The protagonist thought of distillation and concentration because he found that both the fluorescent bacteria extract and the mysterious ball liquid were light blue, but the fluorescent bacteria extract was lighter in color.
Can a lighter liquid be made darker by purification? Then, if the fluorescent bacteria extract is purified, can the liquid in the mysterious ball be obtained?
The scientific research team had never done any distillation experiments before, and the protagonist knew the principle but had never tinkered with it.
Doing distillation experiments requires equipment. The protagonist asked the pottery workshop to burn some clay pots as equipment. He thought that distilled liquors such as Erguotou would also have such equipment.
A new nest room was opened in a remote place in [Xinyang City] as a new venue for the Mystery Ball scientific research team, and a fire was built accordingly.
Within two days, more than a dozen worker ants arrived with equipment and supplies.
Put the fluorescent bacteria extract into a clay pot and heat it to evaporate the water and easily evaporable substances, leaving other substances behind. The scientific research team quickly launched experiments.
After all this work, the protagonist finally took a break. At this time, an idea came to his mind.
If the extract of fluorescent bacteria and the liquid in the mysterious ball are really the same substance, what does this mean?
Whether it is fluorescent bacteria or destroyers, they are species that the protagonist has never seen or heard of in the previous human world.
It is said that there is a kind of mushroom in the Amazon rainforest that emits green fluorescence at night. Some small fungi can also be seen to glow slightly under a microscope, but they have no shape, brightness and other characteristics that are completely consistent with fluorescent bacteria.
If fluorescent bacteria may also exist in the human world, it's just that the protagonist doesn't know it. So the protagonist can conclude that such strange ants as destroyers do not exist in the human world.
The Destroyer is a biochemical ant with some kind of mechanical structure in its body!
Just the size of the Destroyer is already outstanding in the ant world, and it is a few points larger than the Japanese Camponotus ant. There are not many ants of this size, and none of them exactly match the appearance of the Destroyer, that is, the body color and skull shape are close to those of the Japanese leaf-cutter ant.
Fluorescent bacteria and destroyers, these two unique species in the ant world, if they are really intrinsically connected, what does it mean? Are both unnatural products?
Why does the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom have the ability to cultivate fluorescent bacteria? There are some other ant forces that also cultivate fluorescent bacteria, but most ants do not have this technology.
Why do only some ant races know how to cultivate fluorescent bacteria? When did they start cultivating? Where did the earliest fluorescent bacteria come from?
If fluorescent bacteria are truly an unnatural product, then the origin of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom may not be that simple!
The protagonist looked up the history of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom that he had memorized in his mind. However, the older the information package was, the more serious the information loss was. Only the core information was completely preserved, and most of the information packages were not. Pay attention to such a common thing as fluorescent bacteria.
In the end, the protagonist reluctantly found out that fluorescent bacteria appeared in the information package of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom at least a few hundred years ago.
Another ant force with fluorescent fungus cultivation technology is the Leafcutter Ant Nation, which has now completely turned against the Angel King's army. Naturally, the protagonist has no way of understanding their history. Even though there are leaf-cutting ant vassals under the Divine Envoy King's army, these vassals have not received information from their own clan and have no idea of their origins.
The protagonist decides that starting next year, he will find a way to find out the secret behind the fluorescent bacteria.
Who would have thought that when I first arrived in this world, the luminous illuminating fungi that I saw so often had secrets behind them.
As for the Destroyers, the protagonist has long wondered about the origins of these mysterious and murderous biochemical ants. They are even less like naturally evolved species than fluorescent bacteria.
Perhaps, after finding the source of fluorescent bacteria, we can also solve the mystery of the origin of the Destroyer! ?
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About a month later, it was already December, and the scientific research team had not yet achieved decisive results.
Because the key ingredient that will spontaneously ignite is actually easy to evaporate and cannot be obtained by simple heating and concentration.
Even there were two minor accidents in the laboratory, and one magical worker ant and several assisting worker ant assistants died, but this could not stop the protagonist from visiting for inspection and guidance every three days.
The protagonist also knows that original scientific research requires inspiration and opportunities. It cannot be achieved overnight or naturally. He can only continue to wait patiently.
When not going to the laboratory, the protagonist would take time to teach the young male ants some knowledge. After experiencing the betrayal of Flying Eagle, the protagonist gradually began to pay attention to ideological education among the young male ants.
Nowadays, he has become more realistic and is good at using his identity as the God-Emissary King to shape himself into a god-like existence as the only leader of the God-Emissary King's legion.
All victories were achieved under the leadership of God’s Envoy King, and all failures were tests given by God.
The protagonist discovers that this trick is unexpectedly beneficial. Now within the Divine Envoy King's army, there is no ideological confusion within the ruling class like there was in the homeland period. The class conflict that has always made the protagonist have a headache of male ants discriminating against divine worker ants has also been alleviated. .
The current protagonist is no longer naive in wanting to achieve individual equality among ants. The natural physiological differences between different ant classes determine that it is difficult for them to have equal rights among individuals.
This is not like the affirmative movement in the human world. At least the physiological structure of human individuals is the same. The physiological differences between male ants and workers in ants are no less than the differences between golden retrievers and teddy bears.
Now, the protagonist is more like a politician. While he continues to rely on the male ant class to rule the Angel King's army, he also weakens and restricts the power of the male ant class to prevent this class from being rebellious or even backfire on him.
He began to gradually make plans, integrating the magic soldier ants who had their own genes and were born loyal to him into the army, and formed a special guard force to protect his safety.
In the future, he will have to break through the resistance and let the magic soldier ant first take the position of squad commander, and then gradually become the legion commander, so that he can take the first step in expanding the army next spring. No matter how strong the resistance from the male ant class is, they can't stop the protagonist.
As for the magical ants, they now occupy almost all key positions in scientific research, production, logistics and other positions.
All that the male ant class retains are military positions in the army and leadership positions in the deputy nest, but its power is also being penetrated little by little.
The protagonist does not want to kill all the male ants, but just hopes to limit and balance the excessive power they once had.
The protagonist has always had a hidden concern in his heart - the male ants have exactly the same physiological structure as his own. He is afraid that one day, the male ants will discover that the Angel King is just an ordinary male ant!
