Chapter 183: Bottleneck (3)

However, no matter how difficult it is to break through the bottleneck, the protagonist can only insist on continuing on the road of continuous improvement.

The world of ants is not a peaceful world, this world is even far more bloody and cruel than the human world, and the loser of the national war basically has only one way to die, or as a slave, he will never be eligible to reproduce.

As a proud time-traveler, even if he doesn't make a performance, the protagonist can't accept the above two endings.

The ant world is extremely dangerous, and since the crossing, the protagonist has lost count of how many times he has been in danger, and even almost died.

The first time is when facing a praying mantis, and at that moment, the protagonist realizes how powerless the individuals of the primitive intelligent civilization are when faced with a beast with overwhelming size, strength, and agility.

The second time was during the battle against the paving ant barbarians, if it weren't for the sudden awakening of the ability of "the gods descend to earth", the protagonist would have been in a different place. This time the protagonist learns about the bloodiness and cruelty of the war between different races in the ant civilization.

Perhaps, just like the ancient humans of the past, the fight between close relatives of the same species will be more tragic than that between species, and ten species of ancient humans, such as Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Thoreau, and Homo flores, in the end, only one of these cousins can survive.

So do ants also have to go through this kind of fate?

The protagonist has not traveled to this world for a long time, and he has only seen two races, the big-headed ant and the paver ant, and the parasitic ant is a branch of the big-headed ant that appears after being parasitized by the silk parasitic fungus, and cannot be counted as an independent race.

Could it be that the big-headed ant is Homo sapiens in the ant world? And the paving ant barbarians are Homo erectus? The protagonist guesses. As for why the paver ant is not Homo sapiens and the big-headed ant is not Homo erectus, it can only be said that there is a difference between relatives and aliens - Homo erectus is ultimately a failure.

The reason why Homo sapiens were able to destroy Homo erectus (not counting the small and small number of Homo flores, etc.) was not because of their better physical fitness, but because they had more developed brains and more sophisticated technology than Homo erectus.

When Homo sapiens first appeared in East Africa 100,000 years ago, they were still weak and did not perform better than their other cousins.

Therefore, when Homo sapiens first came out of Africa, he was quickly defeated by Homo erectus in the Middle East and forced to continue to live in Africa for tens of thousands of years.

Until about 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens mutated in DNA for some special reasons, and the way of communication within the brain changed, followed by changes in the way of thinking and language. These changes have given them the power to change the world.

This period was the beginning of the cognitive revolution, with the emergence of mature language systems, primitive religions, and social structures among Homo sapiens. Their techniques for making tools are also more diverse and specialized.

In the production of stone tools, Homo sapiens not only used the direct production method, but also used the indirect production method, and there were stone tools such as stone knives, carvers, and scrapers. In addition, bone tools have also developed greatly, and tools made of bone include spears, javelins, harpoons, hooks, and bone needles with eyes. In addition to significant improvements in hunting tools, humans began to build artificial dwellings, the custom of burying the dead appeared, and the art developed greatly, mainly statues and cave paintings.

There is ample evidence that Homo sapiens invented ships between 30,000 and 70,000 years ago, when they were able to cross oceans and reach far beyond Asia and Africa.

Homo sapiens began their journey, and the places they passed were like locust armies passing through the border, and animal species were extinct in large numbers.

When they came to the territory of Homo erectus again, competing with the local natives for food and turf, the result was that the uncivilized Homo erectus was completely powerless to resist the advanced Homo sapiens, and about 30,000 years ago, Homo erectus in Europe was completely extinct on the earth.

In China, Homo erectus (Peking Man) lived for nearly 2 million years, and when it met Homo sapiens, it had to accept extinction.

45,000 years ago, Homo sapiens first left the Afro-Asian continent and came to Australia, where he crossed the ocean, and then again to North America, where he conquered the world.

In addition to the extinction of Homo sapiens' cousins, species around the world have also experienced a mass extinction.

After Homo sapiens left Africa, large animals gradually disappeared, and these facts can be proved by archaeological evidence such as fossilized bones and bonfire traces.

When the first Homo sapiens arrived in Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly wiped out 90% of the region's large animals.

Twelve thousand years ago, our Homo sapiens ancestors inadvertently crossed the frozen Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska, and life in the Americas began to rapidly become extinct in genus units. 34 genera out of 47 genera in North America and 50 genera out of 60 genera in South America. In just 2,000 years, Homo sapiens traveled wildly from Alaska, the northernmost point of North America, to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, the southernmost tip of South America.

Eventually, before Homo sapiens learned to farm, they had already wiped out 50% of the planet's land mammals.

Perhaps the emergence of Homo sapiens is a complete disaster for other humans and species, but this historical process has inspired the protagonist a lot.

Only by constantly pursuing wisdom and technological progress like Homo sapiens can we survive under the threat of ants of different races and countless beasts, and then continue to grow and develop.

The current technology level of big-headed ants and paver ants is close to but slightly inferior to that of early Homo sapiens or Homo erectus.

For example, ants and primitive people used fire, and they also used natural fire, and did not learn artificial fire technology.

However, both Homo sapiens and Homo erectus were already able to make primitive stone tools, while ants were limited to their size and still relied on the large jaws given by nature to complete the tasks of various tools.

The successful precedent of Homo sapiens has pointed out the basic direction for the ants led by the protagonist, and the protagonist can continue to move forward step by step from the social structure, thinking mode, and process technology of the ants.

Although the differences between ants and humans are still obvious. There is very little difference between human individuals, while different ants have their own strengths, differing in size, strength, and intelligence.

How to overcome the differences between individual ants and how to make up for the huge disadvantages of ants are all difficulties that the protagonist needs to face independently.

In this regard, not only the successful experience of human beings cannot explain the help of the protagonist, but even the history of time that spans hundreds of millions of epochs, contains countless planes in space, and even contains countless possibilities in higher latitudes cannot provide the protagonist with an answer - the protagonist is the only one who has to face so many development problems when crossing into an ant.

Finally, the protagonist has one more problem that worries him immensely - his lifespan.