Chapter 169: Swarm Building Plan (Part II)
Like most insects in the rhino beetle family, the electric beetle is nocturnal and is now in the breeding season, so the plan for the final balance is this:
The electric beetle in the hand is a female, and according to the habits of this type of bug, the female generally emits pheromones for courtship and attracts the male.
For this reason, the final heng specially returned to the place where the electric beetle was encountered a few days ago, and let the puppet in the controlled state radiate courtship signals around, while he quietly crouched in the bushes beside him.
The night is no better than the day, there are all kinds of powerful monsters, such as the black wolf bird, the Swift Dragon, and of course, the peak activity of the electric beetle, in order to ensure safety, there is also a giant bee colony ambushed among the forest leaves, and the three queen bees are loyal to guard around the final balance, forming a defense with the super self-detonating bees.
There are also three people who are curious, and they come with Condensation Cream, Mao Wei, and Jiang Allen.
This level of lineup, not to mention a few electric beetles, even an ancient dragon like Steel Dragon dares to come and go.
"Why are there so many mosquitoes!"
"Why haven't you come yet?"
"Isn't this a little too close to the village?!"
"I'm sleepy."
"Did you put too many ambushes here, and those bugs didn't dare to come?!"
"Go back to sleep, staying up late is not good for your skin...... I hate it to death, and I guess I'm going to have a bunch of pimples tomorrow......"
After squatting for two hours in a row, I didn't even see a single insect shadow, which made several people complain, but they had many similar field practice experiences, and finally Heng, who was accustomed to loneliness, waited here quietly.
The depressing environment not only did not make him irritable, but made his curiosity to learn come together and fall into the devil at this time - one of the most important links in entomology, the truth about the study of insect reproduction is about to be revealed, I really want to see how the electric beetle reproduces, if I can bring it back......
Stop, everything here is not true, but Zhong Heng is still very excited, and the telescope tube in his hand is already soaked with sweat.
If possible, he wants to write a memoir after he returns, called "I Work as an Entomologist in the Monster Hunter World".
The long squatting paid off after a few hours.
In the distance, a figure that also shone with blue light "buzzed" and vibrated its wings and flew towards here.
"It's coming!"
Another electric beetle appeared over the forest.
It's a male.
It is not as large as the female, but it is definitely stronger in combat effectiveness - unlike the insects of the rhino beetle family, the female does not have horns and is smaller, the electric beetle has horns for both sexes and sexes, but the horns of the male are much larger than the female, and from a distance it looks like three lightning rods towering into the sky.
Smelling the pheromones emitted by the "******", it approached and flew in a circle, the electric light on its body shining even brighter, and the burst of static electricity was as loud as a whip waved in the air.
It's courting!
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and remained silent.
"Courtship through a glowing dance in the air, sure enough, it has some of the characteristics of the firefly family......"
Silently, the final balance recorded this.
It's actually very simple to take down the male insect that has been attracted, as long as it enters the control range of the final balance for 100 meters.
But helplessly, the female worm in Zhongheng's hand is now 80 meters away, and she can't get out of the range or she will escape, and all she can do is wait for the rabbit.
But Zhongheng is not worried that this male worm will not take the bait:
The males of the rhino beetle family are all rapists, and they especially like to play the overlord hard bow, and the giant horns are used to fight with their own kind in addition to competing for mates, and that is to put the female on the chassis to "get back".
If the female insect under the final balance does not move, it will definitely be unable to resist rushing over.
The fact is also the same, seeing that I danced for a long time, the "beauty" on the other side still didn't react at all, suspended in place like a fool and put courtship pheromones, the male electric beetle couldn't help it - Lao Tzu worked so hard, you are still unmoved, then don't blame me for being unkind!
After dancing wildly in the air for a few laps, it released a few lightning bolts and smashed them on the ground, and a few scorch marks were emitted, and the wings behind it were flapping rapidly under the stimulation of the electric current, and it was about to rush over......
But an accident interrupted its preparation.
"I'll go, and here comes another one!"
On the other side, another male electric beetle appeared in the air.
This one was stronger than the previous male, about 1.5 times the size of it, and the body length reached more than 7 meters, and the male insect in front of it was as short as Guo Jingming standing in front of Yao Ming.
Two arcs of electricity were released with a "snap", and the newcomer deterred the previous one, as if to say:
Sample, if you know each other, hurry up and get out of me, don't grab a "woman" with Lao Tzu.
But the little man was just as unconvinced.
Males of the rhino beetle family have always been belligerent, especially in the face of the same sex competing for mates, not to mention the hot-tempered electric beetles that even the fire dragon dare not provoke.
Their unique pick-based fighting style gives them the ability to defeat the big with the small and the strong with the weak.
In other words, size doesn't mean everything in this type of insect, and a small person may not really be afraid of a big person.
The small male immediately turned the muzzle of the cannon, and aimed at the big man was an electric howitzer that spanned more than 100 meters, hitting the bull's-eye.
If an ordinary human is hit by this cannon, he will only die no longer, and even a giant dragon will be stunned, but for the same kind, this cannon only makes it slightly numb and a little stiff - this is not surprising, the electric beetle itself is a super power source, and it has no resistance to electricity and has already electrocuted itself.
The big man fell into a rage, and the so-called coming and not being rude, it also responded with a shot, but the little man used the advantage of flexibility to dodge it.
In the crackling arc of electricity, the two male insects were covered in electricity, and they collided in the air again and again, each impact stirring up sparkling thunder and lightning sparks.
Soon, the high-intensity battle exhausted the biological energy in the bodies of the two insects, and they simply fell to the ground, and began to fight in the same way as their cousins on the earth - hand-to-hand combat, and in the sound of gold and iron hand-to-hand collision, the two electric beetles stabbed each other with the horns of the trident in front of them.
The sturdy exoskeleton makes them helpless, you can only stab my ass for a while, I will explode your chrysanthemum for a while, and knock each other over or over again again, but get up again and again and continue to fight, until one side can't hold it anymore and get out.
They didn't notice that as the battle was approaching the heat, the surrounding woods began to stir up.
"The snipe and the clam compete, the fisherman profits, it's time for me, the fisherman!"
With a sneer, Zhong Heng quietly crawled towards the place where the battle was breaking out, and his army quietly followed, surrounding all sides.
When it was almost over, and all the insects were shrouded in control, he launched a flash, appearing more than ten meters away from the two fierce male insects.
Together, they stopped their fight and turned their heads.
A human appeared in his sight, and in the forest behind the human, there were many more giant bees that they usually didn't even bother to look at, and the female worm they fought for was lying on the ground motionless as if she hadn't seen anything.
The release of courtship pheromones stopped.
What's going on?!
Before their simple brains could react, they lost consciousness once more, their eyes as blank as soulless shells.
Putting down the action of raising his arms in a hug like a cult leader, Zhong Heng stretched out his right hand expressionlessly, and hooked his fingers at the two male electric beetles:
Come here!
They obediently did so, and laid down their proud heads in front of him, meaning that he was allowed to ride.
"It's getting late, let's go back, how about you try this mount?" Looking back, the three people who were still lying in ambush in the grass, looking at the two eyes of Zhong Heng who had "tamed" this terrible monster and were very shocked.
……
Today's harvest is not insignificant, but after returning home, Zhong Heng found that he was in trouble - his control range was too small, only 100 meters with himself as the center.
After a thousand days of raising soldiers, he began to have trouble raising these bugs: he could not leave these bugs 100 meters away, and beyond this distance, the puppet state would automatically disarm, causing the bugs to regain consciousness, so as to attack or escape.
In this way, the location of the bugs is a problem.
Not to mention whether it will cause panic, it is simply that the breeding environment is not in line, and the village will not be able to go back; Although there are arenas there, how big can a village-level arena be? Its conditions simply can't accommodate hundreds of giant insect legions combined, especially three dangerous electric beetles among them.
That's not even counting the question of whether these environments are suitable or not, and whether they will raise the insects to death.
"Well, it would be nice to have a sub-module that can leave special information in the bug's brain, like a program-coded control imprint sub-module or a sub-module that increases the control range." Zhong Heng sighed, but not to mention that he is not proficient enough now, even if it is enough, it is impossible - upgrading the insect control module requires 80,001 evolution fragments, and there is no evolution fragment collection in the virtual space, so the task is not even one-third away from this goal.
From this, it can only be like this - raise the army of insects in the wild, and finally set up a tent to sleep next to it, as for the contact with the village, I have to trouble Xiaoqian to be a "microphone".
Taking advantage of the hero's "privilege", he "borrowed" a tent and necessary daily necessities from the hunters' guild in the village, and he was almost busy until dawn to get everything done before he fell asleep in a peculiar smell of insects emitted by so many insects around.
There are so many insects, especially the three electric beetles guarding them, even if Gu Long comes to weigh them, the tired final balance is fearless and sleeps deeply.
But some people can't sleep at night.
In the wooden house, Condensation Frost and Jiang Allen sat opposite each other, with complicated expressions on their faces.