In the future, it will be fixed at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m

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The flames in the combustion chamber burned brightly, the flames slowly became huge and bright, the flames rose, and the tongues of fire sometimes jumped high, licking the oxygen from higher places, and then quickly retracted, leaving a little heat in the air.

Compared to the nearly one-meter-tall combustion chamber, this pile of flames was not enough to fill the entire space, and it was very small now, at best, the size of the flames of four or five candles gathered together.

But for the entire "Dongyang City", this is the first flame in the city since its founding for decades, and it is also the second fire in the entire big-headed ant kingdom in addition to the main nest. This meaning is not explained in terms of scale alone.

The protagonist did not build cobblestone walls on the four walls of the combustion chamber like the main nest, which was too wasteful, and there were not many white pebbles around "Dongyang City". But I saw a lot of them on the banks of the great river.

The soil layer on the four walls of the combustion chamber is relatively wet, and the pile of flames needs to be dried slowly. When the walls of the combustion chamber are ceramicized by high temperature baking, they are not inferior in robustness and waterproofness to cobblestone walls.

The purpose of building such a large combustion chamber is of course not only to keep the flame burning for a long time, or simply to heat the nest in winter.

The protagonist wants to use the flames of this combustion chamber to advance the industrial development of the ants. But this is a long-term project, so let's wait for the combustion chamber to be thoroughly dried before we can think about it in the long run.

Dozens of soldier and worker ants surround the fire, and they are the maintenance staff who take turns to take care of the fire and ensure that the flame is never extinguished.

A large number of worker ants crawled in from the entrance, carrying large and small fuels together. Now, in order to maintain this pile of flames that are even larger than the main nest flame, a thousand worker ants have to take turns to go out during the day to search for various types of fuel.

These ants are the newly formed 22 fire protection teams.

As for the night, under the strict orders of the protagonist, all ants must maintain at least four hours of deep sleep, and even if they do not sleep, they can only stay in the nest and are not allowed to run around.

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The day after the combustion chamber was completed, the protagonist was woken up by the secretary while he was still sleeping.

A worker ant waiting outside the door, and she brings important news - the strange worm on the farm has broken its pupa.

The worm had pupated two or three days ago, and when the news was received, the protagonist was too busy perfecting the lesson for the young male ants to take a look.

Now that it's okay, the protagonist's curiosity is aroused, and he quickly gets up and walks towards the farm.

At this time, it was not yet dawn, but even if it did, the entire underground nest would only emit a faint light from fluorescent bacteria.

When the protagonist first leads the Divine Envoy King's army back to "Dongyang City", all the ants and stored food are gone, and only clumps of fluorescent bacteria remain.

At that time, many of these fluorescent bacteria had withered and died due to the lack of ant care for a long time, and only a few fluorescent bacteria survived weakly.

Fortunately, the Divine Envoy King Legion was originally a legion formed by temporarily grabbing Ding from the main nest, and the worker ants in the legion would have everything.

The workers used fresh ant droppings produced by the Divine Envoy King's Legion to cultivate fluorescent bacteria, and soon restored the lighting of the underground nest.

The protagonist follows the farmer ants who lead the way to a small nest. This is at the request of the protagonist, who places the pupae of the pupa worm alone in a small cramped nest chamber.

The protagonist arranged this way at the time, because most of the adult insects can fly after breaking the pupa and don't be careful.

The protagonist turns out to be very prescient.

When the protagonist enters the nest room, he is surprised to find that this strange worm looks so familiar after breaking the pupa page.

The insect's huge head is facing the protagonist, the exit of the nest. The most striking thing is a pair of huge red compound eyes, and the protagonist seems to be able to see the grid-like lines on the compound eyes.

Compared with the size of the main character, it is roughly equivalent to the gap between cattle and horses and humans. The insect has a pair of nearly triangular wings on its back, which grows on a turquoise, carapace-covered back.

It's a common red-headed fly......

The protagonist doesn't have a very good impression of this insect, although it looks very distinctive, and it has a unique beauty when you look closely.

But this kind of fly can often be seen in the protagonist's previous life, and the biggest impression it leaves on the protagonist is that the buzzing sound of flying is unusually loud and very annoying; The second is that this kind of fly often lies on human and animal feces or animal carcasses to feed and lay eggs......

At this time, the red-headed fly was struggling to crawl outside the nest, and instinctively made it want to climb to the ground and spread its wings.

Six nursery staff ants firmly bit the fly's six legs, dragging it hard to keep it from crawling away.

Due to the protagonist's orders, the worker ants did not dare to hurt the fly, so they could only drag it and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

The red-headed fly had just come out of the chrysalis and its wings were still wet, and it was trying to flap its wings to gain more strength for itself. But the wet, limp wings were clearly not up to the job.

However, as the fly's wings kept fanning, its wings slowly dried at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the six worker ants that were dragging it became more and more difficult, and they were dragged a little closer to the entrance of the nest.

The protagonist sees that this is not a problem, and sees that the red-headed fly is about to run out, and the protagonist can easily stop it with his brute strength, but in this case, the fly is also easy to be killed.

The protagonist asks the secretary who follows behind him to move the rescuers.

Soon a group of worker and soldier ants hurried over, and they worked together to subdue the red-headed fly and lay it firmly on the ground.

The flies are still struggling, but to no avail.

The protagonist struggles to figure out what to do with the flies that have infiltrated the mealworm larvae that have infiltrated the farm.

Slaughtered and eaten? This adult fly is not as fleshy as it was when it was a maggot.

Put? Then it has eaten so much food in vain, and this protagonist can't bear it.

The character of the protagonist is: I will spit out if I eat mine, and I have to give it back to me if I take it. If you want to take advantage of me, then even if it is a stone, you have to squeeze two taels of oil and return it to me.

But what is the use of this fly?

At this moment, the fly suddenly flapped its wings violently, and flew into the air, shaking off all the ants that had held it down.

But the nest was so small that the flies hit the ceiling in one fell swoop, and then they bounced back to the floor with a "poof", with six feet in the air.

The ants immediately swarmed up and repressed the fly.

The red-headed fly was now facing the sky with its wings flapping, and was firmly pressed to the ground, unable to move.

The protagonist sees the red-headed fly flying, and his eyes suddenly light up.

"Don't you know how to fly?" The protagonist thinks:

"Then let's see if you can be my mount!"