Three Hundred and Fifty Five Clues

After only ten minutes, Ye Han and the luthier crawled out of the sewer in disappointment.

Where they were, the sewage condensed, but the deeper they went into the sewer, the higher the temperature, and the sewage more than a hundred meters away was even in liquid state.

The mechanical spider had nowhere to go after walking more than a hundred meters, not only because the sewage failed to freeze, but also because the main pipe of the sewer was blocked by a carapace from a giant cockroach, and the gap between the carapace and the pipe kept leaking out Bits of sewage.

The unwilling luthier looked at several forks, but they were either too thin and too short to pass through, or they were blocked by finger-thick steel grids.

There are dead ends everywhere, and it's a waste of time to stay down there.

In order not to bring the smell from the sewer into the armored vehicle, Ye Han and the luthier had to roll a few times in the snow and rubbed the soles of their shoes hard on the snow.

After entering the armored vehicle, the luthier immediately ordered: "Xiao Luo, drive south and enter the urban area!" After speaking, he whispered, "I hope we can find an ant nest in the city."

No one answered, the atmosphere in the car was a little stiff, and even Ye Han began to doubt whether his judgment was correct.

But apart from Linyi, he really couldn't think of any other place where he might find Box Ant.

In this way, a lonely armored car wandered the streets of Linyi in the night wind, stopping again and again, and leaving disappointed again and again.

The sewers in Linyi City run through the whole city, and there is a sewer well every other distance. Ye Han and the others don’t have to go into the well themselves as before. They just need to find the sewer wells along the way, and they can control the mechanical spider without interruption. .

Domestic sewers are actually sewage pipes. Those pipes with a diameter of two meters outside the city are simply the conscience of the industry. The diameter of the sewer pipes in the city is usually only about one meter.

After searching for four streets, Ye Han finally realized that this was not the way to go, and stopped the luthier from continuing.

The luthier was also very helpless, and reminded Ye Han on the sidelines, asking him to recall carefully where he could find the fist ants.

Ye Han rubbed his temples with a headache, turned his head just in time to see Xiao Yuan, and couldn't help being slightly startled: "Occupied area, the occupied area is most likely!"

"Yes, the occupied area!" Xiao Yuan nodded his head.

Seeing the luthier's puzzled eyes, Ye Han briefly explained the situation in the occupied area: "When the troops withdrew, there were still many people in the occupied area, and the box ants are most likely concentrated underground in the occupied area!"

The luthier forced a smile: "I hope so."

After being disappointed several times in succession, he no longer had any hope for this mission.

He doesn't know much about ants. He just got a general understanding of the habits of ants after receiving the mission. They will hide in their nests and hibernate in winter. It's easier to find giant ants. Boxing ants are only as big as fists, so I really don't think so. easy to find.

It was almost midnight at this moment, but no one asked for a break. The armored vehicle rushed all the way to the occupied area. When it was about to enter the occupied area, Ye Han suddenly saw a cave in the side of the street.

A flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and Ye Han immediately yelled: "Stop!"

Luo Mingyu stepped on the brake instinctively, and the armored vehicle slid more than 20 meters on the snow-covered road, and when it stopped, the body was already lying across the road.

"What's wrong?" the luthier asked dissatisfied.

"The hole just now was dug by a giant cockroach. There is a lot of space inside. I think we should start from here!" Ye Han said loudly.

The size of the giant cockroach is the crown of all known giant worms, and in any city that has been invaded by giant cockroaches, the underground will be dug by giant cockroaches beyond recognition.

The armored vehicle restarted, Luo Mingyu stepped on the accelerator, the spinning tires slipped on the icy road, Luo Mingyu let go of the accelerator and accelerated again, the armored vehicle started slowly, turned around the direction it was driving, and finally stopped at the smuggling car It is said that there is a hole in the ground about four meters away.

Four people brought all their equipment and stood on the edge of the burrow. The burrow is not vertical like an anthole.

Instead, it extends obliquely to the depths of the ground.

Even though the headlights were shining on the entrance of the cave, it was still pitch black and it was impossible to see anything, even with the night vision goggles.

The luthier let out a sigh of relief: "If you can't find it again, you won't find it today."

"I hope there will be something to gain." After Ye Han said, he stepped into the cave, Xiao Yuan hurriedly followed, Ding Mo and the luthier looked at each other, and followed side by side.

When I first walked into the cave, the cave walls were still covered with ice, snow and frost, but after only a few tens of meters, the surrounding area turned into bare soil.

The burrows dug by the cockroaches are very characteristic. The height is less than two meters, but the width is five or six meters. The arched top makes people feel strong.

Xiao Yuan touched the soil on top of his head curiously, using a lot of strength, but the soil layer was so hard that almost no traces were left, he couldn't help but be speechless: "This soil is hard enough, didn't the cockroach squeeze the soil so hard? ?”

Ye Han twitched the corners of his mouth with a half-smile: "You have to ask the cockroach about this."

"Forget it." Xiao Yuan shook his head hastily.

The engineering made by the cockroaches is not aesthetically pleasing, the only feature is roughness, and not to mention the curves one after another, the relatively straight road sections are also curved.

Fortunately, there was no fork in the bend and turn. After walking about four or five hundred meters, he came across the first but fork. Ye Han still chose the left, and drew an arrow on the cave wall with a saber as a mark——the arrow does not point to The fork in the road that is about to enter, but points to the direction of coming.

On the ground, you only rely on the compass to travel, and the underground caves are twists and turns, and if you take the wrong fork, you may be trapped underground and cannot move.

Now is not the time for the city to function normally, not to mention Linyi City, the entire Linzhou Province can not find a rescue force, once trapped, the only result is to wait for death, it is better to mark it honestly to be safe.

The power armor doesn't seem to have the function of digging holes. After going back this time, shouldn't it be reported to Qu Jiang, so as not to encounter similar situations in the future?

Forty to fifty meters after walking into the fork, the nearby space suddenly expanded, with a width of more than ten meters from left to right and a height of about 3.5 meters, forming an underground space with an area of ​​no less than 100 square meters.

Along the way, only dirt can be seen in the cave, but in the corner of this underground space, there are actually some scattered oversized insect carapaces piled up, with branched insect legs protruding from the gaps in the piled carapaces, black insects The burrs on the legs are conspicuous and unusual.

The luthier rushed to Ye Han's side in a few steps: "There won't be ants in here, right?"

"Probably not." Ye Han walked to the shell pile, picked a carapace as thick as a fist, and held it in his hand. He carefully observed the traces on the carapace, and soon found an inconspicuous spot on the edge of the carapace. bite marks. (To be continued.)