Exploring ant nests at night is risky, but in Tom's opinion, the risk is relatively low.
In the afternoon, Tom was surprised by the attack of three composite troops from the ant colony at the restaurant, but it was also fortunate.
Whether it's the small and medium-sized ants of miscellaneous soldiers, the flying ants that can spray venom by flying soldiers, or the mutated soldier ants that make their final appearance, they are all terrifying for shrinking people. Even if the survivors in the aquarium have powerful awakeners, they still cannot withstand these powerful numbers of attacks.
The usual attack of ants is a swarm of bees, which can divide the ants in the nest into three groups according to their functions, which is enough to prove that the degree of variation of the queen ants in the nest is relatively high.
Either the queen ant underestimated the combat effectiveness of Tom's convoy, or there was a deviation in the timing of commanding the coordinated operations of the three troops; Either the queen ant does not have a clear sense of strategic scheduling, or all three of them do.
In short, if these three threatening teams can be coordinated and unified, they should first attack with the number of small and medium-sized ant infantry, supplemented by the pressure of large mutant soldier ants, and then cover with the venom of flying ants hiding in the shadows of high altitude. So Tom and others will have a very difficult time dealing with it, and may even cause the front line to collapse and the entire army to be destroyed.
When they solved the small ant troops in the miscellaneous army, Liu Lian finally discovered the flying ants flying above their heads. At this point, launching a venom covered attack was no longer able to hold them back, giving them the opportunity to shift positions and using the terrain to limit the height and movement space of the flying ants.
This can be said to be very fortunate.
Later, while cleaning up the ant corpses, they were surprised to find that there were no crystals on the bodies of the flying ants and the medium-sized mutant ants. This means that these flying ants did not consume humans, nor did they mutate from crystals within other mutated organisms. They are like the many mutated cockroaches Tom encountered at the subway station, mutated genes passed down from the mutated mother to the offspring.
The mutated cockroach that Tom killed in the industrial station gave birth to a large number of mutated cockroaches. Since most of the ants here are second-generation mutants without crystals, it means that the queen ant in the nest may also be dominated by yellow energy storage crystals.
Energy storage crystals store energy and provide energy support for other crystals.
The dominant crystal within the mutated organism determines its combat ability, among which the mutated organism dominated by the powerful red crystal is the strongest. On the contrary, the abilities of mutated creatures with yellow energy storage crystals are relatively mediocre.
Tom judged that the mutated queen ant's combat ability would not be too high, as it could produce a large number of second-generation mutant creatures.
In addition, the dozen or so mutated soldier ants fighting against the male ants all have level four red crystals in their bodies, which means that the number of these mutated soldier ants in the ant nest will not be very large. Since a group has been lost, Tom will take advantage of their empty military strength to directly attack the Yellow Dragon and destroy this nest first.
As Tom had anticipated, although there were still many ants defending against their invasion in the wide cave, it was still not suitable for the male ants.
After killing eight mutated soldier ants and other mutated ants, the male ant broke through the mud wall and arrived at another equally wide cave.
Here, a huge ant with a body height of 25 centimeters is lying on the ground, and many ants of all sizes are nervously dragging it away, trying to drag it away.
The body structure of ants is not very sturdy, and even with unreasonable mutations to strengthen their bodies, they still cannot change the innate defects in their body structure.
The queen ant, which mutated to a height of 25 centimeters, can be said to have almost no mobility. Its head and chest are too small compared to its 25 centimeter high abdomen, and its six slender legs cannot support such a heavy body.
Faced with the invading invaders, it could only helplessly swing its antennae, while some soldier ants rushed towards it, trying to protect it.
Just as Tom and the others were on high alert, the ants that were rushing towards them suddenly stopped and retreated, all the way to the back of the queen ant, densely gathering in a pile.
"What's going on?" Zhao Xinqi said strangely.
Ouyang Haotian burst out laughing and said, "I'm afraid, haha, it's afraid."
Tom thought for a moment and said, "Haozi, walk over and slow down. I'll communicate with it and see."
"Are you crazy?" Ouyang Haotian doesn't think this is a good idea. "What if it's trying to trick us into relaxing our guard and then launching a surprise attack?"
Tom couldn't rule out this possibility, so he ordered, "Zhao Xin, Cheng Haidong, be vigilant and beware of their actions."
"Understood!"
"Yes!"
Ouyang Haotian carefully controlled the male ant armor and walked up to the 25 centimeter tall queen ant. Looking at the creature that was 10 centimeters taller than them, he couldn't help but exclaim, "This is probably the largest ant in all the animations and movies."
Tom untied the iron claw on his right hand, pressed his finger onto the low head of the queen ant, and gently activated the green crystal.
The familiar pain and ethereal space in his mind reminded him that he had smoothly entered the thinking world of the queen ant.
"Leave, food for you, step back, don't move forward."
The chaotic thoughts of the queen ant were like a young child who didn't understand the meaning of words, but after all, Tom had had multiple experiences communicating with insects and immediately understood its meaning: "I will step back and not move forward", which means begging for mercy. In the common sense of the queen ant, all wars stem from the struggle for food. Now it explicitly proposes to give food and retreats, which means it is begging for mercy.
It's scared.
Ouyang Haotian is right.
Tom thought for a moment and asked a question, "Descendants..."
He thought for a moment and realized that the queen ant probably didn't have the concept of offspring, so he changed it to: "The population is stronger, how did you do it?"
In the consciousness of the queen ant, survival and food are equally important. The use of supernatural powers as a new means is actually a minor detail at the operational level. But now that Tom is the winner and dominates his life and death power, Tom's problem does not touch on his two principles, so it is natural to give everything to each other.
So Tom immediately gained a memory and experience of it.
In this memory, it showed Tom how it controlled a new organ in its body and transformed the ant eggs produced inside it according to established ideas.
This part of the memory is very complex, and Tom didn't immediately pay attention to it. He just quickly remembered it, like the memory of the queen ant obtained for the first time in the rental building, and slowly digested it afterwards.
This also includes how the queen ant added a thought chain to the newly formed population, allowing it to issue commands to all descendants without relying on the transmission of physical pheromones.
In the previous attack, it was originally planned to harass Tom and others with small and medium-sized ant soldiers, divert their attention, and let the flying ants quietly fly to their heads, and then cooperate with the mutated soldier ants on the final axis to launch an attack.
They just didn't expect Liu Lian to first discover the flying ants above their heads, and those mutated soldier ants didn't have any organs in their bodies to receive its commands, which slowed down their efficiency in executing attack commands. This led to an oversight in the cooperative battle, giving Tom and his teammates the opportunity to break through one by one.
When killing the invading mutated creature and obtaining crystals, the queen ant selectively left the powerful yellow crystal for herself, and gave the other crystals to the soldier ants. Therefore, these strong bodied soldier ants did indeed mutate. There is a gap in efficiency and loyalty in executing commands compared to the new generation of flying ants.
Seeing this, Tom thought of the mutated queen ant he first encountered in the rental building. If this queen ant sent the soldier ant with the command receiving organ to lead the mutated soldier ant, its efficiency would
He was just thinking about it, but he didn't expect his thoughts to be discovered simultaneously by the queen ant. Almost at the same time, a strong anger came from the queen ant: "Enemy, die! Die!"
Not good!
Tom realized that there was a problem, and with his queen ant thinking, he unconsciously tried to simulate command pheromones. He was immediately discovered by this huge mutated queen ant, who thought Tom was also a queen ant.
Each ant colony will only have one queen ant, and once the hatched ant has the possibility of becoming a queen ant, the queen ant will not hesitate to kill it to avoid being taken over. As the saying goes, a mountain cannot tolerate two tigers. Previously, she could compromise with Tom in order to survive. When she "discovered" that Tom was an ant queen, it naturally fought back to avoid being taken over and killed.
Tom immediately withdrew from the thinking world of the queen ant, grabbed the mouthpiece of the queen ant's pliers towards the male ant, and immediately shouted loudly, "Shoot!"
The 1.85mm waist gun immediately fired under the control of Ouyang Haotian, and two shells hit the queen ant's head, drilling two fist sized holes. However, this did not cause any damage to it.
The pain made the queen ant bloodthirsty and crazy, and the ant colony behind it immediately burst into a frenzy.
At this moment, Tom had already reacted and pulled out his shapeshifting sword with his empty hand, activating the dark red crystal on his arm and gaining strength enhancement.
The shapeshifting knife slashed through the hole made by the shell, although unable to penetrate deeply, it caused the queen ant to splatter pale yellow blood.
With a length of 6 centimeters for a large knife, it still takes some accumulation to effectively kill a mutated queen ant that is 25 centimeters tall. However, Tom is willing to try his other speculation.
The queen ant has limited mobility, and her only weapon is the long mouthpiece pliers. The only threat is the influx of security ants of all sizes.
These were entrusted to Zhao Xin and Cheng Haidong, who had to keep the big knife stained with the blood of the mutated queen ant.
The sword and shield trembled in the "Great move", and the shapeshifting big sword and the flickering shattered light on Tom's hand were caused by the phenomenon of blood vapor.
However, after the big knife was stained with the blood of the queen ant, the phenomenon of blood evaporation was strengthened, and the queen ant's blood quickly evaporated more shattered light.
These swaying fragments of light and their slow speed rose upwards, and Tom's hands once again felt the warm energy, surging and surging in his veins.
In an instant, the shattered light in the air was sucked onto his right hand at an extremely fast speed, and the dazzling light spread from his palm to the deformed sword. The crackling sound kept ringing, accompanied by a more intense and dazzling light on the blade.
Tom let out a roar and used all his strength to strike the big knife at the head of the queen ant. The hard skull was cut open like a tofu block, and the blade quickly exploded into its head.
"The sword of the dragon person" (sliding gold, wow open, cool crack!) This is the classic line of a character in a game that Ouyang Haotian shouted when he saw Tom's magical scene.