Small things should not be taken lightly, and a series of flashes of light herald the end.

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"Ah......h

The explosion came so suddenly that even Xinglan didn't have time to react, and before the subconscious exclamation fell, her vision was completely covered by a sudden white light.

Rumble!

The loud sound of the explosion sounded in my ears like thunder, and the high temperature that emerged out of thin air mercilessly burned the artificial skin on my hand, and after only a short moment, the polymer material on the surface of the layer was quickly turned into ashes by the scorching flames, exposing the alloy skeleton embedded with electronic circuits underneath into the air.

In fact, the explosion was not on the earth-shattering scale of the antimatter battery's detonation, its explosion was actually very small, not even comparable to an ordinary artillery shell, strictly speaking, it was just the power of a grenade.

But here's the key thing: this is a grenade that exploded directly on Xinglan's palm at close range!

Because it happened so suddenly, the girl who was hit head-on by the shockwave gushing out of her palm couldn't resist the thrust at all, and flew backwards four or five meters straight before falling to the ground on her back, her clothes became tattered, full of smoky black, and the right hand that was directly blown up was twisted at a strange angle, and the first half of her arm was only a pitted metal skeleton, which looked very weird.

"Oops, what the hell was that just now...... Xinglan fell to the ground weakly, trying to support her body with difficulty, and even the things in front of her began to distort, obviously, in the close-range explosion just now, even the optical sensing device of one eye was not lightly damaged, "It's like this again, the trouble encountered this time is really a bit serious......

This time, Xinglan really never expected it.

Although it looked completely harmless as a small toy, the group of Stygian Fire Ants with its crystal-transparent body and glowing tail did not get up to play dead and escape, but simply chose to blow itself up after being captured.

"Fortunately, the damage to the bones and joints of the main body is not too serious...... Xinglan simply gave up the severely damaged optical equipment, and directly used the signal to open the perspective, staring at the right hand that only had the bare mechanical structure left in the explosion, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "This time it always feels like the rhythm is going to be broken again." ”

What just happened was not an ordinary explosion, absolutely not!

After recalling the scene just now, Xing Lan felt that something was wrong, the size of the Stygian Fire Ant was about the same size as an ordinary ant, even if it was stuffed with high. Burst. Explode. Nor could the medicine have produced such a violent explosion...... This doesn't make sense at all in terms of quality or volume!

There was a faint premonition in his heart that something was wrong, but no matter how useless he was, after all, the fire ant itself had already been completely lost in this violent explosion, and it was impossible for Xinglan to look for the wreckage it might leave behind to study.

It feels like ...... It's a bit of a pity? Getting up from the ground again, Xinglan couldn't help frowning when she looked at her tattered appearance, forget it, the top priority is to get the previous exploration goal done first, things have to be done slowly one by one.

The only benefit of the violent explosion just now was that Xing Lan's eyes were much cleaner than just now, and the shock air currents brought by those explosions also seemed to have scared the surrounding demons back some distance, and those hazy light clusters either retreated near the dividing line, or simply floated up to the sky.

"Wouldn't it be nice to get out of the way like this......" Pouting, Xinglan thought in a little dissatisfaction, and after continuing to move forward for some distance, she finally approached the red objects neatly arranged in the craters, looking at them with amazement.

These are...... Very unique stuff.

Perhaps they look like huge red flowers half a meter tall from afar, but when you get closer, you can even see the layers of texture of the flowers, and the elegant curves between the gaps have carved these objects into delicate works of art, and the neat arrangement of these objects with each other makes it clear that they are not pure natural works.

Xinglan once thought that they were plants, because they were indeed like flowers blooming on this land, even if they maintained a stable posture and remained motionless, it was not so important, after all, since they grew on the nuclear continent, they had to fight against dark light and deadly radiation environment, so it was very likely that other plants would have a rigid shell similar to that of Guangping.

However, when she actually came to the vicinity of these red objects, walking deep and shallow in those ground pits, Xinglan decisively reversed her previous speculation: these red flower-like objects...... They are not plants.

They are dead objects, whether it is the luster of the surface or the feeling that Xinglan touches with his still intact left hand, you can get this clear conclusion, maybe it is rock, maybe it is hardened earth, but this granular uneven surface is definitely not a living organism.

Retracting her left hand that was caressing the surface of the petals, Xinglan narrowed her eyes and looked at the traces of red flocculent that hung from her fingertips, and it was these substances that were so entangled in the surface of the flower-like object that it took on a vivid red color, and judging by the silky covering, it should be some kind of ......

"Mycelium?" Xinglan looked up at the sun in the sky trying to let the light shine through the radiation dust clouds, and bent down again, caressing the surface of the flower-like object, "If it's a fungus, it probably likes dark and damp places, right?" A dimly lit place like the Nuclear Continent is perfect for you...... But how do you stop the damage to the gene chain caused by radiation? If it is a single cell, can it be said that it has the ability to repair damaged genes on its own? ”

Muttering some haphazard speculation to herself, Xinglan couldn't help but get closer to the red flower-like object, and only then did she notice that the surface of the thing was not smooth or simply uneven, but was full of tiny holes, and even the gaps between the petals seemed to be open passages.

"Huh?"

Xinglan looked curiously into the gaps, because the sky outside was already dark, and the gaps were deep and narrow, Xinglan couldn't see anything, but vaguely glimpsed that there seemed to be some small green dots of light moving in the depths of the gaps......

…… Wait, little green dots?

Xinglan's expression instantly stiffened, and she took a step back in a daze, and only then did she suddenly think of something that she had inadvertently forgotten, something that was enough to change everything: ants and their close relatives are generally huge social animals......

The key problem has finally been discovered, but is it too late?

When Xinglan was startled and took a step back, as if she had triggered a signal, on the flower-like object in front of her, which was originally covered with red mycelium, large green points of light suddenly poured out from all positions: the body was transparent like crystal, and the tail was glowing with green fluorescent.

As if she had suddenly woken up from a big dream, and looked around, Xinglan realized that she had fallen into such a dangerous situation at some point: the gap between each red flower-like object...... So much so that in many cracks on the ground, small green dots that moved quickly poured out, and they showed a shrinking encirclement, and standing in the center of the encirclement was obviously Xinglan, who was startled by this posture.

"It's true that those red flower-like objects that are not plants, not living things, just patchwork of hardened soil are real dead things, but the living things they coexist with are not only those red mycelium......" Facing the green points of light surrounding the ground, even though their number is much smaller than that of ordinary ant colonies, and their distribution can even be described as sparse, Xing Lan still showed a wry smile with a headache, "These red flower-like objects are neatly distributed on the ground...... It's just a small part of a much larger object that sticks out of the ground, and it's a nest built by the fire ants and lives in it! ”

Actually, it should have been thought of a long time ago...... Xinglan was annoyed by her mistake, you know, there were not two dented potholes on the ground, but dense potholes all over the ground like the surface of the frost shower!

These uneven, bizarre and dense potholes on the ground, now it seems that their causes still need to be considered? The answer is already obvious......

"It's a big trouble, a fire ant explosion is so powerful, even if so many fire ants in front of you can't all explode themselves, and at the same time, it won't easily damage their nests, but just a small part of them is already ......" In the face of this terrible ant colony, just by virtue of the individual strength of this body, Xinglan has no possibility of destroying them at all, "Even neural manipulation can't manipulate the actions of so many fire ants in a short period of time, and if you manipulate the nervous system of creatures that have never been seen before, If you accidentally touch the nerve that controls the self-detonation, it is really big. Trouble! ”

Just when Xinglan was anxious, several of the fire ants on the anthill next to them had already made a decisive choice, they curled themselves up into a ball, their limbs folded, and rolled down from the anthill like falling rocks in the mountains, rolling straight towards Xinglan's feet......

Without hesitation, Xinglan immediately kicked the ground hard and jumped upwards with all her might, and less than a second after she jumped, several white lights suddenly lit up on the ground below......

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......

"Don't you want to be so ruthless!" Xinglan, who fell back to the ground after running out of kinetic energy, fell directly into a cloud of dust, and the reading of the Geiger timer that she had been paying attention to began to increase rapidly in an instant, "Is that really the case?" Oops, this is a nuclear explosion! ”

Yes...... The small body of the fire ant, the smaller explosive organ in it, can produce such a powerful explosion is entirely because its explosion method is a chain reaction of a nuclear explosion!

"The size of this creature is simply impossible to reach the critical volume required for a nuclear fission chain reaction, so there is only one possibility......" Xinglan, who was quickly running towards the outside of the ant colony, jumped up to avoid several sudden explosions, while constantly analyzing their body structure, "They must have an ultra-efficient neutron reflector formed by biological tissues in their bodies...... A super reflective film that far exceeds the limit reflectivity of the products of Qingyan Technology! ”

"But how frustrating is Lan Xing's evolution, so that these strange creatures who actively ingest radioactive ores will appear!" Using her right hand, which was almost only an alloy skeleton, to block the aftermath of the explosion, Xing Lan seemed to understand a little bit what the monster meant before the wind passed, "Damn, Miss Ben won't admit defeat!" Let's see the pinnacle level of grazing moves! ”

Under the dim sky, small clusters of green light seemed to have truly turned into netherworld fire, opening a passage to death.