Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 124 Pheromones

Lu Yuning hadn't seen this huge Japanese camptostom ant for a long time.

However, after seeing the sudden enemy, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared to other species, ants are relatively less threatening.

Lu Yuning was not a novice in the apocalypse, and after dodging the sneak attack, he reacted quickly.

The protective shield in front of him shattered instantly, and then gathered towards the bow-back ant, quickly enveloping it.

The bow-backed ant seemed very irritable and kept hitting the shield after being trapped.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the ants were trapped.

However, Lu Yuning was a little confused, as the ant's target seemed to be him.

If I saw it correctly, after being bounced back, it was closer to the others, but it still continued to attack me regardless.

It is also not normal to see ants on this camphor tree. Although ants can climb trees, they rarely see ants climbing up this camphor tree, especially at a height of 5 meters.

But after thinking about it, there was no clue, and in the end I could only treat it as an accident.

This little episode passed quickly, and Lu Yuning explained his special abilities to everyone again.

Then Han Yingying's special ability was activated, targeting five people including Lu Yuning.

As for Liu Rui, he was attached to Han Yingying, so that the collaborative ability could be sustained to the greatest extent.

This is also a combination of superpowers that everyone discussed yesterday.

Sure enough, with the help of Liu Rui's special abilities, Han Yingying felt much less stressed.

……

It was also the first time for everyone to use Lu Yuning's ability, and they kept trying in a somewhat clumsy manner.

Lu Yunnan, on the other hand, felt as if he was restricted by a mysterious force, and his ability to control his supernatural powers seemed to have decreased a lot. This should be the side effect of Han Yingying's ability.

He tried it against the tree trunk, and sure enough, he felt like he had no strength to use.

However, processing wood materials is not a big problem.

After some experience, everyone finally understood Lu Yuning's creative ability and felt incredible about it.

"What should we do next?" Zou Yunxin was eager to try.

"Let's dig a groove first. Everyone, please be careful."

"understood"

After everyone confirmed the purpose of the work, they began the excavation work in full swing.

For those who are using this ability for the first time, it is more of a pleasure than a job.

With the cooperation of six people, they quickly dug a semi-circular groove with the tree trunk as the center.

Since the work is all done inside the tree, there is no need to worry about being attacked by birds outside.

Lu Yuning felt that it was a little unreal, mainly because this kind of teamwork worked so fast.

After the groove was dug, Wu Xiao took out some materials from the space.

Lu Yuning's idea was to build a semi-circular platform with the tree trunk as the center.

Then make a circle of rolling grooves on the platform and convert the projector into a rolling type.

This basically covers all areas within a 10-meter radius.

However, due to the wide range, shooting accuracy is also a problem, so dials are added to each movable direction.

With the dial and Zhang Xinyue's detection and calculation, although they couldn't hit the target every time, at least they could send the bomb to a certain range, which was enough for them.

after an hour.

Thanks to everyone's efforts, the sniper platform was upgraded. Zou Yunxin fiddled with it for a few times and finally expressed his satisfaction.

He will be using this sniper platform most of the time in the future, so he needs to be proficient in it.

The megaphone was modified and placed in the middle. The entire sniper station may require one or two people to operate.

After completion, everyone prepared to climb down the passage.

Surprisingly, they encountered a second ant.

The ant still didn't care and ran straight towards Lu Yuning, not caring at all about the people passing by.

Lu Yuning activated his special ability and trapped it again.

The second bow-backed ant in front of me was slightly smaller, and obviously not the same one as before.

Lu Yuning looked at the trapped ants in front of him and frowned heavily. He had a bad feeling.

At this moment, the look of the triangular eyes kept flashing through his mind.

"No way." Lu Yuning seemed to have thought of something, and his expression changed drastically.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that he looked unhappy, several people hurriedly asked.

"Oh, I'm a little worried. Let's go down and talk about it. If I guess right, it will be terrible."

Seeing that he looked a little worried, everyone didn't say much.

Several people followed the passage and successfully arrived at the shelter below.

Here Lu Yuning met the third ant.

"Oh no, it seems like I might have guessed it right," Lu Yuning sighed.

At this time, all nine people gathered in the shelter.

Lu Yuning told Zhang Xinyue about the construction of the sniper platform and the encounter with ants.

"Is there something on your body?" Everyone was a little confused.

"No, if I'm not mistaken, we may be in trouble," Lu Yuning said with a serious expression.

Everyone looked at each other.

"Xinghuo?" Liu Rui brought up the name he least wanted to mention.

Lu Yuning nodded.

"Why? Has the shelter been exposed?"

Lu Yuning shook her head: "No, the problem may be with me"

"It happened to you?"

Lu Yuning didn't keep the secret and said, "I suspect I was marked by pheromones."

Some people in the crowd looked a little frightened. It was obvious that they knew something about pheromones and understood what was happening based on the current situation.

Others were a little confused.

"What are pheromones?" Although the atmosphere was tense, Zou Yunxin still asked with some confusion.

"Let me tell you," Zhang Xinyue said.

She paused and continued, "When worker ants find food, they leave a mark along their path. This mark is a chemical substance, a pheromone. Once other ants receive the pheromone released by the pathfinder ants, they will follow this pheromone trail to the food source and move in droves to carry the food or, in some cases, to hunt it."

Zou Yunxin was stunned: "Does this mean that Yu Ning was treated as food?"

Lu Yuning nodded and said, "Maybe. Anyway, the ability of the triangular eye should be related to controlling the ant colony. He may have released this ability on me, causing me to release pheromones all the time. In other words, they may follow the route I took when I came back and find here."

Everyone was stunned and finally realized the current situation.

"What should we do now?"

"Let me lead them out, you guys stay here first."

"No, if you go out alone, you will basically die. Besides, if you really do as you think, if you are now the source of pheromones, the shelter would have been marked long ago." Zhang Xinyue was the first to object.

Lu Yuning's eyes flickered and he finally sighed. Everyone fell silent for a moment.

(End of this chapter)