The Beetle is currently the only force that the protagonist can find enough to carry the platform.

The beetle is the only terrestrial insect domesticated by the Legion of the Divine King. Although flying insects can theoretically carry weapons, the carrying capacity of flying insects is generally low, and both flies and bees can only carry very light loads. The Flying Knight and its equipment are fine, but once the ballista is installed, neither the flies nor the bee mounts can take off...

And beetles, even in the human world, are the most powerful animals in terms of the weight of the animal itself compared to its weight-bearing capacity.

In contrast, an elephant can uproot a tree several meters tall with its incisors and trunk, but the weight of the tree is only several times the weight of an elephant. A 0.7-ton horse can pull a 3.5-ton load on flat ground, and the weight of the cargo is only 5 times the weight of a horse, which is already at the limit of mammals.

In contrast, scientists found that dragonflies were tied with strings, hung in the air, and then clawed to grip an object, and found that dragonflies' long, slender, fragile legs could lift up to 20 times its own body weight.

This experiment tests the strength of the insect's limbs, and scientists have also conducted experiments to measure the strength of the insect's whole body.

For example, the two-pronged rhino beetle, nicknamed the "One-Horned Fairy", is also one of the large beetles that have now been domesticated in the Legion of the Divine Envoy King. Some species of the two-pronged rhino beetle tend to forage for food in the hard soil, which must first be dug into long gullies. The soil is so hard that it takes a lot of effort to dig a gap with a hoe, but the tortoiseshell is effortless, like a powerful tractor plowing the ground.

Scientists tested the limits of the strength of the two-pronged beetle in an interesting little experiment: they first attached a lead object weighing more than 10 times the weight of the tortoiseshell to the carapace and tried to drive it forward. As a result, the golden tortoise shell not only did not have the weight of Mount Tai, but strode with its head held high and walked easily. The weight of the lead object is increased by 20 times, 30 times, 40 times...... Until it weighed 100 times the weight of the golden tortoiseshell, its gait was still smooth and it still maintained its usual speed. It wasn't until it reached 349 times that the golden tortoise shell felt overwhelmed.

There is also a beetle called Beyard, which can even carry objects that weigh up to 900 times its own. If an elephant weighing 1 ton can carry a weight 900 times heavier than it and lift 900 tons, this is equivalent to the displacement of a World War II destroyer.

The most surprising thing is that the beetle uses less effort to carry weights than it does when it does not. It sounds like a complete unimaginable paradox. After all, the weight of the beetle itself is much smaller than the weight of the object it carries, so why does it take less effort to drag such a heavy object than it does when it moves?

Scientists have found the answer in women who walk with heavy loads on their heads. Most of the world's people carry weight on their shoulders or backs, but women in a few parts of the world, such as Africa and India, are accustomed to carrying weights on top of their heads, and they can still walk normally with a heavy load on top of their heads, as if it takes little effort. It turns out that this is because they keep the center of gravity of their body at a constant height when they walk, so that they don't have to exert much effort to move their body's center of gravity. And when a person is exercising, due to the unstable center of gravity, in order to keep the body balanced, it naturally expends a lot of energy. This is the case with beetles, which is a big reason why they are so powerful.

The platform that the protagonist ultimately chooses is the two-pronged rhinoceros beetle. Compared to the stag armor, which has a pair of large, sharp jaws and is highly lethal in close combat, the weapon of the two-pronged rhinoceros beetle is a horn as large as a rhinoceros horn.

But this horn is good for charging through formation, and it is difficult to expect it to kill the Destroyer or other ants.

Because the way the two-pronged rhino turtle fights is to use its horns to reach under the opponent's body, and then overturn the opponent, without trying to kill the enemy at all. This is the most common type of battle for the two-pronged beetle: a "mating" battle in which the overturned competitor will leave without getting hurt.

But as a war beast, the two-pronged rhino beetle is not lethal enough, unlike the stag armor, which can easily kill most insects, including the destroyer, in two.

However, the double-pronged rhino beetle has a higher load than the stag armor, and is not suitable for melee combat, but can concentrate on being a long-range weapon platform and achieve a division of labor with the stag armor. This is why the protagonist finally chose it.

If it weren't for the fact that there are not enough war beasts now, the protagonist would even want to equip the logistics and transportation teams in the territory with these "unicorns" with large capacity!

With the Beetle as a qualified ballista carrying platform, the weight capacity of this platform is completely worry-free, it is completely enough to accommodate the existing ballistas and warriors, plus a large number of shells.

But it is not enough to have negative gravity, the defect of the beetle as a delivery platform is that its back space is limited, the existing ballista is too large, and it also needs a full team of ants to operate (1 commander, 10 ant warriors responsible for horizontal aiming, 10 ant warriors responsible for vertical aiming, 30 ant warriors responsible for winding and firing), such a lot of things and so many warriors, even the back of the largest double-pronged rhino beetle, it is impossible to accommodate the down.

Therefore, the protagonist needs to reduce the size of the existing ballista as much as possible while maintaining the same shooting power, and reduce the number of ant-hands that the ballista can handle, so that it can be placed on the carrying platform on the back of the beetle.

The two-pronged rhino beetle of the Divine Envoy King Legion is about 50mm long and 30mm wide, which is the size of an eraser. The carapace on his back is closed, like a tortoiseshell, and his wings have degenerated, so he can't take off, unlike the beetles in the human world that the protagonist knows.

But the closed back armor is more suitable for placing weapons, otherwise the beetle will shake its wings and want to fly, and the load on its back and the warrior will suffer!

The protagonist plans to place a platform on the double-pronged rhinoceros turtle's closed back armor, and then a ballista and warrior on top of it.

With the existing processing capacity of the ants, it is somewhat difficult to process such a large and complete wooden platform, and the protagonist plans to use wooden planks to splice into a platform or use a pottery platform, both of which have their own advantages and disadvantages, mainly depending on which is more suitable for manufacturing.

In the end, it was found that there is a combustion chamber in [Linshui City], which can be easily transformed into a pottery kiln, and the firing pottery platform is more convenient to make and the effect is good.