Astral Ants

Chapter 103 Shannan Reservoir
The ruling throne produces ant eggs, and the worker ants cultivated are smarter than the ant eggs produced by the normal female ant queen, have a certain memory and learning ability, and are flexible.

Over the years, the worker ants have accumulated rich experience in digging ant nests, biogas pools, pools, tunnels, and Shanbei reservoirs, and each of them has become a skilled excavator.

Long Bai also observed that after the newly born worker ants joined the excavation team, they were a little overwhelmed at first, and then some old worker ants would come up to pass on their experience.

New worker ants quickly become proficient.

This is an ability that the worker ants cultivated by the female queen ant lay eggs do not possess at all.

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First dig the steep slope on the north side of the valley bottom.

Long Bai is still in charge of controlling the lifting of the throne of domination, and also commanding the ant colony.

Juniper is responsible for the main command work.

Juniper leads the soldier ants and assists in carrying stones.

Currently, the Throne of Reign spawns ant eggs at an efficiency of 6 ant eggs every four days.

This also means that 6 new worker ants join the digging army every four days.

The size of the team involved in the labor continues to grow.

Looking around, up and down the mountain, densely packed with ants, one team after another, busy in an orderly manner.

The good times of early summer flew by.

midsummer,

The scorching sun of the day can kill ants.

Long Bai adjusted his work and rest time. Everyone returned to the nest to rest during the day and work at night.

For half a month in a row, there is no cloud in the sky during the dry season.

Green torreya, golden pine nuts, Dawang fir, Kui Li, black emperor peach, spotted star pear transplanted in the orchard on Xianglan Mountain; various orchids from Molan; various cypress seedlings from the nursery under the mountain, and large-scale transplanted just this spring Silver cypress saplings, etc., have to be irrigated every three to five days.

The cultivation of ordinary plants has just reached a large scale, and the workload is quite heavy.

The excavation of the Shannan Reservoir has been severely delayed.

Fortunately, the hot and dry weather lasted only about [-] days, and it did not turn into a drought.

But the situation is not so good,
After the dry season, cloudy clouds cover the sky for a long time, and it rains continuously, and there will be a thunderstorm every now and then.

The reservoir project cannot proceed normally.

Long Bai simply gave the worker ants a holiday for a few days.

This autumn, the seed bestowed by the ghost fan will mature, requiring 800 rough stones.

Long Bai and Mo Lan set out on the road in the rain, first sending the rough stone to Gui Shan, so as to save time and make another trip.

Long Bai added a night shift, controlling the flight of the ruling throne until late at night before stopping, resting in the middle of the night, and then set off early the next morning.

Travel day and night, fly in a straight line, and arrive at the place in three days.

It is also raining on Ghost Fan Mountain.

There was not much rain.

The ghost fan is lying at the entrance of the living cave.

Raspberry lay on top of Ghost Fan's head.

"They are here!" Ghost Fan jumped up excitedly.

The raspberries on the top of the head were caught off guard and hit the roof of the cave firmly.

"Ah~ squeak~"

Raspberry screamed.

"raspberry?"

Ghost Fan panicked, and his mental power swept through the inspection.

Fortunately, no injuries.

Raspberry is already a 'big beetle' with a body length of more than 10 cm, and it is not so easy to hurt.

"Ant honey is here." Ghost Fan comforted.

"Longbai? Molan! Didn't they say to come here in autumn?"

"It's raining recently, so there's nothing to do."

"Oh--"

Raspberry unfolded its elytra, flapped its wings, glides out of the cave, and stood in the rain watching.

The blue ball passed through the rain curtain and came slowly.

"raspberry!"

Long Bai greeted.

"How old are you?"

Mo Lan asked.

"Six ages!"

Raspberry, Longbai and Molan were not polite at all, they flapped their wings, hovered and landed on the throne, looking curiously at the 'hydrological shield' that blocks the rain.

"Longbai. Molan."

"Ghost fan."

greet each other.

Mo Lan jumped up with the spider silk bag containing the rough stone, flapped her wings, and landed lightly.

Long Bai: "The rough stones will be delivered ahead of time, so we won't be here in autumn. The territory is very busy and there are many things to do. Come back in winter."

"Oh... Thank you for your hard work! Has the reservoir been dug yet?"

Ghost Fan stared straight at Mo Lan.

After Mo Lan landed, the azure carapace changed at a speed visible to the compound eyes, blending with the environment of the cave entrance.

The innate ability of the Huamantis tribe, Huamantis fighters are all born stealth killers.

"Mo Lan, you have been promoted to a senior fighter! Congratulations."

"What a powerful ability!"

Ghost Fan sincerely praised and envied.

Mo Lan: "Ghost Fan, didn't you awaken your metal abilities in advance?"

Ghost Fan: "It's not very powerful. You can only extract a little metal gravel from the sand, and then manipulate the metal gravel to drill holes in wood. The rest is useless."

Ghost Fan asked again: "Long Bai, do you have water ability?"

Long Bai: "It's useless too. It's useless at all."

Raspberry crawled back and forth on the throne, and finally lay motionless on the gourd filled with ant honey, turning her head around, looking at Longbai, Molan, and Ghost Fan.

Long Bai turned his head and said, "Raspberry, this jar of ant honey is for you, take it and eat it."

"Oh~ woo~"

"Thank you, Long Bai!"

Obtained, Raspberry climbed down the gourd, grabbed the spider silk rope tied at the neck of the bottle, and struggled to drag.

Mo Lan jumped onto the throne and carried the raspberries down together.

Long Bai: "Ghost Fan, count the rough stones to see if the quantity is correct."

Ghost Fan: "No need. I trust you."

Long Bai: "Thank you for your trust."

Long Bai: "Then we won't stay long, we'll take our leave and go back. Xianglan Mountain still has a lot of work waiting for us."

Ghost Fan: "Wait a minute! Mo Lan..."

Ghost Fan asked with some embarrassment: "Mo Lan, your God-bestowed Gorgon Seed...is it blooming this year?"

Mo Lan: "It's blooming. There are 93 branches, each bearing one fruit and 5 Gorgon seeds. The first batch of output is 465 Gorgon seeds. The flower and fruit cycle is still uncertain, and there is a high probability that it will be next year's fruit. Ripe, it may be the year after tomorrow."

"Oh--"

Ghost Fan: "Is this high output?"

Mo Lan: "Neither high nor low."

Ghost Fan: "That's good. Remember to arrange some for me and Raspberry."

Mo Lan: "Of course! Definitely!"

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The clouds linger.

It rained intermittently.

On the way back, Long Bai and Mo Lan stopped by to visit Bai Liu and chatted with it for a long time.

After staying up all night and rushing on the road, it took another day and a half to return to Xianglan Mountain.

A cool wind from the northwest blows, and the sky is finally clear after a heavy rain.

Clear sky.

start.

The sun at the end of summer is no longer so scorching, and the work and rest schedule is adjusted to normal, working during the day and resting at night.

One month later,
The steep slopes on the north side of the mountains have been cut into cliffs.

The planned reservoir has begun to take shape, with a length of more than 50 meters in the east-west direction and about [-] meters in the widest part in the north-south direction.

The mouth of the valley below is the narrowest, only a dozen meters wide.

Long Bai led a group of worker ants to widen the mouth of the valley.

Junbai led a group of worker ants to excavate the southern slope where the god-given seed of Nanqian Gorgon took root, and leveled the slope a bit.

Juniper commands the soldier ants, is responsible for hunting for food, and assists in carrying gravel.

Mo Lan is not idle either, the number of worker ants is growing steadily, and it also assists the soldier ants to hunt far away.

In autumn, a large number of wild plants in the forest ripen their fruits, and Mo Lan still has to search for the god-given seeds and collect wild fruits.

……

another month later,
Long Bai led the ant colony to widen the mouth of the valley to 20 meters.

until late autumn,

Sleep evolved once, and its body length finally reached 50 cm.

The breeding of Liudao Muming has been completed, carefully store it, select a place in advance, and fertile land, just wait for the next spring to plant in the soil.

Choose purple fruit kiwi fruit as the life seed of the 9th instar intermediate ant king.

After a day off, I started digging the foundation of the embankment.

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