Scorpions don't have ears.
All their actions are carried out by the sensory hairs on the surface of their bodies.
So when the scorpion was circling in the "barrier" to feel the direction of the surrounding airflow, the sharp-eyed Jiang Yan happened to see it in a second.
Her pupils shrank, and she quickly grabbed a bottle of insecticide, and pointed her other hand in the direction of the scorpion's crawling:
"There's a scorpion!"
"Pop!"
In the firelight, a sharp dagger fell from the sky and went straight to the heart of the scorpion, and a small amount of mucus splashed out.
It was Song Qian.
The scorpion's tentacles struggled for a few seconds and then stopped moving.
"Jiang Yan, did you see where it crawled from?" Song Qian looked at Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan pointed to the direction where the big scorpion crawled out, "It crawled out from that pile of rocks."
Scorpions hide during the day and come out at night. They like to live in groups and generally speaking, they rarely survive alone.
She suspected that there should be other accomplices hiding under those rocks.
"Okay." Song Qian stood up and motioned Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing to take up their weapons.
"Scorpions are cold-blooded animals that can adapt to both heat and cold. However, they rarely move when the temperature drops below ten degrees. It should not be difficult to catch them now." Sun Jingtao said, and made a gesture. Several people moved the stones away from several directions.
They had all participated in the "wilderness survival" type of wilderness survival training to
a certain extent. At that time, catching lizards, spiders, cobras, scorpions with bare hands, drinking snake blood, and eating insects raw were all necessary training items.
In this environment at the moment, it is much easier.
Jiang Yan was born with a fear of snakes and scorpions. She stood up and walked away with a bottle of insecticide in her hand.
Su Dai also took a bottle.
She was still a little scared in her heart. Fortunately, she didn't encounter it when she went to find stones to build a stove.
Sure enough, there was a pile of scorpions lying under the rubble.
Judging from the size, it was much smaller than the one just now.
It should be some scorpions and their descendants.
There was also a lot of white scorpion feces around.
Several people stabbed accurately and killed the nest of scorpions in a few strokes.
All the scorpions were gathered together.
Song Qian took out an open silver-gray sealed bottle with a lid from his tactical backpack.
He cut off the poisonous stings on the backs of the scorpions one by one and put them into the sealed bottle.
Judging from the strange smell when he opened the bottle cap, the stings of the scorpions they caught before were probably in it.
Su Dai, Ye Qing and others were puzzled: "Brother Song, why did you leave the scorpion stings? They are highly poisonous!"
"Don't be afraid, they are good stuff." Song Qian said, tightened the bottle cap and put it into his backpack.
"What you don't know is that someone is collecting key extracts from mutant animals for a fee. So the venom of the mutant scorpion is a good thing." Kong Wu, who was standing aside, suddenly said in a mysterious tone.
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Song Qian, and seeing that the latter had no intention of objecting, he added:
"The key is that these are all wild, and they are much more toxic than artificially cultivated ones!"
Sun Jingtao and others frowned slightly, "Key extracts from mutant animals?"
This made them think of the mutant leeches they had raised alive in the Repulse Bay community.
Dao Yinping also told them that they would need to pay the leeches to the Flame Base.
Are these things related?
"Yes." Song Qian nodded without avoiding the question.
Sun Jingtao glanced at him, "But nowadays, high temperatures have already caused most plants and animals to become extinct. So far, the only mutated animals we have seen are blood mosquitoes, leeches, fish and these scorpions.
I don't know if the bats we saw that day count. After all, the distance is too far, and it is difficult to see the exact size. Apart from the size changes, these so-called mutated animals have not changed much in intelligence and physical strength. What else
can they do with these animals besides developing breeding for food?"
Song Qian: "Scientific research. At first they collected those blood mosquitoes, and then leeches, and others. The number and species of animals that survived high temperatures and heavy rains in this world are actually far beyond our imagination."
"Blood mosquitoes? Such disgusting animals are also being studied?" Su Dai's jaw almost dropped to the ground in shock.
Jiang Yan listened attentively without saying anything, but took a deep breath secretly.
When something strange happens around, scientists will definitely conduct scientific research on these new mutated species.
This is also reasonable.
But if the researchers were not official scientists, but various private scientists,
then the secrets behind this would be huge.
Song Qian glanced at everyone, and after a few seconds of silence, he said:
"The blood mosquito was the first to mutate, and the most thorough. Have you ever thought about what would happen if the mutated size of the blood mosquito was placed on other species?"
Su Dai murmured to herself and estimated, "If the blood mosquito is enlarged in the same proportion, this scorpion can be as big as a small crocodile."
Everyone: "."
"They are not only studying the problem of size and body function after the size increases. Have you ever thought that being able to survive these extreme natural disasters is itself an amazing ability." Song Qian continued.
"Survival of the fittest, then if by analogy, can humans who can survive these extreme natural disasters be considered an ability?" Su Dai suddenly understood.
"Yes." Song Qian nodded.
Ye Qing thought of the perfect corpses soaked in formalin on the 31st floor of the Sky Hotel, and said in one sentence:
"So, from a conspiracy point of view, the objects of their research are not only the surviving mutant animals, but also the human survivors who survived the extreme natural disaster?"
"Logically speaking, yes." Song Qian said, narrowed his eyes, and looked at Ye Qing deliberately.
Everyone couldn't help but take a breath and looked at Song Qian: "So, who are they?"
"From what we heard, it seems that the Flame Base is doing this. As for the others, I don't know." Kong Wu shrugged and said, and didn't forget to secretly glance at Song Qian.
Song Qian was as calm as ever, neither admitting nor denying.
"Flame Base?" In fact, Sun Jingtao and others had already guessed it, but they still pretended to be surprised for a second.
They had heard some weird rumors about the Flame Base from Dao Yinping before.
However, it was limited to the perverted Xue Shao who could predict the future and was cruel and ruthless.
Then I like beautiful women and like to do some small medical cosmetic surgery.
If you want to study mutant animals, that is the field of life science.
Ordinary people, ordinary equipment and conditions can't really handle it.
Unless there is an extremely strong background and resources behind it.
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