#319 - Chapter 319: Ants Have Armor
"What's there?" Ling Tian asked, seemingly to Ling Su, yet also to himself.
"Senior Brother, I don't know either," Ling Su replied.
"What's there?" Ling Tian looked at the screen, still asking.
"Senior Brother…" Ling Su wanted to comfort him, but didn't know what to say.
"What's there? What exactly is there? This is impossible! How could it disappear?…" Ling Tian still refused to believe it, constantly talking to himself.
"Senior Brother, don't be like this, it's just a small accident," Ling Su anxiously comforted.
"Right! You're right, it's just a small accident." Ling Tian heard these words.
"Ling Su, immediately order the dung beetle legion to cease their attack and set up camp on the periphery," Ling Tian instructed.
"Okay! I'll go now," Ling Su acknowledged the order and turned to leave.
Soon, the dung beetles stopped attacking. They moved in a small area outside the circular boundary, not a single one crossing the line.
…
Inside Shen Tu Zheng Hao's command center.
"In a temple? How many people are there?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.
"Less than three thousand, mostly researchers and some imprisoned civilians, not much combat power," Dai Zheng replied.
"Then have you found out where the captured Huaxia citizens are being held?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.
"Not this," Dai Zheng shook his head.
"Do you know about the residents of the Bayan Sumu settlement being abducted?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao suddenly felt something was wrong.
"This… I don't know!" Dai Zheng almost slipped up and quickly denied it.
According to Niu Xing Wang's explanation, Dai Zheng and his group were there to investigate the modified human laboratory, and since they weren't an official organization, they shouldn't know about this.
"Since you don't know, why did you say 'not this'?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.
"Just… just haven't found any other Huaxia citizens," Dai Zheng wasn't good at lying and immediately became a little nervous.
"Which places have you investigated?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked, picking up a tablet.
The tablet displayed a map of the entire Bato City.
"We've investigated the entire Bato City," Dai Zheng said.
"What? Investigated everything?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao didn't quite believe it; the efficiency was too high.
He knew very well that even Dark Night didn't have such efficiency.
"That's right!" Dai Zheng replied.
In fact, they didn't need to investigate at all.
They only needed to place the Queen Bee here, and they didn't need to worry about anything else. In less than a day, the Queen Bee could clearly investigate the entire city.
At the same time, the Queen Bee would share the investigation results with them in real time.
Therefore, it couldn't be said that Dongfang Chen's special forces team was much stronger than the Dark Night team; it could only be said that the technology they possessed wasn't on the same dimension, so there was no comparison.
"Then tell me, what have you investigated?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.
Dai Zheng wore digital eye pupils and could check the investigation results at any time, so answering this kind of question was easy.
"You see, this is the Gaole District, this is the main road in the city, here, here, and here, there are several department stores and large underground parking lots. These places are gathering tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of armored ants. And…" Dai Zheng took the tablet and introduced it skillfully.
"Wait, wait. What do you mean by armored ants?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked.
"Oh, this is a name I came up with myself. They are mutated ants, but unlike mutated ants, they are equipped with light and heavy firepower. There are also some ants equipped with steel armor. So I came up with a name, called armored ants," Dai Zheng explained, his tone casual.
But these words sounded like a thunderclap in Shen Tu Zheng Hao's ears.
"Ants with armor?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao asked loudly, his face full of disbelief.
"I didn't believe it at first, but that's the way it is, so I have to believe it," Dai Zheng said.
"How is this possible? Have the ants become spirits?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao still didn't believe it.
"Commander, in my opinion, the ants haven't become spirits. According to my judgment, the armor and weapons should have been installed by humans," Dai Zheng said.
"Putting weapons on ants? Would the ants use them?" Shen Tu Zheng Hao continued to ask, his eyes wide.
This was like hearing a heavenly book, unheard of, unseen.
"Commander, haven't you noticed? Why did those dung beetles attack us in unison? Don't you find it strange?" Dai Zheng asked.
In fact, Dai Zheng didn't have this kind of brain, but someone behind him was teaching him.
"You're right. The behavior of the dung beetles is somewhat similar to that of the pikas. Oh, we only discovered the pikas a few days ago. They have a unified pace, as if they are being controlled by someone," Shen Tu Zheng Hao explained.
"That's right, since the dung beetles and the pikas you mentioned can be controlled artificially, why can't ants?" Dai Zheng said.
Shen Tu Zheng Hao nodded, indicating his approval.
"So, it's not that the ants themselves know how to fire guns, but that someone is controlling everything," Dai Zheng said.
Okay, Dai Zheng finally shared the information with Shen Tu Zheng Hao with his clumsy eloquence.
