Xiao Mi II came to the protagonist's bedroom, where a female ant and a male ant lived in the same room.
But don’t have any unhealthy, colorful, inappropriate associations based on biological instincts.
Although Xiao Mi II is a female ant, she is a big worker ant. Like ordinary worker ants, she is basically infertile.
Although if the hormone suppression of the queen ant is released, the large worker ants can also undergo parthenogenesis and produce offspring that are genetically identical to their own.
For example, Xiao Mi II was born from Xiao Mi in this way. Therefore, it can be said that Xiao Mi II and Xiao Mi are the same individual at the genetic level. However, the experiences and memories between the two are completely different, so they can still be regarded as different individuals.
Xiao Mi was originally because the queen ant in [Dongyang City] disappeared, and she quickly matured after losing her suppression. Nowadays, there are hormones secreted by queen ants in [Dongyang City] that suppress the sexual maturity of other ants. Basically, Xiao Mi II can still be regarded as an infertile patient. She does not have the physiological conditions for reproduction.
As for the protagonist, although he is a reproductive male ant and has participated in the wedding ceremony, his aesthetics determine that he has never had any intention of having sex with an ant.
Although the protagonist has also been curious, he is now very different from other ants, including retaining human characteristics in terms of vision and taste. His breathing method is not the passive breathing of insects. He is also extremely strong and can enter the state of "God descending to earth". What causes this difference?
Is my body structure different from other ants? The protagonist cannot dissect himself to verify it. However, he was wondering, if he did have a special physiological structure, could he pass it on to the next generation?
Therefore, the protagonist has an experimental plan, which is also one of the reasons why he returns to [Dongyang City].
Of course, this experiment has nothing to do with Xiao Mi II. The protagonist called Xiao Mi II over because he still had scientific research business to discuss, mainly to give guidance on the next scientific research direction.
Now let’s sort out the current technological level of the Divine Envoy King’s Army. They mainly master the following main technologies:
1. Technology using fire
This is a technology that the God Envoy King's Legion has mastered for a long time before the protagonist traveled through time, perhaps hundreds of years ago. According to the information provided by King Fuye, the Paved Ant Barbarian Kingdom also used fire.
But these fires, according to myth and legend, are obtained from natural wildfires and tended by specialized ants to keep them burning year-round.
Neither the big-headed ants nor the pavement ants have mastered the technology of starting fire.
Although the protagonist knows theoretical methods such as drilling wood and flint to make fire, with the size and strength of the ants, it is obviously impossible to make fire through these two methods.
Currently, if the protagonist wants to use fire outside [Qingqiu City], he can only use a container made of special nut shells to transport fire. This is a simmering device similar to a cupping pot.
2. Pottery technology
This is closely related to the technology of utilizing fire.
The clay resources required for making pottery are widely distributed and can be found in almost every ant nest. The technology is also relatively simple. The ants only need to shape the clay and bake it next to the fire.
Because the pottery made by ants is very small and thin, and the ants are always looking after it, the firing efficiency is very high, unlike the original pottery made by humans, which is prone to over-fire cracking or insufficient firing.
This technology is currently popular in many nests that already have fires, but the largest and most sophisticated pottery produced has to be in [Dongyang City].
At present, the pottery of the Divine Messenger King's Legion mainly includes large and small covered pottery pots for storing liquids, pottery tables and stools, tools and knives made of pottery shards, pottery slings and ammunition, etc., which have greatly improved the lives of the ants.
3. Weaving and Textile Technology
This technology mainly comes from the professors taught by the protagonist and the survivors of the big-headed ants.
Previously, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom only had the technology to simply turn ant silk wadding into fluffy felt. The survivors of the big-headed ants later taught more sophisticated felt-making techniques, which allowed them to make thick, waterproof and windproof felts from ant silk and different fibers.
The protagonist taught them another weaving and textile technique, such as the technique of using simple piles and multiple ants to entangle fibers together like a dance to make ropes.
The rope-making technology is simple, does not require high hardware, and has many uses, so it is quickly becoming popular in various nests.
For example, the rope bridge in Linshui City and the protective nets of various nests in the southern swamp are all inseparable from the use of ropes.
Weaving methods such as weaving protective nets are also taught by the protagonist. Ants can use mutual cooperation to weave some nets with larger holes, such as protective nets, fishing nets, and net bags for carrying things, but they are still not able to make fine textiles, such as cloth, ant silk, etc. Not caught.
The protagonist has also been conceiving a loom style suitable for ants, and has some sketches based on the early vertical looms of mankind. This is also a project that he has ordered the research team of the Second Secretary to focus on.
4. Stone tool processing technology
Stone tools were the first tool materials that primitive people mastered, and they were also their tools that greatly changed the natural world.
The raw materials of stone tools are easy to obtain, and their performance basically meets the needs of early civilizations. The stone weapons and tools of civilizations such as the Aztecs have reached the pinnacle.
Ants can also gain higher productivity and attack power by using stone tools.
Before the popularity of copper weapons, the main individual weapons and labor tools of the Angel King's legions were flint knives glued to the jaws. This gave the God's Angel King's warriors stronger attack power and allowed them to pierce easily. The enemy's carapace, which was originally impenetrable to their jaws, also made it easier for them to cut plant material.
Even after the popularity of copper jaw knives, due to the limited production of copper jaw knives, field regiments could only be equipped with priority. Therefore, garrison corps in various places still used stone jaw knives in large quantities.
The worker ants responsible for farmland production are also equipped with stone jaw knives. Without stone knives, the ants would have no way to cut the grass stems and leaves of plants with ease. It would be difficult to remove the vegetation debris left behind by the previous year after spring. Convenient for sowing in the new year.
Many nests are equipped with large stone guillotines transported from [Dongyang City]. This is a tool that combines a stone blade and a wooden base, and can be used to complete some fine cutting work.
Although the stone bullets used by the slingshots of the Divine Envoy King's Army are basically pure natural, they can also be regarded as one of the stone tools.
It can be said that although the stonemasonry technology of the Divine Envoy King's Legion is still very primitive, it is still at the stage of making stone tools. It requires the help of fire during processing, and the yield rate is not high. But this is already an important driver of the great development of the productivity of the God's Envoy King's Legion.
