49: Chapter 49 The Progress of Civilization

With these physique-enhancing plants and superior genes, the new generation of Ant-men had changed significantly.

Over a hundred years, the overall strength of the Ant-man Race had become worlds apart from the initial generation of Ant-men.

When an Earth Rampager accidentally burrowed into the ant nest, ready to feast, the outcome was different this time.

In the past, when encountering such a monster, the Ant-men could only rely on sacrificing their lives, but this time it was different.

Several patrolling Shield-Armored Ant-Men rushed forward, arms joined, their bone shields firmly holding back the Earth Rampager's advance; their strength was now comparable to such a behemoth, and they did not retreat an inch.

Before the Earth Rampager could even react, dozens of Black-Armored Ant-men sprang out from around the tunnel, their speed twice as fast as before.

Their sharp hooked claws pried open the gaps in the Earth Rampager's shell, their mandibles bit down frantically, and another pair of hands thrust bone spears into the Earth Rampager's body.

The Earth Rampager continued its twisting, rolling attacks, kicking several Black-Armored Ant-men away, who then crashed into the stone walls, only to flip over and pounce back, full of vigor.

After their physical improvement, this level of physical impact could no longer cause them fatal injuries.

In less than an hour, this disaster-level exotic beast, several meters long, was literally dismembered by the ant colony, turned into pieces of high-protein meat, and transported to the incubation chamber where the Queen Ant resided.

The roles of prey and hunter had been completely reversed.

They no longer relied solely on brute force to attack; the bone spears polished from the predecessors' bone armor were also key to their victory. It seemed the previous Disabled Wise-man had taught them how to use tools.

However, time in the Divine Kingdom moved extremely fast; the Disabled Wise-man had died two hundred years ago, and those captured transcendent Sapiens had also perished.

Although some Ant-men became intelligent after enlightenment and could understand historical stone carvings and absorb the experience of their predecessors, the evolution of their civilization was still too slow.

He needed to find them some more teachers.

Gu Han clicked on the trading software, entered the slave trading district, and directly contacted a highly reputable slave trader.

Gu Han did not hesitate and immediately bought twenty battle-damaged Disabled Wise-men.

With a flash of white light, twenty tattered Sapiens with incomplete bodies were teleported into the Divine Kingdom.

Some had broken legs, some were missing arms, and others were blind; each one looked haggard, their faces full of fear of the unknown.

Gu Han immediately issued an oracle.

A large number of Black-Armored Ant-men swarmed to the surface, surrounding these Disabled Wise-men.

The Sapiens thought they were going to be eaten and retreated in fear, but the Ant-men did not attack; instead, they offered fresh fruits and Six-Winged Chicken meat.

Through the will of the Divine Kingdom, Gu Han forcibly instilled a thought into the minds of the Sapiens.

He arranged for them to teach the Ant-men how to use tools more proficiently and to pass on all the knowledge they had mastered to the Ant-men.

The basic language previously mastered by the Ant-men had been passed down, ensuring their communication did not have too many obstacles.

Because they were also Sapiens and highly resembled the messengers of the gods in the stone carvings, the Ant-men respected them very much.

These Disabled Wise-men received unprecedented respect here and soon integrated into life, beginning to run "training classes" inside the ant nest.

A legless Disabled Wise-man sat on the ground, holding a fragment of shield armor, grinding it into a sharp blade on a hard stone, while hundreds of Ant-men gathered around, staring motionless, learning.

It was not just about polishing weapons; several other Sapiens began teaching the Shield-Armored Ant-Men how to splice themselves together to form larger shields.

They taught the Ant-men how to tie the sharp teeth of Earth Rampagers onto long wooden sticks to make sharper spears, and how to weave tough vines into large nets.

The cold wind at the edge of the snowfield was still biting.

A Giant Ice Toad crouched beside the entrance of the ant nest, its belly bulging in and out, waiting for an Ant-man to pop its head out.

It was quick-eyed and fast-tongued, sticking its tongue onto an ant head, only to find it was just a skull.

Seeing the Ant-men filing out, the Giant Ice Toad, which was also very intelligent after enlightenment, turned and ran, but a large net woven from dozens of vines scooped up from the ground and directly trapped it inside.

The Giant Ice Toad was frightened and immediately sprayed a large amount of viscous venom from its skin, attempting to corrode the vines.

But these vines had been dried and treated by the Ant-men before weaving, making them exceptionally tough and completely unafraid of corrosion.

Suddenly, a dozen Black-Armored Ant-men surrounded it; they were no longer empty-handed, but holding tooth spears over two meters long.

They did not get close, but from a distance of several meters, they thrust the bone spears fiercely into the net.

The Giant Ice Toad struggled frantically, spraying venom everywhere.

A dozen spears exerted force simultaneously, pinning the Giant Ice Toad firmly to the ground, leaving it unable to move.

Several tiny Hidden-Armor Ant-men crawled over along the bone spears, holding hollow bone tubes ground extremely sharp, and precisely pierced them into the Giant Ice Toad's poison glands; they began to skillfully extract the venom.

This Giant Ice Toad venom was collected into small stone jars.

The Black-Armored Ant-men dipped the tips of their bone spears into the stone jars, carefully dried them, and stored them away, which could be used to deal with invading Earth Rampagers later.

Another hundred years passed in a flash.

That batch of Disabled Wise-men had died of old age, but the seeds of craftsmanship they left behind had been completely ignited within the Ant-man Race.

The entire underground ant nest was no longer a primitive mud cave; the four walls were polished exceptionally smooth, and the passages led in all directions.

The armory was piled high with bone spears, tower shields, vine nets, and even simple catapults made from polished stones.

A glorious page had been added to the stone carvings recording the history of the Ant-man Race.

The Ant-men not only learned to use tools but even began to domesticate Earth Rampagers and Giant Ice Toads.

They kept the captured Earth Rampager cubs in cages made of bone armor, fed them on time, and when they grew up, they used them for land reclamation and digging, and also as emergency rations, while their teeth and bones were used as tools and sharp weapons.

After special processing, the stomachs of Giant Ice Toads could be used as bags for storing items, and their thigh tendons were extremely tough and were made into ropes or bowstrings.

Yes, that was correct; the civilization of the Ant-men had initially entered the cold weapon era, entirely due to the experience passed down by that batch of Disabled Wise-men.

Consequently, later on, whenever Gu Han selected Sapiens, he would select them selectively, even if the price was a bit higher, it did not matter.

The Ant-men were like sponges touching water, extremely thirsty for knowledge.

The demonstrations and teachings of the Sapiens often made the Ant-men gasp in admiration, which made the Sapiens feel very appreciated, wishing to teach them everything they knew.

Although they did not really need to teach them everything now, Gu Han did not use later Sapiens to cultivate Ant-men, because the current Ant-men were almost all descendants of cross-breeding Level 2 Sapiens, and their genes were the best.