Chapter 102: New Curriculum
Now there is another problem to be solved in front of the protagonist - the education of the newly grown male ants.
Here I have to talk about the growth law of ants. Ants develop very differently from humans, and this completely metamorphosed insect is born from the queen's belly as an ant egg, which is then carried by the worker ants to the hatchery.
Except in winter, the hatchery room maintains a relatively stable temperature and humidity throughout the year, which is conducive to the hatching of ant eggs. And if the ant eggs leave this suitable environment, the incubation process will be stopped, and once the incubation is stopped for more than a month or two, then the ant eggs will die.
It takes three to four days for the eggs to hatch into translucent, worm-like larvae. If adult ants, whether male, female, soldier or worker, have a certain amount of intelligence, larvae are completely unable to show their rationality, they will only eat under the guidance of instinct, and accept the meticulous care of worker ant keepers.
However, the larvae are already able to function for the nest, and if the worker ants clamp the larvae's head and touch it with their antennae, the larvae will start to spit out ant gum. This ant glue is an excellent adhesive, but the disadvantage is that it oxidizes and solidifies quickly, and if bonding is required, it must be carried out on site with the larvae.
If the ant glue is elongated in the state of just secreted or liquid, it becomes ant silk, and the fluffy ant silk can be used as a bedding material for young ants and ant eggs, and can also be used as a rope. Of course, the protagonist also uses these ant silks as mattresses.
After five or six days of development, the young ants begin to pupate, and the pupae resemble adult ants with white limbs curled up. After five or six days of complex chemical changes inside, the larvae can break out of the pupal and become adult ants.
(The above development time has been accelerated according to the needs of the novel, and the development time of ants is generally several times longer)
Once the adult ants break out of the pupae, they instantly have complex thinking skills and a high IQ level, and they have also mastered the most basic way of communication with their antennae, but they lack experience.
If we use a human analogy, then it is a baby who is still nursing and suddenly throws it into a sleeping bag, and when he opens the sleeping bag a few days later, he is already an eighteen-year-old adult from his body to his brain, and this adult can speak, but because he has not been to school for a day, he has no other knowledge.
This way of breaking the pupa has little effect on the soldiers and workers, they don't need much learning, they can live a normal life according to instinct, and they can master the corresponding skills after following the older workers to complete a few various jobs.
Females have higher IQs, and when they reach adulthood, they are taught by the older queen about marriage and childbirth, which does not require the protagonist to worry about this.
The males, on the other hand, rely on the experience of the older males to pass on their learning.
The problem facing "Dongyang City" now is that there are no older male ants. Lao Wang, who used to be in charge of the teacher, has been mysteriously killed, and among all the remaining male ants, the oldest is the protagonist who is less than half a year old......
Of course, the amount of information stored in the protagonist's brain is incomparable to that of any ant, but 99.999% of the knowledge cannot be taught to young males. The protagonist can't just send them a small movie in an information packet......
When it comes to some of the skills and knowledge that young males need in particular, the protagonist himself is a half-ass. So after weighing it up, the protagonist gives Rambo Fei the job of teaching the young male ant basic knowledge and skills. Anyway, Lan Bofei has completely received Lao Wang's systematic education, and it is up to him whether he can apply what he has learned.
The reason why Rambo Fei was chosen over the other males is that Rambo Fei is the third oldest of all males, and males have a natural sense of respect for their older kind, even if it is only a minute or two early. And Rambo Fei has a calmer personality, not as impatient as the second-oldest roll. As for getting out, it's better to be a troop commander with peace of mind.
In addition to the lessons that Rambo Fei can teach, the protagonist has other knowledge that they want to master.
This batch of males is not born in the spring according to the usual practice, and the males born in the spring are considered to have graduated after more than a month of study, and they are about to rush to participate in the wedding ceremony in late spring and early summer.
And this group of male ants was born after this year's wedding ceremony, and what they need to learn, how long they will learn, and when they will graduate are all decided by the protagonist. Anyway, next year's wedding ceremony is still early.
The protagonist has a lot of ideas to transform the ant society, and it takes a lot of helpers to carry out these ideas. Although they have enough IQ and no problem with loyalty, they have grown up with a traditional ant education, and a lot of thinking has been solidified and they can't understand some of the protagonist's intentions.
The protagonist has given up correcting the ants whose knowledge has been solidified, and he pins his hopes on the male ants who have just become adults and are still blank sheets of paper.
In order to achieve this, the protagonist first modifies the content taught by Rambo Fei.
Later, before each lecture by Rambo Fei, the protagonist will find him, read the information package of the lecture content passed by Rambo Fei in detail, and then delete it.
He retains the basic skills that males must master, such as command style, semaphorone identification and use, and so on.
Some changes have been made, such as: every year after the first rain at the beginning of summer, we set off to attend the wedding ceremony in the main nest, and changed it to participate in the wedding ceremony in "Dongyang City" at the time specified by the Divine Envoy King, etc.
Removed content such as obeying any king's orders from the main nest, and the protagonist doesn't want his subordinates to be commanded by other males one day.
Some new contents have also been added: the mathematical knowledge of the four arithmetic systems, the ability to think logically and express in language, the will to obey the king absolutely to the gods, and so on.
Rambo Fei first expressed doubts about the drastically deleted and modified course content, and many of the new courses are completely in conflict with the concepts he accepts and agrees with. The protagonist directly uses the authority of the divine envoy king and the will of the divine decree to force him to accept it, and requires him to pass on the information package of the course he specified to all the students in its original form.
Lan Bofei succumbed, the protagonist was not at ease, he simply asked Xiao Wei to follow every class to study, and it turned out that Lan Bofei still went against his will and completely complied with the will of the protagonist. But that's for later.
For the lessons of these young male ants, the protagonist also took a lot of brains, and all the knowledge taught has a purpose.
Basic skills are a must, loyalty to the protagonist's requirements ensures control, mathematical knowledge and logical thinking skills help the males improve their IQ, and the identification of various pheromones can identify enemies, allies, and companions.
When these males successfully graduate and grow into the backbone of "Dongyang City", the protagonist's ability to control "Dongyang City" is so strong that it is equivalent to recreating a country within a country in the kingdom of big-headed ants.
This is exactly what the main character is for.