Chapter Twenty-Six: News of Fire
Living like a human is the protagonist's current small goal. But soon, the protagonist will find that if this small goal is to be achieved, it must be a long-term and huge systematic project.
For now, at least, the protagonist is directing a small construction team to build a dedicated bathroom. With the idea in the protagonist's mind and the super execution of the ant construction team, such a small bathroom quickly began to take shape, after all, there is not much technical content in both design and construction, and it is enough to dig out a space close to a square. The protagonist still didn't transplant fluorescent bacteria in it, and the weak light didn't have much effect anyway.
This is also the unusual thing about this book, the average online article does not spend two or three chapters describing the protagonist's toilet experience. But there is no way, who made the protagonist cross into an ant, the physiological structure and civilization foundation that are completely different from human beings determine that everything here cannot be applied with human thinking and habits.
The bathroom is built.,The protagonist lives like a personal goal.,In the most basic needs of eating, drinking, and Lazar.,At least two of them have been humanized in Lasa.,Even if it's just a small secret guard.,It's still a dry toilet.,But it's finally a little progress.。 The protagonist is not worried about how to clean up the excrement in the future, and some of the worker ants who break in by mistake will automatically remove the excrement, as long as they find a lump of dirt to block the entrance at their convenience.
In the next step, the protagonist decides to fundamentally solve the problem of eating and drinking. Now, the protagonist can only live on sunflower seeds and sugar water, and if the protagonist knows that the sugar water is actually honeydew pulled by aphids, then the protagonist can only eat sunflower seeds. Others, like insect meat, the protagonist is insensitive, and some plant seeds are dry and hard to gnaw at all, and if only there was a pot, the protagonist would be able to eat rice and porridge made from seeds.
If you want to cook, you must first have fire, and the protagonist knows a lot of ways to make fire, from primitive people using natural fire, drilling wood for fire, flint for fire to modern matches, lighters, etc., but they are all denied by the protagonist.
Natural fire requires a lot of chance, and if you encounter a lightning strike or a fire ignited by a volcanic eruption, it's about the same as the probability of winning the lottery, and the protagonist has never won a prize of more than five dollars, so don't hope for luck.
As for drilling wood for fire and flint for fire, even if the ants can find materials, can they have enough energy to do the work, and the protagonist is really pessimistic about the energy of these small creatures.
Not to mention lighters and matches, and perhaps only if you find a human settlement can you steal some ignition tools from there. A swarm of ants carrying a box of matches or a lighter should still be possible.
And without fire, even the most basic clay pots would be impossible.
"I also said that these ants have become sperm, but they didn't even point out such a basic technology as fire." The protagonist was depressed, turned around with a glimmer of hope, and asked Mulan: "Have you ever seen fire?" It is a thunder with a bang, or no thunder is needed, and the ground is on fire, and the fire is red and yellow, and it burns on the grass and trees, and the burned grass and trees are left with a little black residue. ”
The protagonist is afraid that his description is not detailed enough, and Mulan's simple brain cannot judge the meaning.
Who knew that Mulan immediately replied in the affirmative.
"I'll go, have you really seen it? Did you catch fire somewhere? It's gone now. The sudden good news makes the protagonist very excited. But Mulan's reply made him wonder again: "In the main kinship lair." What does that mean?"
Mulan still repeats the phrase "in the main kin's lair". The protagonist had to change the question: "The place where there is fire is not far away?"
"The distance of five trees." Mulan replied. The protagonist has no choice but to try to convert the ant's distance unit into a distance that he can understand. I went to the surface twice and saw that the huge trees were relatively open and extremely sparsely distributed. The last time I went hunting and narrowly escaped death, I had been moving under the bushes between the two big trees, and I had not been able to reach the nearest big tree to the south before I could return home. It seems that the distance between five trees, the ants have to walk for a long time, even a day or two.
"Which direction?" The protagonist found that Mulan only said the distance, and did not mention the direction, maybe because he didn't ask, these ants are as rigid as computers, maybe he crossed the Germans inside the ants?
Mulan replied, "The sunset is on the right." "That's roughly to the west.
The protagonist notes the general direction and decides that he has to take a risk to the ground, the function and function of fire, and the role it plays in promoting the development of civilization, no one knows better than the protagonist from a developed civilization. At the same time, he was curious about what the society of those relatives with fire would look like.
If you want to go that far, then the protagonist needs a guide, and Mulan, who has seen fire with her own eyes, is the perfect candidate. The protagonist hurriedly asks her if she can take her over, but Mulan directly and resolutely refuses.
The protagonist was stunned for a moment, and Mulan, who was obedient to her words, actually had such a time to reject herself so firmly. The protagonist doesn't know what went wrong, maybe it's his own problem that makes Mulan misunderstand?
"I'm going where there's fire, I'll go, you take me." The protagonist repeats it again. Mulan still refused.
"Why don't you take me there?" The protagonist asks, and Mulan still replies with the intention of refusing, but does not explain the reason.
"You can't go there?" The protagonist asks.
Mulan: Affirmatively.
"Why can't you go there?"
Mulan: I don't understand what I mean.
"Can I go then?"
Mulan: Affirmatively.
"Damn! Even if I can go, if you don't take me there, how can I go! I don't know the road, I know the west side and the five trees, who knows where I can go according to this kind of instruction, I should get lost and be eaten by the praying mantis halfway! ”
Mulan: Dazed. She doesn't know what the protagonist is crazy about.
The protagonist was speechless at the end: "Then how did you see the fire?" It's not like you're lost, is it? Or have you followed other ants?"
Mulan immediately flutters her tentacles, telling the protagonist that she had followed a male ant to her destination last time and saw fire.
The male ant is Lao Wang.