Next, putting aside questions about the gods for the time being, the protagonist continues to watch the remaining content in the information package.
The rest of the information package is basically about the daily life of the queen, such as eating, drinking, sleeping and sleeping.
The protagonist can see the "luxurious" palace of the former queen: an extremely spacious nest room, fluorescent bacteria glowing with a faint blue light, the floor and walls are covered with silk and cotton fabrics, and many of the silk fabrics have abstract paintings painted with paint. . The nest is filled with a fragrant atmosphere, dozens of worker ants shuttle back and forth, and decorations made of flowers and plants are piled in the corners.
The queen's daily diet is also very delicate, including a large amount of meat and aphid honeydew. The meat is roasted, and the supplementary food includes berries and fungi. There is also a paste made from ground plant seeds and mixed with drinks, which seems to have been fermented. . The food is served to the queen on fresh plant leaves.
The information packet also shows the queen attending the funeral of another, slightly lower-status queen.
At the funeral, the body of the dead queen is covered in plain silk cotton fabric and surrounded by dried flowers and hay. After the surrounding ants bowed their heads in mourning, her body was thrown into the fire inside the nest and eventually turned into ashes.
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——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist carefully read through the information package bit by bit, spending several hours. The Lao Wang and other ants from the Queen's inheritance faction have left, and only the Queen is still waiting for the protagonist.
The protagonist slowly came back to his senses. He was still shocked by the "legacy" of the big-headed ants. This tribe was far more advanced than the protagonist originally imagined.
Not to mention the national power behind the huge army and grand castle, the many "advanced" technologies displayed by the "legacy" of the big-headed ants in the information package are not just about domesticating beetles, they are all coveted by the protagonist.
Let's sort out the technologies mastered by the "legacy" of the big-headed ant:
fire.
The "legacy" of big-headed ants have mastered the art of fire. Not only can they keep the fire burning for a long time like the big-headed ant kingdom, but they can also make full use of the power of fire.
The fire in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is more of a sacred fire for religious purposes, which consumes a lot of ant power to maintain. However, except for raising the temperature of the nest in the cold winter, it has no other use and is extremely cost-effective.
However, the "remnants" of the big-headed ants use fire to cook food. The Queen's menu includes grilled meat, and some plant seeds are roasted and then crushed and watered to make a paste. This kind of cooked food obviously improves the nutritional level and health of the "survivors".
In addition, the "survivors" not only maintained the fire, they also seemed to have mastered the technology of making fire. There is no direct evidence for this protagonist, but in the information package, he accidentally discovered that in the corner of his vision, there were multiple worker ants using a bow drill-like technology to rub among a pile of weed threads, and a burst of black smoke came out of the weed threads. Before the protagonist saw the result, his field of vision had already changed. It seemed that the Queen was accustomed to this kind of thing and didn't pay too much attention.
If these "relics" really master the technology of making fire through friction, then they can truly master the power of fire, which is a very great power.
In addition to fire, the "legacy" of big-headed ants also mastered masonry technology.
The protagonist sees the interior of the castle from the queen's perspective. Some structures have stacked stones that serve as auxiliary supports. Although these stones look primitive, there are obvious signs of modification.
In addition, many soldier ants have some sharp stone blades glued to their jaws, which are obviously used as weapons to increase their lethality. These stone blades cannot all be natural, but are manufactured.
The "relics" of big-headed ants have also mastered textile technology, and a large number of textiles are arranged in the nest. In addition to being used as clothing for higher-status ants, most of the textiles are used as carpets or tapestries for decoration and thermal insulation. .
The protagonist pauses the scene to study the textiles. He saw that the fibers of these textiles were not regular, not like woven cloth with interlaced warp and weft. All the fibers were messily intertwined. The protagonist infers from this that the way the "survivors" make textiles is not "weaving", but "beating" similar to making felt.
Obviously, this is not yet a fully mature textile technology, but it can already provide suitable textile products.
The "survivors" can also dye and paint on textiles. The pigment used for dyeing is the slurry of natural plants. The "remainers" can use magenta and khaki dyes, and the patterns they draw are mainly images of ants or other insects.
Another technology that the "Legends" are proficient in is fermentation.
The queen's diet includes roasted and crushed plant seeds, which are then mixed with water and fermented to make a paste. It tastes slightly sour and sweet. It is regarded as a high-grade food by the ants, and only the queen and some young ants can eat it. edible.
Compared with the rich variety of fermented foods in the human world: yogurt, cheese, fermented rice, kimchi, soy sauce, vinegar, tempeh, rice wine, beer, wine, etc., the protagonist currently finds that the "survivors" only have this kind of fermented food. But there is no doubt that they have mastered this technology.
Finally, in terms of religion, in addition to polytheism, the "survivors" of the big-headed ants also have a funeral system.
For example, in the information package, the queen attended the funeral of the queen ant. It can be seen that only high-status members of the "survivor family" can be cremated and have textiles, flowers and other funerary objects.
The funeral system is often closely related to religion. Only after the concept of the soul came into being, did funerals and religion appear.
Taking humans as an example, humans have had the concept of soul since the Paleolithic Age of primitive society. Primitive people believed that the soul of a dead person could still intervene in the human affairs, misfortunes and blessings of the living. Influenced by this concept of the immortal soul, primitive ethnic groups developed various funeral customs, which gradually interacted with religion.
To sum up, the many new technologies mastered by the "legacy" of the big-headed ants are very advanced compared to the tribes on both sides of the river, which are still very primitive.
The protagonist estimates that the tribes on both sides of the river are basically still in the civilization stage of the early Paleolithic Age, while the "remnants" of the big-headed ants have entered the early Neolithic Age. The civilization gap between the two is as long as several decades in human history. Thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.
But this is only a preliminary inference. The protagonist's understanding of the "survivors" comes entirely from the information provided by the Queen, and the information package given by the Queen is very targeted, but not comprehensive.
The information package contains military content, and the purpose is to prevent the protagonist from underestimating the potential strength of the "legacy".
However, the information package isolates a lot of key information, and it is difficult for the protagonist to see content about food production, tactics, organizational structure, etc.
