Chapter 604 Miraculous Fungi

Author: Fierce Male Hamster

A skilled liar hates having his lies exposed the most, and hates being lied to the most.

Qi Ge took a look and realized that the person who loudly declared that he was a liar was an extremely muscular Ant-Man.

Like other ant-men, he has six conspicuous limbs.

A pair of strong and angular hind legs, similar in appearance to a mecha, shine like glass.

The two pairs of thick arms are like mechanical arms, connected by many elastic thin steel wires, and the four fingers are shining like metal.

The most eye-catching thing is his huge steel head and more than a dozen sharp-edged mouthparts.

He stood tall and straight, more than three meters tall, full of oppressive power.

"He's lying.

I personally captured that animal tamer from the animal tamer camp.

Many kobolds were protecting him, but he was the only one lying on the trainer's beast of burden, soundly asleep.

He must be the leader of the animal tamers, just like our queen ant, so he has the ability to resurrect corpses."

"Is there anything else?"

Qi Ge looked at Nimbas doubtfully.

Nimbas shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Ah, that's true.

Not long after I arrived here, I was surrounded by a group of weird-looking things, and they arrested me."

Nimbas shook his body and said:

"Look, the chains that tied me before were all left by them.

As for the sleep you mentioned, our strongest animal trainers generally call it meditation.

That’s how we accumulate strength.”

After Nimbas finished speaking, he glanced at Qi Ge, as if asking if there was any problem in saying so.

Qi Ge secretly gave a thumbs up, turned around and shouted openly:

"Ah, now it's good, everyone heard it.

My brother is innocent.

I feel sorry for my brother. He is surrounded by animal trainers, outnumbered, and misunderstood by you. You are so cruel.

That big boss, look, what else are you looking at, why don’t you apologize quickly.”

The big man was very angry: "No! I still don't believe it. Unless you can kill an animal trainer in front of us, I will never believe you."

"Okay! Then do as you say."

Qi Ge suddenly clapped his hands and said:

"Kill, kill now.

Where are the animal tamers? You should quickly capture an animal tamer."

For a moment, the ants were all quiet, and even the big man didn't make a sound.

Qi Ge suddenly understood that even though these ant-men screamed fiercely, they must be at a comprehensive disadvantage against the animal trainers.

This is also very logical. If the ant-men were dominant, they should not be slaves, but the tamers should be slaves.

So Qige said: "Look, it's not that I don't want to prove myself, you can't find an animal trainer at all.

In this case, we might as well prove it in another way.

To be honest, it is the first time for us brothers to come to your place, and we don’t know much about your situation.

Otherwise, please introduce your situation to us.

If we can come up with a method that can help you significantly enhance your combat effectiveness, and help you improve your combat effectiveness, it will prove that we are not the same as the animal trainers.

It's impossible for the animal trainer to help you improve your combat power to resist yourself, right?"

The Ant-Man whispered to each other for a while, and finally the big-bellied Ant-Man made up his mind:

"What you said makes sense, so I'll do as you say."

After reaching a consensus, Ant-Man was not sloppy at all, and his work efficiency was so high that Qi Ge was surprised.

Without any hesitation, they brought Seven Pigeons and Nimbas to their nursery.

All the guards in the middle seemed to understand everything instantly after the ants touched each other's tentacles, without any obstruction.

After Qi Ge inquired, he learned that ants can use pheromones emitted by their tentacles to communicate and think with each other.

This way of transmitting information is a hundred times more powerful than human language.

Because thoughts are shared directly, there will be no ambiguity, no misunderstanding, and no lies.

Qi Ge was already very surprised at first, but after arriving at the nursery, he realized that he was surprised a little too early.

In Ant-Man's nursery, Qi Ge saw something he was very familiar with - fungi, or mushrooms.

Under the command of a group of pot-bellied ant-men, ordinary ant-men carried various rocks and a strange mineral and placed them in the nursery.

The white hyphae of fungi in the nursery will quickly wrap these "foods" and absorb them quickly.

Then the Ant-Man eggs buried in the fungal hyphae will hatch and grow up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and break out of the shell.

Newborn ant-men will quickly eat the fungus around their egg shells after birth and grow up at an extremely fast speed.

As they grow, their bodies become as transparent as glass.

Qige finally discovered the secret of these ant-men's bodies - silicon-based organisms.

These ant-men only have very little soft flesh and blood tissue inside their bodies.

They have no heart, but have a developed brain similar to that of vertebrates, as well as a huge neural network of arthropods and pseudocerebral ganglia that serve as brains.

Centralization and local autonomy appeared in their bodies at the same time, and there was surprisingly no conflict between the two sides.

The hyphae eaten by them will travel along their digestive tract to the abdominal cavity, where they will be 100% converted into metallic methin and pushed to the surface of the body by the "blood vessels" filled with pistons.

In just half an hour, after being covered with layers of armor, the Ant-Man larvae, which were only as big as a fist, grew into an adult Ant-Man of nearly two meters.

This growth method is not at all like the slow growth of carbon-based organisms, but more like wearing clothes.

The young Ant-Man puts on armor layer by layer. Tens of thousands of layers of armor with different functions are superimposed and interact to form a powerful Ant-Man mecha.

The big-bellied Ant-Man walked up to the new-born Ant-Man and touched the new-born Ant-Man with his tentacles. Without any learning, the new-born Ant-Man understood his mission and tasks.

He shook his body and skillfully joined Ant-Man's moving army.

Big Belly Ant-Man introduced:

"These are the worker ants of our colony. Their main duties are to build and expand and defend the nest, collect food, and feed the young ants and the queen.

I am the master ant, responsible for thinking, storing the survival experience of the group, and passing on these experiences."

As he was talking, another larger Ant-Man egg hatched, and an ant larvae that was much larger than the worker ants appeared inside.

As soon as this ant-man larva appeared, it mercilessly ate up all the mycelium around its egg shell.

But he did not stop, but followed the hyphae and ate up a dozen unhatched Ant-Man eggs and all the hyphae near the eggs.

The big-bellied Ant-Man said in surprise:

"Oh! You are so lucky.

We haven't had any soldier ants born in several years.

Soldier ants are very special among our ant tribe.

As you can see, they have large bodies and powerful upper jaws.

They can crush solid rocks and food, and can also serve as powerful combat weapons when defending groups or attacking other threats.

They have specialized fighting abilities and usually do not participate in the construction of nests or feeding young ants.

They also participate in gathering food, but are more responsible for killing powerful prey, crushing solid rock formations, and guarding workers as they gather food.

Only when the number of soldier ants is sufficient, the excess soldier ants will be collected."

These ants are somewhat similar to the ants on the earth. They are destined to their own destiny and mission as soon as they are born.

There is no way for worker ants to turn into soldier ants, and there is no way for soldier ants to fear death and rot and turn into worker ants.

This method may be unfair to individuals, but Qi Ge calls it efficient.

The teacher ant is responsible for thinking, and the other ants do not have any ideological worries and only need to perform simple mechanical movements.

There is a high degree of division of labor, and each performs its own duties. Although it is a living thing, it is like a machine, with no internal friction and no meaningless loss of energy.

At this time, Qi Ge noticed that the fungus did not absorb all the food and left some waste materials.
To be continued...