Hu Feng shook his head first: "Impossible. One year, a relative of mine was stabbed with a steel nail at work, and in the film taken by the hospital, the steel nail was clearly shallower than the bone. ”

"That just means that iron isn't dense enough. The metal's blocking of radiation increases with increasing density, for example, in the past, nuclear material was stored in lead boxes. ”

"It's better to keep it in a gold box. Oh, it's too expensive to be economics. Hu Feng himself made a joke to himself, but soon realized: "Could this be a palace made of gold?" ”

"Even if these ants build houses out of gold, there must be an entrance, right?" Old professors are always used to thinking from a biological point of view.

"Looking for a door, huh? It's easy. There are six sides in total, and you can just sweep them one by one. The postdoc said, and his fingers began to get busy in the computer sensing area. But the result was unexpected, the palace did not have a door, that is, the heavy metal body was completely enclosed.

Whatever the outcome, the human brain will always find a reasonable explanation, and the doctor's inference immediately comes out: "We are all wrong, this is not the palace of the queen ant." ”

"What about the evidence?" The old professor seemed to be looking for a reason to refute himself.

"Won't finding the queen reveal the truth?" Hu Feng said in one sentence.

The Doctor dialed the receiver back to passive gamma wave mode, and the screen suddenly changed from hell to heaven and a sky full of stars.

"You guys help find the brightest star, I'll check it step by step from the bottom to the top."

A lot of times, stupid ways are often good ways, and it turns out that the brightest star is on the 112th floor. The postdoc locked on to the target and zoomed in, and an image of an insect with short antennae, small breasted feet, large abdomen, and wings appeared.

Doctor: "It's now certain that it's a heavy metal, possibly an ore. ”

Old Professor: "The key is what kind of ore is related to the intelligence of ants." ”

Doctor: "It's not easy, just dig it out." ”

The old professor sank his face: "If these ants really have some kind of intelligence, then we can't see them as ants, what is the difference between barbaric excavation and the Nanjing Massacre?" ”

"Yes, Miss Sesame is thoughtful, and mentally equivalent to a human." Hu Feng interjected.

Doctor: "I'll admit that the big-headed ant has some intelligence, which could be a one-in-a-million mutation. As for the whole litter of ants, it is not certain until there is conclusive evidence. ”

"What are you doing then?" One old and one young spoke in unison.

"Then let's take the queen ant first." The postdoc said that the knife is invisible, but it allows us to see the brain structure of ants.

He continues to zoom in on the brightest stars, and the ants continue to grow in size, as if they are constantly approaching/approaching our eyes, until finally the entire screen is occupied by the queen's head. The zoom continued, the skull vanished, and a freak appeared on the screen—two translucent kidneys hugging a spider-silk intertwined aquatic plant.

"This is the queen ant's brain." The postdoc continued to slide through the zoom progress bar, and the freak was gone, and the entire screen became a screenshot, a screenshot of countless octopuses.

The pattern continues to zoom in until the entire screen is occupied by an octopus, and the picture freezes.

"You see, these are the neurons of the queen ant, and those tentacle-like tubes are axons. It seems that this king of ants, snail meat, has eaten a lot, and radioactive materials have flowed all over its body. ”

The postdoc pressed the keyboard, and a selection box popped up on the screen, which contained photos of neurons of various animals. He clicked on two of them, and the screen immediately showed an overlay comparison of the three neurons.

"You see, the top is the neurons of ordinary ants, the bottom is the queen ant, and the middle is human. In contrast, the neurons of the queen ants are closer to those of humans. ”

Hu Feng: "In other words, these ants are similar to people, but the brain capacity of ants is too small." ”

Postdoc: "It's not a simple equal. According to the latest theories of brain structure, brain weight is not a determinant of intelligence. For example, the brain of an elephant weighs 4,000 grams, while the brain of a mouse weighs only a few grams, but elephants are not necessarily smarter than mice. ”

The old professor just quietly listened to his students discuss scientific problems, and for him, it was a different kind of enjoyment.

Hu Feng: "It's not capacity, is it the number of brain cells?" ”

Postdoc: "Not really. There are 200 billion brain cells in the brain of an adult blue whale, and the number of brain cells in humans is only one-tenth of that of a blue whale. ”

Hu Feng: "After you reminded me like this, I seem to understand. For example, the same computer, the ENIAC at the beginning was the size of two rooms, but the performance was not as good as the current old machine. ”

Postdoc: "Hehe, you learn pretty fast, and the examples are good, so what are your conclusions?" ”

Hu Feng: "The conclusion is the degree of complexity. ”

The old professor smiled: "Yes, the son can be taught." ”

Postdoc: "It's true that the complexity of the neural network of brain cells determines whether it is smart or not. The pig's brain neural network is so thick and monolithic that it has become synonymous with stupidity. ”

Hu Feng: "Can you draw conclusions about the intelligence of these ants now?" ”

Postdoc: "I can only say that their brain networks are more complex than those of ordinary ants, and it is too early to say that they have the intelligence of humans." ”

Hu Feng: "Then how does Miss Sesame explain?" ”

Postdoc: "It can only be regarded as a special case, maybe it is a genius in the ant world, but even if it is a genius, its intelligence is only at the level of a human 3-year-old child." ”

"What about that piece of metal down there?" The old professor made a gesture to stop the students' chatter.

Postdoc: "It's almost certain that the ant phenomenon here is not universal, which means that the environment here is affecting them. ”

Old Professor: "There are many factors that contribute to the mutation of a species, but the most common is radiation. ”

Hu Feng pointed to the receiver: "If that stone has radiation, this thing will not be detectable?" ”

Postdoc: "It's possible that it can't be measured, because there are many kinds of radiation, in addition to X-rays and V-rays, there are also electrons, protons, neutrons, charged ions, or microwaves, including all kinds of light that are invisible to the human eye, and this machine can only distinguish between X-rays and V-rays." ”

Hu Feng: "Do you want to try a different machine?" ”

Postdoc: "Changing machines probably won't work. The penetration of other radiations is relatively poor, and if the radiation intensity is not large, it is likely to be attenuated by the rock and soil, which may be the reason why this ore has not been discovered so far, if it is really an ore. ”

Hu Feng: "I have a solution. ”

Old Professor: "Tell me about it. ”

Hu Feng: "Let's say this is an ore, since it is an ore, it can't be just one piece, we might as well dig everywhere." ”

Old Professor: "I can only use this stupid method, don't we still have this clairvoyant eye?" He pointed to the receiver: "Why don't you try it all over the mountain, maybe the dark shadow underneath has reappeared?" ”

Postdoc: "Carrying such a string of guys all over the mountains looking for a place to dig pits, those who don't know think we are tomb robbers." ”

Hu Feng: "Didn't you say that you will win the Nobel Prize for discovering new elements?" It is a noble act of sharing the fruits of labor with the world. ”

Postdoc: "That's right. Go, act. ”