Equipped with a gravel knife, the Divine Envoy King Soldier Ant Warrior used to test the knife on a few frail and dying flies.

These flies were originally the mounts of the Flying Knights, and once soared through the sky. But the lifespan of flies is originally very short, and it is impossible to overwinter in the wild. Although the flies domesticated by the Legion of the Divine King, many can live for a year or two due to their ability to overwinter in warm underground, much longer than wild flies.

However, this year or two is only the average lifespan, and many flies still do not live that long. When winter comes, the temperature of the underground nest will also drop, and the winter will be underground and unable to go out, all of which will cause a large number of fly mounts to die in winter due to physiological changes.

Fortunately, there are a large number of fly eggs in the nest, and soon after the beginning of spring next year, new eggs hatch, which can quickly fill the gap in the number of mounts.

Recently, a few flies were not in good condition and were about to die. The protagonist asks this squad of Divine Envoy King warriors to test the power of a new weapon with a dying fly as an imaginary enemy.

The experiment site was very bloody, and the dying flies were powerless to resist, so they could only be tortured and killed by ant warriors who had mastered new weapons, and the process would not be repeated.

At first, the fighters could not get used to the gravel blades, which were far sharper than the big jaws, and often used too much force, cutting the target from the inside to the outside with a single stroke, and the tissue fluid and internal organs flowed to the ground.

However, the protagonist is very satisfied with the results of the experiment, and the warrior with the weapon can pierce the shell of the target with very little strength, and his combat effectiveness is greatly increased.

The protagonist asked Lan Bofei to preside over the dressing of all the soldiers, considering that the speed at which the worker ants grind the gravel blades by hand is very slow, and the scrap rate is not low, at present, nearly 10,000 soldiers in the six legions are all redressed, and it will take about a month.

Once all the members are assembled, the combat effectiveness of the Divine Envoy King Legion will reach a new level!

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In addition to masonry, there are other techniques taught by the Big-headed Ant Survivors who are also very useful.

For example, fermentation technology.

The remnants of the big-headed ant have a kind of food, which is to roast plant seeds, grind them into powder, and then ferment them with water to make a paste with a sweet and sour taste. The drink is easier to digest than simple plant seeds, and is a high-class food that can only be enjoyed by queens and male ants.

The workers in the research team brought back some valuable strains. The protagonist can't tell what these bacteria are, maybe it's lactic acid bacteria, yeast, or aspergillus.

However, these bacteria are very useful, and the research team has experimented with the fermentation effect in different foods and found that these bacteria are really versatile.

In addition to the paste-like sweet and sour drinks of the big-headed ant remnants, such as fermenting the paste-like food used by ants to feed young ants, you can make foods similar to yogurt; Fermentation of dried fruits or grains stored in the granary can obtain drinks with an alcoholic taste, and then continue to ferment these low-alcohol wines to obtain relatively sour dilute vinegar; Some grains or legumes are ground and fermented, and then mixed with brine to continue fermentation, and the final product is very similar to soy sauce; Kimchi can also be obtained by fermenting the stems and leaves of some plants that are prone to spoilage and not completely dried before winter.

Overall, the fermented strains greatly improved the food of the entire nest, greatly increasing the variety of foods and seasonings.

The protagonist's recipes are closer to human beings, and his various foods can be cooked using primitive soy sauce and vinegar, instead of just a single salt as a condiment.

Although the yield of many fermented products is still very low, as long as a special workshop nest is built after the beginning of spring next year, equipped with enough ant hands to collect a large number of raw materials, then the output can be greatly increased.

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Another important technique inherited from the remnants of the big-headed ant is weaving.

The textile technology mastered by the remnants of the big-headed ant is actually the felt-making technology. Therefore, the fibers of textiles are not regular, not the warp and weft of the woven fabric, and all the fibers are messily intertwined.

Most of these felt products are used as carpets or tapestries for decoration and heat preservation. Textiles are also dyed and painted with natural plant slurries, including crimson and earthy dyes, to enhance their aesthetics, with patterns mainly of ants or other insects.

The research team has brought back and mastered the felt-making process.

The raw material for making felt is ant silk and the whisker hairs on the carapace of some insects.

Ant silk is mainly used those ant silk that has lost its use value, such as the young ant silk bed after long-term use, mixed with the whisker hairs of different softness and hardness cut off from the carapace of hunted insects, and a group of more powerful soldier ants, which are jointly used by ropes to drive tools similar to the tamping pestle used by humans to build roads and walls, and can be made into felt by constantly beating.

This felt-making process is very labor-intensive, and it takes more than a week for a group of 20 soldier ants to make a piece of felt that is large enough to wrap around the male. Moreover, the level of production is uneven, and the ant silk and insect whiskers of different materials are often not tightly sealed enough, and some felts will crack when used.

Generally, the felt made of pure ant silk is of the best quality, and the felt made of new ant silk is of better quality than that made of old ant silk. It's just that using ant silk to make felt is a waste utilization, in order to make other products from the old ant silk that should be discarded to continue to exert residual heat. The addition of a large number of whiskers from other insects is also to make up for the lack of ant silk.

Therefore, although the big-headed ant remnants know how to improve the quality of felt, the scale of the nest is too small and the products are not abundant, so they have no spare energy to improve the quality in this regard.

Therefore, the current large-headed ant remnants provide the felt made of old ant silk to the queen for exclusive use, and the felt mixed with ant silk and insect whisker hair is used by male ants, which is also in line with the strict hierarchical characteristics of ant society.

The protagonist does not have these troubles, and there are tens of thousands of worker ants in "Dongyang City", and the ant silk produced is not only for daily use, but also has enough surplus to make good felt. Although it is impossible to distribute the best felt to all the males, it is enough for the protagonist to make a winter outfit for the winter.

As for the second-class felt, the protagonist decides to make it from old ant silk and another soft insect hair, which is the body hair of some flies, which is relatively soft and can be well combined with ant silk, unlike some harder insect whiskers that are easy to detach and cause damage to the felt.

This kind of inferior felt, the protagonist intends to use it for other male ants.

In addition to making felt, the Big-headed Ant Remnant also gives the protagonist some information about real textile techniques. This information is incomplete, and it is a technology that has been lost and cannot be put into practice.

But the protagonist is like a treasure!