Astral Ants

Chapter 67 Juniper Advice

Pandan Mountain.

Shanbei Molan has just drawn out the late winter season of the foil.

After being severely reprimanded last time, Juniper didn't dare to leave his post this time, and stood by the God-bestowed Seed of Guoxianglan boredly.

The reigning throne moves from far to near.

Juniper stood up.

Hundreds of soldier ants, large and small, stood up one after another.

"Pandan!"

"Juniper."

Mo Lan flew back first, regardless of whether Guo Xianglan's God-given Seed liked to hear it or not, she talked about her experience of the north trip with great interest.

The reigning throne descends.

"Longcypress Ant King, why did you come back so early?" Juniper asked.

"There is a major harvest, so I came back early."

Long Bai would not say that he was almost frozen to death in the ice and snow, he waved his tentacles and praised:
"Junbai, you have done a good job. In the future, Molan and I will travel far, and you will focus on squatting in Molan's territory. Herbs are fragile. You must not only guard the god-given seeds of Guoxianglan, but also protect other plants. Orchid Grass Life Seed."

"I see."

Juniper asked: "Longcypress Ant King, what about the blue god-given seed in the south of the mountain?"

Long Bai: "You can go there regularly to patrol around. When the fruit is ripe, I will arrange blue soldiers to guard under the tree."

"Oh—" Juniper hesitated, and said, "Longcypress Ant King, I have a suggestion, I don't know if I can say it."

Do you still make suggestions?
Long Bai: "Speak!"

Juniper: "We can dig a tunnel through the north and south of the mountain. From the ant nest in the south of the mountain, all the way to..."

Juniper raised his forefoot, pointed to the direction of the cave where Molan lived, and said, "Let's go there. Usually, some soldiers and ants are scattered inside the tunnel to communicate and transmit information. In this way, any place in the south or north of the mountain will appear." In emergencies, I can quickly receive news and lead the soldiers to support in time."

Juniper: "One more thing, as our kingdom grows in the future, the size and number of worker ants and soldier ants will increase, and the ant nests will also expand to the depths of the mountains."

The analysis is very reasonable!

But Juniper has a big head, but most of it is made of muscles, how could he think of such a profound problem...

Long Bai: "You came up with this?"

Junbai hesitantly said: "I thought about it with Junbai. Moreover, Junbai said, it only needs to send 3 intermediate specialized chemical ants and 15 junior specialized chemical ants in three shifts, day and night, alternately digging and digging. It can be dug through in a year at most.”

Juniper: "Juniper also said that it can only be dug with Mo Lan's permission..."

Long cypress knew it was juniper.

Juniper ants are intelligent chemical ants, naturally much smarter than giant soldier ants.

"Okay! Got it. I'll be busy recently, so I'll arrange a team of worker ants to dig there when I'm done."

"You continue to guard Molan's territory, I will go find Juniper."

Long Bai confessed that he controlled the ruling throne to climb over the mountains and land at the entrance of the ant nest.

Junbai led a large group of worker ants out of the nest to greet them, and also helped unload the goods, but found that Longbai didn't bring much back with him this time.

"Longbai Ant King, why did you come back early?"

"This is the seed of the silver cypress tree, an extremely precious tree species, take it to the ant nest and keep it."

The ruling throne shrinks, and Long Bai throws a spider silk bag to the ground.

Juniper was a little puzzled.

Long Bai explained, "Silver cypress should be a mutated species of juniper with large fruit. The strengthening effect is optimized for body shape. It is extremely rare and practical."

Long Bai ordered: "Junbai, you come down the mountain with me. Let's go around the pond at the bottom of the mountain to investigate the terrain and geology. We will be busy planning and reclaiming the garden after spring."

……

The pond where the blue god-given seed takes root is located in the valley between the mountains.

At a distance of 500 meters, there is a hill with a height of [-] meters and a length of about one kilometer. Most of the slopes are gentle.

Silver cypress doesn't seem to like growing on high mountains.

Longbai decided to open up this small hill first to plant silver cypress.

Not sure if silver cedar is well adapted to southern climates.

Long Cypress and Mo Lan inspected the north of the mountain again, planning to reclaim a garden on a small hill in the north of the mountain and plant a group of silver cypress trees.

The south and the north of the mountain are carried out at the same time, and compared and observed, which side grows better, and which side will be used for large-scale reclamation and planting in the future.

The so-called "land reclamation" is to clean up the original plants, organize the uneven slopes into squares of neat flat land, and dig ditches.

Among them, the arbor is the most troublesome to clean up. First, its branches and leaves must be cut off, then the trunk must be bitten off to bring it down, and finally it must be dug into the ground to clean up the roots in the ground.

When orchards are opened up, correspondingly, water ponds must be dug on the mountain to prevent drought.

The overall project volume is huge, and it may not be completed in a year.

There are not enough worker ants to do the work.

Next, Longbai needs to cultivate worker ants on a large scale, and plans to increase the number of specialized worker ants to 200.

Considering that he and Mo Lan need to travel far for trade and exploration, the number of specialized chemical ants has increased dramatically, and the corresponding number of specialized blue ants that store food also needs to increase.

At present, the efficiency of the ruling throne to produce ant eggs is an average of 1 ant egg per day.

According to the law, when Longbai evolves into a 4th instar mid-level ant king, the upper limit of ant eggs produced in each cycle can be increased to 5.

Need to evolve once.

Long Bai felt that the seed bestowed by the gods of the southern jujube had a good effect on strengthening the membrane wings. He mixed the ghost fan, the southern jujube, the ant king honey made from the pulp of the southern jujube, and the pandan seeds produced in the Molan territory this year.

Unknowingly, the various incomes of Long Bai and Mo Lan have been fully combined into one share.

This year's pandan seed production is still 308.

200 capsules are sold to caravans.

50 grains are reserved for the ghost fan.

50 capsules of Cypress and Molan are shared equally.

The remaining 8 pieces were used as samples, and they were taken back to Baifan Mountain to show Chihu, Baifan, and Wufan to prove their own strength.

……

After a light rain, three consecutive sunny days, the temperature warmed up.

The orchids are blooming.

Up and down the mountain was very busy.

Long cypress and juniper led the ant colonies respectively to open up two nurseries in the south and north of the mountain, and sow the silver cypress seeds in time.

On the mountain, life-growing plants need to loosen the soil and fertilize.

The 2-year-old middle-level ant king has completed the sowing of Dawangseed, which needs careful care.

The biogas digester was emptied, and the biogas residue had to be transported to the pond at the bottom of the mountain, where it was top-dressed once for the seed bestowed by the Zhanlan God.

The rice harvested last year was sown in a circle along the edge of the pond.

The 8 Heihuang peach seedlings and 6 Banxing pear seedlings that survived sowing in the previous year have grown to over one meter and can be transplanted.

All kinds of common bluegrass seedlings from the Molan Seed Nursery grew up last year, and they can also be transplanted this year.

Mo Lan is determined to cultivate top-level orchid species, and there are many things to do.It also needs to eradicate the weaker seedlings sown in previous years and transplant new seedlings.Spring flowers bloom, pollinate each other, and try what Cypress calls 'cross-breeding'.

Long Bai personally brought worker ants, big and small, to help Mo Lan.Long Bai didn't know much, and from the beginning to the end, he was not optimistic about the development of bluegrass, so he was fooling around.As long as Mo Lan is happy.

When the black orchids planted near the ant nests bloom, the cypress species will pull out flower spikes one after another.

Proper flower thinning will still be carried out this year.

Cypress, juniper, juniper, and giant cypress each retain 80 flowers and bear 80 fruit balls, which are about 400 to 500 cypress seeds.

Both the green cypress and the dry cedar have taken flower spikes.

There are 40 green cypresses reserved.

Dried cedars do not leave a single flower, and do not bear fruit first, and then grow well for another year.

When all kinds of emergencies have been dealt with, the season of dense spring when hundreds of flowers bloom will come.

It's time for the caravan from Wanuo Continent to arrive.

After calculating the time, Long Bai simply packed up and set off with Mo Lan.

(End of this chapter)