Volume 1 Chapter 13 Growing Ants
After capturing the ants, Fu Hongyang was ready to be besieged by the big black ants, in his opinion, although the big black ants were a little big and fast, they were still just ants.
If you can't even bite the fur of Doudou, how can you bite yourself.
As long as you trample all the big black ants to death, the queen ant can only obediently become a toy to relieve boredom, which is indeed a good toy. The ants that ordinary people play with are the largest as a grain of rice, and the queen ant with a fist in her hand has a small ghost umbrella on her head.
"It just so happens that there is a glass jar of pickles in the tiled house, and when I go back, I will find it and make a new home for the queen ant." He had a great idea.
However, the siege of the imaginary big black ants did not happen, on the contrary, these big black ants did not crawl, but just held their heads high, waving their tentacles, and did not know what they were doing.
"Strange thing!"
Fu Hongyang was a little panicked when he saw this, the performance of these big black ants was too abnormal.
The queen ant in her hand also stopped struggling, and also waved the two tentacles above her head, not knowing what it meant. He looked at the big black ant that continued to stop crawling for a while, and then turned his head to look at the beanie that had taken the opportunity to pile up the plank on the board and sweep the little devil's head in half.
It feels inexplicably ridiculous, and the ants are too perverse.
Doudou was about full, and the remaining half of the little ghost head didn't move, and ran over with a smoke, circling Fu Hongyang and the big black ants around Fu Hongyang that didn't crawl, circling left and right. It wasn't until Fu Hongyang glared at it that it honestly lay on the ground and observed the big black ant.
Fu Hongyang tried to leave the big black ant colony, but he still didn't see these ants crawling, as if he had been immobilized.
Just when he was puzzled, the queen ant in his hand suddenly had a new movement, it stopped dancing its tentacles, and began to shake the imp umbrella above its head. The original half-oval pale yellow imp umbrella was stretched out like an umbrella, and tiny white seeds fell from it one by one.
The seeds emitted a faint aroma, which shocked him: "The familiar smell of food is similar to the scented black tree seeds and tree fruits!" β
He hurriedly used his other hand to catch these white seeds, not many, a dozen in total, about the size of a sesame seed.
Doudou smelled the fragrance, and rushed over with an arrow step, sticking out his tongue to please and want to eat.
Looking at the dozen or so seeds in his hand, Fu Hongyang's doubts became even stronger, but his brain was exceptionally clear, and he continued to analyze various possibilities: "The mutated queen ant, no, the little ghost umbrella should 'coexist' with the queen ant, otherwise the queen ant will not have a small ghost umbrella on her head, let alone take the initiative to release the seeds...... Or are they called spores? β
He remembered that the seeds of fungi were called spores, and there was another type of spore plant among the plants, and the seeds were also spores.
The spores grow into hyphae, and the hyphae grow into fungi, and that's how mushrooms come from.
The queen ant in her hand is indeed a living big ant, but it cannot be ruled out that it was parasitized by the imp umbrella and turned into a zombie ant. It's just strange that the parasitic queen seems to be able to continue breeding, and the swarms of big black ants on the ground, all of whom have learned to spit mycelium, are apparently the offspring of this queen.
"It's about a special mutation, and this queen's IQ should have increased a lot, and she even knew to give food and beg me for mercy?"
He wasn't quite sure if the spores of the little ghost umbrella, these dozen sesame grains that emitted a faint fragrance, were poisonous.
Just as Doudou was shy and wanted to eat, he shook off four of them.
As soon as Doudou's tongue stretched, he stuck all four spores and stuffed them into his mouth, and then continued to stick out his tongue to please Fu Hongyang, and wanted to eat the remaining spores.
"Four is indeed a little less, it is difficult to judge whether it is poisonous or not, forget it, give it to Doudou to eat." He shook off all the spores.
In fact, I feel that these spores should not be poisonous, after all, the little ghost umbrella is not poisonous.
Doudou did not refuse to come, after eating the remaining spores, he looked at Fu Hongyang with blank eyes, and after making sure that there were no spores in Fu Hongyang's hands, he stared at the mutated ant queen, and saliva flowed out of the corner of his mouth.
Fu Hongyang didn't plan to give the mutant ant queen to Doudou to eat, he hadn't observed enough - although he was not a scientist, not even a scientific researcher, but he still hoped to learn as much as possible about the catastrophe caused by the haze, which was related to his future.
"Originally, I was going to keep you in a jar, but since you paid tribute to your spores, I will give you a boost."
He held the mutant ant queen in one hand, and pulled out a board full of dense imp umbrellas from the pile of wooden planks with the other.
Put the queen ant on it: "You will live here in the future, this plank is specially used for you to plant a little ghost umbrella, don't try to escape, I will ......" In the middle of speaking, he suddenly stopped, feeling that threatening an ant like this is simply an insult to his intelligence.
It's been about ten days of getting used to talking to myself.
would be so naΓ―ve.
The queen ant put it on the plank and quickly wanted to escape, and the big black ant colony on the ground also began to move in an instant, and fled outside in a crowd of the queen.
Fu Hongyang stepped over, grabbed the queen ant, and put it back on the board.
After going back and forth like this a few times, the queen ant seemed to understand her fate, and lay motionless on the wooden plank, and the big black ants around her no longer fled, and began to cultivate the little ghost umbrella step by step.
"That's right, you will pay tribute to the spores, which means that you have a little IQ after mutation." Fu Hongyang smiled slightly, he didn't have much hope, the release of spores by the queen ant can only be regarded as a survival instinct, it does not mean that it really has an IQ - a small creature that doesn't even have a brain, what kind of IQ is it.
Arresting back and forth in this way is more to develop a conditioned reflex.
At least during the day, under his nose, the queen ant couldn't run away at all, so he could only stay on the wooden board and continue to plant the imp umbrella, and he also took the opportunity to observe carefully.
At this time, Doudou stretched out his head.
was driven away by Fu Hongyang: "While playing, I'll go back and get the fruit of the tree for you to eat, and it's forbidden to harass the big black ants again." β
Immediately, he squatted next to the wooden plank and watched how the big black ant planted the imp umbrella. After watching it for less than five minutes, he made a surprising discovery that made him unbelievable.
The mycelium spit out by those big black ants not only grows a small ghost umbrella, but also grows white pupae from time to time. The pupa begins to turn black at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then gradually shrinks into the shape of a large black ant, which can run on the ground in just an hour from head to tail.
"Oh my God!"
"It's too completely mutated, isn't it?"
The little ghost umbrella growing on the head of the queen ant can also release spores, which is enough to make Fu Hongyang feel subverted.
Now the big black ant is not born by the queen, but is actually grown from the ground through mycelium, which subverts his three views even more - there is no such way of reproduction on the earth.
"Insects don't all mutate like this, do they?"
"What the hell is this mutation?"
"Is it a mutant fungus that invades the ants, or is it the ants that mutate?"
Soon, he thought of himself again: "I have eaten the seeds of the black tree and the fruit of the tree, and I also have green fibers in my body, as well as those three small saplings that I don't know if they are true or false...... Am I going to be like a big black ant...... Mitosis, asexual reproduction, and farming? β