Holding the heated mysterious ball, the protagonist suddenly thought of a warm baby in the human world.
As a stainless steel straight man, a stainless steel straight man who spends the winter in the South with a righteous attitude, I have never used this girly thing. He didn't come into contact with heating until he went to the bustling imperial capital, where he also came into contact with people who used warm babies. Therefore, in his eyes, northerners are not frost-resistant.
The protagonist has no recollection of his life in the south and the imperial capital. His past life is still shrouded in the fog of memory.
But he remembered that someone around him seemed to have used this kind of thing for personal warmth in winter, something that could stably generate heat for a long time.
Isn’t the mysterious ball that can generate heat without burning, just like a warm baby?
The protagonist suddenly wakes up and discovers that the mysterious ball has a second purpose besides bombs. It seems that these trophies are really treasures. Fortunately, they were not thrown away in the first place.
In order to test how long the mysterious ball can maintain heat and whether it meets the necessary conditions for a qualified warm baby, the protagonist decided to continue the experiment.
He sent an old worker ant, tied the mysterious ball to her back, and then let her walk into the cold tree hole area while the protagonist monitored.
Sure enough, with the mysterious ball that can maintain a constant temperature, even though this experimental worker ant is very old and very afraid of the cold, and has no warm clothing, it is not frozen, but its movements are a little slow.
I am the dividing line
Until noon, two hours after the experiment, the mystery ball was still heating up, with no sign of a temperature drop, and the worker ants were still alive and well.
The protagonist asked the worker ants participating in the experiment to stay and went to have lunch.
The protagonist is not in the mood to get some delicious food today. What he eats is very simple, just like what other male ants eat.
The staple food is grass seeds roasted in the combustion chamber. Due to the high temperature baking, the grass seeds have been roasted and loosened, and they taste like a compound aroma of popcorn and toast.
The side dish is grilled mealworm biltong, with added salt. The taste is just average in the protagonist's opinion, but most male ants like this meat dish very much.
There are also banyan tree dried fruits that are a specialty of [Linshui City].
Darong, who betrayed the Divine Envoy King's Legion, liked this sweet dish very much. At that time, [Linshui City] lacked honeydew and other sweets, and dried banyan tree fruit was the best dessert that Darong could easily obtain.
It's just that the Angel King's army is not short of honeydew, and most of the other male ants are not interested in banyan tree fruit trunks. However, soldier ants and worker ants have a small quota of honeydew, so they like this kind of sweet dried fruit.
But the protagonist still forces all male ants to eat some fruits and vegetables such as dried banyan fruits with each meal to supplement vitamin C. Although the protagonist doesn't know whether the lack of vitamin C will affect the health of ants, there is no harm in eating a little miscellaneous.
The drink the male ants had for lunch was a fermented drink with honeydew added, not the pure honeydew that is common in spring, summer and autumn. Mainly because there is no honeydew production in the territory in winter, so the inventory should be used sparingly.
The technology of these fermented drinks comes from the remains of big-headed ants. They are made from plant seeds that are roasted, crushed, mixed with water and then fermented. The taste of the finished product is somewhat similar to kvass.
The fermentation technology of ants is very primitive. They chew some sweet plant seedlings in their mandibles and mouthparts, and then spit the chewed paste into the liquid to be fermented. After a few days, it will be fermented. .
The protagonist was reluctant to accept this obviously unhygienic and somewhat unpleasant processing method at first, but over time, he began to slowly drink this "ant kvass".
Anyway, many of the ways humans process food cannot be discussed in detail, and most people will not be able to eat it after knowing it.
Not to mention the famous "gutter oil", even some well-known products, the processing methods are not far behind the fermentation technology of ants.
For example, in the customs of the ancient Incas and some Pacific islands, the method of processing beer is almost exactly the same as that of ants processing "ant kvass", and they also use chewing to ferment. During festivals, locals would produce large batches of beer by placing a bucket of water in the sun to dry, and then finding a group of women to chew the corn until it became corn syrup. Then spit the corn syrup into water that is exposed to the sun, store the water with corn syrup for a few days, and then ferment into beer for everyone.
“Noble” wines are no better.
Since the ancient Greek and Roman times, wine has been closely associated with athlete's foot. Under the backward productivity in ancient times, stepping on grapes was the most important part of manual pressing of grapes. It was also a traditional ritual for Europeans to celebrate the grape harvest. This behavior can be found in many historical paintings.
Since the number of grapes in modern winemaking is too large, the method of stepping on grapes is inefficient and labor costs are high. Most wineries have replaced labor with machinery. However, this processing method is still retained in some high-end wines, and the top wines from many wineries are still wines made from grapes stepped on.
Some people even concluded that the wine made by beautiful girls is the most mellow and delicious. I wonder if the athlete’s foot fungus on the feet of beautiful girls is also nobler.
And don’t think that by not drinking wine you’ve avoided the “feet.”
Many people like food made by ancient methods, but the processing of some pickles, dried radishes, and even salt made by traditional methods requires a lot of contact with feet.
It can only be said that there are no limits to human imagination and lower limits when it comes to food. Just like the protagonist has quickly become accustomed to "ant kvass", as long as it is delicious and delicious, why can't he think about how to make it?
I am the dividing line
After lunch, the protagonist went to monitor the experiment again.
The honest worker ant was still sitting motionless in the cold tree hole with the mysterious ball on its back. It had been maintaining this posture for three hours.
And if this mysterious ball started to heat up when the temperature dropped, it would have been more than two days today. I don’t know how long it can last for heating. Anyway, it can’t be forever, otherwise it will become a perpetual motion machine.
The experiment finally ended on the second day, and several worker ants participating in the experiment were replaced during the process.
At noon the next day, the temperature of the "Warm Baby" mysterious ball dropped rapidly, and soon it was no different from room temperature.
The protagonist estimated that starting from the day when the temperature dropped, the mysterious ball maintained its fever for roughly three days. 72 hours is the maximum length of time that the mystery ball can maintain heat at single-digit room temperature.
The protagonist thinks that he should bring back some new mysterious balls next time, and experiment with the heating time when the temperature is around zero outdoors, so that it will be more practical.
