Astral Cockroach

A striped melon, eaten once, actually has a very limited effect on improving physique, and it's also a huge waste. It's equivalent to spending 2000 original stones for a collective splurge.

It left behind 54 seeds, smaller than pine nuts.

Big Head directed the worker ants to collect them and dry them in the sun.

Banbu decided to give Xiangpu, Big Head, and Hongdao 10 seeds each, with the remaining 24 belonging to Baizhu.

Only deducting 300 original stones from Baizhu, it still had 600 original stones to spend. Banbu's plan was to have it evolve twice as soon as possible to catch up with the growth rate of the other five bamboo rat warriors.

… …

After the rainy season passed, the territory had new farm work to be busy with – planting bamboo seeds.

During last year's dry season, many bamboo seeds were harvested through drought stimulation.

In Banbu's plan, it was necessary to plant large-scale quantities of Seven-Colored Bitter Bamboo, Seven-Colored Red Bamboo, Cloud Silk Golden Bamboo, Golden Thread Bamboo, Spotted Bamboo, and Black Bamboo. These bamboo seeds were the key experimental research subjects for the next few years.

It was also necessary to plant small-scale quantities of hybrids of Seven-Colored Bitter Bamboo and Seven-Colored Red Bamboo, and hybrids of Golden Thread Bamboo and Cloud Silk Golden Bamboo. The purpose of planting hybrids was to observe the hybridization effect.

Banbu accidentally searched out a "rustic" method for cultivating plant seedlings from the inheritance memory of humans.

Very rustic.

Specially open up long strips of flat land as breeding nurseries.

Mix marsh residue, marsh water, clay, and humus black soil to create nutrient soil.

The bamboo rat warriors' fore claws were slightly flexible, kneading these mixed nutrient soils into mud balls about 5 centimeters in diameter, called "nutrient clusters."

Inside each nutrient cluster, place a bamboo seed, and then arrange them neatly on the breeding nursery.

The number of bamboo seeds that needed to be planted exceeded 10,000, which was a considerable amount of work and required concerted effort.

Banbu and Big Bear were responsible for opening up the nursery, digging soil, and transporting it, as well as mixing the nutrient soil.

The seven bamboo rat warriors, led by the Rat King, were specifically responsible for making nutrient clusters. After they were made, they were neatly placed in the nursery.

Big Head directed the worker ants to put the seeds into the nutrient clusters one by one.

Finally, Banbu sprinkled a layer of topsoil to cover them.

This breeding method has three benefits:

It improves the seed germination rate and seedling survival rate.

After germination, after about half a month, the quality of the seedlings can be distinguished through the growth of the seedlings, and those seedlings with particularly poor growth can be eliminated. It is a more secure method of selecting seeds.

The young plants grow on nutrient clusters, which are convenient to move and will not damage the plants, making it easy to control the spacing of planting rows.

Compared to directly burying seeds for planting, this is a more refined cultivation technique.

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In the late spring season, ordinary cockroaches in the territory gradually became active and began to reproduce in large numbers.

Banbu followed last year's method, protecting the male cockroaches as much as possible, driving out large numbers of female cockroaches, and finally leaving only about 100,000 to maintain the ratio of male to female cockroaches in the territory.

Due to the large number of Black Bamboo Peak warriors, the released aura scared away various birds, snakes, rats, and other creatures, allowing the ordinary cockroaches to roam freely and reproduce all over the mountains.

Banbu even considered having Big Head direct the soldier ants to eliminate a batch of female ordinary cockroaches, but after thinking about it, he felt it was too cruel, so he gave up and let them live and die on their own, focusing on taking care of the little cockroaches in his territory.

In the new year, the first batch of egg capsules hatched one after another. Banbu specially spent time paying attention to observation and compared them with the juvenile cockroaches hatched in the territory of Fengling Mountain:

The juvenile cockroaches born in his territory were slightly stronger, and the proportion of males was larger.

Knowledge is power. Banbu was very confident and a little proud.

However, within a few days, problems followed one after another. The newly born juvenile male cockroaches tried every means to escape the territory.

Banbu tried to separate them and feed them meat separately every day, but it still didn't work. They would scurry out if he wasn't careful.

After repeated pondering, Banbu roughly guessed that it was because the number of male cockroaches in his territory was saturated. By nature, the newborn male cockroaches migrated to other places.

After several experiments, he couldn't change this situation, so he simply let it go: anyway, they couldn't run out of the Black Bamboo Peak range.

… …

The two tree-type life seeds, White Jade Mulberry and Sun Reflection Fruit, which grow relatively quickly, are both over 1 meter tall.

The White Jade Mulberry spikes, with three panicles, blooming with white florets. This summer, Banbu can harvest some delicious mulberries.

The Sun Reflection Fruit tree has also produced 16 small bumps, which are its flowers, very hidden. This summer, it should also be able to harvest 16 Sun Reflection fruits.

The output of White Jade Mulberry and Sun Reflection Fruit, including the Scirpus validus life seed and various bamboo life seeds, is mainly supplied to Big Head and the six little bamboo rat warriors. Various ordinary life seed plants grow year by year and slowly develop, which can offset part of the expenses.

Nowadays, Banbu, Big Bear, including the Rat King, mainly use the fruits condensed from God-given seeds in order to grow quickly.

Supporting alien races allows them to help with many things and help the territory develop and prosper, but adding it all up, the monthly expenditure is still a considerable amount.

… …

Late at night, a mental power call came from the foot of the mountain:

"Mountain Lord Banbu, we are the Jade Bamboo Merchant Team, may we go up the mountain?"

At the end of late spring, the Jade Bamboo Merchant Team was late.

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ is ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥ book ⊥ bar ⊥ ⊥ first ⊥ hair!

"Yes, please!"

Following the Jinping Mountains, coming from the southeast, Banbu guessed at a glance that this guy first went to the Sheep Hoof Mountains, then detoured, passed through the Banyan Mountains, and entered the Jinping Mountains.

He took a big detour, so he came late.

Banbu flapped his wings and went down the mountain to greet the merchant team.

Yuzhu was still an L9 advanced warrior, still with the two little followers named "Fuling" and "Qingxiang".

On his back, there were very few goods being transported, a typical poor small merchant team.

Insects may be poor, but their ambitions are not. On the contrary, this guy Yuzhu has great ambitions. He ran a long way around to the Sheep Hoof Mountains, definitely wanting to get a batch of Ficus aurata purchase permissions.

"Banbu, the output of the Bloodthorn God-given seed must have been very good last year, right?" Yuzhu was also proficient in the hypocrisy of doing business. This was a question he already knew the answer to.

He had already inquired about the specific output of Bloodthorn Fruit in the Sheep Hoof Mountains last year, and even inquired about the amount of Bloodthorn seeds Banbu left for him and the price he was going to sell them for.

"Not bad! There will definitely be more this year." Banbu greeted enthusiastically: "Yuzhu, come on, let's go up the mountain first, you can taste the quality of the Bloodthorn seeds."

Yuzhu said: "Banbu, you entrusted me to bring a little Blaberus craniifer warrior here last year. As expected, after careful selection and a lot of effort, I found a warrior who is particularly suitable for Black Bamboo Peak."

Expectation? If Yuzhu hadn't said it, Banbu would have almost forgotten about it.

"Yuzhu, you put in a lot of effort." Banbu asked: "Particularly suitable for Black Bamboo Peak? How do you mean?"

Yuzhu said: "His name is Duzhu, he likes bamboo! And all his life seeds are well preserved! The only flaw is... he's a bit naughty, you should educate him well."

"Likes bamboo? That's rare!" Banbu was overjoyed and said: "It's good to be naughty. A lively personality can get along well with the other warriors on the mountain."

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult."

The little spider warrior named Fuling said coldly, quickly climbing onto Yuzhu's back, took off a large bamboo tube, and pulled out the blocking dry grass.

A little Blaberus craniifer warrior quickly climbed out, stood on the bamboo tube, turned his body, shook his antennae, looked around, and then locked onto Banbu, and saw the towering mountain in front.

"Wow! So many bamboos!" The little warrior named Duzhu exclaimed repeatedly.

"Fuling, is this what you said about Black Bamboo Peak?"

Without waiting for Fuling to answer, Duzhu asked Banbu again: "Wow, such a dark Blaberus warrior! Are you Banbu?"

Banbu's antennae twitched and replied: "That's right, my name is Banbu, welcome to Black Bamboo Peak."

Duzhu turned his head and saw the purple bamboo planted at the foot of the mountain, and continued to exclaim: "Wow! Is that purple bamboo?!"

Banbu's mood improved a little, and he replied happily: "Yes, purple bamboo, a very precious and rare bamboo species."

"It's so beautiful!" Duzhu flapped his wings and flew towards the purple bamboo, asking as he flew: "Can I go over and take a look?"

"… …" Banbu replied: "Go ahead."