Chapter Ninety-Two: Construction Projects
It wasn't until the evening of the same day that they led the team back to "Dongyang City" because they reported that they didn't find any clues or unusual places, and the ants in the entire "Dongyang City" sub-nest seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, leaving only the empty "Dongyang City" to the protagonist.
This makes the protagonist very headache, he originally planned to return to "Dongyang City", with his identity as the king of the gods, he can do all kinds of experiments and construction here without constraints, without the constraints of the king's meeting, and finally turn this place into his main base, so as to live a better life.
But experimentation and construction inevitably require a lot of labor, and there were at least seven or eight thousand ant mouths in "Dongyang City" at the beginning, which could barely support the toss of the protagonist. But the entire sub-nest now only has about 1,300 ants from the Divine Envoy King Legion brought by the protagonist, which is far from enough.
And now there are no queens in the secondary nest, and without the eggs they lay, there is no way to replenish new ants. Ants have a short lifespan, and the enemy is very depleted in their daily labor, and if they are not replenished, they will be depleted sooner or later. Although the protagonist has never seen an ant queen in Dongyang City before, the eggs and larvae in each nest indicate that there is a queen ant performing her duties here.
However, the queen ant's protagonist had a plan before. He had to break the conventions of the big-headed ant kingdom in the name of the divine decree, and the twelve female ants he brought back were originally intended to help them in friendship and help them in the wedding ceremony, but now it seems that he can fill the vacancy of the queen ant.
However, this kind of thing is still to discuss with them, don't make it, if you are reluctant, what I don't want will not be beautiful, this matter has to be discussed in the long run.
At present, there is also a way to replenish worker ants immediately, and that is the paving ant eggs brought back by the protagonist.
Although these are eggs laid by the enemy, they may not be useless to me. When the protagonist watched the documentary before, he knew that there was a kind of ant that could not work on its own, and they specialized in attacking other kinds of ants, capturing a large number of eggs and pupae home, and when these ants hatched, because they had the same breath as this kind of ant, they would willingly serve these slave owners who could only fight as slaves.
This is the idea of the protagonist, and now these ant eggs have been placed in an unsuitable place in the environment after being moved out of the original nest, so the ant eggs have not developed. As long as these ant eggs are put into the original hatchery of "Dongyang City", they will be able to hatch quickly, and the paver ants born will have the breath of "Dongyang City" and will also regard themselves as residents of this secondary nest.
Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the protagonist goes to count the eggs of the paving ants, which have been placed in an empty hatching room, a total of 48 of them. The protagonist takes care of the worker ants and asks them to pick up some ant droppings and put them in the corner of the nest. This is the thing with the strongest smell of ants......
These paver ants hatch for a few days, which is not in a hurry, and the protagonist leaves after asking the worker ants to take care of them.
The next day, the protagonist Jean Roll takes ten squads out to find food, and acts as the smallest unit in the squad to avoid being attacked by the enemy after being left alone. After all, the ants in the entire secondary nest have suddenly disappeared, so it is better to be cautious.
The protagonist believes that with the tactics and combat effectiveness of the Divine Envoy King's legion, as long as it is not raided by a large number of enemies, a small team can hold out until reinforcements arrive as long as they send messengers and establish a defensive line.
The protagonist himself takes some worker ants and starts to build a large number of buildings. The first one to be built was a combustion chamber to house the fire. It is not a long-term solution to temporarily place the fire without rain.
The combustion chamber he planned was a separate nest room separated from the secondary nest, with several small passages connected to the living quarters of the secondary nest, so that in case of a fire affecting the residents of the city, carbon monoxide would not poison the ants due to insufficient combustion. In addition, the separate combustion chambers can be easily converted into workshops and industrial areas.
The protagonist has a large number of worker ants dig a chopstick-thick tunnel at an angle about a meter west of the only entrance and exit of "Dongyang City", which will be used as a chimney.
The entrance to the chimney mouth is higher and less likely to be flooded, and a wide and deep drainage ditch is dug next to the chimney mouth to divert rainwater to the nearby low-lying areas and prevent stagnant water from filling the chimney. Since it is a large-scale construction, the protagonist simply dug a circle of the same drainage ditch at the entrance of "Dongyang Castle" and connected it to the drainage ditch at the mouth of the chimney.
After digging the flue of the chimney down for about half a meter, the tunnel makes a vertical S-shaped bend, turning first upwards and then to the original orientation. In this way, if heavy rain enters the flue, the rainwater will also collect in the low-lying area at the S-bend and will not be poured directly into the combustion chamber.
In order to drain the collected rainwater, a slightly smaller drainage channel was dug diagonally down at the bend and dug deep into the ground until a loose layer of soil was dug. The soil here acts like a sponge, absorbing a lot of water during the rainy season. In dry seasons, ants can also get valuable shallow groundwater from here.
After turning the flue and continuing down about half a meter, you will arrive at the planned combustion chamber location. The main character's planned combustion chamber is a full meter high, with a circular ground and a diameter of one meter, and a bell shape in the vertical direction.
Such a combustion chamber is several times larger than that of the main nest, which means that the ants have to dig nearly a cubic meter of earth, which is a huge undertaking.
Next to the combustion chamber, another tunnel will be dug to "Dongyang City", from which the ants responsible for refueling and cleaning up the ashes will enter and exit.
By the end of the day, the drainage ditch on the ground had been almost completed, but the construction of the combustion chamber underground had just begun. The protagonist estimates that it will take nearly a month to complete the project. During this period, the protagonist can only pray that it will not rain, and if it does rain, he will have to move the fire back into the nut shell to protect it.
On this day, the hunting party had a good harvest, and each team carried a large amount of food into the nest.
Due to the mysterious disappearance of all the ants in the secondary nest, a large amount of food in the territory of "Dongyang City" was dropped on the ground and not collected. There are dead insects, grass seeds, fungi, and fruits. The food search team returned with little effort.
In particular, the team that ran to take care of the aphids ran back one by one with a round stomach, and fed honeysw to the ants they met one by one.
The results of the grain search team in one day were enough to feed more than 1,000 ants in the entire secondary nest for half a month, and the food crisis was temporarily solved.
The project will not be completed for a while, and the protagonist sees that it is getting late, so he asks the construction team to return to the nest and let them fill their stomachs on their own.
The protagonist sends someone to summon all thirty-two males to the conference room.