Chapter 48: Vine and Ball
"!" Meteorite shouted, "This is the snake, just disguised as a vine!" ”
"Have you ever seen a snake with leaves and tentacles?" The swordsman sneered at each other. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's called mimicry, stupid! It's not the leaves, it's the scales! ”
"Captain, don't raise the bar, no, the visor of the nanosuit has a perspective function, you see if it has internal organs!"
"Do you think I'm stupid, I've seen through a long time ago! This snake has no regular internal organs, but it has blood vessels and nerves! ”
“…… Even if there is a vascular nerve, it is a vine! ”
The swordsman was depressed, and since the advent of the plane, the meteorite had made him around, hiring cooks, teaching cooking, carrying water, and carrying soil...... I didn't do anything serious! Now it's not time to argue with him about vines and snakes!
The meteorite jumped out of the crater with its toes on the wall of the pit a few times.
He walked among the crowd and showed the "source of interference" that had taken more than half a day and a 30-meter deep pit to catch.
Although he was wearing a nanosuit and his arms were thicker, he still wore adaptive bracelets on his wrists. Because of the writhing "green snake", the bracelet has long since turned a deep red.
Qin Jing reached out to touch it, and the meteorite quickly shook his arm and dodged it.
"Can't touch it!"
“…… Stingy! She sneered.
"It's not that I'm stingy! You're going to see it! ”
The meteorite opened his palm and only used the tiger's mouth to clamp the "green snake", but he saw that countless hair-thin tentacles on the "snake body" were like parasites, drilling under his skin one by one!
If it weren't for the enhanced artificial muscles on the surface of the fully enclosed nanosuit, maybe it would have been able to burrow into the meteorite's body!
The onlookers all gasped, this thing is too evil!
Meteorite said: "Originally, the water in the pit was very deep, and Lao Tzu dug thirty meters underwater, and suddenly the water became shallow!" I figured it must have been downward, and it turned out to be unsurprising. In less than ten minutes, all the water leaked! ”
"Is there a stalactite cave down there?" The sword master asked stupidly.
"Bianliang is not a karst terrain!" Fang Bai reminded.
The meteorite smiled approvingly, "Yes, there are no limestone caves!" The snake punched a deep hole the thickness of a fist! The water is flowing from the snake hole! ”
"Captain, your inference is not scientific! First, snakes don't make holes, they just burrow into ready-made holes! Second, the hole with a thick fist does not seep water so fast! This kind of efficiency is simply a pumping machine! Fang Bai's tone was affirmative.
"Pump!?" Everyone in the audience was a little unexpected.
"Maybe it's a pump!" Qin Jing, a medical doctor, pointed at the "green snake" and said, "Captain, you scanned the inside of this thing, how flexible are the blood vessels?" ”
"Very pliable! When I first grabbed it, it was still in the water, twice as thick as it is now, and it was very slippery! Then I scanned it and found that it was as thick as a water pipe, and it was close to the outer epidermis! Look at it now, it's as thin as a needle! ”
"That's right!" Qin Jing showed such an expression, "Whether this thing is a green snake or a vine, it is not an independent existence!" Look at the curve of his tail, is there something abnormal! Like a gecko's severed tail to survive, it's part of a larger organism! ”
"Moreover," Qin Jing said more and faster, "this large organism needs quite a lot of water!" To supply a large amount of water, its terminal must have the pumping capacity, so this is a powerful biological pump! The pond dug by the captain was drained by it! ”
"So, is this a snake or a vine?" The sword master asked unwillingly.
"Snake-" Qin Jing smiled evilly and lengthened his tone, "Do you need to drink so much water?" ”
"Well, if you say no, it's not." Although Meteorite didn't want to accept this judgment, he still chose to trust Qin Jing as usual.
"That's the vine!" The swordsman seemed to have won a match, and he was overjoyed.
"Wait a minute, Dr. Qin," the six arms were a little puzzled, "The program of the Zhaojie has been calculated before, and there is no interconnected network between tens of thousands of interference sources underground!" ”
"Zhaojie's program is correct, it's our lack of data!" Qin Jing walked to the side of the six arms and stretched out his palm, "Take out your little ant!" ”
"You know again! I just redeemed a litter of ant-shaped robots...... What the hell are you using to spy on me! Six Arms sighed and took out an unremarkable metal water cup from his pocket and put it in Qin Jing's hand.
Qin Jing opened the lid of the cup, as if opening the devil's seal, and a black cloud swayed up, covering everyone's heads! Tens of thousands of winged flying ants circled, and the queen, who was more than a hundred times larger than the others, fell on the shoulders of six arms.
"Where do you want my little ones to go?" Six Arms asked.
"Didn't the captain dig a snake hole? Before the water flooded the hole, hurry down and take a look! ”
"Well, the beauty has the final say...... Zhaojie, help with the data! With a movement of his fingers, the queen flew to the tip of Zhaojie's nose.
Zhaojie jumped up in shock, his arms dancing like drowning, "Ah, I'll go!" Six-armed bastard, I'm most afraid of bugs! Let it die! ”
The queen slowly vibrated her wings, shifted her position, and landed on the tablet held by Zhaojie.
Flying ants also landed on the branches, eaves, and windows in the courtyard......
More than a dozen scouting bugs flew down the "snake hole" first.
Zhaojie hypnotized himself into ignoring the thumb-sized ant queen on the screen, and made a few frightening manipulations to establish a connection and unfold a 3D map projection.
The projection shows that after thirty meters of vertical descent from the snake cave, it turns to extend diagonally downward in a gentle slope, with an inner diameter that grows larger and larger, and is almost a foot wide at its widest point. The flying ants advanced more than fifty meters, and the hole was tightly blocked with dirt.
I didn't see the six-armed manipulation, and there were more than a dozen flying ants, this time it was an underground excavation type, and they flew down. They don't burrow with chewing mouthparts like real ants, but like miniature shield-type underground roadboring machines, which are more than 100 times more efficient than real ants. These holes don't need to be dug too big, as long as the ants can pass through.
Ten minutes later, the blockage was dug through.
The two swarms of ants converged, folded their wings, and began to crawl quickly.
The projection shows that the diagonal hole is getting wider and wider, and when it reaches one meter in diameter, it merges into a huge underground space! The space is irregularly shaped, and the preliminary detection is about 10 meters high inside and nearly 40 meters wide at its widest point.
Zhaojie projected the real-time footage taken by the flying ants next to the 3D map.
Occupying most of the underground space is a giant sphere.
The sphere is formed by countless "vines" that fit tightly together and twist together. Dense tentacles poke out of the spherical surface, which are automatic without wind, making the viewer's scalp tingle.
Most of its bottom is submerged in water, and more than 100 vines with a diameter of one meter radiate from the top, burrowing upwards into the earth. Those vines will continue to grow, stopping thirty or forty meters above the ground, becoming the "source of interference" detected by the jade bracelet!
According to the measurement of flying ants, the relative distance between the top of the "rattan ball" and the surface is 80 meters, and the detection limit of the jade bracelet is 50 meters, so naturally the connection between the vines cannot be found!
What's even more amazing is that the part of the rattan ball in the water also emits seven or eight thicker rattans, drilling in all directions in the horizontal direction!
In other words, there is probably more than one such rattan ball!
Six Arms immediately dispatched all the flying ants except for the queen, and nearly 10,000 insects descended into the vine ball space.
Flying ants have the ability to move underwater for a short period of time, and can spray water to propel themselves. They followed the direction of the thick rattan, through the cracks between the rattan and the holes drilled out of the rattan, and came to one underground space after another!
The vine balls in the underground seem to be endless, and the scale of the 3D map continues to shrink, and the display area continues to expand, eventually encompassing the entire Bianliang City.
The process of this reconnaissance was boring, but no one left the yard.
Captain Meteorite was a little blindsided at this time, and he didn't know what to do with the broken tail rattan, of course he couldn't destroy it, and he had to experiment with it.
It's not okay to hand it over to someone else. He wears a nano suit with dense artificial muscles, and when someone else holds it, he is accidentally drilled into his body by tentacles!
Of course, Ice Maniac is immune to this thing, and his limbs are all metal. But he was not there, and was sent out by a meteorite on a secret mission.
It doesn't work if you throw it on the ground, this thing can crash and jump, and it can make holes!
In the end, Fang Bai came up with an idea and asked him to put the rattan into a thick-walled ceramic tank, but as soon as he entered the water, the rattan instantly expanded, if it was originally a cauliflower snake, now it is a python.
The "python" lazily stopped moving in the water tank, perhaps because it was full of water and could not be transported.
Tossed until dark, nearly 10,000 insects finally completed the whole map!
There are a total of 413 underground spaces connected by vines and 412 vine balls under Bianliang City! There's also a super fat tuber bulb!