After the protagonist said that he wanted to return to "Dongyang City" and to reorganize and take away the disbanded Divine Envoy King Army, the entire venue was in an uproar.
The protagonist has previously stated to a few kings such as the Lao Wang and the Public Security Bureau that he wants to go back, and has reluctantly obtained their consent and support in the name of "divine decree". But this matter needs to be approved by the meeting of five hundred kings.
In the history of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, except for the kings who would go to various sub-nests to organize armies during wars, no king would take the initiative to go to the sub-nests.
What's more, the protagonist is the Divine Envoy King. As the second Divine Envoy King to appear in the history of the kingdom, shouldn't he stay in the main nest like the first Divine Envoy King?
Moreover, the protagonist also wants to take away the Legion of the God Envoy King. In the information package just shared, all the kings saw the combat effectiveness of this legion. The kingdom's legion is not a standing establishment. It will be disbanded after the war and will not be reorganized until the next war. The legion formed by each king will not be a fixed number of soldiers and workers.
Now the protagonist has to break two traditions at once. The God Envoy King has to leave the deputy nest, and he has to reorganize a disbanded legion to go together. This makes it difficult for the conservative kings to understand.
Dozens of kings who participated in the expedition with the protagonist already admired and were convinced of the protagonist, but they could not understand the protagonist's thoughts and showed doubts.
The kings who stayed in the main nest had little interaction with the protagonist, and they even expressed their opposition fiercely.
Seeing that the opposition was so strong, the protagonist had no choice but to use his trump card: "This is God's will." This is what he said to Lao Wang and the police at the beginning.
As soon as God's decree came out, the meeting place fell silent. The king here did not have the authority and meaning to oppose the divine decree, which allowed the protagonist to once again use the so-called divine decree to force his plan through.
In the end, the King's Council could only agree to the protagonist's request, but required that the protagonist must lead the legion to participate in the war when there is a war. The protagonist agreed to this condition.
After the meeting, the protagonist took Hua Mulan and other personal guards who had followed him from "Dongyang City" back to his long-lost four-bedroom apartment to rest. Xiao Mi and other worker ants were in the fourth bedroom. After seeing the protagonist, Xiao Mi was extremely excited and had a heated tentative exchange with the protagonist.
The little secretary curiously asked the protagonist about his experience in the war. The protagonist dropped a large information package and let her think about it slowly.
At this time, the protagonist thought of something: the big worker ants who were chasing them were very smart, and the little secretaries were much smarter than the average worker ants. Is there any connection between them?
But seeing how lively and curious the little secretary looked, the protagonist thought to himself: It doesn’t look like he has anything to do with the murderer at all!
That night, after the protagonist falls asleep, there is another strange noise behind the stone wall of his bedroom. However, after these days of fighting, and the fact that the protagonist spent a lot of energy in today's king's meeting, he was too sleepy, and he did not notice this abnormality while he was sleeping soundly.
After the protagonist woke up the next day, he began to prepare for returning to "Dongyang City". On the one hand, he sent Hua Mulan and other soldier ants to various parts of the main nest to gather all the members of the original god envoy army and let them move to live near the four-bedroom house.
On the other hand, the protagonist takes his ingenious little secret to collect materials everywhere and prepares to make some tools needed on the road.
What the protagonist wants to do is some transportation vehicles to transport the protagonist's food, silk bed, and captured pavement ant eggs. If we just rely on the army of ants to hold it in our mouths, the transportation efficiency will be low and it will also take up a lot of labor.
Since it is a transport vehicle, of course it must have wheels.
The wheel has always been regarded as the oldest and most important invention of mankind, and its significance can be compared with the use of fire. Humans have tamed fire for more than 1.5 million years, but have only used wheels for thousands of years.
The greatest function of the wheel is to enable people to quickly move objects that greatly exceed their own weight, which has directly changed the form of human transportation and warfare.
The current Big-headed Ant Kingdom can already use fire, but there is no sign of wheels yet. If the protagonist invents the wheel, it will have a long-term impact on the civilization of this kingdom.
The simplest wheel to make is to shape wood into a circle. If you want to process wood, you must master sharp and strong tools.
It would be difficult for primitive people to process wood into a suitable cylindrical shape using only stone tools, let alone complex spoked wheels. Therefore, the appearance of the wheel in human civilization can only occur after the Bronze Age.
The current civilization of ants is worse than that of humans in the Stone Age. Apart from building stone walls and cobblestones for meeting room floors, these big-headed ants don't even have stone tools. Their sharpest tools are the pliers of their upper jaws. Large claws, which obviously cannot be used to process wood.
In addition, the world that ants face is full of huge obstacles. Any slightly larger stone or protruding tree root may not be able to stop the crawling ants, but it will block the progress of the vehicle. Wheels are of no use if smooth roads cannot be built.
The current Ant Expressway in the kingdom is not a road in the strict sense, but is just a series of connected semaphore markers on the wasteland.
After weighing the process, the protagonist felt that he did not have enough technical ability to make the vehicle nor could it adapt to the objective environment of the ant world, so he had no choice but to give up.
What's the alternative? What about skids? No, this also requires flat terrain.
After much deliberation, the protagonist still feels that the most suitable transportation vehicle is the sedan-like vehicle made before... After all, ants have strong load-bearing capacity, good endurance, and are hardworking without complaining. They are the best sedan bearers.
The largest vehicle the protagonist made before was the one carried by two soldier ants, which could hold a bed of silk or a shelled sunflower seed. This size no longer meets the protagonist's needs.
The protagonist needs to make a larger sedan. The largest sedan chair in ancient China is said to be that of Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty, and it required thirty-two people to lift it at the same time. The protagonist does not intend to make a sedan carried by thirty-two ants. The bigger the sedan, the more complex the structure will be. It is difficult to realize it under the current crude conditions.
Finally, after weighing the materials that could be found, the protagonist decided to make a large sedan chair carried by eight ants.
The protagonist used two long wooden sticks as the main axis and placed them side by side based on the sedan chair in the human world in his memory. The sedan car was fixed in the middle of the pair of long wooden sticks with ropes made of plant fiber and ant glue.
Considering the need to cross mountains and ridges, the car must be sealed to prevent the goods inside from being jolted down. It is more troublesome to make this kind of car. Humans can use wooden boards to splice them into a suitable shape, but ants lack the deep processing ability and cannot cut the wood into wooden boards.
In the end, the protagonist simply chose a complete nut shell as the car. This is a nut that the protagonist has never seen before. It is similar in size and shape to pistachios, but is yellow in color. The nut shell is thick and hard, only the bud eyes are fragile. The protagonist is to let the worker ants dig a hole as big as a soybean from the eye of the bud, and then empty out the kernel inside.
The volume of the hollowed-out car is enough for the protagonist to use it as an RV. If you put the eggs of pavement ants, only one sedan chair can hold them all.
After finishing the car, the remaining difficulty is how to make the eight ants bear the weight of the car reasonably and evenly and maintain balance.
After the car was built and fixed on a pair of long wooden sticks, the protagonist and his secretary tied four short wooden sticks vertically to the long wooden sticks and glued them together, two at the front and rear of the car. This is the load-bearing pole of the sedan bearer ants. Then you only need to tie each short wooden stick behind the two ants, and the sedan can be moved.
The eight-ant sedan newly designed by the protagonist is intended to be carried by worker ants. After spending three full days to complete the first eight-carrying sedan, the protagonist immediately called for the sedan to be moved to the ground for experiments.
The senior brother, the police and the Western King got the news from somewhere and came to watch the experiment.
The protagonist and his secretary tied the straw ropes on the load-bearing poles of the eight-carat sedan to the worker ants one by one, and then the protagonist quickly climbed into the car. The opening of the car rushes forward, making it easier for the protagonist to observe the direction of travel.
As the protagonist lowered his head and touched the tentacles to the little secretary next to the sedan, the secret immediately followed the pre-arranged plan and gave the starting instructions to each worker ant carrying the sedan chair. Then the secretary ran to the front of the sedan and led the bearers to walk twice around the hill castle.
After an experiment, the protagonist is generally quite satisfied. The sedan is very sturdy, and the eight worker ants did not find it difficult to lift the sedan. They climbed up and walked quickly.
There are also disadvantages, such as the scenery is not good and you can only see straight ahead. There is also poor command. The protagonist cannot use his tentacles to direct the bearers in the car, and can only rely on friction signals to stop them. The bearers completely follow the secret guiding them from the front.
The most intolerable thing for the protagonist is that the sedan has no shock-absorbing system at all. When the sedan flies up and down, left and right, the protagonist is bounced around like a marble in a nut shell... …
However, shock absorption is a complex technology. The only way to do this is to lay a layer of ant wire inside the car to provide some shock protection.
However, this eight-carrying sedan met the design specifications. After the experiment, the senior brother and the others were still deep in thought. The protagonist did not bother to chat with them, and hurriedly took the little secretary to continue the second work. It's a sedan chair.
The protagonist initially wanted to build a large sedan chair with eight tops and eight lifts, but then he found five nuts that were the right size and met the requirements, and only five were made. Other materials such as wooden sticks, ant glue, and ant silk are abundant in the main nest.
It took the protagonist half a month to complete all six sedans. This progress can only be achieved as he becomes more and more proficient in doing it later. Even with the guidance of information packets, the worker ants hired by the protagonist can only do some simple auxiliary work. Complex work must be completed by the protagonist and the secretary, which results in a long construction period.
After completing the task of carrying six sedans and eight sedans, the protagonist rested for two days, and then asked the messenger to inform the legion members that they would set off back to "Dongyang City" tomorrow.
