Astral Ants

Run Yinbai Mountain and complete the last big deal of autumn travel merchants.

The cold wind howled, and the world was silent.

Time for winter.

Mo Lan stayed in the Tilia Kingdom to play.

Long Bai went to the Ghost Fan Mountain alone, picked up the Ghost Fan, and headed straight to the sea.

Precisely lock the location, walk through the channel of the submarine starship with ease, and enter the cave at the end of the Molan Continent.

The ghost fan sweeps back and forth between the gaps in the gate with its tentacles, reversely casts the 'Golden Hewen' ability, and destroys the strengthening left by the ancient flame spider.

Then use the ability of metal decay to turn the metal that has lost its strengthening into fine grains of sand, swallow it directly, and transform it into 'metal armor'.

Evolve to the lord level, the ability has been greatly improved, and the efficiency is much higher than that of the mountain lord level.

But after all, it is fighting against the power left by the insect king, and it can only be consumed little by little, and it consumes extra force.

After being busy for a while, Ghost Fan is about to jump on the throne of domination to resume consumption.

Taking advantage of the rest of the ghost fan, Long Bai lay down in front of the crack of the door, and began to sense the soul-fixing ability.

Similar to the last observation, a small group of ant colonies marched past every other day or two.

Occasionally, they may stay within the sensing range, and they are busy going up and down trees, and usually stay for a short period of time before leaving.

Through the unremitting efforts of the ghost fan, the width of the gap is expanding day by day, and the sensing range is also expanding accordingly.

Soon, a semicircle sensing area with a radius of over 10 kilometers and facing south was formed.

Within this range, it is easy to observe the activities of the ant colony.

No nests were found, and they came from afar.

They are also parcels that divide woodland reclamation into parcels.

Then very regularly, enter each field, go up and down the tree to pick the fruit.

Longbai continued to observe for a month, and found that they had been to the same field twice, and they had picked the same tree twice.

All plots are picked in rotation.

Continue to observe,

Another month passed.

The same frequency, the same plot, they have visited twice within a month.

Go up and down the tree, pick 2 times.

All plots come in regular rotation.

What fruit can be picked twice in a month, and can be picked continuously for two months?
In the inheritance memory, there is absolutely no such high-yield plant in the natural astral world.

A large number of small and medium-sized ants go up and down the tree, and it is impossible to hunt and kill insects.

but,

What is that doing?
One should think about what is in the tree.

What else is there besides the leaves on the tree?
There are only leaves on the tree.

Long Bai observed and thought for a long time before he suddenly figured out that the Ant Kingdom on the opposite side might be eating leaves.

Definitely not termites.

Then there is only one possibility left: true leaf-cutting ants
A special ant race that is highly similar to termites and can awaken wood and earth talents.They grow mycelium from the leaves and feed on the mycelium.

As recorded in the inheritance memory, a strong branch of the ant tribe.

Like the giant cephalic ants, it has five body types: specialized, large, medium, small, and micro, and is good at farming and management.

They have almost no food restrictions, and their populations are huge, reaching millions or tens of millions.

The Yunji Continent that Long Bai was familiar with, the Wanzu Continent, and the Wanguo Continent ruled by the Ant Clan and the Bee Clan did not have this kind of ants.

It's not extinct.

Originally lived in the southern hemisphere.

Long Bai revealed his conjecture and discussed it with Ghost Fan.

Ghost Fan also believes that the opposite is a certain leaf-cutter ant tribe.

And it is certain that many animals and plants that have been recorded in the inheritance memory but have not been seen before should all live in the southern hemisphere.

……

It took two months for Ghost Fan to clean up all the cracks of the entire gate.

The door is unlocked,

But behind the door was blocked by a stone wall strengthened by the mighty spider king of the flame spider tribe with the ability of earth system.

The door can't be opened, you need rice to evolve to the lord level, and use the soil ability to destroy it.

"Long Bai, are we going back?"

Ghost Fan asked.

Long Bai said: "The door gap is too narrow, it is inconvenient to operate. Ghost fan, is the metal of the door completely immovable?"

Ghost Fan: "It can be shaken. But it is a hundred times more difficult than the crack in the door. The door is made of an alloy with high strength itself, and the strengthening is even stronger. I can only destroy it bit by bit."

Long Bai: "Oh——"

Long Bai: "How long will it take to dig a hole with a diameter of four to five centimeters in the crack of the door?"

Ghost Fan: "It will probably take half a year."

Long Bai: "..."

Ghost Fan: "I can work overtime, maybe I can break through in four or five months."

Long Bai shook the tentacles, "Forget it first. Let's come back next winter and dig it out."

Ghost Fan pointed to the gap between the two gates, and asked, "Is there a hole in the middle, so that Baifan can use his ability to dig out the rocks inside?"

Long Bai: "Yes."

Ghost Fan: "Long Bai, the stone wall opposite is harder than metal. You should bring Baifan over here to see if it works. In case, Baifan has evolved to the lord level, but his ability cannot shake the stone wall..."

Then you can only wait a few more years and spend resources to help Baifan carry out another age evolution.

Long Bai: "That's exactly what I mean."

Long Bai greeted: "Ghost Fan, let's go, I'll take you back to the mountain."

……

Send the ghost fan back to the ghost fan mountain, turn to Baifan mountain, pick up the rice, and come to the cave of Molan Continent again.

Baifan turned around to look at the surrounding murals, raised his head vigorously, and fixed his eyes on the map of the dome's continent, which was inexplicably shocked.

"White rice?"

"The world is so big!"

"……yes."

"There must be many plants in the southern hemisphere that we don't have in the northern hemisphere, right?"

"……affim."

"Great."

Bai Fan retracted his gaze, ran close to the stone wall, his eyes were shining brightly, and looked at the mural.

At some point, Bai Fan also became keen on collecting various plants.

Baifan evolved into the main level of the mountain, and after awakening the ability of the soil system, it took advantage of the talent talent to complete the reclamation of Baifan Mountain intermittently.

The operating plants have expanded from rice trees to various easy-to-survive plants.

"Long Bai, is this ivory coconut?"

Baifan raised his paw, pointing to a plant on the high mural.

"It seems so."

Long Bai had seen the murals a long time ago, they mainly recorded the various daily activities of the Flame Spider Kingdom's production and business operations, as well as merchants and traders, there was nothing particularly worthy of attention.

Long Bai raised his paw and pointed at the gate, and said, "Baifan, try first?"

"What a big two spiders!"

"How much metal is used for this door? The cost is not low!"

"Let me try……"

Looking at the spider-shaped relief on the door, Baifan sighed and stepped forward quickly.

Sensing through the crack of the door for a while, he raised his paw and tried it, but he could condense the tip of the claw and hit it.

"no……"

Bai Fan was not quite reconciled, so he replaced it with more flexible tentacles, and the original energy gathered, and then punched through the crack of the door.

"not now……"

Baifan pondered, pondered, and said slowly: "The sealing is made of special sand, which is stronger than any rock after being solidified with the ability of the soil system. The ability of the soil system used for solidification is also extraordinary, and it is extremely difficult to reverse."

Baifan: "I definitely can't do it at the mountain lord level. Evolution to the lord level, I can only grind slowly and destroy bit by bit."

Long Bai: "How long will it take?"

Baifan: "I'll have to try it after I evolve to the lord level. It will definitely be time-consuming. It's hard to do."

--All right.

Long Bai tapped the tentacles, "Baifan, let's rest here for two days and leave after two days. I'll go to the Tilia Kingdom to find the Citi God Tree and help you get a grant."

Baifan was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said, "Thank you Longbai Ant King in advance!"

Bai Fan added: "I'll just take a look at these murals at will. King Longbai Ant, if you're not tired, a day's rest is enough for us."

……

Leave in a day.

Long Bai sent rice back to the mountain, turned around and went straight to the Tilia worm country.

Mo Lan was keenly aware of the fluctuations in the force, and rushed forward.

"Long Bai, how are you doing?"

"The ghost fan has successfully removed the metal blocking the door gap."

"Any new discoveries?"

"A little……"

The reigning throne descends vertically under the Citi God tree.

The mental strength of Lin Nan, Zi Lin, and Ye Xiang rushed over together.

Lin Nan Shenshu: "Little ant, the door is open?"

Long Bai: "Soon."

"almost?"

Lin Nan Shenshu was furious, "I saw it a long time ago, you are all trash! After spending so much rough stone, a simple door has not been opened yet!"

Long Bai ignored it, raised his head and said: "The sacred tree of Huaqi, the ghost fan has cleaned all the metal blocking the door, and the door can be moved. Just wait for Baifanshan Lord to evolve into a lord, and then slowly remove the metal blocking the door." The stone wall was dug out."

Citi God Tree: "Well done!"

Long Bai: "I took Baifan to try it out, and with its current 'soil improvement' ability, it's completely unshakable. I'm worried that it won't work after it evolves to the lord level..."

Just in time, Huang Jie noticed the movement and ran over quickly.

Citi God Tree: "Then arrange another 100 million raw stones of God-given food for Baifan, Huang Skewer, keep the account."

Huang Jie: "...I wrote it down."

Long Bai: "There is another new discovery. According to my two-month observation, the opposite should be a kingdom of leaf-cutter ants..."

"Leafcutter Ant Kingdom?"

"What kind of ants are leafcutter ants?"

Linnan Divine Tree and Yexiang Divine Seed asked questions at the same time.

Long Bai explained: "A special ant tribe that cuts plant leaves to cultivate mycelium and feeds on mycelium. It is highly similar to my giant head ant tribe. Calculated, everyone is somewhat related..."

Lin Nan Shenshu: "That's okay, it shouldn't pose any threat to our plan."

Long Bai: "..."

Citi Divine Tree: "Talk about the business. In any case, at the lord level stage, try to avoid contact with the ant tribe and the flame spider tribe in the Molan continent. According to the plan I said, after the door is opened, dig a tunnel leading directly to the depths of the seabed. Dive deep into the Molan Continent, try to figure out the situation on the continent there, and then make further plans."

Long Bai: "I understand."

Citi Shenshu: "There is too little information, and I have nothing else to say for the time being."

Long Bai: "I'm going to see Baibo..."

Lin Nan Shenshu said in a serious tone in a rare way: "Longbai Ant King, I have a suggestion for you. It is better not to use that King Zuo named Spade to lead the ant army to protect the god-given seed of Baibo."

Lin Nan Shenshu: "It's nothing but nothing."

Lin Nan Shenshu is very keen on training Zerg fighters. So far, there are only two bugs he is unwilling to teach, one raspberry and one spade.

Raspberry feigned death if she disagreed.

There are many tricks in spades. Today is a stomachache, tomorrow is a broken leg, the day after tomorrow is cloudy and stuffy, and the body is weak, and the day after tomorrow is windy and rainy, and it is easy to break the leg...

All in all, beating to death refuses to suffer.

Long Bai: "... Forget it, Spade is spoiled. I'll come back with Black Leaf." (End of this chapter)