The protagonist suddenly wants to domesticate the big red-headed fly into his own mount on a whim.

If you can succeed, then you can domesticate flies in large quantities in the future, then "Dongyang City" can have an air force composed of fly riders, and you can also add a batch of meat sources.

But the reality is not a god list, any animal can be turned into a mount.

Hundreds of thousands of years of human beings have domesticated chickens, ducks, geese, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, dogs, donkeys, camels, reindeer and other livestock and poultry, such as cats, hamsters, parrots, etc. are still in a semi-domesticated state.

The theoretical basis of domestication is an artificial conditioned reflex established on the basis of the innate instinctive behavior of animals, which is the acquired behavior of individual animals.

This artificial conditioning can be constantly strengthened or faded, and it marks the strengthening or weakening of the degree of domestication.

Whether an animal can be domesticated, throughout the success stories of human history, generally have the following six characteristics:

First, the energy conversion efficiency of the domesticated object should be high and it would not take up too much grain.

Humans are generally domesticated by herbivores, and carnivores are too inefficient in energy conversion.

Flies are carrivorous and omnivorous and do not need to take up much extra food, which is in line with this.

Second, the growth rate should be fast enough.

It only takes one month for flies to break from hatching to pupation under the right conditions. Moreover, flies can lay eggs for a lifetime when they mate, and the number of eggs produced is also very large.

This is very much in line with that.

Third, it can be bred in captivity.

The larvae (maggots) of the flies can be fed on the farm, and the red-headed fly in front of you has proven this, just consider how the adult fly can be tamed.

Half of this is true.

Fourth, the temperament should not be too dangerous.

As scavenging insects, flies are still relatively mild and do not have lethal attack power.

This is also true.

Fifth, don't be too easily frightened.

This is a bit of a problem for flies, who are naturally scared away by danger. However, this kind of frightening is not like deer, antelope, and rabbit or even frightened to death, and I have never heard of flies being scared to death.

Half of this is true.

Sixth, the group living structure.

In this way, the animal will instinctively follow the leader, which is suitable for grazing, and the difficulty of domestication is reduced. Flies don't have a leader, but they don't averse to being around a group of mates.

That's half true.

To sum up, it can be seen that it is still difficult to domesticate adult flies, but there is no technical content in domesticating maggots.

Maggots are similar to mealworms, they run slowly, grow fast, do not pick the environment, can live in groups, and are natural good livestock.

The protagonist looks at the fly that is pressed to the ground and can't move, only the two brush-like tentacles in the middle of the eyes keep shaking, and he has a bold idea.

The protagonist orders two worker ants to clamp the flies' wobble pair of antennae with the large claws of their paws and fix them.

Then the protagonist resists the disgusting feeling of facing such a big fly, and puts his tentacles on the antennae of the fly.

This fly has just been born and has not yet crawled. The protagonist comforts himself like this.

"Obey me", the protagonist sends his own words.

Unsurprisingly, the red-headed fly didn't react at all. It's like asking a wild zebra to understand what a human is saying at once, it's unrealistic.

The protagonist verifies his conjecture and is indeed unable to communicate with flies in the language of ants.

But he wasn't without gains.

The tentacles of the flies convey the emotions of fear. This suggests that ants and flies can communicate some basic things through their antennae.

Just as a man and a wolf can't talk, but when they see the wolf running away with their tail between their legs, they can know that the wolf is afraid.

It is enough to have basic communication channels that are enough for the protagonist to proceed with his second step plan.

The protagonist thinks that the ants, in addition to verbal communication through their antennae, can also send packets of information.

This packet allows the receiver to view the sender's personal experience or his contrived experience from a first-person perspective.

The former is like rolling once sharing his experience on the way to the main nest with the protagonist, making the protagonist immersive.

The latter is like the protagonist drawing a blueprint for the worker ants, as long as the step by step clarity is explained, the worker ants can complete the construction according to the picture they see.

Now, the protagonist wants to use the sending of fictitious packets of messages to get the fly to take his command.

So, the protagonist immediately constructs a packet of virtual experiences in his mind, which has 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 their grip on the lying flies, and the flies remained motionless and remained quiet, not being attacked by the ants again.

After the information packet was transmitted, the huge compound eyes of the fly reflected the entire figure of the protagonist in front of him, as if swept by the waves.

This was the first time the fly had received a message from another creature. The delivery of the packet was successful.

The protagonist looks at the fly expectantly, and then orders the ants to loosen their grip on the fly.

The red-headed fly remained motionless for a moment.

The protagonist is extremely excited. It worked, I didn't expect it to be so simple to tame an adult insect, and it was a success.

Not happy for two seconds.

The fly realized that it was free.

It struggled violently, rolled over, and arched the protagonist in front of it. Then the flies hurriedly tried to crawl away from the nest.

The protagonist quickly orders the ants to drag the fly back, and then continues to hold it down.

During this time, a soldier ant stung the fly's buttocks viciously, and the fly's whole body was shivered by the sting.

This time, the fly became in a normal lying position and was controlled, and it was no longer six-legged to the sky.

The protagonist shakes his head, but hasn't given up yet. This fly is afraid of pain, so there is a way to train the conditioned reflex.

The protagonist sends the packet again. This time it turned into a fly lying on its stomach.

And then it still failed......

The protagonist is also stubborn, and he really doesn't believe in this evil, he simply ravages this poor fly again and again, and then fails again and again.

The fly shuddered every time it was bitten, although sometimes it didn't bite in its tender ** position. It seems that this reflex is very quick to remember.

But the optimistic protagonist also sees progress, and the fly struggles with less and less, does it gradually grasp the meaning of the protagonist?

Or is this red-headed fly simply exhausted......

The protagonist is also afraid that the fly will be ravaged and exhausted, so he asks the worker ants to bring over a few drops of honeydew from the aphids and feed the fly a drop first.

When the honeydew dripped on the red-headed fly's kiss, the fly reacted immediately. I licked and sucked and ate a fine light.

The protagonist suddenly thinks of this fly when he sees that the fly loves honeydew so much. The conditioned reflex of domesticated animals, in addition to the punitive training method, also has the rewarding domestication method.

The protagonist decides to combine the two and experiment a few more times.