Chapter 43: The Mystery of the Ant

Before dawn the next morning, Meng Lang, who had been tossing and turning all night, got up early with a pair of panda eyes.

Whoever knows that the thing they dream of is close at hand, but can only wait boredly, anyone's heart will be itchy like a cat's claw, and they can't sleep all night!

When the first rays of sunshine finally appeared like a goddess on a date, Meng Lang didn't bother to wash, so he couldn't wait to pick up the half bag of biscuits that he turned out last night and rushed to the grass in the yard.

Then he took a biscuit from the bag and crumpled it, sprinkled it under the grass roots that were still stained with dewdrops, and after repeating this several times, he also sprinkled the biscuit crumbs in several other places nearby, and then waited.

At this time, the sky was slightly white, and the whole city gradually woke up from sleep.

While waiting, Meng Lang, who was idle and bored, also chewed a few biscuits. Hey, it tastes pretty good, I'm sure ants will like it too!

Ten minutes later, a few little ants finally came to one of them, and these little ones circled around the cookie crumbs, and the two tentacles on their heads touched each other a few times, and then they left.

At this time, Meng Lang quieted down, and did not catch these ants, he knew that these little guys were just scouts who were exploring the way, and now that they had found something good, it was estimated that they would rush back to the ant nest to report!

Sure enough, after a while, good guy, a large group of ants appeared in front of Meng Lang's eyes.

Among them, more than a dozen soldier ants, which are several times larger than ordinary ants, are standing majestically on the periphery of the team with their heads held high, revealing their two large mouths of pliers, showing off their strength!

Meng Lang's target is precisely these relatively small number of soldier ants! Seeing that the target had appeared, he hurriedly took out a test tube and an eyebrow pencil that he had already prepared, and the eyebrow pencil was found in his sister's room.

Place the mouth of the test tube diagonally close to the ground and aim at the back of the soldier ant, and then gently sweep it with an eyebrow pencil and carefully sweep it into the test tube.

He didn't dare to push too hard, these little ants were too small and delicate for humans, and if they accidentally bumped into the inside and hurt the inside, it would be worth the loss!

Looking at the little guy crawling around in the test tube, Meng Lang nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to repeat the previous action, then the second soldier ant, and the third ......

After a while, these dozen or so soldier ants were caught by him, and after looking at the results in the test tube, Meng Lang, who was satisfied, walked into the basement.

After dealing with the ants, he turned on the power switch on the electron microscope, and with a low hum of the machine, everything was ready.

Meng Lang then gently took out an ant from the test tube with tweezers, placed it on the observation slide, adjusted the microscope to the maximum magnification resolution, and dissected it against the computer screen.

Such a subtle operation is really a technical job, and the requirements for wrist stability are almost harsh!

There were even times when he was just a little heavier between inhalation and exhalation, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with the naked eye, but under a microscope magnified hundreds of millions of times, it was no less than shaking the ground, and the ant samples on his hands were immediately destroyed beyond recognition.

At the beginning, Meng Lang did not enter the best state, he did not know the essentials, wasted several batches of ants in a row, and finally had to run to the grass to catch another batch.

When he caught the fourth time, more than 60 soldier ants before and after, he finally completed a successful dissection in a state of holding his breath, and the internal structure of the ants was finally revealed in front of his eyes.

It turns out that the muscles of ants are like a high-efficiency engine, and this muscle engine is composed of billions of delicate little engines, so ants can produce such extraordinary and extraordinary power!

The Ant's muscle engine uses a special "fuel", a chemical with a complex structure.

When an ant carries something, its muscles produce an acidic substance, causing a sharp change in this "fuel", at which point the muscles contract violently, and billions of muscle engines will instantly produce huge amounts of energy!

In many cases, as long as the muscles produce some acidic substances when they are active (this feeling is what we usually call sour arms), it can cause a drastic change in this "fuel", which can make the long molecules of muscle protein contract in an instant, producing great force!

This special "fuel" can directly release the latent energy without combustion, and convert it into mechanical energy, plus there is no mechanical friction, so there is almost no energy loss.

Because of this, the efficiency of the Ant Muscle Engine is very high, up to more than 80%, and this is the secret of the Ant Hercules!

The data observed by Meng Lang are similar to those found in scientific journals, and scientists around the world have been working on the study of artificial ant muscles, but unfortunately there is not much progress at present.

After a sigh, he no longer hesitated, smashed the remaining soldier ants one by one, put them in a small centrifuge to separate their shells, and then poured them into a petri dish.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Lang took out a disposable syringe from a cabinet next to him and decisively plunged it into the blood vessel on his arm.

At the same time, he ordered the more than 10 million modified cells that had been secretly hiding here to quickly concentrate near the tip of the needle, and then gently pumped, and suddenly these cells were sucked into the needle tube along with blood.

Meng Lang also thought about swallowing these ants directly, but this idea was vetoed by him as soon as it arose, the method of swallowing seems simple, but the stomach acid in the stomach alone is enough to melt any cell, and the stomach is also a forbidden area for transforming cells at present!

As for holding it in the mouth, it's just ants this time, and it's barely acceptable, but next time if it's some other strange creature, I'm afraid I won't be able to pass the psychological barrier.

Therefore, it is more acceptable to use the method of allowing the engineered cells to be successfully phagocytosed and mutated in the petri dish before being injected back into the body.

After the needle is removed, the modified cells are injected into a petri dish containing the ant cells, and the situation in the dish is observed intently.

Although it is impossible to see inside from the outside of the body, fortunately there is this advanced microscope, and a drama of cell phagocytosis is playing on the screen.

An hour later, the ant cells were devoured, and there were some mutations during the period, but unfortunately there were no mutations similar to ant cells, they were all some shabby goods!

But this is also expected by him, as the lyrics sing, how to see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain! No one succeeds casually!

So Meng Lang spent the next two days between catching ants and the basement.

Until the three ant nests in the yard could no longer find any soldier ants, even the poor ant queen was turned out by him to bask in the sun, and her white and chubby body trembled in the sun......