Chapter 52: The tumbling larvae

In the afternoon, two things added fun to Shen Cong's boring life.

One is the pupae of the second generation of mutant maggots, which finally hatched a green-headed fly, six green-headed flies the size of a baby's fist, buzzing in a glass bottle.

These six green-headed flies, with a level between Lv0.037 and Lv0.039, have the same active core as the No. 1 variant, all of which are beaks in their mouthparts.

Shen Cong named these second-generation green-headed flies.

Shen Cong fed the reserved carrion of the Bull Demon King to one of the slightly larger second-generation green-headed flies; The other five second generations were kept in a bottle to test whether the second generation born in the same litter would kill each other. Shen Cong had lost interest in feeding the green-headed flies, which would make the smell inside the King Kong very unpleasant.

Keep two, and when the comparative test between the No. 1 variant and the second-generation greenhead fly is completed, all of them will be used as bait for fishing.

In the face of green-headed flies, Shen Cong can announce their end very decisively, but in the face of the two ant larvae that have just hatched, Shen Cong doesn't know how to feel.

Almost at the same time that the flies break out of the pupae, the ant eggs hatch.

Two maggots, which were slightly smaller than mineral water bottles, were crawling around happily in the transparent plastic box at the moment, especially when Shen Cong came over, the two maggots suddenly crawled in the direction of Shen Cong. The activity that was exuded, Shen Cong could easily feel that they admired and were close to him.

It doesn't feel good, it's bad.

Although they will become ants when they grow up, many people like to keep ants before the cataclysm. But for now, they are still the image of maggots, with a crystal clear body, covered with tiny flagella, slowly wriggling, and a black core inside the body, presumably an organ.

The connection with maggots was established, which felt terrible, so Shen Cong's face was black at the moment.

"Get out of here!"

Shen Cong tried to release his emotions on the ant larvae, through the connection between the active.

This is a meaningless vent.

However, to Shen Cong's surprise, the two ant larvae really squirmed to the side obediently, not daring to approach Shen Cong again.

Faced with this discovery, Shen Cong immediately changed his attitude and became interested.

It's really not good to have a sensory connection with small insects, but it's much more interesting if you can command small insects. The level of these two larvae in perception, that is, around Lv0.036, is very weak.

"Come here."

Shen Cong released his thoughts again.

Two ant larvae crawled over very obediently.

"Go away."

"Come here."

"Go over there."

"Roll over!"

The first three commands, perfectly executed, and the last tumbling command, the ant larvae were indifferent. And, in response, a dazed consciousness probably didn't understand what "roll over" meant.

"Flip your body." Shen Cong tried to think differently, but the ant larvae were still at a loss.

This IQ is obviously very low.

However, insects are still the weakest larvae, and they can't be expected to have a high IQ.

Didn't toss for a while.

Two ant larvae came together with the mood of "hunger".

Ant larvae generally eat semi-digested food from worker ants, omnivorous, carnivorous, and vegetarian, but Shen Cong really can't figure out what mutated ants should eat.

"Feed some leaves first."

The leaves are thrown in, and the ant larvae do not lean over at all.

"Feed some more beef and sashimi."

Ant larvae are shunned from sashimi, and beef, which is discarded after a few bites.

"Such a picky eater, do you really want to feed some metal?" Thinking about it, Shen Cong threw a piece of waste iron into the plastic box. He didn't quite believe that ant larvae would eat metal, and this fat meat maggot didn't look like it could gnaw on metal.

However, the next moment the ant larvae proved that even if it is a larvae, it is a mutated larvae.

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

Two ant larvae happily gnawed on the metal, and when the mouthparts scraped on the iron sheets, many iron filings were gnawed down. Shen Cong looked closely, and could see that the mouthparts of the ant larvae had a circle of sharp teeth, which could easily scrape a layer of iron filings on the surface of the iron sheet.

In more than three minutes, the palm-sized piece of iron was eaten clean by two ant larvae, and there was nothing left.

"Okay, you guys eat this, I have."

Shen Cong directly threw a pile of scrap iron left over from the welded hunting clips into the plastic box, and the ant larvae had no excretory holes, and all the iron filings they ate were accumulated in the body. As can be seen from the translucent body, a large amount of iron filings accumulate in the black organs, and then they are digested continuously.

The larvae are also growing rapidly, soon exceeding the size of a mineral water bottle, and are still greedily eating metal. The body color has also changed from the previous transparent milky white to a pale yellow, and the color has been deepening.

Shen Cong was simply busy welding hunting clips next to him, so as to facilitate the observation of ant larvae.

An afternoon has to pass.

After the ant larvae grew to almost the size of a large bottle of Coca-Cola, they finally stopped eating, and their entire bodies were dark brown, swallowing a full five pounds of metal.

After stopping eating.

Two ant larvae began to approach each other and grind their bodies.

"Here's what to do!" Shen Cong looked at the ant larvae curiously, and some strange thoughts floated through his mind.

Soon he knew what the ant larvae were doing - molting.

Rubbing against each other, shedding each other's skin and their own, this is the transition from a first-instar larva to a second-instar larvae. Generally, the larvae of many insects will undergo two molting, before molting is called the first instar larva, after the first molt is called the second instar larva, and after the second molt, it is called the third instar larvae or mature larvae.

Then it begins to pupate, form cocoons, and change to adults.

Shen Cong was curious that he did not see this change during the development of the second-generation green-headed fly. It is normal to eat, drink, and pull, and then grow to a certain size and begin to pupate.

"Maybe the second generation is from an ordinary fly, breaking through to a mutated fly, and has not fully evolved successfully?" Shen Cong guessed that after all, it was manual intervention that forcibly transformed the offspring of ordinary flies into mutated flies.

Shaking his head, he stopped paying attention to this unanswered question and continued to pay attention to the second instar larvae of ants.

The skin shed by the first-instar larvae is black-brown, but the skin of the fresh second-instar larvae is still transparent and milky white, and the body shape remains the size of a large bottle of Coca-Cola, and the level of activity has been greatly improved from the previous Lv0.036 to the current Lv0.048.

To Shen Cong's embarrassment, the connection between the first-star larva and him was still vague. By the second instar larvae, the connection between this activity is a little clearer. It seems that the second instar larva have more emotions than the first instar larvae, or that the IQ increases.

Shen Cong did not believe that the IQ of the second instar larvae increased.

So he conveyed his thoughts: "Roll over." ”

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