#487 - Chapter 487 War Between Animals
The ants' inability to keep up with the kangaroos was quickly resolved due to their numerical advantage.
Several ant colonies coordinated to encircle the kangaroo herd from multiple directions.
They continuously reduced the encirclement, planning to annihilate these hundreds of thousands of kangaroos in one fell swoop.
However, achieving success was extremely difficult.
Kangaroos run by hopping, and their feet have very brief contact with the ground.
In such a short time, the ants didn't have enough time to climb onto their bodies. Even if they did, they could easily be shaken off.
But once they climbed on, they would enter the kangaroos' ears, driving them mad with constant biting, until they were exhausted and gave up resisting.
The encirclement slowly shrank.
The space for the kangaroos to move became smaller and smaller.
The ants had successfully converged, forming a vast encirclement with a diameter of over one kilometer.
The kangaroos shuttled back and forth within this encirclement, unable to escape.
This was the most dangerous time for both sides.
If the kangaroos couldn't break through, they would be completely reduced to food for the ants.
If the ants continued to shrink the encirclement, the kangaroos might take a risk and forcibly charge outwards.
This was a contest of physical strength and a contest of psychological fortitude.
At this moment, the ants stopped moving forward, and the encirclement no longer shrank.
This action by the ants gave the kangaroos a moment to breathe, but at the same time, it eliminated their sense of urgency to charge outwards.
Once the sense of urgency was lost, they lost the courage to charge outwards.
This plan was very effective.
After the ants stopped attacking, the kangaroos continued to run for a while, then also stopped.
They stood in the encirclement to rest, while constantly looking outwards.
Time passed slowly.
The kangaroos didn't charge, and the ants didn't dare to easily shrink the encirclement, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
This stalemate lasted for three days.
The purpose of encircling without attacking was to exhaust them to death.
The ants didn't have such high intelligence, but the Queen Ant did.
After three days, the kangaroos had no food or water and couldn't hold on any longer, one by one collapsing to the ground, devoid of strength.
It was time.
The ants launched their final attack.
They surged in from all directions and began to devour.
The kangaroos rolled, struggled, but were helpless.
Before long, the controllable rats also arrived one after another.
A gluttonous feast began.
… …
Every so often, the Queen Ant would zombify and decompose a portion of the rats, converting them into crystal cores to build the underground base.
Currently, the base was already taking shape.
This base had no human living areas, only production bays.
The production bays were constantly producing simulated spider robots.
It had now been discovered that a species of exceptionally large insect lived in the humid regions of eastern Australia: dragonflies.
The average body length of these dragonflies exceeded 1.5 meters, and the largest exceeded 3 meters.
This was a natural ranch.
As long as these dragonflies could be conquered, there would be no worry about feed for the rats.
December 3, 2056 AD.
200,000 simulated spider robots split into four groups, crossed the Flinders Ranges, and began to attack Peterborough, located in southeastern Australia.
Located on the west coast of Spencer Gulf, this area had abundant aquatic plants and lush vegetation, and was once a large pasture, but had now become a paradise for dragonflies.
"Chirp ~"
Concealed by the vegetation, the simulated spider robots weaved through the jungle. As soon as they saw a dragonfly, they would automatically attack.
The sound of the laser weapons firing was very small, completely drowned out by the powerful noise of the dragonflies' vibrating wings in the jungle.
So this kind of attack would not alarm the other dragonflies at all.
"Chirp Chirp ~"
Two more dragonflies were shot down.
"Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp ~"
The massacre had begun.
One by one, the corpses of dragonflies fell from the sky, struggled for a moment, and then stopped moving.
The battle continued from morning until dusk, and the robots only advanced 20 kilometers.
This 20 kilometers of jungle was already covered with dragonfly corpses.
The sun set, and the battle ended.
The next step was the most difficult task.
The dragonfly corpses could not be fed directly to the rats and needed to be converted into feed.
This required collecting the corpses and using a fully automated feed production line to produce it.
But why was this step so difficult?
That was because the fully automated harvesting aircraft were relatively large targets, and if they were targeted by the Tasmanian Empire, a fierce battle would inevitably occur.
Sure enough, at two o'clock in the morning, five strange aircraft appeared.
They directly launched an attack after discovering the harvesting aircraft.
Fortunately, the harvesting aircraft was equipped with an energy shield, and their attacks had no effect.
A large number of simulated spider robots counterattacked at the same time, and the five aircraft were quickly destroyed.
Dongfang Chen had been waiting for this day for a long time.
After receiving the news, he immediately ordered Xiaolin to issue instructions to the Queen Ant to collect information on them.
Soon, the scanning results came out.
The outer shell of this aircraft turned out to be the exoskeleton of a giant beetle, and, miraculously, it relied on the beetle's wings to fly.
This was very strange.
The beetles were all dead, so how could their wings still be used?
