Astral Ant Tribe

Pandan Mountain.

Midsummer, dry season.

There are Shandong and Shanxi reservoirs for water supply. The Zhanlan Reservoir is not affected by drought at all, with lush aquatic plants and greenery.

In the shallow water area, groups of egrets are leisurely looking for food. They are not afraid when the ruler's throne approaches. Some are even curious and fly around the throne to check the situation.

Long Bai was not polite to them. As soon as he had an idea, water balloons with a diameter of ten centimeters jumped up from the water below, and they were all knocked down with a crackle.

"Long Bai——"

Zhan Lan was immediately unhappy when she saw that her waterfowl was being bullied.

"They're welcoming you back."

"They're pecking at my little worker ants."

Long Bai retorted, controlling the throne to move closer, hovering over the water, looking up at the blue fruit. It is still a half-large green fruit, developing steadily and will not mature until next autumn.

Look at the five azure tree saplings by the lake, all close to 1 meter in height.

When I came back, I took a look at the five trees sown in Heilian Lake, which were just over 0.5 meters tall.

The same batch of seeds were sown in two different places at the same time, and the difference became increasingly obvious.

The ruling throne floated close to the water and came to the foot of the hill to the west of the reservoir.

"Long Bai, what's wrong?" Zhan Lan asked in confusion.

"Nothing. Take a look."

Long Bai controlled the throne and flew to the foot of a silver cypress tree in the mountainside orchard, and asked casually: "Zhan Lan, is your spiritual power almost up to this point?"

"A little further." Zhan Lan replied seriously.

A little further ahead is the sill, and further ahead is the orchard one step up, which is also planted with silver cypress trees.

One up and one down, the saplings cultivated and transplanted in the same batch were planted in the garden no more than 10 meters apart. After years of growth, the difference is clear at a glance.

In the orchard below covered by the azure god-given water energy field, the height of the silver cypress trees reached about seven or eight meters.

In the orchard above that was not covered by the azure god-given water energy field, the silver cypress tree was about five or six meters high.

Intuitive comparison, the gap is clear at a glance, but it is far less exaggerated than the blue tree.

Long Bai controlled the throne again and flew to the northeast corner of the reservoir.

The black lotus seeds sown in spring have grown into a large green bush, a little late and missed the flowering season.

In the northwest corner is the black lotus seed of Molania sown in early spring last year. After more than a year of growth and development, it has grown into a large area. This year, it has 11 flowers and 11 lotus pods.

The original energy field of the azure god-given seeds can also promote the better development of life-seeding plants.

The dragon cypress controlled the throne, flew along the lakeside, and scanned with mental power, inspecting the rice, gorgon fruit, black lotus, jade lotus, calamus, water shield, lilygrass, foxtail algae and other plants on the lakeside.

These are planted on the banks of Black Lotus Lake.

In comparison, they all grow more vigorously than the ones at Heilian Lake, but the differences in growth vary greatly.

Long Bai thought of a word: fit

The water energy field of the azure god-given seed helps the growth and development of animals and plants, and it helps different species to varying degrees.

The azure tree is the tallest.

Other plants and animals have varying degrees of intensity.

Long Bai speculates that there is a "fit" problem.

"Zhanlan, I'll cook two frogs and eat them."

Long Bai asked tentatively.

"No!" Zhan Lan reacted fiercely and had a firm attitude.

"Then let me get two big herrings to make soup for the head office, right?" Long Bai changed his mind.

"No...it's not non-negotiable..." Zhanlan hesitated and was reluctant to give up.

A simple test, through Azure's emotional response, it can be clearly distinguished that it cares about frogs very much, but not so much about herring.

Zhan Lan: "Long Bai, there is a large group of snakeheads in the southwest corner. You can catch a few to eat. Snakeheads are more delicious than herring, really."

Long Bai: "..."

The frogs beside the domestic reservoir are the most common black-spotted frogs in nature, and they are also found at Heilian Lake.

Overall, the black-spotted frogs living in Azure Reservoir are one size larger than those in Black Lotus Lake.

Black Lotus Lake also has herring and snakehead.

Overall, the herring in Azure Reservoir is slightly stronger than the herring in Black Lotus Lake.

The snakehead in Zhanlan Reservoir is almost the same as the snakehead in Heilian Lake.

Frogs fit better than herrings.

The fit of black carp is better than that of snakehead.

Combined with Zhanlan's attitude towards these three animals, it is easy to conclude that the higher the degree of compatibility, the more Zhanlan likes them.

Long Bai continued the test and said: "Zhan Lan, I will arrange for Cui Bai to come over later and catch all the snakehead fish."

"No!" Zhanlan's reaction became even more intense.

Long Bai: "Why?"

Zhanlan: "Balance!"

Zhan Lan: "I will command the blue soldiers to help you catch two. Long Bai, please stop making trouble."

Zhanlan was afraid that Long Bai would mess up, so she changed her words and said, "I'll catch three big ones for you."

Long Bai: "...Okay."

Long Bai made some observations, comparisons, and simple tests to figure out some basic laws of Zhanlan's protection and management of 'civilization'.

…

"Longbai!"

Mo Lan came flying over.

It finally emerged from the shadow of the death of the red fox, circled around the throne, landed on the top of the tree stump ant nest, tapped its front feet on the broken corner door panel used for insulation above the ant nest, and asked:

"Have you tried it? Can black lotus seeds increase the probability of birth of specialized worker ants like Heiti?"

"Trying."

Long Bai sighed: "No effect has been observed so far."

Long Bai: "Special chemical worker ants like Heiti need to appear first, and then Black Lotus Seed can exert its unique strengthening effect."

"Forehead--"

Mo Lan was a little dizzy after being talked about, so she changed the subject and asked: "How many plots of land have been reclaimed in Nanjujuo Mountain?"

Long Bai: "Half pull up the hillside."

Cymbidium:"……"

Mo Lan: "How slow! It seems I have to participate personally."

It can be seen that staying here in Pandan Mountain is very boring.

"Take a rest for a day and set off the day after tomorrow." Long Bai activated his water control ability, collected the three snakehead fish caught by the blue soldiers, controlled the throne to climb upward, and flew towards the ant nest in the mountain range.

In the mountains, Yinbai led the patrol of soldier ants and rushed over.

"Your Majesty! You are back!"

Before Long Bai could answer, Yin Bai followed and cheered: "Dinner celebration? I'll inform Jun Bai!"

This guy Yinbai is a bit gluttonous and a bit likes to have fun.

Long Bai said angrily: "It's nothing good. Why celebrate?"

Yinbai thought for a moment and said: "With the unremitting efforts of Juniper and Xiangcypress, the reclamation work of Xianglan Mountain has been completed! We only have to wait for the transplanting of saplings in the coming year. The entire Xianglan Mountain and all the fertile land will be According to the will of the king and the two kings, it is filled with necessary plants."

"This is a big event worthy of celebration -" Long Bai waved his tentacles, "Go ahead."

…

After more than ten years, the development of Xianglan Mountain was finally completed as planned.

Dinner to celebrate and a day off.

Long Bai carries mochi, juniper, silver cypress and a large number of blue ants and worker ants to the South Suanzao Mountain.

Take Heiti back to Black Lotus Lake along the way.

Running back and forth, they continue to transport worker ants to the South Jujube Mountain. In the next at least three years, Juniper will lead a large number of worker ants to stay here and continue to cultivate.

Long Bai and Heiti took turns coming to help.