Chapter 304: Preparing for Each (2)

When the top management of the Queen Ant Legacy faction in "The Real Main Nest" urgently holds a joint meeting of the Queen Ant and the male ants to discuss, the protagonist relaxes and has free time to inspect the newly expanded fly farm and fly stable.

The protagonist can definitely guess who the leader of the queen ant's inheritance faction is talking about, but how they discuss it, the protagonist does not know, but the means and countermeasures that the enemy may take, although the protagonist can't completely guess it, but he can also figure out some rules.

The instinct of living beings is to seek advantage and avoid disadvantage, and all behaviors, including the seemingly complex behaviors of intelligent beings, are based on this instinct.

The instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages is innate to living beings, and it is also the guarantee that living things continue to evolve to the higher level.

There are two sufficient conditions for the existence of living beings: one is to live, that is, to survive; The second is to avoid death, that is, to fear death. Profit-seeking enables organisms to learn stronger survival ability, and avoidance of harm enables the continuation of individual life, thereby ensuring the continuation of the species, in which the winners survive in the survival of the fittest in nature, and promote the continuous evolution of the species to the advanced.

The specific behavior and way of seeking benefits and avoiding disadvantages depends on the awareness of benefits and harms, and the awareness of interests and disadvantages and the behavior of avoiding interests and disadvantages begin from the initial fear of death and the instinctive need to sustain life.

In this sense, the fear of death, the maintenance of the existence of the individual is the greatest potential driving force of living beings, the most solid needs of living beings. No matter how wide the scope of fear may be, the ultimate object of fear is death.

In the process of life continuation, the initial judgment of interests, such as whether it is beneficial or harmful, and the degree of benefit, will directly (often subconsciously) affect the behavior of organisms to seek benefits and avoid harms, and out of the fear of death, the individual's perception of interests and disadvantages is extremely keen, and often quickly makes subconscious reactions. Profit-seeking behaviors (such as stress responses) and the results of behaviors make individuals perceive more "benefits" and their extents, and constantly expand and enrich their understanding of benefits and harms and accumulate more ways of avoiding them.

For intelligent creatures, such as humans and today's ants, the understanding of benefits and harms is no longer just biological instincts, but can rise to the category of values. Values and value systems (including criteria for judging benefits and harms) are the psychological basis that determines the behavior of these intelligent beings.

Now, for the queen inheritance faction, there are small benefits, that is, to consolidate and increase the interests of the leadership (including all queen ants and the males who depend on them); There is also a big benefit, which is to expand the power, so that this faction will eventually integrate the old territory that rules the big-headed ant kingdom, and continue to expand. The two are interrelated.

Harm corresponds to the fear of the elimination of the leadership and the elimination of the own forces, which is the opposite of profit, and is also based on the fear of the death of the individual and the death of the group.

Now, the source of the hindrance and harm of the Queen Ant's inheritance faction is the Legion of the Divine Envoy King led by the protagonist, and they must act against the Legion of the Divine Envoy King in a way that can make them benefit and avoid disadvantage.

The most symptomatic way to cure the root cause is naturally to completely eliminate the Divine Envoy King Legion, but this requires the support of force, and after a big battle just now, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction also understands that with the military force currently assembled, it is not enough to destroy the Divine Envoy King Legion and control the main nest "Qingqiu City".

The protagonist can guess that the enemy will not easily admit defeat, and the profit-seeking instinct will keep them from stopping, and they will definitely try to gather a stronger force to make a comeback.

And the protagonist's way of dealing is that since this is a full-scale war, he must work hard to weaken the enemy's war potential in order to end the largest civil war since the collapse of the old order of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom in the shortest possible time.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist visits the fly farm in the main nest "Qingqiu City" to inspect.

Since the domestication of bees began in Dongyang City, its fly farms have been gradually abandoned. In order to maintain the supply of the most basic Flying Knight mounts and the demand for some meat, the main nest "Qingqiu City" undertakes the task of raising all the flies.

Although the underground farm has just been expanded again, it is not very large, with only a hundred adult flies and thousands of maggots currently housed in it.

Adult flies are selected for their strong and nimble bodies, and are physically fit to be mounted as Flying Knights. When the Flying Knight didn't need so many mounts, the flies were left to breed.

Flies reproduce very quickly, and a large percentage of the thousands of fly maggots are killed for food every day, but the eggs are enough to replenish these losses.

When the protagonist comes to inspect, he is just in time for the flies to eat.

Truth be told, it's not a good experience to see flies eating up close.

The fly is toothless, and its taste and touch receptors grow on its feet. Therefore, when the ant keeper throws some of the rotten food and feces that the ants regard as garbage into the fly stable, the fly has to rub its feet first in order to have a full meal after a while, and the dirt and other dirt that have just stuck to other places are first rubbed off so that it can be eaten later, and at the same time improve the sensitivity of taste on the feet, which reduces the burden for future flights (although flies cannot take off in the fly stable).

Therefore, to a certain extent, flies still love to be clean, after all, the original intention of rubbing feet is to clean themselves, which is very similar to washing hands before eating.

Flies do not have the same mouthparts as humans or ants, they have no teeth or large jaws, and cannot chew food, and they eat by first aiming at the food and vomiting, spitting out liquids such as their own digestive juices and saliva, so that the solid food can be digested on the outside first.

After spitting up some digestive juices, when the food is almost digested, the flies are ready to move, and they eat by sucking, much like eating with a straw, and the flies have a licking and sucking mouthpart, which is their sucking tool.

Sometimes the digestive juices secreted by the flies cannot easily turn the food into liquid on the outside, and the flies have already sucked the food when it is still crumbs.

The most unbearable thing is the habit of the flies eating and pulling, and it takes a long time for the protagonist to get used to this unchangeable habit of Xiaoqing or Xiaoqing II when flying long distances.

This is all because the whole digestion process of flies is carried out very quickly, and flies often eat carrion and carcasses, so pulling while eating can help them quickly eliminate bacteria, and it generally takes 7-11 seconds for them to eat, drink and lasa a whole set.

In addition, flies are also accustomed to leaving offspring on their food, and ant keepers need to collect these eggs in time and send them to another nursery for safekeeping.

Sometimes, the eggs are also eaten as food or even medicine.