This group of young male ants who are about to receive a new type of education will be the protagonist's experimental subjects to see how far these ants with primitive civilization can be improved using modern human knowledge.
————
The focus returned to the construction of "Dongyang City".
On the third day after killing the mantis, among the unfinished projects of "Dongyang City", the Martyrs Cemetery was completed first.
The Martyrs Cemetery is located on a piece of muddy land to the north of the drying yard, covering an area of about one square meter. The terrain is relatively flat. The worker ants have cleared away all the plants and large rocks on the surface, leaving it looking empty and desolate.
A half-decimeter-high wall of gravel and clay was built around the Martyrs Cemetery, leaving only the only entrance due south.
In the center of the cemetery is a long black shale monument, with the lower half buried in the soil and the upper half about one decimeter high.
The protagonist is responsible for lifting this large piece of shale from a short distance away, and only the protagonist has the strength to lift such a huge rock.
The protagonist originally discovered that this piece of shale was similar to the shape of a stone tablet, which was suitable as a monument in the cemetery, so he took the initiative to lift it, bury it in the deep hole dug by the worker ants, and then cover it with soil.
The ground on the south side of the monument is entirely paved with white cobblestones, which can also serve as a group meeting venue. The rest of the area is empty dirt land used to bury martyrs.
After the cemetery was completed, the protagonist chose a sunny day and led all the male and female ants in the nest to the cemetery. All the young male ants also came to the scene.
Even the queen ants were helped over. Due to the small amount of eggs they laid, these queens were not that bloated and could barely go out with the help of the worker ants.
Then the male and female ants stood in several rows, bowed their heads and lowered their antennae as requested by the protagonist to show respect.
The male and female ants were confused and didn't know why they came to such a strange place.
When they saw a few worker ants carrying up the corpses of some soldier ants, they realized that the objects of their respect were actually the corpses of some humble ants.
These soldier ants and worker ants were killed in the battle with the praying mantises. Before the completion of the Martyrs Cemetery, they were temporarily placed in a cell underground in the nest according to the protagonist's request. They were not buried until today.
Gun immediately raised his head, left the team, ran to the protagonist, and expressed his dissatisfaction with him with his tentacles.
"Corpse, garbage. Soldier ants and worker ants, despicable. The noble king cannot salute to it." I don't know if the order of Gun's words was confused due to excitement, but it was enough to express his meaning.
The protagonist sighed, so he needs to work hard to cultivate a new generation of male ants. It is too laborious to change the ideas of their older generation.
"This is God's will. All warriors who die in battle will enter God's paradise." The protagonist began to lie according to the plot in Nordic mythology.
"Go away, do you want to question God's will?" The protagonist threw out a killer weapon again.
Gun shook his head. Although he was not satisfied with the answer, he still retreated obediently.
The protagonist continued to signal all the male and female ants to lower their antennae, and with the help of the ground paved with white cobblestones, he said to all the ants:
"God has decreed that from now on, all warriors who die in battle, whether they are male ants, female ants, soldier ants or worker ants, they are all martyrs and will enter God's world and enjoy the endless supply of honeydew."
"The remains of all fallen warriors should be buried in this cemetery."
"Today is the funeral of the first warriors. The funeral is the ceremony that is being carried out now."
"You all must remember firmly that this is God's will, and you must act in accordance with God's will in the future."
The male and female ants then became serious and watched as the worker ants put the remains of the martyrs into a large hole dug in advance and then filled it with soil.
The protagonist did not plan to have an ant-one-grave pattern, but instead adopted a simple mass burial without erecting a tombstone. Just have such a ritual to subtly change the ant society. There is no need to make it too complicated.
————
A few days after the burial ceremony of the martyrs, a worker ant came to report that a strange insect had hatched in the breeding farm.
The protagonist ran to the breeding farm to take a look.
Sure enough, among a group of large and small beige mealworms, there was a fat white worm.
This worm seems to have just hatched. It looks very similar to a mealworm larvae, but its body is white and almost transparent, and it is much smaller.
The protagonist also has no idea what this maggot-like worm is, and has no idea what to do with it.
The little white worms are quietly eating the food fed to the mealworms. There are green plant leaves and the bran of grass seeds. They look quite cute when they are arched.
"Forget it, I can't even eat a few grains of food at such a young age." The protagonist made up his mind.
He ordered the worker ants in the breeding team to feed the worm that had somehow gotten into the farm normally, and if the worm pupated, arrange a separate nest to take care of it.
The protagonist wants to see what kind of insect this is.
————
The construction progress of the combustion chamber was half slower than the protagonist's rough estimate. It was not completed until 43 days after the start of construction.
After learning the news that the combustion chamber was completed, the protagonist hurriedly ran through the passage connecting the main body of "Dongyang City" and the combustion chamber.
The entrance of the channel is opened at the lowest end of the combustion chamber. Looking up, the dark combustion chamber is extremely empty and tall.
At a height of one meter, for the ant's tiny body, it is like a person looking up at a sixty or seventy-story building, feeling a little dizzy.
There was a faint light coming from the chimney at the top, but there was no other light.
A large number of worker ants quickly followed the protagonist's request and moved in a large amount of firewood, hay and unburned charcoal from the previous fire, and piled it into a small mound at the bottom of the combustion chamber.
After the fuel pile was in place, a nut shell containing tinder was brought in.
The fire inside the nut shell was smoldering brightly and darkly. The worker ants who had been briefly trained by the protagonist carefully poured the fire on a pile of dry grass.
The pile of grass shreds was quickly ignited, and a sweet scent of grass ash emitted.
Several soldier ants immediately carefully carried the unburnt edges of the grass threads in their mouths and lifted the fire onto the fuel pile.
More worker ants dropped some slender grass strands next to the weak burning flame.
But the first ignition failed. The sparks on the grass silk failed to ignite other fuels and slowly dimmed.
The ants have no active breathing organs and cannot gently blow up the flames. They can only watch the sparks extinguish.
The protagonist was not discouraged, he asked the ants to go back and carry another nut.
This time, a small flame ignited the flammable grass nearby. The fire slowly became more and more intense, gradually igniting the thick branches that were not easy to burn.
Fire burned brightly in the combustion chamber of "Dongyang City".
