Chapter 40: Bewilderment
Gu Beimo took out the binoculars from the car and looked over there.
"Oops! It won't be so unlucky! He yelled, threw the binoculars back into the car, and ran towards Ding Xiu and the soldiers.
"Get back in the car and go." Gu Beimo shouted loudly, and several soldiers were still standing in place, looking at him with some curiosity.
"Ant colony! It's a mutant bullet ant colony, if you want to live, go back to the car. He dragged the soldier back into the car.
A soldier wanted to go back to the corpse of the giant insect to retrieve the tools, but was stopped by Gu Beimo: "What are you doing with things, your life matters." ”
He pushed people into the car, and he hurriedly ran back to the car, where Ding Xiu and Shen You had already sat in.
"That black line is an ant colony?" Ding Xiu said and picked up the telescope that Gu Beimo threw in the car and looked into the distance, "Mom! So many ants! ”
The ant colony in the telescope is like a black tide coming from the sky, they cover the golden yellow sand, and the sound of "Xi Xi Suosuo" has been carried by the wind.
Gu Beimo started the car and took the two trucks and sped away in the direction of the camp.
The soldiers in the truck were the first to see an ant colony of this size, and those ants were terrifyingly big, if Shen You hadn't been the first to discover the ant colony just now, and then Gu Beimo desperately warned him, I am afraid that everyone would have fallen into the sea of bullet ants at this moment.
Zhang Zhixiong had already told him last night that once an ant colony was found, it would be reported immediately. Three cars were heading towards the camp, and the ant colony behind them had already arrived where they had stopped.
The ants slammed over the corpses of the dead worms, and a small group of mutant bullet ants diverted out of the large army in an orderly manner, and they stopped next to the corpses of the giant worms and began to cut and eat the tissues above.
The mutant antlets eat the meat of the dead worms into their mouths, only a small part of which enters their stomachs, and most of them are stored as food in their chests.
Their bodies are made up of a series of segments, which are further assembled into three segments - the head, thorax, and abdomen, with a pair of antennae on the top of the head, and the skeleton is wrapped around the body.
The stomach of the mutant ant-mutant ant is in the abdomen, but the area located in the thorax has actually evolved a food sac, which stores food and water, and these stored materials are often used to feed the special ants in the colony, the queen.
The ant colony crawled over the corpse of the dead worm for a moment, and the remains of the corpse disappeared without a trace. Gu Beimo saw the ant colony catching up from the rearview mirror, and his back was full of chills.
The speed of the ant colony in the desert was very fast, and the speed of the two trucks was a little too fast, and seeing that they were about to catch up, Gu Beimo slowed down the speed and was on a par with them.
"Throw away the body tissue of the dead worms in the car, or you won't be able to escape." He shouted at the soldiers in the truck.
After Gu Beimo's reminder, the people on the truck threw away the corpses of the giant insects one after another, and after those corpses landed, they were submerged by the black ant colony, and the black tide followed closely behind the car, threatening to overflow the convoy.
"We can't run away, Lao Gu!" Shen You said hurriedly, she suddenly had an idea, "There's a way, let's stop!" ”
"Parking?!" Gu Beimo and Ding Xiu were shocked, and they didn't know what the girl's idea was.
"Yes, trust me." The girl said, "Wait a minute, you will put your hands on my shoulders." ”
Although Gu Beimo didn't know what he meant, in the more than ten years of getting along, he knew Shen You very well, although this girl sometimes had some thoughts of death, but in the face of real danger, she always took "safety first" as her life creed.
"I have to save my brothers." Ding Xiu saw in the rearview mirror that the ant colony was only more than ten meters away from the back of the truck, and he couldn't help but worry about his robe.
He grabbed the gun, pressed the window glass and prepared to shoot at the ant colony behind him, but Shen You grabbed the head of his gun, "Don't shoot, if you shoot, my method will be useless." ”
The girl's expression was very solemn, Ding Xiu glanced back, and said hurriedly; "But what about them?"
"Well, you should take care of your own safety first." Shen You was so anxious that he stomped his feet.
"No, I can't die without help, we are all border guards!" Ding Xiu turned his heart sideways and pulled Shen You's hand away.
"Okay, okay, save people!" Seeing that Ding Xiu was desperate and refused to turn around, Shen You hurriedly stopped him, "This is what you want to save, don't regret it when you have something for yourself." ”
"Old Gu, turn around and let Ding Xiu's side stick to the ant colony." The girl snorted again as she spoke, and glared at Ding Xiu.
"Are you sure?" Gu Beimo asked with some unease.
"Sure, surely, surely!"
Gu Beimo's car began to slow down and turn, and the other two trucks saw the strange appearance of the car in front of them, although they had some doubts in their hearts, but the ant colony chased after them, and they couldn't allow them to have other ideas.
After Gu Beimo's car turned around, it was already close to the marching ant colony, and Ding Xiu's side was facing the direction of the bullet ants, looking at the black tide, his face turned a little pale.
Instinct made Ding Xiu pick up the gun again, but Shen You's next words made him stop what he was doing.
"If you don't do anything, we can live, you're going to shoot, not only will a few of us die, but those two trucks will definitely not be able to escape."
Shen You's tone was categorical, although Ding Xiu was skeptical, but now it was a dead end, and shooting was just a senseless struggle, so reason made him put down the gun.
"Lao Gu, you also press down the window, then stop, and don't do anything later."
"What?!"
"Just do what I say."
"Oh."
The car stopped, the hands of the two were on Shen You's shoulders, and the fingertips of the girl's hands began to rub again, and the frequency became faster and faster.
The black ant colony spread over the car, and those mutant bullet ants suddenly stopped, and several giant ants climbed on the window and probed into the car with their tentacles, their giant jaws were only a few centimeters away from the necks of Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo.
Gu Beimo was very nervous, and so was Ding Xiu, both of them had the urge to touch the gun at the moment, which was an instinct in the face of danger, but Shen You's words just now made them hold on to this thought.
Shen You was initially a little panicked, but soon became confident, and she established communication with them by mimicking the pheromones of the mutant bullet ants, so that the giant insects saw the three people in the car as if they were the same kind.
The ant colony stayed in front of Gu Beimo's car for a while, and then flooded towards the direction of the truck's escape. The giant ants crawled past the car, their bodies rubbing against the body of the car with a "creaking" sound.
Cold sweat had already soaked through the placket of Gu Beimo's back, and he just wanted to tear off the clothes stuck to his body with his hands, when he heard Shen You remind him in a low voice: "Don't move." ”
Gu Beimo didn't dare to move, the corner of his eye glanced at the ant tide outside the car window, and his heart was like fifteen buckets of water.
"The mutant bullet ants let us go?" Ding Xiu asked quietly.
"I make them think we're one kind." Shen You smiled smugly.
"Awesome!" Ding Xiu didn't expect that the girl's ability could be used at such a critical moment, and he admired it in his heart.
"Otherwise, how dare I drag Lao Gu to the desert to find their eggs." Shen You was praised by others, and his tail was about to rise to the sky.
"My brothers should be able to run away, right?" Ding Xiu looked in the direction that the ant colony was chasing, and the truck had disappeared from his sight. He suddenly thought of something, and was shocked: "Oh no, the ant colony is heading towards the camp!" ”
"I hope your brothers will be able to report back in time." Gu Beimo's estimate of the result in his heart was actually not very optimistic.
"Nine times out of ten, your camp won't be saved." Shen You is not as old as Gu Beimo, and he can't hide his words in his heart. The girl said bluntly: "The city of Danze can't stop them, and your camp is even more impossible. ”
"What then?" Ding Xiu's face changed, and he was anxious.
The camp was where he had lived for nearly twenty years, and it was everything he had, no different from home. The people in the camp, such as Zhang Zhixiong and Chen Jiansen, are no different from their relatives.
"Wait, we're not out of the woods yet." Shen You reminded him.
"Gotta figure figure it out." Ding Xiu was a little at a loss.
"There's no way." The girl's face was calm.
"By the way, aren't you able to control spiders and talk to bugs? You control the colony and let them go somewhere else. Ding Xiu suddenly thought of Shen You's ability, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
"How can I have such a big ability, if it is just one or two mutant bullet ants, I may be able to try, but such a large ant colony, I'm afraid there are not thousands of them." Shen You shook her head, it was already the limit of her ability to confuse the ant colony, "Do you know that there are queens in the ant colony, and the ant colony obeys its orders." ”
"And what about we kill the queen?" Ding Xiu asked.
"Old Gu, do you see, this guy is more whimsical than me." Shen You pursed his lips at Gu Beimo.
"I can't let them destroy the camp." Ding Xiu's eyes turned red.
"Alas, brother!" Gu Beimo sighed and persuaded: "Listen to my brother's words, how big your ass is and how big your pants are." Even the city is devastated in the face of the mutant bullet ant colony, and unless the government sends heavy troops like Danze, everyone can only avoid it. We've done everything we can, and the rest is left to fate. Your brothers, as well as Second Lieutenant Zhang and Doctor Chen, they have their own natural appearance, and they will definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune. ”
"How do you find the queen?" Ding Xiu didn't listen to Gu Beimo's persuasion, and insisted on doing something to save the camp. Because the camp is so important to him, he has lost Zhang Rongshe, who raised him, and if he loses the camp again, his life will become a duckweed.
"The queen ant is surrounded by male ants, and she is protected by soldier ants. Seeing that there is no outside the car, those are all worker ants, and the soldier ants should be bigger and more powerful than them. Shen You gestured out of the window: "And as the king of the ant colony, the queen ant is very cautious, and it is not easy to kill it." ”
"I didn't think I'd be able to kill the Death Worm until I encountered it, but I did."
"But even if you kill the queen, it won't help, the colony will do its last orders, and then scatter to find other colonies with queens to join."
"Alas~" Shen You's words made Ding Xiu a little frustrated, he hung his head and looked depressed.
A sense of powerless frustration arose in my heart.