Holding a mysterious ball of heat, the protagonist suddenly thinks of a warm baby in the human world.

As a stainless steel straight man, a stainless steel straight man who has been in the south all the year round and has relied on a righteous body to survive the winter, he has never used this girl's thing. He didn't come into contact with heating until he went to the bustling imperial capital, and he also came into contact with people who used warm babies there. Therefore, in his eyes, northerners are not frost-resistant.

The protagonist does not recall his life in the south and in the imperial capital, and his past life is still shrouded in a fog deep in memory.

But he remembered that someone around him seemed to have used this kind of intimate heating in winter, something that could stabilize the heat for a long time.

Isn't the mysterious ball that can heat up without burning like a warm baby?

The protagonist suddenly realizes that the mystery ball has a second purpose besides bombs. It seems that these trophies are really treasures, but fortunately they were not thrown away in the first place.

In order to experiment with how long the mystery ball can maintain its fever and whether it has the necessary conditions for a qualified warm baby, the protagonist decides to continue the experiment.

He sends a dying worker ant to tie the mystery ball to her back, and then walks her into the cold hollow area, with the protagonist watching.

Sure enough, with the mysterious ball that can keep the temperature, even this experimental worker ant is very old and very afraid of cold, and has no warm clothing, but it is not frozen, but it is a little slow to move.

I'm the dividing line

Until noon, two hours after the experiment, the mystery ball was still heating up, and there was no sign of a drop in temperature, and the worker ants were alive and well.

The protagonist asks the worker ants involved in the experiment to stay and go to lunch.

The protagonist is not in the mood to get some food today, and the food is very simple, no different from what other male ants eat.

The staple food is grass seeds roasted in the combustion chamber, which have been roasted loosely due to the high temperature, and taste with a compound aroma of popcorn and toast.

The side dish is grilled mealworm strips with salt grains, and the taste is just average in the eyes of the protagonist, but most males love this meat dish.

There is also a dried banyan tree fruit that is a specialty of [Linshui City].

At the beginning, the Great Banyan who betrayed the Divine Envoy King Legion liked this sweet food very much, and at that time, there was a shortage of honeydew and other sweets in [Linshui City], and the dried fruit of the banyan tree was the best dessert that the Great Banyan could easily obtain.

It's just that the Divine Envoy King's legion is not short of honeydew, and most of the other male ants are not very cold to the dried fruit of the banyan tree. However, the quota of honeydew for soldier ants and worker ants is small, and I like this kind of dried fruit with some sweetness.

However, the protagonist still enforces that all males must eat some fruits and vegetables such as dried banyan fruit at every meal to supplement vitamin C. Although the protagonist doesn't know if the lack of vitamin C will have an impact on the health of the ants, there is no harm in eating a little bit of food.

For lunch, the males served a fermented drink with honeydew instead of pure honeydew that is common in spring, summer and autumn. The main reason is that there is no honeydew in the territory in winter, and the inventory part should be saved.

These fermented drinks are made by roasting plant seeds, crushing them, and then fermenting them with water, resulting in a taste similar to kvass.

The ants have a primitive fermentation technique, which involves chewing some sweet plant seedlings in their jaws and mouthparts, and then spitting the chewed paste into the liquid to be fermented, and it is ready to ferment after a few days.

At first, the protagonist is reluctant to accept this obviously unhygienic and somewhat palamentous processing method, but over time, he also begins to slowly drink this "ant kvass".

Anyway, many human methods of processing food can't be spread out, and most people won't be able to eat it after knowing it.

Not to mention the well-known "gutter oil", it is some well-known products, and the processing method is not far behind the fermentation technology of ants.

For example, in the customs of the ancient Incas and some Pacific islands, beer was processed in much the same way as ants processed "ant kvas", which was also fermented by chewing. At festivals, locals produce large quantities of beer: a bucket of water is left to dry in the sun, and a group of women are hired to chew the corn until it becomes corn syrup. The corn syrup is then spit into the sun-basking water, and the water with the corn syrup is stored for a few days before fermenting into a beer to be treated.

"Noble" wines are no better.

Since ancient Greco-Roman times, wine has been inextricably linked to "athlete's foot". Under the backward productive forces of ancient times, stepping on grapes with your feet was the most important part of manually pressing grapes, and it was also a traditional ritual for Europeans to celebrate the grape harvest, which can be found in many historical paintings.

Due to the large number of grapes in the modern winemaking industry, the way of stepping on grapes is very inefficient and labor-intensive, and most wineries use machinery instead of labor. However, this processing is still preserved in some fine wines, and many of the winery's top wines are still made from grapes.

Even, some people have concluded that the wine stepped out of the beautiful girl is the most mellow and delicious, and I don't know if the athlete's foot fungus on the beautiful girl's feet is also more noble.

And don't think that if you don't drink wine, you're avoiding "feet".

Many people like the food made by the ancient method, but some traditional methods of pickles, dried radish, and even salt, the processing process is indispensable and has a lot to do with the feet.

It can only be said that there is no limit to the imagination and lower limit of human beings in eating. Just like the protagonist quickly gets used to the "ant kvass", as long as it eats and drinks, why can't he think of exploring how to make it?

I'm the dividing line

After lunch, the protagonist goes to monitor the experiment again.

The honest worker ant was still holding the mystery ball on its back and staying motionless in the cold tree hole, and it had been in this position for three hours.

And if this mysterious ball had been heating up since the temperature dropped, it would have been more than two days since today. I don't know how long it can last in the end, anyway, it can't be forever, otherwise it will become a perpetual motion machine.

The experiment was not completed until the next day, and several worker ants were replaced.

At noon the next day, the heat of the "Warm Baby" mystery ball dropped rapidly, and it was soon no different from room temperature.

The protagonist estimates that the Mystery Ball has been heating for about three days since the day it cooled down. 72 hours is the limit of how long the mystery ball can maintain heat at room temperature in the single digits.

The protagonist thinks that next time he should bring back some new mystery balls, and experiment with the heating time when the temperature is around zero degrees outdoors, which is more practical.