Astral Ant Tribe

The return of spring.

Mo Lan ate 54 fragrant orchid seeds, slept for three days, and successfully evolved into a 2nd age intermediate warrior.

The god-given fruit orchid flowered earlier than Long Bai had expected.

There are many wild cedar trees growing in the upper mountains, showing new buds.

Long Bai knew that the time had come, so he decisively took out the dried cedar and large-fruited hemlock and soaked them in warm water.

Dry cedar seeds are still sown on hillsides near ant nests.

The big-fruited hemlock seeds were sown on the ridge, about 50 meters apart from the Molan tree.

Still using thorn branches and stones as a barrier, soldier ants and specialized worker ants are dispatched to guard it.

During the spring plowing season, other plants in the territory need to be taken care of carefully.

The dragon cypress used its paws to loosen the soil, fertilize them, and cut weeds.

The first sown dragon cypress, juniper cypress, and juniper have all grown to over one meter, the giant cypress is nearly 50 centimeters tall, and the emerald cypress is less than 10 centimeters tall.

Currently, there are not many life types that need to be taken care of, and the scale is also very small. It only took less than a day to complete.

Long Bai directed a total of 70 specialized chemical worker ants to continue digging the pool.

It rains a lot in spring, so the construction method is slightly changed. First, dig a drainage channel of sufficient depth.

very busy,

Long Bai is not only responsible for controlling the flight of the throne and lifting soil, but he also has to keep an eye on the worker ants working below.

Worker ants have no independent consciousness, but they have a certain IQ, can remember simple instructions, and can adapt when encountering trouble.

There are more worker ants working, and some of them have learned to be lazy and passive in their work.

Long Bai was like a cruel slave owner. Whenever he found out, he would immediately swoop down from the throne, beat him with his tentacles, and teach him a lesson.

Little results were achieved, these guys didn't even remember to hit.

Long Bai also tried to form them into teams, with 10 ants in each team. He promoted a captain and ordered the captain to supervise other worker ants.

The effect is even worse. The captain will lead a whole team of worker ants to be lazy...

In the inherited memory of giant-headed ants, worker ants are absolutely obedient to the king. There is no mention of worker ants being lazy. Of course, there is no way to prevent worker ants from being lazy.

Long Bai guessed that the problem should be with the ruling throne.

The worker ants bred through the Dominion Throne are not perfect.

How was the creator civilization destroyed by human civilization?

Could soldier ants be imperfect too?

Conventional giant-headed ant soldier ants, when fighting, if the ant king tells them to charge forward, they will charge without hesitation, and they are not afraid of death.

Will the soldier ants cultivated by the Dominion Throne say that they can't be defeated and abandon the ant king and run away?

Not impossible.

Fatal question.

…

Long Bai was extremely busy here.

Mo Lan was not idle either.

Long Bai once told it the specific method of optimizing planting: opening a nursery for sowing, eradicating weak seedlings, and retaining strong seedlings for transplantation and cultivation. After growing up, collect seeds with full grains from the adult plants that grow best and have the largest fruit grains, and continue sowing and breeding.

Through selective optimization from generation to generation, high-quality plantings can be obtained after generations.

The most important point is: high-quality planting, coupled with a rich Force environment, greatly increases the probability of birthing a god-given seed.

Mo Lan decided to put theory into practice and determined to cultivate her own high-quality orchid species.

Last spring, we opened two nurseries and sowed seeds. Now we are looking for places to transplant them all over the mountains and fields.

I picked a lot of seeds last fall and plan to expand two nurseries this year.

…

"Longbai!"

Mo Lan flew over with fresh soil on her legs and a dirty sheepskin bag.

"Cymbidium……"

Long Bai suddenly felt bad.

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, let me plant some orchid grass to decorate your territory."

Long Bai: "Thank you, Mo Lan, no need."

Mo Lan was unhappy after hearing this.

"These are the new seedlings of the orchid that I carefully selected...Longbai, don't you like the orchid?"

You even played a pun with me~

Long Bai: "How could it be...I like it very much..."

Mo Lan: "Then I'll plant it for you!"

Long Bai reluctantly agreed: "Okay... do you want me to send a few worker ants to help you?"

Mo Lan said happily: "Okay!"

Long Bai took out the eight special chemical ants that were always lazy. He first gave a warning and gave instructions for them to carry the sheepskin bags, follow Mo Lan, and help dig the soil smartly.

Mo Lan led eight oil bottles and began to work in the woodland on the west side of the ant nest.

After a while, he came angrily and complained: Long Bai, there are three worker ants that are not moving!

After a while, he came over again: Long Bai, it’s bad, one of the worker ants can’t be found, there are only 7 left...

…

Time flows happily like a mountain spring.

Long Bai tried many times and finally found the reason why the worker ants were lazy: under high-intensity work, they developed resistance.

Make appropriate adjustments.

Every morning when the sun rises, they go out to work, and when the sun sets, they return to their nests to rest.

Three days of work and one day of rest.

In this way, the cases of indolence at work are greatly reduced, and the work efficiency is actually higher.

The width is 0.4 meters and the length is more than 20 meters. The drainage channel that leads directly to the nearby stream is excavated to a depth of 1 meter.

After a slightly cold spring rain, under the morning light, the dewdrops on the tips of the grass blades reflected colorful light.

Long Bai led the ant colony out of the nest and directed the cleaning of the site. First, he dug out the outline of the pool with a side length of 4 meters.

Mo Lan came galloping over with a small dark blue flower in her mouth.

"Longbai! Look! The flowers are blooming!"

"oh!"

Long Bai responded.

After careful identification, it was a primrose.

When the primroses bloom, all kinds of plants on the mountains and down the mountains will follow.

Long Bai understood what Mo Lan meant. When the flowers bloom, the flame spider caravan will arrive.

Mo Lan has been looking forward to the caravan for a year.

This year, Luo Chen will come to Wan Guo Continent, and Long Bai is also looking forward to it.

"Mo Lan, how many fruit orchid seeds do you have left?"

"100!"

"That's good."

Long Bai was worried that Mo Lan couldn't help but be greedy and ate the orchid seeds prepared for the transaction.

Mo Lan flew around the throne and landed next to Long Bai.

"Long Bai, I suddenly had a brilliant idea, but I have a few questions that I need to ask you..."

"what idea?"

Long Bai stopped working and asked, "What's the problem?"

Mo Lan: "If I sell the kettle made of ice and fire to a caravan, will I still be able to buy it back if there is rough stone in the future?"

Long Bai: "After all, it is a usable creation of an extraterrestrial civilization. It is easy to sell it, but it is difficult to buy it back."

Long Bai understood what Mo Lan's so-called 'wonderful idea' was as soon as he heard it, and gave an exact and detailed answer, saying:

"If you can buy it back, you can entrust a caravan to buy it. However, if you are unlucky, you may have to wait several years to buy it."

"Mo Lan, you want to buy back a coated, ice-fire kettle in good condition, right? Buy it from a caravan, and the price may be more than 20,000 rough stones."

"So expensive?!"

Mo Lan was startled and asked: "Long Bai, last time you said that my ice and fire kettle can only sell seven or eight thousand rough stones?"

Long Bai: "Yes."

Mo Lan: "Why?"

Long Bai: "Mo Lan, think about it carefully. Those lords and insect kings, do they really care about eating a piece of ice in summer? Drinking a cup of hot water in winter? No. What they care about is face. What the insect race cannot create is quantity. The limited creations of extraterrestrial civilizations are the best sign to reflect face. An incomplete kettle made of ice and fire will greatly reduce your face, and the corresponding value will naturally be reduced."

Mo Lan: "Uh..."

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, if you do the math again, seven or eight thousand rough stones can shorten the time for us to advance to high-level warriors by several years. Correspondingly, how much will the income increase? Is this a loss or a gain?"

"This is a rather complex arithmetic problem full of uncertainties..."

Long Bai looked up at the sky, calculated silently for a while, and asked: "Mo Lan, do you want a complete ice and fire kettle? Or are you more concerned about its practicality? Eating ice cubes in the hot summer will be a waste in the cold winter. Drink hot water."

Is that a loss? When Mo Lan heard this, he immediately understood. She was disappointed and asked, "Long Bai, did you lose much?"

Long Bai: "It's not a loss, but you can't make back the difference in price for making a kettle from Ice and Fire."

Mo Lan was not tired of making kettles from ice and fire. On the contrary, she couldn't put it down. Every evening after finishing work, he would come over to Longbai, make a pot of hot water, and invite him to drink together.

Long Bai advised: "Mo Lan, I think you like it very much, so keep it for yourself. When you have money in the future, you can consider changing it to one in good condition."

"It's not a loss?" Mo Lan regained her energy instantly and said resolutely: "Then sell it!"

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, you must be promoted to the intermediate ant king as soon as possible!"