It takes about half a month to weave ropes. During this period, the protagonist does not plan to be idle, he is the kind of character who can't be idle.

Especially now that I have traveled to a new world, although the vegetation and insects are still the same as the human world, and this world seems to be relatively safe without humans and large animals.

But the protagonist is now experiencing the world as an ant, and although the world is similar, his personal feelings are completely different from those of humans, which makes him always have a great sense of insecurity and fear that he will die one day.

Whether it's a fierce insect or a little wildfire or running water that is insignificant to humans, it can take away the small and fragile life of ants.

So, the protagonist's incomparable desire becomes powerful. Due to the limitations of the ants' own conditions, there are limits to individual strength no matter how strong they are, and the protagonist's current divine power is no opponent among ants, but he is still powerless to resist in the face of the forces of nature.

Therefore, he has been working hard to improve the strength of the ant colony, whether it is stealing the fire to "Dongyang City", or developing pottery, weaving and other crafts, all in order to enhance the strength of the ant colony.

As a social animal, when the ant colony is large enough, they also have the strength to modify nature to a certain extent, and their ability to resist risks will also be greatly improved.

But this is the feeling of "I'm already strong", which is shattered again with the onset of winter. The protagonist once again appreciates the power of nature, in the cold climate, the big-headed ants can't go out at all, and if it weren't for the protagonist's strong request at the king's meeting, the defenders of "Waterfront City" would not be able to resist the double attack from the paving ant barbarian army and nature.

This makes the protagonist's already slightly faded insecurity intensify, and the protagonist is forced to be trapped in a small underground lair throughout the winter, not knowing what is happening in the outside world, which the protagonist cannot bear.

If you're unlucky, even if there is an avalanche or a winter flood, there is nowhere to escape for the ants hiding underground.

If you want to take the initiative to avoid and resist this kind of disaster, in addition to praying, you must either take the initiative to improve the defense ability of the nest, or you must move freely in the wild to warn and evacuate in time.

The protagonist is indeed able to roam freely in the wild, but only on his own, and the other big-headed ants can only shrink underground. Even if there is no other insect activity in winter, it can be risky for the protagonist to go out on his own.

Even if a gust of wind blows, the protagonist is likely to be blown away, no companion will know what happened to him, no one will be able to go out to look for him, and will he be able to return to the lair alone? Can you catch a night in the dark of winter?

Only the collective can bring some comfort to the protagonist who is full of insecurities. But winter, it is precisely the attempt to integrate the protagonist who goes out into the group. The protagonist thinks that he needs to try to find something to do for himself, trying to adapt the big-headed ants to the winter wild.

This is not a whimsical idea, at least the paver ants can roam freely on sunny days, and only need to recharge in the sun in advance.

In the same way, paving ants can do this, so can big-headed ants too?

The protagonist speculates that the way the Paver ants use sunlight is similar to that of cold-blooded reptiles such as lizards, basking in the sun to increase their body temperature to facilitate their activities, which explains why the Paver Ant Barbarian Army basks in the sun every morning to recharge.

The big-headed ants are basking in the sun to recharge, can they also move freely like paver ants?

With this in mind, one morning, the protagonist decides to conduct an experiment to test his idea.

He had five big-headed worker ants and five big-headed soldier ants crawl out of the hole with him, although the ants who received the order were not happy, which was contrary to their usual physiological habits. But under the power of the protagonist, they have to give in.

These big-headed ants follow the protagonist little by little to crawl out of the hole, and when they leave the relatively warm deep nest and enter the shallow nest, the heat in their bodies is quickly sucked away by the surrounding air. The big-headed ants began to slowly stiffen and sluggish their limbs, but they were still able to barely move forward.

Today's weather is good, sunny and cloudless, and the time chosen by the protagonist is in the morning, when the chill of the early morning has been completely dispelled by the sun.

When the big-headed ants follow the protagonist out of the hole, although the surrounding temperature is still low, the sunlight boosts their morale. Even if you like creatures that live in the shadows, you will be happy in the winter sun.

The protagonist arranges for the big-headed ants to bask on a branch not far from the entrance and exit of the nest, where there are no branches and leaves, and the sunlight can shine on the subjects without hindrance.

The protagonist estimates the time, and the scouts of the paving ants usually start moving freely after a quarter of an hour of charging in the sun, while the large army needs to be charged for half an hour.

As a result, at the time of fifteen minutes and half an hour, the protagonist asks the subject to crawl and perform certain movements, respectively.

However, during these two periods, the subject's movements remained sluggish, not much different from when they had just crawled out of the warm nest.

The protagonist does not give up, he continues to let the big-headed ants, worker ants and soldier ants who participated in the experiment bask in the sun, and then conduct activity experiments every half hour.

Through each observation, the protagonist discovers that it is not until two hours after basking in the sun, when the sun is at its highest at noon, that the activities of the experimental big-headed ants are a little neater. But this is only relative, and it does not reach the feeling of freedom of movement between the paver ants and the protagonists, who are not so stiff and sluggish in their movements, but still as clumsy as a big fat man.

The experiment continued until sunset in the afternoon, again every half hour, but the rest of the experiment was still not ideal, and by 3 p.m., the subject was able to maintain a similar rhythm of movement as it did at noon. However, as the sun gets lower and lower, their movements begin to stiffen again, until they finally freeze, and the protagonist has to interrupt the experiment and help the subjects return to the base.

When the protagonist returns to the lair, he spends the night thinking about today's experiment. It is indeed feasible for the big-headed ants to absorb the sunlight and recharge, at least these big-headed ants who have been basking in the sun have not been frozen to death in a short period of time.

But apparently, they absorb solar energy far less efficiently than the paver ants, who only need half an hour to accumulate enough heat for half a day's activities, while the big-headed ants can't move freely after a few hours in the sun. Even in the afternoon, as the sunlight weakened, there was a situation where the energy gain was not as good as the energy loss.