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Chapter 319 Huge Underground Passage
Qin Meng was silent and didn't want to answer this question. God knows why a woman's nose is so good. With his sense of smell, he didn't even smell other people's scent on him, but Linglong could smell it.

Qin Meng didn't speak, and Linglong didn't want to speak even more. At some point, Linglong was lying on Qin Meng's back, hugging his neck, and the atmosphere between the two fell into a strange silence.

It didn't last long like this, and within a short time, Linglong silently kissed Qin Meng's cheek, and her face regained her calm, with a hint of a smile on her face.

"Qin Meng, let me down. We are teammates now, and you have a girlfriend again. It's not appropriate to carry me behind your back."

Qin Meng paused in his footsteps and stopped, but he didn't know what it was like in his heart, probably mixed feelings.

There was reluctance, sadness, and bitterness, but he was not as happy as he imagined. It should be a big burden to unload, so why wasn't he very happy?
The two walked silently in this dark underground, one in front of the other, as if there were only two people left in the whole world.

Within a few minutes, this road has come to an end, no, it can't be said to be an end, but this passage is connected to another passage, and Qin Meng's teammates are waiting there.

Looking at the curious and gossiping eyes of his teammates, Qin Meng had nothing to say, but felt a little blocked.

"What are you doing here? Oh, you can't do it without me, right?"

Everyone glanced back and saw Linglong with her head lowered, her expression unclear, and her flowing cloud-like hair spread out, blocking most of her face.

Looking at the frozen atmosphere between the two of them, everyone understood that the quarrel just now did not break the embarrassment between the two of them, and it seemed to have become more serious.

"Ahem, working hours, concentrate, what are you doing!"

Xiaobai coughed twice to attract everyone's attention, "This time, Qin Meng, you go first, and the tank is last, let's go!"

Qin Meng had no objection, he took the lead and walked in the front, maybe he still had a feeling of evasion in his heart, he always felt that the closer he was to Linglong, the more guilty he felt, obviously he did nothing wrong, what the hell is this called?
The passage Xiaobai dug out was obviously larger than this one, and Qin Meng had to bow slightly to enter.

His thought power radiated along the channel, and he didn't find any trace of life until the limit distance of his thought power.

It's just that the winding, winding passages in the underground made him feel as if he had come to the real underground world.

"Does anyone of you know which creatures like to nest underground, and it is a large nest. Judging from the scale observed now, it has penetrated hundreds of meters underground."

"That's a lot. There are ants, earthworms, salamanders, beetles, and ant lions. I can go on and on with this long list." Xiao Bai was the most knowledgeable in their team. The method is determined.

"Then keep walking, I just hope it's not an ant."

The passage fell into silence again, only the calm but chaotic footsteps of the crowd.

"Wait, I seem to have found something?"

Qin Meng stopped again and whispered a word.

Everyone followed and stopped. Seeing that Qin Meng was silent, as if in shock, they couldn't help but raise their hearts.

"What's going on? What did you find?"

"It seems to be the worst result. I found an ant, a worker ant beyond imagination!"

Qin Meng's thought power continued to extend in the winding underground passage, and suddenly a creature with tentacles stretched out and quivering suddenly appeared. It had a hard shell, and if the ferocious front jaw was not in the dark, it would be enough to scare ordinary people out. In a cold sweat.

Most importantly, Qin Meng estimated its size. This creature should be an ant. It is at least as big as an ordinary Erha. It doesn't seem that big, and it seems that it can't stand up to a large monster.

But Qin Meng's heart has sunk. Everyone knows that ants live in groups, and their social structure is extremely centralized. There were tens of millions of ants in the past.

In front of humans, it is just a flamethrower, but now an ant is the size of a large dog. If countless ants gather, even incendiary bombs may not be effective.

"The ones that collect food outside, or take on tasks such as pathfinding, are called worker ants, right?"

"Yes, the social structure of ants is generally composed of: worker ants, soldier ants, drone ants, and queen ants. Workers ants not only have to undertake the task of exploring the path, but also need to build or expand nests, and feed larvae and queen ants. You really have to A worker ant was detected? How big is it?"

"It's very big," Qin Meng said solemnly, "it's about the size of an adult husky!"

"It's impossible," Xiaobai subconsciously denied, "It's not in line with science. With the form of an ant's exoskeleton, it is impossible to support their size. The weight alone may crush them to death!"

"According to the square-cube law, when an object is scaled up, its surface area increases quadratically, while its volume increases cubically."

"If the original weight of an ant is roughly estimated as 1 gram, the volume is only 1 cubic centimeter, so on its cross-section per square centimeter, it only needs to bear 1 gram of weight."

"What if it is magnified a hundred times? Its volume becomes 100 million cubic centimeters. If the density has not changed, the weight should be 100 million grams, but the cross-sectional area is only 1 square centimeters, which is now every square centimeter. On the cross-section of the , the weight that needs to be borne has become 100 grams! It has increased by 100 times than before!"

"The conclusion is that they will be crushed to death by their own weight!"

Xiaobai explained a lot, Qin Meng just rolled his eyes, "It's useless to tell me so much, obviously these ants have also entered the sequence of evolution, the weight did not overwhelm them, they have built a kingdom!"

"Can you catch one? If that's the case, we have to discuss the countermeasures. This time it's not just a crisis in a certain city. With the current size of the ant colony, they need a lot of food. In this world, the number of The most common and easiest food to obtain is ordinary people!"

Although Xiaobai believed in Qin Meng, without seeing it with his own eyes, the possibility of going against common sense prevented him from making a decision right away.

"It should be no problem. A single worker ant, if ordinary people calm down, they should have a chance to win with any weapon," Qin Meng said casually to Xiaobai.

The power of thought instantly gathered around the worker ant, controlling it in an instant and dragging it this way.

"It's weaker than I imagined. A single worker ant may not even meet the standard of a one-star superhuman, and it looks like an ordinary person."

Not long after, the worker ant floated over from the depths of the dark cave under the control of Qin Meng's thoughts.

In order to make it impossible for the other party to transmit information, Qin Meng used his thoughts to confine it all over its body, so it floated in front of everyone like a dead object.

"It's really a worker ant, now it's in big trouble!"

(End of this chapter)