Chapter 106: Taming the Mount (2)

The protagonist thinks to himself: I've failed so many times before anyway, and I don't care about trying another way. Dead horses should be used as live horse doctors, and if they can't be cured, they should be kept for meat.

So the protagonist decided to try a combination of punishing training and rewarding training.

He adjusted the content of the two short videos:

The first short video: The ants slowly loosened their grip on the lying fly, and the fly immediately struggled, and then the ants swarmed up, and the fly was stung in pain.

The second short video: The ants slowly loosened the suppression of the lying fly, the fly remained motionless, kept quiet, was not attacked by the ants again, and also got honeydew as a reward, and the fly ate very happily.

The protagonist then sends the packet and tells the ants to loosen their grip on the flies.

This time, the red-headed fly was unusually honest, although it shook its body slightly, but it did not struggle to escape, but stared at the protagonist with blank eyes, a pair of forelimbs kept rubbing, and the licking mouthparts kept moving, as if urging it to give it honeydew.

The protagonist waits for several seconds, and the fly is quiet and tame, not like a tired or whim-spur-of-the-moment quiet.

Second-by-second, the red-headed fly slowly showed its agitation, its wings began to shake, and its forelimbs rubbed its hands more and more frequently.

The protagonist sees that his patience is almost at the end, so he asks the worker ant to spit out a drop of honeydew and feed it to it.

The fly sucks the sweet honeydew with a kiss in satisfaction, and is still unsatisfied when it is finished, staring at the protagonist again.

"There is a play", the protagonist finally sees progress.

He tried to slowly approach the tentacles of the uncontrolled flies, trying to put his own tentacles on them.

The red-headed fly first flinched back, instinctively disliking physical contact with predators like ants.

But the sweet taste of honeydew echoed in his mind, and the fly that had just broken the pupa did not have such a strong sense of danger. Under the dual effect, it stops moving, and slowly lets the protagonist's tentacles catch up.

The protagonist continues to construct two short videos in his mind, which he passes on to the fly:

The first short video: the protagonist climbs on the back of the fly, and the fly immediately struggles, and then the ants rush up, and the fly is stung in pain.

The second short video:: The protagonist climbed on the back of the fly, the fly remained motionless, kept quiet, was not attacked by the ants again, and was rewarded with honeydew, and the fly ate very happily.

Another wave of light swept across the fly's huge red compound eye, an inherent reaction of the red-headed fly each time it received a packet.

After confirming that the fly has received its packet and is still quiet without the ants controlling it, without struggling or resisting, the protagonist carefully moves to the side of the fly.

He measured the height of the fly, and when he stood on his back limbs, the front two limbs were just enough to fit the fly's back.

The protagonist then grabs a bristle on the green carapace of the fly's back with a tarsal foot that resembles a finger on its arthropod, and flips it up to its back with all his might.

The fly was a little uncomfortable after being caught by the bristles, and shook its body, but under the double pressure of food and punishment, the fly quickly calmed down again.

The protagonist motions for a worker ant to spit out another drop of honeydew to feed the flies. And he himself sat on the back of a fly and thought.

How can this fly be controlled?

Now the way of transmitting information packets through the antennae can intuitively tell the flies what to do, and the effect is very good.

But this method of command is very inconvenient.

It's not just riders who spend a lot of time building packets. And when riding on the back of a fly, unless it climbs on the fly's head, the rider simply can't reach its antennae, which are too short and swing around.

How about getting a rein? When the protagonist thinks of humans controlling horses, they do so through the reins.

The reins of a horse can be put on the horse's mouth, but where are the reins of a fly? The mouthparts of the flies don't look like they can be reineded on!

How about tying flies on the antennae? The antennae of the fly are equivalent to the nose, and the reins of the cow are not tied to the ring on the nose of the cow!

So the protagonist immediately asks the worker ants to go out and get an ant silk, which is tough enough to meet the requirements of the reins.

The protagonist jumps off the back of the fly and goes to tie the reins himself.

The fly stays silent, and only occasionally when it is really irritated will the protagonist ask the worker ants to feed it a drop of honeydew.

But even so, the fly needs to consume a lot of honeydew, and it seems that the honeydew harvested by the nest every day is not enough to feed a large number of flies. We can only hope that after the degree of domestication is higher, we can see if we can reduce its demand.

Soon the protagonist ties the reins and constructs a packet that tells the fly the connection between the direction of its antennae and the direction of travel, as well as the signals to move forward and stop.

After confirming that the fly has received the packet, the protagonist turns over again, grabs the reins with his forelimbs, shakes it vigorously, and shouts in his heart: "Drive! Proud

The reins shook in waves, sending power to the red-headed fly's pair of short, brush-like tentacles.

I saw that the red-headed fly's body shook, and instead of starting to crawl forward according to the instructions in the information packet as the protagonist expected, it shook violently and lifted the protagonist off.

The ant next to him hurriedly stepped forward to bring the irritable fly under control.

The protagonist got up from the side, ignoring the concern of the secretary and Mulan next to him, and ran to the fly.

He read the message from the fly's antennae, a painful emotion.

Well, the protagonist understands that the antennae of a fly hurt if they pull hard, just as a human nose is fragile and sensitive. It seems that tying the reins to the antennae of the flies is not a good idea.

The protagonist soothes the fly and feeds it another drop of honeydew. After the ants let go of the fly, the fly that had recovered from the pain finally stayed gently again.

The protagonist undoes the reins from its tentacles and flips over again.

He looked around, and there seemed to be no place for the fly's head and back to tie the reins.

The tentacles were vetoed.

The bristles on the back don't seem to have many nerves, and the protagonist tugs lightly a few times, but the flies don't react.

You can't be tied to a fly's leg, can you!?

The protagonist continues to look around the fly, and he suddenly notices a pair of tiny rods behind the fly's wings, which the protagonist had never noticed before.

The fly's wings shake occasionally, and the pair of rods move gently.

What is it? The protagonist is curious.,It seems that there is a linkage relationship with the wings.,Is it the other way around that you can also control the wings of the fly by pulling this little stick?

The protagonist decides to experiment.