Living like a human being is the protagonist's current small goal. But soon, the protagonist will discover that to achieve this small goal, it must be a long-term and huge systematic project.
At least for now, the protagonist is commanding a small construction team to build a dedicated bathroom. With the idea in the protagonist's mind and the super execution ability of the ant construction team, such a small bathroom quickly began to take shape. After all, there is not much technical content in either design or construction. Just dig out a nearly square space. Can. The protagonist still didn't transplant fluorescent bacteria inside, since the weak light wouldn't have much impact anyway.
This is what makes this book unusual. Ordinary online articles will not spend two or three chapters describing the protagonist's toilet experience. But there is no way. Who made the protagonist travel through time and become an ant? The physiological structure and civilization foundation that are completely different from humans determine that everything here cannot be applied with human thinking and habits.
The bathroom is built, and the protagonist lives like a personal goal. In terms of the most basic needs of eating, drinking, and defecating, at least two aspects of defecating have been humanized, even if it is just a small secret guard or a dry toilet. , but it’s finally a bit of progress. The protagonist is not worried at all about how to clean up the excrement in the future. Some worker ants that accidentally wander in will automatically clean up the excrement. As long as he can find a ball of soil to block the entrance at his convenience, it will be fine.
Next, the protagonist decides to fundamentally solve the problem of eating and drinking. Now, the protagonist can only live on sunflower seeds and sugar water. If the protagonist learns that the sugar water is actually honeydew pulled by aphids, then the protagonist can only eat sunflower seeds, which is the only food. Others, like insect meat, are insensitive to the protagonist, and some plant seeds are too dry and hard to chew. It would be great if there was a pot, so the protagonist could eat rice and porridge made from the seeds.
If you want to cook, you must first have fire. The protagonist knows many ways to make fire, from primitive people using natural fire, drilling wood to make fire, flint to make fire to modern matches, lighters, etc., but they are all denied by the protagonist. .
Making fire naturally requires opportunity. The probability of encountering a fire caused by a lightning strike or a volcanic eruption is about the same as winning the lottery. The protagonist has never won a prize of more than five yuan, so don't place your hope on luck. .
As for making fire by drilling wood and flint, even if the ants can find the materials, will they have enough energy to do the work? The protagonist is really pessimistic about the energy of these tiny creatures.
Not to mention lighters and matches. Maybe only if you find a human settlement, you might be able to steal some ignition tools from there. A group of ants can probably still carry a box of matches or a lighter.
Without fire, even the most basic making of clay pots becomes impossible.
"I also said that these ants have become spirits, but in the end they didn't even point out the basic technology point of fire." The protagonist was relatively depressed, turned around with a glimmer of hope, and asked Hua Mulan: "Have you ever seen fire? It's just a bang. When there is thunder, or there is no need to thunder, the ground will catch fire, and the fire will be red and yellow, burning on the grass and trees, and when the grass and trees are burned, there will be only a little black residue."
The protagonist is afraid that his description is not detailed enough, and Hua Mulan's simple brain cannot judge the meaning.
Who knew that Hua Mulan immediately replied in the affirmative.
"Here, have you really seen it? Was there a fire somewhere? Is it extinguished now?" The sudden good news made the protagonist very excited. But the message Hua Mulan replied made him confused: "In the main kin nest. What does this mean?"
Hua Mulan still repeated the sentence "in the main kin nest". The protagonist had to change the question: "Is the place with fire far away?"
"The distance of five trees." Hua Mulan replied. The protagonist had no choice but to work hard to convert the distance units of the ants into distances he could understand. I went to the surface twice and saw that the gaps between huge trees were relatively wide, and the trees were extremely sparsely distributed. The last time I went hunting for a close call, I just kept moving under the bushes between two big trees. I failed before I could reach the nearest big tree to the south. It seems that the ants have to walk for a long time, even a day or two, to reach the distance of five trees.
"Which direction?" The protagonist discovers that Hua Mulan only mentioned the distance, not the direction. Maybe it's because he didn't ask. These ants are as rigid as computers. Maybe the Germans he traveled through are the Germans among the ants?
Hua Mulan replied: "The direction to the right of sunset." That is roughly in the west.
The protagonist noted down the general direction and decided to take the risk to go to the ground. The function and role of fire, as well as its role in promoting the development of civilization, no one knows better than the protagonist who comes from a developed civilization. At the same time, he was also curious about what the society of those relatives with fire would be like.
If you want to go to such a far place, then the protagonist needs a guide, and Hua Mulan, who has seen fire with her own eyes, is the best choice. The protagonist hurriedly asked her if she could take him there, but Hua Mulan flatly refused.
The protagonist was stunned for a moment. Hua Mulan, who obeyed her words, actually rejected him so firmly. The protagonist doesn't know what went wrong. Maybe it was his own question that caused Mulan to misunderstand it?
"I want to go to a place with fire. I will go and you will take me." The protagonist reiterated again. Hua Mulan still refused.
"Why don't you take me?" the protagonist asked, and Hua Mulan still replied that she refused, but did not explain the reason.
"You can't go there?" the protagonist asks.
Hua Mulan: It means definitely.
"Why can't you go there?"
Hua Mulan: I am confused and don’t understand the meaning.
"Then can I go?"
Hua Mulan: It means definitely.
"Fuck! Even if I can go, how can I go without you taking me there! I don't know the road, I only know the west and Wushu. Who knows where I can go according to these instructions. I should get lost halfway. Got eaten by a mantis!"
Hua Mulan: Confused. She doesn't know what the protagonist is crazy about.
The protagonist was speechless at last: "Then how did you see the fire? It couldn't be that you got lost and walked over, right? Or did you go there with other ants?"
Hua Mulan immediately fluttered her tentacles and told the protagonist that she followed a male ant to her destination last time and saw fire.
That male ant is Lao Wang.
