Chapter 54: Vision and IQ
The protagonist has been busy in [Everglades City] these days, and as the Divine Messenger King's legion grows stronger, he hasn't been so busy for a long time.
This time they came to a completely different environment, and the males of the Divine Envoy King Legion lacked experience and adaptability, so they could only be "returned to their old business" by the protagonist, taking them step by step to adapt as soon as possible.
After all, this is not only an unfamiliar environment, but it will quickly become a dangerous battlefield, and there is no time for the males of the Divine Envoy King Legion to slowly adapt, and the Divine Envoy King Legion who came from afar must have a complete base as soon as possible to deal with the subsequent war.
The intelligence and strength of the protagonist are extremely important in this environment.
Here, whether it is the expansion of the nest by building an African ant mound, or the work of weaving a fish cage, it is something that the big-headed ants, paving ants, or hunting sickle ants in the Legion of the Divine Envoy King have never done, and their wisdom and creativity are beyond their reach.
Only the protagonist has a draft in his head, and the protagonist needs to make the specific methods of these tasks into information packets for the ants to use, and this kind of work of making information packets is not as simple as it seems.
If the work of compiling information packages is similar to some kind of work in the human world, then the closest thing is programming.
The protagonist needs to encode the work steps into an information package, so that each participating ant knows what to do when, where, how to work with other ants, and most importantly, turns these mental steps into a video scene, just like a programmer writes his intentions into code.
In this regard, the protagonist is still very talented, not long after he crossed over into an ant, he was able to control a small number of ants to make relatively simple actions through the packet programming method of "imagination", and now, he is definitely a master of packet making.
In the information package "imagined" by the protagonist, dozens or hundreds of ants can work closely together and be organized, and a magnificent ant mound and an elaborate fish cage are formed.
Other males, although instinctively able to make some packets, are not as grand and elaborate as the protagonists. Just like the letter symbols of the code, everyone can understand them, but not everyone can program them, and there are also good and bad programmers who can do it.
In addition to intelligence, the main character's strength is also essential in this new environment.
The protagonist's strength has been slowly growing with the time he has been in this world, and although the growth has slowed down, it has not yet reached the end.
The current protagonist can easily lift a stone the size of a tennis ball in normal times, and when he enters the state of "Celestial Gods", he can lift about a brick from the human world. For ants or other insects, this is already an irresistible force.
When clearing some stubborn vegetation on the stump island, as well as building ant mounds to carry building materials and erect building materials, the protagonist can withstand hundreds of ants, which greatly accelerates the progress of the project.
- I'm the dividing line -
The protagonist is still waiting for the next wave of reinforcements in about a week, and his connection to the homeland can only be assumed by the Fly Rider, who ventures to take off at night.
The Bee Riders are resting in shifts, their mounts having exhausted a lot of stamina from the recent fleet trip, and need to rest well while the fleet loads the ant-crew supplies, and some of the badly strained bees must be replaced by spare bees for the rest of the voyage.
At present, everything is normal in the mainland, but the intelligence from the north is intermittent due to the large number of flying knights, and it is only known that the main battlefield of the paving ants and mysterious ants has been transferred to the east, and the mysterious ants are still on the offensive at present, but the paving ant barbarian army has been deployed to deal with it.
Around the swamp area, the parasitic ants are still attacking everywhere, and the team is getting bigger and bigger, and parasitic insects are also appearing, which also puts more and more pressure on the defense line of the indigenous scythe hunting ants, and they even have to abandon the few slopes that are too close to the swamp.
Even [Swamp City], which has been almost built, has parasitic bacteria.
One day, a squad commander on duty spotted an insect corpse floating on the water's surface, and soon leaned against the shore of [Everglad City] in the wind, and when he and his men prepared to harvest food, they were surprised to find that the beetle corpse was full of thriving parasites.
The male ant and his subordinate warriors have been trained to resist parasitic confusion, so the male ant immediately realizes the danger and reports to the protagonist, and then the protagonist commands a team of Divine Messenger King warriors, close to the corpse, lure the parasite to crawl down the corpse, and then destroy all of them, mincing them into countless pieces to ensure that they are killed, and then throwing them into the water.
This is not the only time that the Legion of the Divine Envoy has seen parasites in [Swamp City], as the protagonist can occasionally see zombie-like infected parasitic ants mixed with parasitic insects passing by on the land several meters away when the protagonist is looking out from a high place, and this team is obviously also going to attack the position of the indigenous sickle-hunting ants on the nearby hills.
Since the eyesight of parasitic ants or parasitic insects is about two meters below that of male ants, [Swamp City], which is three meters away from other lands, is safe and has not been detected by the enemy. It's like a safe island in a zombie crisis.
Speaking of which, the protagonist discovers that the eyesight of the male ants under his command has a tendency to increase, and the protagonist knows that the male ants can only see clearly within half a meter, and the distance above half a meter can see vaguely, and the vision of good eyesight is only one meter.
But in the past two years, the distance that the young males under his command who have just reached adulthood have gradually increased to one and a half or two meters, while the eyesight of the young males of the King's Conference faction who originally lived in the main nest has not improved at all.
According to the protagonist's own analysis, the eyesight of his young males has improved significantly, including in other aspects, such as strength and intelligence, due to the stable and sufficient supply of food, especially nutrient-rich food.
Just like in Japan after World War II, after the reopening of the mainland, the height and other physical indicators of teenagers have increased rapidly, because of the popularity of nutritious foods such as milk.
After all, in the days when there is not enough to eat, the body can only give priority to the needs of those organs that can ensure survival, and height, intelligence, and eyesight can be temporarily abandoned. Therefore, many human beings in ancient societies suffered from night blindness, and they could not see clearly at night, and only those who could get a stable supply of meat did not have this disease.
For the protagonist, the increase in the eyesight and intelligence level of the male ants and the large worker ants under his command is definitely a good thing, and maybe it won't be long before he can have a large group of ants like the original little secretary and the current little secretary II!