"Jun Qianzi is best known for his achievements in engineering and construction.
But what he likes to study most is all kinds of insects. "
Pu Liuxuan showed a recalling expression on his face and said slowly: "He was fascinated by all kinds of insects. In the first year of school, he used the royalties he received from writing articles for scientific journals to buy a glass cabinet as high as one person and put it in In the dormitory of the Academy, observe the insect ecology inside.
Later, when he took an agriculture class, he specifically asked the teacher for an extra piece of farmland, which was filled with weeds.
After school, other students go to Chang'an City to eat, drink and have fun.
He was alone in the garden, holding a large canvas, humming a tune and drawing images of insects.
Ants, bees, butterflies, praying mantises, beetles, and even spiders, dung beetles, and moths that most people hate.
I lived in the same dormitory with him at the time, and watched him make insect specimens every day, and I also absorbed a lot of knowledge.
For example, cicadas cannot hear rough sounds at all and can only hear high-pitched sounds;
The white-fronted spider is docile and well-behaved, and is completely beneficial to humans - it is non-toxic and likes to eat cockroaches, flies, moths and crickets;
When a bee hive is invaded by a wasp, the bees will swarm the wasp, wrap it up in a ball, and roast the wasp alive with heat;
He often told me that insects that seem weak, dull, and unintelligent are far smarter than people think.
Without the maggots that decompose corpses and the dung beetles that digest feces, our world would soon be filled with filth.
Without flies and bees that spread pollen, our world would soon have no flowers to bloom, no fruits to bear, and not even food to grow.
Insects abide by the rules and can make sacrifices and efforts that humans cannot in order to survive and reproduce. "
Pu Liuxuan paused and said: "He likes insects very much. At the same time, he also loves Yu State and the people of Yu State.
That's why when floods and droughts occurred frequently, he chose to put aside his hobbies and devote himself to the construction of projects that he didn't really like that much. "
Li Ang thought thoughtfully. These detailed information could only be obtained from Pu Liuxuan, Jun Qianzi's former confidant and friend. The academy had long cleared Jun Qianzi's academic status and destroyed Jun Qianzi's academic records in all paper materials. The traces left by the immigrants.
"Let's go back to that expedition to the Hundred Thousand Barren Mountains,"
Pu Liuxuan sighed: "At that time, we had just cured a flood and were about to graduate from the academy. It was a time when we were young, frivolous and full of ambition.
Relying on his cultivation in Xunyun Realm, he ignored the rules of the academy, abandoned the guide of the barren man, and secretly explored deeper into the Shiwan Barren Mountain.
As a result, predictably, we got lost. "
He spread his hands and said: "The deeper you go into the barren mountain, the heavier the barbaric atmosphere becomes.
Each tree is at least thirty feet tall. The tree crowns are densely covered with blood-sucking vines, and hundreds of man-eating birds hover above the tree crowns.
There are countless poisonous insects hidden in the grass, and a small drop of venom is enough to kill an entire town.
There is a giant golden python lying in the stream, with patterns on its body like a giant with one eye.
There are weird and incomprehensible anomalies everywhere.
Since the sky was blocked by the canopy of trees, we didn’t even know how much time had passed outside. We only knew that we had been wandering in the dense forest for a long time. I didn't see much of the wonders, but I lost half my life. "
Pu Liuxuan pulled up his cuffs and showed Li Ang the dense old scars on his arms. He said in a complicated tone: "We thought we would die in the barren mountains.
They even made a half-joking agreement that if someone dies, the other person has the right to dispose of his body and go out by eating dried meat - this should be one of the few reliable food sources deep in the barren mountains.
Suddenly, we discovered an ant nest. "
"The ant nest was made of sand and was as high as four or five stories high.
Surrounded by many strange beasts with injured and bleeding heads and exuding powerful auras.
If calculated according to the standards of the Academy, each of them is a first-level monster, enough to cause a bloody storm in the Yu Kingdom, defeating thousands of troops and entering a deserted territory.
However, they just looked at each other warily and stayed quietly around the ant nest, as if... lining up. "
"Jun Qianzi and I were shocked by the surrounding momentum and did not dare to move. We stayed in place and observed carefully. However, we found that the strange beasts took turns approaching the ant nest, knelt down on the ground, and allowed swarms of ants to climb on their bodies. .”
"The ants suck up the pus and blood from the alien beast's body, use natural silk threads to sew the alien beast's wounds, and even clean the alien beast's body of dirt and parasites. The whole process is silent and orderly."
"It was only then that Jun Qianzi and I realized that this was actually a 'peace zone' in the barren mountains. The alien beasts had reached an agreement with the ants. The ants provided medical and health services to the alien beasts, while the alien beasts had to protect the ant nest. Safety.
The weak ants and the powerful beasts have reached a cooperation. "
"When Jun Qianzi and I approached the ant nest, the ants also climbed on our bodies. They sutured the wounds on our bodies, cleaned the bugs on our bodies, and even provided clean honey water."
"I marveled at the wonders before my eyes, but Jun Qianzi, who already loves insects, noticed something deeper."
"The millions of ants inhabiting this ant nest are not of the same race, but include more than 300 species of ants. This is very rare. In Jun Qianzi's knowledge, ants pass each other through Smell communication, ants of different species are considered good if they don’t fight each other, let alone live together.”
"In addition, he also noticed that different types of ants in the ant nest come from all over the world, and each type of ant has its own division of labor."
“Leaf-cutter ants, native to the South China Sea, cut off leaves in the forests of barren mountains and use the leaves to grow fungi to feed their larvae;
Big-headed ants, native to the Central Plains, are responsible for building nests and cleaning the gravel and fine sand in the nests;
Weaver ants, native to Tianzhu, are responsible for spinning out silk threads;
Honey ants, native to the Western Regions, are responsible for storing honey;”
"This surprised Jun Qianzi. What surprised him even more was that there was a kind of black stinky ant native to the Endless Sea living in the ant nest, which was brought back to the Central Plains by the academy's scientific expedition team two hundred years ago."
"This kind of smelly ant has a very developed smell organ, which can secrete different smells to express different meanings. You should have seen this in the book "Taxonomy of Alien Animals". Dr. Doerr was the first to discover this kind of ant. , calling it the 'smartest ant'.
Before he brought the stink ants back to Yu State, there were absolutely no such ants on the land.
And their positioning in the giant ant nest is the brain - the smelly ants are evenly distributed throughout the ant nest, secreting odors with different meanings, and commanding and coordinating all ants. "
"Based on the size of the ant nest, the construction speed of the worker ants, and the extension depth of the ant nest under the land, Jun Qianzi determined that the history of this ant nest is no more than 170 years. There is a correspondence between the two, so the answer is obvious .”
"Man's navigation and exploration activities have brought different types of ants to the depths of the barren mountains. These weak ants have to eke out a living in the human country. A heavy rain, a wheel running over, and water poured by urchins all... It’s enough to destroy their ant nests. Not to mention deep in the dangerous mountains.”
"However, when all the ants come together, the division of labor and cooperation between them are enough to make the strange beasts surrender."
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