Astral Ants

Chapter 295 Named Black Leaf
The black orchids are blooming, another spring of the year.

North Gorgon Reservoir.

"Beiqian, return Shuojin to me."

"That's my shimmering gold."

"Give it back to me soon. The Dragon Cypress Ant King is about to evolve into the Mountain Lord level, and Nanqian is in urgent need."

"My shining gold."

"Oh--"

Mo Lan left, wandered up and down the mountain and inspected a circle, and came to Beiqian Reservoir again.

"Beiqian, return Shuojin to me."

"My shining gold!"

"Then you lend it to me."

"No loan."

"Lend it to me quickly. Use it urgently. The Dragon Cypress Ant King is about to evolve into a mountain master, and Nanqian is in great need."

"...No borrowing."

"oh--."

Mo Lan left, went back to the cave to eat some ant honey, rested for a while, and went down the mountain again to the Beiqian Reservoir.

"Northern Gorgon..."

"Molan, I was wrong. Here's something. Let's go. Don't bother me."

In the middle of the reservoir, at the position of the mother plant of the North Gorgon, with a bang, Shuo Jin rushed out of the water and flew across to Mo Lan.

"I'll see you later."

Mo Lan raised her paw to take it, proud and happy.

Weighing it, it was very heavy. According to the requirements, Beiqian stored a large amount of force inward, and accumulated a large amount of energy and nutrients.

Satisfied, Mo Lan put it in the spider silk bag and returned to the mountain to hand it over to Long Bai.

Long Bai went down the mountain and handed it over to Nan Qian, telling it to accumulate power and prepare to evolve with him.

The plants that were planted on the mountain and below the mountain sprouted flower buds in spring, and they were cut off immediately.

Everything is ready.

Long Bai calmed down and rested on the ruling throne all day long, adjusting his mental and physical state to the best.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty..."

In the depths of the ant nest, Juniper led a large group of soldier ants, running towards the royal family, shaking their tentacles vigorously along the way to release fierce messages.

"Juniper? What's the matter?"

Long Bai was in a good state of mind at this time, and asked questions calmly.

"My lord! Look!"

Juniper pushed forward a soldier ant behind him.

The specialized soldier ant with a body length of just over 1 meter waved its tentacles in fear and greeted Long Bai on the throne: I have seen the king!

"what!"

Long Bai stood up.

Juniper: "My lord, this soldier ant is not ordinary! Two wild boars broke into our orchard last night, and it actually knew how to command other soldier ants to hunt. It led only 11 specialized soldier ants to successfully hunt down two adult wild boars. Already!"

Juniper: "My lord, is this what you're looking for, an ant like Heiti?"

Long Bai: "...is it possible?"

Long Bai was not convinced either.

Back then, Hei Ti had very distinctive features: small in size, lazy, smart, and able to entice other ants to be lazy.

First of all, this specialized soldier ant is not small, and even stronger.

Long Bai's mental power was swept away, and he didn't notice anything unusual.

"Juniper, do you recognize it? Are you usually lazy?"

"I recognized it, but I didn't pay attention... Your Majesty, there are so many ants in our kingdom, most of them are lazy... It's impossible for me to pay attention to every one of them."

—Could it be that, before, the criteria and methods for screening special ants were wrong?

Long Bai jumped off the throne, approached, stared at the soldier ant for a while, shook its tentacles, and motioned to follow.

There are still many black lotus seeds left for Mo Lan and the commanding ants in the treasure house that stores food for the Force.

Long Bai took out one, peeled it, handed it to the specialized soldier ant, and gave the command: eat

The specialized soldier ants were a little dazed, looked left and right, hesitated, and ate the black lotus seeds.

Juniper scrambled to get a closer look.

After waiting for a long time, only a very small amount of force escaped along the gaps of the carapace nodules.

Most of it is absorbed by the body, gathers the brain position, and finally strengthens the brain.

"Your Majesty?!"

Excited, Juniper asked.

"That's right!"

"Those like the black lotus can molt their shells and evolve into King Zuo's specialized soldier ants through black lotus seeds."

"Juniper, you have done a good job."

"You did a great job! I will reward you with 1000 rough stones."

Long Bai turned around and raised his claws to carve characters on the rock wall of the cave.

"Thank you, King, for the reward!"

Junbai was overjoyed, and hurriedly stopped him: "Your Majesty, don't bother, don't need to keep accounts, I'll take 1000 rough stones for food."

Long Bai: "Alright. You choose."

"Eat so much, be careful to die."

Long Bai couldn't help being reprimanded severely, and counted, there are still 127 black lotus seeds left this year, he calculated silently, put 20 of them into a small spider silk bag, and said to the specialized soldier ant:
"Your Majesty has given you an official name. From today onwards, you will be called Heiye!"

"Black Leaf!"

The specialized soldier ants shook their tentacles excitedly.

Long Bai threw the spider silk bag to Juniper, and said: "Junbai, you can help hold these black lotus seeds. You carry black leaves, and you can give one a day. You can't give more. Be careful, don't let it get involved in the battle. "

"Understood! Your Majesty!"

Juniper answered with a clang.

Just as Long Bai was about to send them away, he had an idea, immersed himself in carving a long string of characters on the ground, called Heiye to come forward, and gave instructions:

--Learn with me!

- Remember these characters.

Long Bai pointed to a character and said, "This is 'one', the number 'one'."

He took out a black lotus seed, shook it, and said, "Do you understand the 'one' of a black lotus seed?"

Heiye twitched the tentacles, "Yes."

Long Bai took out another black lotus seed, put it in front of him, and said, "Two black lotus seeds."

Long Bai's tentacles tapped, pointing to the character representing the number 'two' on the ground, "This is two."

Heiye: "Two."

very good!

Cypress in turn will be taught by characters representing numbers one to nine.

After teaching,

Characters recorded on the wall to command the amount of private wealth of the ants are randomly selected and assessed.

This black leaf seems to be dull and silly, but has a strong memory, and he can understand and remember it simply by teaching it once.

Long cypress told Juniper: "Go, tell juniper, cedar, giant cypress, and green cypress to come over and check all the ants in the ant nest again to see if there are any omissions."

"Your Majesty, how do you check?"

Juniper pointed to the characters on the ground, "Is that so? Is it too troublesome?"

Long Bai: "At present, Hei Ti and Hei Ye have only one characteristic in common, that is, they are smarter than the others. Organize all specialized ants and learn characters in batches. Those who can learn must be smart."

Juniper: "..."

Juniper: "My lord, are you sure you can do it? I haven't learned everything..."

Long Bai was furious, waving his tentacles and twitching wildly, "Idiot! How dare you say that!"

……

The junipers, cedars, giant cypresses, and green cypresses arrived soon. According to the requirements, they organized the specialized chemical ants, soldier ants, blue ants, and blue soldiers into groups of 36 for brief teaching.

Long Bai was also surprised to find that most of the specialized ants could learn the simple characters from one to nine.

So it was changed to teach more complicated 11 characters representing names such as cypress, molan, juniper, juniper and plant names.

The junipers, cedars, giant cypresses, and green cypresses are in charge of teaching. After the teaching, the specialized ants lined up and entered the Shannan restaurant.

Long Bai carved various characters messily on the stone wall of the restaurant, checked them himself, raised his claws to point them out, and let the specialized ants recognize them.

After the first round of screening, hundreds of smart specialized ants passed the test.

So he taught more characters and conducted a second round of assessment.

14 specialized ants were selected.

Long Bai distributed a black lotus seed to each of them, and observed the reaction...

After tossing for half a month, the result disappointed the ants, and none of them passed the test.

There are still many specialized ants stationed in the ant nests of South Suanzao Mountain, Heilian Lake, and Bailian Lake, so go back and test it.

After Hei Ye ate 20 black lotus seeds, she molted and evolved once. Like Hei Ti at the beginning, her body size shrunk in reverse, the aura of advanced specialized soldier ants weakened, and some characteristics of command ants were added.

100% sure that Heiye can evolve into a command ant like Heiti.

Then the juniper can't take it with it.

Long cypress must concentrate on evolution, and arrange to learn various knowledge from juniper and cypress first.

future,

Heiye went to the sugar palm rainforest to open up wasteland and expand the soil, build an orchard, and professionally cultivate tropical fruits such as golden fruit, blue fruit, mango, carambola, rambutan, etc.

Enriches the fruity aroma of the Force Honey, and also provides delicious food for the Ant Country.

……

Before I knew it, it was the time of the year to trade with the Flaming Spider Traveling Merchant.

Long Bai went to Scarlet Light Mountain to pick up the sugar palms and 100 subadult primordial flame spiders it had selected.

Pandan Mountain rested for two days.

Long Bai organized the ant colony to set off, and rushed to the ant nest in Hongnan Mountain.

(End of this chapter)