Just when the top leaders of the queen's inheritance faction in the "real main nest" urgently held a joint meeting of the queen and male ants to discuss, the protagonist relaxed and had time to inspect the newly expanded fly farm and fly stable.
The protagonist can definitely guess who the leaders of the Queen Ant inheritance faction are discussing, but how they discussed it specifically is unknown to the protagonist. However, although the protagonist cannot completely guess the methods and countermeasures that the enemy may take, he can still guess it. Figure out some rules.
The instinct of living things is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. All behaviors, including various seemingly complex behaviors of intelligent creatures, are based on this instinct.
The instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is innate in living things, and it is also the guarantee for living things to continuously evolve towards advanced levels.
Two sufficient conditions are required for the existence of living things: one is to live, that is, to survive; the other is to avoid death, that is, to be afraid of death. Profit-seeking enables organisms to acquire stronger survivability, and harm-avoidance allows the continuation of individual life, thereby ensuring the continuation of the species. The winners among them survive the survival of the fittest in nature, and promote the continuous evolution of species to advanced levels.
The specific behaviors and methods of seeking benefits and avoiding harms depend on the understanding of benefits and harms. The understanding of benefits and harms and the avoidance behavior start from the initial fear of death and the instinctive need to maintain life.
In this sense, fear of death and maintaining individual existence are the greatest potential driving force of organisms and the most solid needs of organisms. No matter how broad the scope of fear, the ultimate object of fear is death.
In the process of life continuing, the initial judgment of interests, such as whether it is beneficial or harmful, the degree of benefit, etc. will directly (often subconsciously) affect the creature's behavior of seeking benefits and avoiding harm, and out of the fear of death , making individuals extremely sensitive to benefits and harms, and often react quickly and subconsciously. Benefit-seeking and harm-avoidance behavior (such as stress response) and the results of the behavior allow individuals to perceive more "benefits" and their extent, and continue to expand and enrich their understanding of benefits and harms and accumulate more ways of avoidance.
For intelligent creatures, such as humans and today's ants, the understanding of benefits and harms is no longer just biological instinct, but can rise to the category of values. Values and value systems (including criteria for judging benefits and harms) are the psychological basis for the behavior of these intelligent creatures.
Now for the ant queen inheritance faction, there are small benefits, which is to consolidate and increase the interests of the leadership (including all queen ants and the male ants that depend on them); there are also big benefits, which is to expand the power and allow the faction to finally consolidate and rule the majority. The old territory of the ant kingdom continues to expand. The two are related to each other.
Harm corresponds to the fear that the leadership will be eliminated and the power will be eliminated. This is the opposite of benefit and is also based on the fear of individual death and group death.
Now, the source of obstacles and harms to the ant queen's inheritance faction is the God Envoy King's legion led by the protagonist. They must take actions against the God's Envoy King's legion that can benefit themselves and avoid harm.
The most effective way to cure the symptoms and the root cause is naturally to completely eliminate the Angel King's army, but this requires the support of force. After the recent battle, the ant queen's inheritance faction also understands that the military power currently assembled is not enough to eliminate the Angel King's army. , controls the main nest "Qingqiu City".
The protagonist can guess that the enemy will not give up easily, and their profit-seeking instinct keeps them from stopping. They will definitely work hard to gather stronger forces to come back.
The protagonist's response is that since this is a total war, we must work hard to weaken the enemy's war potential, so that we can end this largest civil war in the shortest time possible since the collapse of the old order in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist came to inspect the fly breeding farm in the main nest "Qingqiu City".
Since "Dongyang City" began to domesticate bees, its fly breeding farm has been gradually abandoned. In order to maintain the most basic supply of flying knight mounts and some of the demand for meat, the main nest "Qingqiu City" is responsible for raising all flies.
Although this underground breeding farm has just been expanded, it is not large in scale. Currently, there are only more than a hundred adult flies and thousands of fly maggots being raised in it.
The adult flies are all selected to be strong and flexible, with physical qualities suitable for use as mounts for flying knights. When the flying knights did not need so many mounts, these flies were left as seeds.
Flies reproduce very quickly, and a large portion of the thousands of fly maggots are killed every day for food, but the fly eggs are enough to make up for these losses.
When the protagonist came to inspect, he happened to catch the flies eating.
To be honest, watching flies eating up close is not a great experience.
The fly has no teeth and its taste and touch receptors are on its feet. So when the ant breeder throws some rotten food and feces that the ants regard as garbage into the fly stable, the fly will have to rub its feet first to remove the dirt and other dirt that has just been stuck elsewhere in order to have a feast later. Rub the things off first to make it easier to eat later, and at the same time improve the sensitivity of the taste on the feet to reduce the burden on future flights (although flies cannot take off in the fly stable).
Therefore, to a certain extent, flies still love cleanliness. After all, the original intention of rubbing their feet is to clean themselves. This behavior is very similar to humans washing their hands before eating.
The mouthparts of flies are different from those of humans or ants. They have no teeth or large jaws and cannot chew food. The way they eat is to vomit on the food first, spit out their own digestive juices, saliva and other liquids, so that the solid food can be digested outside first. .
After vomiting some digestive juices, and after the food is almost digested, the flies can start to move. Their way of eating is to suck, much like eating with a straw. Flies have a licking-sucking mouthpart. This mouthpart It's the tool they use to suck.
Sometimes the digestive juices secreted by flies cannot easily turn food into liquid outside, and the flies have already started sucking the food while it is still in the form of crumbs.
The most unbearable thing is the fly's habit of eating and pulling at the same time. It took the protagonist a long time to adapt to this unchangeable habit of Xiao Qing or Xiao Qing II when flying long distances.
This is all because the entire digestive process of flies proceeds very quickly, and flies often eat carrion and corpses, so eating and defecation can help them quickly eliminate bacteria. It usually takes 7-11 seconds for them to eat, drink and defecate. .
In addition, flies are also accustomed to leaving offspring on food. Ant breeders need to collect these fly eggs in time and send them to another nursery for storage.
Sometimes, fly eggs are eaten directly as food or even medicine.
