The Siberian Great Artery Windmill Fortress and the Amazon Jungle Treehouse both have a distinctive feature in an extremely desolate and unmanned land. This has led to a problem for Tangning: "What if an accident occurs and external supplies cannot reach these nodes within a few days?" Because of the existence of railway guerrillas, this is a very possible practical problem. When this problem arises, there is water and electricity, but there is no food. Food becomes the core of the problem.

On this day, Tang Ning was accompanying her daughter at home and explaining Amber's wonderful story. He, the federal president, was free and rarely attended public places. Cabinet members did their own jobs. Cabinet members were very free because they handed over most of their affairs to the parliaments of the provinces and finance to the European Central Bank. Federal affairs seemed to be only diplomacy and defense.

In addition, the German Federal Government established the Federal Drug Administration and issued the world's first narcotics control law, with opium, marijuana, coca leaves, etc. all becoming contraband. At the same time, the Suez Canal, Panama Canal and all Windsor-based transportation trunks have strongly announced that contraband is not accessible except for research and medical purposes.

The Indian government announced a ban on commercial planting of poppy, and the Qing government took the opportunity to announce the ban on opium. The MPs supported by opium dealers such as Jardinet Foreign Company were defeated under the huge pressure of the Windsor Consortium, and Downing finally made the "small thing" of banning opium.

Tang Ning, who was telling Amber to Erin, suddenly stared at an ant in amber in a daze, forgot to tell the story. Erin is over two years old and speaks well in German. She found that her father had "solidified" like amber, and shook his arm dissatisfiedly: "Why don't Daddy speak?"

Of course, Tang Ning came up with an interesting idea and smiled and said, "Okay, let's talk about it! Let's talk about this ant, which is a very successful animal. It evolved from a bee. That era is roughly the same as the birth of dinosaurs. It is generally believed that it was in the Baiji. Dinosaurs rely on becoming bigger to survive. This kind of small thing chose the opposite evolutionary path. They became smaller, so small that ordinary predators could not catch it. Even if they caught it, they could not fill their stomachs. In the end, the terrible dinosaurs that grew up were extinct in natural disasters, and these little guys became stronger and stronger. According to the estimates of biologists, ants accounted for about 15% to 20% of the total biomass! This number is amazing, don't you think it is?"

Unfortunately, the baby just laughed and had no mathematical concept. If someone with medium biology knowledge was amazed when he heard this number, he would be amazed. The size of the ant tribe is beyond imagination. Tang Ning always gets the latest and strange toys in the world for his baby. This time, he decided to collect "ant colonies".

Pour liquid aluminum at 200 degrees into the ant colony to make it flow through the entire ant hole, and you can get the three-dimensional mold of the entire colony, and then cast transparent glass to recreate the ant colony. The millions, millions, and even hundreds of millions of ants in the entire colony are descendants of a queen. If you invite the queen into the glass colony, you can get a live ant empire.

Is there anything more stranger than this toy? In order to get a perfect mold, the pouring process must continue. Tangning even designed a "mold harvester" weighing more than ten tons based on the aluminum smelting machine. At least? Hehe, don't underestimate the architectural talents of these little guys. Their underground empires are so huge that you can imagine, otherwise how could they become one of the most successful animals in the world?

As a successful animal, the most important thing is that the nutrients obtained from food are far more than the individual's ability to reproduce. The calories and proteins obtained from predation are the most efficient, but there is one problem that other organisms will evolve powerful defense methods. Even plants, their bodies such as leaves, branches, etc. must be low-calorie and low-nutrition. Only when seeds need to be spread are needed, plants will willingly grow fruits to entertain guests from all over the world.

As smart as humans, they came up with the most efficient means in animal husbandry, not eating livestock, but eating the milk they produce. The milk industry is an extremely amazing means of obtaining food. However, our ant brothers evolved similar means billions of years ago, and the best of them are leaf cutting ants.

The smart ants don't eat the low-nutrition foods, which are low-nutrition foods. They are picked and fed to the aphids, and these aphids will give back to the ants. Leaf-cutting ants are experts in the animal husbandry industry! Therefore, their colonies may be the largest in the ant empire.

Think about the abundance of leaves in the Amazon jungle, you can imagine the success of leaf cutting ants. Tangning, who is interested in natural wonders, naturally goes to southern Brazil to pick leaf cutting ants' wonder colonies. You can just step on an ant and kill millions at once, which makes people feel pity. Tangning's model picking team will give priority to pouring those abandoned colonies. If you really can't find it...

Of course, Tangning had to do such a fun thing himself. He ignored the work of the Federal President and ran to Central America to collect leaf-cutting ant colonies. Manaus, located in the middle of the Amazon jungle, flourished due to wild rubber, is the location of this mission.

After a week of exploration, the Ant Search Team finally found an abandoned leaf-cutting ant colony, which seemed to be quite large. The Pisces airship crane moved the heavy "construction" machinery to the site for operation. In the eyes of everyone, this collection made people look at each other and poured it for a whole day. Eight hours passed, and the sun was about to set, but the project still showed no sign of completion.

The larger the project volume, the more excited Tang Ning was. The workers responsible for digging the soil by hand were as beautiful as the soil. How long would it take to dig? In order to keep the project progress, the airship kept buying aluminum and transporting it to the construction site. After a jaw-dropping 4 days and 4 nights, the collection project was over.

The complete appearance of the leaf-cutting ant empire was finally unearthed after two months of hard excavation. It was 80 square meters wide and 15 meters deep. It was a truly veritable wonder of the world. After the appearance of the aluminum mold was put in the Telegraph, readers were amazed.

The team invited the most prestigious chandeliers in Germany to customize the most perfect glass ant nest. It not only requires maintaining its original appearance, but also has good transparency so that tourists can enjoy this underground wonder.

Of course, the members in Manaus still have to continue to dig hard and get the queen of another leaf-cutting ant colony to Munich. The queen's survival depends entirely on a large number of worker ants, soldier ants and aphid nests, and try to get them away together to ensure the survival of the queen.

After the efforts of entomologists, the ant empire quickly settled down in a huge ceiling greenhouse. The hard-working ants went out every day to cut leaves on the branches picked by the team to grazed aphids. This huge ant chandelier made all creature lovers obsessed.

The most important thing to raise this leaf-cutting ant colony is to "appreciate" the little baby. Little Erin stared with bright and beautiful eyes and watched the appearance of the ant baby secretly photographed by Tang Ning, becoming one of the most precious family photos.

Then, the "food" problem must be solved. Apart from anteaters, few animals can treat ants as staple food. Chimpanzees sometimes collect ants to eat, but not too many. If there is technology to hunt such great survival masters in large quantities, it will be an equally great food revolution. Tangning was about to invent this method based on this artificial ant colony.

By observing the performance of the queen ant in artificial nests, it can be seen that she can produce 30,000 eggs every day, which means that an ant colony can continuously collect 30,000 ants. Of course, these ants can be eaten directly by humans, but this is a niche market. It is estimated that this "goodie" in the civilized world will not be popular, so it is more reliable to regard them as an excellent source of protein for raising poultry.

Interestingly, only adult leaf cutting ants will go out to work, while young worker ants will grazle aphids at home, which is easier. Therefore, when collecting adult ants, you only need to do some tricks and feet in the places they must pass. This kind of unreasonable thing is Linfell's favorite thing to do. She rushes from London to the experimental animal farm in Munich to personally design the method of picking leaf cutting ants, and she chose the old Faraday family's business.

Place two tiny wires on the necessary path, and the high voltage current passes through, which can electrically paralyze the passing ants and fall into the box prepared in advance. In the future, the ant farm can turn on the current at a fixed time every day, collect a certain number of ants and then finish work in time.

This plan was very successful. The little witch was delighted to see the poor worker ants falling downwards as they passed the wire. This was the joy of harvest. However, Tangning made an opinion that many worker ants who had just picked the leaves also fell into the collection box. This not only made the things in the box impure, but also wasted the physical strength of the leaf cutting ants. It would be great if there was a way to collect only worker ants that did not have leaves when they set off.

Well, the Ant Killer Demon has added a tiny quartz spring gravity gauge to the wire. Only when the weighing value is below a certain threshold can the current be triggered. In this way, the ants straggling the blades can safely return to the base. After rigorous testing, the mass-produced leaf cutting ant collector can start working.

Linfell said excitedly: "This kind of feed is so cheap, just leaves, will it surpass Israel's breeding industry? Is it a farm tailor-made for Brazilians?"

Tang Ning laughed: "People in Central America can start this industry, but my original intention is not this. The serious thing is to solve the food source of the staff in the dense forest and wilderness in emergency situations. I thought of using the method of collecting ants to solve it, but now it has developed into ant breeding industry. We must continue to find a solution, and it is best to use a collector to collect all kinds of ants in the wild, not just leaf cutting ants. This will solve the food problem."

Lin Feier swallowed: "Eat the ants directly?"

Tangning: "Well, it tastes good, do you want to try it?"

Lin Feil gave him a blank look, but she had already begun to think about how to invent a wild ant collector. Her original invention can indeed allow random passing ants to be collected by electric shock, but this is too inefficient. Tang Ning reminded the junior sister: "Ants have a habit of using them to emit different odors after they discover food. When other workers smell this odor, they will follow the scented route to transport food. This is especially important for ants that use fruits and insect corpses as food sources. I think wild ants are more of this type."

He has already made it clear that the key is to have a bait to allow the ant transport team to be collected continuously, but the difficulty is that one can't be collected one by one, otherwise the odor on the route will disappear quickly and no ants will die later. The solution of the junior sister is still a small gravity gauge, but the logic is just the opposite. Only when the ants are exceeded by a certain weight on the necessary road will all be shocked, and the transport route will maintain a certain amount of odor until the market is full of money.

A wild surviving ant collector was done. Subsequent field experiments showed that the collection efficiency was very high. In one hour, it could ensure a day of protein and calories for an adult. In the wild, the basic process is to find an insect as bait, then turn on the collector and look forward to the time. If it is one person, it is about one hour, two people are two hours, and so on.

This is much more reliable than chasing prey in the wild, unless you think you can run faster than a rabbit. If you hit birds, can you fight? Not to mention fighting with poisonous snakes and beasts, that is something professional survival experts do. Ordinary workers don’t have to work so hard, and they don’t have to work so hard to support their families, right?

People working in the wild are asked to raise at least one chicken, usually collect ants for chickens to eat, eat chickens first when there is a crisis, but if it really doesn't work, then eat ants. Practice more often, and "have food in your hands, and don't panic" in crisis.

According to the amount of ants accounting for 15% to 20% of the biomass, how many ants are there in the huge Amazon jungle? If these excellent sources of calories and protein are used, it is equivalent to developing a huge marine fishery industry. It may be more reliable than ants breeding, because extremely rich ant colonies have been formed in the depths of the jungle for billions of years. With the reproduction ability of ants and the regeneration ability of rainforests, it can be said to be inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

Tang Ning thought of this and combined the concept of "longline fishing" with an ant collector, a great idea for breeding was born. The airship responsible for the operation sprinkled ropes with ant collectors tied to it within a range of 60 kilometers. There is a collector every 50 meters, with a total of 1,200 kilograms of ants harvested each time. Each "scattering a net" can collect 1,200 kilograms. There can be tens of thousands of kilograms of ants in a day, which is comparable to ocean longline fishing. Compared with fish, ants have much stronger reproductive ability, and there is no possibility of overfishing.

Of course, the Amazon Forestry Commission is in hand, and even if there is a possibility of overfishing, it has been extinguished. No one is more capable of large-scale industrialization than Tang Ning. He personally designed ant longline fishing. The power used to electric shock ants is directly connected through the wires provided by the rope. Even each electric shock will generate an electric signal. Through the time when the electric signal reaches the processing center, it can be known which of the 1,200 collectors emits an electric shock, so he can accurately grasp the entire collection process so as to master the optimal closing time.

The collector is attached to the main rope. When the 60-kilometer journey is completed, the hook is uniformly put down. It is coincidentally that the 30-meter-long fishing line between the main rope and the collector. The collector is made into a spherical shape so that it can contact the ground with the lowest obstacle. Because of the introduction of the wire, the central controller can control all operations, including opening the four doors of the collector ball, and each door becomes an ant bridge after it is opened. In order to ensure the correct opening posture of the collector ball, there is a gravity sensor at the joint of the main rope to ensure that the collector ball catches the fishing line when it just touches the ground, so that the extremely high success rate can be achieved.

When developing longline fishing, Tangning's team has accumulated rich experience. This time, the ant longline fishing project is naturally carried out by these experienced engineers. The solution is very complex and expensive, but it ensures automation and efficiency.
Chapter completed!