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146 Mutated poisonous ants

"Yes, there are many kinds of ants in the world. The color of the ant body has a lot to do with the environment and soil quality of each place. Most of them are jet black. The ants in western Hunan also belong to this type, and their maximum length is only one A little more than one centimeter, like this three-to-four centimeter-long, dark green panbellum ant, let alone seen it, I have never heard of it." Professor Ma Yong said solemnly: "The largest ant in the world discovered so far , is a bull ant, its longest body length is only 3.7 cm, and these ant workers, I saw a few have climbed into the ant ### just now, and visually, it should exceed 4 cm."

Qin Xiang also squatted down, and saw Professor Ma Yong pick up a twig and said, "And look——"

Qin Xiang stared at it, and saw Professor Ma Yong holding a small branch in front of an ant worker, and suddenly poked its head hard, the ant worker raised his head suddenly, and bit the branch with a "crack". With the sound of "Gaba", a small piece of it was bitten off immediately.

Professor Ma Yong continued: "This branch is very hard, but this ant bit off the hard branch in an instant, which shows that the sharpness of its teeth has reached a terrifying level. The most important thing is, look at this ant nest The surrounding soil is all brown in color. The surrounding soil is completely different, and it is also different from the soil around Huping Mountain.

"There are many soil types, which can be divided into 6 soil types, 12 subtypes, and 22 soil genera. According to historical data and field surveys, the soil zone of Huping Mountain is roughly divided as follows: below 550m above sea level, it is red soil, red lime soil, Dry cultivated soil and paddy soil; 550-800m area, the soil development degree is low, and the zonality is not obvious; 800-1500m is mountainous yellow soil, yellow lime soil, dry cultivated soil; 1500-2000m is mountainous yellow brown soil, black lime soil; more than 2000m For mountain meadow soil.

"The altitude here is about 800 meters above sea level. It belongs to the mountainous area between 800 and 1500 meters. It should be yellow soil, yellow lime soil and dry cultivated soil. I just checked the surrounding soil and it is consistent with the information. But the surrounding area of ​​the ant nest But it's all brown soil, and you see, the deeper you go into the nest, the darker the brown."

As he spoke, he pointed to the deeper part of the ant nest he had dug with branches earlier. The soil inside was indeed much darker than the soil outside the nest.

"The most important thing is that although the brown soil is extremely dry, it still has a very strong fishy smell and does not have the fragrance of ordinary soil." Professor Ma Yong said solemnly: "Yes, I suspect that these mutant varieties The pan belly ants are highly poisonous."

"Who is carrying silverware?" Qin Xiang stood up and turned around and asked.

"I never wear silver jewelry." Shen Shiran shook her head and said, Feng Xiaoxiao and Shan Di both shook their heads, as if they didn't have any silverware on them either.

"I have." Yan Zhuhai said loudly.

Qin Xiang walked over, stretched out her hand and said, "Give it to me."

Yan Zhuhai took a silver ring off his finger and handed it to him.

"If this ring is not a gift from your girlfriend or a family heirloom, I will buy it from you." Qin Xiang smiled and said, "Because this ring will not be a ring in a while."

"I don't have a girlfriend." Yan Zhuhai said with an embarrassed smile: "It's just a small ring, I made it myself, it's not worth much money, classmate Qin just use it."

Qin Xiang nodded without any further wordy words. When she returned to the ant's nest, she straightened the silver ring, pinched two ends with four fingers and pulled hard, and the silver ring was pulled by him. It became a long silver needle.

Seeing him pulling silver with his bare hands, as if pulling a rubber band, Ma Yong was stunned for a moment, thinking of his shocking kung fu on the Lushui River yesterday, he didn't think it was strange.

Qin Xiang looked at the silver needle, dipped it in some water, then inserted the silver needle into the brown soil, pulled it out after a while, saw that the part of the silver needle under the soil just now had turned gray-black, tapped He nodded and said, "The soil is indeed highly poisonous."

Professor Ma Yong said worriedly: "Just now I walked around and found that this ant nest is just one of many ant nests, and there are many more in the future. If this area is full of poisonous mutant ants, It would be a very scary thing."

Qin Xiang said: "Professor Ma means, are you worried that these poisonous mutated ants will bite people?"

"Yes, ordinary ants will not actively bite people, except for those legendary man-eating ants." Professor Ma Yong said solemnly: "However, after these pan-bellied ants have mutated, no one knows whether they will actively attack humans. .According to the route map provided by student Shen Shiran, we will continue to move forward, and we will reach the entrance about a few miles away. But there are poisonous alien ants here, and we don’t know what will happen ahead.”

Qin Xiang quickly grabbed an ant in her hand. Professor Ma Yong was taken aback, and said in a low voice, "Be careful it bites—"

Qin Xiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, it can't bite me."

Professor Ma took a closer look and found that the ant could not move at all in Qin Xiang's hand.

"Generally, it takes about half a month for an ant to grow from an ant egg to an ant worker. Professor Ma, let's see if this ant belongs to a young ant worker." Qin Xiang handed the ant to Professor Ma and asked.

Professor Ma looked at it carefully, nodded and said: "From the abdomen of this ant, it should have just come from the early stage of pupae. Judging from the time, this ant should still be considered a young ant, and the age of the ant is about one month. about."

The reason why Qin Xiang asked Professor Ma was because in the previous communication, he knew that the old man Ma was not only an archaeologist, but also a biologist, who had in-depth and meticulous research on various plants and animals.

Qin Xiang nodded, put the ant down, and grabbed several ants in a row to show Professor Ma to check. The results were all the same, and these ants were all juvenile ants.

Seeing that he stopped catching ants to test his age, Professor Ma asked, "Student Qin Xiang, what are you—"

Qin Xiang whispered: "In order not to cause panic, I can only tell you, Professor Ma, that the Dao Dou Ren who provided us with the entrance of the ancient tomb before was poisoned by the extremely severe cold corpse poison. I suspect that these ants mutated after ingesting cold corpse poison. You just saw that these mutated ants are all about one month old. That is to say, these ants mutated after more than one month month ago."

Professor Ma said solemnly: "According to what you mean, the large area in front may have been polluted by cold corpse poison?"

Qin Xiang nodded, and said in a low voice: "Yes, so, I think we need to discuss whether we want to continue this archaeological activity. Although everyone was prepared to encounter danger when they came out, but It was far from expected that the situation would get this bad."

Professor Ma nodded and said: "Yes, if the large area in front of you is polluted by the cold corpse poison, every step forward may ruin your life. However, this is just a guess between the two of us. We want to cancel this time." archaeological activities, I'm afraid it's not convincing enough."

Qin Xiang stood up and said: "How about it, Professor Ma, you can discuss it with everyone. I will go ahead and see how the situation is. If our guess is correct, this event must be cancelled."

Professor Ma thought for a while and said solemnly: "Okay, but student Qin Xiang, you have to be careful. I also know something about the cold corpse virus. At present, there is no way to find anti-drugs for this virus. Once Poisoning, the consequences are disastrous."

Qin Xiang smiled and said, "Thank you, Professor Ma, for your concern. Don't worry, I'll be fine."

After finishing speaking, he walked in front of Feng Xiaoxiao and the girls and said: "The area in front is probably polluted by poisonous poison, I'll go over and check."

After explaining to Shen Shiran again, he turned around and left.

"Xiangzi, be careful!" Shen Shiran confessed from behind.

"Xiao Xiangzi, I'll wait for you to come back." It was Feng Xiaoxiao's voice.

———— ps: The third one was delivered, Xiao Ding endured the pain and coded the words, just to seek—red—flower—!