Early in the morning, a GL8 drove into Chongyun Village.

After the car stopped, Zhou Rui, Mi Qiao, and Gao Shu walked down, carrying their equipment, and began to march towards the mountains.

Their destination was the area where the lightning storm had occurred the night before, but they didn't need a guide, they just took the tablet dedicated to "Shenxing Technology" and followed the route located on it.

Once arriving, the trio began to take photographs and collect other samples as planned.

Naturally, they got much more information than ordinary people watching the news, and they were clearly located to the place where the bodies of the two fugitives were found, and even the photos taken by the police at the scene at that time.

Standing at the place where the body was found, looking at the photos taken on the tablet at the time, Micho frowned and said, "Generally speaking, if you are struck by lightning, will it be so miserable?"

Zhou Rui nodded: "If you are struck by direct lightning, it is possible...... It's just that the probability is relatively small. ”

His attention was not on finding the body of the fugitive or the traces of being struck by lightning, but on a "pure land" not far away.

In the area where the bodies of the two fugitives were found, it was the place where the lightning struck the most, and the trees next to it were almost not spared, it was a mess, and the ground was also full of traces of lightning strikes.

It is realized that the two fugitives are probably just victims of this lightning storm AOE, and at that point in time, this place is the realm of death.

But there is a small place, which looks clearly different from the surroundings, and is very intact.

If this place was a little farther away, Zhou Rui would not notice it at all, because the lightning strike was not rain, and it was impossible to completely cover all the corners of an area. But the area where they were now and where the bodies of the two fugitives were found was the most densely struck by lightning, and the surrounding area was almost completely covered, as if something was attracting lightning, and it was strange that there was such an intact place in the center of the lightning strike.

Zhou Rui was walking over and was about to lie down to take a closer look, but suddenly found that several insects flew out of the ground with their wings fluttering.

He was stunned for a moment, and his first reaction was that those insects seemed to be the kind of "flying ants" he had caught in a pedestrian street in Tongshi Town before?

Zhou Rui rubbed his eyes, thinking that he had seen it wrong, but after walking over and squatting, he found that there was another insect drilling out of the ground.

He hurriedly grabbed it, and when he looked at it again, it was really the kind of weird "flying ant" he had caught in the pedestrian street before.

Zhou Rui knelt directly on the ground, leaned down, observed carefully, and found that the soil in this land was very loose, although it had experienced heavy rain the day before yesterday, it did not seem to have been "washed away".

"What's it?" asked Micho and Takaki as well, crouching down beside them.

Zhou Rui showed them the "flying ant" he was holding in his hand, and his tone was slightly excited: "It's the kind of 'flying ant' I caught in Tongshi Town the day before yesterday, and it came out of this soil, this thing...... Could it be the same thing as the 'giant raptor' and 'invisible insect' we investigated earlier?"

"The same thing?" Mi Qiao frowned and looked at the winged ant in Zhou Rui's hand.

Although they came to investigate this area today, the main reason was that the lightning storm the night before was very similar to the lightning storm that happened in Zihuan Mountain earlier. They wanted to investigate if the "Giant Raptor" was also present here at the time of the lightning storm. After all, the "giant bird of prey" appeared in the Wushushan area a few years ago, and it is not far from here.

It's not impossible to find signs of other "blood-eating creatures" here.

But the problem is that she knows much more information about "blood-eating creatures" than Zhou Rui, so she knows very well that if this kind of ant is a "blood-eating creature", it is impossible for Zhou Rui to be caught so easily, let alone have more than one in such a small area.

Zhou Rui also heard the question in her words, and hurriedly added: "These are probably just worker ants! Special and flying worker ants! Our target is likely to be the queen ant who gave birth to these worker ants! or even ...... It's the 'invisible insect' we tracked down that was fighting with the 'giant bird of prey'.

"Do you remember that we didn't find an ant on the main peak of Wushu Mountain, where the 'invisible insect' appeared? It is probably because the 'invisible insect' is a special kind of ant! They drove other ant colonies out of their territory! But for special reasons...... For example, it was chased by the 'giant bird of prey', so the other worker ants 'moved' and left first, but the queen ant ...... That is to say, the 'invisible insect' we are talking about is too big to evacuate, and it is entangled by the 'giant bird of prey'!

"That night, in Wushu Mountain, we finally saw the 'giant bird of prey' digging the ground, grabbing the 'invisible insect' and flying away, but we don't know if they had a follow-up fight later, whether the 'invisible insect' broke free and ran away.

"Perhaps, it later ran to Zihuan Mountain, and the 'giant raptor' chased after it, and now it has run here again. ”

Zhou Rui explained his conjecture with some excitement, and when he just saw a flying ant flying out from here, several incomparably huge winged ants with a black carapace suddenly appeared in his mind, like a monster from another dimension or abyss hell, rushing out of the soil, flapping their wings and flying into the air.

This was a dream he had last night, and he still remembered it clearly after waking up, but he didn't think too much about it when he first woke up, thinking that it was only because he had seen the "invisible insect" before, and he caught a very special ant the day before yesterday, so he had this dream.

But at this time, in the middle of the area that was hit by the lightning storm, looking at the place that seemed to be an anthill, looking at the "flying ants" that had just been caught in his hand, thinking of the lightning storm that occurred in Zihuan Mountain when they went to Thornton City earlier, and thinking of the video of the suspected "giant bird of prey" provided by the information department at that time, the pictures in those dreams suddenly became a kind of inspiration to light up his thinking, which made him have these conjectures.

These conjectures made him both excited and a little afraid.

It should be said that the excitement is much greater, after all, he has always liked ants and studied ants, but he did not expect that he might find an unprecedented and magical ant.

Miqiao frowned and said, "But we didn't find any trace of this ant in the area where the lightning struck in Zihuan Mountain. ”

Zhou Rui said: "The area we investigated and sampled was relatively small before, and because of the appearance of those two policemen, we didn't find many places, and we may have missed them." ”

Mi Qiao could feel that Zhou Rui had inexplicable confidence in his conjecture, as if he had already thought that this conjecture was the truth in his heart.

"You mean, the lightning storm that happened in Zihuan Mountain and here is the way that the 'invisible insect' uses it to ward off the enemy?" According to Micho's understanding of "blood-eating creatures", no matter how badly mutated the "blood-eating creatures" are, it is impossible to attract or control the power of nature such as lightning storms by themselves.

"It's not necessarily controlling...... It is possible that in certain states, their physical characteristics change, and they become particularly easy to conduct electricity, which affects the landing point of direct lightning and attracts lightning storms. By the way, our folklore often says that after the spirit cultivates, it will undergo a heavenly calamity...... I'm not suddenly feudal superstition, I mean ...... Could our ancient legends describe similar creatures? Could it be that this very special lightning storm is the reason for the appearance of special creatures, including 'invisible insects' and 'giant birds of prey'?" Zhou Rui said.

Mi Qiao remembered the analogy that Zhou Rui used in Godzilla earlier, and knew that this guy's middle two soul began to burn again, so he didn't take his words. But she also felt that Zhou Rui's conjecture was not completely ridiculous, Zihuan Mountain and the lightning storm that occurred here may indeed be related, and the winged ants that Zhou Rui found had also been confirmed to be different from ordinary ants and other hymenopteran insects, and there must be a problem.

She looked at the place in front of her that looked a little loose and was considered by Zhou Rui to be an anthill, and asked, "You mean, the queen ant is down there now?"

"Possibly. Zhou Rui paused, and said something that made Mi Qiao frown: "But it may also have been wiped out by lightning the night before yesterday." ”

......

Zhou Rui and Mi Qiao naturally couldn't find the queen ant from the "suspected" ant hill, because Xiang Kun didn't "arrange" the queen ant there at all, and the so-called ant hill was actually just Xiang Kun controlled a few ball beads to assist some worker ants to get out of the soil, mainly to remove the traces left by him and Lao Xia there.

However, he was indeed guiding Zhou Rui to link the lightning storm with the ants, as well as the previous "mutant ants" and "mutant big birds".

In the pedestrian street before, he deliberately let Zhou Rui discover the "flying worker ant", in order to use the equipment and personnel of "Shenxing Technology" to study the specific special features of the "flying worker ants" transformed and produced by "Zero Zero", and then directly obtain these materials through Miqiao or Zhou Rui, and also take a look at the process of "Shenxing Technology" treating and dealing with this suspected "mutant creature".

And today's further guidance to Zhou Rui, firstly, is to mislead the "Shenxing Technology" about the direction of the two lightning storms, and the other is that he plans to set up a game and forge a relatively powerful "mutant creature", so as to test what methods the "Shenxing Technology" will use to deal with the "mutant creature", and even when Micho and their team can't deal with it, what kind of reinforcements will be sent, and whether they can attract "Mr. Liang" or other people with higher authority and more information.

Of course, he will not put the "test ground" in Chongyun Mountain, after all, it is relatively close to Chongyun Village, and it is the territory he will develop in the future.

As for the "bait", it is also not possible to use ants like "Zero Zero One" or "Zero Zero Two" that have been directly associated with him and entered the "Super Sensory Item System".

He plans to let "Zero Zero-Two" lay some new breeding ants, give birth to some new ants, and cultivate one or several second-level ant colonies to serve as "bait".

It's just that for the time being, the queen born by "Zero Zero Two" does not meet Xiang Kun's requirements, and he needs to further train and cultivate "Zero Zero Two", so that it can understand the type of secondary ant queen and ant colony it needs, and find a way to give the secondary queen more abilities through "Zero Zero Two".

At this time, Xiang Kun and Xia Libing were standing on the roof of their house, looking at GL8 parked on the edge of the mountain path in the distance.

"Are you going into the mountains?" asked Xia Libing.

Xiang Kun knew that she was asking if she wanted to take a closer look at the investigation process of Mi Qiao and Zhou Rui in the mountains, as well as the situation of the "flying worker ants" arranged.

"No, just go back and ask about the progress in Miqiao or Zhou Rui's dream, anyway, today is just 'burying a seed' first, and the specific place to germinate has not yet been determined. ”

Xiang Kun said, and glanced at the "Zero Zero One" on Xia Libing's palm next to him, the big ant was lying motionless, as if he was asleep.

"Zero Zero One" has shed its shell seven times, its body has changed from small to large, and from large to smaller, and the whole body has become smooth and shiny, and the "flying worker ants" produced by other "Zero Zero Two" are not only in size, but also have obvious differences in appearance, as if a "mecha warrior" in the ant world, these are all changing to adapt to Xiang Kun's "transformation needs", but these changes still do not exceed the genetic limits of ants, or hymenoptera itself.

Xia Libing has actually been trying to establish a special connection with these ants associated with Xiang Kun similar to coins and black circle graffiti, but has not succeeded.

However, although Lao Xia can't establish a relationship and deep connection with these ants like Xiang Kun, and can't give them instructions, they also have a kind of closeness to Lao Xia that is different from other creatures.

Just like now, "Zero Zero One" can stay motionless and very comfortable in the palm of Lao Xia's hand, and the previous queen "Zero Zero Two" can also be caught by Lao Xia to check and take pictures, and will not resist, fly away or attack, and this is not because of Xiang Kun's order, but because of their consciousness.

In fact, at the beginning, neither "Zero Zero One" nor "Zero Zero Two" had this kind of consciousness, but later Lao Xia tried a special method - she fed two ants the cake that she "appeared".

Of course, Xiang Kun can't confirm for the time being whether the closeness of "Zero Zero One" and "Zero Zero Two" to Lao Xia is because they were fed a cake, or simply because they have been getting along for a long time and are used to the smell of Lao Xia.

After all, normally speaking, ants do not exist to be fed and raised, and their cognition is much narrower than that of cats and birds.

For the time being, Xiang Kun only has two related ants, "Zero Zero One" and "Zero Zero Two", and there are no other related ants for control experiments, as for other "flying worker ants" and "small worker ants", because they are affected by "Zero Zero Two", they also have a consistent behavior pattern for Lao Xia.

Xiang Kun looked at the "Zero Zero One" in Lao Xia's hand and said, "I will go to the mountains today and try to establish an ant colony, embed a small area of ecology, adjust their form and ability, and come back before the blood drinking period." If Zicheng and Deputy Director Liu come to me, you can help me deal with it, and the mobile phone will also be left with you. "He wants to go into the mountains to conduct continuous experiments overnight, and Lao Xia naturally can't follow.

"Do you want to prepare the meat rabbit first?" Xia Libing asked.

"If I don't come back on Sunday morning, you can help me get ready. Xiang Kun said.

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