ended the conversation with Lao Wang, and Lao Wang went back with the guide worker ants. Before leaving, the guide worker ant says that the protagonist can come to the classroom at any time, and as long as the gatekeeper ant is notified, she can be contacted, and she can leave at any time. After all, in this world, ants don't need luggage to set off.

But the protagonist can't be so casual, first of all, the protagonist can't find sunflower seeds anytime and anywhere on the way to satisfy his hunger. The protagonist doesn't know how the other ants solve the problem of food and lodging on the road, so he can only prepare in advance according to his own needs.

The protagonist first asks Mulan how they solved the problem of food and lodging on the way to the main nest last time they traveled to the main nest, but Mulan tells him that he doesn't need to eat at all, just eat a full meal before leaving. As for drinking water, there is dew every day. In terms of accommodation, digging a small cave temporarily at night also solves the problem of safe overnight stay.

Well, sure enough, a simple and crude solution with an ant style. The solution of accommodation and drinking water can also be used by the protagonist himself, but the problem of eating is troublesome.

Ants have social stomachs, and ants with conditions will try to fill their stomachs and pouches, and will share food with hungry and thirsty companions when they meet them. It's like when the protagonist saw the nurse worker ant feeding him mouth-to-mouth. And if there is no need to feed their companions, then ordinary ants can survive for ten days and half a month without eating while maintaining normal activity, and some species of ants can even last for eight months. So Mulan takes it for granted that if she has a full meal, she doesn't need to eat anymore on the way to the main nest.

However, the protagonist of this traverser, probably due to his relatively high IQ and the energy consumed by brain activity is much higher than that of ordinary ants, he basically maintains the frequency of eating one to two meals a day, and eats some high-calorie foods rich in fat and sugar - sunflower seeds and honeydew. It can only be said that if it weren't for the countless industrious worker ants who were fed, the protagonist would definitely not be able to support himself. Although in the most extreme case, the protagonist can also let Mulan feed them mouth-to-mouth, but it is better that this situation does not happen.

And the most important thing is safety, last time I only went out for an hour, I encountered a praying mantis, and almost lost my life that I had finally reborn. Moreover, the natural enemies of ants are not only praying mantises, but also insectivorous elephants, spiders, spotted stings, and antflies. Not to mention woodpeckers, echidnas, pangolins, anteaters, aardvarks, brown bears, apes and other birds and beasts.

However, relatively speaking, the threat of birds and beasts is smaller, if you are targeted by these birds and beasts with great differences in size, the protagonist will definitely be dead, but even if these birds and beasts want to eat ants, they will attack the ant nest with a large number of ants, and the cost performance of chasing a small team of ants is too low. Therefore, along the way, it is necessary to focus on guarding against all kinds of insects.

Food and security are the issues that the protagonist must solve.

For this reason, the protagonist wastes a lot of brain cells, rummags around in the various granaries of the nest, and is disgusted by the corpses of various insects several times.

In terms of food, the protagonist finds a few sunflower seeds and other nuts, and after peeling off all the shells, it is about enough for the protagonist to eat for three days. With the size of these things, it already takes six strong soldier ants to carry them all the way, and any more will affect the travel speed.

In terms of security, the protagonist solves this hidden danger by finding a good thing in a granary filled with the smell of corpse decay. An empty snail shell.

This snail shell looks relatively new and clean, and the meat inside is estimated to have been eaten not long ago. The size of the snail shell is large enough for the three protagonists to burrow into. The protagonist imagines that if the danger comes from an insect about the size of an ant, then the insect is generally no match for the squad. If the opponent is a huge killer like a praying mantis, then as long as the protagonist can get into the snail's shell in time, then the huge opponent is helpless. And this empty snail shell is not heavy, and only three worker ants or two soldier ants can be easily carried away.

It is true that the creativity of the protagonist is not comparable to that of these uncivilized ants. Out of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the protagonist doesn't want the soldiers or worker ants in the team to have to carry food and snail shells on the road, which will affect the speed of progress, and the less time delayed on the road, the more safety will be.

The protagonist searches through the various warehouses, finds some sunflower seed shells and some tough plant fibers left over from the previous shells, catches a few worker ants, and asks them to carry the grain, sunflower seed shells, plant fibers, and snail shells that the protagonist finds back to the two-bedroom apartment.

In the two-bedroom apartment, the protagonist experiments with placing a sunflower seed shell on the back of his subordinate soldier ants, which is large enough to put down a sunflower seed kernel or other small nut, and the soldier ants can carry them normally.

The only problem is how to fix the sunflower seed shell on the back of the soldier ant. After all, the carapace on the back of the soldier ant is curved, and the sunflower seed shell is also curved, which is quite unstable on it.

The protagonist's previous idea was to tie up and fix the plant fiber as a rope, but the protagonist's ants have only one finger on each of their forelimbs, which is the part of the arthropod that can be bent at the top, and it is okay to tie a simple knot, if you want to tie the sunflower seed shell firmly as a whole, it is too difficult, and if you can't take a few steps, the sunflower seed shell will slide to one side, and the food inside will also be overturned. In fact, if you make a hole in the sunflower seed shell and let the rope pass through it, it will solve a lot of problems, but the protagonist also doesn't have the tools to make the hole.

After the protagonist sees the silk bed, he thinks of the final solution. First, on the back of the soldier ant, tie two parallel thick wooden sticks with a rope of plant fiber, the direction of the wooden stick is the same as the direction of the head and tail of the soldier ant, and after tying, the two wooden sticks and the back shell of the soldier ant form a concave type that is slightly higher on both sides and slightly lower in the middle. The technical content of tying wooden sticks is also much lower.

The sunflower seed shell is glued to two wooden sticks with strong sticky silk that has just been spit out by the ant larvae and has not yet oxidized, and the glue spit out by the larvae is very sticky and tough after oxidation. There are two wooden sticks as the stress point, and the shape of the shell can be embedded in the depression formed by the wooden stick and the ant's back, which is much more stable than leaning on the top of the arc of the ant's back and only one stress point.

Thinking that the silk spit by ant larvae is sticky, thanks to the documentary that the protagonist watched in his previous life, in which the leaf-cutting ants use the silk spit by the larvae to sew the leaves together to make a nest. At this time, the protagonist does not know that a certain big-headed ant species he belongs to now also belongs to the subfamily Leafcutter.

As for the method of transporting the snail shell, the protagonist is going to make a sliding-rod-like transport tool that needs to be carried by two soldier ants together, and the materials used are also wooden sticks, plant fibers, sunflower seed shells, and ant larval brand glue, and the general structure is similar to the previous design. It's just that the slider is carried back and forth by two people, and this transport, the protagonist is designed to carry two soldier ants side by side.

The creation of these vehicles was done by the protagonist himself, and it took three days to build. The protagonist also wants to ask the other worker ants to help, but finds that even if he has a detailed plan in his mind, after issuing the order, these stupid ants still have no way to start. Only when the specific process is very simple can these ants barely get started.

In fact, if the protagonist is ready to build a set of assembly lines, and teach and train diligently, these ants may be competent, not necessarily worse than the assembly line robots that humans are currently using. But the protagonist doesn't need that much productivity at the moment, and he doesn't have that patience. Therefore, the protagonist simply asked a few clever worker ants to do some simple work, and completed the construction of six single-ant piggyback vehicles and two double-ant piggyback vehicles by himself.

What the? You ask why you have to build two twin ant piggyback vehicles with only one snail shell. It's not to prevent damage, after all, the smaller the thing, the stronger it is, and the more resistant it is.

The answer is...... The protagonist places a small silk bed on top of another vehicle. In this way, when you are tired of walking, you can go up to rest and let your subordinates carry you away. And when you dig a hole and camp at night, you don't need to sleep on the mud floor.

In the pursuit of comfort, the protagonist will never treat himself badly.