Chapter 152: Arrival in Sioux City
The pathetic creature didn't even struggle to die, it was eaten most of it, and it still didn't react, as if it were really a branch.
But there was one thing that made it untouched: a section of the "branch" was still laying eggs.
It was a really exciting day.
Night has fallen, and the weather has cooled down.
Banlangen found a hiding hole under the moss and hid in it to sleep.
Tomorrow he will have to continue to find his way home, looking for his own team or the local city-states of the Red Ant Empire Federation.
It is necessary to organize forces at all costs to counter the rampant attack of the Huns.
It was late at night, and everything was silent.
Banlangen used his forelimbs to clean his antennae so that he could better detect movement around him.
Then I found a small pebble to plug the small hiding hole, and now I can sit back and relax.
After passing through the treacherous jungle and through the treacherous meadows, and avoiding countless natural enemies and traps, it took two months for Banlangen to finally come to the border of the city-state of Su Sancheng.
That morning, he met a patrol of Su Sancheng consisting of fifteen red ants.
Banlangen immediately caught up with him, waved his tentacles at the patrol leader and asked with a red ant breath, "Hey! This little brother, I may ask: Where are your troops? ”
"We are the border patrol unit of the defense force of the Susancheng city-state." The patrol leader said, waving his tentacles.
"The three city-states of Su?" Banlangen waved his tentacles and said, "I've never heard of it yet. Excuse me, who is the ruler of the three city-states of the Soviet Union? ”
"Of course it's our Third Empress Su."
"Then which princess was the third queen of Su in the past?"
"This, I heard it's Princess Lingxiao, right? Yes, it seems to be Princess Lingxiao. ”
"Ahh Princess Lingxiao?! Banlangen excitedly waved his tentacles and shouted, "Oh my God! What a coincidence. I thought you were dead. So you're not dead yet! It's great to also be the lord of a city-state. ”
"Hey! What's the matter with you? The patrol leader waved his tentacles and asked, "Who are you who shout at our city-state lord?" What does it mean? ”
"Little brother, you don't know!" Banlangen waved his tentacles excitedly and said, "Me and your city-state lord, those are old acquaintances and old comrades-in-arms. Take me to her quickly, I have very important information to report to her. ”
"Really? That's great. The patrol leader asked, waving his tentacles, "Please come with me." Then, he took Banlangen and the patrol back to Su San City, and led Banlangen to meet Su San's Empress.
Now, Su San has domesticated many flying and swimming animals, such as beetles and dragon lice......
Everything is developing in a planned way. Su San couldn't help but feel relieved by the rapid changes in his city.
She set up various laboratories in her city-state.
(1) Nursery room: a nursery room built with humus that can adjust the temperature.
The larvae sleep in this dry hall, next to which the fine sand sucks up moisture.
With the help of a slightly inclined conveyor channel, the nurses can easily feed the eggs into the special covering.
There, the nursery staff held up their heavy stomachs and licked the eggs all the time.
They also feed proteins and antimicrobials into transparent cocoons so that the eggs can grow healthily.
(2) Storage room: This is the storage room, where all the dried meat, fruits, and mushroom powder are stored.
To prevent spoilage, the ants also coat them with a special layer of ant acid.
(3) Chemistry Chamber: Tanks made of hypertrophied leaves are stored with smoky weapons acid for experiments.
Chemists test the melting power of acid one by one with their long jaws.
Some acids are extracted from fruits, such as malic acid from apples.
The sources of other acids are more complex: oxalic acid comes from sour molds; Sulfuric acid comes from Yellowstone.
In order to kill the prey, the concentration of acid is optimum at 60%.
Although it slightly burns the internal organs of the soldiers, its lethality is incomparable.
(4) Fighting room: This is where fighters have one-on-one training.
In the future, the trend of combat will no longer be to kill the opponent, but to cut off the opponent's legs one by one until it is unable to move.
A little farther away, gunners practiced firing acid shells at seeds 10 paces away.
(5) Aphid house: All insect rooms should be built in the city.
This was to prevent the attack of the ferocious ladybugs, and the worker ants were busy feeding the aphids with thin holly leaves.
The aphids quickly drain the sap from the leaves.
Aphids reproduce at a high frequency, and today they lay ten aphid pups per minute.
(6) Mushroom cultivation room: There are endless mushrooms growing there.
All the ants come here to excrete.
Ant excrement is the best nourishment for those mushrooms.
The planters cut off the extra-long rhizomes and sprinkled them with a secretion that is characteristic of ants to prevent insect infestation.
(7) Animal culture room: All the while, the number of symbiotic animals in all the anthills has been growing.
There are more than a thousand species of insects living in the same anthill: Myriapoda, Arachnid, and they have always lived here.
The ants have fully accepted their existence.
Some of them use it to complete the metamorphosis process, while the rest eat some leftovers from the ants and also help the ants clean up the anthills.
Suddenly, a bed bug jumped up, followed by another one.
They huddled together as if they were fighting. Now they live a burrowing life.
(8) Scarab breeding room: In the hall where scarabs are kept, countless rhinoceros scarabs occupy this spacious room.
Their bodies are covered with black spots close to each other, and the back half of their bodies is relatively rounded, and the front half is covered with a carapace.
There is a long tentacle on the top of the head, as sharp as a rose thorn, but dozens of times larger.
They prefer both the dimly lit living environment and the bright world outside.