Chapter 671 Let the Leader Go First!

"Damn it, Mr. Xu is so courageous, isn't he afraid of being bitten again?"

"The thought of being covered in ants makes me shudder!"

"Master Xu has thick blood and high defense, don't be afraid!"

In the live broadcast room, many people were worried about the siege of fire ants, but Chen Xu came up with a solution: "Use fire!"

"Ants are similar to bees. They are also social insects good at building. They are very afraid of fire and smoke. It has been scientifically proven that they rely on carbon dioxide concentration to perceive complex building structures."

"Moreover, many of the ants communicate with each other by secreting pheromones themselves. The strong irritating smoke can cover up the pheromones, causing them to lose communication, causing panic and confusion."

During the process of explaining, Chen Xu had already started looking for flammable tinder and stuffing nearby.

After searching for a long time, he finally found a dead tree in the jungle.

"This kind of dead wood is very suitable as tinder, but one thing everyone needs to pay attention to is that because of the heavy humidity in the tropical rainforest, even if it is dead wood, the outer layer is still a little damp."

"And damp tinder is extremely difficult to ignite. If you don't pay attention, if you use wood to make fire, you will only waste a lot of time and energy in the end, and the gain will outweigh the loss!"

Before lighting the fire, Chen Xu specially reminded the audience.

Afterwards, he sat down, peeled off the outer skin of the stick, and then put the backpack on his lap, like sharpening a pencil, and used the tracker to peel off the wood from the dead wood one by one.

"I didn't bring a lighter, only a pair of flint and steel, so it's unrealistic to directly light dead wood. I can only make a ball of tinder first. This method of shredding is very simple and effective."

Chen Xu said while demonstrating the specific steps to the audience.

In less than three minutes, he had already chipped a lot, and a small pile of wood chips had been piled up on the entire backpack.

Then, he grabbed the wood chips and rolled them into a ball, "See, the dry wood chips have a lot of space in the middle, which is convenient for air to support combustion. It's very suitable for making tinder!"

Seeing this, the audience couldn't help admiring Master Xu's ingenuity, even the tinder was so beautifully made.

In fact, they thought it was right,

After Chen Xu upgraded his tool-making skills, his manufacturing skills have indeed improved a lot.

Next, Chen Xu took out the flint and steel, because it has excellent tinder as the foundation, and the flint and steel is much more advanced than the primitive method of "drilling wood to make fire". White smoke, and then flames burst out.

Seeing that the tinder was ignited, he hurriedly picked up the dead leaves and branches that had been prepared by the side and piled them on, and the fire grew stronger.

"Okay, then we just need to prepare a large piece of leaves!"

The corner of Chen Xu's mouth curled up. For the tropical rainforest, the most indispensable thing is plants. This kind of large leaves can be picked nearby.

"I have also told you before that there are two factors that cause smoke when burning. One is insufficient temperature, and the other is insufficient oxygen. Therefore, the easiest way is to burn the wet leaves, and the mesophyll will cool down when the water evaporates. , producing steam, forming smoke”

"Then it is to wrap the burning material as tightly as possible to reduce the contact area between the burning material and the air, thereby reducing the intake of oxygen."

For these things, he has long been familiar with the road.

After the few paragraphs were finished, he also found the leaves here, wrapped the burning thing, stuffed it with fresh leaves, and finally tied it up with vines, leaving only a small exit in front.

as expected.

After seven or eight seconds, thick white smoke began to come out of that small exit.

"about there!"

After finishing speaking, Chen Xu took the prepared "weapon" and returned to the ant nest of the red imported fire ants.

Because there are too many bugs in the tropical rainforest, except for mosquitoes, other kinds of poisonous insects and flying insects, not to mention the number, the types alone cannot be counted with a few hands.

Therefore, an ant nest that can repel mosquitoes is very important to him.

Otherwise, after this night, he would definitely be bitten into an idiot by the bugs in the rainforest.

When I came to the dead wood, I could see that the Red Fire Ant colony that was alarmed by Chen Xu had returned to the nest again, leaving only a few dozens of worker ants at the "door" to continue to act as guards.

Seeing this, Chen Xu quickly rushed towards the dead wood, aimed at the entrance of the ant nest, and stuffed the "weapon" directly into it.

Then, he ran out without looking back.

Thanks to his quick retreat, the thick smoke lingered under the dead wood for a long time, and within a few seconds, a large number of fire ants rushed out from under the dead wood, as if a cart of rice had been sprinkled down.

There was a "crash", and as far as the eye could see, there were red fire ants all over the ground.

The audience could tell that they were very flustered, not at all as orderly as when they besieged Master Xu just now.

And among them, many red fire ants just escaped from the thick smoke, stopped on the ground before taking a few steps, and did not move anymore, perhaps they were suffocated to death by the high temperature or the thick smoke !

Chen Xu hid more than ten meters away, watching the red fire ant colony continue to migrate.

And at this moment, a group of ants also ran out of the thick smoke.

What's interesting is that although the group of ants was flustered, they didn't disperse. They kept their formation and moved quickly towards the outside.

The corner of his mouth curled up: "It's the queen. Ants are extremely social insects. The internal hierarchy of the group is very strict. The queen is the core of the entire ant colony. For soldier ants and worker ants, she is a god."

"Conversely, soldier ants and worker ants are just tools to her. In such a catastrophe, all worker ants will be desperate, even if they sacrifice themselves, to rescue the queen first and then take her away."

When the audience heard it, they couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

"Nimma, this ant queen is really nothing, she's a green tea whore!"

"Worker ants: It's on fire! It's on fire! Everyone save the leader first! Let the leader go first!"

"23333, folks, let's check the water meter!"

Chen Xu looked at the barrage and couldn't help laughing. After observing for a while, he set off and said, "The ant queen has evacuated, and the remaining ant colony is no longer viable. Let's take down the ant nest as soon as possible!"

After saying this, he rushed towards the dead wood with a machete in his hand.

Without the ant colony, he let go of his courage and directly lifted the dead wood. After finding the ant nest, he picked up the machete and chopped towards the root of the ant nest.

The ant nest looks similar to a bird's nest, like a gray rotten wood.

While Chen Xu was chopping, there were still many red fire ants left from various exits.