At the end of October, with the arrival of the first cold spell, this year's winter was a little earlier than usual.

This is the 6th winter after the protagonist comes to this ant world, and the 2nd winter after coming to this new land.

Today's protagonist has long been more and more adapted to the life of ants and his role as a god king.

The arrival of the cold wave expelled all living creatures on the ground, leaving the leaves to fall, the weeds to wither, and the animals to hide.

The gods caused the King's Legion Turtle to retreat into the ground, and the various nests were temporarily cut off from each other. The underground world is not as cold and windy as outside, but it is still as warm as spring, especially the [Xinyangcheng] and [Februarylancheng] with blast furnaces, and some places actually make the ants feel hot and dry.

The ants underground are still busy, using the materials they have stockpiled in advance, and they continue to reproduce, live, and produce according to the instructions given by the god king before the winter begins.

For example, the area near the blast furnace has been converted into a temporary farm in winter, where mealworms, which grow slowly in winter, and provide fresh meat.

After the cold spell has passed, when the temperature rises or when there is sunshine, the paver ants will go out and continue to dig the canal in sections around the nests.

Fortunately, this year's climate is arid, the soil does not contain much water, especially the topsoil is very dry, and the paver ants can dig without too much effort. If the soil is rich in moisture, I am afraid that it has been frozen by the north wind at this time, and even if there is an iron jaw knife, there is nothing to be done.

The reason why the construction is necessary in winter is because this winter came too early, and the protagonist is full of the idea that this year the construction will be carried out until the beginning of November, so that the canal can be completed in the summer of June and July.

Now that the progress is already behind, the protagonist does not want to delay the construction period until next autumn or even winter, so he asks the paving ants to continue construction when the conditions are right in winter.

Paving ants are not only busy on the canal construction site, but in winter, they shoulder almost all of the outdoor work. The communication between the nests should be carried out by the paver ants, and some necessary outdoor building maintenance should be done by the paver ants. Paving ants are arguably the busiest vassals of the entire winter.

The rest of the ant tribes have greatly reduced their workload, and only a few industries such as blast furnace ironmaking have maintained normal workload, and the scale of breeding farms and fungal cultivation has been reduced, and many workshops have nothing to do.

The research team is still busy, and there is no winter vacation.

This year, the scientific research team led by "Little Secretary II", under the guidance of the protagonist, has improved a lot of craftsmanship and has some new achievements.

For example, the beetle iron armor required by the protagonist, with the joint efforts of the scientific research team and the ironmaking team, was quickly manufactured, and this thing is not very difficult to process, just some large pieces of iron.

The scientific research team also continued to improve the ballista, and now the ballista is no longer tied with ropes or ant glue in addition to the bowstring, and the fixings have been replaced with iron parts. The application of a large number of iron parts further improves the performance of the ballista.

"Little Secretary II" is very thoughtful, and without the prompting of the protagonist, he actually led the scientific research team to drum up new gadgets such as enlarged ballistas and multi-spring ballistas.

Although these test samples still have serious problems, they are far less mature than the previous ballistas, and cannot be used in actual combat for the time being, but the protagonist greatly rewards the scientific research team and encourages them to continue their research, striving to achieve greater progress in scientific research as soon as possible.

The main achievements made by the science and technology group this year are basically the improvement of some mature processes, which can improve work efficiency or the quality of finished products.

For example, the ballistas in [Xinyang City] were all upgraded to new ballistae with a pure ironwood structure throughout the winter.

The most surprising result of the scientific research team of the protagonist is that they discover a secret of the liquid inside the mysterious ball.

The liquid inside the Mystery Ball is extremely self-combustible and even prone to self-explosion, and has always been regarded as a first-class dangerous item. However, in situations where it is necessary to explode or ignite, the mystery orb and the liquid inside it are also very useful.

Although the Divine Envoy King Legion currently has a lot of mystery balls in stock, if it is not at war with the Destroyer, it will not be captured, and there will be no way to replenish it, so it will be used a little less. So unless it's very necessary, the protagonist is reluctant to use these mysterious balls that can be used as high-explosive bombs.

After the rebuilding of this new land, there was a team working on the Mystery Orb liquid, but progress has been slow.

The biggest achievement they have found in the past is that after using dry charcoal to absorb a mysterious ball liquid mixed with grease and lime, it can be stored for a long time without spontaneous combustion, and can also be used as a high-calorie fuel. This achievement can further increase the furnace temperature during ironmaking, and can even be used to make steel, but the Divine Envoy King's legion is obviously not arrogant enough to use the scarce mystic ball to metallurgize.

The protagonist has always wanted to be able to produce the liquid inside the mystery ball so that it can be used to make explosives, which will be very important both for military and engineering purposes.

Not long after the beginning of winter, although the protagonist's wish has not yet been realized, it has finally come to an eyebrow.

It turned out that a miracle ant of the Mystery Ball Research Group accidentally touched a drop of charcoal that adsorbed the liquid mixture of the Mystery Ball that did not spontaneously combust, and tasted it.

In the past, how dare the gods touch this thing directly with their tentacles, at that time, a reliable anti-spontaneous combustion technology has not been developed, even if the liquid is covered with grease to prevent oxidation, once the mysterious ball liquid is exposed to the air, it will quickly spontaneously combust.

That is, this miracle ant is lucky, it happens that she has invented the technology of charcoal adsorption liquid mixture, so her tentacles have not been burned.

Coincidentally, the protagonist used to think that the fluorescent bacteria in the room were not bright enough, so he asked the scientific research team to study how to adjust the medium to make the fluorescent bacteria shine brighter, and finally succeeded. This miracle ant was a member of the scientific research team that had tinkered with a large number of fluorescent bacteria of different strains.

The Miracle Ant found that the taste of this mysterious ball mixture, if the smell of grease and lime is removed, is a bit similar to the taste of the liquid in the fluorescent fungus.

The mysterious ball scientific research team immediately squeezed a lot of fluorescent bacteria, mixed the extracted liquid with grease and lime, and then adsorbed it with charcoal, and then many Shengong ants touched the charcoal of the mysterious ball liquid mixture charcoal and fluorescent bacteria extract mixture charcoal with their antennae, and found that the taste was a bit similar, but the latter was lighter.

However, the ants found that the fluorescent bacteria extract did not spontaneously combust, and other than the color, the properties were not very similar to the mysterious ball liquid.

When the protagonist learned about it, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately asked the scientific research team to try the distillation method to concentrate the fluorescent bacteria extract in a safe place!