Chapter 855 Bombing 1
The interior of the entire gold-eating ant nest is mainly supported by the steel frame of an abandoned factory that was sunk into the ground by the gold-eating ants. The load-bearing columns have been transformed into hollow pipes, and the inner walls are covered with filamentous fungal carpets.
The filamentous fungal mat is a biological cement secreted by metallophilic bacteria that can bond steel bars and concrete debris to form a composite structure with a compressive strength of 800MPa.
Hanging on the beams were containers that were full of holes and eaten away. The iron sheets were hanging like melted wax, revealing the honeycomb-like etched patterns inside, and one could vaguely see the busy swarms of ants moving around.
Located in the center of the nest, there is an extremely huge acid furnace, which is the core building of the entire gold-eating ant nest. In its corrosion pool with a diameter of 0.5 meters, a nitric acid-hydrochloric acid mixture with a pH of is boiling.
Densely packed worker ants continuously push metal debris collected from the ground into the pool, allowing the acidophilic bacteria to accelerate the decomposition of metal substances at a high temperature of 60°C.
Gu Gu Gu~~
Bubbles carrying nitrogen dioxide mist continue to rise, and the pungent smell can easily corrode exposed metal surfaces.
A large number of metal salt crystals like tophi condensed on the edge of the pool. The thickest cobalt blue crystals were nearly three meters in diameter. Infiltrated by the light yellow acid mist, the undigested circuit board fragments sealed inside were flashing with a strange luster.
Just above this corrosion pool are tens of thousands of hexagonal nurseries supported by silicon carbide fiber net bags.
The walls of these nursery rooms are densely covered with air ducts, where the acid mist emitted from the corrosion pool below will condense into corrosive dew droplets, providing the larvae with the acidic environment they need for their first molting.
Densely packed larvae are immersed in the nutrient solution in the nursery room, their exposed mouthparts constantly gnawing at the suspended metal particles. This scene looks like countless horsefly larvae are piled together.
As the future of the gold-eating ant colony, these larvae have a large number of worker ants who are responsible for taking care of them and regularly injecting them with secretions containing ferritin to promote the mineralization of the larvae's exoskeleton.
Finally, not far from the nursery is the real core of the entire gold-eating ant colony, the real creator of the gold-eating ant colony, and the shared brain of all gold-eating ants - the gold-eating ant queen!
From a normal person's perspective, the gold-eating ant queen is almost like a monster crawling out of the abyss!
Its bloated body lies across the center of a huge nest woven from silicon carbide fibers. It is over twenty meters long and as large in diameter as a giant tanker truck. Its skin presents a strange mixture of metallic texture and biological tissue.
The surface of the dark purple exoskeleton is covered with raised metal nodules (similar to human tophi), and on those nodules, countless tiny metal thorns grow.
As the queen ant's breathing rate changes, these spikes will exude corrosive mucus, which drips onto the ground and burns out smoking, briquettes-like holes.
The most conspicuous feature of the gold-eating ant queen is its abdomen, which bulges like a small hill. The skin of its abdomen is translucent, and tens of thousands of eggs that are wriggling inside and look like gold label caviar roe can be vaguely seen.
Nearly two-thirds of its head is occupied by two huge compound eyes, each of which is made up of thousands of simple eyes. Scarlet light flashes constantly in the single eyes, like countless dancing flames, or like countless peeping devil's eyes.
At the same time, if you observe carefully, you will definitely find a blurry human face embedded in between these two huge compound eyes, which looks like Erlang Shen's heavenly eyes.
As the queen of the gold-eating ants manipulated the huge colony of gold-eating ants on land through pheromones, this blurred human face actually revealed a human-like expression of pain...
It sensed danger, but couldn't figure out where the danger came from. This feeling of being unable to scratch an itch made it extremely manic!
This manic emotion caused its huge body to begin to tremble violently and restlessly. As it trembled, the metal nodules and spikes on the surface of the gold-eating ant queen's body continuously sprayed light yellow corrosive acid mist and pheromones in all directions.
Not only that, the gold-eating ant queen's restless mood is also constantly being emitted through the two antennae on the top of her head that are like twisted metal cables and the billions of hairs attached to them, which in turn causes the billions of active gold-eating ants on the ground to fall into a manic state!
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However, the bombers in the sky were obviously unaware of the huge changes happening underground at this moment, and even if they knew, they would not care.
What does destroying you have to do with you?
"Everyone in the formation, pay attention to maintaining your respective tactical altitudes. Your respective mission areas have been marked based on the intelligence!" The voice of the captain of the H-20 lead aircraft came through the encrypted channel with a hint of electronic noise.
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"The electromagnetic environment below is complex, please pay attention to your flight altitude and don't fly too low!"
"Main pile No. 1 of the Gold-Eroding Ant Nest, prepare for the first round of attack!" Gao Haocheng, the captain of the J-16 lead aircraft, gave the order calmly while observing the ant pile that was dozens of meters high in the Changshou Chemical Park below.
"TL6-1000 kg class, three, two, one, release!"
As soon as the words fell, ten thousand meters above the sky, the weapons operators of two J-0.9 fighter jets cruising at a speed of Mach 16 locked onto the ground target and pressed the bomb-dropping button hard.
Snap~
The electromagnetic rack under the belly of the aircraft was released, and the Thunder-6 laser-guided bomb began to fall freely.
After about 0.5 seconds, the folding wings (gliders) unfold automatically, the air control surfaces start working, and the gliding trajectory is adjusted through the inertial navigation system (INS), entering the gliding phase with a speed of about 350m\\s.
与此同时，两架投掷雷霆6激光制导炸弹的歼16载机开始启动激光照射器，持续向地面的蚀金蚁巢1号主包发射编码激光脉冲（波长1.06微米，频率10-20 Hz）。
The laser seeker at the head of the Thunder 6 laser-guided bomb captured the reflected signal and officially entered the terminal guidance mode!
It's too late to say, then soon!
实际上当8枚雷霆6激光制导炸弹在被两架歼16战斗机以0.9马赫的速度掷出之后，很快便如同黑色流星般划破弥漫在园区上空的淡黄色酸雾，直直的砸进了目标锁定的高达数十米的1号主堆当中！
Bang!
When the projectile broke through the soil layer of nearly 20 meters, the built-in sensor was instantly activated, and then a shocking scene happened!
BOOM!!!!BOOM!!BOOM!!
When a dull explosion sounded as if a fart was coming from a quilt, it became visible to the naked eye that inside the huge pyramid-like main nest of the gold-eating ants, it seemed as if eight earth dragons were turning over at the same time!
The huge energy shock wave instantly shattered the entire internal structure of the main package into pieces. The steel bars wrapped in the metallovable bacterial blanket broke like noodles. Boiling acid gushed out along the cracks caused by the explosion like a volcanic eruption, forming an acid column tens of meters high!
Millions of gold-eating ants that were moving inside the main package, in the narrow and numerous capillaries, were squeezed and annihilated by the powerful energy that penetrated the passages at the moment the Thunder 6 guided bomb exploded!
However, all this is just a prelude to destruction!
Because at this moment, above the dome, the six H-6 stealth bombers that appeared in the clouds like a war fortress had silently opened their black bomb bays!
