produced by the worms replace the lost brain cells, and in order to prevent the potential of these brain cells from being untapped, the toxin will prompt these commanders to relive previous battles, leaving their brains active for long periods of time, so that the production of brain plasma is inexhaustible. You look like they're still alive, but they're just the juice of the mother. ”
"Wait, you said the mother worm likes this kind of brain, doesn't you?" Yang Jingzhong suddenly grabbed the sea shark's shoulder and looked at him with ecstasy.
"yes, what's wrong?" The sea shark looked at him strangely.
"These people can't run far, right, and the mother worm herself doesn't like sports, do you say it?"
"Well, that's right."
"Doesn't that mean that the mother's room is nearby?" Yang Jingzhong patted the sea shark on the shoulder fiercely, "If it's nearby, we'll be able to find it soon!" ”