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The flames in the combustion chamber burned fiercely, and the flames slowly became huge and bright. The flames rose, and the tongues of flames sometimes shot up high, licking the oxygen higher up, and then quickly retracted, leaving the air empty. Leaves a bit of heat.
Compared to the nearly one-meter-high combustion chamber, this pile of flames is actually not enough to fill the entire space. It is now very small. At best, it is the size of the flames of four or five candles gathered together.
But for the entire "Dongyang City", this is the first flame in the decades since the city was founded, and it is also the second fire in the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom besides the main nest. This significance cannot be explained solely in terms of scale.
The protagonist did not build cobblestone walls for the four walls of the combustion chamber like the main nest. That would be too wasteful. There are not many white cobblestones around "Dongyang City". But I saw a lot of them on the banks of the river.
The soil on the walls of the combustion chamber is relatively moist and needs to be dried slowly by the flames. After the walls of the combustion chamber are ceramicized by baking at high temperatures, their sturdiness and waterproofness will not be inferior to those of cobblestone walls.
The purpose of building such a huge combustion chamber is of course not just to keep the sacred fire burning, or simply to heat the nest in winter.
The protagonist wants to use the flames of this combustion chamber to promote the industrial development of ants. But this is a long-term project. Let’s wait until the combustion chamber is completely dried before taking a long-term approach.
Dozens of soldier ants and worker ants surround the fire. They are the maintainers responsible for taking care of the fire in shifts to ensure that the flame never goes out.
A large number of worker ants crawled in from the entrance in an endless stream, working together to carry large and small fuels. Now, in order to maintain this pile of flames that is bigger than the main nest's holy fire, a thousand worker ants have to take turns to go out to search for various fuels during the day.
These ants are the newly organized 22 fire protection teams.
As for night, under the strict orders of the protagonist, all ants must maintain at least four hours of deep sleep. Even if they don't sleep, they can only stay in the nest and are not allowed to run around.
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The day after the completion of the combustion chamber, the protagonist was woken up by the secretary while he was still sleeping.
A messenger worker ant was waiting outside the door, and she brought important news - the strange worm in the farm had broken out of its pupa.
This worm pupated two or three days ago. After receiving the report, the protagonist was busy completing the lessons for the young male ants and did not bother to take a look.
Now that everything was fine, the protagonist got curious and quickly got up and walked to the farm.
It was not yet dawn at this time, but even if it were, there would only be a faint glow from fluorescent fungi in the entire underground lair.
When the protagonist just led the God Envoy King's army back to "Dongyang City", all the ants and stored food disappeared, and only clusters of fluorescent fungi were still there.
At that time, many of these fluorescent bacteria had withered and died because they had not been cared for by ants for a long time, and only a few of them were weakly surviving.
Fortunately, the Divine Envoy King's Legion was originally a legion temporarily recruited from the main nest, and the legion had workers of all kinds.
These worker ants used the fresh ant droppings produced by the Angel King's army to cultivate fluorescent bacteria, and quickly restored the lighting of the underground nest.
The protagonist followed the ant breeder who led the way and came to a small nest room. According to the protagonist's request, the pupa of the pupating worm was placed alone in a small, narrow nest room.
The protagonist arranged this because most of the insects can fly after emerging from the pupa, so don't worry and they will escape.
The protagonist turns out to be very prescient.
When the protagonist entered the nest, he was surprised to find that this strange worm looked so familiar after emerging from its pupa.
The insect's huge head is facing the protagonist, which is the direction of the exit of the nest. The most eye-catching thing is a pair of huge red compound eyes. The protagonist seems to be able to clearly see the grid-like patterns on the compound eyes.
Compared with the protagonist's body shape, it is roughly equivalent to the difference between a cow, a horse, and a human. The insect has a pair of approximately triangular wings on its back, which grow on a green back covered with carapace.
This is a common big red-headed fly...
The protagonist doesn't have a very good impression of this insect. Although it looks very distinctive, it has a unique beauty if you look closely.
However, this kind of fly was often seen in the protagonist's previous life, and the biggest impression it left on the protagonist was that firstly, it made an extremely loud buzzing sound when flying, which was very annoying; secondly, this kind of fly often lay on human and animal feces or animal carcasses. Eating and laying eggs...
At this time, the red-headed fly was struggling to crawl outside the nest. It instinctively wanted to crawl to the ground to spread its wings and fly.
The six staff-nurturing ants firmly bit the fly's six legs and tried hard to prevent it from crawling away.
Due to the protagonist's order, these worker ants did not dare to hurt the fly and could only hold it back and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
This red-headed fly has just emerged from the pupa, and its wings are still relatively damp. It flaps its wings hard to gain more power for itself. But the wet, limp wings are obviously not up to the job.
However, as the fly's wings kept beating, its wings were slowly drying out at a speed visible to the naked eye. The six worker ants holding it were becoming increasingly difficult, and they were dragged a little closer to the entrance of the nest.
The protagonist saw that this was nothing, and saw that the red-headed fly was about to run out. The protagonist could easily stop it with his brute force, but in this case the fly would be easily killed.
The protagonist asks the little secretary who is following him to move the reinforcements.
Soon a group of worker ants and soldier ants hurried over. They worked together to subdue the red-headed fly and pinned it firmly to the ground.
The fly continued to struggle, but to no avail.
The protagonist is thinking hard on the sidelines about how to deal with this fly that has been eating and drinking among the mealworm larvae that have gotten into the farm.
Killed and eaten? This adult fly is not as fleshy and beautiful as when it was a maggot.
Let go? Then the protagonist couldn't bear it having eaten so many days of food in vain.
The character of the protagonist is: if you eat something from me, spit it out for me; if you take it from me, you have to give it back to me. If you want to take advantage of me, even if it is a stone, you have to squeeze out two ounces of oil and return it to me.
But what is the use of this fly?
At this time, the fly suddenly flapped its wings violently and jumped into the air, throwing away the ants that were holding it down.
But the nest was too small, and the fly hit the ceiling at once, and then bounced back to the floor with a "pop" sound, with its legs in the air.
The ants immediately swarmed up and suppressed the fly again.
The red-headed fly's belly is now facing the sky, its wings can no longer flap, and it is firmly pressed to the ground, unable to move.
The protagonist saw this red-headed fly flying up, and suddenly his eyes lit up.
"You can fly," the protagonist thought to himself:
"Then try to see if you can be my mount!"
