Chapter 107: Domesticating the Mount (3)

The protagonist is intrigued by the pair of small sticks behind the wings of a fly that he suddenly discovers. In particular, it was found that there was a synergistic movement between the pair of sticks and the wings.

Is it possible to control the wings by controlling the pair of sticks? The protagonist has an idea.

He didn't know that this pair of small sticks was called a balance stick, which only existed in mosquitoes, flies and other dipteran insects, and was a small rod formed by the degeneration of hind wings.

The balance bar has the role of positioning and adjustment when flying. It vibrates at the same frequency as the forewings, but in the opposite direction.

When flies are flying horizontally, the balance bar plays a role of stability and balance.

If the course is deviated, the change in the vibration plane of the balance bar is sensed by the receptors at its base, which are then transmitted by the nerves to the brain. After analyzing this deviation signal, the fly's brain sends a "command" to the muscle tissue in a certain part to immediately correct the deviation course.

Therefore, theoretically, the balance bar can play a role in controlling the direction of travel of flies, which can be regarded as the protagonist's guess by mistake.

The protagonist climbs down again, ties the reins to the balance bars, and then crawls back to the fly's back.

Since the balance bar is positioned behind the back of the fly where the protagonist is sitting, the reins extend backwards this time, in the opposite direction of the reins when riding, which makes the protagonist a little uncomfortable at first.

After grabbing the reins, the protagonist remembers that he didn't pass a new packet of instructions to the red-headed fly beneath him, telling it what the signal was to move forward. So how do you control the fly's movements? It's rare to have to go down and pass the information package first?

It's too much trouble to climb up and down, and the protagonist has a lazy mind, so he pulls the reins forward.

Moving, the fly instinctively crawled forward after feeling the bend of the balance rod being pulled forward.

The protagonist is overjoyed, it's so easy to manipulate.

The ants at the entrance to the nest dodged away, making way for the slowly crawling fly, which for the first time crawled out of its small pupa chamber.

The protagonist slowly experiments with controlling flies in an underground nest with complex roads, which is far easier than he imagined.

As long as you pull the reins forward, the fly will move forward, and then let go, and the fly will continue to move forward.

To turn left is to pull the reins to the left, and to turn right is the opposite.

If the reins are lifted upwards, the flies begin to flutter their wings and want to take off, but of course they can't do that in the narrow underground.

The only thing that can't be solved is how to stop the flies from moving forward and landing.

Of course, theoretically, the effect can be achieved by pulling the balance bar backwards or downwards, but the protagonist sits in the upper position in front of the balance bar, and a simple rein cannot pull the balance bar in either direction.

While riding the red-headed fly, the protagonist thinks about it and slowly comes up with a plan.

After the flies have stopped on their own, the protagonist tells the worker ants to continue feeding it a drop of honeydew, and then asks the workers to find a short stick and some ant silk.

The protagonist ties a short wooden stick to the underside of the fly's belly, which is the underneath and behind the balance stick.

Another wire reins are tied to the balance bar, and after bypassing the short stick, it turns around and extends in front of the protagonist.

This way, when the protagonist pulls on the second rein, the fly will feel the balance bar being pulled downwards and backwards, and the flies crawling on the ground will stop moving forward, and the flies flying in the air will drop in height.

In this way, there is a theoretical way to effectively control flies, but the specific effect depends on the experiment.

The protagonist rides the big red-headed fly and wanders around the ground slowly, proving that such a set of reins can be handled very well, at least when the flies are crawling.

The next step is to experiment with the control in flight mode. However, the protagonist does not intend to conduct flight experiments immediately.

First, because it was late today, and it was already close to dusk after some experiments.

The second is that there is no suitable saddle on the back of the fly, so it is not a big problem when crawling on the ground, and it is easy to be thrown out if it flies in the sky.

So it was necessary to make a saddle that would hold the rider firmly on the back of the fly.

The protagonist first rides the red-headed fly back to its broken small nest room, calms it down, and asks a few breeding staff ants to take good care of it at night.

Then the protagonist goes back and tries to make a saddle.

The protagonist took advantage of the dim light of fluorescent bacteria to work overtime with Xiao Mi, and finally made a set of saddles. At this time, the protagonist does not dislike the fluorescent bacteria that are cultivated with ant dung.

This saddle is made of wood chips, sticks, and ant silk. There is a saddle made of wood and tipped by ant silk (or a fly saddle?). ), the saddle can be firmly tied to the thorax and back of the fly with ant silk.

There are also a number of wooden sticks and a noose made of ant silk on the saddle, which can tie the rider's body and the last two joints firmly to the saddle so that they will not be thrown out.

The protagonist, who stayed up all night, went to catch up on sleep first, and didn't wake up until noon.

Upon waking up, the protagonist immediately goes to find his fly mount with the vehicle.

The red-headed fly nested in the nest all night, and occasionally the worker ants stung it twice when it was irritable, and the fly soon became honest.

Seeing the protagonist Queen Ant, the red-headed fly was actually very excited, and it leaned over and rubbed its hands, which was obviously begging for honeydew.

The protagonist makes a worker ant spit out the aphid honeydew that is in its stomach, slightly rewarding the clever fly.

Then, while the flies are enjoying the delicious food, the protagonist and the secretary tie the saddle to the flies.

In the end, the protagonist rolls over and ties himself to the saddle with an ant silk knot.

After the fly is eaten, the protagonist controls it to slowly walk towards the exit of the underground nest.

As he gets closer to the ground, the protagonist is a little drumming in his heart - this is flying into the sky, what if he falls? What if a bird eats the fly?

By the way, after arriving in this world, it seems that in addition to all kinds of insects, it seems that I have never seen humans, but also birds, frogs, and lizards, which is really strange. Could it be that this is a world of insects? Is it prehistoric? Other animals haven't evolved yet?

The protagonist thinks crankily, and he can only comfort himself that it is a good thing not to have birds, at least not to be eaten. And with the weight of flies and ants, even if you fall from a very high place, you will be fine.

Thinking so, the flies had crawled to the entrance and burrowed out of the ground.

When the protagonist is calming down and wants to grit his teeth and make up his mind to take off.

I don't know if it's because I saw the blue sky and the red sun for the first time, but under the instinctive manipulation, I actually flicked my wings and slammed into the sky before the protagonist gave the command.

"Ahh......h Oh my day...... I'm not mentally prepared yet......" The protagonist cursed in his heart, and was taken all the way up into the air.