Chapter 108: Flying
Before the protagonist could react, the red-headed fly was already carrying him and rushed straight into the sky at an angle of almost ninety degrees.
The oncoming wind made the protagonist a little dazed, and he only felt that the tall crown of the poplar tree was thrown behind him for a moment.
Countless amounts of air were violently pressed into the body from the pores in the abdomen, and a cold feeling instantly spread throughout the body. If the protagonist still has lungs, he will cough violently.
The fly soon flew high into the air, and the wind in the high places was much stronger than the surface, and the fly was blown around a few times by the strong wind, and immediately regretted flying so high on the first flight, and it quickly lowered its altitude.
The protagonist followed his mount and did several difficult aerial flips, and for a while he actually felt like vomiting, which should be the first time since becoming an ant.
Before the protagonist can use the reins to control his mount, the red-headed fly flies flying entirely on his instincts.
After descending to a height of two or three meters above the ground, it begins to fly flexibly through the bushes, which is extremely comfortable and free.
The protagonist gets used to it for a while, and finally resists the discomfort of going to heaven for the first time, and begins to think about controlling the flying mount.
Here it must be said about the posture of the cyclist riding on the fly.
For example, the protagonist is now using his abdomen as a focus and sitting in the saddle.
The ant-wire in the saddle held his back and last pair of arthropods firmly in place, ensuring that he wouldn't fall off even if he rolled in the air.
He has a pair of arthropods in the middle, which hook two reins respectively, and play the role of controlling flight.
And his forelimbs, which are currently firmly grasping the bristles on the fly's back because of some fear. Of course, this pair of arthropods can be used to wield weapons in the future.
The protagonist's midriff pulls the second rein with a slight force. Sure enough, the fly felt the movement of his balance rod and obediently lowered his height.
The protagonist's grip on the reins never releases, and the fly descends all the way down, eventually landing on the top leaves of a bush.
It's a bush with holly leaves, and the protagonist doesn't have time to pay attention to the plants at this time. He looked around, and finally judged his relative position by the tall, familiar poplar tree in the distance.
In just such a short period of time, he has already flown dozens of meters away, and sure enough, the long wings are faster than the long legs.
After the protagonist waits for his state to recover and no longer feels uncomfortable, he decides to fly again. After all, now that he is so far away from "Dongyang City", he can't go back alone.
And if you walk back by yourself, what should you do with this fly, you can't let it go!
So the protagonist gently lifts the first reins diagonally upward, and the red-headed fly immediately kicks with its middle and hind legs, instantly spreads its wings, and flies diagonally.
There is a holly branch in front of him, and before the protagonist can react to adjust the direction, the fly has already shaken its wings on its own and circled around the side, without being hit.
The protagonist guesses that when he doesn't give instructions, the flies instinctively avoid obstacles and dangers. So what if the order is given so that it must rush to danger?
The protagonist immediately lowers his height, and then directs the fly to crash into the dense foliage of the holly in a horizontal direction. As a result, the fly directly slowed down and landed on the leaves.
This dissatisfies the protagonist, which does not validate his doubts.
So he took off again, desperately pulling the fly's balance rod forward, and the fly kept accelerating, and hit the holly tree again, this speed was no longer possible for the fly to land safely, and if it didn't dodge, it would only hit head-on.
When the fly sees the obstacle, he ignores the protagonist's command to move forward, and flexibly spares a circle, dodging the obstacle before moving on.
It seems that even after receiving the command of the reins, the flies will give priority to the visual signals to avoid danger, and will refuse the command of the cyclist at this time.
This is also a reflection of the lack of domestication, after rigorous training, human war horses can brave the rain of bullets on the battlefield full of artillery fire, facing all kinds of obstacles of the enemy.
And this fly is clearly not up to that. The protagonist is not discouraged, on the contrary, he is quite happy, so that there is an automatic risk avoidance function, so that he will not bump into something when he is in a daze.
After experimenting with the directional control skills in the air, the protagonist is very satisfied. It's much more comfortable to maneuver than playing various flight simulation games back then.
After all, the aircraft is still relatively clumsy, and the fly is a master of flying.
Its flight is fast and agile, and few animals are able to chase and catch flies in flight with their flying skills, making it difficult to approach even behind it.
This is mainly due to the three organs of the fly.
The first one is the aforementioned balance bar.
Entomologists have found that the hindwings of flies degenerate into a pair of balancing rods. When it flies, the balance bar vibrates mechanically at a certain frequency, which can adjust the direction of movement of the wings and is a navigator that keeps the fly's body balanced.
Scientists have even developed a new generation of navigators based on this principle, the vibrating gyroscope, which has been applied to airplanes and greatly improved the flight performance of airplanes.
The second is the fly's pair of giant compound eyes. This pair of compound eyes contains 4,000 monocular eyes that can be imaged independently, and can see objects in a range of almost 360 degrees, with no dead angles at all.
The third is that the olfactory organs of flies are particularly sensitive. It enables rapid analysis of dozens of odors and reacts immediately.
After basically mastering the essentials of flying, the protagonist controls the red-headed fly to fly back in the direction of "Dongyang City".
In the days before navigation, orientation could only be determined by visual gaze at markers on the ground.
Fortunately, the four fields of "Dongyang Castle" are relatively empty, and only one tall poplar stands upright, which is the most conspicuous landmark.
A distance of tens of meters is only a few seconds for a fly to fly in a straight line at full speed. Although the protagonist occasionally pulls the second reins back for safety reasons, controlling the speed of the flies.
In less than half a minute, the protagonist has already controlled the mount and landed firmly at the entrance of the lair.
Mulan was waiting here, and she hurried to meet her.
Only then did the protagonist know that he was taken to the sky by a fly without saying hello, and Xiao Mi and Hua Mulan were blinded at that time.
After reacting, the little secretary asked Mulan to stay here, and she ran to inform Lan Bofei, who was teaching, that she was about to carry out a rescue to save the protagonist who didn't know where to go.
The protagonist hurriedly sends a worker ant to find Xiao Mi and tells him that he is okay and has landed safely.
Later, the protagonist has the worker ants feed the red-headed fly a drop of honeydew as a reward for it.
The protagonist returns to the mount and strokes its shiny green carapace with his forelimbs, and now he doesn't find it annoying, but rather cute.
"I'll call you Xiaoqing in the future!" The protagonist begins his random naming method again, giving the mount a name.