Although the protagonist feels that the agricultural revolution is necessary, everything still depends on the cultivation of this small experimental field.

In such a small experimental field, there is no need for 100 worker ants to cook, and the reason why the protagonist places so many agricultural worker ants is not only to pay attention to it, but also to prepare for the expansion of the planting scale in the future.

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Every day, the attacks of the army of parasitic ants are launched punctually at noon or in the afternoon. However, with the fortress in place, there is no longer any threat to this attack of less than a thousand ants.

Only a handful of Legion warriors will be killed or wounded in defensive battles, and after rotation, almost all of them have experience fighting such enemies.

The third batch of 100 males has hatched from their eggs and is still in the state of pre-pupation larvae. When these male ants reach adulthood, it is time for the Divine King Legion to launch a full-scale counterattack.

And "Dongyang City" has now become more and more comprehensive in its understanding of parasitic ants.

Part of this realization comes from the parasitic worker ant who was captured in the first place, even though the captive is dead, dead from the growing silk thread parasite in her.

But the protagonist already has a lot to learn about the mysterious parasitic ant nest from the captive, including some details that he ignores at first.

For example, although almost all ants are parasitized in this parasitic ant nest, parasitic bacteria are able to interfere with the behavior of ordinary ants through hormones.

But the protagonist gradually feels that the actual controller of the parasitic ant nest is still the ant. Or to put it another way, the silk parasite does not have complete control over this nest.

It is not so much that the silk parasite parasitizes the ant and takes control of the host, but that the ant and the silk parasite form a symbiotic relationship.

Silk parasites give ants greater strength, making it easier for ants to hunt insects and obtain food resources.

Ants, on the other hand, pay the price of lower life expectancy, supplying silk thread parasites with extra nutrients and helping them to reproduce.

The reason for this feeling is that when the protagonist looks at the captives' memories and fights with the parasitic ants, he can clearly sense that the behavior of these parasitic ants is basically developing in the direction of the interests of the nest, and the transmission of the silk thread parasite is only an incidental act.

For example, parasitic ants graze scale insects to obtain honeydew.

For ants, the pleasure of eating honeydew is unmatched by any other food, so ants are willing to put in the extra time and effort to graze scale insects.

For silk thread parasites, no matter what food ants eat, the nutrients they absorb are almost the same. If they are in charge, then they are naturally willing to control the ants to eat more efficiently, rather than waiting for the scale insects to secrete the little honeydew from time to time.

At least when it comes to grazing scale insects, ants are more controllable than silk parasites.

As for the constant daily dispatch of small forces to harass "Dongyang City", it can be explained either as the will of the ants to constantly weaken the threat ability of "Dongyang City", but also as the will of the silk parasite to infect more healthy ants.

In general, the protagonist is inclined to a symbiotic relationship between these parasitic ants and silk parasites.

Some of the ants that have been infected in previous battles in "Dongyang Castle" can be cured after being treated with fire, and about half of them cannot stop the growth of silk parasites even after treatment.

These ants who have not been treated well will eventually die, but before they die, they have been observed by imprisoning them, and they have learned a lot about the behavior of the parasitic ants.

There are still some mysteries about parasitic ants that have not yet been solved, such as the origin of the silk parasite, and whether the mysterious secondary nests in the history of the big-headed ant kingdom are also due to the silk parasite? Who is the actual controller of the parasitic nest, that is, who is behind it?

However, the protagonist believes that when the parasitic ant nest is eliminated, it will all fall into place.

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After a few days, the pottery knife experiment in charge of Xiao Mi made progress, and after countless experiments, Xiao Mi and the worker ants finally found a suitable glaze formula.

The glazed pottery knife fired with this recipe has a tight combination between the glaze layer and the pottery tire, and the pottery knife is sharp and strong, which has partially reached the technical specifications of metal knives.

In the real world, ceramic knives are mostly processed from nanomaterials. Zirconia and alumina powder need to be pressed into a knife blank with a heavy pressure of 300 tons and a mold, sintered at a high temperature of 2000 degrees Celsius, and then ground with diamond before it can be formed.

This ceramic blade uses high-tech nanotechnology, which is more than ten times sharper than steel knives, and has the characteristics of high hardness, high density, high temperature resistance, anti-magnetization and oxidation resistance.

Of course, the protagonist has not mastered advanced nanotechnology, nor can he meet the technical conditions of high temperature and high pressure. The trick to making a knife that is comparable to metal is the size of the tool.

Everyone knows how sharp glazed pottery is, and the sharp edges of a broken ceramic bowl can cut your fingers if you are not careful.

Although ordinary ceramics are as brittle as glass, after being broken into small pieces, the smaller the ceramic chips, the higher the mechanical strength, and it is difficult to crush them again.

The clay knives fired by the ants are just like that, they are very small, so they meet the requirements for the sturdiness of the knives.

The disadvantage is that the knife can not be very large, if you need a large knife, you can only use a piece of wood to cut out the back of the knife, and then use the groove and ant glue to inlay a piece of pottery knife to form a combination of knives.

This combination knife is similar to the "Macqua Witt". The "Macquawit", also known as the obsidian saw sword, was a special weapon for Aztec jaguar warriors in Central America.

Due to the backwardness of the Aztec civilization's iron-smelting technology, this weapon was invented in the absence of metal weapons, which inlaid sharp obsidian shards on wooden sticks.

Although the "Macqua Witt" may look primitive and rudimentary, its blade is extremely sharp, and its lethality in combat is quite amazing, especially when dealing with people who do not wear armor.

The Spaniards experimented with a single blow of a horse's head with a "maquavet", an obsidian blade sharp enough to shave. In areas where there are no metal products, this is a lethal weapon.

The large and small pottery knives produced in the combustion chamber are popularized by the protagonist and widely used in the places where materials and food are needed in "Dongyang Castle".

The protagonist even has the idea of designing a weapon used by the ants, similar to the weapon inlaid with sharp pottery shards of "Marquawit".

However, after making a sample and experimenting with it, the protagonist gives up for the time being. The ants have weak limbs and inflexible forelimbs, making it difficult to break through the defenses of the ant's carapace with such a weapon.

And the bite force of the ant's natural weapon, the tongs, is enough, but the protagonist has not thought of how to firmly attach the pottery knife to the tongs, and it has to be easy to put on and take off.