Astral Ants

Chapter 37 Refinement
Consistent with the laying of eggs by regular female ant queens, Long Bai is promoted to an intermediate-level ant king. Correspondingly, the worker ants and soldier ants bred from the ant eggs produced by the ruling throne are also intermediate-level.

Compared with the primary ant queen stage, the intuitive change is the increase in the size of worker ants and soldier ants.

Long Bai bred several worker ants and compared them.

The microscopic chemical ants grew from less than 1 cm to about 1 cm.

The small worker ants grew from about 1.5 centimeters to just over 2 centimeters.

Medium-sized worker ants have grown from about 3 centimeters to about 5 centimeters.

The large worker ants grew from about 5 centimeters to about 8 centimeters.

Specialized chemical ants are still in the larval stage and can certainly exceed 20 centimeters.

In the giant ant kingdom, the specialized chemical ants are a head bigger than the queen ant.

According to the law, the change of soldier ants is similar to that of worker ants.

The increase in body size corresponds to a good improvement in speed and strength, and the combat power of soldier ants will be stronger.

……

A large blue ant emerged, and Long Bai caught it and tested it. After feeding a certain amount of fruit, he fed it a stone orchid seed.

Mental power glanced back and forth, continuing to observe.

Sure enough, after the big blue ant ate the stone orchid seeds, it was not violently killed by the energy of the original force, but digested it smoothly, and turned it into a strand of pure original force substances in its stomach, which was different from the fruit it ate before. Blend and store.

Continue to observe, and the force will not be lost.

Long Bai picked a leaf and gave instructions to the big blue ant.

The big blue ant lowered its head and slowly vomited out the food stored in its belly.

Translucent, light yellow gum, similar to honey, more viscous.

There is a faint fruity aroma of wild grapes and peaches.

Long Bai put his head down and tasted it, it tasted good, very sweet.

However, if you mix a single stone orchid seed into it and eat it after diluting it, you can hardly find the original force substance that can improve your cultivation and strengthen your physique.

Continuous observation found that, when exposed to the air, the force material began to slowly lose.

——Does it need to be stored in the stomach of the blue ant?
Long Cypress was slightly disappointed and named this substance 'ant honey'.

keep testing,

Give an order to let the big blue ant eat all the ant honey on the leaves.

Then, feed it 5 stone orchid seeds.

Shi Lanseed is to strengthen the digestion ability, the effect of comparison tasteless.

Long Bai picked out 5 grains of 'blood rice' that strengthened the blood and fed it 2 grains of 'golden cherry seeds' that strengthened the heart.

During the observation, it was found that the giant blue ants 'refining' these force foods consume a lot of physical energy, and the rate is very slow.

However, as expected, the force substances transformed from the three different force foods slowly mixed and fused together after entering the abdomen of the giant blue ant.

It took two full days.

……

"Long Bai!"

"Long Bai? What are you busy with?"

"Your blue ant was born? It has a big belly, does it have any special skills?"

Mo Lan came to the ant nest with a large bag of freshly picked fruits.

The worker ants stepped forward to check and found that it was not meat, so they turned around and fled away.

Long Bai: "I have figured out the ability of blue ants, which is 'refining'!"

Mo Lan: "Refining?"

Long Bai: "Refining is to digest and refine the food, leaving only the nutrients and energy needed, including the original force food!"

Long Bai shook his tentacles, beckoning the big blue ant to follow him out of the nest.

Mo Lan understood a little bit.

Long Bai trotted, picked a piece of crown vine leaves nearby, and put it in front of the big blue ant.

The big blue ant was also clever, and when it saw the leaves, it immediately understood what Long Bai meant, and without waiting for an order, it took a step forward by itself, buried its head and began to vomit.

Long Bai: "The small fruit grapes and peaches you sent two days ago, plus 6 stone orchid seeds, 5 blood rice seeds, and 2 precious golden cherry seeds."

"Molan, would you like to try it?"

Long Bai pushed Ye Zi forward and warmly entertained her.

"Eat first..."

Mo Lan took two steps back.

This kind of food is a bit unacceptable for insects.

Long Bai buried his head in a mouthful and praised, "It's delicious!"

Long Bai looked at Mo Lan.

Mo Lan looked up at the sky.

Long Bai said: "Mo Lan, I call it 'ant honey', something similar to 'honey'. Try it?"

Mo Lan: "No need. I don't eat sweets. Long Bai is the king of ants. You should eat more."

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai understood why it refused to eat, and patiently explained: "Mo Lan, do you know how honey is made?"

Mo Lan: "How is it brewed?"

Long Bai: "Bees have two stomachs. The pollen and nectar they collect are stored in a special stomach. They swallow them, spit them out, swallow them again, and spit them out again, over and over again for more than a hundred times. Delicious honey."

"Blue ants are similar to bees. They also have two stomachs, one of which is dedicated to storage. They are more powerful than bees, and blue ants don't need to swallow repeatedly."

Are bees so disgusting?Mo Lan lowered her head to look at it, and tilted her head vigorously.

Long Bai: "Mo Lan, have you ever eaten honey?"

Mo Lan: "I haven't eaten it, and I don't plan to eat it in the future."

Long Bai: "Among the goods traded by the caravan, there are royal bee honey made by bees at the life level of the original force collecting pollen and nectar from the life-bearing plants. It is a luxury product, and only those rich and powerful insect kings are willing to buy some. eat."

Hearing this, Mo Lan was a little shaken.

"Long Bai, take another two bites and I'll see."

Long Bai buried himself in two mouthfuls.

Deliberately babble your mouth and make a sound.

Mo Lan hesitated, lowered her head and tasted it.

"Wow!"

"It's so fragrant!"

……

Long Bai waited for Mo Lan to finish eating all the ant honey on the leaves, and happily proposed:
"Mo Lan, I will breed a few more large blue ants and specialized blue ants. From now on, our Force food will be refined by blue ants before eating."

"Okay..." Mo Lan: "It's so troublesome."

"No trouble."

Long Bai said: "In the process of natural evolution, in order to prevent the seeds from being eaten, most plants have evolved to be bitter and unpalatable, or even poisonous. We are force beings and are not afraid of these toxins, but we also need to consume physical energy and time to detoxify. "

"For example, orchid seeds and golden cherry seeds are slightly poisonous. After eating, they need a certain amount of time to 'digest'. Part of this digestion process is to absorb the original force substances, and the other part is to consume energy to detoxify the body."

"Let the blue ants undertake the process of detoxification, which is harmful to the body, the benefits, needless to say?"

"Yes!"

Mo Lan agreed, and praised: "Long Bai, your blue ants are too powerful."

Mo Lan pointed to the spider silk bag again, and said, "Long Bai, I picked some peaches and brown fruit dates. You're about to make the blue ants...refined."

Mo Lan: "Use a few more fruits, the taste will definitely be better! I'll go to the mountains to look for more grapes."

……

Blue ants have too much room to operate.

Choose different fruits to brew ant honey with different aromas.

A variety of fruits are mixed to brew ant honey with mixed fragrance.

The one brewed from eating meat cannot be regarded as 'honey'. It has no fruity or meaty aroma, but it also eliminates the unpleasant stench.

You can also add meat to the ant honey, which is rich in nutrition and has a silky and soft taste.

At the same time, mixing different types of force food and mixing it with ant honey will give you a comprehensive and balanced strengthening when you eat it, which is beneficial to evolutionary growth.

In addition,

The ability of blue ants to store food also has a wide range of uses.

Meat is perishable. In the past, it could only be dried in the sun. The ant nest was damp, and the dried meat was particularly prone to mildew. Now it is fine, and there is no need to worry about it anymore.

Moreover, Molan often hunted large prey such as goats and wild boars and brought them back. The whole family couldn't finish eating them. The weather was bad and the meat couldn't be dried, so they had to bury them under trees for compost.

Now that it's all right, we can breed more blue ants and refine and store the remaining food.

Another point is that if a war breaks out and the soldier ants go on an expedition to fight, the blue ants are the mobile logistics supply. Refined food can quickly replenish the physical energy consumption of the soldier ants.

There are so many uses for blue ants.

Nurture more!
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