Chapter 6 Mantis
The screenshot of the chat stopped abruptly. Li Sheng leaned back and leaned on the back of the chair, frowning unconsciously.
In this screenshot, words such as [Lord of Insects] and [Sin] are clearly mentioned. It is consistent with what the Secret Service mentioned last night.
However, the screenshots did not go any further to explain how to save yourself if you are infected by a bug owner.
“We must first find out whether this screenshot is true or false.”
Li Sheng thought of something and enlarged the screenshot again and again, staring at the so-called Mothman photo sent by the poster HaccKer.
The monster in the photo is hidden in the shadow of the trees, blurry. But the night sky in the background is quite clear.
With his understanding of astronomy, he can identify Mercury, Mars, Venus, Diuse, Diuse, M22 globular star cluster, etc.
Enough.
Li Sheng immediately opened the star map website, looked up the star map of the previous night based on the date of the chat screenshot, and started the calculation.
Convert the right ascension of the planet into hour angle in horizon coordinates, convert the North Pole in equatorial coordinates into horizon coordinates, and learn the latitude, longitude, and local time
Found it, in the northwest corner of South Dakota, USA, along the Rabbit River .
Li Sheng rubbed his temples. The error of this starry sky positioning method is about 20 kilometers. If it is in a densely populated urban area, it is difficult to accurately locate the photographer.
Fortunately, South Dakota is a vast and sparsely populated state, with an area of 199,747 square kilometers and a total population of less than one million. There are only a few residential settlements, which is enough to reduce the area to a small town with several farms.
Li Sheng entered the name of the town to search for news, and sure enough he found a piece of news - half a month ago, a local farmer's family was robbed by robbers, and a fierce gun battle broke out. In the end, only the farmer's children were left Survived and was sent to a mental hospital for treatment.
Below the news is a gun advertisement for Prometheus Laboratories——
A beautiful blond white girl held a semi-automatic shotgun with a drum and said seriously: "In the Midwest of the United States, call the police. It will take the police twenty minutes to arrive. In these twenty minutes, who will protect you except the gun?”
Li Sheng closed the web page and was basically sure that the content of the chat screenshot was true, "Considering that there is a special affairs bureau in China and the FBI's Unusual Incident Division in the United States, each country must have established a professional organization to deal with abnormal events. . I must have accumulated a lot of experience.
There must be a way to deal with the so-called [Insect Lord] infection, but I don’t know enough about that world yet.” >
After thinking about it again and again, he unplugged the USB flash drive, closed the computer, took out pen and paper from his school bag, and began to record in detail.
The content includes but is not limited to the total amount of calories consumed on this day, your current height, weight, waist circumference, body fat rate, body temperature, etc.
Then he started exercising.
Two groups of push-ups, twenty-five times each, two groups of squats, twenty-five times each, two groups of seated knee bends, twenty-five times each, and two groups of burpees, twenty-five times each.
< br>This cycle continues until the muscles begin to ache and breathing becomes rapid, then stop.
"Muscular endurance has improved significantly compared to before, but it is not as exaggerated as the improvement in muscle explosive power."
Li Sheng also recorded the fitness data on paper and thought about it seriously.
It is mentioned in primary school textbooks that ants can lift objects hundreds of times heavier than themselves and are the strongest men in the insect world.
So, if an ant is enlarged to human size, can it lift heavy objects such as cars and trucks?
The answer is no. Even if factors such as oxygen content and chitin joint bearing capacity are excluded, it is absolutely impossible.
The reason is simple. When the size of an organism changes, the length changes linearly, the area changes according to the square ratio, and the volume changes according to the cubic ratio.
If the ant is enlarged 250 times, its muscle cross-section will be 62,500 times its original size, and its weight will be 15,625,000 times its original size.
First of all, it cannot exert its original strength, and secondly, it will be crushed to death by its own weight.
So, ants have no redeeming qualities at all?
Not so. When ants exercise, their muscles will produce special enzymes and hormone proteins, causing drastic changes in ATP (adenine nucleoside triphosphate, the most direct source of energy for organisms), releasing huge energy, causing the filament molecules of muscle proteins to break down. Fast contraction to achieve muscle explosion effect.
If Li Sheng guessed correctly, what he absorbed was this ability - extreme explosion.
Hungry struck again. Li Sheng pulled out the snack box from under the bed and nibbled on the chocolate balls one bite at a time.
“There is another question, why did the taxi driver mutate so quickly and immediately grew compound eyes and fangs. The changes in my body were not so drastic?”
“ Is it because he was sucked by the bee monster and I was just stung? Or maybe I was exposed to the red blood amber on the bee monster’s forehead?”
I have too little information, and I can't get the answer even after thinking hard. Unconsciously, I ate a lot of snacks, but my hunger still lingered. The guard hairs under the arms also sprouted again.
Is this a state of [gene hunger]?
According to the screenshot, new genes must be absorbed in order to stabilize the mutation, otherwise it will become a monster.
Li Sheng looked at the time. It was already one o'clock in the morning and everyone in the family was asleep.
He wrapped his entire right hand in a towel, put on a forehead thermometer, quietly opened the bedroom door, left the house, and came to the green belt downstairs in the community.
After a day of using the desiccant to absorb water, the phone can now be turned on. He turned on the flashlight of his cell phone and searched for the target in the grass.
This is it!
He stretched out his left hand, grabbed a green Chinese broadsword mantis, and placed it in his palm.
The skin on the palm of my hand squirmed and hooked the mantis's legs and arms, making it impossible for it to break free.
The skin slowly absorbs the blood cells from the mantis, and at the same time, it also injects part of Li Sheng's blood back into the mantis, preventing it from dying immediately.
hot! Hot!
The heat that he felt when he climbed up from the canal swept through his body again. Li Sheng's whole body was emitting hot steam, especially the left hand holding the mantis.
He took a deep breath subconsciously, but blew out a long stream of white air, like a swimming dragon. The internal body temperature is by no means just the 45 degrees displayed by the electronic forehead thermometer.
Heat goes as quickly as it comes.
Half a minute later, the skin on the palm of the left hand automatically returned to normal, the guard hairs on the right hand were dormant again, and the mantis stood up again unsteadily, with no abnormality visible.
There is also a vague connection with Li Sheng.
"Is this considered completed?"
His expression was solemn, and the strong hunger in his belly gradually subsided. It looked like he had completed a set of cycles of [Gene Hunger].
Occasionally someone would pass by downstairs in the community late at night. He did not stay long, gently held the mantis and returned to his home upstairs. He shut the mantis in a plastic box with a vent, tightened the lid of the box with a wire, and hid it. Under the bed.
Then he looked at himself. There is no significant change in height, weight is one kilogram lighter, waist circumference is reduced, body fat is reduced, and strength is slightly increased.
"If I obtained the guard hairs and burst of strength from the grass pavement ants, what did I gain from this gene extraction?"
After pondering for a moment, Li Sheng raised his arms and tensed his muscles.
Zheng!
Two long and narrow bone knives suddenly popped out from the lower ends of his left and right forearms, cutting through the air and making a sharp sound.
(End of this chapter)