Astral Ants

Chapter 7 The Outside World

Using Shi Lan as the life seed, the force food produced has the effect of strengthening digestion.

The innate ability of the flower mantis family is in the carapace, and the force food produced by the life-breeding species has the effect of improving the color of the carapace.

Taken together, the strengthening effect of the shilan seeds produced by the shilanming species bred by Molan is the two side effects of strengthening the digestive system and improving the color of the carapace.

Molan's body is bloated, obviously because she ate too much shilan seeds. She should also realize that obesity will affect flying and fighting, so she didn't dare to eat more. Only the shilan seeds produced this year have a surplus.

This thing is a bit tasteless to the mantis warrior, and it is counterproductive to eat too much.

However, for ant kings, especially Cypress, stone orchid seeds are undoubtedly the best force food.

With the help of the ruling throne to generate ant eggs, a large amount of nutrients and physical energy stored in the body must be consumed. The fatter the ant king, the better.

Send Molan away.

Long Bai charged the ruling throne once, and the second ant egg entered the third stage of primordial energy breeding.

Eating restores consumption.

Can't wait to take out the stone orchid seeds and eat three in succession.

……

In the afternoon, Mo Lan did not come as scheduled.

Long Bai guessed that it should take a detour to go home, so he didn't think too much about it.

Have a good rest and continue to work at night to dig the ant nest.

Early next morning.

The Throne of Reign has returned.

【Messenger·Producer·Agriculture completed】

Just like last time, a honeycomb-like hexagonal hole was opened behind the ruling throne, and an ant egg was produced inside.

Comparing the two ant eggs of the guardian and the producer, the size, shape, and color are the same, but the breath of the force revealed is slightly different.

Is the guardian corresponding to the soldier ants of the giant head ant kingdom?

Do producers correspond to worker ants?

It is difficult to judge at present, but it is not difficult to solve this question, and it will be clear at a glance that it will develop into adults in the future.

don't think much about it,

Long Bai then tried to activate the messenger function, no accident, blue light scanning, the physical condition is not good.

Eat three more Shilan seeds, lie on the ruling throne, rest and recover.

……

It was getting dark in the evening.

"Long Bai?"

"Long Bai!"

Mo Lan's spiritual call came from the entrance of the ant nest.

Long Bai jumped off the throne and trotted out of the nest.

stab.

Mo Lan skillfully opened the spider silk bag, rummaged through it, and took out 5 cypress fruit balls.

"This is dried cedar! Do you have any cypress?"

"No……"

"Give it to you!"

"thanks……"

"You're welcome." Mo Lan raised her forefoot, pointed to the north, and said:
"I stuck to the barrier of divine power, flew there to search, and found a big mountain. I saw dried cedar on the mountain, so I picked some seeds for you and brought them back."

"Unfortunately, although that mountain is large in scale, its force is very barren."

I really went to find the seed bestowed by the gods~ Long Bai swept the spiritual power into the spider silk bag, and asked:

"Mo Lan, you have collected a lot of orchid seeds? What kind of seeds are there?"

Mo Lan: "It's all snow orchids. I already have this orchid species. However, the seeds collected from different places can be used for mixed planting and reproduction, which can cultivate stronger seedlings. Longbai, you should also go around when you have time. Let's go and collect various plant seeds."

Long Bai: "Seed trade is also one of the important trade items of the caravan. The flame spider caravan has various plant seeds from the Ten Thousand Races Continent and the Ten Thousand Nations Continent, all of which are cultivated by the various Zerg races over a long period of time and painstaking efforts from generation to generation. Excellent variety."

"Molan, what is the height of the mountain where you live? If the mountain is high enough, I have two large-fruited hemlock seeds here, and I can give you one evenly. You can try it."

"Thank you...the mountain is not high...no need..."

Mo Lan looked around with a guilty conscience, declined Long Bai's kindness, froze for a few seconds, jumped up and down happily, and asked, "Does the caravan also have orchids for sale?"

Long Bai said truthfully: "The caravan I follow doesn't have one, and I haven't heard of any other caravans. I haven't heard that the Zerg specializes in cultivating orchids."

Mo Lan was dejected when she heard the words, and asked again: "Then can you entrust the caravan to help collect it?"

Long Bai: "Yes. But all the orchid species that are found are wild orchids. The caravan also entrusts local Zerg to collect orchids in places suitable for the growth of orchids, so the price will be very expensive, which is very uneconomical."

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, are you familiar with the Luochen of the caravan?"

Long Bai: "Family. But if you are ripe, you still have to pay for the corresponding rough stones."

Molan didn't have a single rough stone, and she had eaten up all the force food produced this year, so she changed the subject and asked:
"Longbai, how did you get your hemlock seeds?"

Long Bai: "When the caravan trades in the territory of King Hemlock Katydid, I will be paid for helping with the work."

"Oh." Mo Lan: "Hemlock Katydaw King? Bug King?"

Long Bai: "Yes. Its territory is huge, inhabited by thousands of katydid warriors, big and small. It is a powerful and rich katydid kingdom. After the caravan arrived, many warriors came with big and small bags of force food , scrambling to find deals, sell the output of their territories, or exchange for rough stones, or purchase other types of force food they need."

"Every time I enter this kind of prosperous territory of the insect king, the caravan will be very busy. I will help to use my brain to settle accounts, and Luoqin will give me corresponding rewards."

"Wow!"

"Long Bai, you are so powerful!"

Mo Lan's eyes lit up, and she asked enthusiastically, "Long Bai, are there many Mantis Kingdoms?"

"Of course! On the Ten Thousand Clans Continent, the Mantis is a big and strong clan. I have visited five Mantis kingdoms with the caravan."

Long Bo paused, and said: "I also visited the White Alder Mantis King, which has three alder trees bestowed by the gods, the largest of which is called 'White Alder', which has grown for 500 years and has many branches and leaves. Mao, standing like a mountain. The flower and fruit cycle is 5 years, and each cycle can produce more than 3 alder seeds. The caravan buys a single rough stone at the price of 30, and then sells it to others at a price ranging from 35 to 40 Other insect kings..."

"How many rough stones is this?!"

"White Mantis King is too powerful!"

Mo Lan cheers for her distant relatives.

Isn't the caravan powerful?Long Bai talked eloquently until dark, before Mo Lan reluctantly bid farewell and left.

Early the next morning, Mo Lan ran over again with an empty spider silk bag.

"Long Bai, haven't you dug your ant nest yet?"

"No."

Long Bai took the initiative to ask: "Mo Lan, are you still planning to go north to search for orchid seeds and god-given seeds?"

"I have this idea, but it's too far away..."

Mo Lan faltered, speeding up his speech, and asked, "Long Bai, yesterday you said that the three-pointed lord of the Jianyuan Mantis tribe measured the body length of Luochen with a distance measuring instrument from an extraterrestrial civilization? What kind of instrument is that? How do you measure it?" of?"

Mo Lan is full of curiosity and longing for everything in the outside world, especially the creations of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Obviously, it came here on a special trip to tell itself a story today.

"Oh~" Long Bai thought for a while, organized his words, and said, "That thing is called a 'rangefinder', a cuboid..."

As Long Bai spoke, he drew a rectangle on the ground with his forefoot, and said, "It's about this big, a green light beam can be shot at the front end, and there is a screen here. When the light beam hits an object, the screen will It shows the distance. There are strange characters on it, only the three-pointed lord knows it, and it is said that it took hundreds of years of research to decipher it, and no one will tell."

Mo Lan was at a loss, and asked: "How did you measure it? What's the use?"

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "Mo Lan, how tall are you now?"

Mo Lan: "About 20 centimeters."

Long Bai: "About? You scanned yourself based on the inherited memory and mental power, right?"

Mo Lan: "Yes."

Long Bai: "The function of the rangefinder is to accurately measure your body length. If you record the body length of each age, you can intuitively know how much you have grown each time you moult. In the same way, you can also accurately measure the height of the life plant, record it, and clearly understand how tall your life plant has grown every year. There are many similar uses and it is also very useful.”

"As for how to measure..."

Long Bai drew a horizontal line on the ground with his paws again, and said, "Mo Lan, take you as an example, if you want to measure body length, stand here and align your head with this line..."

Mo Lan immediately stepped forward in coordination, got down on the ground, and moved her steps to be level with the horizontal line.

Long Bai: "Then use a wooden board behind you, flush with the tail, hit it with the rangefinder, and the measurement result will be displayed on the instrument screen. The result may be 21.222, or 20.222, or other values. In short, it is very accurate. .”

"Understood!"

Mo Lan continued to ask: "Then how can the height of the life plant be accurately measured?"

Long Bai: "Then you need to switch to another 'height measurement' mode. Let's take the dead nan tree as an example, just stand here, tap the distance meter to the top of the tree, and the measurement result will come out. "

"Unfortunately, the specific method of operation is only known to the Three-pointed Lord, and it refuses to tell any insects."

"It's amazing!" Mo Lan exclaimed, and then complained: "Isn't the three-pointed lord too stingy?"

Long Bai: "This is not stinginess, it's a money-making business. In the Ten Thousand Clans Continent, when some Zerg warriors need to accurately measure something, they can only pay a high price and ask the tri-point lord for help. The distance measurement handed down There is not only one instrument, but many, if the secret is spread, the three-pointed lord will not be able to earn this rough stone, or if there is competition, the earning will be less."

"Like This!"

"The three-pointed lord is so smart!"

"Long Bai, you are so smart!"

Mo Lan understood the logic of it, and there was another series of exclamations, and even then, she admired Long Bai very much.

Ordinary Zergs make money by operating their territories, and flame spiders earn money through trade. If they don't want to, they can also make money by mastering knowledge that other insects don't understand.

The world out there is simply wonderful.

Mo Lan then asked: "Longbai, is there any more? A creation of an extraterrestrial civilization similar to a rangefinder."

Long Bai: "Of course, and a lot."

Long Bai thought for a while, and said: "In the Bronze Kojia Clan, there is a Kojia mountain lord named 'Flame', who inherited a set of extraterrestrial civilization creations named 'Firefly Eyes' from the previous generation of lords... "

(End of this chapter)