However, no matter how difficult it is to break through the bottleneck, the protagonist can only persist on the road of continuous progress.
The world of ants is not a peaceful world of harmony. This world is even far more bloody and cruel than the human world. The loser of the national war will basically die, or be a slave and lose the qualification to reproduce forever.
As a proud time traveler, the protagonist cannot accept the above two endings even if he has not made any achievements.
The world of ants is extremely dangerous. Since time traveling, the protagonist has lost count of how many times he has been in danger and even almost lost his life.
The first time was when he faced a praying mantis. At that moment, the protagonist realized how powerless an individual of a primitive intelligent civilization was when faced with a beast with overwhelming advantages in size, strength, and agility.
The second time was during the battle with the ant barbarians. If it hadn't been for the sudden awakening of the ability of "gods descending to earth", the protagonist would have been dead. This time the protagonist knows the bloody and cruel war between different races in the ant civilization.
Perhaps just like the ancient humans of the past, the fighting between close relatives of the same species will be more brutal than between cross-species. Ten species of ancient humans, including Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Homo Thoreau, and Homo floresiensis. In the end, these cousins Only one can survive.
So do ants also have to experience this fate?
The protagonist has not been in this world for a long time. He has only seen two races: big-headed ants and pavement ants. Parasitic ants are a branch of big-headed ants that appear after being parasitized by silk thread parasites. They cannot be counted as an independent race.
Could it be that the big-headed ant is the Homo sapiens in the ant world? And the pavement ant barbarians are Homo erectus? The protagonist guessed so. As for why pavement ants are not Homo sapiens and big-headed ants are not Homo erectus, it can only be said that there is a difference between closeness and distance - Homo erectus is the loser in the end.
The reason why Homo sapiens was able to eliminate Homo erectus (not counting Thoreau and Homo floresiensis, who were distributed in small and large numbers) was not because they had better physical fitness, but because they had more developed physical abilities than Homo erectus. Brains and more sophisticated technology.
When Homo sapiens first appeared in East Africa 100,000 years ago, they were still very weak and no better than their other cousins.
Therefore, when Homo sapiens first walked out of Africa, they were quickly defeated by Homo erectus in the Middle East and were forced to continue to live in Africa for tens of thousands of years.
Until about 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens DNA mutated due to some special reasons, and the internal connections in the brain changed. Along with this came changes in the way of thinking and language. These changes give them the power to change the world.
This period was the beginning of the cognitive revolution, and mature language systems, primitive religions, and social structures began to appear among Homo sapiens. Their tool-making techniques were also more diverse and specialized.
In making stone tools, Homo sapiens not only used direct production methods, but also indirect production methods, including stone knives, carvers, scrapers and other stone tools. In addition, bone tools have also developed greatly. Tools made from bone include spears, javelins, harpoons, fishhooks, and bone needles with eyes. In addition to major improvements in hunting tools, humans also began to build artificial shelters, the custom of burying the dead emerged, and art also developed greatly, mainly statues and cave paintings.
There is ample evidence to prove that Homo sapiens invented boats between 30,000 and 70,000 years ago. By this time, they could already cross the ocean and reach areas far away from Asia and Africa.
So, Homo sapiens began their journey. Wherever they passed, they were like an army of locusts passing through, and animal species were exterminated in large numbers.
When they came to the territory of Homo erectus again and competed with the local indigenous people for food and territory, the result was predictable. The uncivilized Homo erectus was completely unable to resist the advanced Homo sapiens. About 30,000 years ago, Homo erectus in Europe Completely extinct on earth.
In China, Homo erectus (Peking Man) has lived for nearly 2 million years. When he encountered Homo sapiens, he had no choice but to accept the end of extinction.
45,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left the Asian and African continents for the first time, came to Australia, crossed the ocean, and then crossed the ocean again to North America, until they occupied the whole world.
In addition to the eradication of Homo sapiens' cousins, species around the world also experienced a mass extinction.
After Homo sapiens left Africa, large animals gradually disappeared. These facts can be proved by archaeological evidence such as bone fossils and campfire traces.
When the first Homo sapiens arrived in Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly wiped out 90% of the large animals there.
Twelve thousand years ago, our ancestors of Homo sapiens inadvertently crossed the frozen Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska, and the creatures in America began to rapidly become extinct on a genus basis. 34 of the 47 genera in North America have become extinct, and 50 of the 60 genera in South America have become extinct. In just two thousand years, Homo sapiens marched from Alaska, the northernmost tip of North America, to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, the southernmost tip of South America.
Eventually, before Homo sapiens learned to farm, they exterminated 50% of the earth's land mammals.
Perhaps the emergence of Homo sapiens is an outright disaster for other humans and species, but this historical process has given the protagonist a great inspiration.
Only by constantly pursuing wisdom and technological progress like Homo sapiens can we survive the threat of ants of different races and countless beasts, and then continue to grow and develop.
Compared with the technological level of today's Big-headed Ants and Pavement Ants, it can be said to be close to but slightly inferior to that of early Homo sapiens or Homo erectus.
For example, both ants and primitive people use fire, and they also use natural fire, and have not learned the art of artificial fire.
But whether they are Homo sapiens or Homo erectus, they can already make primitive stone tools. However, due to their limited size, ants still rely on the large jaws given to them by nature to complete the tasks of various tools.
The successful precedent of Homo sapiens has pointed out the basic direction for the ants led by the protagonist. The protagonist can proceed step by step, constantly starting from the ants' social structure, thinking mode, and process technology, and moving forward step by step.
Although the differences between ants and humans are still obvious. There are very few differences between human individuals, but different ants have their own strengths and differences in size, strength and intelligence.
How to overcome the differences between individual ants and how to make up for the huge disadvantage of the ants' size are all difficulties that the protagonist needs to face independently.
In this regard, not only can human beings' successful experience be unable to explain and help the protagonist, but even the history of time travel that spans hundreds of millions of epochs, includes countless planes in space, and even contains countless possibilities at higher latitudes cannot provide the protagonist with any help. Answer - The protagonist is the only one who has to face so many development problems after traveling as an ant.
Finally, the protagonist has another extremely worrying issue - his lifespan.
