Astral Ants

Chapter 26

The return of spring.

Mo Lan ate 54 Gopan Orchid seeds, fell into a deep sleep for three days, and successfully evolved into a 2-year-old intermediate warrior.

The God-given Seed of Guoxianglan bloomed earlier than expected by Longbai.

There are many wild cedar trees growing on the upper layer of the mountain range, revealing new buds.

Long Bai knew that the time was up, so he decisively took out the dried cedar and hemlock seeds and soaked them in warm water.

Dried cedar seeds are still sown on the hillside near the ant nest.

The big fruit hemlock is sown on the ridge, about 50 meters away from the one in Molan.

Still use thorn branches and stones as fences, and send soldier ants and specialized chemical ants to guard.

During the spring plowing season, other life-growing plants in the territory need to be taken care of carefully.

Longbai mows the claws himself, loosens the soil and fertilizes them, and cuts off the weeds.

The earliest sown cypresses, junipers, and junipers have all grown to a little over one meter, the giant cypresses are also nearly 50 centimeters long, and the green cypresses are less than 10 centimeters high.

At present, there are not many life seeds to be dealt with, and the scale is also small. It only took less than a day to complete the work.

Long Bai commanded a total of 70 specialized chemical ants to continue digging the pool.

In the rainy spring, the construction method was slightly changed, and a drainage channel of sufficient depth was dug first.

very busy

Long Bai was not only in charge of manipulating the throne to fly and lifting the soil, but also had to keep an eye on the worker ants working below.

Worker ants do not have independent consciousness, but they have a certain IQ, can remember simple instructions, and will adapt to troubles.

The number of worker ants working has increased, and some guys have learned to be lazy and slack off without a teacher.

Long Bai was like a brutal slave owner, every time he found out, he would immediately swoop down from the throne, whip his tentacles and give him a severe lesson.

Little effect, these guys don't remember hitting at all.

Long cypress also tried to form them into groups, with 10 ants in each group, promoting a captain, and ordering the captain to supervise other worker ants.

The effect is even worse, the captain will take a whole team of worker ants to be lazy...

In the inheritance memory of the giant head ants, the worker ants are absolutely obedient to the ant king. It is not said that the worker ants will be lazy, and of course there is no way to prevent the worker ants from being lazy.

Long Bai guessed that the problem should be the ruling throne.

The worker ants bred through the ruling throne are not perfect.

How did the creator civilization be wiped out by human civilization?

Are soldier ants also not perfect?
Conventional Giant Ant Soldier Ants, when fighting, they will charge forward without hesitation, fearless of death.

Will the soldier ants bred by the ruling throne find that they can't beat them, and leave the ant king and run away?

Not impossible.

A deadly question.

……

Long Bai was extremely busy here.

Mo Lan was not idle either.

Longbai once told it the specific methods of optimizing planting: open up nurseries for sowing, eradicate weak seedlings, and retain strong seedlings for transplanting and cultivation.After growing up, collect the seeds with full particles from the adult plants with the best growth and the largest fruit particles, and continue to sow and breed.

From generation to generation, selective optimization is carried out, and after generations, high-quality planting can be obtained.

The most important point: high-quality planting, coupled with a rich force environment, greatly increases the probability of birthing a god-given seed.

Mo Lan decided to put the theory into practice, determined to cultivate her own high-quality orchid species.

Last spring, we opened up two nurseries and sowed the seeds, and now we are looking for places to transplant them all over the mountains and plains.

I also picked a lot of seeds last fall, and I plan to expand two nurseries this year.

……

"Long Bai!"

Mo Lan flew here with fresh soil on her legs and a dirty sheepskin bag.

"Cymbidium……"

Long Bodun felt bad.

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, let me plant some orchids around your territory for decoration."

Long Bai: "Thank you, Mo Lan, I don't need it anymore."

Mo Lan was unhappy upon hearing this.

"These are the young Molan seedlings that I have carefully selected... Long Bai, don't you like Molan?"

You still play a pun with me~
Long Bai: "How come... I like it very much..."

Mo Lan: "Then I'll plant it for you!"

Long Bai reluctantly agreed: "Okay...do you want me to send some worker ants to help you?"

Mo Lan said happily, "Okay!"

Long Bai took out the 8 specialized chemical ants who were always lazy, and first gave a warning by beating them, and then gave instructions to let them carry the sheepskin bag, follow behind Mo Lan, and be smart to help dig the soil.

Mo Lan led eight oil bottles and began to work in the woodland on the west side of the ant nest.

After a while, he came angrily and complained: "Long Bai, there are 3 worker ants that don't move!"

After a while, he ran over again: "Long Bai, it's not good, I can't find a worker ant, there are only 7 left..."

……

Time is like a Dingdong mountain spring, flowing happily.

Long Bai tried many times, and finally found the reason why the worker ants were lazy: under the high-intensity work, they developed a feeling of resistance.

Make adjustments accordingly.

Every morning when the sun rises, they go out to work, and when the sun sets, they go back to the nest to rest.

Three days of work, one day off.

In this way, the situation of passive sabotage is greatly reduced, and the work efficiency is higher.

The width is 0.4 meters, the length is more than 20 meters, and the drainage channel leading directly to the stream beside it has been excavated to a depth of 1 meter.

After a slightly cold spring rain, under the morning light, the dewdrops on the tips of the grass blades reflect colorful rays of light.

Long Bai led the ant colony out of the nest, directed the cleaning of the site, and first dug out the outline of the pool with a side length of 4 meters.

Mo Lan came galloping with a small dark blue flower in her mouth.

"Long cypress! Look! The flowers are blooming!"

"Oh!"

Long Bai responded.

After careful identification, it was a primrose.

When the primroses bloom, various plants on the mountain and down the mountain will follow one after another.

Long Bai understood Mo Lan's meaning, when the flowers are in full bloom, the day when the flame spider caravan arrives.

For the caravan, Mo Lan has been looking forward to it for a year.

This year, Luochen will come to the Ten Thousand Kingdoms Continent, and Long Bai is also looking forward to it.

"Molan, how many seeds do you have left?"

"100!"

"That's good."

Long Bai was worried that Mo Lan couldn't help but eat the orchid seeds that he was going to use for the transaction.

Mo Lan flew around the ruling throne and landed next to Longbai.

"Long Bai, I suddenly had a wonderful idea, but I have a few questions that I need to ask you..."

"what idea?"

Long Bai stopped working and asked, "What's the problem?"

Mo Lan: "If I sell the Ice and Fire Kettle to the caravan, I will have rough stones in the future, can I still buy it back?"

Long Bai: "After all, it is a creation of an extraterrestrial civilization that can be used. It is easy to sell it, but it is difficult to buy it back."

Long Bai understood Mo Lan's so-called 'brilliant idea' as soon as he heard it, and gave an exact and detailed answer, saying:
"I can buy it back and entrust the caravan to buy it. However, if you are unlucky, you may have to wait for several years to buy it."

"Mo Lan, do you want to buy back a coated ice-fire kettle in good condition? Buy it from the caravan, and the price may be more than 2 rough stones."

"So expensive?!"

Mo Lan was taken aback, and asked, "Long Bai, last time you said that my ice and fire kettle can only be sold for seven or eight thousand rough stones?"

Long Bai: "Yes."

Mo Lan: "Why?"

Long Bai: "Mo Lan, think about it carefully. Those lords and insect kings, do they really care about eating a piece of ice in summer? Drinking a cup of hot water in winter? No. What they care about is face. What the insect race can't make, quantity The limited creations of extraterrestrial civilizations are the best sign to reflect face. An incomplete ice and fire kettle will greatly reduce face, and the corresponding value will naturally be discounted."

Mo Lan: "Ah..."

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, do the math again. Seven or eight thousand rough stones can shorten the time we need to be promoted to senior fighters by a few years. Correspondingly, how much will the income increase? Is it a loss or a gain?"

"This is a rather complicated arithmetic problem full of various uncertainties..."

Long Bai looked up at the sky, calculated silently for a while, and asked: "Mo Lan, do you want a complete ice and fire kettle? Or do you care more about its practicality? Ice cubes can be eaten in the hot summer, and ice cubes can be eaten in the cold winter. Drink some hot water."

Is that a loss?As soon as Mo Lan heard this, she understood immediately, and was greatly disappointed, and asked: "Long Bai, did you lose a lot?"

Long Bai: "It's not a loss, but it can't make back the difference in the price of the ice and fire kettle."

Regarding the ice-fire kettle, Mo Lan is not tired of playing with it, on the contrary, she loves the ice-fire kettle.Every evening when work is over, it will come to Longbai, make a pot of hot water, and ask for a drink together.

Long Bai persuaded: "Mo Lan, I think you like it very much, so keep it for yourself first. When you have money in the future, consider changing it to one that is in good condition."

"No loss?" Mo Lan regained her spirit in an instant, and resolutely said: "Then sell it!"

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, you need to be promoted to the Intermediate Ant King as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)