Chapter Eighty-Nine: Eight Sedan Chairs
After the protagonist says that he wants to return to "Dongyang City" and reorganize and take away the disbanded Divine Envoy King Legion, the whole venue is in an uproar.
The protagonist had previously made it clear to a few kings, including the eldest king and the policeman, that he wanted to go back, and reluctantly obtained their consent and support in the name of "divine will". But this matter needs to be approved by the Council of Five Hundred Kings.
In the history of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, except for the kings who would go to the various sub-nests to organize armies during the war, no king would take the initiative to go to the sub-nests.
What's more, the protagonist is still the Divine Envoy King, as the second Divine Envoy King to appear in the history of the kingdom, shouldn't he stay in the main lair like the first Divine Envoy King?
And the protagonist also has to take away the Legion of the Divine Envoy King, and in the information package sharing just now, all the kings have seen the combat effectiveness of this legion. The legions of the kingdom are not standing formations, and they will be disbanded after the war, and they will not be reorganized until the next war, and the legions that each king will organize at each time will not be fixed with some soldier ants and worker ants.
Now the protagonist has to break two traditions, the Divine Envoy King will leave the Nest, and he will reorganize a disbanded army with him. This is a little incomprehensible to the old-fashioned kings.
The dozens of kings who participated in the expeditionary force with the protagonist have already appreciated and convinced the protagonist, but they also can't understand the protagonist's thoughts and show doubts.
And the kings who stayed in the main nest did not have much intersection with the protagonists, and they expressed their opposition even more fiercely.
Seeing that the opposition is so strong, the protagonist has no choice but to throw out his killer idea: "This is God's will." At the beginning, he also said this to the eldest Wang and the police.
As soon as the divine decree came out, the venue was silent. The king in the audience is not able to oppose the authority and meaning of the divine decree, which allows the protagonist to force his plan through the so-called divine decree again.
In the end, the King's Council can only agree to the protagonist's request, but the protagonist must lead the legion to fight back in the event of war. The protagonist agrees to this condition.
After the meeting, the protagonist took Hua Mulan and the others who had been following him from "Dongyang City" to his personal guards and returned to the long-lost four-bedroom room to rest. The little secretary and the other worker ants were in the four-bedroom room, and after seeing the protagonist, the little secretary was very excited, and had a warm tentacle exchange with the protagonist.
The secretary curiously asks the protagonist about the experience of going out to fight, and the protagonist throws a large information packet over to let her think about it slowly.
At this time, the protagonist thought of one thing: the big worker ants who chased and killed them seemed to be very smart, and the little secretary was much smarter than the average worker ants, is there a connection between this?
But seeing that the little secretary is so lively and curious, the protagonist thinks: It doesn't look like it has a half-dime relationship with the murderer at all!
That night, after the protagonist falls asleep, there is a strange noise behind the stone wall of his bedroom. But the protagonist has been fighting for so many days, and he has spent a lot of energy at today's king's meeting, so he is too sleepy, and he didn't notice this abnormality when he was asleep.
After the protagonist wakes up the next day, he begins to prepare for returning to "Dongyang City". On the one hand, he sent Mulan and other soldiers to the main nest to gather all the members of the Genshin Impact Envoy King Legion and let them move to live near the four-bedroom house.
On the other hand, the protagonist takes his ingenious little secret to collect materials and prepare to make some tools needed on the way.
What the protagonist wants to do is some transport vehicles to transport the protagonist's grain, silk beds, and captive paving ant eggs. If the ant army is only used to hold it in its mouth, then the transportation efficiency is not only low, but it will also take up a lot of labor.
Since it is a transport vehicle, of course it has to have wheels.
The wheel has long been regarded as the oldest and most important invention of mankind, and its significance can be compared to the use of fire. While humans have tamed fire for more than 1.5 million years, but the history of using wheels is only a few thousand years.
The greatest function of the wheel is that it allows people to quickly move objects that greatly exceed their own weight, which directly changes the form of human transportation and warfare.
The current kingdom of big-headed ants has been able to use fire, but there is no sign of a wheel yet. If the protagonist invents the wheel, it will have a long-term impact on the civilization of this kingdom.
The easiest way to make a wheel is to make a round shape from wood. And if you want to work with wood, you must master sharp and strong tools.
Primitive man could have struggled to craft wood into a suitable cylindrical shape with stone tools alone, let alone complex spoked wheels. Therefore, the appearance of the wheel in human civilization can only be after the Bronze Age.
At present, the ant civilization is even more unbearable than the Stone Age humans, except for the stone wall and the pebbles to make the conference room floor, these big-headed ants do not even have stone tools, their sharpest tool is the pincer-like claw of their upper jaw, which obviously cannot be used to process wood.
In addition, the world faced by ants is full of huge obstacles, and any slightly larger rock or protruding tree root may not stop the crawling ants, but it will stop the vehicle from moving forward. If you can't build a smooth road, the wheels are useless.
The current Ant Expressway in the kingdom is not strictly a road, but a series of connected semaphorone markers in the wasteland.
After the protagonist weighs it, he feels that he does not have enough technical ability to make a car, nor does it adapt to the objective environment of the ant world, so he can only give up.
What alternatives are there? How about skidding? No, this also requires flat terrain.
After thinking about it, the protagonist still thinks that the most suitable means of transportation is a sedan chair-like vehicle made before...... After all, ants have strong weight-bearing ability, good endurance, and hard-working without complaining, so they are the best sedan bearers.
The largest vehicle the protagonist made before was the one carried by two soldier ants, which could hold a silk bed or a shelled sunflower seed, which no longer met the protagonist's needs.
The main character needs to make a larger sedan chair. The largest palanquin in ancient China is said to have been seated by Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty, and it took 32 people to carry it at the same time. The protagonist does not intend to make a sedan chair carried by thirty-two ants, the larger it is, the more complex its structure becomes, and it is difficult to achieve it under the current rudimentary conditions.
In the end, after weighing the materials he could find, the protagonist decides to make a large sedan chair carried by eight ants.
The protagonist uses two long wooden sticks as the main axis and places them side by side, using the sedan chair of the human world as a reference in his memory, and the car is fixed in the middle of a pair of long wooden sticks with rope and ant glue rubbed with plant fibers.
Considering the need to cross mountains and mountains, the car must be closed to avoid the goods inside being bumped down. It is more laborious to make this car, and humans can use wooden planks to create a suitable shape, while ants lack the ability to further process wood and cut it into planks.
In the end, the protagonist simply chooses a whole whole nut shell as the car. It is a nut that the protagonist has never seen before, similar in size and shape to a pistachio, but yellow in color. The nut shell is thick and hard, and only the bud eye is fragile. The protagonist is to have the worker ants dig a soybean-sized hole from the bud eye, and then hollow out the kernels inside.
The volume of the hollowed-out car is enough for the protagonist to use it as an RV. If you put the eggs of paving ants, you can fit them all in a sedan chair.
After the car is made, the remaining difficulty is how to make the eight ants be able to bear the weight of the sedan reasonably and evenly and maintain balance.
After the car is built and fixed to a pair of long wooden sticks, the protagonist takes Xiao Mi to bind four short wooden sticks vertically and glue them together with the long sticks, two at the front and two at the front of the car. This is the weight pole of the sedan chair ant, and at that time, you only need to tie each short wooden stick to the back of the two ants, and the sedan chair can be moved.
The protagonist's newly designed eight-ant sedan chair is intended to be carried by worker ants. After spending three days completing the first eight-lift sedan chair, the protagonist immediately beckons to move the sedan chair to the ground for experiments.
The elder brother, the public security and the king of the West got the news out of nowhere, and they also came to watch the experiment.
The protagonist took the little secretary to tie the straw rope on the weight pole of the eight sedan chairs to the sedan chair workers one by one, and then the protagonist climbed into the car neatly. The opening of the car rushes forward, so that the protagonist can observe the direction of progress.
As the protagonist lowered his head and touched his tentacles to the little secretary next to the sedan chair, the little secretary immediately gave each sedan chair worker ant a departure command according to the plan he had agreed in advance. Then the little secretary ran to the front of the sedan chair and led the sedan chair man around the hill castle twice.
After an experiment, the protagonist is generally satisfied, the sedan chair is very strong, and the eight worker ants do not look difficult to carry the sedan chair, and they get up and walk like flying.
There are also disadvantages, such as the scenery is not good, and you can only see straight ahead. There is also a poor command, the protagonist can't use his tentacles to command the sedan chair driver in the car, and can only rely on the friction signal to make them stop, and the sedan driver completely follows the little secretary who guides in front of him to act.
The most unbearable thing for the protagonist is that the sedan chair has no shock absorption system at all, and when the sedan chair flies up and down, left and right, the protagonist is bounced around in the nut shell like a marble......
However, shock absorption is a complex technology, and the protagonist can only lay a layer of ant wire inside the car to slightly prevent shock.
However, this eight-lift sedan chair has generally reached the design index, and after the experiment, the senior brother and they are still thoughtful, and the protagonist can't bother to greet them, so he hurriedly took the secretary to continue to make the second sedan chair.
At first, the protagonist wanted to make eight sedan chairs, but later found five nuts of the right size and met the requirements, and only made five. Other materials such as wooden sticks and ant glue and ant silk are abundant in the main nest.
It took the protagonist half a month to complete all six sedan chairs, and this is still a progress that can only be achieved when he becomes more and more proficient in the future. The worker ants that the protagonist asks for help can only do some simple auxiliary work even with the guidance of the information packet, and the complex work must be completed by the protagonist and the secretary, which leads to a long construction period.
After completing the six eight-lift sedan chairs, the protagonist rests for two days, and then asks the messenger to inform the legionnaires that they will leave for Dongyang City tomorrow.