Since the older males are all squad commanders, they lack skills. So only fifty young males followed Rambo Fei to learn the theory of flying a fly.

The protagonist watched the first test flight of the young male ants with great interest, and although it went smoothly and there were no safety incidents, the protagonist also found problems.

What the protagonist fears at first doesn't happen.

The protagonist is worried about whether the ants will not adapt to the three-dimensional space in the air because they are mostly moving on the ground and are accustomed to the two-dimensional plane.

But this worry is unnecessary, workers and soldiers who have been crawling on the ground all their lives have this problem, coupled with their own lack of intelligence, they often cannot understand the concept of three-dimensional space.

However, both the male and female ants themselves are required to participate in the wedding flight, and they are fully capable of mastering the art of flying like other flying insects.

Twenty-three young males took off on flies, none of them had yet participated in the wedding flight, and they still retained their wings. Even in the event of a crash, they are equivalent to bringing their own parachutes.

Of course, the premise is that you can untie the ant silk that is firmly bound to your body first.

The saddles on these flies are all assembled by the protagonist in the form of an assembly line after training a group of worker ants, and the protagonist takes the secretary to be responsible for the final quality inspection. The overall quality of the saddle is not bad.

After the ants take to the skies, the protagonist quickly sees the problem, but he doesn't immediately point it out.

After the second batch of 14 males and the third batch of 13 males have also taken off, the protagonist finally determines that this is a widespread problem.

Although the males have the imagination of three-dimensional space, they know the concept of front, back, left, right, and up. But when all the males formed an aerial formation, they still lined up tightly in a flat formation as they did when they were moving on the ground.

In fact, human air force fighters are often lined up in a plane formation, but they are generally a small number of formations, such as a three-plane formation or a five-plane formation.

And if the ants are engaged in air combat, the number is at least tens or hundreds, and arranging into a plane will cause the formation to be too large and scattered, which will seriously affect the command efficiency.

The protagonist doesn't anticipate the command of the Air Knights, but the young males have consciously followed the eldest male in the team, and they have a captain.

Each batch of more than ten or twenty flying knights followed the captain, and in the flight, they were soon slowly dragged from the plane into a long snake, completely losing their formation.

"Looks like we have to figure out the formation in the air." The protagonist ponders.

However, this need is not urgent at the moment, and the greatest enemy, the Paving Ant Barbarians, has not been able to threaten the air power of these flying knights.

If the Flying Knight is used as a Scout, then one or two Flying Knights acting alone don't care what formation they are.

So the protagonist, who has no clue for a while, will put this issue aside for a while.

After the males complete their test flights, the protagonist encourages them to continue practicing and tells them that they have been newly designated as the "Flying Knights".

The "Flying Knight Legion" currently has ten squads, each with five male ants. A total of fifty males and twenty-three flies. Among the flies are both red-headed flies, houseflies, fruit flies, etc.

There are four squads of males in the legion that are fully equipped with fly mounts, and one squad that has only three flies; There are still five squads left unequipped with flies, which are left to be replenished later.

The leader of this legion is temporarily appointed to the eldest of the young males, and the protagonist names him "Lord of the Flies".

At present, this "Flying Knight Legion" is the only air force in "Dongyang City", and it is also the seed of the future air force.

Of course, the more important task of the young males of this legion is to learn from Rambo Fei, and air training is currently only an amateur job.

At this time, the protagonist began to think about whether to let the queen ants have some male eggs, the original fifty male ants were intended to be put into the field of industrial production, and now they are all occupied by the Flying Knights.

In the end, the protagonist decides to send a herald over and have five of the queens lay ten more male eggs each to fill the void.

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The matter of the Flying Knights is over for the time being, and "Dongyang City" is now developing rapidly, and the protagonist has a lot to worry about.

On this day, the protagonist runs to the combustion chamber again.

Although the size of the flame is small compared to the combustion chamber, the walls of the combustion chamber have been dried and solid over time.

Before the protagonist arrives, a group of worker ants carry some muddy pots and pots into the combustion chamber and place them in a circle around the fire.

Then more worker ants came in and piled fuel on the periphery of these pots and cans.

When the protagonist arrives at the combustion chamber, he gives the order to light the fire.

A worker ant took a little flame from the fire with a grease-stained stick and lit the newly stacked fuel.

The ants quickly retreated to the area near the exit, taking shelter from the gradually rising temperatures.

After seeing the flames burning, except for the ants who were guarding the fire, they had to insist on refueling it, and the other ants left the combustion chamber.

The main character is trying to fire pottery.

Pottery is the technique of making pottery and other products by heating and hardening clay or other non-metallic inorganic materials.

The invention of pottery is the earliest human use of chemical changes to change the nature of the beginning, is one of the signs of the development of human society from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic.

The first step in making pottery is to find the right raw materials, and this is where "Dongyang Castle" has unique conditions.

"Dongyang Castle" is built on a clay field, and the protagonist discovers that the soil excavated from the hole is all fine clay, which can fully meet the needs of pottery.

It happened that a large number of farm nests were excavated a while ago, and a lot of clay was piled up. The protagonist takes Xiao Mi and some worker ants to try to knead the clay into the shape of pots and pans little by little with the water.

Since there is no potter's wheel, the ants can only build up the clay little by little, and then smooth the inner and outer surfaces to make a finished product.

This process has great limitations, and the protagonist can't make small-mouthed pottery no matter how much he tries, so he has to give up in the end.

The protagonist and his subordinates first experimentally made ten wide-mouth water tanks and ten small basins, each of which can hold about four or five milliliters of water, and the small basin can only hold a small drop of liquid.

It is this batch of pottery that is currently being fired in the combustion chamber.

The protagonist waits a little farther away, where the temperature is cooler.

Worker ants are constantly coming out of the combustion chamber, and the waiting worker ants feed it water droplets that have just been collected from the ground to cool her.

At the same time, new worker ants run in to continue refueling. To avoid dehydration, every worker ant must not stay inside for too long.

And just like that, half an hour passed quickly.

At the command of the protagonist, the ants start to stop adding fuel, just collect a few fires and put them in nut shells to preserve, and then wait for the flames in the combustion chamber to slowly extinguish.