The God King Ant Warrior equipped with a gravel knife used a few weak and dying flies to test the knife.
These flies were originally the mounts of flying knights and once soared in the sky. However, the life span of flies is originally very short, and it is impossible to survive the winter in the wild environment. Although the flies domesticated by the Divine Envoy King's Army can overwinter in the warm underground, many of them can live for one or two years, which is much longer than wild flies.
However, one or two years is only an average lifespan, and many flies still do not live this long. When winter comes, the temperature of underground nests will also drop. In addition, they stay underground and cannot go out for activities in winter. These factors will cause a large number of fly mounts to die in winter due to physiological changes.
Fortunately, there are a large number of fly eggs stored in the ant nest. Soon after the beginning of spring next year, new fly eggs will hatch, and the gap in the number of mounts can be quickly filled.
Recently, a few flies have been in poor condition and are about to die. The protagonist asked this small team of God Envoy King warriors to use dying flies as imaginary enemies to test the power of new weapons.
The experimental site was very bloody, and the dying flies were unable to resist at all, so they could only be killed by the ant warriors who had mastered new weapons. The process will not be described in detail.
At first, the soldiers couldn't adapt to the gravel blades that were far sharper than the jaws. They often used too much force and cut the target from the inside out with just one pull, causing tissue fluid and internal organs to flow all over the floor.
However, the protagonist is very satisfied with the results of the experiment. With weapons, warriors can pierce the target's shell with very little effort, greatly increasing their combat effectiveness.
The protagonist asked Rambo Fei to take charge of the dressing work of all the soldiers. Considering that the worker ants are very slow to grind the gravel blades by hand and there is a high scrap rate, it will probably take more time for nearly 10,000 soldiers of the six legions to be completely changed. A month comes.
Once all members are equipped, the combat effectiveness of the Divine Envoy King's Army will reach a new level!
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In addition to masonry techniques, some other techniques taught by the Big-headed Ant survivors are also very useful.
Such as fermentation technology.
There is a kind of food for the survivors of the big-headed ants. Plant seeds are roasted and ground into powder, and then mixed with water and fermented to make a sweet and sour paste. This drink is easier to digest than simple plant seeds and is a high-end food that only the queen and male ants can enjoy.
The worker ants of the scientific research team brought back some valuable bacteria. The protagonist cannot tell what these bacteria are, maybe lactobacilli, yeast or aspergillus.
However, these bacteria are very useful. The scientific research team has tested the fermentation effects on different foods and found that these bacteria are really versatile.
In addition to the pasty sweet and sour drinks of the survivors of the big-headed ants, if you ferment the pasty food used by the ants to feed their young ants, you can make yogurt-like food; ferment the dried fruits or grain stored in the granary to get an alcoholic taste beverages, and then continue fermenting these low-alcohol wines to get a more sour dilute vinegar; grinding and fermenting some grains or beans, and then adding salt water to continue fermentation, the final product is very similar to soy sauce; put some easily spoiled Pickles can also be obtained by fermenting the stems and leaves of plants that have not been completely dried before winter.
In short, the fermented strains have greatly improved the food of the entire nest, greatly increasing the types of food and condiments.
The protagonist's recipes are closer to humans again. His various foods can be cooked with original soy sauce and vinegar, instead of just salt as a condiment.
Although the output of many fermented products is still very low, as long as a special workshop nest is built after next spring, equipped with enough ant hands, and a large amount of raw materials are collected, the output can be greatly increased.
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Another important technology inherited from the remains of the big-headed ants is textiles.
The textile technology that the survivors of the big-headed ants are proficient in is actually felting technology. Therefore, the fibers of textiles are not regular. Instead of the interlaced warp and weft of woven cloth, all the fibers are messily intertwined.
Most of these felt products are used as carpets or tapestries for decoration and thermal insulation. Textiles are also dyed and painted to make them more beautiful. The pigments used for dyeing are natural plant slurries, including magenta and khaki dyes, and the patterns drawn are mainly images of ants or other insects.
The scientific research team has brought back and mastered the felt-making process.
The raw materials for felting are ant silk and the hairs on the carapace of some insects.
Ant silk is mainly made from ant silk that has lost its use value, such as the silk bed of young ants after long-term use, mixed with hairs of varying softness and hardness cut from the carapace of prey insects, and is made from many strong soldier ants. A group of people use a rope to drive a tool similar to the ramming pestle used by humans to build roads and walls, and beat it continuously to make felt.
This felting process is very labor-intensive. It takes a group of twenty soldier ants more than a week to make a piece of felt large enough to wrap the male ants. Moreover, the production level is uneven. The ant threads and insect whiskers of different materials are often not tightly sealed together, and some felts will crack with use.
Generally, felt made purely from ant silk has the best quality, and felt made from new ant silk is of better quality than felt made from old ant silk. However, using ant silk to make felt is essentially waste recycling. It is to use the old ant silk that should be discarded to make other products and continue to use the waste heat. The addition of a large number of whiskers from other insects is also to make up for the lack of ant silk.
Therefore, although the Big-headed Ant survivors know how to improve the quality of felt, the current nest size of the survivors is too small and the products are not rich, so they have no spare efforts to improve the quality in this regard.
Therefore, the current remnants of the big-headed ants provide felts made from old ant silk to the queen, while felts mixed with ant silk and insect whiskers are used by male ants, which is in line with the strict hierarchical characteristics of ant society.
The protagonist does not have these worries. There are tens of thousands of worker ants in "Dongyang City". In addition to the daily use of the ant silk produced, there is enough surplus to make high-quality felt. Although the best felt cannot be distributed to all male ants, it is enough for the protagonist to make cold-proof clothing for going out in winter.
As for the second-class felt, the protagonist decided to use old ant silk and another soft insect hair. This insect hair is the body hair of some flies. This kind of beard hair is relatively soft and can be well combined with the ant silk. At the same time, unlike some tougher insect beards, which are easy to detach, causing damage to the felt.
The protagonist plans to use this second-class felt for other male ants.
In addition to felt making, the Big-headed Ant survivors also provided the protagonist with some information about real textile technology. This information is incomplete and is a technology that has been lost for a long time and cannot be put into practical use.
But the protagonist is like a treasure!
