"Zhizhizhi..."
One night a few days later, Chen Xing was sleeping when he was suddenly awakened by a burst of insects.
The sound came from the iron wardrobe. There is nothing inside, it is the tunnel of an ant nest. Su Na sent worker ants to find him at this time, there must be something urgent.
As expected, as soon as he opened the closet, a small termite kept calling at him, biting his trouser leg and pulling it into the corridor.
"Wait a minute, I need to get the equipment." Chen Xing said. The little termite immediately let go of its mouth, huddled aside, and waited.
After a while, Chen Xing changed his clothes, put on military boots, and followed the little termite into the corridor with an assault rifle on his back. The little termite seemed to be in a hurry, crawling very fast, and would turn around and call to him from time to time, as if to urge him.
Chen Xing couldn't help but quicken his pace. Four primary agility potions increased his agility attribute to 18 points, making him move much faster. If it were before, he might not be able to keep up with the little termites.
After walking for five or six minutes on a straight road, it started to go downhill, and then made many twists and turns, when suddenly there was a hissing sound in front of me.
"grumble!"
There was anger in his voice. Chen Xing immediately recognized that it was the cry of the ant queen Su Na.
"Chi chi chi chi!" The little termites raised their heads high, making a sharp insect sound as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and rushed towards the incubation room at high speed.
Instead, Chen Xing slowed down, took off his assault rifle, held it with both hands, muzzle downward, and moved forward with small steps.
The chirping in front was getting louder and louder. In addition to the sound of termites, there was also a relatively low chirping of insects. It seemed that the two sides were fighting. Chen Xing bent down and got out of the tunnel. When the flashlight beam shone through, he saw not far away, a group of immature termite workers fighting to the death around two huge creatures.
Taking a closer look, they saw two giant mutant spiders. The whole body is covered with black fur, and there are two rows of eyes on the head, a total of twelve, which are emitting scarlet light. Looking further down, there are eight long and thick spider legs. The ends of the feet are covered with dark yellow cuticles, which are hook-shaped and have very sharp ends.
At this moment, the battle in the incubation room was extremely fierce, and the ground was full of termite corpses and broken eggs. Suna moved her huge body and rushed to the front line, waving her seven or eight sickle-shaped legs, forcing one of the spiders to retreat step by step.
The other one was constantly killing small termites, piercing their bodies with hooks, then putting them into its mouth and chewing them.
Chen Xing picked up the gun, aimed at the big spider's head, and concentrated his energy. The psychic factors escaped and gradually enveloped the bullet in the gun chamber.
"Bang!"
A few seconds later, a blue bullet appeared out of the sky. The moment the gun barrel exploded, blue light illuminated the entire underground space like a vast ocean.
The brilliance passed quickly and exploded on the head of the second mutant spider. Blue star sand scattered everywhere, like sparks from the collision of iron tools.
The spider stood frozen on the spot. When the light dissipated, there was only a hole where the head had been, with yellow mucus coming out. Chen Xing was afraid of hurting Su Na, so he did not choose the spider that was fighting Su Na as his target.
After killing one, the other gave a long cry, turned around and ran away. Chen Xing didn't allow it to slip away, but another power bullet rushed out of the gun chamber, punching a hole as big as a bowl in the big spider's abdomen.
Behind the big spider, there was a long trail of yellow body fluid. After running for a while, his body suddenly tilted and he could no longer move. The remaining termite workers immediately swarmed it and bit it to death.
"What's going on?" Chen Xing put away his gun and asked Su Na, who was covered in scratches.
"I...I want the baby to go there last time to find something, the things my brother liked..." Su Na told Chen Xing the situation through telepathy.
In order to please Chen Xing, Su Na asked worker ants to dig out the collapsed tunnel in order to find those "fun toys". Unexpectedly, as soon as the tunnel was dug, two large spiders came out, devoured the termite workers that were not yet adults, and chased them all the way to the incubation room.
"How is your injury? Is it serious?" Chen Xing asked.
"Su Na is fine, it's just a skin injury, it doesn't hurt." Su Na said with a smile.
Chen Xing walked around Su Na twice and found no deep wounds, so he felt relieved.
After getting along with her these days, he felt more and more that this cheap girl was well-behaved, obedient, and easy to use. Yeyang Bailiu still has a little temper and sometimes has to wait on her. This little sister has no temper at all. She is docile and cute. She thinks about her brother all the time and gives him whatever good things she has.
For Chen Xing now, Su Na is like a beloved toy that cannot be broken.
"Brother, it really doesn't hurt Su Na." Su Na said coquettishly, as if she was a little uncomfortable being stared at by Chen Xing.
"What, can't you take a look?" Chen Xing asked with a cold expression.
"You, you, look at it~" Suna said giggling, her face turned red.
"Okay, okay, I'm just teasing you." Chen Xing said with a gentle smile.
Later, Chen Xing asked the little termites to lead the way and blew up the tunnel leading to the spider's nest to avoid being attacked again.
These two big spiders broke in and crushed at least one-third of the eggs in the incubation room, and killed more than fifty small termites. It could be said to add insult to injury and cause extremely heavy losses.
"During this period, you dig down all the potentially dangerous tunnels. I will solve the food problem." After returning to the incubation room, Chen Xing said to Su Na.
They had had an extensive exchange before. Su Na told Chen Xing everything about the operation of the ant nest.
Normally, the life cycle of termite workers is two years, with the larval stage lasting fifteen days and the adult stage lasting forty-five days. It takes two months from hatching to adult.
The life cycle of soldier termites is ten years. But this decade is a decade in dormancy. If it continues to be active, its life cycle will be very short, less than one hundred and twenty days.
The larval stage of soldier ants lasts twenty days, and the juvenile stage lasts seventy days. It takes three months from hatching to adulthood. After that, there is only a life cycle of less than thirty days left. They must dig holes to hibernate, otherwise they will die quickly.
Then there are the eggs.
Suna can lay more than a hundred eggs every natural month. If she can obtain more resources, such as the corpses and crystal nuclei of advanced mutant creatures, or other substances containing psychic energy, as well as a sufficient amount of iron elements, she can evolve from an "ordinary termite queen" to an "iron-armored termite queen" . In addition to being covered in iron armor, it can produce nearly a thousand insect eggs every natural month.
If you obtain further resources, you can ignite the "spiritual fire" in the crystal core and evolve into a "hundred nest ant queen" who can lay over a thousand eggs per day and can teleport over short distances. It is even said to be able to tear apart space. , the "Star-eating Queen Ant" that devours the core of the planet.
This information automatically flowed into Suna's mind when she became the Termite Queen, and is knowledge inherited from the species.
Currently, there are more than 700 eggs and more than 60 young worker ants in the ant nest. It will take at least two months to regain strength and become self-sufficient. During this period, Chen Xing had to provide at least ten corpses every day to ensure the operation of the ant nest.
But this is not a difficult task. If you take people out for a walk every day, you can get enough corpses.
