"Do you have this wingworm there?" asked Wang Xika. He watched Nikolai numb a lot of animals with anesthetics in the past two days. If the anesthetic comes from feathered insects, why has he never seen him catch insects and refine them?

"I don't have it, but I brought some feathered insect stock solution, and I can dilute it proportionally when making medicine. Nikolai shook the medicine bottle in his hand and said. The bottle didn't look big, it was only 1,000 milliliters, and it was used by Nikolai in a small half bottle, and there were more than 700 milliliters.

It seems that the anesthesia of this winged insect is really powerful, and such a drop of dilution can anesthetize so many animals. This "snake god" has not yet released the liquid, and Wang Xijia and his group almost caught their way. If it really gets wet, it is estimated that it will be cold directly.

"Where does this winged insect usually live?" Wang Xika was curious. He had never heard of this insect in his two lifetimes. Could it be that this insect was extinct in his time, but how could such a powerful creature become extinct?

"Looking at the notes, it seems to be a kind of bug that lives in Egypt. Dracula stumbled upon the bug and brought it back to study. Nikolai said.

Wang Xika went to Egypt last time to fight zombies, but he doesn't remember seeing any "feathered insects", and the most impressive thing is the kobold Anubis, as well as the ballad about monkeys and eggs. However, that stay in Egypt was not long, and it is possible that it was not discovered.

"Well, how big is that pinchwing insect in Egypt?" asked Wang Xika.

"Judging from the notes, it's probably not big, it's only 6-10 centimeters. But the insect drawn on the note looks exactly like the snake god here, and the smell of the discharge is similar. Nikolai said.

If someone else said this, it would have been fine, but Nikolai is a person who Wang Xika believes 100% or even 200%. Since he said that this bug is exactly the same as the snake god, but the size is different, then it must really be like this.

But why did this little Egyptian insect become so huge when it came to the Americas? Is it genetically mutated or what's wrong? You must know that in later generations, the largest insect was generally only ten or twenty centimeters long, and the longest stick insect could grow to about 30 centimeters, which is already very scary. Looking at this "snake god", it is really unheard of to see a "bug" that grows to more than 50 meters long.

Organisms vary in size from one geographical environment to another. For example, the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger are both tigers, but the Siberian tiger is bigger than the Bengal tiger. And the elephants that live in Africa are also bigger than the elephants that live in Asia, but they are not so outrageous. Never before has something ever happened in the history of biological evolution to go from 5 centimeters to 50 meters, a hundredfold larger.

Is it "nuclear/radiation"? In later generations, some monster movies often have such a plot: an ordinary lizard suddenly becomes very large after being exposed to radiation and becomes a super monster.

If it is nuclear radiation, it is still possible for a small 5-centimeter bug to become a large monster more than 50 meters long. But in this era, even Wang Xika can't build an atomic bomb, so who can build a nuclear weapon? Or is there a natural uranium-235 or other minerals nearby? Have you ever heard of a nuclear reactor in Niagara?

In any case, the most important thing now is how to deal with the "snake god". Wang Xijia also wanted to protect this animal before, but after close contact, he felt that it was better to eliminate this animal.

Now the key is to figure out the living habits and activities of the "snake god". If you want to grasp the whereabouts of the snake god unknowingly, the best way is to squat for two days. Since the "snake god" will fly by here, let's stay here for a while to see how often the snake god flies.

"Let's stay here and don't move! We're camping here for a few days to figure out the rules of the snake god's activities. Everyone put pecans in their mouths, and use damp cloths to protect the mouth and nose of the lord, so as not to make a sound!" Wang Xika commanded.

The people sitting here were all old hunters, and Wang Xika understood as soon as he said it. The most important thing in hunting is to be patient, Wang Xijia is to let everyone squat. So they all found the upper wind outlet and hidden, just waiting for the "snake god" to go home.

If Niagara Falls is the home of the "snake god", then it must be here what the "snake god" needs most. What is it? The most thing in Niagara is water, and it's freshwater. Does it mean that the snake god is actually an insect that lives in water?

In fact, as far as insects are concerned, many of them are inseparable from water. Like dragonflies, mosquitoes lay their eggs in water. The adult worm then flies in the sky. Of course, there are also some insects that cannot live without water for life, such as water praying mantises, water beetles, water hens, etc.

What kind of insect is the "snake god"? It remains to be seen. However, judging by its wings, it seems that it can live in water.

The serpent god has feathered wings, which are very useful and can rush into the water like a cormorant to hunt and then take off again. If it's a dragonfly, the transparent wings of the mosquito won't work, and it won't be able to fly if it's wet.

So, what kind of snake god is this? If it is an insect, is there any of its kind nearby? What if this insect is a male and female living here, and the male goes out and the female stays at home? What if this "snake god" lays eggs in the water and produces piles of "snake gods"?

You must know that the fecundity of insects is very amazing, and the number of insects such as mosquitoes and flies is tens of billions or hundreds of billions. Even in later generations with highly developed technology, human beings have no way to make mosquitoes extinct.

If the "snake gods" multiply, there will be no tens of billions, hundreds of billions, as long as there are tens of thousands of "snake gods", the earth will be ruled by them.

Wang Xijia once heard the saying that if the insects were larger, there would be no other creatures on the planet that would be their opponents. After all, insects are one of the most evolutionary and successful creatures on this planet, and in fact at some point on Earth, insects did indeed almost "conquer the world".

Later generations of scientists have discovered through the fossil record that there were huge species on Earth before the dinosaurs, and they are giant arthropods from the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago.

These include oversized mayfly insects, scorpions, spider plant-sized spiders, and millipedes that are more than a meter long. One of the most amazing is the giant dragonfly, which can have a wingspan of more than 2 meters, the size of an eagle, and is the largest insect ever seen on Earth.

Three hundred million years ago, these species flourished when most of the land was in the tropics and plants flourished, but after about 50 million years, from the middle to late Permian, these giant species died out.

Scientists have long speculated that changes in atmospheric oxygen levels may have played a key role in their rise and fall, and now paleontologists are beginning to investigate whether the rise and fall of these ancient dragonflies, cockroaches and other super-insects, the size of today's eagles, is related to the super-high oxygen levels.

Wang Xika didn't know what the oxygen content of this world was, but it was obvious that even a giant dragonfly more than 2 meters in ancient times could only be a small amount compared to this "snake god" more than 50 meters long.

One disadvantage of large insects is that they need to be heat-dissipated. Huge insects, even if they fly slowly, produce a lot of heat, and if they can't sweat to get rid of the heat like mammals, they will roast themselves to death.

Scientists speculate that giant dragonflies in ancient times dissipated heat through the flow of blood-lymph, as their abdomen was long and thin, which accelerated the flow of blood-lymph when they felt hot.

This dissipates excess heat through convection, much like a car's cooling system takes heat away from the engine.

This feature is similar to that of the "snake god", whose body is also slender compared to other parts, like a snake, which is easy to dissipate heat.

Perhaps the anesthetics that can cause a coma are nothing more than the secretions of the "snake god", like the sweat of a mammal.

"Tengu, you go and bring the snake from the ship, and bring some more grenades. Wang Xika commanded. At present, most of the information about the "snake god" is based on speculation, and further information is needed.

And when it comes to detecting animals in the water, what better person than a snake with cheeks?

Originally, Ah Snake came out with Wang Xijia and them, but then he went back to the boat when there was something in the middle. It is faster to let the Tengu go to find the snake, after all, the Tengu can fly and can walk in a straight line.

"Okay, do you need anything else to bring?" Tengu asked.

"No need, you can just bring a snake, and you can bring two bottles of wine by the way. Everyone else, everyone stays where they are, waiting for the snake god to fly back and we are moving. Wang Xika commanded.

"Will I meet the snake god when I fly out? Or I'll wait for the snake god to fly back and take the snake." Tengu was also a little flustered when he saw such a thing as the "snake god". I just flew out like this, and if I happened to meet the "snake god" who flew back, wouldn't I hang up? I was still waiting to go back to Fuso to tell the kappa and the nine-tails a story.

It was the first time Wang Xika had seen Tengu scared. This guy usually looks like he is not afraid of the sky and the earth, giving people a sense of arrogance of a master. Now that I have met the "snake god", the master is not proud.

"Okay, then let's wait together. Wang Xika originally missed two lines of poetry, such as "The sky is big enough to accommodate both the tengu and the snake god." "After thinking about it, I still didn't say it, after all, Tengu also wants to save face.

The group silently lurked in place for a long, long time. None of us had a watch, and we didn't know how many hours we had to wait. But Wang Xijia estimates that it will have to be at least 5 or 6 hours. Because the sun is about to set.

"This snake god, what if you go out to visit relatives and don't come back tonight?"

"Yes, sometimes it's not uncommon to hunt for days at a time. ”

"We run from north to south and from south to north every year, for months at a time, so are we going to wait here for a few months?"

......

After squatting for a long time, everyone was a little overwhelmed. Wang Xijia also felt a little unable to squat, so he said: "That's it, let's wait until the evening, if the snake god doesn't go home at night, we will withdraw." ”