Next, leaving aside the doubts about the gods for a moment, the protagonist continues to watch the rest of the information packet.

The rest of the packet is basically about the daily life of the queen, eating, drinking, and sleeping.

The protagonist sees the former Queen's "extravagant" bedchambers: a large nest, glowing with fluorescent bacteria glowing blue, and silk cotton fabrics all over the floor and walls, many of which are painted abstract paintings. The nest room is full of fragrant smells, dozens of worker ants shuttle back and forth, and the corners are stacked with flowers and plant decorations.

The Queen's diet was also very elaborate, with plenty of meat and aphid honeydew, roasted meat, berries and fungi as a supplement, and a paste made from ground plant seeds mixed with drink, which seemed to have been fermented. These foods are served on fresh plant leaves for the queen to eat.

The packet also includes the Queen's attendance at the funeral of another queen of lesser status.

At the funeral, the body of the dead queen ant was covered in plain silk cotton fabric and surrounded by dried flowers and hay. Her body was thrown into the fire of the nest after the surrounding ants bowed their heads in mourning, and finally turned to ashes.

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- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist carefully reads through the packet bit by bit, and it takes several hours. The Elder King and the ants of the other Queen Ant Inheritance factions have left, and only the Queen is still waiting for the protagonist.

The protagonist slowly came back to his senses, and the shock of the big-headed ant "remnant" was still there, and the original advancement of this tribe was far beyond the protagonist's imagination.

Not to mention the national power behind the huge army and the grand castle, it is the many "advanced" technologies displayed by the big-headed ant "remnants" in the information package, which are not only domesticated beetles, but also coveted by the protagonist.

Let's sort out the techniques mastered by the "remnants" of big-headed ants:

Fire.

The "remnants" of the big-headed ants have mastered the art of fire, and they can not only keep the fire alive for a long time, just like the big-headed ant kingdom, but they will also make full use of the power of fire.

The fire of the big-headed ant kingdom is more of a sacred fire for religious purposes, which consumes a lot of ant power to maintain, but it is of no other use except for raising the temperature of the nest in the cold winter season, and it is extremely cost-effective.

The "remnants" of the big-headed ants use fire to cook food, and the queen's recipe includes roasted meat, and some plant seeds are also roasted and then crushed into water to make a paste. This cooked food has clearly improved the nutritional level and health level of the "bereaved".

In addition, the "bereaved family" did not only maintain the fire all the time, they also seem to have mastered the art of making fire. There is no direct evidence for this protagonist, but in the information packet, he stumbles upon multiple worker ants rubbing against a pile of weeds using a technique similar to a bow drill, and a puff of black smoke comes out of the weeds. Before the protagonist sees the result, his vision has already turned, and it seems that the queen is used to this kind of thing and does not pay too much attention to it.

If these "remnants" really master the technique of friction to make fire, then they can be regarded as truly mastering the power of fire, which is a very great power.

In addition to fire, the big-headed ant "remnants" also mastered masonry techniques.

The protagonist sees the interior of the castle from the Queen's perspective, with some of the structures stacked with stones that act as auxiliary supports. Although the stones look primitive, they clearly show signs of being trimmed.

In addition, on the large jaws of many soldier ants, some sharp stone blades are glued to them, which are obviously used as weapons to enhance their lethality. These blades cannot all be natural, but are made.

The big-headed ant "remnants" also mastered the textile technology, and a large number of textiles were arranged in the nest, in addition to being used as clothing for ants with higher status, most of the textiles were used as carpets or tapestries to play the role of decoration and heat preservation.

The protagonist takes a closer look at the textiles by pausing the frame. He could see that the fibers of these textiles were not regular, not the warp and weft of the woven fabric, and all the fibers were messily intertwined. Based on this, the protagonist deduces that the way the "bereaved family" makes textiles is not "weaving", but "beating" similar to making felt.

Obviously, this is not yet a fully mature textile technology, but it is already able to provide suitable textile products.

The "remnants" also dyed and painted textiles with pigments made from natural plants, while the "remnants" were able to use crimson and earthy yellow dyes to paint mainly images of ants or other insects.

Another technique that the "remnants" have mastered is fermentation.

The Queen's recipe consists of roasted and crushed plant seeds, mixed with water and fermented to make a paste, which has a slightly sweet and sour taste, and is regarded as a high-class food by ants, and only the queen ant and some larvae can eat it.

Compared with the rich variety of fermented foods in the human world: yogurt, cheese, wine, kimchi, soy sauce, vinegar, tempeh, rice wine, beer, wine, etc., the protagonist currently discovers that the "bereaved family" has only this fermented food. But there is no doubt that they have mastered this technique.

Finally, in terms of religion, in addition to polytheism, there is also a funeral system.

For example, in the information packet, the queen attends the funeral of the queen ant, and it can be seen that only high-status members of the "bereaved family" can practice cremation, and have textiles, flowers and other funeral goods.

The funeral system is often closely related to religion, and it is only after the idea of the soul is born that the funeral rite and religion appear.

Taking human beings as an example, from the Paleolithic period of primitive societies, human beings have developed the concept of the soul. Primitive man believed that the dead soul did not die, and could still intervene in the people, blessings and misfortunes of the living. Under the influence of this concept of the immortality of the soul, primitive peoples produced various funeral customs, and gradually interacted with religion.

To sum up, many of the new technologies mastered by the "remnants" of the big-headed ant are very advanced compared to the tribes on both sides of the river, which are still very primitive.

The protagonist calculates that the tribes on both sides of the river are basically still in the early Paleolithic civilization stage, while the big-headed ant "remnants" have entered the early Neolithic Age, and the civilization gap between the two is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years in human history.

But this is only a preliminary inference, and the protagonist's knowledge of the "bereaved family" comes entirely from the information provided by the queen, and the information package given by the queen is very targeted, but not comprehensive.

The information package has a military component, so that the protagonist does not underestimate the potential strength of the "remnants".

But the packet insulates a lot of critical information, and it is difficult for the protagonist to see the content about food production, tactics, organizational structure, etc.