Winter is fast approaching.

As one cold air after another crossed the river, the land on the south bank of the river quickly withered.

The current temperature is no longer suitable for insects, the noisy insect chirping of the past has disappeared, and most of the insects that live in summer and die in winter have completed their short lives. Even the relatively long-lived insects have retreated into the warm ground or deep in the trees, struggling to survive the bitter cold until the next spring.

The vast majority of ants have stopped moving on the ground. Like the kingdom of big-headed ants, they have completed the winter defense mobilization, and now they are huddled in various nests waiting for an unknown fate.

According to the experience of previous years, the guardians of the secondary nest must face the harsh cold and the two threats of the paving ant barbarian army at the same time, and the kings who are far away in the main nest will not know the battle situation for the whole winter until the beginning of spring when the secondary nests have not been lost.

Compared with previous years, this year's preparations for the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army are very different from the past. This time, the kings led their main legions into the secondary nests, and followed the advice of the Divine Envoy King to bring the fire to the secondary nests to provide heat. They decided not to retreat, but to fight the enemy to the death, and tried to counterattack in the coming year.

The "Waterfront City" where the protagonist is located is the top priority of defense.

The protagonist has personally led three elite legions of the Divine Emissary King into this important secondary nest, and has carried out a drastic renovation of the secondary nest.

The remodeled secondary nest space was large enough to accommodate thousands of defenders, with good insulation, a combustion chamber for basic temperature protection, enough fuel and food for the winter, and the ability to make pottery bombs in the combustion chamber to replenish consumption. The defense plan is all in place.

In the far south, as the base camp of the protagonist, "Dongyang City" was handed over to Rambo Fei to manage, and the "Stump Fortress" further south was guarded by Rambo Wan. After arranging the rear, the protagonist can now lead the winter defense mission of "Waterfront City" wholeheartedly.

Although winter has come, it is not possible to wait for three or two days to wait for the river to be completely frozen and turn into an invasion channel for the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

Today, the protagonist is still lying on the branch of the big banyan tree, looking north at the departure base of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

This time, he was no longer accompanied by other ants, and now the sub-zero temperature was not something the ants could adapt to, and they could only huddle in the relatively warm secondary nest. So the main character came here alone.

This time, he was draped in a large mass of slender and soft plant fibers, which was equivalent to wearing a thick cotton coat. But even so, he shivered from the cold. If it weren't for his ability to generate heat on his own like an ectothermic animal, he would have been frozen long ago.

This is another difference between the protagonist and other ants, which the protagonist doesn't notice until winter. I don't know if it's a prank of the god of crossing.,Although the protagonist is an ant.,But in addition to the same appearance.,There are many differences between him and ordinary ants.。 For example, he has eyesight that is far superior to that of an ant; For example, his strength is much greater than that of ants, and he is even more "powerful" after entering the state of "God descends to earth"; Another example is his ability to breathe on his own and generate heat on his own like an ectothermic animal.

It is important to know that homeothermic animals generally only have advanced organisms such as birds and mammals, and their thermoregulatory mechanisms are relatively complete and can maintain relatively stable body temperature under the condition of environmental temperature changes.

Ectotherms, also known as warm-blooded animals, do not depend on the outside temperature as cold-blooded animals (ectotherms) for their activity. They produce a stable body temperature through metabolism, which is reflected in the basal metabolic rate, which is much higher in homeothermic animals than in ectothermic animals.

Ectotherms use the body's thermoregulatory system to keep their body temperature constant and can excrete heat when the ambient temperature rises, usually through the evaporation of liquids, such as human sweat and dog wheezing, as well as cat licking in summer.

In winter, in order to adapt to the low temperature environment, homeothermic animals often have the following means: for example, increasing the fat content of the body, evolving thick and warm animal skins and feathers, and the cold drives the body type to be rounder (shrinking the surface area) and larger (the average heat dissipation rate is reduced) than its counterparts in warm regions. For example, the polar bear, the largest bear on Earth, and the Curdick bear in Alaska, both live in the polar regions, while the small cub black bear lives in temperate regions.

The protagonist doesn't notice any difference in size from other males, and he doesn't have thick fur and feathers. The only thing that makes him feel different is that in the winter he eats more than ten times more than the average male, and he is often hungry and has a penchant for high-calorie foods such as honeydew fat. Perhaps this is where the heat in his body comes from, and it is also a reflection of the high metabolic rate.

A constant body temperature allows the animal to remain active in a cold environment. So, having a constant body temperature is not a bad thing for the protagonist, at least he can climb to the winter ground with good precautions to keep warm, and not have to cower in the nest like the rest of the ants.

His warmth measure, in addition to eating a lot of food, is to make a dress for himself.

Clothing is a cover of various styles made of fabrics (such as cotton, silk, velvet, chemical fibers, etc.), fur and other materials that cover the body and carriers. One of the main functions of clothing is to keep out the cold, and our ancestors had very little hair compared to other mammals, which was very fatal after they left the tropics and encountered ice ages.

However, due to the strong hunting ability of humans, they were able to obtain a large amount of animal skins, so the ancients used the fur to make clothes for themselves, and the technology continued to advance, such as needles and other sewing tools, and later expanded the raw materials of clothing to plants.

The protagonists don't have access to animal fur, and while ants are equally good at hunting, insects don't have the thick fur and feathers that mammals or birds can hide from the cold. But in terms of plant resources, the protagonist is no less scarce than humans can use.

In the granary of Waterfront City, the protagonist discovers that some edible grass seeds are wrapped in soft cotton-like fibers. In the past, these fibers were of little use to ants, and at most they could be used as bedding in nurseries instead of ant silk.

However, the protagonist is like a treasure, compacting these fibers and wrapping them around his body, which is not only breathable and does not affect the breathing of the pores, but also can play a good role in keeping warm.

As a result, the protagonist has his first clothes after coming into this world.