What It’s Like Being a Vampire

In the early morning, a GL8 drove into Chongyun Village.

After the car stopped, Zhou Rui, Mi Qiao, and Gao Shu got out, carried their equipment, and started heading into the mountains.

Their destination was the area where the lightning storm occurred the night before, but they did not need a guide. They directly took the "Shenxing Technology" dedicated tablet and followed the route positioned above.

After arriving, the three began to take photos and collect other samples according to the established plan.

Naturally, they got much more information than ordinary people who watched the news. They could clearly locate the place where the bodies of the two fugitives were found, and even had photos taken by the police at the scene.

Standing at the place where the body was found, looking at the photos taken at the time on his tablet, Mi Qiao frowned and said, "Generally speaking, would it be so miserable if someone was struck by lightning?"

Zhou Rui nodded: "It is possible to be struck by lightning directly... but the probability is relatively small."

His attention was not on discovering the corpse of the fugitive or the traces of being struck by lightning, but on discovering a piece of "pure land" not far away.

The area where the bodies of the two fugitives were found was the most struck by lightning. The trees next to it were almost not spared. They were in a mess and the ground was full of traces of lightning strikes.

It made people realize that the two fugitives were probably just victims of the lightning storm AOE. At that point in time, this place was the realm of death.

But there happened to be a small area, which looked obviously different from the surrounding area and was very intact.

If this area was further away, Zhou Rui would not notice it at all, because the lightning strike was not rain, and it was impossible to completely cover all corners of an area. But the area where they were now, where the bodies of the two fugitives were found, was the most densely struck by lightning. The surrounding area was basically covered, as if there was something here that was attracting lightning strikes. There was such an intact area in the center of the lightning strike. place, it seems strange.

Zhou Rui was walking over to get down and take a closer look, but suddenly he noticed a few insects fluttering their wings and flying out from the ground.

He was stunned for a moment, and his immediate reaction was that those insects seemed to be the kind of "flying ants" he had caught on a pedestrian street in Tongshi Town before?

Zhou Rui rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen it wrong, but after walking over and squatting down, he discovered that there was another insect crawling out of the ground.

He quickly caught it, and when he looked again, he saw that it was really the weird "flying ant" he had caught on the pedestrian street before.

Zhou Rui knelt directly on the ground, leaned down, and observed carefully, he found that the soil on this land was very loose. Although it had experienced heavy rain the day before yesterday, it did not seem to be "washed away".

"What's there?" Mi Qiao and Gao Shu also came over, squatted next to them, and asked in a low voice.

Zhou Rui showed them the "flying ant" he was holding in his hand, and said in a slightly excited tone: "It's the kind of 'flying ant' I caught in Tongshi Town the day before yesterday. It came out of the soil. This Could this thing... be the same thing as the 'giant raptor' and 'invisible insect' we investigated before?"

"The same thing?" Mi Qiao frowned and looked at the winged ant in Zhou Rui's hand.

Although they came to investigate this area today, the main reason was that the lightning storm the night before yesterday was very similar to the lightning storm that occurred in Zihuan Mountain earlier. They wanted to investigate whether the "giant raptor" also appeared here when the lightning storm occurred. After all, the Wushu Mountain area where the "giant raptor" appeared years ago is not far from here.

It is not impossible to find signs of other "blood-eating creatures" here.

But the problem is that she knows much more information about "blood-eating creatures" than Zhou Rui, so it is clear that if this kind of ant is a "blood-eating creature", it is impossible to be caught by Zhou Rui so easily, let alone in There are many in such a small area.

Zhou Rui also heard the doubts in her words and quickly added: "These are probably just worker ants! Special, flying worker ants! Our target is probably the queen who gave birth to these worker ants! Even... The 'invisible insect' we were tracking was fighting with the 'giant bird of prey'.

"Remember that we didn't find a single ant on the main peak of Wushu Mountain where the 'Invisible Insects' appeared? It's probably because the 'Invisible Insects' are a special kind of ants! They drove other ant groups out of their territory! But Because of special reasons... such as being chased by the 'giant raptor', the other worker ants 'moved' away first, but the queen... the 'invisible insect' we call it was too big and had no time to evacuate. , entangled by the 'giant raptor'!

"That night at Wushu Mountain, we finally saw the 'giant raptor' digging up the ground, grabbing the 'invisible insect' and flying away, but we don't know if there was a subsequent fight between them and whether it was an 'invisible insect'. 'He broke away and ran away again.

"Maybe it later ran to Zihuan Mountain, and the 'giant raptor' chased it, and now it's here again."

Zhou Rui explained his conjecture with some excitement. Just when he saw flying ants flying out from here, a few extremely huge winged ants with black carapace suddenly appeared in his mind, like another dimension or an abyss. Like a monster from hell, it bursts out of the earth, flutters its wings, and rushes into the sky.

This was a dream he had last night, and he still remembered it clearly after he woke up. But when he first woke up, he didn't think too much about it. He thought it was just because he had seen the "invisible insect" before, and he caught another ten-minute insect the day before yesterday. Only special ants can dream like this.

But at this time, in the middle of the area hit by the lightning storm, looking at the suspected ant nest, looking at the "flying ants" just caught in their hands, I thought of the earlier time they went to Citong City to investigate the lightning that occurred in Zihuan Mountain Storm, when he thought of the video of a suspected "giant raptor" provided by the information department at that time, those images in the dream suddenly became an inspiration that lightened up his thinking, causing him to generate these conjectures.

These conjectures made him a little excited and a little scared.

It should be said that excitement accounted for much more. After all, he has always liked ants and studied ants. He never thought that he might discover an unprecedented and magical ant.

Mi Qiao frowned and said, "But we found no trace of this ant in the area where lightning struck Zihuan Mountain."

Zhou Rui said: "The area we investigated and sampled before was relatively small, and because of the appearance of the two policemen, we did not check many places and may have missed them."

Mi Qiao could feel that Zhou Rui was inexplicably confident in his conjecture, and seemed to already think that this conjecture was a fact.

"You mean, the lightning storm that happened in Zihuan Mountain and here is the way that 'invisible insect' uses to defend against enemies? Can it control lightning?" According to Mi Qiao's understanding of "blood-eating creatures", " No matter how powerfully mutated the "blood-eating creature" is, it is impossible to induce or control the power of nature such as lightning storms on its own.

"It may not be control... it may be that when they are in certain states, their physical characteristics change and become particularly easy to conduct electricity, thus affecting the impact point of direct lightning strikes and causing lightning storms. By the way, our folklore, It is often said that after cultivating spirits, they will have to undergo heavenly tribulations... I am not suddenly superstitious, I mean... Do our ancient legends describe similar creatures? It is possible that this kind of very special lightning Is the storm the reason why special creatures including 'invisible insects' and 'giant birds of prey' appear?" Zhou Rui said.

Mi Qiao remembered Zhou Rui's comparison to Godzilla earlier. Knowing that this guy's middle soul was starting to burn again, he didn't say anything to him. But she also felt that Zhou Rui's conjecture was not completely ridiculous. There may indeed be a connection between Zihuan Mountain and the lightning storm that occurred here, and the winged ants discovered by Zhou Rui had also been confirmed to be related to ordinary ants and other Hymenoptera. Insects are all different, so there must be something wrong.

She looked at the area in front of her where the soil looked a little loose and Zhou Rui thought it was an ant nest, and asked: "You mean, the queen ant is down there now?"

"It's possible." Zhou Rui paused, and then said something that made Mi Qiao frown: "But it's also possible that he was struck by lightning and wiped out into ashes the night before yesterday."

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Zhou Rui and Mi Qiao were naturally unable to find the queen ant from the "suspected" ant nest, because Xiang Kun did not "arrange" the queen to be there at all. The so-called ant nest was actually just a few balls controlled by Xiang Kun to assist some. The worker ants made it in the soil mainly to remove the traces he and Lao Xia left there.

But he did guide Zhou Rui to connect lightning storms with ants, as well as the previous "mutated ants" and "mutated big birds".

In the pedestrian street before, he deliberately let Zhou Rui discover the "flying worker ant" in order to use the equipment and personnel of "Shenxing Technology" to study the specific special characteristics of the "flying worker ants" transformed and produced by "Zero Zero Two". place, and then directly obtain this information through Mi Qiao or Zhou Rui, and also take a look at the process of "Shenxing Technology" treating and processing this suspected "mutated creature".

Today's further guidance to Zhou Rui is firstly to mislead "Shenxing Technology" to pay attention to the two lightning storms, and secondly, he plans to set up a plan to forge a relatively powerful "mutated creature" to test " What methods will "Shenxing Technology" use to deal with "mutated creatures"? What kind of reinforcements will be sent even when Mi Qiao and his team are unable to cope? Can they attract "Mr. Liang" or other people with higher authority and control? More information people.

Of course, he would not put the "test site" in Chongyun Mountain. After all, it is relatively close to Chongyun Village and is the site where he will develop in the future.

As for the "bait", ants such as "Zero Zero One" or "Zero Zero Two" that are already directly associated with him and have entered the "super-sensory object system" will not be used.

He planned to let "Zero Zero Two" give birth to some new colonial ants, give birth to some new queen ants, and cultivate one or several secondary ant colonies to serve as "bait."

But for the time being, the queen ants produced by "Zero Zero Two" do not meet Xiang Kun's requirements. He needs to further train and cultivate "Zero Zero Two" so that it can understand the second-level queen he needs, Ant colony type, find a way to give the secondary queen more abilities via Zero Zero Two.

At this time, Xiang Kun and Xia Libing were standing on the roof of their house, looking at the GL8 parked on the edge of the mountain trail in the distance.

"Are you going into the mountain?" Xia Libing asked.

Xiang Kun knew that what she was asking was whether he wanted to take a closer look at Mi Qiao and Zhou Rui's investigation progress in the mountains, as well as the situation of the "flying worker ants" they had arranged.

"No, just go back and ask about the progress in Mi Qiao or Zhou Rui's dream. Anyway, we just 'planted a seed' today. The exact place where it will sprout has not yet been determined."

Xiang Kun said and glanced at the "Zero One" on Xia Libing's palm next to him. The big ant was lying motionless, as if asleep.

"001" has shed its shell seven times. Its body has changed from small to large, and then from large to smaller. Its whole body has become smooth and shiny. It is not only different in size from other "flying worker ants" produced by "002" There are also obvious differences in appearance, like a "mecha warrior" in the ant world. These changes are adapted to Xiang Kun's "transformation needs", but these changes still do not surpass the ants, or membrane wings. The genetic limits of the order itself.

Xia Libing has actually been trying to establish a special connection with the ants associated with Xiang Kun, similar to coins and black circle graffiti, but has been unable to succeed.

However, although Lao Xia cannot establish a deep connection with these ants like Xiang Kun, and cannot give them instructions, they still have a closeness to Lao Xia that is different from other creatures.

Just like now, "Zero Zero One" can stay motionless and very comfortable in the palm of Lao Xia. The previous queen ant "Zero Zero Two" can also be caught by Lao Xia for inspection and photography without resisting. Fly away or attack, and this is not because of Xiang Kun's order, but because of their consciousness.

In fact, at the beginning, neither "001" nor "002" had this consciousness, but later Lao Xia tried a special method - she fed two ants and she "appeared" cake.

Of course, Xiang Kun could not confirm for the time being whether "Zero Zero One" and "Zero Zero Two" showed closeness to Lao Xia because they were fed Juxian cakes, or simply because they got used to Lao Xia's smell after being together for a long time.

After all, normally speaking, ants cannot be fed or raised to maturity, and their cognition is much narrower than that of cats or birds.

For the time being, Xiang Kun only has two related ants, "001" and "002", and there are no other related ants for controlled experiments. As for the other "flying worker ants" and "little worker ants", they are affected by "002" "The influence of Lao Xia also has a consistent behavioral pattern.

Xiang Kun looked at the "Zero Zero One" in Lao Xia's hand and said: "I will go to the mountains today to try to establish a colony of ants, embed them in a small-scale ecology, and adjust their shape and abilities before the blood-drinking period. Come back. If Zicheng and Deputy Director Liu come to see me, help me deal with it, and leave your phone with you." He wanted to go into the mountains to conduct continuous experiments overnight, so Lao Xia naturally couldn't follow him.

"Do we need to prepare the meat rabbit first?" Xia Libing asked.

"If I haven't come back on Sunday morning, help me get ready." Xiang Kun said.

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