Chapter 604: Wonderful Fungus(2/4)
On the nursery, there are also black Ant-Man egg shells left after hatching.
The worker ants are moving away the remaining waste materials and egg shells, heading in the same direction.
Qi Ge couldn't help but ask:
"What are they doing?"
Teacher Ant said:
"They are going to the breeding room. Come on, I will take you there."
Led by the teacher ants, Qige and the others followed the worker ants to the breeding room.
In the breeding room, there is another kind of black fungus spread all over the place.
Those waste materials and egg shells were all thrown into the black fungus.
In addition to waste and egg shells, there are also the corpses of some strange creatures, various rocks, leaves, soil, sludge...
Whether it is inorganic or organic matter, they are all thrown into the fungus pile by the ants.
Qi Ge even saw the corpses of several worker ants and soldier ants. They were wrapped in black mycelium and had mostly dissolved.
Teacher Ant stopped Qi Ge and the others and said:
"The breeding ground is very dangerous and must not be approached.
As long as it is caught by the culture medium, a large corrosion damage will be left.
The culture medium is special mycelium cultured in our body fluids, which can only be planted on pure silica rock.
They can digest almost anything."
The teacher ant brought Seven Pigeons and Nimbas to the bottom of the culture medium.
There is a small pool under the suspended black pure silica rock.
A steady stream of milky white juice and some strange solids continued to fall into the pool.
"These solids are the white silica that has just been absorbed by the white hyphae in the nursery."
A group of worker ants used a fishing net that carefully filtered the water to fish out the white silica. After all the milky white juice fell back into the pool, they took out the white silica.
"After this basin of milky white sap accumulates to a certain amount, it will continue to condense and eventually form the extremely precious ant royal jelly.
Only the queen ant is eligible to enjoy the royal ant jelly.
After the queen ant has enjoyed the royal ant jelly, she has a higher probability of laying soldier ant and teacher ant eggs.
If the queen ant wants to evolve, she also needs a lot of ant royal jelly.
The evolved queen ant can produce more powerful and more complex ants.
The purpose of those animal trainers to enslave us is precisely these precious ant royal jelly.
Since we were caught by the animal trainer, almost all the ant royal jelly has been taken away.
Our great queen ant can only eat mycelium like us.
Without the supplement of ant royal jelly, the queen ant can only give birth to worker ants, and the probability of soldier ants and teacher ants appearing is extremely small.
There is absolutely no possibility of evolution.”
Teacher Ant was heartbroken and burst into tears, but Qi Ge had no intention of listening to him.
Qi Ge's attention has been focused on several corpses wrapped in black mycelium.
They look like eggshells, with uneven surfaces covered with bubbles of different sizes.
These bubbles not only open and close, but also work hard to eject a little thin mist of chaos.
Ghost nest monster.
The pioneer of chaos, capable of mass-producing Chaos Demon Dogs.
Without entering the big battlefield mode, the ghost nest monster has extremely terrible resistance.
Immune to physical objects, immune to magic, and not affected by control effects.
Only the river or sea water in the Yasha world can cause harm to them.
But now, these ghost nest monsters are wrapped in black mycelium and have completely dissolved.
What surprised Qige the most was that even the mist of chaos ejected by the demons in the Ghost Nest was being stickyly captured by the black mycelium.
"No, no.
Can these black hyphae digest even the mist of chaos?
If it is really possible, then it is a good thing.
If we can find a way to bring this fungus back from the fantasy world and give it to Mirola to cultivate, maybe we can develop a powerful weapon to deal with Chaos."
Qi Ge glanced at Nimbas, who, like him, was staring at the monsters in the Ghost Nest.
Qi Ge gently patted Nimbas, and Nimbas woke up from a dream, and immediately signaled Qi Ge with his eyes to look at the monster in the Haunted Nest that was submerged in mycelium.
Obviously, they thought of going together.
Qi Ge carefully recalled that among the players who entered the Beast Tamer's Mud in their previous lives, there was no example of players bringing things out of the illusion.
"Just because they can't do it, doesn't mean I can't do it. I'm Qi Ge. Think about it carefully."
Afterwards, under the leadership of Teacher Ant, Qige and Nimbas visited the nest of the Che ant tribe in detail
The ant nest is a three-dimensional nest with six floors, divided into functional cells and ant tunnels for passage.
The overall trend of the nests of the Che ant tribe is vertical downwards, and the space is complex. What surprised Qi Ge is that the cells of these ant nests are all perfect regular hexagons.
The nest functions of the Qie ant tribe are much more than Qi Ge imagined.
In addition to the nursery room for cultivating young ants and the breeding room for making food, there are also medical rooms, high-speed ant tunnels, temperature control rooms, drainage chambers, food storage rooms...
There are twenty-six species in total, the largest of which is the queen ant house that is now empty.
There are nearly 300,000 worker ants, more than 2,000 soldier ants and 100 teacher ants in the entire nest.
According to Teacher Ant, the ratio of soldier ants to worker ants should originally be between 1:1. If there is a large-scale battle, such as the nest being invaded, this ratio will rise to 5:1 or even 10:1, that is
10 soldier ants are matched with 1 worker ant.
But now, the number of soldier ants is pitifully small.
After visiting the entire ant nest, Qi Pigeon tried his best to finally get the teacher ant to agree to visit the soldier ants fighting.
The person in charge of the demonstration was the big man who had previously identified Seven Pigeons and Nimbas.
And his opponent was an underground worm weighing 127 tons and as big as a hill.
The soldier ant's fighting style was wild. He avoided the attack of the underground worm, then lifted the whole underground worm with both hands and smashed its head against the hard rock ground.
Just hit it a hundred and sixty times, crushing the underground worm to death.
Qi Ge was dumbfounded.
The soldier ant only weighs 300 kilograms, or about 600 pounds, but he can lift a super giant worm that is 4,000 times his own weight and throw it up and down more than a hundred times.
This is equivalent to a 200-pound adult holding a commercial airliner and squatting up and down hundreds of times.
Because of their size, it is much more difficult for soldier ants to lift underground worms than for humans to lift civilian airliners.
Nimbas made an estimate and said to Seven Pigeons:
"Combat skills aside, in terms of strength, a soldier ant is about the same as a level 5 and 1 minotaur.
If what the teacher ant said is true, the ant nest had a total of 400,000 soldier ants at its peak.
This is equivalent to 400,000 minotaurs, and this military strength is almost the same as that of a large main city."
These words gave Qi Ge a deeper understanding of the trainer's strength.
Ant-Man is already so strong, and a trainer who can suppress Ant-Man and even treat Ant-Man as a slave will only become stronger.
Qi Ge was very curious about Ant-Man's experience when he was defeated and captured by the trainer. After some testing, he found that Teacher Ant didn't seem to be very disgusted with the mention of this matter, so he asked directly.
The teacher ant shook its antennae and said:
“It was a painful and unforgettable memory for us.
Tamers themselves are not very powerful, but they can control and strengthen other creatures.
We, the ant tribe, are not even afraid of underground worms that are a hundred times larger than us, but we cannot do anything about tiny swamp flies.
Bog flies are extremely fast and can quickly fly into our bodies through gaps in our mouths, ears, antennae connections, etc.
They lay eggs inside our bodies and then die.
The larvae of the bog fly eat us bit by bit from the inside and then burst out.
Our army of soldier ants was defeated by the tiny marsh flies.
Not only soldier ants, but also marsh flies are very lethal to worker ants.
After the bog flies invaded our nest, the nest quickly collapsed.
To be continued...