Because of the green carapace of the red-headed fly, the protagonist gave his mount a popular name - "Xiao Qing".
The protagonist rode it for several more test flights that day, and it didn't come to an end until it was getting late.
At the end of the day, the protagonist's fly riding skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and the cooperation with Xiao Qing has become more and more tacit. The protagonist feels that riding a horse and driving a car are easier than in his previous life.
After the flight, Xiaoqing was placed back in its exclusive nest room. This nest room was newly built that day according to the protagonist's order. It is relatively close to the exit of the nest and has a larger space.
There are four worker ants who are responsible for taking care of him in this fly stable, providing food and water for Xiaoqing at any time, and also provide a ration of three drops of honeydew every day. There are also extra honeydew as a reward when you go out training or doing other tasks.
There are ten soldier ants outside Xiaoqing's fly stable to prevent him from suddenly going wild and trying to escape.
After the protagonist has verified the feasibility of riding a fly, he begins to think about how to expand the size of the air force.
Referring to the history of human military development, we can know that the emergence of the air force has had a profound impact on war.
Although the earliest air force could only play a reconnaissance role, it could greatly increase the observation range of ground forces, thus improving the overall combat capability.
The protagonist believes that if he creates an air force, it will be unique and unreplicable. As long as it can perform reconnaissance and transportation missions, it will be far ahead of enemy nations like the Pavement Ant Barbarians.
If you want to expand the size of the air force, you must first tame more flies, and flies that have just emerged from their pupae are the most suitable for taming, just like circus training animals must be trained from an early age.
Xiaoqing was mistakenly taken as a mealworm egg when it was still a fly egg and moved back to the breeding farm. But how can we find more fly eggs?
The protagonists went to find male ants such as Gun. They would take turns hunting and searching for mealworm eggs every day.
The protagonist communicates with the male ants one by one to learn about their experiences in the northern depression. However, these male ants all said that they had never seen a large number of flies gathering, and only sporadic flies would fly across the sky.
It seems that there are not many flies in the northern depression, and it is purely a coincidence that Xiaoqing's eggs were brought back.
Finally, the protagonist decided to set up a bait based on the flies' habits and actively lure the flies to lay eggs.
The next day, the protagonist directed the worker ants to carry out some rotten food from the nest and pile it up in a dark and damp place under a bush near the entrance of the nest.
These rotten foods are mainly dried mealworms that have not been properly dried, as well as some berries, grass seeds, etc. that have not been eaten fresh.
This garbage cannot even be eaten by the mealworms in the farm for fear of causing disease. If it had been in the past, it should have been thrown into the garbage dump.
In addition, the protagonist also sent some worker ants to carry some rotten food from the garbage pile a few meters away from the nest exit.
Ants have the habit of accumulating waste in fixed garbage piles, including the bodies of their companions, construction debris, and discarded food.
Nowadays, corpses of companions are rarely discarded in "Dongyang City". Ants killed in wars will be buried in the Martyrs Cemetery, while ants that die accidentally or naturally will be thrown into farms to feed mealworms.
However, there is also a lot of other food that has not yet finished rotting in the garbage dump, and ants often need to fill the soil to bury the foul-smelling garbage.
The protagonist ordered a large number of ants to dig out the layers of garbage piles covered with thin soil, and moved in the discarded food that had not yet finished rotting and piled it together.
There are also several hunting teams specially ordered to hunt earthworms in dark and humid places. Wherever earthworms are active, there will be a large amount of clumped feces as an indicator, so these ants who are good at digging holes quickly picked up several earthworms from the ground, killed them and carried them to the garbage dump.
After a short while, the ants had piled up a new garbage dump of about half a square meter.
Slowly, flies began to fly over following the foul smell, and some scavenging insects such as dung beetles and water bugs were also attracted.
The protagonist could no longer stand the smell here and ran away, leaving some worker ants to guard the garbage dump.
The worker ants followed the protagonist's orders and drove away all the bugs except flies.
Of course, in the process of driving away other bugs, flies will also be disturbed. But flies are very patient. They will eventually fly back, seize the time to feast and lay eggs.
In this world, there are no larger animals. Therefore, flies, dung beetles and other insects that feed on large animal feces in the human world are more inclined to scavenge and will not reject small particles of insect feces.
In particular, the dung beetle, nicknamed the dung beetle, has abandoned its specialty of rolling dung balls due to the lack of a large supply of dung.
Now faced with a lot of rotten meat, rotten fruits and other delicacies that the ants have worked hard to collect, flies from miles around are rushing here following the smell.
The feast lasted for several days, and eventually the ants collected tens of thousands of fly eggs.
Of course, if all these eggs hatch, the food supply capacity of "Dongyang City" will not be enough to support so many flies, not to mention the large amount of honeydew required to train them into mounts.
Therefore, the protagonist directed the ants to first eat the seemingly malnourished fly eggs as food, and the remaining thousands of eggs were placed in a special newly opened breeding farm to hatch.
After a few days, when all the eggs hatched, the breeders selected fifty small white maggots that were healthy and well-proportioned, moved them all to a special breeding farm, and raised them as mounts.
The dozen or so fattest maggots among the remaining maggots were picked out and used as seed flies in the future.
Most of the other maggots are eaten when they are at their largest, or killed and dried.
Facing these fat and white maggots, which looked much cleaner than adult flies, the protagonist, who had not tasted meat for a long time, made up his mind and tried to eat roasted maggots.
To his delight, the washed and roasted maggots smelled like popcorn without any peculiar smell. Just like that, a meat dish was finally added to the protagonist's menu.
After the fifty flies selected as mounts hatched, the protagonist made an information package on how to tame and ride them, and taught them to Rambo Fly, who was responsible for taming the flies.
When Rambo Fei is not teaching, he will take young male ant students to the domestication site to domesticate flies. The protagonist also comes to the scene from time to time to provide guidance.
After following the protagonist's method, twenty-three flies were successfully tamed in a few days. The remaining flies had no hope of domestication, so they were killed and thrown back to the breeding farm to be used as food for maggots.
During the subsequent riding training, Lamborghini reported that all male ants could master the technique of flying in the air, but soldier ants and worker ants were unable to master this technique.
In addition, even for the male ants who have mastered flying technology, the protagonist discovered a major problem after watching their first flight.
