The protagonist thought: I have failed so many times before, and I don’t care to try another method. Use the dead horse as a live horse doctor. If the treatment fails, just keep the meat and eat it.
So the protagonist decided to try combining punishment training and reward training.
He adjusted the content of the two short videos:
The first short video: The ants slowly loosened their grip on the lying fly, and the fly immediately struggled. Then the ants swarmed up and the fly was stung in agony.
The second short video: The ants slowly loosened their grip on the lying fly. The fly remained motionless and quiet. It was not attacked by the ants anymore, and it also received honeydew as a reward. The fly ate it very much. happy.
The protagonist then sends the information packet, and then lets the ants loosen their grip on the flies.
This time, the red-headed fly was unusually honest. Although it shook its body slightly, it did not struggle to escape. Instead, it stared at the protagonist eagerly. Its pair of forelimbs were rubbing together, and its licking mouthparts kept moving. As if urging to give it the honeydew quickly.
The protagonist waited for several seconds, and the fly showed a quiet and tame attitude, not like it was tired or acting on a whim.
Second after second, the red-headed fly slowly showed its anxious mood, its wings began to shake, and the frequency of its forelimbs rubbing its hands became faster and faster.
Seeing that its patience was almost at an end, the protagonist asked the worker ants to spit out a drop of honeydew and feed it to it.
The fly sucked the sweet honeydew with a kiss with satisfaction. It was still unsatisfied after drinking it, and stared at the protagonist eagerly.
"There is something to play", the protagonist finally sees progress.
He tried to slowly approach the tentacles of the uncontrolled fly, trying to put his own tentacles on it.
The red-headed fly shrank back first, instinctively making it dislike physical contact with predators like ants.
But the sweet taste of honeydew echoed in his mind, and the fly, which had just emerged from its pupa, did not have such a strong sense of danger. Under the dual effects, it stopped and slowly let the protagonist's tentacles catch up.
The protagonist continued to construct two short videos in his mind and sent them to the fly:
The first short video: The protagonist climbed on the back of the fly, and the fly immediately struggled, and then the ants swarmed up, and the fly was painfully stung.
The second short video:: The protagonist climbed on the back of the fly. The fly remained motionless and quiet. It was not attacked by the ants anymore, and it also received honeydew as a reward. The fly was very happy to eat it.
Another wave of light flashed across the fly's huge red compound eyes. This was the inherent reaction of this red-headed fly every time it received an information packet.
After the protagonist confirmed that the fly had received his information packet and was still quiet without struggling or resisting without the control of the ants, the protagonist carefully moved to the side of the fly.
He looked at the height of the fly. When he stood on his hind limbs, his front two limbs could just go up the fly's back.
So the protagonist used the finger-like tarsal feet on the arthropods to grab a bristle on the green carapace on the back of the fly, and flipped it up its back with all his strength.
The fly felt a little uncomfortable after being caught by the bristles and shook its body. However, under the dual pressure of delicious food and punishment, the fly quickly calmed down.
The protagonist signals a worker ant to spit out another drop of honeydew and feed it to the fly. And he himself sat on the back of a fly and thought.
How to control the movement of this fly?
The current method of transmitting information packets through the tentacles can intuitively tell flies what to do, and the effect is very good.
But this method of command is very inconvenient.
Not only does it require the rider to spend a lot of time building the information package. And when riding on the back of a fly, the rider cannot reach its antennae unless he climbs on the fly's head - the fly's antennae are too short and tend to swing around.
How about getting a bridle? When the protagonist thinks of humans controlling horses, they do so through the reins.
The horse's bridle can be put on the horse's mouth, but where can the fly's bridle be put? The fly's mouthparts don't look like they could be put on a bridle!
How about tying a fly on its tentacles? The fly's antennae function as a nose, and the cow's reins are tied to the ring on the cow's nose!
So the protagonist immediately asked the worker ants to go out and get a piece of ant silk. The ant silk was tough enough to meet the requirements of the reins.
The protagonist jumped off the fly's back and went to tie the reins himself.
The fly stayed silent all the time, and occasionally when it became really agitated, the protagonist would let the worker ants feed it a drop of honeydew.
But even so, this fly needs to consume a lot of honeydew. The honeydew harvested by the ant nest every day seems not enough to support a large number of flies. We can only hope that when the level of domestication is higher, we can see if its demand can be reduced.
Soon the protagonist tied the reins and constructed an information package that told the fly the connection between the direction of pulling its tentacles and the direction of travel, as well as the signals to move forward and stop.
After confirming that the fly has received the information package, the protagonist turns over the fly again, grabs the reins with his forelimbs, shakes hard, and shouts in his heart: "Drive!", full of pride.
The reins vibrated in waves, transmitting the power to the red-headed fly's pair of short, brush-like antennae.
The red-headed fly shuddered, and instead of following the instructions in the information package and starting to crawl forward as the protagonist expected, it jerked and flipped the protagonist off.
The ants nearby hurriedly stepped forward to control the fidgety fly.
The protagonist climbed up from the side, ignored the concerns of the little secretary and Hua Mulan, and ran to the fly.
He read the message conveyed in the fly's antennae, which was an emotion of pain.
Okay, the protagonist understands that the fly's tentacles will hurt if pulled hard, just like the human nose is very fragile and sensitive. It seems that tying the reins to the fly's antennae is not a good idea.
The protagonist comforted the fly and fed it another drop of honeydew. After the ants let go of the fly, the fly, which had recovered from the pain, finally stayed gentle again.
The protagonist unties the reins from its antennae and turns over the fly again.
He looked around and saw that there seemed to be no place on the fly's head or back where the reins could be tied.
Tentacles were deprecated.
The bristles on its back seemed to have few nerves. The protagonist pulled it gently a few times, but the fly had no reaction.
You can't tie it to a fly's leg! ?
The protagonist continued to look around the whole body of the fly, and he suddenly discovered a pair of small stick-like objects behind the wings of the fly, which the protagonist had never noticed before.
The fly's wings occasionally fluttered, and the pair of sticks moved slightly in response.
What's this? The protagonist is curious. It seems that there is a linkage relationship with the wings. In turn, can the fly's wings be controlled by pulling this small stick?
The protagonist decided to experiment.
