Astral Ants

Long sequence star, South 1001 area.

Molan, Hongfeng, Luxin and Caigang, who were helping to guard the branch headquarters, were all awakened. They looked up and saw Sishu walking back alone, looking dejected.

"President Four Numbers?"

"Where's Morpho Purple?"

"Ugh--"

"Unlucky."

"We were still hit by the Winged Overlord. We failed to borrow the Star Spider, and Zi was also killed."

"Forehead……"

"That……"

"What should I do?"

"Stay here with me for a while. Will you wait? Lord Yiwei often needs to travel far away to do things. As usual, Lanying and Zi will come out as soon as Lord Yiwei leaves."

"How long will it take to wait?"

"It's hard to say. If you're lucky, it could be a few years or decades. If you're unlucky, it could be hundreds or even thousands of years."

"Molan, Hongfeng, don't you want to practice your abilities? There are many open spaces in the Shuima star system. You can pick one at random and make simple modifications. You can then use your normal abilities. But be careful. For abilities with great destructive power, it's best to go to the Antarctic wasteland or outer space."

"..."

The insects were silent.

——You are only a first-level source point~
——If you really want to hone your abilities, isn’t Xianglan Mountain better?
There was a long silence.

Cai Gang asked: "President Sishu, you seem to be in a low mood. What happened? Could it be that the peach blossom fruit incident... your forehead is..."

Sishu lowered his head, stroked his tentacles, and said calmly: "The peach blossom fruit thing is done, but..."

Done!

All the insects were delighted.

Molan asked in confusion: "Then why are you not happy at all?"

"Ugh--"

"Bad luck~"

Sishu sighed and said, "Like many large tribes, our Saint Butterfly tribe warriors are also divided into two distinct systems: one is the management system, and the other is the combat system. I just realized that the Winged Wei Lord is a combat system insect!"

"I realized it too late. I should have thought of it earlier."

"The location of the Yiweixiang Star Region in the Baijing Star System should be a frontier fortress, and most of the soldiers stationed here are combat soldiers. I was assigned here to follow the Yiwei Lord, but I'm afraid that there won't be much room for advancement in the future!"

"..."

The insects were speechless again.

Cai Gang raised his paw and asked, "President Four Numbers, what about the Law Fruit? How do you say it specifically?"

Sishu pointed to his forehead and said, "The Winged Overlord gave me an energy mark, which is the certificate for entering and exiting the Xuanzhu star system and visiting the Xifang Ugly Grasshopper tribe."

"That……"

"Or should we exchange it with Chaos Stone?"

“Is there a limit on the amount of exchange?”

"Can you help us change a few?"

Molan asked three times shyly.

Sishu understood what Jichong meant and had expected it, so he said directly: "Titanium sand is definitely more popular. After all, the law fruit is worth exchanging for titanium sand. I'll try and get a few more."

Mo Lan asked immediately, "President Sishu, when do you plan to set off? It takes about 3,000 years to travel from the Baijing Galaxy to the Lizhu Galaxy. We can all go and travel together!"

Cai Gang and Lu Xin followed suit and moved their tentacles, their eyes flashing with hope and expectation.

You still want to follow me? Four Numbers flatly refused: "No! It's not appropriate!"

Sishu asked back, "Chief Molan, aren't you and Hongfeng going to train to improve your combat capabilities? Time is already tight. There are only about 13,000 years left. A round trip and lying dormant would take 6,000 years, and the remaining time is even less. If Chief Longbai finds out, I won't be able to explain myself."

Sishu said, looking at Caigang, his tone was unhappy, and he said sternly: "Caigang, Xia Li and I plan to bet most of our net worth on the Boshuwan Chamber of Commerce. We trust you, and arrange for you to stay in the Xuanling 1 star system to help count the harvest."

"This is no small matter. The first ten thousand years of revenue is crucial. Xia Li and I need to get accurate data so that we can decide on the details of the next cooperation. But what about you? You just slipped away like that? Aren't you too irresponsible? How can Xia Li and I trust you?"

Cai Gang: “…”

"I'm sorry to trouble President Four."

Mo Lan hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Longbai has absolute dominance over the ant kings and bee queens of the Boshu Bay Alliance, and no insect dares to cheat on the harvest."

"Of course I trust Chief Longbai. That's why I didn't say much at the beginning."

Sishu paused and said, "But I see that you guys are not here to improve your strength. You are thinking about where to have fun and how to have fun, right? You don't take it seriously, so should Lanying and I help you with the quota? Is there any need for help?"

Cymbidium:"……"

Mo Lan said seriously: "President Sishu is right! Everyone, be serious! Hurry up and find a place to concentrate on training your abilities! Hurry up, act! Act now! Cai Gang, you are familiar with the environment, you lead the way!"

"..."

"Wait!"

Sishu suggested, "I am almost certain that the Winged Overlord has a grudge against the Ten-Colored Mantis King of the Seven-Colored Mantis Tribe. It is very likely that there are other old-generation insects in this Baijing Galaxy who have a grudge against the Seven-Colored Mantis Tribe. Chief Molan, you should be more low-key and never mention the 'Eleven-Colored Mantis King' again. Don't say that you are a warrior of the Seven-Colored Mantis Tribe."

"Eleven-colored Mantis King?"

Molan was confused.

Number four: “…”

It took Si several seconds to understand what was going on. Zi was boasting too much. Wu Yu waved his claws and said, "That's fine. I'm fine too. Come on, I'll take you to find an unused territory and settle down first."

...

Like the dragon cypress, the four-digit tree is a serious insect.

Chong was very enthusiastic and helped find a relatively flat territory. He also worked together to plan out a piece of land with a side length of 30 kilometers, which was specifically used for training abilities.

Four numbers suddenly had an idea and suggested:

"Captain Molan, let's have a try. I want to see how strong the fighting power of professional warriors like you is."

"Isn't it appropriate?"

"President Sishu, you are at the stellar level. Molan is at the planetary level."

"There's a huge gap in realms, how do we fight?"

"unfair."

“It’s so inappropriate.”

"President Four Math, there's no need to bother you. Just go do your own thing. We can practice on our own."

Red Maple, Caigang, and Green Heart all shook their tentacles in denial.

"Yes you can!"

"Let's have a discussion!"

"Come! Come! Come!"

Mo Lan was in high spirits, waving her tentacles vigorously to signal, and kindly reminded: "President Four, you should first bless yourself with a layer of protection!"

"……it is good!"

"Then let's have a sparring match!"

"Cai Gang, Lu Xin, Hong Feng, you also need to be alert at all times, guard the spot on the side, and use your claws in time to avoid accidental injuries."

As Sishu gave the instructions, he activated his ability. A layer of metallic luster appeared on his body surface. Feeling uneasy, he gave himself a layer of Umbrella Bird defense.

"Chief Molan, you won't defend?"

"I don't use defensive abilities."

"It's starting!"

Seeing that the other party was ready, Molan gave a final reminder, and the dark green shell suddenly changed color. The mantis star pattern on the forehead shone with seven colors, and the original energy burst out.

With a whoosh,
Seven-colored light bloomed, and countless feather-like tentacles exploded, spreading rapidly, and rolling towards the four numbers.

The four were not willing to be outdone, they flapped their wings in the air, and the metal and water energy transformed into countless sharp blades to cut through the enemy silently and easily destroyed all of Molan's seven-colored feathers.

After the huge power collapsed, Molan's real body disappeared.

Using his soul-fixing ability to scan, he could not detect any trace of a soul.

"Ok?"

The four people were suddenly startled and turned around abruptly.

Molan used some unknown method to appear behind him silently, and even deliberately leaked a little breath to warn him.

boom!boom!boom……

Faced with the oncoming red lightning attack, the Umbrella Bird attached to its shell was able to activate its abilities, causing it to explode and launch a counterattack with dense molten lava.

But Molan's figure turned into a shadow, avoiding the attack, as if she was blending into the air little by little and disappeared.

Sishu's brain was quick, and he immediately realized that he had been tricked. He quickly mobilized his energy and was about to replenish his defense when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck...

A force coming from the bottom up, reaching its peak, flashed past.

Molan's figure appeared, hovering high in the sky, looking down.

The head and body of Number Four are separated.

The color of the body surface changed, the butterfly scales turned black, and the aura of death expanded rapidly...

"Humph!"

Molan raised her paw and pressed hard.

In the sky and on the ground, within a radius of more than ten kilometers, the space seemed to collapse in an instant, the air was extremely compressed, and a dull and heavy force pressed towards the four corpses.

The forehead is shining with star spots.

The pressure suddenly increased.

The death power that attempted to erupt from the four corpses was forcibly suppressed, compressed into a black dot, and disappeared into thin air.

"Is this just enough strength?"

"So weak~"

Molan muttered, and her body circled and landed on the ground.

"..."

Hongfeng, Luxin and Caigang, who were watching the game below, stared with their eyes wide open.

"My most respected leader Mo Lan, didn't we say we would have a fight? You, you, how could you..."

"Can't it be resurrected?"

"but……"

"It's not easy to be resurrected, is it?" "It's not easy for everyone. Okay. Stop talking nonsense. I'm hungry, let's go get something to eat..."

Molan said, suddenly worried again, and asked: "Cai Gang, you know more about the Saint Butterfly Warriors, are you sure you can survive?"

Cai Gang said uncertainly: "Theoretically speaking, it should be possible."

theory?

What do you mean?
Mo Lan, Hong Feng and Lu Xin's expressions suddenly became serious.

Molan asked: "What is the theoretical content? How is it specifically theoretical?"

Cai Gang explained: "The warriors of the Holy Butterfly Tribe all have a 'cocoon' on their life seeds. When their main body dies..."

"There are two types of 'death'. The first is ordinary death. The soul escapes back to the life seed at ten thousand times the speed of light, absorbs the power of the life seed, and is quickly resurrected."

"The second is that certain attacks will destroy the soul along with it. At this time, the soul will be tethered and sensed, the cocoon will hatch, and it will be reborn and start from the beginning as a junior warrior, and begin to grow and evolve again."

"The first is the racial innate ability that must be awakened at the mountain master level. The second resurrection mode requires the understanding of the power of reincarnation of life and death. President Four has obviously not reached this level yet..."

Cai Gang asked nervously, "Molan, your move just now even destroyed the body... Is the soul okay?"

Cymbidium:"……"

Molan: "I didn't pay attention. I thought that the explosion of its body might cause widespread damage, so I killed it all at once..."

Cai Gang, why didn’t you say so earlier!

Why didn't you stop it?
All the insects became nervous and glared at each other: What should we do?
"Escape at ten thousand times the speed of light?"

"My attack wasn't that fast, I should have escaped..."

"The life seed of the Four Numbers Guild President is hidden in the Yiweixiang star system?"

Molan was nervous and said, "Let's go to the palace of the Fourth Guild President and wait."

...

After two years of anxious waiting,
Sishu flapped his wings and flew back, feeling depressed and not wanting to talk.

Molan and his group exchanged a few words of greeting and asked the animal a few questions, then seeing that it was fine, they dispersed.

If there is nothing else to do, either study alone or discuss with others, and focus on training and improving your abilities.

Under Long Bai's guidance, Molan had already completed the unification of the seven elements and also integrated life, power and soul.

I started to study "Original Energy Creation" according to Zi's instructions.

Time flies, and before I knew it, 400 years have passed.

Just as Sishu said, Zi guy successfully escaped and ran over.

"Wow! I knew you guys would wait for me!"

"purple?"

"You a bug?"

"Where's the jacaranda?"

"Boss Lan Ying was promoted to the Star Realm, and the Winged Overlord took it to the Red Robin Star. I don't know what it's doing there."

"then you……"

"I don't think I'll be back for a while. No one can take care of me. Let's go! Let's follow the plan!"

"where to?"

"Did you borrow the Star Spider?"

"Of course! Stop in the square!"

"Then let's go! Let's go!"

"First stop, the Houzhang star system!"

"Go ahead~"

Mo Lan, Zi, Cai Gang and Lu Xin set off with cheers.

...

...

In ordinary ant and bee colonies, when the queen ant and queen bee age and lose their power to suppress the colony, some worker ants and worker bees will secretly lay eggs and mix them with the eggs of the queen ant and queen bee in an attempt to get away with it.

The queen ants and queen bees need to patrol the nest regularly, check for insect eggs, and kill the eggs of worker ants and bees.

For ordinary queen ants and queen bees, the right to reproduce is the manifestation of the absolutely inviolable right of dominance.

In some colonies with multiple queens and kings, in the early stages of the kingdom's development, the queen ants and the queen bees may work together to quickly expand the kingdom.

When the kingdom has grown to a certain size,
The queen ant may instigate her "confidants" to destroy and kill the eggs and larvae of other queen ants, compress the food of other queen ants, attack the "confidants" of other queen ants, and finally kill other queen ants to become the sole supreme ruler of the kingdom.

Ordinary ants and bees, who have no self-awareness and no wisdom, have written "power" into their blood during the infinitely long process of life evolution.

Blood makes it so.
The ant king and bee queen who have ascended to Force life still focus on their own right to rule the kingdom.

The same is true for Longbai, especially today as the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce continues to grow and become larger and more complex.

A bug has limited energy. All other rights can be delegated, except the right to education.

Molan, who he trusts the most, has always been in charge of the education of the young soldiers.

Molan is not here,

All Zerg warriors born in the Azure Star System and the Ocean Blue Star System were taught by Long Bai personally.

...

The Sea Blue Star System, Longbai Star.

Long Bai was busy teaching the Zerg warriors and was a little overwhelmed.

Therefore, a group of elite "teacher ants" were carefully selected and trained to be responsible for teaching the new ants the basic characters.

It was discovered that the ants in the star realm have particularly strong abilities to learn, understand, and even apply knowledge.

So more knowledge about mathematics, physics, botany and zoology, civil engineering, as well as combat and war were taught.

At the same time, they also teach some knowledge about writing, engraving, sculpture, gardening and other arts.

The consequence is that these ants scribble and draw everywhere, erect stone statues at random, and trim and plan the plant orchards they manage into strange shapes.

Longbai observed secretly.

Over time, some smart ants began to crave knowledge, explore the unknown, think about innovation, try to collect materials, create objects, use objects, and think about changes.

There is a bit of the taste of the development of wisdom and civilization...

Longbai supplemented them with metal, fire, wind, and lightning worker ants, as well as earth, wood, and water worker ants, to achieve precise control of all types of matter in the universe.

And then impart some knowledge about industrial manufacturing of level zero technological civilization.

These guys can actually discuss and cooperate, use their abilities, build workshops, and imitate and produce all kinds of level-0 technological creations.

They build hardened roads leading directly to the ant nest without any instructions from the king or assistant kings.

Build electric powered vehicles.

Converts raw energy into electrical energy, which is then transported and stored by equipment.

Ants no longer walk when traveling, but instead take carts.

They also learned to domesticate captive animals and collect fruits and plants to feed them.

After each mass slaughter, the ants are transported back to the ant nest on a wheeled cart.

...

After all, the Ruling Throne is a creation of technological civilization and has inherited some of its nature.

...

Ants raised by normal ant kings and queen bees definitely do not have such a high sense of independence.

Very wonderful,

Each of the specialized ants in the star realm is an independent individual, and the ant colony under Long Bai seems to have formed an independent civilization.

The cypress tree does not need to manage the ant colonies or interfere with their activities.

Longbai Star is changing dramatically with each passing day.

Messy artworks can be found everywhere.

All kinds of level-0 technological creations are running everywhere, and even vehicles that can fly in the air have been created.

Unfortunately, due to the limitations of their body structure and collective habits, the ants are unable to create more sophisticated intelligent equipment or force artifacts, and their technological manufacturing has stopped at the simple, rough zero-level civilization stage.

Long Bai feels that in the future he will be able to evolve to the Su realm and the Domination realm, and perhaps he can go further.

...

[Time: 78th Era-163 Yuan-553 Years]

Suddenly one day,
Hei Shi led a specialized green ant to Longbai Star.

On the dirt square, soldiers of all sizes gathered around, chattering and making a lot of noise.

Longbai waved its tentacles to disperse.

"Your Majesty!"

Hei Shi reported: "This specialized green ant should have met the conditions for leaping to evolutionary Assistant King."

"I see..."

Longbai sighed.

After more than three thousand years and the cultivation of more than 20 million specialized ants, a king assistant finally emerged.

After the stellar realm, the probability was so low that the insects despaired.

Long Bai used his soul-fixing ability to scan the sensor and took out a black lotus seed gene agent to feed it.

Confirmed.

Long Bai waved his tentacles.

The specialized green ant signaled and quickly moved to stand behind Longbai.

"Hei Shi, stay here little one, I will take care of him myself. The next time Juniper comes, arrange to send him back to Xianglan Mountain and help Hei Tao."

"Understood, my king."

Hei Shi asked, "My king, which generation of assistant king does this little fellow belong to? What's his name?"

Long Bai: "Let's call it the sixth generation. All the assistant kings I cultivated in the Star Realm are classified as the sixth generation. As for the name, let's call it Two-color Chamomile."

"Understood!"

Hei Shi asked, "My king, regarding the royal jelly trade in the Tiemu star system..."

Long Bai said helplessly: "We can only train three more intelligent blue ants and equip them with three giant soldier ants."

Longbai added: "I may need to be away for a long time. Hei Shi, you stay and take care of these little warriors instead of me." (End of this chapter)