Astral Ants

Chapter 34 Soldier Ants Who Don't Eat Frogs

Long Bai hadn't eaten for six or seven days, and was so hungry that he hunted a half-grown wild boar and brought it back to the cave.

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, when did you come here?"

Long Bai: "Of course according to the agreed time."

"Oh--"

Mo Lan: "Is it raining over there? I encountered three heavy rains on the Mo Lan Mountain side, and it almost caused a flood."

Long Bai: "Yes. There is a lot of rain this year. There were two heavy rains on Xianglan Mountain, and another light rain the day before I came here."

Mo Lan: "Oh! It's been a rare year with good weather."

"Yes."

Long Bai asked: "Mo Lan, why did you sleep and evolve without waiting for me to come over? It's too dangerous."

Mo Lan: "I felt that I was going to evolve a few days in advance, so I made some preparations, and waited for two days with vigor. I figured you would come over, and I couldn't hold on anymore, so I fell into a deep sleep."

"What if I'm delayed by something and don't arrive in time?" Long Bai observed the cave.

The silk bag was empty.

Mo Lan's Force food was gone.

The original force food worth 2000 rough stones saved Mo Lan about half a year.

Very good deal.

The spider silk bag is empty, so this search must be fruitless.

If there is something to gain, Mo Lan would have already said it.

There is no need to ask.

Keep your head down and focus on eating.

Mo Lan talked a lot and asked, "Long Bai, how is your pond digging going?"

Long Bai said depressedly: "It didn't go very well. The second big pond was flooded twice and ran aground. I was digging the third pond planned to be in the south, but it was also flooded once. We dug a drainage ditch for it first, and we just dug it."

"That's too bad luck..."

Mo Lan wanted to laugh, but suddenly became anxious again, urging: "Long Bai, eat quickly. Leave after eating. I'm homesick."

"it is good!"

Long Bai was also worried about the territory, so after he was full, he took control of the ruling throne and set off for the return trip.

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"Mo Lan, are the green torreya delicious?"

On the way, Long Bai asked questions.

Mo Lan: "Delicious~"

Mo Lan: "I only remember it's delicious, I've forgotten what it tastes like."

Long Bai: "I still have 10 there, and I will give you 5 when I go back."

Give some favors first,
Long Bai continued to express his thoughts, saying: "I only sowed 10 of the 8 torreya seeds that Luochen gave me last year, and kept 2. When I was promoted to the 9th age, I used 1 and returned it. There is one left, Mo Lan, you can use it as a life seed."

Mo Lan: "No need? Torreya trees grow too slowly, orchid grass is better..."

Long Bai: "Now we don't lack the output of a common orchid grass."

Long Cypress: "Just like the hemlock, let's sow seeds together. The two trees are next to each other. I usually direct the worker ants to take care of them for you."

Mo Lan tilted her head and thought for a while, then readily agreed, "Okay!"

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The ruling throne is close to Xianglan Mountain and falls directly to the small pond.

"Zhanlan...huh?"

Long Bai greeted, and then concentrated his mind.

On the first broad leaf of Zhanlan Godsend Seed, there are 4 small frogs that have just cast off their tails.

"Wow!"

At the same time, Mo Lan noticed the existence of the frog, exclaimed, and shouted:
"Long cypress, frogs! Quick! Kill them!"

"Mo Lan, don't worry!"

"Beware of damaging the blue leaves."

Long Bai controlled the ruling throne and approached slowly.

Zhanlan sent a confusing and questioning mental idea.

"Long Bai, what's wrong?"

Long Bai: "It's okay, Zhan Lan... There are a few frogs crawling on you, I will drive them away."

Long Bai and Mo Lan were afraid of hurting the blue leaves, so they didn't dare to act rashly.

The reigning throne approached, and the four little frogs became alert, jumped into the pond and swam towards the shore.

After sweeping the mental power, there are still five or six hidden in the grass by the pond.

What annoyed Long Bai was that the 12 soldier ants guarding nearby turned a blind eye to the existence of the frog.

After going out for so many days, why didn't you guys starve to death?
Long Bai waved his tentacles, giving the soldier ants a kill order.

Zhan Lan sensed Long Bai's killing intent, and asked anxiously: "Long Bai, do you want to kill the frog?"

Cypress: "Yes. They will trample your leaves."

Zhanlan: "No way..."

Zhanlan: "Is it because Mo Lan doesn't like them?"

Long Bai waved his tentacles.

The soldier ants who were about to act stopped.

Long Bai lowered his head and pondered, then raised his head, and said solemnly like never before: "Mo Lan! I understand."

Mo Lan froze for a moment, then asked strangely, "What do you understand?"

Long Bai: "I understand why the creator civilization perished."

Mo Lan: "Huh?"

Mo Lan was stunned for a moment, followed Long Bai's words and asked, "Why?"

Long Bai: "The creator civilization should be a race with pure water abilities. Their nature is also as soft as water. When other civilizations are about to destroy it, it will be destroyed."

Mo Lan thought for a while and asked, "What does that have to do with these nasty frogs?"

Long Bai said: "Zhanlan is different from the god-given seed of our natural pantheon, its nature is warm and kind. Zhanlan asks me not to kill these little frogs."

Cymbidium:"……"

Do you want to talk about this for a long time?Mo Lan said angrily, "Small frogs will grow into big frogs, and big frogs will trample on leaves!"

Long Bai: "Let's talk about it when we grow up. Zhanlan watched them turn from tadpoles into frogs. It's really not good for me to kill them in front of them."

Mo Lan turned her head angrily, her thoughts changed sharply, and she helped out with an idea:

"Long Bai, I have a solution! These frogs are hiding in the grass in the pond and eating insects, right? You let the worker ants cut the grass. Without grass, there will be no insects. Without insects, these frogs will leave naturally, and then..."

What a ruthless praying mantis~
"Row……"

Long Bai reluctantly agreed vaguely, quickly changed the topic, and said, "Mo Lan, you haven't returned to the territory for 23 days, go and see Guo Xianglan."

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Send Molan away.

Long Bai stayed by the pond, the more he thought about it, the more strange he became.

There are grasslands and dense forests on both sides of the ditch, and there is abundant food. The 12 specialized soldier ants guarding the small pond all hunt for their own food, and eat whatever they catch.

Why didn't they hunt and kill the frogs that were close at hand?

Long Bai controls the rise of the throne of dominion, hovers high, does not interfere with the specialized soldier ants, and observes them silently.

Discovered two days later,
Every morning and evening, the specialized soldier ants form regular groups to forage for food, search everywhere, and when they go to other places, they will not hunt and kill frogs, even toads.

They used to be very happy to eat, this must have happened recently.

Why?
Long Bai thought of Zhan Lan.

"Zhanlan, can you command specialized soldier ants?"

"cannot……"

"Then why don't the soldier ants guarding the vicinity stop hunting frogs?"

"I use my mental power to keep repeating to stop them from hurting the frog, and they won't hurt the frog anymore..."

"Spiritual power?" Long Bai asked.

"Yes." Zhanlan replied affirmatively.

How can this be?

Both worker ants and soldier ants are 'replicas' without souls and independent consciousness, without spiritual power.

How is it possible to communicate with the ant colony through spiritual power?
Long Bai turned his head, and immediately used his mental strength to give a "come here" command to a specialized chemical ant not far away.

The specialized soldier ant was keenly aware of the fluctuations in mental power, and looked at Long Bai blankly, motionless.

Cypress repeated.

no response.

Repeat.

The specialized soldier ants simply ignored Long Bai.

Sure enough.

There are only two ways for ant king to command ant colony:
The first is short-distance pheromone signal commands, which have stronger control;

The second is that the antennae release invisible signal fluctuations to issue instructions, and the release distance of such instructions is very far.

Worker ants and soldier ants have no independent consciousness, no mental power, cannot use mental power to communicate, and naturally cannot use mental power to give orders.

"Zhanlan, is this your ability? Mental power psychedelic to control other lives?"

"ability?"

There was a puzzled wave of mental power from Zhanlan.

Long Bai: "Zhanlan, can you control the frogs so that they don't jump into the pond?"

Zhanlan: "I don't know..."

Long Bai: "Try!"

"Ok."

Zhanlan agreed.

start trying.

Tried for a long time, no response.

A few small frogs preyed on small insects in the grass, jumped into the pond after eating, jumped onto the blue leaves, and squatted on the leaves to rest contentedly.

Frogs are ordinary life forms, and they can't perceive spiritual power at all.

Long Bai suddenly had a guess:

——The ant colony is cultivated by the 'messenger' produced by the ruling throne.

—— Zhanlan was reborn by returning to zero the throne of domination.

——Because of the relationship with the ruling throne?
——If Zhanlan can control the ant colony, that would be great, let it direct the digging of the pond by itself!

Long Bai waved its tentacles, and summoned the worker ants resting in the distant hills, and gathered beside the small pond.

"Zhanlan, try using your mental power to direct the worker ants to dig the pond over there."

"Ok."

Zhanlan repeatedly releases her mental power and releases the message 'quickly dig the pond'.

Repeated several times, the worker ants gradually became agitated and ran around in a daze.

"Zhanlan, it's ok...forget it. You can't command them."

Long Bai gave up directly.

Zhanlan can indeed move the ant colony through mental power, but the effect is too slow and needs to be repeated repeatedly. It is completely impossible to perform precise command and carry out slightly complicated work.

In the future, Zhanlan will grow into a towering tree, and her spiritual power will grow stronger, maybe it will work.

(End of this chapter)