Astral Ants

Chapter 23 Big River and Small River
Food is scarce in winter, and many birds live on wild fruits and grass seeds in the mountains. Maybe they will rush into the territory to look for food when they are hungry.

The fruit bestowed by the gods is approaching maturity, and Long Bai does not advise Mo Lan to leave the territory.

In addition,

Today's ant colony includes 51 specialized chemical ants and soldier ants, and 22 larvae of worker ants waiting to be fed. These large ants have a great demand for food.

In the ant colony structure, the number of soldier ants responsible for hunting is insufficient, and the hunting ability is insufficient, so it is necessary to reserve enough food before leaving.

Long Bai and Mo Lan made an agreement that they would start again in mid-winter, when the god-given seeds of Guoxianglan had been harvested.

……

It was cold and rainy for two days in a row.

after the rain,

Mo Lan killed a wild boar.

Long Bai directed the ant colony to divide and cut them into filaments, and put them on a stone slab on the hillside to dry.

Several consecutive warm sunny days, the temperature has warmed up.

The shredded meat was dried into jerky.

The biogas digester was almost completed, and the special chemical ants were unable to work, so Long Bai went to the field in person, worked overtime, and dug it out...

……

Chilling wind.

A new round of cooling.

Rainy.

There was a layer of white snow on the high mountains in the distance.

The coldest time of the year.

mountain north.

Holding the rough stone, Mo Lan stood in front of the mother plant of the God-bestowed Seed of Guoxianglan, catching the tip of her toe and scratching, and layers of white spar powder were scraped off.

The original stone crystal powder quickly turned gray, and the pure force dissipated, and was absorbed by the God-given Seed of Guoxianglan.

the final stage of maturity,
The ramet capsule, the appearance color changes from vibrant green to dull dark green day by day.

Three days later, the whole body was dark green and began to turn yellow.

Four days later, the peel was yellow-green, and the chambers cracked, revealing the full-grained orchid seeds inside.

The pandan seeds are finally ripe and placed in the sun to dry.

There were no accidents in the middle, zero loss, 308 capsules full.

According to the agreement, Longbai was divided into 154 capsules.

The spider silk bag is stored and preserved.

After all the preparations are completed, you can go on a long journey with confidence.

……

In the quiet and cold winter, I occasionally heard the chirping of a bird or two.

Calm river.

The reigning throne flew at low altitude, slowly, winding forward along the river.

There is no original force here, and the throne automatically releases a layer of light blue original energy shield to prevent the loss of its own original energy.

Long Bai and Mo Lan lay side by side on the cushion of the throne, motionless...

As expected of a seed bestowed by the gods, the enhancement effect of the orchid seeds is not as powerful as usual.

For the seventh instar king ant, it takes almost a whole day to digest and absorb just one pill.

One pill a day is too much.Every time you eat two pills, you must rest for a day.

Corresponding to the rapid growth that can be clearly felt.

The God-given Seed is too strong.

Long Bai reckons that he only needs to eat about 30 pandan seeds at most to evolve into the 8th age.

Mo Lan is a 1st-year-old mid-level fighter, her digestion ability is a level higher than that of Longbai, and she can eat two seeds a day.

……

Having struggled to absorb the original force of Lanzi today, Long Bai stood up from the cushion, spread his membranous wings and shook, exercising his muscles and bones, and at the same time kindly reminded Mo Lan beside him.

"Mo Lan, you should be more restrained. Eat again, the next time you molt and evolve, you will gain weight again."

"Oh--"

Mo Lan's self-control is very poor.

Longbai's suggestion to it is to take out 100 fruit pandan seeds and sell them to caravans, and replace them with other force foods that strengthen muscles, internal organs, blood, strength, speed and other physical aspects.

Comprehensive strengthening and balanced development are beneficial to the improvement of combat power and growth and evolution.

Mo Lan understands the truth, but she just can't help being greedy...

Mo Lan felt guilty, and was a little impatient with Long Bai's repeated nagging, so she quickly changed the subject and asked: "Long Bai, you are already in the seventh age, why is the throne still flying so slowly?"

Long Bai: "The improvement of age evolution is not big."

Long Bai asked back, "Mo Lan, how far did you run last time? It's been a whole day, and I still haven't seen that huge river you mentioned."

"I fly fast."

Mo Lan asked again: "Long Bai, could it be that you made a mistake? This river will not merge into the big river."

"Impossible!" Long Bai said firmly, "It will never be wrong."

As Luoqin once said, the iron law of water vein evolution in nature: streams flow into small rivers, small rivers flow into large rivers, large rivers flow into a very large river, and then flow south into the sea.

Longbai flows down a large river four to five meters wide that is four to five kilometers away from the mountain range.

Walking along the river will not get lost.

But this river turns and turns...

But Luochen is not wrong, Long Bai firmly believes that this river will definitely flow into the very big river that Mo Lan mentioned.

The same is true.

The next day,

On the third day of the expedition, in the morning, a large river with a width of tens of meters appeared in the field of vision.

"Mo Lan, you're here!"

Long Bai controls the ruling throne to tilt upwards, hovering high in the sky to look out.

On both sides of the river, there are green and yellow long grass marshes and yellow reeds, which are connected with the dark blue river water and stretch as far as the eye can see.

"Molan, downstream or upstream?"

Mo Lan: "Get down!"

Long Bai controlled the ruling throne to fly above the big river, and flowed down, saying: "This river is too big. Left bank or right bank?"

Mo Lan thought for a while, and said, "Left bank!"

Longbai controls the ruling throne to move sideways, sticking to the right bank and going down the river.

Both Molan and Longbai stopped eating the pandan seeds, and lay side by side on the edge of the cushion, poking their heads out, looking down, and focused on searching.

Throne of Reign is indeed a bit too slow.

After flying for a day, a night and half a day, Mo Lan suddenly jumped up, looked around, kicked off the throne, flapped her wings, and said:
"Long Bai, it's here!"

"there!"

"I found the kettle made of ice and fire over there."

After Mo Lan finished explaining, she tilted and landed in a weed on the river beach.

Quite far from the river.

Long Bai controlled the ruling throne, and followed him unhurriedly.

Suspended at low altitude, looking around.

Weeds were lodging in large areas, and there were messy dead branches and leaves.

Very obvious traces of flood erosion.

Long Bai asked: "Mo Lan, did you find it here?"

Mo Lan: "Of course."

Long Bai: "Specifically? I remember you said you found it in the grass?"

Mo Lan: "The heavy rain swelled, and only a little bit was exposed in the grass that was washed away. I have strong vision and keenly noticed the reflection of metal."

"Understood……"

Long Bai tapped the tentacles lightly, and analyzed: "It should be that the big water washed the ice-fire kettle down from the upstream."

"I think so!"

Mo Lan agreed, and said, "But we searched all the way, but we didn't find anything."

Long Bai: "It's not that easy..."

Long Bo paused, and said: "Go down the river, walk for another two days, and search for it. If there is nothing, we will turn around and search upstream from the other side of the river."

"it is good!"

Mo Lan agreed without thinking.

Searched the vicinity carefully, and set off to go down.

Two days passed, and there was still nothing to gain, nothing to discover.

According to the plan, go upstream against the current.

Another three days, still no harvest.

Go straight back to the mountain territory to rest.

Stock up on food for the ant colony.

Throne of Ruler restores Force reserves.

Five days later, he set off again and continued to search upstream along the big river.

(End of this chapter)