Chapter 61: The Mysterious Prairie Ant
Zhang Hao took off his coat and was just about to wring it out, and Senge was also shaking his body constantly in order to shake off the rain on his body.
Zhang Hao was not the only one who found this shelter from the rain, a mammal that looked like a wild boar stayed in the rain for a while, and when he saw Zhang Hao and Senge inside, he quickly turned around and walked away.
"Huh! Look at how scared people out! While Zhang Hao was joking with Senge, he unexpectedly found that this mammal's walking style was a little special, squinting his eyes and looking carefully, this guy's body was horizontal, and his four legs didn't even touch the ground.
"Strange! So how did it go? Zhang Hao was still muttering here, and a fast-moving "mouse" in the distance gave him the answer, because the dark clouds covered the entire sky, and the surrounding environment was pitch black, with the help of the light of lightning Zhang Hao saw clearly that this black object was not a mouse at all, but a big ant.
The big ant crawled very fast, and the heavy rain had no effect on it, and in the blink of an eye it was already under the mammal.
"Isn't it?" Zhang Hao couldn't believe his eyes, there were actually twenty or thirty big ants under the mammal, to be exact, these big ants were carrying the mammal.
"Prairie ants, vertebrate carnivorous insects, live in communities, and can release a large amount of highly corrosive formic acid from their tails!"
Zhang Hao still has some understanding of ants, the whole ant colony is divided into four classes, the worker ants are smaller, and are mainly responsible for building nests, feeding larvae, and taking care of the queen ants; Soldier ants are slightly larger, with large palatal pincers on their heads, and are mainly responsible for defending against predators and hunting for food. Male ants are more leisurely, and they are mainly responsible for mating with the queen ant and reproducing the next generation. The last and most important character in the colony, the queen, is much larger than the previous three, with a swollen belly that is mainly used to lay eggs.
"It's supposed to be an invertebrate, right?" Zhang Hao scratched his head and thought.
"Prairie ants. There are vertebrates! The bracers repeated again.
"Ants have spines? It's horrible! Zhang Hao knows the importance of a vertebrate to the animal itself, from invertebrate evolution to vertebrate is a super leap for the entire biological world, under the effect of the vertebrae, all aspects of the animal's response have been greatly improved, and the classification of perception is more refined, if this ant really has a spine, it also secretes highly corrosive formic acid, and with its huge group, it is enough to dominate the grassland.
"Buzz!" The stupid Senge warned the mammal in front of him with a cry, telling it not to come closer.
"Shh Zhang Hao made a quiet gesture to Senge. Signal Senge not to provoke the prairie ants, knowing that once they are provoked, the whole ant colony will go crazy.
The prairie ants seemed to sense Senge's presence, and they quickly gathered together after placing the mammal carcasses on the ground, and they kept touching the tentacles of their companions without words, as if they were exchanging some important information.
In about half a minute, the steppe ant crawled back under the mammal again, lifting its heavy prey towards the rain.
......The frequency of rain dripping gradually slowed down, and the dark clouds in the sky quickly dispersed in all directions. It's like a giant pulling.
The rain in the grassland came and went quickly, Zhang Hao walked outside and looked up at the sky, and the clouds were sparsely scattered with shining stars.
Zhang Hao patted his head and said with a little self-reproach: "I'm wiping, have you slept long enough this night?" Take a look. How much time is left until the mission is released? ”
"There are still 3 minutes until the next mission is released!"
"I almost overslept!" Zhang Hao shook his head a few times, trying his best to sober himself up in order to cope with the next task.
As soon as the rain stopped, the seeds in the soil quickly began to sprout....... They have been waiting for a whole dry season, and they are going crazy to get longer when the rain is abundant.
"Whew... Ah~~~" Zhang Hao stretched out his arms and breathed in the fresh air after the rain.
"Dididi! Quests continue to be released to help the Prairie Ants rebuild their nests! There is no time limit for the mission! ”
Zhang Hao clasped his ears with his little fingers, nodded and said, "Done!" Who told me I need experience? Go ahead! Where to find them? ”
"Click!!" Zhang Hao's voice just fell. A thousand meters away, a thunderbolt crashed down, and a hill of more than ten meters was split
A pile of scorched earth.
Zhang Hao looked up at the sky, and then said with a smile: "Hehe, isn't it?" There are no clouds in the sky, and your thunder is too sudden! If you guessed correctly, this is a thunderbolt specially chopped for this mission, and the one that was struck by lightning was the nest of grassland ants! ”
"The owner answered correctly!"
"Let's go! Senge, go over and have a look! Zhang Hao ran towards the fire point with Senge.
As the distance between Zhang Hao and the anthill became closer and closer, the noisy sound also drilled into Zhang Hao's ears, the crackling sound of the flame burning the soil, the sound of the ant's body bursting, as well as the sound of percussion, the chirping of birds of prey, etc., etc., the more I listened to Zhang Hao, the more I felt that something was wrong.
In the end, Zhang Hao stopped about fifty meters away from the anthill, he wanted to take a look at the general situation first, with the help of the firelight in the sky, Zhang Hao looked at the anthill.
The first person to enter Zhang Hao's field of vision was not a grassland ant, but a long-haired monster four or five years tall, and dozens of large flying birds flew up and down in the sky above its head.
"What a robbery!" As Zhang Hao spoke, he found that what he saw was only a small part, and a large number of animals were still rushing to the anthill one after another, and they all wanted to take advantage of this.
"Damn, it's hard to do this time, hurry!" The situation is urgent, Zhang Hao did not dare to delay any longer, he kept thinking about the battle plan while moving forward at full speed, the anthill was suddenly damaged, not counting the burned and burned for the time being, there were hundreds of thousands of grassland ants that came out of the ground to repair the anthill, and the high protein contained in the grassland ants was the main reason for attracting these "eaters".
If you want to drive away these "diners", I am afraid that the strength of Zhang Hao and Senge is a little insufficient, the grassland ants are constantly crawling out, and there are more and more "diners" recruited, and Zhang Hao's fatigue value is limited, even if Senge has the hexadid energy of the unicorn in his body, but Senge's control of energy is not so accurate, and he may not be able to use it when he wants to use it. Another possibility is that the grassland ants have a limited number of them, and they are eaten by natural enemies, and the damaged anthill cannot be repaired, and the mission fails. (To be continued......)