Astral Ants

Chapter 2 Rooted
Among insects, there is a very small probability of giving birth to "zerg warriors" at the life level of the force. They have a unique organ called "life sac", which can breed an ordinary plant seed into a "life species" at each evolutionary stage. '.

The sowing of life seeds is the force plant, and when it grows up, it will bloom and bear fruit, which is the force food, which can promote the growth and evolution of Zerg warriors.

The life species bred by different Zerg, as well as different plant types, have different additional strengthening effects.

Various strengthening effects are superimposed, so that Zerg warriors can gain powerful abilities.

Life is a matter of life and death among Zerg warriors.

Under normal circumstances, junior warriors would sow seeds under the protection of senior warriors of the same clan.

Ants are slightly different from other Zergs.

If there is a high-ranking ant king of the same family as shelter, just send a team of combat soldier ants to help guard it, and even send worker ants to help loosen the soil and fertilize.

If it is a female small ant king, even without the protection of a high-ranking ant king, she can lay eggs and develop an ant colony by herself, direct the ant colony to manage and protect the life species, and can pass through the weak stage relatively safely.

Long Bai is a lonely male ant king, everything can only rely on himself.

But Longbai was very smart, and before choosing the place to plant the life seeds, he aimed at a large clump of red thorn vines on the nearby hillside.

Two jaws cut branches with poisonous thorns and dry them in advance.

……

After the rain, the sky is sunny, and the warm and dense spring.

Following the example of the Watase Flame Spider Clan, Long Bai smoothed the stone wall of the nest room, and carved a stroke on the stone wall every day and night.

Four days later, Long Bai removed the small stones that were pressing on it.

On the fifth day, the juniper seed first broke through the ground, and the juniper and cypress buds emerged one after another.

The survival challenge has just begun.

The life seeds in the sprout stage are the most vulnerable. A bird flapping its wings and landing on the ground, or a running animal may inadvertently deal an irreparable fatal blow to them.

At this time, the previously cut red thorn vine branches were also half-dried in the air, and the dragon cypress began to cut for the second time, cutting off the dead leaves, and cutting them into strips about [-] centimeters long.

The talent of the ant tribe is strength. Longbai is also a 4th-year junior ant king. He can lift objects hundreds of times his own weight. With a little effort, he built hexagonal thorny vines around the three life-seeding seedlings. fence.

Seedlings grow taller day by day.

Cypress cuts red thorn vines non-stop, dries, transports, builds, and even bundles and reinforces them with tough hay leaves, constantly making the fortification bigger and taller.

Takes shape quickly.

No bird will land on the thorny vine, nor will any beast dare to pass by it.

The hillside is lush with vegetation, and there are always various small insects visiting. The predation range of Cypress is fixed nearby, and it can also use the cover of vine thorns to avoid various predators.

A month later, the originally lush red thorn vine was cut off, leaving only 7 thick trunks and sporadic new shoots in spring.

The three life seeds survived the most fragile sprout stage and grew into seedlings with a height of more than 10 centimeters.

Not only is the force here thin, but the soil on the hillside is not fertile enough.

Cypresses frequently hunt and kill all the small insects that break into the territory, and dig pits, bury and compost around the cypress seedlings.

Time flies and another month.

It is hot and midsummer.

The three Mingzhong seedlings have grown to a height of about 20 centimeters, which can be regarded as taking root here.

Luochen instructed Longbai to choose cypress as his life seed, which was quite satisfactory.

Cypress is a plant with strong vitality and strong environmental adaptability. It does not pick the soil, is resistant to drought, and is easy to survive. As an arbor, it has great growth potential in the future.

But the disadvantages are equally obvious, that is, the growth rate is slow, and it takes 2 to 3 years of operation to grow initially, to bloom and bear fruit for the first time, and to start to produce fruit of force, and to have a decent output after more than 5 years of operation.

If there is an ant king of the same clan as shelter, providing force food to help grow, cypress is undoubtedly a very good choice.

However, but...

The junior ant king of Longbai is now in the 4th age, which should be in the stage of rapid evolution, but due to the thin environment of force, and the lack of raw stones and food supply of force, the growth has almost stagnated.

The average lifespan of junior ant queens is only about 15 years, and male ants may be even shorter.

People who are over 8 years old begin to enter the aging period, and the evolution is difficult year by year.

It has been nearly half a year since Longbai entered the 4th age.

——If you can't evolve in time, you can't gestate the fourth life-seeding, and you don't plant a sufficient number of life-seeding plants early, the territory will not have enough force food to produce.

——Without enough force food, subsequent evolution will be even more difficult.

——While surviving independently, you must also consider growth, otherwise, you will fall into a vicious circle of not being able to evolve in time because of poverty, and getting poorer because of not being able to evolve in time, and eventually die prematurely.

——The concentration of force at the exit of the starship is higher. I can consider living there permanently, absorbing the force of nature, and advancing to the 5th age as soon as possible.

Long Bai looked at the red thorn vines that had grown luxuriantly against the scorching sun, thinking about it, and made a plan.

……

After a torrential downpour, the sun seemed to rise a little higher in the sky.

Autumn is high and fresh.

There is a tall Nan tree in the territory.

When Longbai chose to sow the seeds, it considered using its branches and leaves to block the scorching sun in summer.

Now that summer is over, and the three cypress trees have also passed through the fragile seedling stage, this Nan tree has become a competitor for sunlight and nutrients with the dead plants.

Cypress bites with two jaws, cuts around the trunk of the nan tree, peels off its bark little by little, destroys the phloem, and cuts off the sieve pipes that transport water and nutrients.

In autumn, the nan tree withers quickly.

After a night of wind and rain, leaves fell everywhere.

late fall season.

The three cypress seedlings have all grown to a height of more than 30 centimeters and are no longer so fragile.

Cypress continued tirelessly to cut the red thorn vines and expand the fortification around the three cypress trees.

Again, the red thorn vine was cut down to only 7 main branches left alone.

And around the three cypress trees, thorny vines were also placed in circles, connecting them into one piece.

——There should be no danger.

——If there is, it is not that my current strength can stop it.

Holding the spider silk bag, Long Bai left the territory.

……

The entire starship is composed of a kind of original energy metal.

This metal is as light as a feather, but super strong and tough, and after thousands of years, only the paint coating on the outside has peeled off, and its metal parts have not deteriorated at all.

According to Luo Li, even the worm king who has awakened metal abilities still needs a lot of effort to cause little damage.

The exit of the starship at the end of the Yunji Continent is a flat tearing surface, which should have landed on this side when it fell to the ground, and the violent collision caused the fracture to deform.

In the beginning, the earth should have been smashed into a big hole. After a long time, it was buried by the soil and formed a raised hill.

Today, the hills are full of various plants, but because the mud feet are not deep enough, the trees cannot grow strong, and most of them are weeds and low shrubs.

Long Bai hid at the exit of the starship to rest at night, and started collecting food for the winter during the day.

Small insects such as crickets and grasshoppers are hunted near the entrance of the cave, cut and dried into dried meat, and stored in spider silk bags.

In the golden season of late autumn, all kinds of insects will die of old age or be frozen to death by the cold air at night. In many cases, there is no need to hunt them manually, and they can be picked for nothing.

Within a few days, it will be a full pocket.

Enough food for the winter.

Suddenly having nothing to do, Long Bai, who has been used to being busy all day for more than half a year, felt a little uncomfortable for a while.

It was only when I was free that I suddenly realized that I am alone now.

Anxiously wandering around the entrance of the cave for two days, Long Bai finally couldn't hold back his curiosity, and explored places in the starship where there were no signposts.

　The level setting of this book basically follows "Astral Cockroach", which are the junior ant king, intermediate ant king, advanced ant king, mountain master ant king, lord-level ant king, and insect king ant king.

　　"Lord" replaces "Princess" in cockroaches.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)