Otherworldly Mysterious Gate

The structure of the ant nest is a pattern of passages and functional areas intertwined. Star ants do not have their own independent space. Generally speaking, the core part is the queen’s residence and the place where the queen’s food is stored, and then the outside Some areas are places for laying and hatching eggs, and the outside is the living area for young ants.

It takes about [-] days for the star ant tribe to hatch eggs, and it takes about two years for the larva to grow into an adult. That is to say, a production cycle of the star ant tribe is three years, and the replacement cycle of the star ant tribe is three years. About a hundred years or so.

The sensor goes all the way to the center of the ant nest. Along the way, you can see star ants huddled together and blocking their fellows. When this happens, the sensor can only take a detour. It may not be possible to find these small detectors, but the star ants who are close at hand can find them. Even if they don't know what it is, all substances are actually their food. They ate the sensor, but it was too late for Lin Shu to regret it.

You must know that it took almost a day for the sensor to get to this place. If you walk from the beginning again, Lin Shu and Fuqiu will have to wait for two more days, and everyone who is waiting for the news outside should be more worried. a few days.

After patiently walking around for half a day, something different finally appeared in front of Lin Shu's eyes. These were some spider-like star ants and small larval star ants.

"This is the internal nanny star ant, their job is to transport, care for and incubate star ant eggs, as well as take care of young star ants, they will release secretions from their tails. Form flexible 'receptacles'. The eggs are placed in these receptacles .You see, here it is."

Lin Shu was surprised to see that there were white spherical mushroom-like things growing on the metal cave wall. 'Tuo' had a thin handle connected to the metal cave wall. The function of this handle was to relieve all kinds of In practice, the stalks work very well, at least after such a catastrophe for an ant nest.Not many of these ant eggs were destroyed.

What's more interesting is that these nanny star ants fix themselves and their young star ants on the wall with their secretions, just like spiders weaving webs.

"Those secretions are good stuff."

"Yes, it is much more useful than the flexible safety device on the Hope. If the number is large enough, it can even be used as a structural anti-shock device. It is very good to use it on the space city."

"It seems that the Star Ant Clan still has a lot of advanced things! Didn't I hear you say that before?"

"Without the mother insect, these things that depend on the production of the subordinate star ants can't be made, let me tell you. I don't know the ingredients of that thing, I only know how to adjust the genes. The star ants that come out can produce that kind of thing .”

Lin Shu smiled: "I didn't mean to blame you, I just sighed a little. The star ant race is indeed one of the most powerful races in the universe, and there are many good things."

"Ah."

"In this area, it shouldn't be too far from the queen ant?"

"Well, the next step is the food warehouse. After passing the warehouse area, it should be the territory of the queen ant."

"This is..." Lin Shu asked in surprise, pointing at the big fat and white bugs.

"The transformation of star ants is to transform ordinary substances into carbon-based proteins and silicon-based gels. Their recipes are very complicated. In the absence of substances, they can directly use the energy condensate secreted by star ants as food. Eat it After stuffing, they reorganize the structure of these substances in their bodies, and then expel these globular mixtures, which the mother insects rely on for survival and production."

Lin Shu nodded with emotion: "It's amazing! It's completely relying on living things to condense matter, and finally it can form a body as strong as a fighting star ant."

"Well, the ant nest itself is actually made of the secretions of these guys, but it requires another kind of secretion."

"A powerful material refiner!"

Mao Qiu hummed, she was quite proud of Lin Shu's emotion.

"These bugs...there are a lot of transformed star ants. They produce so much food, can the female worms eat it?"

"It must be able to eat, the female insects eat almost non-stop, and these transformed star ants are not all producing food, many of them are producing substances to repair the ant nest. I think this queen must be stepping up production to block the door." things."

"Oh, you did the same thing back then? I thought you just used star ant corpses to block the door."

"Additional binders and plugging agents are required."

Lin Shu nodded to express his understanding, but kept his eyes fixed on the small projection he released.

"These working star ants are dedicated to taking care of transformed star ants?"

"They are also responsible for transporting food, and following these star ants holding food, they can reach the place where the mother worm is."

In Lin Shu's meeting, with a thought, the sensor has been quietly attached to the food held by a working star ant's pincers. Now it saves even flying, and someone will naturally send the sensor to where it wants to go.

......

On the little asterisk, Nilaya has already arranged a shift, but everyone seems to not want to leave, and Nilaya forced them to drive away. In this situation, everyone needs to be calm and maintain a high degree of vigilance at all times, so It is very important to be full of energy, rest is a must, and you must not keep spinning.

At this time, Nilaya's advantages are reflected. Even Xiaoxing needs to take turns to rest in her functional area, but Nilaya is a model who does not need to rest at all.

"Elder Nilaya, is there any news?"

Before Jessie came in, the voice came from the door of the command room, which showed how eager she was. It was no wonder that Lin Shu's mission this time was really frightening, although Nila Ya also knew that the risk wasn't that great in theory, and she couldn't help but feel uneasy, not to mention Jessie, who cared about it and was chaotic, and she was a person who never concealed her emotions.

"Not yet, but no news is good news. It shows that the plan is going well. If we want to withdraw, Lin Shu will take the initiative to contact us."

Jessie forced a smile: "Oh, that's fine."

Speaking of which, she had already stood beside Nilaya, carefully watching the various data on the projection.

The fluctuation of the dragon vein has completely calmed down, the burden on the little star has been very small, the stability of the anchor is very high, and there is no need for nonlinear correction.

In addition, from the projection of the real space, the star ants in the ant nest seem to be busy tidying up. They are not in a hurry to get on the road, but are slowly increasing their speed in a uniform acceleration state, and those lost pioneers need to be replenished. , The pioneers sent out also need time to recover, and the queen ants also need time to readjust the state of the ant nest.

"It looks very calm, the more so, the more successful Lin Shu's actions are."

"Well, I know, the ant queen must be caught quietly and replaced with a fur ball. The quieter the better."

Nilaya smiled nicely: "Don't worry, the danger of this mission is really not as high as you imagined. Didn't Maoqiu say that even if you can control a large number of subordinates at the same time, the spirit of the Queen Ant will always It is completely consumed by daily affairs, so the inside of the ant nest is much less alert than the outside."

"Well, I know, thank you, Nilaya, fortunately, you are here!"

"What do you say, isn't this my value?"

"Hee hee... I see, I'll pour tea for everyone, everyone has worked hard."

After Jessie finished speaking, she turned around and walked out, but Lan Yi had already come in with tea, so Jessie went up to greet them, handed the teacups to everyone's work posts one by one, smiled and said a few words to everyone, and worked hard. relieve everyone's tension.

......

"It's been seventy hours. Sure enough, as you said, the level of vigilance inside the ant nest is much lower."

"Because I have never been invaded by ant nests, I don't think she will either."

Lin Shu nodded: "So, living in a group is the best environment for the growth of wisdom, experience does not necessarily need to be experienced by yourself one by one."

Fuqiu naturally agrees with this sentence.

"Master, the probe is about to enter the living space of the female insect."

The scene on the projection changed, it was no longer the ass of a working star ant in front and the head of a working star ant in the back, surrounded by dark walls.

The passage suddenly opened up, and the sensor entered an open space. A huge female worm appeared in front of the trees and the fur ball. Above the body of the female worm, a fur ball that looked exactly like the fur ball was busy working , because her body hair stood upright like a dandelion, and it kept shaking, forming a very strange wave.

Lin Shu saw this situation when Maoqiu was analyzing the data with all his strength, and he had to admit that Maoqiu's method of using body hair to distract and control is simple and effective. In fact, Maoqiu can't divide the mind into so many parts. But it can be sorted and processed. Quick sorting and grouping are the secrets of furball's powerful distraction ability.

However, handling such a huge ant nest by one person is really quite complicated work. The queen ants are really busy and work very hard, so the management ability of the queen ants is not as powerful as Lin Shu imagined.On the contrary, in fact, the management of the Queen Ant is relatively sloppy. In a sense, the Queen Ant is not as powerful as Xiaoyu, because Xiaoyu can continuously increase her processing power, as long as she adds data cores and spirits, the Queen Ant But only one brain.

Lin Shu carefully observed the situation of the female nest. Apart from the working star ants coming in and out, there were only dozens of communicating star ants on one side, and there was not even a protective fighting star ant. The hard 'shell' is on the periphery, but the core is almost completely undefended. Lin Shu couldn't help but feel that he had made a big fuss before. In fact, relying on his own speed, even if he rushed in regardless, the queen would not There must be time to mobilize troops to intercept.

"Furball, is there a problem?"

"no!"

"Very good, get ready to act, this ant nest will belong to you soon! Teleport!" (To be continued...)