When I was young, the creature that disgusted the protagonist the most was the cockroach. To be precise, it was the American cockroach. There was no "one".
Cockroach is a common name, which generally refers to insects belonging to the order "Blatida", which belongs to the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, and order Blattata. It is distributed in a wide range of areas from cold to tropical and subtropical areas, and especially likes to live in warm outdoors or indoors.
The American cockroach is the largest insect in the family Blattidae. The adult body length is 29-40 mm, which is about the size of a kidney bean to an apricot. It is dozens of times the size of the German cockroach, which is nicknamed "Xiaoqiang" by northern people.
The American cockroach has a disgusting reddish-brown body color, its wings are longer than the end of the abdomen, its antennae are very long, there is a large butterfly-shaped brown stripe in the middle of the pronotum, and there is a complete yellow band on the trailing edge of the stripe. From appearance to pattern, everything is ugly.
In fact, the American cockroach is called "America", but it is native to northern Africa. It was brought to the Americas by ship around the 17th century AD, and was named after being discovered in the Americas in the 18th century. It is now distributed throughout the country.
It has a wide range of food habits, is good at crawling, can swim, and has certain flying abilities. It likes to live in a dark and humid environment, so it is also found in the plain territory of the Angel King Legion, but is rare. It mostly hides in the litter layer of the forest. . But it's quite common in this swamp. When the protagonist first learned that his ants occasionally hunted cockroaches, he specifically ordered that the food provided to him must not contain anything related to them. His disgust is evident!
It’s not just the protagonist who hates cockroaches. In the human world, cockroaches are notorious pests that contaminate food and spread diseases. Of course, their extremely good looks are also one of their original sins. A large country in the East has long listed cockroaches as one of the four pests, and a large country in the West spends billions of dollars every year to eliminate cockroaches. There is no culture in which cockroaches have a beautiful meaning.
However, even if they are hated by humans, cockroaches are still very happy and even benefit from the urbanization process of humans. These cockroaches are not easy to kill, so they are called "the unbeatable little cockroaches". They are the most tenacious insects and can survive for up to nine days even if their heads are cut off. Unlike the dragonfly that the protagonist just killed, If the brain is destroyed, you will die immediately.
Their feeding habits are extremely complex, and almost all organic matter can be used as food. In Germany, a species of cockroach was even found to live inside a television set for its entire life, feeding on a small amount of rubber inside.
Cockroaches are also extremely fertile, and a pregnant female cockroach can lay hundreds or even thousands of eggs. The flight ability of pregnant female cockroaches is also enhanced, enough to escape most dangers. The cockroach's ootheca also ensures its hatchability. It is said that just seeing one cockroach means there are at least 20,000 cockroaches in the place. And now, the protagonist sees three at once...
Humans are almost helpless against cockroaches. Even if humans or ants become extinct, cockroaches cannot become extinct. If one day there was a nuclear apocalypse on the earth, all living things in the ecosystem, whether humans, fish or most insects, would become extinct. Only cockroaches would continue their lives! Under normal circumstances, the amount of radiation that the human body can tolerate is 5rems. Once the total radiation amount exceeds 800rems, death is inevitable. But the German cockroach can tolerate 9000~105000rems, and the American cockroach can reach 967500rems (rems represents the radiation dose, and the rem dose equivalent unit is rem (rem) and Sievert (Sv), where 1Sv=100rem).
Therefore, even nuclear weapons cannot eliminate cockroaches. As for insecticides and the like, they will only make cockroaches gain resistance quickly.
Now, there is a parasitic cockroach (Periplaneta americana) that is difficult to kill lying outside the protagonist's window, constantly exploring the house with its tentacles. In the past, I would feel sick when I saw a cockroach that was much smaller than me. Now I see a cockroach that is dozens of times his size and has a ferocious face. Even the protagonist feels a chill, feels uncomfortable all over, and has an itchy head.
The protagonist retreats to the corner of the palace, picks up rocks and hurls them at the parasitic cockroaches like a barrage of fire. With the help of nausea and fear, the protagonist unconsciously enters the state of "god descended from heaven". The hit rate is extremely high, and only the stone bullets are thrown at the cockroaches. Bloody flowers bloomed on the head, and white tissue fluid seeped out of the damaged carapace. The entire head of the cockroach was beyond recognition, and the compound eyes and mouthparts were almost completely destroyed.
But the parasitic cockroach did not die. After being attacked, the parasitic cockroach disappeared in the blink of an eye at a speed comparable to that of a high-speed train.
The protagonist chased to the window and saw that the cockroach, which had almost no head, had fled to the shore at an extremely fast speed. It hesitated at the water's edge and did not enter the water.
Next, a scene that made the protagonist feel chilly appeared. The other two parasitic cockroaches seemed to smell the blood of their companions and immediately followed them to find them. Then the two healthy parasitic cockroaches immediately carried the injured companion one by one. The corpse, regardless of its struggles, began to feast.
The huge injured parasitic cockroach was quickly eaten from the head to the tail, leaving the brown-red carapace and wings abandoned.
Soon, the two parasitic cockroaches, who had eaten and drank enough, discarded the corpse that they could not eat, and their trunks also received the parasitic bacteria transferred from the dead cockroaches.
These parasitic cockroaches then return to the ant mound and begin to gnaw at the shell of the ant mound together with the parasitic locusts.
What makes the protagonist feel better is that these parasitic cockroaches no longer come to his window to disgust him.
The parasitic locusts are not very efficient in biting the ant mounds, and they are unable to threaten the ants inside for the time being. The protagonist turned his attention to the new parasitic cockroaches that appeared today, and now he discovered the problem.
Although the mouthparts of parasitic cockroaches are not as developed as those of locusts, they seem unable to chew through ant mounds. But the protagonist noticed that some white secretions appeared in the mouths of these parasitic cockroaches. At first, the protagonist thought these secretions were blood, thinking that like parasitic locusts, they had injured their mouthparts when chewing ants on concrete.
But if you look closely, you can see that these white secretions are thicker, and when dropped on the ant concrete, white gas will emerge, which seems to corrode the ant concrete. Next, when the parasitic cockroaches continue to chew on the shell of the ant mound, these corroded parts will become very soft.
Calculated, these parasitic cockroaches do more damage to ant mounds than parasitic locusts, and are second only to the water cannons of parasitic dragon lice.
Water cannons, corrosive fluids, and mouthparts. Unexpectedly, the parasitic beasts have so many ways to destroy the ant mound. The base that the protagonist thought was safe is now in danger.
"We can't go on like this!" The protagonist immediately realized that hiding in the ant mound and waiting for reinforcements was not a good idea. The enemy might completely destroy the ant mound at any time, and by then the Angel King's army would lose its only stronghold and support.
Tomorrow, we must start to fight back!
