This group of young male ants who are about to receive a new type of education will be used as the main test subjects to see how far these primitive ants can be improved with modern human knowledge.

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The focus is back on the construction of "Dongyang Castle".

On the third day after the killing of the praying mantis, the Martyrs' Cemetery was the first to be completed among the unfinished projects of "Dongyang City".

The Martyrs' Cemetery is located in a muddy field on the north side of the drying ground, with an area of about one square meter, the terrain is relatively flat, and the worker ants have cleared all the plants and large stones on the surface, making it empty and desolate.

The cemetery is surrounded by a half-decimeter-high wall of gravel and clay, leaving only the only entrance directly south.

In the center of the cemetery is a long black shale monument, the lower half buried in the earth, and the upper half about a decimeter high.

This large shale is carried by the protagonist from not far away, and only the protagonist has the strength to lift such a huge rock.

When the protagonist discovers that the shale is similar to the shape of a stone monument, it is suitable as a monument in the cemetery, so he carries it over, buries it in a deep pit dug by the worker ants, and then covers it with soil and buries it.

The floor to the south of the monument is paved entirely with white pebbles and gravel, which also serves as a meeting place for groups. The rest of the area is empty mud floors for the burial of martyrs.

After the completion of the cemetery, the protagonist chooses a sunny day and leads the male and female ants of the whole nest to the cemetery. All the young males also came to the scene.

Even the queens were helped over, and due to the small number of eggs they laid, they were not so bloated and barely able to go out with the help of the workers.

Both the male and female ants then stand in several rows, bowing their heads and lowering their antennae as requested by the protagonist as a sign of respect.

The male and female ants don't know why they came to such a strange place.

When they saw a few worker ants carrying up the corpses of some soldier ants, they realized that the object of their respect was actually the corpses of some lowly ants.

These soldier ants and worker ants were killed in battle with the praying mantis, and were temporarily placed in a nest under the nest according to the protagonist's request before the completion of the martyrs' cemetery, and they have not been buried until today.

Roll immediately raised his head, left the group, ran to the protagonist, and expressed his displeasure to him with his tentacles.

"Corpses, garbage. Soldier ants and worker ants, meanly. The noble king could not salute it. I don't know if the order of the roll is confused because of excitement, but it is enough to show what he meant.

The protagonist sighs, so he needs to painstakingly train a new generation of male ants, and it is too difficult to change the concept of the older generation.

"This is God's will, and all the warriors who die in battle in the future will enter God's heaven." The protagonist begins to follow the Norse mythological tropes.

", are you going to question God's will?" The protagonist throws another big killer.

Shaking his head, although he was not satisfied with the answer, he obediently retreated.

The protagonist goes on to signal all the male and female ants to drop their antennae, and with the help of the white pebble floor, he says to all the ants:

"God has decreed that in the future, all warriors who die in battle, whether male, female, soldier or worker, they are martyrs, and they will enter the world of God and enjoy the honeydew that can never be drunk."

"The remains of all the sacrificed warriors should be buried in this cemetery."

"Today is the funeral of the first warriors. The funeral is the ritual that takes place now. ”

"You must remember that this is God's will, and you must do it according to God's will."

The male and female ants became serious and watched as the workers put the remains of the martyrs into a large pit dug in advance, and then filled in the soil and buried them.

The protagonist did not plan to make a model of one ant and one tomb, but adopted a simple group burial and did not erect a tombstone. There is such a ritual to subtly change the ant society, there is no need to make it too complicated.

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A few days after the burial ceremony, a worker ant came to report that a strange bug had hatched from the farm.

The protagonist runs to the farm to take a look.

Sure enough, in the middle of a group of large and small beige mealworms, there was a white and chubby worm.

The worm seemed to have just hatched, and it looked very similar to mealworm larvae, but it was white and almost transparent, and much smaller.

The protagonist also doesn't recognize what the maggot-like worm is, and doesn't figure out what to do with it.

The little white worm is quietly eating the food fed to the mealworms, with tender green plant leaves and grass seed chaff, arching and arching to look quite cute.

"Forget it, I can't eat a few grains of grain at such a young age." The protagonist makes up his mind.

He instructed the worker ants in the breeding group to feed the worm that had somehow mixed into the farm, and if the worm pupated, arrange a separate nest to take care of it.

The protagonist wants to see what kind of bug this is.

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The construction of the combustion chamber was half as slow as the protagonist had roughly estimated, and it was not completed until 43 days after the start of construction.

After learning the news of the completion of the combustion chamber, the protagonist hurriedly runs through the passage connecting the main body of "Dongyang Castle" and the combustion chamber.

The entrance to the passage is opened at the lowest end of the combustion chamber. Looking up, the pitch-black combustion chamber was extremely empty and tall.

With a height of one meter, for the tiny figure of an ant, it is like a person looking up at a sixty or seventy-story building, and it is a little dizzy.

There was a faint glow from the mouth of the chimney at the very top, but there was no light beyond that.

A large number of worker ants quickly follow the protagonist's request and bring in a large amount of firewood, hay, and charcoal that had not been completely burned in the previous fire, and pile them into a small mountain at the bottom of the combustion chamber.

After the fuel was stacked in place, a nut shell with the tinder stored was carried in.

The spark inside the nut shell is smoldering, and the worker ants, who have been briefly trained by the protagonist, carefully pour the spark on a dry pile of grass.

The pile of grass silk was quickly ignited, and a sweet scent of grass ash emerged.

Several soldier ants and worker ants immediately carefully clung to the edge of the grass where it had not been burned, and carried the fire up to the fuel pile.

More worker ants threw some slender grass strands next to the faint burning flames.

But the first ignition failed, and the sparks on the grass failed to ignite the other fuels, and slowly dimmed.

The ants do not have the organs to actively breathe, so they cannot gently blow the flames out, so they can only watch the sparks go out.

Undeterred, the protagonist asks the ants to go back and bring another nut.

This time, a small flame ignited the flammable grass silk next to it, and the fire slowly grew stronger, gradually igniting the thick branches that were not easy to burn.

The fire burned in the combustion chamber of "Dongyang Castle".