Three Hundred and Seventy Three Alarming

Xu Jiaye's expression froze, and he looked at Brother Yi as if asking for help.

The first brother asked curiously: "What is a water bear?"

"I can't understand a sentence or two, so you can look it up online." Professor Qin said weakly.

He also knew that his deduction was too shocking, and he didn't expect Brother Yi to believe it, but when this scene really happened before his eyes, Professor Qin still felt an inescapable sense of frustration.

At this time, Professor Qin felt quite outspoken.

Xu Jiaye and the first brother quickly searched for the introduction of water bears on the Internet, and their eyes were as wide as copper bells. Xu Jiaye looked at the expression of the first brother calmly, and asked first: "Old Qin, what is wrong with you in the world?" Could there be such a... er, magical creature?"

"Nature is so magical." Professor Qin said wisely.

"Then, you mean that Boxing Ant is a giant version of Water Bear?" Xu Jiaye's tone suddenly raised.

"It is possible, and it is also possible that boxer ants have evolved the ability to acquire foreign genes." Professor Qin said.

Tardigrades are very small, while boxer ants are only as big as a fist. Judging from the difference in size between the two, boxer ants are indeed transformed into giant tardigrades. The problem is that the appearance of tardigrades and protoants is too different, even if the two creatures There are a large number of foreign genes, and it cannot be said that they are the same organism.

"The adaptability of boxing ants..." Xu Jiaye suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking.

He originally wanted to ask whether the boxer ants' adaptability would be as strong as the water bear, but he remembered that the military used bombardment and fire to wipe out a large number of boxer ants, and then swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

Xu Jiaye thought for a while before continuing, "Will Boxer Ants continue to evolve, will they acquire the adaptability of water bears?"

"Personally, I don't think it's possible," Professor Qin said, "water bears can't adapt to any environment, and they can only live in normal environments. It is very important to be able to move freely in various environments. Let’s put it this way, if a water bear is as big as a boxer ant, the process of dehydration and water absorption is definitely not that simple, at least hundreds or thousands of times more complicated, so I think boxer Ants cannot possibly have this ability."

Xu Jiaye frowned puzzledly: "Then I don't understand, since Boxer Ant is not as powerful as a water bear, so what if it evolves?"

Professor Qin sighed helplessly: "Why don't you understand what I mean? Evolution is not terrible, what is terrible is the absorption of foreign DNA and targeted high-speed evolution!"

Xu Jiaye still looked confused, and Brother Yi couldn't hide the confusion in his eyes.

Professor Qin continued: "To put it bluntly, after absorbing human genes, it is possible to grow a human-like brain. In this case, the bugs will have the basis for generating wisdom..."

"Impossible?" Brother Yi said in a daze.

"I'm just making an analogy." Professor Qin said, "Besides, foundation alone is not enough. Wolf children are also human beings, but do wolf children have wisdom?"

Xu Jiaye pinched the corners of his eyes angrily: "I've made you dizzy."

Brother Yi secretly nodded in sympathy.

Professor Qin secretly slandered: It was originally a speculation, you made me say it!

But he couldn't say it clearly, he could only purse his lips: "In short, I think boxer ants are ten times and a hundred times more dangerous than all the giant insects in the past combined."

"Understood." The first brother nodded solemnly, "Old Qin, thank you for your explanation, it's getting late, you should go back and rest first."

After cutting off the video communication, only Xu Jiaye was left on the screen. The first brother asked, "Xiao Xu, what do you think?"

"Chief, I'm still dizzy." Xu Jiaye smiled wryly.

The first brother thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Xiao Xu, pay more attention to Professor Qin's experimental results recently, and report any progress as soon as possible, understand?"

Xu Jiaye nodded and said, "Yes, Chief."

He promised happily, but he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, is he concerned about the situation in the laboratory, or is he trying to grasp the situation in the laboratory?

With his political IQ, he really can't figure it out.

Communication ends,

Brother Yi sat alone for a long time before sorting out the messy thoughts in his heart. After returning to the office, he called Qiu Tianning: "Old Qiu, the situation has changed. Linyi can't delay any longer."

"what do you mean……"

"Execute the annihilation plan, and do our best in the rescue mission."

Qiu Tianning's heart trembled, and he persuaded in a low voice: "Fist ants can't come out of their nests, should we wait a little longer?"

The plan to exterminate the boxing ants has been prepared long ago. Once this plan is implemented, the boxing ants will definitely die one by one, but the people who are captured by the boxing ants will not escape death either.

"You can wait in Linyi City first, there is no need for ant nests outside the city." Brother Yi said.

"Yes, I understand!" Qiu Tianning quietly let out a sigh of relief.

"Linyi City should also be well controlled. You can control the speed yourself." The first brother said again.

"it is good."

At the end of the communication, Qiu Tianning looked solemn, thought for a moment and said, "Notify Linyi, temporarily suspend the rescue, and find out the ant nest first."

The order was transmitted to Linyi via radio waves, and the difficult rescue operation came to an abrupt end.

More than that, there are only four power armors in the whole brigade that can move freely, and the rescue operation requires the joint efforts of thousands of officers and soldiers of the whole brigade, not the individual heroism of four outsiders.

Even if Ye Han and others don't care about gains and losses and don't care about fatigue, the battery pack still has to take time to charge it!

Although the operation was suspended, the troops did not withdraw from the cavern. All the armored vehicles that could enter the cavern were thrown out and burrowed around in the ant nest underground in Linyi. The electronic ant nest map in the headquarters expanded rapidly.

The zigzag and criss-cross passages, large and small caverns, underground river network densely covered with tributaries...a huge underground "city" almost half the size of Linyi gradually unfolded in front of everyone.

Everyone was stunned by this huge ant nest. With such a large scale, it would be no problem to hide millions of soldiers and civilians.

Ascertaining the condition of the tunnel network is only the first step, what is more important is to assess the safety of each lot.

Time waits for no one. The headquarters initially divided the underground network into three levels. One is the safe area. There is no risk of landslides or underground rivers in this level of tunnels. Armored vehicles can come and go freely without any danger; the second is hidden danger areas, such as water seepage. Or other risk factors that may lead to landslides; the third is critical areas, that is, areas that have collapsed and are submerged by underground rivers and other impassable areas.

In order to complete this map, the headquarters even put aside the counting of the number of "granary warehouses". It was not until the map was completed that they began to count how many granary warehouses the troops had discovered.

It’s not that I don’t know, but I was shocked when I calculated that there were more than 270 granaries in the whole brigade, and there were hundreds of people at least, and thousands of people at most. According to incomplete statistics, about 15 humans were captured by boxing ants. Up to 170,000, and that's not counting the ones that have been eaten by boxing ants. (To be continued.)