Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 205 The First Means of Transportation

The swarm of bees needed no command. When they saw the mantis, they all swarmed over. The sky was filled with a black mass of bees, like a dark cloud.

The expected one-sided situation did not occur, and everyone discovered something terrifying.

The bee's stinger couldn't even pierce the mantis's body.

It's hard to imagine that an insect could have evolved to this point.

One of its front limbs was restrained, so it had to wave the other one.

After it swung its weapon, the swarm of bees in the air fell like snowflakes.

Since this swarm of bees caused substantial damage to the mantis, it was only a matter of time before it was defeated despite its numerical advantage.

However, the swarm quickly adjusted its attack strategy. Realizing that the sting was ineffective, they began to limit the attack point to one point.

After sacrificing a large number of bee colonies, the situation finally changed.

After repeated attacks, the swarm of bees finally stung the mantis's body for the first time.

With this breach, we just need to continue attacking this point, but the cost is still very high.

There was a layer of dead bees on the ground, and it looked like they had died together.

Lu Yuning hesitated for a while, and then after confirming with Xu Qi that the swarm of bees would not attack him, he rushed out of the shelter.

This bee colony is an important guarantee for them, and they cannot all be sacrificed here, so Lu Yuning decided to help.

With the swarm of bees distracting him, Lu Yuning had enough time to trap the mantis.

Since it can't take off now, the easiest way is to build a new stone cage on the ground.

Lu Yuning approached the battlefield cautiously, fearing to attract the attention of the mantis.

At this moment, he was standing in front of the mantis and the stone cage he had prepared earlier. What he had to do now was to smash the cage in front of him and then reassemble it next to the mantis.

Just as they were about to take action, someone else ran out of the shelter. It was Han Yingying and others.

He quickly understood what was going on. It might be difficult for him to make this stone cage by himself, after all, the mantis was huge. It would be much easier with more people.

The collaborative ability was quickly deployed, and the few people cooperated tacitly, and four walls were quickly erected around the mantis.

As if aware of the crisis, the mantis has started to go a little crazy.

The frequency of weapons also increased a lot, and swarms of bees fell one after another.

The mutated bees also seemed to understand. Under its command, the besieging swarm became more ferocious, aiming at the gap, almost fearless of death.

Four walls were quickly erected on the ground, and all that was left was to seal the top.

The mutated mantis seemed to have used up all its strength and was even showing signs of wanting to crawl out.

It still takes time to seal the top, and there are foreign objects blocking the object and it cannot be reassembled.

This is the last step. The swarm of bees has become quite sparse. If the mantis is allowed to crawl out, all the efforts will be wasted.

Lu Yuning was a little anxious. Just as he was about to step forward, a huge rock suddenly fell from above the cage, hitting the mantis's head.

Lu Yuning was quick-witted and quick-handed. He quickly stepped forward and used his special abilities to the fullest extent to completely seal the top of the cage.

"call"

Seeing that the cage was completed, everyone relaxed.

Although things had some twists and turns, fortunately we managed to catch it in the end.

Zhang Xinyue explored the inside of the cage and confirmed that it was impossible to break the stone cage. Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s a pity that a lot of bee colonies were lost, and there were also many bees trapped in the cage with the mantis.

However, as long as the beehive is there, the density of the bee colony will recover sooner or later.

The swarm of bees outside gradually dissipated. The mutated bee circled above Xu Qi's head a few times and then disappeared. The surroundings finally became quiet.

You can faintly hear the strange hissing sounds of the mantis in the cage.

Everyone gathered around. The battle had just ended and there were dead bees all over the ground. It looked like they needed to be cleaned up.

"What should we do now? Should we subdue it?"

Someone asked. "Let Xu Qi try it," Lu Yuning gestured to Xu Qi.

Xu Qi nodded and walked forward, standing in front of the cage, closing his eyes and began to communicate.

"It's angry, I feel bloodlust, no, it's crazy"

After some communication, Xu Qi could only shake his head.

Lu Yuning was not surprised. This kind of thing didn't seem to be so easy to tame. However, based on the previous experience of taming the bee, it had to be faced with a fatal threat and made to feel fear before it would have the possibility of compromise.

However, it is difficult to control this mantis, so for now I can only starve it first.

With the biggest threat dealt with, everyone can finally get back to construction.

Lu Yuning consolidated the stone cage again and then prepared to start making the hot air balloon.

Judging from the progress, it should be completed today.

After that, some test flights will have to be done, so time is still quite tight.

But before that, Lu Yuning chatted with Xu Qi again.

"So, you can now command your bonded partners to fight?"

Lu Yuning asked.

Xu Qi nodded and said, "It seems that when the crisis broke out just now, there was a kind of emotion of seeking help, which allowed intelligent creatures to help fight."

Lu Yuning was stunned: "Does it have to be a crisis?"

“It seems so.”

"Okay, but this should be enough. As your abilities continue to improve, perhaps the conditions will become easier."

Xu Qi nodded. In short, her ability seemed to have been improved, and she was a big step closer to Lu Yuning's idea of summoning a swarm of bees and killing everyone.

The battle ended quickly, and everyone resumed their work of making hot air balloons as if nothing had happened.

The frame part has been almost completed, and the next step is to stick the entire hot air balloon umbrella on.

The plastic film of this umbrella is not easy to make. If you want it to be thin, you have to control it with great precision.

Therefore, Lu Yuning had to complete the umbrella cover alone, and the others were responsible for sticking the finished plastic film to the umbrella frame.

However, the film was too big for them, and it was too difficult to stick this huge piece of plastic film neatly and delicately to the umbrella stand.

In order to ensure the overall lifting efficiency of the hot air balloon, the umbrella cover must be as sealed as possible, and sticking it on piece by piece is an extremely time-consuming task.

After trying several times, they finally had to change their strategy.

First make the film and then roll it into a roll.

The rolled film is lifted onto the aerial scaffolding, and then lowered down little by little. The people below cooperate to carefully stick the unfolded plastic to the umbrella stand.

After pasting one side, everyone followed the steps and soon made the entire umbrella.

The next task is relatively simple, the heat source in the air and the basket below.

The heat source is not a big problem because they have a more stable energy source than fire. The only thing that needs to be considered is the heat tolerance above the hot air balloon, because the hot air will rise upwards first, and if not handled properly, it will easily burn the umbrella surface that has been made with great difficulty.

Therefore, heat protection must be done well. The method is to make a heat insulation layer on top, and the material can be made of thin wood slices.

This job is relatively simple because the most difficult issue to deal with is weight, so there is no need to worry too much with Li Wengang around.

The final hanging basket can be made as sturdy as possible and as spacious as possible.

As for other supporting tools, such as the sound wave amplifier and projector for Zhang Xinyue, we will have to wait until the hot air balloon test flight is successful and see the buoyancy margin before considering it.

So the next step was the nerve-wracking test flight. In addition to being nervous, Lu Yuning was also more or less excited. After all, this was their first real means of transportation, and it also had strategic significance.

　Four Yang.

　　Fortunately, I saved some manuscripts a few days ago, otherwise I would have stopped updating.

　　I've had a high fever these past few days.

　　
　
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