Chapter 366 Ant Nest
"Jun Qianzi is best known for his achievements in engineering and construction.
But he himself likes to study all kinds of insects the most. "
Pu Liuxuan showed a reminiscence expression on his face, and said slowly: "He was fascinated by all kinds of insects. In the first year of school, he used the fee he got for writing articles for Neo-Confucian journals to buy a glass cabinet with a height of one person. In the school dormitory, observe the insect ecology inside.
Later, when he took agronomy class, he specially applied to the teacher for an extra piece of farmland, which was full of weeds.
After school, other students go to Chang'an City to eat, drink and have fun,
He was alone in the garden, holding a large drawing board, humming a little song, and drawing images of insects.
Ants, bees, butterflies, praying mantises, beetles, and even spiders, dung beetles, and moths that most people hate.
At that time, I lived in the same dormitory with him, and watched him make insect specimens every day, and also received a lot of knowledge by ear.
For example, cicadas can't hear rough sounds at all, but can only hear sharp sounds;
White-fronted spiders are docile and well-behaved, and are completely beneficial insects to humans—non-toxic, and like to eat cockroaches, flies, moths, and crickets;
When the bee hive is invaded by wasps, the bees will swarm up, wrap the wasps into a ball, and roast the latter to death with heat;
He often told me that seemingly weak, dull, and ignorant insects are far more intelligent than people think.
Without the maggots that decompose corpses, and the dung beetles that digest dung, our world would not be long before it would be filled with filth.
Without the pollinating flies and bees, our world would not be able to bloom flowers, bear fruit, or even grow food in a short time.
Insects abide by the rules, and in order to survive and reproduce, they can make sacrifices and efforts that humans cannot. "
Pu Liuxuan paused, and said: "He likes insects very much, and at the same time he also loves the country of Yu and the people of the country of Yu.
Therefore, when floods and droughts occur frequently, he chooses to put aside his hobbies and devote himself to construction projects that he doesn't like that much. "
Li Ang was thoughtful. These detailed information can only be obtained from Pu Liuxuan, Jun Qianzi's former confidant and friend. traces left behind.
"Let's go back to the one hundred thousand barren mountain expedition,"
Pu Liuxuan sighed: "At that time, we had just cured a flood, and we were about to graduate from the academy, it was the time when we were young and frivolous, full of ambition.
Relying on the cultivation base of the Xunyun Realm, disregarding the regulations of the academy, he left the barren guide behind and secretly explored deeper into the 100,000 barren mountains.
As a result, without accident, we got lost. "
He spread his hands and said: "The deeper the barren mountain goes, the stronger the barbaric atmosphere,
Each tree is at least thirty feet high, and the canopy is densely covered with blood-sucking vines, and there are hundreds of man-eating birds hovering above the canopy,
There are countless poisonous insects hidden in the grass, a small drop of venom is enough to kill a whole town,
In the creek water lies a golden python, with patterns on its body that look like giants with one eye,
Because the sky is blocked by the tree canopy, we don't even know how long the outside time has passed, we only know that we have been wandering in the dense forest for a long time. I didn't see many wonders, but half my life was lost. "
Pu Liuxuan pulled up his cuffs, showed Li Ang the dense old scars on his arms, and said in a complicated tone: "We once thought that we would die in the barren mountains,
It was even half-jokingly agreed that if someone died, another person would have the right to dispose of his body and get out by eating jerky—this should be one of the few reliable sources of food deep in the barren mountains.
Suddenly, we found an ant nest. "
"The ant nest was made of sand and was as high as four or five stories.
Surrounded by many strange beasts with wounded heads and bleeding, exuding a powerful aura.
If calculated according to the standards of the Academy, each of them is a first-class monster, enough to set off a **** storm in Yu State, and break through thousands of troops like entering a land without people.
However, they just looked at each other vigilantly, and just stayed around the ant nest quietly, as if they were queuing up. "
"Jun Qianzi and I were overwhelmed by the momentum around us. We didn't dare to move. We stayed where we were and observed carefully. But we found that the strange beasts approached the ant nest in turn, knelt down on the ground, and let swarms of ants climb up their bodies .”
"The ants **** the pus and blood from the body of the alien, use natural silk thread to sew up the wound of the alien, and even clean up the dirt and parasites on the alien's body. The whole process is silent and orderly."
"It was only then that Jun Qianzi and I realized that this place turned out to be a 'peaceful zone' in the barren hills. The alien beasts reached an agreement with the ants. The ants provided the alien beasts with medical and sanitation services, while the alien beasts had to protect the ant nest. Safety.
The weak ants have reached a cooperation with the powerful beasts. "
“When Jun Qianzi and I approached the ant nest, the ants also climbed onto our bodies. They stitched up our wounds, cleaned up the bugs on our bodies, and even provided clean honey water.”
"I was amazed by the wonders in front of me, but Jun Qianzi, who already loves insects, noticed something deeper."
"The millions of ants living in this ant nest are not of the same race, but more than 300 kinds of ants. This is very rare. In Jun Qianzi's cognition, ants pass through Smell communication, different types of ants don’t kill each other, let alone live together.”
"In addition, he also noticed that different types of ants in the ant nest come from all over the world, and each type of ant has its own division of labor and positioning."
"The leaf-cutter ants native to the South China Sea cut off the leaves in the barren forests, use the leaves to grow fungi, and feed the larvae;
The big-headed ants native to the Central Plains are responsible for building nests and cleaning the gravel and fine sand in the nests;
Weaver ants native to Tianzhu are responsible for spit out silk threads;
Honey ants native to the Western Regions are responsible for storing honey juice;”
"This surprised Jun Qianzi very much. What surprised him even more was that there lived in the ant nest a black stink ant that was native to the Endless Sea and was brought back to the Central Plains by the Academy's scientific research team two hundred years ago."
"This kind of stink ant has a very developed odor organ, which can secrete different smells to express different meanings. You should have seen this in the book "Taxonomy of Alien Animals". Dr. Doer was the first to discover this kind of ant , calling it 'the smartest ant'.
Before he brought the stink ants back to Yu country, there was absolutely no such ants on land.
Their positioning in the giant ant nest is the mind—the stink ants are evenly distributed throughout the ant nest, secreting odors with different meanings, and commanding and coordinating all the ants. "
"Based on the size of the ant nest, the construction speed of the worker ants, and the depth of the ant nest extension under the ground, Jun Qianzi determined that the history of this ant nest is no more than 170 years. There is a correspondence between the two, so the answer is obvious. .”
"Man's voyage and exploration activities have brought different kinds of ants to the depths of the barren mountains. These weak ants have to survive in the human kingdom. A heavy rain, a wheel that is run over, and water poured by a naughty boy, all It is enough to destroy their ant nests. Not to mention the depths of the dangerous barren mountains."
"However, when all the ants come together, the division of labor and cooperation between them is enough to make the strange beast surrender."
(end of this chapter)