Chapter 7: The Mutated Ant
Huang Wen took Chen Fei and more than a dozen girls to set off along the mountain road behind the college, and came to the waterhole at the foot of Yue Mountain in half an hour.
This waterhole has an area of more than ten acres, it is a natural pond of water, the rainwater that flows down from the mountain on a rainy day accumulates here, and after a long time, it forms a large pool.
Yueshan has long been classified as a scenic area in Shahe City, and there are no villagers living here.
When Huang Wen and the others rushed to the waterhole, they found that there were already more than a dozen people here, all of whom were students of Shonan University, divided into several groups, and some of them had prepared tools to boil water and were boiling water.
It seems that everyone has thought of a piece.
Huang Wen instructed some people to go to the surrounding woods to collect firewood, then make a fire, and then fetch water from the waterhole to boil water.
Looking at the clear water of more than a dozen acres of waterholes, everyone began to feel some hope, at least there was water to drink.
There are several shallow areas in the waterhole, and some people even catch fish in them, which is really an endless road!
Waiting for the boiling water, everyone was bored, some of the girls went to catch fish by the pool, Huang Wen and Chen Fei and a few girls sat by the waterhole and chatted.
Chen Fei suddenly pointed to the center of the waterhole and said with some surprise:
"Look, what's that?"
Everyone looked and saw a black shadow several meters long under the surface of the water, which was not moving at first, but slowly began to move, and a ripple suddenly appeared on the surface of the water.
"Is that a fish?"
Everyone knows that there are fish in the pool, but they are all wild small crucian carp, and everyone has caught small fish during picnics in the past.
"How is it possible, how can there be such a big fish in this pool? Look at the length of the shadow, it's at least 2 or 3 meters, it should be a snake, right? ”
"It's autumn, and the snake can't still swim in the water, right?"
Not many people noticed the anomaly in the waterhole, and there were several places near the waterhole where people were fishing in the weeds.
After the cataclysm, it was rare to enjoy a peaceful time by this pool, and everyone was relaxed and did not expect any danger.
Chen Fei saw the shadows in the water swimming towards a crowded pool, and he had an indescribable sense of foreboding in his heart.
Huang Wen and others also saw it.
Suddenly, the shadows in the water sped up in a staggering speed.
Splashing on the water.
Huang Wen suddenly stood up and shouted at the person who was fishing by the pool:
"Run, danger!"
As soon as Huang Wen's words fell, she heard a loud noise, and a strange fish three or four meters long flew out of the water, opened its huge mouth, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth, and directly dragged a girl by the waterhole away.
All the people were stupid and petrified.
The girl was dragged directly under the pool, and there was no time to scream, and a moment later, in the middle of the pool, a bright red water of blood appeared.
Huang Wen, Chen Fei and others were so frightened that they didn't know who shouted:
"Run, there's a monster in the pool!"
So the people fled down the mountain in a hurry, not even caring about the boiling water.
Everyone fled until they were near the academy, away from the waterhole, and then they stopped to catch their breath, all of them looking terrified.
Soon, the news spread that there were water monsters in Yueshan Waterpool that had bitten people to death.
Everyone began to vaguely feel that the gene mutation mentioned by the gene store Gubo may be true.
Yang Xiao slept until he woke up on time at about 6 p.m., when the sun was still hanging in the sky, and he looked three feet high from the horizon from a distance.
Yang Xiao unscrewed the water bottle and drank a few sips of water, stood up and prepared to move his body, and then eat dinner.
As soon as I got up and walked two steps, I heard a crunch sound under my feet, and it felt like stepping on an egg.
Yang Xiao was stunned for a moment, and quickly raised his feet and looked down.
There was an unknown bug the size of a quail egg on the rock that had been trampled to death by itself.
The shape of the bug looked both familiar and unfamiliar.
What is it?
Yang Xiao squatted down and took a closer look.
The bug is not completely dead, the tentacles of its head are shaking, and a few legs are also struggling.
Yang Xiao looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.
Isn't this bug just an enlarged version of an ant?
That's right, it's ants.
But how did the ants get so big? It's unreasonable!
Yang Xiao's heart was suddenly full of horror, and his eyes swept around, which made him stunned for a moment, there were dozens of quail egg-sized ants crawling around on the big rock.
"Is this the so-called genetic mutation? Didn't you say you would have to wait until seven days later? ”
Yang Xiao remembered what Gu Bo said about the gene fragments, so he raised his foot and trampled more than a dozen big ants on the rocks to death, but except for the ants' corpses turning into a pile of meat sauce, there are no so-called gene fragments?
This place must not stay any longer, otherwise, I don't know when I will be bitten to death by ants.
Yang Xiao drank half a bottle of water, ate half a pack of biscuits, two salt-baked chicken wings, packed his backpack, and prepared to go down the mountain.
Suddenly, another trace of electricity appeared in his body, and he had to sit down reluctantly.
The electricity continues to flow throughout the body, and gradually disappears after a few minutes.
What's going on?
Why do I get a strange electric current after every meal?
Yang Xiao thought about it, took out another piece of salt-baked chicken thigh and ate it, and after eating, a trace of electricity appeared in his body again.
Could it be that this electric current has something to do with food?
Thinking like this, Yang Xiao ate another bag of beef jerky, two packets of chicken wings, and a bag of biscuits.
He found two problems, first, the current is indeed related to the food, and the second is that the strength of the current is also related to the type of food, the same amount of food, the current generated by beef is similar to that produced by chicken, but much stronger than the current generated by biscuits.
But why does food generate electricity?
What effect do these currents have on your body?
In addition, he also found that he never seemed to be able to eat enough, and when he finished eating, he generated an electric current and could immediately eat something else, but he would not feel hungry if he did not eat.
Thinking of the impact of the current on himself, Yang Xiao suddenly found that it seemed that every time the current was generated, his spirit was in a state of excitement, and he felt that he had endless strength all over his body, and he had the urge to punch the rock.
Yang Xiao saw that there was an arm-thick wooden root on the ground, hesitated for a moment to pick up the wooden root, and broke it with both hands, only to hear a "click", and the arm-thick wooden root was actually broken directly.
Yang Xiao was startled and stunned for a long time.
What's going on? Am I mutated too?
Seeing that the sun was about to go down, Yang Xiao didn't have time to think about this for the time being, put on his backpack, took an iron rod and a watermelon knife and prepared to go down the mountain, before leaving, he picked up two ant corpses from the ground, wrapped them in leaves, and put them in the bag on the outer layer of the backpack.
Half an hour later, night fell, and Yang Xiao walked out of Yueshan and came to the playground.
There are thousands of people scattered around the playground, in addition to Xiao Zhe's team, there are several other relatively large teams of hundreds of people, everyone is huddled together to keep warm, and even Huang Wen's women's dinosaur team has added more than a dozen helpless girls.
The playground was a little messy, and no one paid attention to Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao walked straight into the gene store.
Gu Bo seemed to have some impression of Yang Xiao, and said with a smile:
"Little friend, I haven't seen you for a few days."
Yang Xiao nodded, and took out the ant corpse that had been trampled to death from his backpack:
"Mr. Gubo, look, is this the mutated creature you are talking about?"
Gu Bo glanced at it and said lightly:
"Today is the third day, and these creatures are in the process of mutating, and this thing should not have completed the mutation process yet."
Yang Xiao listened and gasped.
The ants that have not yet completed the mutation are the size of quail eggs, how big should they be after the mutation?