Song Shaofeng nodded, and then reopened the last video and adjusted it to the time when the ant colony was found.

In the beginning, everyone could still carefully observe the details from the stable footage, but from the time the ant colony attacked, the shaking of the video became more and more serious.

As a last resort, Song Shaofeng could only turn on slow play.

It was only at a quarter of the speed that everyone could see some details in the picture.

Everyone stared at the screen without saying a word, trying to find a clue.

The ant colony in the picture is no different from what they see in the telescope, and nothing else has been found.

Until Zhao Xuan saw a white thing, flashing in the black ant colony.

"Here, pause." Zhao Xuan hurriedly reminded Song Shaofeng.

Hearing this, Song Shaofeng paused the video and stepped back a few seconds.

The shaking camera, when raised, captures a large colony of ants, and then falls again, towards the ground.

In less than a second, the camera is in the middle of the ant colony, capturing a white shadow.

This time, Song Shaofeng also found out, and he didn't need to be reminded anymore, so he skillfully paused the picture and enlarged the position of the white shadow.

I couldn't see what it was, but I could barely see it, dozens of small black dots, and a white object on it.

Song Shaofeng took a screenshot of the video and put it into the AI repair software, and after more than a minute, a slightly clearer picture appeared.

Dozens of small black dots are ants, and what they are fighting against is a fat white bug.

According to the ant's proportions, the insect must be nearly a meter long, thicker than a basin, and its round body does not have a head or tail.

It doesn't matter if the bug was caught by the ants or is an ant itself.

There are no insects in existence that are that big!

"This ...... What is it? Zhao Xuan pointed to the screen, his face shocked.

"I don't know." Song Shaofeng shook his head and re-captured a few frames of video at different times, which were also repaired.

Unfortunately, there are no additional discoveries.

After all, the resolution of the video is so high, no matter how you fix it, the details are still not clear.

The crowd was patient and continued to look down, but found nothing else.

However, through the timestamp on the video, it was compared with the distress signal received before, and the situation of the crossing team was basically clarified.

The crossing team encountered an ant colony by chance, not only did they not run away at the first time, but they also got up alive and dead, and the result can be imagined.

Even after the rescue signal was issued, there was not even any effective information, and it was drowned in the ant colony.

As for the later distress signal, it was as simple as that, almost certainly caused by the ant colony accidentally touching the satellite phone.

The case of the disappearance of the crossing group can be regarded as solved.

As for their life and death, Hu Ziming and Song Shaofeng unanimously agreed that there was basically no need for rescue.

Hu Ziming was in a coma for almost an hour after only receiving a stitch from an ant.

Crossing the team, surrounded by ants, and without timely rescue, even if they were not divided by ants, there was almost no chance of survival.

Although the case is closed, this is a incidental thing in itself, and there are more headaches to come.

The next morning, the ants still had no intention of continuing to migrate, and seemed to regard Sand City as a long-term stronghold.

Hu Ziming and Song Shaofeng decided not to wait any longer.

The weapons involved this time are not something that can be found with a casual phone call.

Hu Ziming first reported the situation to the bureau, and then the forestry bureau came forward and contacted the relevant units.

While waiting for negotiations, everyone waited for the first batch of support.

A helicopter, taking off from the nearest airfield, delivered them four sets of flamethrowers.

After all, ants come in and out, and it is impossible to rely on lethal weapons to solve them all at once.

They have to put the finishing touches on themselves.

And to deal with these little things, apart from pesticides, there is only a flamethrower.

Around noon, the Forestry Bureau informed them that the bombing had been approved and would take place in an hour and a half.

After communication, the local military region will carry out a live-fire exercise, and the target is Zhao Xuan's Shacheng in front of them.

There is no need to use any high-level weapons, it is the simplest rocket to wash the floor.

The military region will send a battalion of 18 rocket artillery vehicles to follow the road to the nearest position, and then turn slightly into the sand to attack.

And Zhao Xuan's current task is to withdraw first.

Although the accuracy of the rocket is at least meter-level, it is definitely still safety first.

An hour later, Zhao Xuan and the others packed up their things and retreated to a sand dune farther away.

Although it is a little far away, with a telescope, you can barely see the situation in Shacheng clearly.

A group of people stood on the sand dunes, keeping an eye on the sand city in the distance and the time of the attack.

Song Shaofeng looked at the time and said, "It's here." ”

After Song Shaofeng finished speaking, it took about another two minutes for everyone to see the huge fire found in Shacheng.

From the moment the first rocket fell, there was a continuous explosion of explosions.

It wasn't until the explosion began that Zhao Xuan heard a rumbling sound in the distance.

18 vehicles and 108 rockets, none of which missed, all hit the range of Shacheng.

The massive explosion lasted for two minutes, and then the flames of the bombs converged to form a spectacular mushroom cloud that soared into the sky.

Mushroom clouds hundreds of meters high can be clearly visible for at least a few tens of kilometers.

However, hundreds of kilometers around are no man's land, except for Zhao Xuan and his party, no one else should have a chance to see it.

Zhao Xuan opened his mouth and looked at the terrifying lethality of modern weapons in surprise.

At least before today, Zhao Xuan didn't know that in addition to the atomic bomb, other weapons could also blow up mushroom clouds.

At the same time as the mushroom cloud spread into the sky, the sand city on the ground ignited a raging fire.

This time, the rockets were carrying napalm, and they would have to burn for at least a few more hours.

Zhao Xuan stood on the sand dunes, quietly admiring the aesthetics of violence in the distance. There were also Zhang Yuan and Qiu Rui standing next to them.

And a few well-informed veterans had already run back to the car and hid from the sun.

After standing for a while, and waiting for the black smoke and dust of the mushroom cloud to gradually dissipate, Zhao Xuan came back to his senses and asked Zhang Yuan: "Can this work?" ”

Although it looks spectacular, Zhao Xuan doesn't know if he can deal with the ants hiding underground.

"How could it not be." Zhang Yuan clasped his hands and said, "A radius of one kilometer, not an inch of grass grows." ”

"It's the best way to deal with underground fortifications." Qiu Rui nodded beside him and helped explain: "Large-scale combustion will deplete the surrounding oxygen. ”

Zhao Xuan nodded, although he didn't understand it too well, but since everyone said that there was no problem, it was no problem.

The fire was fierce, forming a huge column of smoke over Sand City, pushing the air from the ground to the sky, and the surrounding air gathered again.

Zhao Xuan, who was a few kilometers away, also felt the wind blowing in Shacheng.

After watching it for a few more minutes, Zhao Xuan also felt that it was not interesting and returned to the car.

Last night was also a double duty, which will be fine, naturally to catch up on sleep.

The crowd waited for two or three hours before the flames gradually became smaller.

Hu Ziming began to direct everyone to walk back.

Back to yesterday's camp, the same camp was carried out again, and the flames were completely extinguished until everyone had finished dinner.

Hu Ziming looked at the time and decided not to carry out the operation of touching the dark, but arranged: "Clean up the scene tomorrow and rest early today." ”

I don't know what time it is at night, Zhao Xuanzheng was sleeping in a daze, and was woken up by the shouting on the walkie-talkie.

"Emergency! Assemble quickly! Bring a flamethrower! ”

Song Shaofeng shouted twice on the walkie-talkie, and Zhao Xuan immediately came to his senses.

As soon as Zhao Xuan walked out of the tent, he saw Lin Ling trotting down from the sand dunes.

While helping Lin Ling sort out the flamethrower that had been discharged, he asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"The ants are out." Lin Ling handed a set of flamethrowers to Zhao Xuan, motioned for Zhao Xuan to help put them on, and said, "Preliminary estimate, several thousand." ”

"So much more?" Zhao Xuan was taken aback.

"Out of town."

Lin Ling reached out and pulled the strap of the fuel bottle. adjusted his posture, stopped talking nonsense with Zhao Xuan, and turned around and went back to the dune.

Qiu Rui, who was beside him, also put on the flamethrower with the help of Hu Ziming, and also went to the sand dune.

And Cao Hui is already dressed and is helping Zhang Yuan.

"I'll do it." Zhao Xuan walked over and said.

"Do you know how to play?" Zhang Yuan glanced at Zhao Xuan.

"I mean, I'll help you get dressed, Lao Cao will go first!" Zhao Xuanshu gave Zhang Yuan a middle finger.

"Move fast." Cao Hui ignored the two bickering, just signaled, and walked towards the sand dune.

Hu Ziming's foot injury was not yet healed, but he still came over and took a hand.

When Zhang Yuan was fully dressed, the three of them walked up to the sand dunes together.

Zhao Xuan no longer needed a telescope, and he could see the ants at the foot of the sand dunes under the illumination of a strong light flashlight.

The ants lined up in a loose phalanx, only about four or five meters in a square area, compared to the previous stretch of several hundred meters, it was indeed considered a total annihilation.

And in the center of the phalanx, the ants were still carrying the white bug.

"Is there a chance to catch it alive?" Hu Ziming shook his flashlight at the white insect and asked.

Lin Ling frowned and thought about it, shook his head and said, "No chance." ”

Hu Ziming nodded and said, "Then leave that white one alone, if you have a chance, just catch a few little ants." ”

Lin Ling: "Try your best." ”

The killing range of the flamethrower is at least more than ten meters wide and fifty or sixty meters long, and it is indeed impossible to ensure that the small ant colony in front of it can still leave a "living mouth".

The four men with flamethrowers on their backs scattered and lay on their stomachs on the sand dunes, ready to attack in the face of the approaching ant colony in the distance.

The ant colony was still seven or eight hundred meters away from them, and it seemed that they had not yet been spotted, and they were still coming towards them unhurriedly.

In this way, the ant walked a few hundred meters further.

The white bug on the ant's back seemed to smell danger and writhed violently.

The ants all stopped, stopped for a few seconds, turned around directly, and ran back.

"Holy." Seeing this, Hu Ziming scolded loudly, and quickly arranged: "Lin Ling, Song Shaofeng, Zhang Yuan follow, and the others get in the car!" ”