Astral Ant Tribe

Molan is not at home, living in a cave, and her spider silk bag is not there either. She must have been searching for seeds given by the gods in the mountains and forests.

Three specialized soldier ants, along with two large soldier ants and 10 small soldier ants, guard the garden where the fruit orchid has taken root.

As soon as Long Bai approached, he immediately felt violent, angry, threatening and warning mental fluctuations.

This guy was born with an independent consciousness, and the territorial awareness of plants is stronger than that of any animal. It is also very smart, knowing that soldier ants are not independent individuals, and is indifferent to the existence of soldier ants. It recognizes Long Bai as the ant king, and constantly releases warning and intimidating mental power to Long Bai.

The throne of control was suspended in the sky, and Long Bai controlled it and retreated a little distance to observe carefully.

The capsule has grown to the size of a longan. Under the warm sunshine in early winter, it is slightly swaying in the breeze, and its whole body is green and shiny, full of vitality.

The fruits are beginning to grow, but there is still a long way to go before they mature.

This is the case with life-growing plants. As the Zerg warriors grow, they also evolve simultaneously, and the quality and quantity of the Force food they produce increase, but the flowering and fruiting cycle will be lengthened accordingly.

The range of changes in the God-given seed is particularly obvious.

After careful observation, Long Bai made a rough judgment: the maturity period of the fruit orchid seeds may have been extended to the severe winter.

Mentally, he glanced underground to check out the nearest branch. After a year of growth, the length and diameter of the oval underground bulb exceeded 10 centimeters.

"It's growing well!"

"According to the rules, the flowering period next year should move forward and become spring blooming. If the management is not good, the fruiting period will be postponed. If the management is good, the fruit maturity period will still be in the middle of winter..."

Long Bai thought about it and noticed signs of recent watering under the plants.

The throne of rulership rises, looking from above.

There is little rain in winter, and the stream in the distance has stopped flowing.

Long Bai controlled the throne and came to the biogas tank at the foot of the cliff. The moso bamboo tube poured on the stone cover still had fresh water stains.

The bugs are not at home early in the morning.

Before leaving, I watered the garden and even hunted food and brought it to the ant nest.

That guy Mo Lan got up to work before dawn again.

"If you are searching for a god-given seed, it must have followed the divine power barrier and traveled far to the south or north."

"Alas! It seems that I can't rest today..."

Long Bai originally planned to chat with Mo Lan for a while and go for a walk in the mountains and forests together to relax.

Since it is no longer there, it can only go back to work in its own territory.

However, don’t rush to dig digesters and pools. First, direct the ant colony to develop the ant nest.

There are currently 46 specialized worker ants, and there are 24 large and small larvae in the incubation room, as well as 4 ant eggs waiting to hatch.

The ant nest has been expanded intermittently several times. It has changed from parallel forward to vertical downward. It has been dug to a depth of three meters and has a three-dimensional tree shape. The diameter of the channel has expanded to 8 cm, and the width of the nest has expanded to about 30 cm.

In cold winter, dig two meters deeper to keep warm and ensure the hatching of ant eggs and the growth of larvae.

Looking back, the Dominion Throne can produce 3 ant eggs each time. The number of ant colonies is increasing rapidly, and a wider ant nest is needed to accommodate it. Expansion work should be done in advance.

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Day after night and day after day.

Gray sky, cold drizzle.

Affected by the temperature, the worker ants became weak one by one.

Call it a day and return home early.

Long Bai was resting when familiar mental fluctuations came over him.

Mo Lan, who had not been seen for two days, was standing at the entrance of the cave carrying a bulging bag of spider silk, quietly scanning the situation inside the ant nest.

On the ruling throne, Long Bai moved his body.

"Long Bai?"

"Long Bai! Don't sleep! Get up quickly!"

Molan called out in her mind.

Emotions are high and excitement is hard to contain.

Long Bai flapped his wings slightly, landed lightly, and trotted to the entrance of the cave.

"Molan, where have you gone?"

Without waiting for an answer, Long Bai had an idea, twitched his antennae, and said, "You won't find the god-given seed again, will you?"

"no!"

Mo Lan first denied Long Bai's unrealistic guess, raised his left front foot and pointed lightly, saying: "I'm going to the south..."

"So you found a new orchid species?"

Long Bai felt strange and raised his paw to pull the spider silk bag.

"No!"

Mo Lan rushed to open the bag and said:

"But I found something good!"

"Created by an extraterrestrial civilization!"

"Long Bai, you are knowledgeable. Please help me."

Long Bai: "???"

Mo Lan took out a cylindrical metal object from the bag that was six to seven centimeters in diameter and just over twenty centimeters wide.

"Long Bai, what is this? Do you know it?"

"Ice and fire make a kettle!"

Long Bai recognized it at a glance.

Due to its age and improper storage, the surface coating peeled off, exposing the underlying metal.

There are still coating residues on the mouth of the pot. It should have been a clean and beautiful white color with blue water waves and light blue cloud patterns.

Seeing that Long Bai knew him, Mo Lan was even more happy, and followed Xi Ji and asked, "What's the use? And how to use it?"

"It has two uses. One is to make water from raw energy; the other is to make pure hot water or ice cubes."

"It's very easy to use...Mo Lan, please put it right and see if it can still be used."

Mo Lan did as he was told.

The pot is more than twenty centimeters high.

The dragon cypress is only a little over ten centimeters tall. I tried to climb up, but the metal was slippery and I couldn't climb up.

"Mo Lan, please wait a moment."

Long Bai turned around and ran back to the nest room, and ran out with the ruling throne.

Standing on the throne, he controlled the lid of the 'Ice and Fire Kettle' to be flush with it. He reached out with both claws at the same time and pressed on the inside of the buckle.

Click!

There was a crisp sound of metal mechanism, and the lid of the pot flicked upward.

"The raw metals made by human civilization will never decay! The raw metal creations of human civilization can be passed down from generation to generation. There is such a 'kettle made of ice and fire' in Luoli. According to it, when it was passed down to it, it was already the third time. Eight generations of bugs."

Long Bai admired, flapped his wings and took off, grabbed the buckle and opened the lid of the pot, and looked into the pot.

Empty but clean.

Long Bai put the lid back on the pot again.

"Mo Lan, push the lid down."

"oh--"

Mo Lan raised her front foot and gently tried to press it down.

Click!

There was another crisp sound of a metal mechanism.

"alright!"

"Pressing these two buttons at the same time opens the lid."

"Press down gently to close the lid."

Long Bai explained, grabbed the buckle, flapped his wings and pulled it to make sure it was locked.

Long Bai pointed at the body of the pot and said, "Mo Lan, put your claws on it and try to inject the original power into it."

"OK!"

Mo Lan did as he was told.

At the mouth of the pot, a little blue light lit up, spread along the mouth of the pot, quickly formed a blue halo, and then went out.

"Mo Lan, stop! It's okay!"

Long Bai reminded, standing on the throne, raised his paws, and with a click, the pot lid jumped up and the mechanism loosened.

He flapped his wings, grabbed the buckle to open the lid, and looked into the pot.

A full pot of water!

Long Bai said happily: "The water-generating function is not broken! It can be used!"

"Wow!"

Mo Lan jumped up with joy.

"Try the hot water function again!"

Long Bai put the lid back.

"Mo Lan, press down the lid of the pot."

"good!"

Mo Lan did as he was told.

Long Bai stood on the throne, clicked the button with a red pattern on the side of the pot lid, and explained: "This button is for hot water. After pressing it, and then injecting the original force, it will heat the water. After completion, it will automatically return Play. Mo Lan, try it."

Mo Lan raised his forefoot and put it on the body of the pot, injecting force. Soon, with a beep, the button with the red pattern bounced back.

Long Bai opened the lid again, steam rising.