The protagonist opens his jaws wide and his surprise is palpable. Even though there were various speculations, when the other party appeared in front of him in this image, it still exceeded the protagonist's expectations.
There was also a commotion in the welcoming team at "Stone Pillar City". The figure of the visitor gradually emerged from the hillside, wearing an outfit that subverted all three views.
In the distance, a huge unicorn appeared in sight. On its back was a pavilion made of wood, fiber and unknown materials, which was firmly tied to the carapace.
There are two drivers on the head of the horned fairy. They skillfully control the horned fairy to move forward through the reins.
The size difference between the worker ant driver and the rhinoceros is so huge that it reminds the protagonist of a knight riding an elephant. There is no such disparity in body size between humans and elephants.
It’s not just the giant unicorn used as a beast of burden that is shocking.
In the pavilion on the back of the unicorn is an ant in costume. Judging from the size, this is an ant queen. Her tentacles are wrapped with a headdress made of dried small flowers, which is worn on her head like a laurel wreath. And her body was also covered by an extremely thin layer of almost transparent fiber fabric.
Behind the dressed and hooded queen, there are two tall and burly soldier ant warriors. These soldier ant warriors, like the worker ant drivers, are naked, but this is in line with the three views of the ants.
Behind the beetle, there were fifty warriors, both soldier ants and worker ants. These warriors, as well as the two warriors on the beetle, had something strange on their jaws, which seemed to be sharp flints stuck on.
As soon as the neatly dressed queen ant appeared, the protagonist's jaw was almost dropped. He had imagined that this group of big-headed ant "remnants" had a higher level of civilization, but the "advance" of the other party was still much beyond his imagination.
Not to mention the huge rock-like unicorn, not to mention the skillful control skills of the two worker ant handlers, nor the complex craftsmanship reflected in the pavilion on the back of the ant, it is just the flower crown on the queen ant. And thin clothes, it reflects the exquisite skills.
The corolla seems to be woven from dried flowers connected to grass stems. It is not difficult to collect the flowers and dry them, but if you want to weave them together, the ants have six jointed limbs, each with only one "finger" at the top. The physiological structure is an extremely difficult thing.
Humans have five fingers on each hand, which is mainly determined by genetics and evolution.
If the origin of human beings can be traced back to the late Devonian period 350 million years ago, we can see the lobe-finned fishes at that time. Due to seasonal droughts, the land area has expanded, and rivers and lakes have periodically turned into filthy ponds and vast mudflats. At the same time, sea levels have dropped, requiring some fish to evolve "lungs" that can move air and breathe. "(Swim bladder) and has a strong ability to crawl on land with even fins to adapt to the environment.
Some lobe-fin fishes have this ability, gradually adapting to their environment and evolving a series of evolutionary changes. Finally, some lobe-finned fishes evolved into the first group of amphibians, and their fins evolved into terrestrial five-fingered appendages. Most of the subsequent species that evolved from amphibians have the characteristic five-fingered forelimbs.
The five fingers that humans inherited from their ancestors are a miracle of nature's creation in terms of dexterity. The five fingers form a whole, and the thumb and the other four fingers can be pinched together to form an opposite palm, so that they can be pinched together to hold things. Therefore, the thumb is the most important. Without the thumb and only four fingers, holding things will be unstable and the strength will be very weak.
The functions of the other four fingers are similar. They all form opposite palms with the thumb. However, in terms of strength and distance from the thumb, the second finger is more important than the third finger, and the importance of the other fingers is ranked in order.
Many delicate and complex movements, such as knitting a sweater, holding a weapon, using a mobile phone, etc., require the cooperation of five fingers, leaving at most the ring finger or little finger free of responsibility. But once there are fewer than three fingers, many actions cannot be performed.
An ant's pair of jaws and three pairs of jointed limbs are only equivalent to four pairs of human fingers. Even with the addition of flexible jaws, the flexibility of ants is far less than that of human hands. Considering that ants also need to move or support their bodies, at least one or two pairs of arthropods cannot be put into work. Therefore, the dexterity of a single ant is far inferior to that of humans, and even inferior to that of many amphibians, reptiles, or mammals.
Therefore, even the simple task of weaving hemp rope can only be done by multiple ants. A double-strand rope requires two ants, a three-strand rope requires three ants, and so on.
But braiding rope is just the simplest and roughest weaving process. To weave a corolla, you must not damage the delicate dried flowers, and you must also wrap up the extremely thin grass stems that are about the same thickness as ant tentacles. This is no less difficult than making a flower crown. Muscular men go to embroider.
If we talk about weaving corollas, the main difficulty lies in the need for dexterous weaving, and the technical content is still relatively primitive. Most Paleolithic tribes in human history can also complete this work.
So, weaving a piece of cloth and then making it into clothes is undoubtedly a skill unique to the civilized world.
Although the protagonist cannot see the specific material and processing technology of the queen's tulle clothing due to the distance, it is definitely not a natural material, but an artificial (ant-made) material that has been processed later.
Textiles have a short history.
Because humans are naked apes with sparse hair, they cannot effectively maintain body temperature on their own in the colder seasons. So humans learned to make clothes very early.
For example, cavemen 50,000 years ago used bone needles to sew animal skin clothes to protect them from the cold. However, this kind of animal skin clothing uses natural animal skin materials and only needs simple processing before being put into use.
Real textiles appeared very late. The earliest fragments of kudzu cloth unearthed in China show that our ancestors only began to weave kudzu fiber for clothing in the Neolithic Age five to six thousand years ago. Another example is the half-cut silkworm cocoon found at Neolithic sites and silk fabrics from 4,700 years ago, indicating that our ancestors were able to use silkworm silk for weaving roughly at that time. At almost the same time, in this Neolithic Age, our ancestors also began to use wool fibers to make woolen cloths and blankets for clothing and keeping out the cold.
As can be seen from the above examples, textiles appeared about five thousand years ago. The emergence of textiles marked the beginning of five thousand years of Chinese civilization and the dawn of civilization.
And now the queen ant of the mysterious big-headed ant "remnant" comes to the protagonist, wearing exquisite handmade products and textiles, and comes to the protagonist.
