Although the protagonist has made up his mind to complete the construction of the suspended rope bridge in winter, and is ready to continue taking the training team to the wild for training and work, the protagonist cannot just let them go out without making any preparations. . This is not training, but letting the men lose their lives in the harsh environment of the wild.
On the one hand, the protagonist continues to adhere to the previously effective distribution method of three ants in a group, requiring the three ants to act together and help each other in a timely manner. Although this may reduce some work efficiency, it can effectively reduce attrition.
On the other hand, it is constantly adapting to changes in actual work.
On the first day, the protagonist led his men and successfully opened a path from the nest entrance to the ground.
The road generally winds along the folds and gaps in the bark of the big banyan tree. The protagonist takes the lead, and other ants follow behind, gradually clearing away the snow on the road. The cleared ice and snow seeds were thrown directly to the ground.
Since the nest entrance is located in the south and does not face the north wind, there is not much snow on the trunk. The team soon reached a position close to the ground.
There is an open space near the ground, which was originally a basin with shelter on three sides surrounded by two tree roots protruding from the ground.
This kind of terrain happened to form an air circulation in the basin on the day it snowed. A large number of snowflakes were carried here by the air flow, and a thick layer of snow accumulated in the basin.
The protagonist chooses to stay in the basin. Although the snow is deeper here, it has the resources the protagonist needs.
The protagonist takes the lead and prepares to clear the snow. But when I tried it, I found that it was like a punch on cotton. Although the snow was flying everywhere, the collapsed snowdrifts around it quickly filled the depression that had just been cleared.
The protagonist shook his head. It seemed that without professional tools, the protagonist had no strength and could not quickly clear the snow here.
Then we can only use stupid methods. The protagonist starts to lead his subordinates to dig holes in the snow along the outer bark of the tree roots.
Digging holes is the specialty of ants, not to mention that they dig loose snow, not soil. The difficulty is that snow can cause the ants to become hypothermic and even cause them to die.
Fortunately, the cave is dug along the surface of the tree root, so the ants can stand on the root without direct contact with the cold snowflakes.
While digging forward, the ants tried their best to pound the snow on the four walls as solid as possible to avoid an avalanche collapse.
The work of slapping the walls requires contact with the snow. The ants engaged in this work need to be constantly rotated, and the replaced ants must seize the time to recover their body temperature in the sun.
The protagonist did not personally descend into the excavated cave, but directed from the relatively warm ground.
This decision saved the names of many ants.
Despite being extremely careful, a long section of the tunnel that was being excavated suddenly collapsed in the afternoon, and more than a dozen ants were trapped under the snowdrift.
The protagonist immediately led the team into the tunnel himself, used his power to break up the snow, and pulled the frozen ants up to the ground and placed them in the sun.
Most of the frozen ants gradually recovered their body temperature, and were then sent back to "Linshui City" by the protagonist to rest. But three ants still failed to survive and were killed by winter.
The protagonist has no time to be sentimental, he immediately urges the other ants to continue working. Finally before dusk, the tunnel was completely opened, and the dark surface soil appeared at the end of the tunnel.
This is a tunnel similar to a mine, and the "minerals" the ants need are those tiny black soil particles.
After a night's rest, the protagonist continues to lead the team out.
A small group of ants devoted themselves to the work of digging out the black soil. They continued to throw the excavated soil to the ground along the ice and snow tunnel.
The other ants are the construction team. They first covered the walls of the ice and snow tunnel with black soil particles to prevent the coming and going ants from directly contacting the snow particles and causing danger.
Subsequently, the construction team began to spread the excavated black soil particles stored on the ground onto the snow layer that had not yet melted.
They quickly paved a black road about one centimeter wide on the pure white snow, heading straight to the north-east direction.
If you draw a straight line, you can see that this straight line points to the tall tree selected by the protagonist on the north bank.
After spreading the black soil particles on the ice, the ants coming and going can move forward on the road, and their six limbs do not need to touch the snow.
Since the progress of the hemp rope weaving work was fixed, the protagonist estimated the time and felt that it was still quite rich, so he did not urge the ants to speed up the paving of the road. They basically work for one day and rest for one day. This can give the ants involved in the work enough rest time and effectively reduce casualties caused by freezing.
In terms of food, the protagonist also provided convenience for the construction team. Not only is there enough dried meat and vegetarian food, the protagonist will also use the clay pots brought from "Dongyang City" to cook porridge and soup for the construction team, ensuring that they can eat hot food after returning from the wild.
This kind of treatment was not even enjoyed by the Divine Envoy King Legion. Even in "Dongyang City", only the protagonist, male ants, and female ants have assigned pottery cooking utensils, and only they have enjoyed hot cooked food.
Even with all the measures taken, and even if there was no bad wind and snow in the next few days, after all the construction was completed, the construction team working in the field still paid the price of ten deaths and seventeen injuries, with the casualty rate reaching an astonishing quarter.
These casualties are mainly caused by hypothermia. Some unlucky ants will be accidentally blown to the ice by the wind. If they cannot come back in time to find the large army, they will easily lose their lives. Some ants, due to negligence, were contaminated with snow particles in inconspicuous places (such as their abdomen) and were quickly frozen.
Fortunately, the overall project is progressing smoothly. With the road paving completed, the hemp ropes in "Linshui City" were also weaved, with a total length of forty meters.
After finding a day when the weather was fine, the protagonist took the ants that could move outdoors, carried the hemp rope in sections, and left the nest.
They climbed along the tree trunk to the ground. At this time, the protagonist stayed in the cave and kept pulling on the hemp rope to prevent the hemp rope and the carrying team from falling to the ground due to the excessive weight of the hemp rope.
After the hemp rope was successfully transported to the ground, the transport team transported it to the river along the paved black soil road.
These days, due to the energy-absorbing effect of black soil, the snow layer on which the black soil is laid has melted to varying degrees, causing the road height to be lower than the surrounding snow layer. The high snow wall also serves as a wind barrier.
The next step is to build the suspended rope bridge.
