Chapter 62: Zombie Ants
Chu Nan gasped and fell back again and again.
The huge headless rhinoceros carcass rumbled to the ground, and many insects were crawling out from its broken place, densely packed, at a glance, it was impossible to count how many there were, and the whole rhinoceros body was like a nest of these bugs, and the blood in the rhinoceros body had already been sucked dry by these bugs.
"It's ...... What bugs ......"
Chu Nan's cold hair stood on end, and he barely turned around, but he saw Su Yao, Shen Mo, Tang Sanli and the others all fleeing towards the back door of the zoo, Tang Sanli shouted wildly as he fled: "Chu Nan, hurry, come here-"
Chu Nan didn't run away, but turned around and watched another lion pounce on him.
The lion was covered in a foul smell, and it was clear that it was dead, but it was able to move, and it was not a mutant, and it was not like a corpse.
Because although the corpse mutant is resurrected from the dead, it can cause the dead body to continue to decompose like an ordinary corpse due to the effect of the pineal gland and the Force, but the corpses of these animals emit a foul smell and are obviously rotting.
Therefore, this lion is not an animal corpse.
"No wonder...... I just killed the rhinoceros and didn't absorb the Force...... They move...... It's because ......"
Chu Nan was moving his body, and the spider claw in his right hand swung out violently.
The lion that pounced on him was cut in half alive by the spider claws in his hand up to his waist.
The lion, broken into two knots, rolled out, and not a drop of blood flowed out of the wound, only a large number of strange insects like dense white maggots were burrowing in and out.
Like the rhinoceros, the lion's body had already been eaten up by insects, and even, even more strictly, it fell heavily to the ground, and the skin in many places was torn apart, and a large number of insects fell out of it.
Chu Nan reflexively kicked again, kicking another gorilla that pounced on him.
The gorilla was kicked and flew upside down, and its stomach burst open, and its belly was empty, with only a large number of white bugs pouring out.
Unspeakably disgusted and disgusted, Chu Nan retreated again and again.
Shen Mo and the others, who were originally fleeing in panic, also slowed down, and they all sensed a strange phenomenon.
Except for the rhinoceros at the beginning, although the other animals were resurrected, their movements were not as fast as they imagined, but they were comparable to ordinary corpses, and some were even worse.
This kind of action does not threaten them at all.
"Oh my God...... This is...... What are these bugs? Tang Sanli suddenly exclaimed.
A squirrel rushed up to them and was smashed by Shen Mo holding the steel bar in his hand, but instead of blood and meat sauce, the smashed squirrel burst out with a pile of white maggots.
When everyone saw it, they all felt creepy, and they retreated again and again, fearing this kind of insects crawling all over the ground.
Chu Nan flashed continuously, and the spider claws in his hand cut the corpses of several animals all the way, and then fell to the side of the rhinoceros horn, grabbed the rhinoceros horn with a length of one meter, and shook it violently, maybe the rhinoceros head was already eaten up, so it was easy to shake off the rhinoceros head.
Looking at the rhinoceros horn in his hand now, it is solid, and no insects have penetrated it.
Getting the rhinoceros horn, Chu Nan flickered, and soon came to Su Yao's side, looked at the animal corpses that rushed over one by one, and said in a deep voice: "They move because of these strange insects, the corpses of each animal have been eaten up, only the rhinoceros seems to be better because of the rhinoceros horns......"
Densely packed with all kinds of animals, swarming, everyone retreated one after another, and soon retreated to the back door of the zoo.
However, the animals that were gradually decomposing when they chased to the back door slowed down, and seemed to be hesitant to continue chasing out.
"Let's go." Chu Nan and the others, without the slightest hesitation, rushed out of the back door of the zoo and quickly stayed away from here.
And the animals that rushed over, staggering, after a moment's hesitation, began to return to the place where they had been piled up.
In the lawn of this beast area, there is a hole about thirty or forty centimeters in diameter, which was previously covered by animal carcasses because of the accumulation of these animal carcasses.
Now, the animals are scattered, and the hole is revealed, and it is from this hole that the strange insects like maggots go in and out, as if there is their nest in the ground to which the hole leads.
Underneath the hole, there is a strange cocoon with a diameter of about forty or fifty centimeters, and the maggots are crawling on it, as if they are injecting into the cocoon the nutrients they have absorbed from the carcasses of the animals before, and after injecting, the bodies of these insects are significantly thinner, and then crawl out of the hole again, absorbing new nutrients from the carcasses of the animals, and so on.
A large number of animals returned, piled up, and soon covered up the hole in the ground again.
The eight people of Chu Nan who escaped, of course, did not see this scene, and escaped from the zoo, everyone gasped for breath, recalling the strange scene before, they all had some palpitations.
"What the hell are those bugs? Can you eat all those animal carcasses? Even more terrifying seems to be able to control those animals to attack? This is so weird, it makes no sense. The silence felt incredible.
"There is no common sense, and this situation, in the previous nature, there was a similar existence." Jiang Lao although the interface.
Everyone else looked at Jiang Lao, not knowing what amazing words he was going to say.
"Ever heard of zombie ant fungus?" Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Jiang Lao continued: "This is a fungus that existed 48oo million years ago, and it can release a certain chemical substance to change and control the behavior of the ants, turning them into their own puppets until the ants die. ”
"Evidence of the horror of the fungus, known by its scientific name ophioneti1atera1is, can be found in fossilized leaves from the Messer fossil pit near Darmstadt, Germany, which lived about 480,000 years ago."
"Currently, the fungus still lives on Earth and usually parasitizes carpenter ants. Once the carpenter ant is infected with this parasitic fungus, its behavior will be controlled by the fungus from then on. The fungus grows in the ant's body and releases chemicals that affect the ant's behavior, making it a "zombie ant." ”
Everyone listened to the scalp a little numb.
Chu Nan changed color slightly and said, "Is there really such a fungus in this world?" How come you've never heard of it? "Although he is a veterinarian, this is the first time he has heard of such a strange and terrible fungus in the world.
Jiang Lao glanced at him and continued: "The zombie ants that have been controlled by the fungus no longer have their own behavior and life, and the last stage of their life is also the most painful and terrifying. In the last few hours of life, zombie ants will crawl underneath the leaves they are in and bite the central vein of the leaf with their jaws, trapping themselves on the leaf, while the parasitic fungus is locked onto the leaf. This leaf becomes the ant's grave. ”
"Zombie fungi capable of infecting ants, occupying their brains and conducting mind-control. Once the ants move to the area where they are best suited to grow and spread their spores, they will kill the ants with a killer attack. When a zombie ant dies, the parasitic fungus sprouts from its head, produces spores and 'shoots' at night onto the forest ground cover, infecting other ants. ”
Of course, ants are not the only hosts to these fungi, and there are many insects that are the prey of this feed, such as wasps, flies, crickets, etc...... Of course, we're just the tip of the ice for zombie fungi. ”
Su Yao's snow-white face became even paler, and she muttered, "There is such a terrifying fungus in the world. ”
"However, fungi are things that can help nature keep working properly, and it can be said that the importance of fungi for the health of the earth is difficult to estimate. ”
"Elder Jiang, when you talk about this zombie fungus, do you mean that those insects that eat animals are ......" Chu Nan suddenly asked, his face becoming ugly.
Jiang Lao sighed slightly, and his face also became heavy: "After the earthquake, since we humans, all kinds of animals, and even dead people can mutate and evolve, then...... This zombie fungus...... Why can't it mutate, evolve? ”
The others finally understood the meaning of Jiang Lao's words, their hearts were cold, they looked at Jiang Lao together, and said silently: "Jiang Lao, don't you mean that those bugs may be evolved zombie fungi, right...... This ......"
Jiang Lao shook his head and said, "It's hard for me to say, but ...... If we say, in nature, since there are zombie fungi that can infect and control insects such as ants, wasps, flies, etc...... Then, the appearance of the ability to control the animal...... Even infection control zhì our human ...... things, and it's not surprising. ”
The others were silent, and a chill was felt in their hearts.
Parasitizing the human body, controlling the thoughts and actions of the human being, eventually killing the host and finding the next infected person......
Everyone was a little creepy, Chu Nan thought of the dense maggots, thought of the rhinoceros, lions and other animals that had been eaten up, and there were bursts of chill on their backs.
"If thousands of animals are infected, how many of these terrible things must there be...... And, I'm afraid there will be more and more...... Once the infection is out...... What kind of consequences will it be......" Chu Nan muttered, and couldn't help but look back at the zoo that had fled, and for the first time understood why the zoo was so silent and terrifying.
Why are all the animals gathered together, there...... Maybe there's a secret to those bugs.
"Chu Nan, what do you think?" Jiang Lao suddenly asked.
Chu Nan said: "I'm thinking, I don't know if those insect pests are not afraid of fire and high temperatures...... Perhaps, we can set a fire and burn all those animal carcasses, along with those damned bugs. ”
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