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——I am the dividing line——
If you understand the architectural style of ants, you will naturally be surprised by the sudden appearance of the square nest.
The nests built by ants are generally a relatively flat oval when viewed from the side, or the lower half is flat and the upper part is curved, like an elongated loaf of bread.
When the protagonist first traveled through time and became an ant, as soon as he learned how to command ants and use information packets to communicate construction plans, he ordered some worker ants and soldier ants to build a two-bedroom and one-living house for himself. As a result, during the construction, it was discovered that these ants were digging and digging, and the living room turned into the shape of a half-cut kiwi fruit. Compared with ordinary ant nests, there is not much difference except that the roof is higher.
At that time, no matter how the protagonist modified the order, he could not get these construction ants to achieve the desired effect. At that time, it was only thought that it was the limitation of the ants' aesthetics and construction ability.
Later, as the protagonist became more and more knowledgeable about ant command skills, he finally had a solution.
This time he stayed in "Dongyang City" for a long time, and the protagonist experimented a lot. This time, the construction team he chose did not include soldier ants, only worker ants. Although soldier ants are good at fighting and hunting, they are not as good at construction as worker ants, and their ability to understand the protagonist's construction drawings is also poor. The worker ants, on the other hand, can relatively better understand the protagonist’s construction drawings and intentions.
The protagonist's method is to build a semi-elliptical nest and then instruct individual worker ants to continuously build the corners of the upper half of the nest, perfecting the square shape little by little, and finally achieving a satisfactory effect.
This kind of construction is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Relatively speaking, the shape of the nest chosen by the ants is more labor-saving to construct, and it can also obtain more usable area under a certain volume, which is very practical.
But aesthetics cannot be replaced by practicality. The protagonist likes this kind of house very much. Although he has no intention of promoting it in other places, he just regards it as a privilege for himself. Ancient emperors always liked to build palaces. They just built a large square nest room, which did not waste the people or money.
This square protagonist's exclusive room is about 5 cm wide and 15 cm long. If you look at the protagonist's current body shape from a human perspective, it would be three hundred square meters in size. Due to the small size of ants, when building such a giant nest, the support of the four walls alone is enough to ensure that the roof will not collapse, without the need to build support structures such as beams and columns.
Therefore, the house seemed a bit empty at first. The scientific research team of the protagonist Ming Xiaomi used some soft branch braiding to divide the large nest into several areas.
Entering from the entrance on the left side of the nest chamber, at first glance, in addition to the high roof and the eye-catching fluorescent bacteria on it, you can see that in the first divided area, there are some very bright yellow-green surfaces. Neatly arranged seats.
This is the protagonist's reception area. As the protagonist's exclusive room, only some ants with permission can enter. And the only people who can enter this reception room and receive reception are high-ranking kings such as Gun and Rambo Fei.
The living room only has a simple piece of furniture, a stool. The seats are made of hollow stems of natural round plants, cut to a suitable height, dried and hardened in the sun, then filled with natural plant silk wadding, and finally covered with A layer of tanned insect skin.
Insect skin is exactly the skin of insect larvae. The outer skin of these worms or caterpillars is one of the few natural materials similar to mammalian leather that the protagonist has discovered so far. In the past, ants discarded these inedible parts. In the wild, you can often see insect corpses that have been eaten by ants or other insects with only an empty shell left. The edible meat and internal organs are gone, but the outer carapace or insect skin is still intact.
The protagonist teaches these ants the skin-tanning technique.
Tanning is the tanning of leather, which uses tannins to chemically and physically process the proteins in the leather. Through a series of processes and the use of some chemicals, the proteins in the rawhide undergo a series of changes and eventually denaturation occurs. The tanned leather is soft, strong, and wear-resistant, and is not prone to decay and deterioration. Therefore, the tanned leather can be used to make various leather daily necessities.
The most primitive skin tanning method in human technology generally requires several steps: soaking and degreasing, preparing saltpeter liquid, entering the liquid for tanning, drying and shoveling the skin, and deodorizing and preserving it. The commonly used tanning materials in this relatively primitive technology include Alum, saltpetre, salt and rice milk, etc.
It is easier for ants to tan their skin than for humans. The step of soaking and degreasing can be omitted. Humans need this step because the fur of mammals contains a lot of animal fat and muscle tissue. If this part is not cleaned and degreased, It is easy to cause the service life of leather products to be shortened and easy to rot in the future.
The insect skin that the ants have eaten is so clean that there is almost no trace of fat or muscle, so naturally this step can be omitted. And some insect skins, such as the skin of the bean hornworm larvae that the protagonist is interested in, are not only beautiful in color, but also have no odor and do not need to be deodorized.
When it comes to the choice of tanning materials, the protagonist does not have much choice. He can only use the coarse salt that the ants can find. Fortunately, these coarse salts are very complex and also contain some alkali substances needed for tanning.
After this simplified version of tanning, these leathers can be stored for a long time, soft and elastic. It was collapsed on a seat filled with natural silk wadding and glued with ant glue, and it became an original sofa.
These ant-style sofas do not have backrests because the ants' body structure and sitting position restrict their use of backrests. The shape of this kind of sofa is actually closer to a leather stool. When the ants sit on it, they can put their abdomen against the surface of the leather stool to bear the weight and let their rear limbs rest.
When the protagonist's invention was noticed by other kings who occasionally visited, it quickly aroused unanimous praise. After all, ants rarely have the opportunity to let their buttocks (abdomen) and legs (arthropods) relax except when sleeping.
The protagonist also made another batch of leather stools and gave them to some higher-status kings and queens, including pavement ants and sickle-hunting aristocrats, as a means of win over and assimilation.
Except for the leather stools, there is no other furniture in the reception area. Anyway, the ants do not have the custom of entertaining guests to drink tea.
Those who can be guests of the protagonist have a high status within the power of the God Envoy King. However, they are often busy with things and have little time to be guests. They usually focus on reporting, and they can cope with it if they have a seat.
The reason why a special reception area was built was because the protagonist felt that every human room has a living room.
