Chapter 109: Forming the Flying Knights (1)
Because of the cyan carapace of the red-headed fly, the protagonist gave his mount a popular name - "Xiaoqing".
The protagonist rode it several more times that day, until it was getting late.
At the end of the day, the protagonist's fly riding skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and the cooperation between him and Xiaoqing has become more and more tacit, and the protagonist feels that riding and driving is easier than in his previous life.
After the flight, Xiaoqing is placed back in her exclusive nest, which was newly built on the orders of the protagonist that day, and is relatively close to the exit of the nest and has a large space.
Four worker ants are in charge of him in this stable, providing Xiaoqing with food and water at all times, and also providing three drops of honeydew every day. When you're out training or doing other tasks, there's also extra honeydew as a reward.
There are also ten soldier ants outside Xiaoqing's fly stable to prevent it from suddenly attacking wild and trying to escape.
The protagonist has verified the feasibility of riding flies, and begins to think about how to expand the size of the air force.
Referring to the history of human military development, we can know that the emergence of the air force has a far-reaching impact on warfare.
Although the earliest air force could only play a reconnaissance role, it was already able to greatly increase the observation range of the ground forces, thereby improving the overall combat capability.
The protagonist believes that if he creates an air force, it will be unique and unrepeatable. As long as they can carry out reconnaissance and transportation missions, they will be far ahead of enemy nations like the Paving Ant Barbarians.
If you want to expand the size of the air force, you must first tame more flies, and flies that have just broken their pupae are the most suitable for domestication, just like circus training animals have to be cultivated from an early age.
Xiaoqing was mistakenly moved back to the farm as mealworm eggs when she was still a fly egg, but how can she find more fly eggs?
The protagonist goes to find the male ants and takes turns hunting and searching for mealworm eggs during the day.
The protagonist communicates with the males one by one to learn about their experiences in the northern depression. But the males all said they had not seen large numbers of flies congregating, and only sporadic flies flew through the sky.
It seems that there are not many flies in the northern depression, and it is purely a coincidence that Xiaoqing's eggs can be brought back.
In the end, the protagonist decides to set up a bait based on the habits of the flies and actively lure the flies over to lay eggs.
The next day, the protagonist directs the worker ants to carry out some of the rotten food from the nest and carry it to a dark, damp place under a bush near the entrance to the nest and pile it up.
These rotten foods are mainly dried mealworms that are not in the sun, and some berries and grass seeds that have not had time to be eaten fresh.
This garbage can't even be eaten by mealworms on the farm, for fear of causing disease. If it had been, it would have been thrown into the garbage.
In addition, the protagonist sends some worker ants to carry some rotten food from the garbage heap a few meters away from the exit of the nest.
Ants have a habit of piling up waste in fixed garbage heaps, such as the corpses of their companions, construction waste, and discarded food.
Ants who died in the war were buried in the martyrs' cemetery, and ants who died by accident or natural causes were thrown into the farm to give mealworms as rations.
However, there are also a lot of other foods in the garbage heap that have not yet rotted, and ants often need to fill in the soil to bury the foul-smelling garbage.
The protagonist orders a large number of ants to dig up layers of garbage covered in thin soil, and bring together the discarded food that has not yet rotted.
There are also several hunting teams that are ordered to hunt earthworms in dark and damp places. Wherever the earthworms live, there is a large amount of clump of droppings as an indication, so these burrowing ants quickly pull up several earthworms from the ground, kill them and carry them to the garbage dump.
After a short time, the ants had piled up a new garbage dump of about half a square meter.
Slowly, flies began to fly along with the foul smell, and some scavenging insects such as dung beetles and water scorpion were also attracted.
The protagonist can't stand the smell of this side for a long time, and some worker ants are left to guard the garbage heap.
The worker ants follow the protagonist's orders to drive away all the bugs except the flies.
Of course, in the process of driving away other bugs, flies will also be alarmed. But the flies are very patient, and they will eventually fly back again, feasting and laying eggs.
In this world, there are no larger animals. Therefore, in the human world, insects such as flies and dung beetles, which feed on the feces of large animals, are more inclined to scavenge and will not reject small insect droppings.
In particular, the dung beetle, nicknamed the dung shell lang, has abandoned its specialty of rolling dung balls due to the lack of a large supply of feces.
Now in the face of a large number of delicacies such as carrion and rotten fruit that the ants have worked hard to collect, the flies in a radius are rushing here one after another following the smell.
The feast lasted for several days, and eventually the ants collected tens of thousands of fly eggs.
Of course, if all these eggs hatched, the food supply capacity of Dongyang City would not be enough to feed so many flies, let alone spend a lot of honeydew to train them into mounts.
Therefore, the protagonist directs the ants to eat the eggs of the flies, which appear to be malnourished, and the remaining thousands of eggs are placed in a special newly opened farm to hatch.
After a few days, after all the eggs have hatched, the farmers selected 50 healthy and well-proportioned small white maggots and moved them all to a special farm to be cultivated as mounts.
The fattest dozen of the remaining maggots were picked out and used to be used as seed flies in the future.
Most of the other maggots are eaten when they are at their most fat, or killed and dried into maggots.
In the face of these white and chubby maggots, which seem to be much cleaner than adult flies, the protagonist, who has not tasted meat for a long time, also made up his mind and experimented with a way to eat roasted maggots.
To his delight, the maggots that had been washed and roasted had a popcorn aroma without any peculiar smell. In this way, there is finally an extra kind of meat in the protagonist's menu.
After the fifty flies selected for the mount hatched, the protagonist made an information package of the domestication and riding methods and taught them to Rambo Fei, who was responsible for domesticating the flies.
In addition to teaching, Rambo Fei will take young male ant students to the domestication site to domesticate flies. The protagonist also comes to the scene from time to time to give guidance.
After drawing a scoop according to the method of the main character, twenty-three flies were successfully domesticated in a few days. The remaining flies were domesticated hopelessly, so they were killed and thrown back to the farm to feed the maggots.
During the subsequent riding session, Rambo Fei reported that all males were able to master the technique of flying in the air, but the soldier ants and worker ants were not.
In addition, even the males who have mastered the art of flying have a major problem after watching their first flight.