Astral Ants

Chapter 282 North Journey
Pandan Mountain.

Just as the ruling throne approached the mountain range, a green figure flew up from the forest and galloped up to meet it.

"Long Bai!"

"Sugar palm."

Mo Lan greeted, hovered and landed, "Why did you take the sugar palm?"

Sugar palm took the initiative: "Longbai Ant King took me to Huaqi Mountain to see the Hall of Knowledge and the Quandong Sacred Tree."

Mo Lan: "Do you trade in early winter? It's cold in the north, so you won't be frozen to death."

Sugar Palm: "No. Let's go there early! I won't go to Yinbai Mountain."

"Okay." Mo Lan looked at Xiangbai again, and asked, "How is the seed bestowed by the red cypress?"

Long Bai: "The state is stable, and he can't die in a short period of time. It can be confirmed that the slough of the fruit bestowed by the gods of Long Cypress has some effects."

Long Bai asked: "Have you harvested the emerald green orchids? How's the quality?"

"It's okay." Mo Lan: "Junbai said that it can sell 3 rough stones per piece."

"Look at it!"

Long Bai urged the ruling throne to accelerate, and landed directly at the entrance of Shannan Ant Nest.

The cedar fell to the ground, surrounded by worker ants, and ran towards the treasure house of the ant nest.

Long Bai and Mo Lan took a rest in the dining room with sugar palms.

Soon,
Cedar and Juniper arrived together and directed the worker ants to carry out a medium-sized spider silk bag.

Only half a pocket.

The orchid seed particles are too small, and the quality can only be considered average.

In detail, the number is quite large, 156 ramets, each producing 16 seeds, a total of 2496 seeds.

"Long Bai, how's it going?" Mo Lan looked forward to asking.

Equally eager were cedars and junipers.Cuihua Hanlan is the seed bestowed by the gods, and they each have a 10% share of income.

Long Bai: "The pricing of juniper is relatively accurate. If you sell it to a caravan, the price is about 3 rough stones per grain."

Long Cypress: "Based on 2500 grains, cedars and junipers, you each have 750 rough stones to share."

"This is your ant student's first income from cultivating the seeds bestowed by the gods. It is worth celebrating. Juniper, go and inform the juniper, giant cypress, and silver cypress for a dinner party to celebrate."

"Okay." Junbai didn't walk away immediately, and asked tentatively, "Longcypress Ant King, 750 rough stones? How about rounding up a whole number for easy accounting."

Xiangbai hurriedly echoed: "Yes, Your Majesty. A grain of rice is marked as 1000 rough stones."

The conductor ants have different ways of handling their private wealth.

The junipers and cedars were reluctant to eat them, and kept them all the time. Every time they had to be urged by Long cypress to eat some, they grew and evolved.

Juniper is the complete opposite. Every time a reward is given out, it is eaten immediately, and it cannot sleep until it is finished.

Giant cypresses and green cypresses behaved more rationally. They eat slowly and evenly to ensure that the fortification effect of force food is maximized.

Long Bai: "There is no need to round up. Distribute the original force food directly, and make 750 cans according to the standard of 5 rough stones, and do not waste royal jelly for storage. Xiang Bai, you do it now."

Xiangbai: "...Okay."

Juniper: "..."

Juniper waved its tentacles, beckoning a group of worker ants to follow, and left quickly.

Longbai took two small spider silk bags and divided the orchid seeds into two parts, each with 1200 grains, and sold them to Qiye and Caolong respectively in the coming year.

"Mo Lan, I've ordered 96 pills for you to eat."

"Oh--"

Mo Lan didn't lack for this food, so she agreed nonchalantly. Seeing the sugar palm staring at the scribbled map on the stone wall carved by Long Bai, she asked:
"Yanglang, can you understand?"

Sugar palm: "I don't understand."

Mo Lan: "Then you still watch so intently."

Yanglang retracted his gaze, and said, "It's because I don't understand, so I looked carefully."

Mo Lan: "Don't look at it. Longbai can't understand it by itself. Let's go. I'll take you to the mountains to play."

Mo Lan led the sugar palms to the outside of the cave, and when she reached the entrance, she saw that Long Bai hadn't followed, she was also looking at the map on the stone wall in a daze, and then she turned her head and asked:

"Long Bai, it's just entered the late autumn season, and there is still a month before the early winter trading, where are we going?"

Long Bai: "Look for the place of the original force. There are still some places in the west of the mainland that have not been explored. Set off tomorrow morning, bring sugar palms, and check everything."

Long Bai: "Go and play. I will plan the path."

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Due north of Molan Mountain.

To the southwest of the swamp where Bailian Lake is located.

The throne of dominance is floating high in the sky, and Cypress, Molan, and Sugar Palm are lying on the edge of the tree stump ant nest, overlooking the front.

A desolate plateau with sparse vegetation, loess, strong wind and flying sand.

New places of the Force have been discovered, but there doesn't seem to be a need to explore them.

"Long Bai, go and have a look."

"Just give it a name."

"Don't look at it, how to name it?"

"There's a wood over there."

"Go down—"

The Throne of Domination falls and descends, slows down, flies horizontally, and hovers.

A natural lake located in a low valley, slender and crescent-shaped, with a length of about [-] meters and a width of only about ten meters at the widest point. The lake is crystal clear.

It should be formed by the underground underground river.

There are a few elms and weeds growing on both sides.

The entire Land of Force is just such a vibrant place, where some small animals live here, but not many in number.

Arid and barren, a place where the probability of being born with the force of the force is zero.

Molan named it Crescent Lake.

Rest here overnight, and continue to search northward in a zigzag line.

The next day,

Mo Lan felt the fluctuation of the Force again.

Flying to check, it is still on a plateau, full of loess eroded by wind, and there are only a few plants.

According to the records in the Hall of Knowledge on Mt. Citi, in the last period of the Force, this place was very rich, and there were tribes of all sizes living here.

It should be caused by climate change, precipitation reduction and drought in the past few thousand years.

Simply named the Loess Wasteland.

Continuing to the north, after another two days, the terrain descends and enters the plains, where the vegetation gradually becomes dense and life is exuberant.

Back and forth, cross-line investigation, but did not find the place of the original force.

Take a trip to Xiaoyang Mountain along the way, pack 10 bags of poplar slough, 5 bags in Huaqi Mountain, and 5 bags in Yinbai Mountain.

Every year at the end of autumn and early winter, a batch of traveling merchants are transported along the way.

……

The cold wind from the north lasted all night.

The temperature plummeted.

A thick layer of snow piled up on the top of Mount Citigroup.

The flame spider is a tropical insect, and the sugar palm cannot stand the cold, so it hides in the tree stump ant nest.

Long Bai first observed around at high altitude, but did not find any traces of yellow skewers and spruces, they should be hiding in caves to avoid the cold.

After a year of restoration and growth, the Quandong sacred tree is more than 300 meters high, almost as high as the mountains.

The ruling throne fluttered down to the tree.

"I've seen the Quandong Sacred Tree."

Long Bai and Mo Lan greeted each other.

"I've seen the Quandong sacred tree." Sugar palm probed from the hole of the stump ant nest.

"Oh!"

"Flame Spider Warrior."

Quandong Shenshu asked: "Long Bai, Mo Lan, was this the little guy you were talking about last time?"

Mo Lan: "Yes. We take it on a long trip to increase its knowledge."

The Quandong Sacred Tree is a warm and talkative tree, and said leisurely: "In the past winter, those spider kings were reluctant to go to Huaqi Mountain. They said it was cold. You brought such a small flame spider to the north to travel in this season. Not a wise move."

Mo Lan: "It's only autumn now. We didn't expect it to suddenly drop in temperature."

Sugar Palm: "The ant nest is very warm."

Quandong Shenshu scanned the ant nest with mental power, and found a metal tank filled with hot water inside, and instantly understood: You insects are quite good at thinking of ways.

Quandong Sacred Tree asked: "Mo Lan, has this little guy acquired some inheritance memory? There are clues about its tribe's whereabouts."

"what???"

Mo Lan didn't understand.

"It seems not."

Quandong Shenshu explained: "The inheritance memory of the Zerg race is constantly increasing, and some important information will be recorded and passed down by the laws of nature."

"For example, the original flame spider diverged into the traveling merchant flame spider, but before the differentiation of the traveling merchant flame spider, there must be no relevant records in the inheritance. It must have been added later, right? Another example is the wild variants of certain plants. and cultivars."

"!!!"

Mo Lan and Sugar Palm woke up and were greatly shocked.

Long Bai had thought about this question a long time ago, and also thought of this place, not surprised, and asked: "Quandong Sacred Tree, when you were at your peak, the height of the tree was just over 400 meters?"

Quandong: "Yes."

Long Bai: "Then you are recovering well, and you are not far from your peak state."

Quandong: "It's just that the height of the tree has recovered a bit, and the strength is still far behind."

Quandong Shenshu knew what Long Bai wanted to ask, and said directly: "However, in the current state, it is definitely no problem to bloom and bear fruit."

Long Bai: "We're not in a hurry, it's okay if you wait for a year before it blooms and bears fruit..."

Long Bai was hypocritical and polite, and said: "I evolved from the 6th age to the 7th age, and used a lot of force-enhancing food. After testing, it verified the guess that the carrying capacity of the ruling throne is related to my own power. At present, the limit The load is 1 rough stones, presumably, after the evolution of the main level of the mountain, it will not be a problem to transport [-] to [-] in one trip. I will definitely be able to send the rough stones of the soul-fixing fruit to Huaqi Mountain in time."

Quan Dong: "Then Huang You can feel at ease."

Quandong: "Are you and Mo Lan exploring other parts of the mainland this year? Or are you continuing to search for rough stones..."

Plants cannot move, and can only obtain information through Zerg warriors.

Quandong Sacred Tree was already proficient in this way, so he chatted with Long Bai naturally, asking for various news.

Talked till noon,
Huang Qiao and Yunshan went out of the cave to look for something to eat, and suddenly found that Long Bai and Mo Lan had arrived...

Let's talk together into the night...

After resting overnight at Huaqi Mountain, Yilong and Mo Lan stayed in the Hall of Knowledge to study, and Long Bai went to Yinbai Mountain alone to trade.

(End of this chapter)