Astral Ants

Chapter 32 Zhanlan (additional reading)

"Molan, what are you doing?"

"Oh~ the weather is bad recently, I'll take out the Force food to dry."

"When it's sunny, put it in the sun to bask in."

"Ok, I see."

Mo Lan buried her head in packing her things, and asked, "Long Bai, what's the matter?"

Long Bai controlled the ruling throne to shrink a bit, slowly floated into the cave, and said cheerfully: "Good news! The seed bestowed by the blue god has given birth to consciousness, and it looks very smart."

"is it?"

Mo Lan was invigorated when she heard the words, and said with great joy: "If consciousness is born, then it will blossom and bear fruit!"

"Long cypress, when does it bloom?"

Long Bai: "I don't know..."

Long Bai: "Did you hear the thunder just now?"

Mo Lan: "Of course."

Long Bai explained: "It seems that the thunder was alarmed, which awakened the consciousness of the Zhanlan God-given Seed in advance, and felt that its mental power was very weak during the communication."

Long Bai explained the purpose of his visit: "Mo Lan, I'm here to get a few rough stones for Zhan Lan to help it grow rapidly and stabilize its consciousness."

Mo Lan pointed to the depths of the cave, and said, "The original stone is over there in the spider silk bag, you can take it yourself."

Long Bai: "Good!"

There are a total of 80 rough stones, 15 of which were used up when the azure blue god-given seed was planted, and 15 more were taken away by Long Cypress.

Leave 50 pieces, and use it to replenish the force when the God-bestowed Seed of Guoxianglan matures.

"Long Bai, let me take a look!"

Mo Lan packed up her things and jumped onto the ruling throne.

"Okay. Together." Long Bai controlled the ruling throne and floated out of the cave, straight into the sky.

……

"Long Bai."

The reigning throne approached, Zhan Lan greeted him politely, and then conveyed a questioning emotion: Who is it?
Long Bai was surprised.

In the inheritance memory, the god-given seeds born from the plants of the natural gods have a strong sense of territory, especially repelling other insect races.

Zhanlan seemed to be different, it didn't show resistance to Molan.

"It's called Molan. My friend."

Long Bai explained, took out a rough stone, and said: "Zhanlan, this is the rough stone that can help you evolve and grow. The rough stone of Molan."

"Raw stone."

Zhanlan felt joyful, and conveyed a friendly sentiment to Mo Lan.

Mo Lan immediately sensed Zhan Lan's mental fluctuations, and turned her head in astonishment, looking at Long Bai.

"Long Bai, it seems to like me very much?"

"I don't like you. I told it that these rough stones belong to you."

"Oh--"

That's okay too?Mo Lan tilted her head to think, and suggested:
"Long Bai, next time I will take a few rough stones to the territory of Guoxianglan's god-given seed. I told Xianglan that the rough stones were given by you, and it will stop scolding you in the future."

Long Bai: "???"

The God-given Seed of Guoxianglan is scolding me?

Long Bai choked speechlessly for a few seconds, and analyzed: "I guess, the plants of the creator civilization are quite different from the plants of the natural god system. The blue sky is softer."

Long Bai: "Guoxianglan is hopeless...what did it scold me for?"

"I didn't say anything." Mo Lan looked up at the sky and urged, "Hurry up and use the rough stone for Zhanlan."

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai stared at Zhanlan and looked up and down, and after a little deliberation, he manipulated the throne to descend and move forward slowly, approaching the first broad leaf.

Standing on the edge of the seat, holding the rough stone in his jaws, scraping the tip of his two front toes horizontally, layers of crystal powder fell on the leaf surface, the original force dissipated, and was immediately sucked away by the leaf.

Long Bai's god-given seed would not repel him.Mo Lan was even happier than Long Bai, she had several questions on her mind, but seeing that it was busy and didn't want to disturb her, she quietly stood aside and watched.

……

The trumpet-shaped broad-leaf opening is turned outward.

The snow-white and crystal-clear raw stone powder was sprinkled on it, and the original force passed away, the color was dim, and it was washed down by the rain.

Long Bai scraped off a rough stone without haste.

Seeing this, Mo Lan hurriedly asked, "Long Bai, does Zhan Lan need to fertilize?"

After finishing speaking, he raised his forefoot and pointed lightly at the opening of the stagnant water.

This is a problem.

Long Cypress had thought about fertilizing for a long time, but considering that the plants of the extraterrestrial civilization might be different from the plants of the natural gods, he didn't dare to try it lightly.

Long Bai: "When the rain stops, you can try it."

Mo Lan asked again: "How does Zhanlan bloom and bear fruit? Does it grow a foil from the trunk? How long is its flower-fruit cycle? Is it a year?"

This is also a question that Long Bai has always been curious about.

Long Bai: "Zhanlan, do you know how you bloom?"

Zhanlan: "???"

Zhanlan was at a loss, and a questioning spiritual idea came from him.

"Don't you know? That's okay. You are very weak now, take a rest and use less mental power."

Long Bai turned his head and replied to Mo Lan: "Zhanlan is completely unclear."

"Oh--"

Mo Lan thought about it and asked, "What does Zhanlan know? Does it know nothing?"

Long Bai: "It thinks that the rough stone is a good thing. It doesn't know anything about the others. If it is reset to zero and reborn, its memory will also be cleared."

Mo Lan: "Ah——"

Mo Lan: "I also think rough stones are good things."

Mo Lan had no choice but to ask the last question: "Long Bai, when will you be able to evolve into an intermediate ant king?"

Mo Lan added: "The earlier you reach the intermediate level, the blue will advance accordingly, and it will grow faster. Maybe it will bloom next spring."

Life species will evolve synchronously with the Zerg warriors who bred them. The higher the degree of evolution, the faster the growth, and the higher the quality of the fruit of the force produced.

The growth patterns of arbor species were slightly different from those of herbaceous species.

Arbor species cannot develop rapidly through ramets like herbaceous plants. Their growth takes time, and they accumulate over time, and the size of the tree grows year by year. Correspondingly, the yield of the force fruit increases.

In addition, for a few special types of arbor species, no matter how large the tree grows, the number of force fruits produced remains unchanged.This type usually has extremely rare and powerful enhancement effects.

"It's only been a little over a month since I evolved to the 9th age, so I can't be impatient, take it easy, and advance in autumn."

After Long Bai finished speaking, he asked puzzledly: "Mo Lan, why are you so anxious that Zhan Lan will bear fruit?"

Mo Lan: "I want to know whether the force food it produces is expensive or not, whether the output is high or not, and how much profit it can bring us every year..."

Mo Lan sighed: "I miss my kettle made of ice and fire. Long Bai, think about it, how nice it is to have a cup of hot water to drink on a cold and rainy day like this."

Long Bai was ashamed, silent for a long time, and solemnly promised: "Mo Lan, don't worry, starting next year, my life-planting plants will produce one after another, increasing year by year, I believe we will soon be able to save enough rough stones to buy a complete The Ice and Fire Kettle!"

……

15 rough stones, 7 in the morning and 8 in the afternoon, used up in one day.

Under the nourishment of the original force, Zhanlan's weak consciousness stabilized.

after the rain,

Long Bai pumped half a bamboo tube of fertilizer water from the biogas pool on the mountain to the small pond, controlled the ruling throne to approach Zhanlan carefully, and poured a little into the second broad leaf in the middle.

Zhanlan immediately sent a series of mixed emotions of joy, likes, doubts, and urging mental ideas.

no need to ask,
Long Bai turned to Mo Lan and said, "It's useful! Fertilization is the same as our natural god plants."

"great!"

Mo Lan cheered, and asked habitually: "Long cypress, Zhanlan has been growing slowly recently, is there any reason for the insufficient supply of nutrients in the pond?"

"It's a little bit. It takes a while to find out."

Long cypress was not very sure, controlling the rise of the ruling throne, and poured a little fertilizer into the third broad leaf close to the blue.

Immediately, another happy spiritual idea came from Zhanlan.

Finally, the dragon cypress controls the descending of the ruling throne, and pours all the remaining fertilizer and water in the bamboo tube into the first broad leaf at the bottom.

Long Bai and Mo Lan rode back to the mountain on the ruling throne, fetched water from the digester with large bamboo tubes, sent it down the mountain, and poured it into a small pond.

After scooping up the fertilizer and water in the pond, the biogas residue at the bottom of the sedimentation pond is the good stuff, which is dug out and used.

(End of this chapter)