Chapter 28: A touch of green

"At 7:28 p.m. on July 27, one more green-headed fly died, and there were three left. The eggs of the flies have not been moved. ”

Shen Cong went to exchange the green-headed fly for more active meat at night, and by the way, he observed the eggs laid by the green-headed fly, a ball of fly eggs with a large needle tip, which grew on the rotten meat like long hair, and did not hatch.

For the fly eggs, Shen Cong is looking forward to it.

He speculated that the reason why the colony had so many mutated ants was probably due to the mutation of the queen of the short ants, resulting in the ants produced by all mutants. From this, it can be deduced that variation, or activity, can be inherited...... If the eggs hatch into mutated flies, then he will have another understanding of activity.

Of course, compared to the expectation of fly eggs, Shen Cong's biggest expectation now is the eggs laid by the three short fierce ants.

If you can hatch mutant ants and raise them from a young age, I don't know what effect it will have.

"These three ant eggs were taken from the queen's body, and I don't know if they are mature or if they can hatch. According to the data, it takes 14 days for the ant eggs to hatch, so I will try to hatch them. ”

Even if the hatching fails, it can be boiled and eaten as an egg.

Since the arrival of the apocalypse, Shen Cong has changed his food objects, basically as long as it contains active things, they will finally be on his menu.

Place the ant eggs in the box and wait for them to hatch.

Shen Cong started another task, he began to pour the formic acid in the sac of the mutant ants into different containers according to the classification of strong formic acid and super strong formic acid. Acids can't be used in plastic bottles, so Shen Cong took out a few bottles of canned fruit, ate the flesh inside, drank the juice, and used it as a container.

The sacs of 221 short majth ants, after being poured, only two full bottles of 1L and one and a half bottles were obtained. The sacs of 53 short warrior ants were given a full 1L bottle.

Three and a half bottles of formic acid were collected by Shen Cong.

He doesn't need it yet.

Then tidy up the ant legs.

There are a lot of legs of short workers, but they do not occupy much volume, one is only the thickness of chopsticks, and the length is about the same as the body length; The legs of the short soldier ant are not much larger than those of the short fierce ant and are about the same length and thickness.

The ant leg has five segments, basal joint, rotating joint, femoral joint, tibial joint and tarsal joint, of which the basal segment belongs to the root of the leg, which is seriously ossified and cannot be eaten, the rotor joint belongs to the joint, gnawing and cannot move, the tarsal joint belongs to the claw and has no meat, only the femoral joint and tibial joint have meat, which is equivalent to the thigh and calf, and it tastes great.

Shen Cong cleaned up the basal joints, transfer joints, and tarsal joints, leaving only the femoral joints and shin joints, and then prepared to simply fry them and eat them as snacks.

"I'm eating fried ant legs in People's Square, and where are you at this moment......" Shen Cong hummed a song.

When fried, the ant legs give off an attractive aroma, and after frying a batch, they are packed into cartons and eaten like French fries. If it's a little more ketchup, tsk.

All the ant legs were fried, and there were six shoe boxes full, enough for him to eat for several days, if they didn't spoil.

The legs of the common mutant ant can be used as a snack, and the three half-legs and a pair of antennae of the short fierce ant queen can be eaten as a meal. The queen's ant legs are as thick as the caps of mineral water bottles, which are longer than human arms, and the intense active radiation emits out.

Now it was Shen Cong's turn to be annoyed by the overabundance of food.

Tumor pork steaks, Thai Ritian's dog legs, fried ant legs, and queen ant meat ingredients, but unfortunately Shen Cong did not have the idea of storing frozen meat before the end of the day, because freezing is too electricity-intensive, so the cold storage is not installed, and all the stored dry and easy to preserve food.

As for the car refrigerator, there was a small compressor refrigerator that had water in the rainstorm and the internal system was broken and had not had time to be repaired. And even if it was repaired, the volume was not large, and the refrigeration effect was not good, so he simply got one at that time and did not prepare much for this.

In order to store that short-term food, it is not cost-effective to design a refrigerator that occupies volume, electricity, and is sloppy.

As a result, there is a lot of meat now, and if you don't throw it away, it will rot.

"It's wasted, if you find a survivor base, maybe you can rely on mutated monsters in exchange for supplies...... When the survivor base is found and life is stabilized, the King Kong needs to be rebuilt to better cope with the end times. ”

The last days of today are very different from the last days for which he is prepared.

It was nine o'clock in the evening.

Shen Cong originally planned to continue to sort out the active core harvested today, but the repair of the King Kong needed to be solved urgently, so he still chose to guide the activity to repair the tires.

There are 22 tires in King Kong, 1 spare tire, and now the spare tire has exploded, and the tire in use has also exploded, which has potential safety hazards.

He dragged the spare tire into the car, repaired it with a tire repair tool, and then used the active extension properties to restore the tire to its original state.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, the spare tire was finally completely repaired, and Shen Cong went to sleep.

……

The next day, it was a cloudy day.

The weather in the last days was extreme, with a month-long storm, followed by a sunny day, followed by a heavy rainstorm, and then a sunny day.

It's rare to see a cloudy day.

Seeing a cloudy day for the first time, Shen Cong was almost startled and was about to drive to the high ground, but there were no dark clouds on this cloudy day. It's just that on a cloudy day similar to smog, the free activity in the air is much stronger than on a sunny day, and the number on the Geiger counter has risen more than nine times.

In the past, Shen Cong would avoid radiation, and after almost concluding that the radiation was caused by activity, he liked the air quality with radiation explosion.

With such abundant free activity, even the King Kong seemed to have a cheerful mood and fed back to Shen Cong.

The comfort of the limbs will be emotional.

Shen Cong is a person who will not be easily swayed by emotions, his vigilance is not lost, and when he left the King Kong event, he was still wearing the Optimus Prime 1.0 active battle armor and the weapons were full.

After inspecting all corners, we should start working again, and every few minutes, we should look up and look around, and every half an hour, we must make another round.

Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.

Changing into a repaired spare tire, Shen Cong got back on the road, driving the King Kong, moving slowly among the ruins.

Look for Provincial Highway 208.

The appearance of Shijian Town, half an hour later, was completely revealed in Shen Cong's eyes. There are no buildings standing, but most of them are still faintly visible. The road under the gravel was found without much effort, but there was a fork in the road ahead, and Shen Cong was observing.

"The main road on the left should be the county road leading to the moss forest farm, the one on the right should be the county road leading to Taiping Township, and the middle one is the 208 provincial road."

After determining the route, Shen Cong did not waste time and drove away directly.

The town of Shijian is close to the mountains, and Provincial Highway 208 runs through the valley, and the once verdant mountains have been turned into bare limestone, grayish-white, and perhaps interspersed with kaolin. Both rocks are white and look like dirty snow-capped mountains from a distance.

The valley floor, which should have been a provincial road, was piled up by this gray-white rock, and in some places it was quite difficult to walk, and Shen Cong had to use a bulldozer to open the road, which consumed a lot of fuel and drove slowly.

Perhaps it was the erosion of the heavy rain, and occasionally there was a smooth road surface, and the end did not bring an earthquake, so the roadside was only potholes, but there were no breaks, lifts, or sagging.

Stop-and-go, decelerate and accelerate.

In half an hour, the King Kong had advanced less than five kilometers.

What made Shen Cong stomp his feet even more was that five kilometers away, a landslide and a large number of gravel blocks completely blocked the road. This made Shen Cong have to turn the head of the car, return to the fork in the road, and detour from the village passage road in the direction of Taiping Township.

But no matter how troublesome it is, there is also a road as the cornerstone, and the 1.5-meter-high tires of the King Kong can move forward as long as it is not too potholed.

Bypass the village and village, and the two sides are still surrounded by "snow mountains".

The car radio was always on, and the noise was non-stop, and the signal that day was never searched again. Shen Cong bit an ant's leg, a little tired, driving alone for a long time, driving on a bumpy road, it is inevitable that he will be tired.

Fortunately, the active heat generated by the ant's legs refreshes him from time to time.

Suddenly, in the afterglow of Shen Cong's vision, a touch of green appeared in the gray and white.

Verdant verdant.