Astral Ants

Chapter 36 Blue Ants

Mo Lan stayed outside the ant nest for five days and five nights.

After figuring out the ability of the water system, Long Bai sent it home with the Throne of Control, and quickly rested.

Long Bai himself also returned to the nest, spit out the newly conceived torreya seeds, and chose a golden pine nut as the first life seed of the first instar mid-level ant king.

Continue to eat, rest, and restore evolutionary loss.

dawn,

Feeling fully recovered, I came out of the nest and came to the pond.

"Zhanlan, I've evolved! An intermediate ant king."

Zhanlan: "I feel it, I have also evolved."

Long Bai: "Then do you feel that your growth has accelerated?"

Zhanlan: "It seems that there is..."

it is good!
Long Bai was overjoyed.

I am anxious to be promoted to the intermediate level, the main reason is that the god-given seed can grow faster.

Grow up earlier, bloom and bear fruit earlier, bloom more and bear more fruit.

Longbai: "Zhanlan, you pay attention to rooting deep during the growth process. After a while, after I have dug the four large reservoirs around me, I will dig them through and connect them with the small pond you are rooting now. one slice."

Zhanlan thought for a long time before comprehending Longbai's meaning, conveyed a joyful spiritual idea, and agreed: "I understand!"

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The sun is still vicious in early autumn.

There are all kinds of wild fruits on the mountain that are concentrated and mature, and Mo Lan has started a new round of search for the god-given seed.

Long Bai gave himself a day off, followed him around the mountain, and ate all kinds of fruits by the way.

Zero gains, but a very happy day.

Homing at dusk.

Longbai felt full of vitality, passed the weak period of evolution, communicated with the ruling throne, and activated the "messenger" function.

【Please select the messenger type】

【Guardian Strength】

【Guardian·Hydrology】

【Producer・Agriculture】

【Producer · Refining】

--what?

Long Bai was stunned for a moment, then he came to a realization.

Strength is the racial talent of the giant head ants.

To be promoted to an intermediate-level ant king, the water talent will be awakened. Correspondingly, the Throne of Dominion will have an extra water 'messenger', and two more choices: water soldier ants and worker ants:

——Guardian Hydrology?
——Producer · Refining?
The ability of the water element is not strong, and the soldier ants of the water element are definitely not strong, so just ignore it.

"What does refining mean?"

"Are the ways pheromones stimulate developmental differentiation connected?"

"Then, can the 'smart chemical ants' that I cultivated from 'producer·agriculture' ant eggs be able to direct the worker ants that are cultivated from 'producer·refining' ant eggs?"

"Similarly, can the giant soldier ants of the strength department be able to command the soldier ants of the 'hydrology' department?"

"This is a very important question..."

After Long Bai thought for a while, various questions popped up in his mind.

These questions can be guessed one by one in the future.

Still choose [producer·agriculture], first try the 'intelligent chemical ants' that cultivate the memory of racial inheritance.

【Please select the quantity】

【quantity: 1】

【quantity: 2】

【quantity: 3】

【quantity: 4】

The upper limit of the number of ant eggs produced each time has been raised to 4!
Long Bai was overjoyed again.

If you still maintain a cycle of four days, with 4 ant eggs each time, that is an average of 1 ant egg per day.

This is the great news.

Long Bai has eaten all kinds of force food that strengthens the comprehensive physique, and confidently chooses 4.

Blu-ray sweeps.

[Physical condition is not good, please select the quantity again]

Long Bai: "..."

Haven't fully recovered yet?
Long Bai tried to choose 【Quantity 3】

successfully passed.

The suction power came from the ruling throne, and the messenger was generated, entering the first stage of the birth of the original force.

……

Long Bai counted the total number of ant colonies in the south and north of the mountain, up and down the mountain.

There are 58 large, medium, small and micro-worker ants, and the logistics support is sufficient.

(A total of 60 were bred and 2 were lost)
There are 82 specialized chemical ants.

(A total of 86 were bred and 4 were lost)
There are 67 large, medium, small and micro-soldier ants.

(A total of 80 were bred, lost in battle, lost inexplicably, and 13 were lost)
There are 76 specialized soldier ants, two of them are disabled.

(A total of 84 were bred, 7 were lost in hunting and fighting, and 1 was washed away by water during heavy rain)
The total number of ant colonies is 280, large and small.

In addition, there are 21 ant eggs and larvae in the hatching room.

"Intermediate king ants, the life levels of soldier ants and worker ants cultivated are also corresponding to intermediate levels, and they will definitely be stronger."

"Next, the main thing is to cultivate specialized chemical ants on a large scale, and then cultivate 40 more. They will be assisted by intelligent chemical ants later, so they won't have to worry about being unable to command them."

"Soldier ants have a lot of losses in battle, and soldier ants of all sizes need to be properly supplemented."

"I don't know how long the breeding cycle of intelligent soldier ants is, is it 60 to 70 days?"

Long Bai was thinking about it, and had a rough plan for the future development of the ant colony.

……

【Messenger·Producer·Agriculture completed】

Long Bai inspected the ant eggs, which were a little bit bigger than when he was a junior ant king, and the changes were difficult to detect without carefully measuring them.

There are no other differences.

The pheromones that stimulate development were applied respectively to call the worker ants to move away.

One of them will be cultivated as an 'intelligent chemical ant'. A separate hatching room will be opened for it, and a medium-sized worker ant and 1 small worker ants will be sent to take care of it.

rest for a day,
Enable the Throne of Dominion courier function, select [Producer · Refining]

It took three days, and 3 translucent, light blue ant eggs were formed in a pure water system.

Try using pheromone stimulation to differentiate into specialized worker ants, large worker ants, and medium-sized worker ants.

……

The response of ordinary life species is much slower than that of god-given species.

Seven days after Longbai was promoted to an intermediate-level ant king, the eight ordinary life-growing plants had some changes. The temperature in autumn was not bad, and their growth speed increased a little.

The height of the fourth giant cypress is over 1.5 meters, and it will bloom in the spring of the coming year. You can consider allowing it to set seeds in an appropriate amount.

two days later,

For intelligent chemical ants to hatch, Cypress needs to enter the hatching room regularly every morning, noon, and night to supplement the pheromones that stimulate their differentiation.When resting at night, let the worker ants move to the throne of domination, and the abundant force will help them grow and develop.

……

"Producer · Refining" ant eggs hatch successively, and the larvae are white and tender as a whole, with light blue ring patterns.

Ten days later,
At the foot of the mountain, the excavation of the third large pond located to the south of the small pond has been completed.

Ten days later,

Before the temperature dropped, the fifth broad leaf of the Zhanlan God-Bestowed Seed unfolded, and the plant reached a height of three meters.

At the same time, the larvae of the intelligent chemical ants developed rapidly, with a body length of more than 5 centimeters. The whole body was snow-white, chubby, and looked particularly strong.

Inheritance memory shows,

Cultivating giant soldier ants requires a large amount of force-based food that strengthens the body.

Force food is needed to cultivate intelligent chemical ants, but there are no special requirements.

It just so happened that the Molan seeds in Molan's territory were ripe and harvested, and 60 of them were delivered.

Long Bai tried to feed the intelligent chemical ant larvae with low-quality black orchid seeds.

Don't dare to give more, one pill a day.

Shilan and Xuelan in Molan's territory are ripening one after another.

This year's harvest is bumper, and 100 capsules of Shilan seeds have been given away.

Long Bai mixed three kinds of orchid seeds and fed them to the intelligent chemical ant larvae.

When its body length exceeds 10 cm, it will be fed with high-quality force food purchased from Luochen.

……

[Producer · Refining] The larvae cultivated by the ant eggs cocoon and emerge as feathers.

The body length is just over 5 cm.

The carapace is black, and the abdomen is circled, with a total of 6 blue rings.

For the convenience of distinguishing, Longbai simply named this kind of worker ants 'blue worker ants', or 'blue ants' for short; the corresponding soldier ants were named 'blue soldier ants', or 'blue soldiers' for short.

After the blue ant is full, its abdomen swells, and the blue ring turns translucent, and it can be vaguely seen that its stomach is full of food that has turned into white liquid.

Long Bai used his mental strength to scan and check, and immediately understood.

The so-called 'refining' is to refine food, leaving pure energy and nutrients that can be directly absorbed and stored.

keep watching,

It was soon discovered that when a worker ant in the ant colony was hungry, the blue ant would spit out the refined food stored in its stomach and feed it to the worker ants.

Long Bai understood the role of the blue ants, and immediately had another idea: Can the original force food be refined?
Thinking of this,

Many, many wonderful ideas popped up in Long Bai's mind.

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(End of this chapter)