Build the Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 106 Chapter 105 The first ocean version of the mother nest

The birth of the new era of the Swarm was anything but smooth.

After the fungus carpet is completed, it expands in an orderly manner under the control of the mother nest, tearing down the forest, killing animals, digesting organic matter, and supplying energy and nutrients to the mother nest. The mother nest is fully supplied, and the speed of pupation development is greatly accelerated.

Seeing that everything was going well, Tetsumaru left happily. He first went to check on the giant scorpion who was full of food and drink and was furious. Seeing that this guy had regained his vitality, Aburame Tetsumaru was even happier. Now he can rest assured.

Study using living tissue.

The giant scorpion's crazy attacks couldn't stop Aburame Tetsumaru from doing anything to it. This huge cave was still too small for the giant scorpion. It took a long time to move around to complete it. How could we stop the little bug from sucking blood from it?

, bite off the armor, and even cut the skin and flesh to extract the venom from the hooked tail.

In just ten minutes, Aburame Tetsumaru collected more than 400 materials and filled a large box full of test tubes, beakers, and open-top bottles.

At this time, I don’t know if a large amount of blood was extracted, which caused the giant scorpion’s blood pressure to drop. The violent red color in the giant scorpion’s small eyes faded away, and a look of fear and shrinkage appeared. A huge insect shrank into a corner of the cave, trying to hide

Own.

[You actually show fear towards me. This is an acquired learning ability. How can you have such a strong intelligence? 】

Tsk, Tekwan Aburame licked her lips. She really wanted to dissect to see if the nervous system had mutated into the brain. Unfortunately, she only found one, and she really couldn't bear to dissect it. If she could find another one...

Well, I wouldn't want to give it up unless I can multiply enough.

After the giant scorpion's living tissue was processed, Aburame Tetsumaru left.

He is nominally stationed in the Country of Tea, protecting and guarding the mines belonging to the Leaf Village. The ores and gems produced here will be transported to the Country of Fire, and part of the iron ore will be sold to the Country of Iron in exchange for various ninja tools.

Rumor has it that all the metal mines in the mines here are actually the property of the Sarutobi family, and the gem mines belong to the Daimyo of Fire. Of course, the Daimyo of Tea Country also have a share, but they are only dividends and cannot be controlled.

Who knows, there are a large number of high-quality mines in the Fire Country, why they come all the way to the Tea Country to develop them, but since Konoha has sent ninjas to station here for a long time, these news cannot be regarded as groundless rumors.

Aburame Tetsumaru's responsibility is to replace the previous six teams and guard the coastline 300 kilometers southeast of the Country of Tea to avoid being stolen by Kirigakure or Sunagakure Village.

There are rules for the garrison mission, which requires Tetsumaru Aburame to communicate with the Leaf Village regularly, conveying the message that he is still alive and that there are no problems with the land he is looking after.

If the information is not delivered within the specified time, it is basically assumed that something happened to the ninja, and the superiors will have to use the emergency team to check the situation, and then decide what to do next based on the new information.

Aburame Tetsumaru has now become the lowest ninja again. No matter what level, only I can complete certain tasks. I only have superiors and no subordinates. Isn’t it the lowest level?

snort.

Aburame Tetsumaru thought about the reason for being angry, and then angrily went to report the mission to his superior.

Of course he likes to experiment with germ carpets and brood nests here, and he also knows that this is the only place where he can conduct research on giant insects, but on the surface, he doesn't make people feel satisfied, otherwise he doesn't know what kind of trouble it might cause.

At first, my only idea was to leave Konoha Village and go to a place with fewer people, but now that the brood nest and the carpet have taken root, it would be terrible if an order came to ask me to change places.

Arriving at the capital of the Country of Tea, this so-called capital is actually a fortress with a castle tower and a few streets of town below, without even a wall.

The Japanese-style fortress of Shutenkaku looks very majestic, but in fact it is completely designed for war functions. The internal space is cramped and cramped. It is too hot in the summer and freezes to death in the winter. The living experience is extremely bad.

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Tea should usually live in the courtyard below the fortress, but Tetsumaru Aburame does not need to look for him. Instead, he looks for the Ransai jounin who is responsible for the defense of the Kingdom of Tea. He usually stays in Konoha's stronghold, right here

On the mountain about two or three kilometers away from Minmin Town.

Lansai Jōnin is an old man in his sixties. He has long passed his prime, and his strength has declined. Moreover, according to the intelligence, he is just an ordinary Jōnin when he is young, and his strength is among the Jōnin in Konoha.

Basically at the bottom of the group.

"Ransai Jounin, I'll report." Aburame Tetsumaru saluted politely. No matter what the other person's strength is, he is his superior after all, and he is so senior, so he should have the respect he deserves.

"Oh, Aburame Jounin is here. Are there no enemies in your station?" The old man tremblingly took out a scroll and asked Aburame Tetsumaru. There were actually three questions: Are there no enemies? Are there any unexpected situations?

Is there anything you need?

Aburame Tetsumaru responded with three nos. The old man wrote the record and time on the scroll, and the work was considered completed.

Then the Lansai jounin invited Aburame Tetsumaru to stay for tea, and Aburame Tetsumaru naturally would not refuse. This old man was not very powerful, but he had a good reputation for tea art and was very popular among the nobles.

He was taken to the tea room behind the stronghold, with a small but extremely exquisite courtyard outside, and then the jounin Lansai served tea to Aburame Tetsumaru.

After a series of etiquette: washing hands, appreciating the utensils, warming the soup cup, filling the tea, washing the tea, brewing, brushing the face and sealing the pot, it is finally time to drink tea.

The tea art of the ninja world is different from that of Japan in the previous life. It is not a tea soup ground into powder, but brewed and fried tea leaves. Therefore, the etiquette and steps are also quite different, but the tedious and troublesome spirit is not the same at all.

Aburame Tetsumaru waited patiently for the old jounin to complete this set of etiquette, and finally drank the first cup of tea, which was called Chuku. The tea soup was very strong, with a strong bitter taste, but the sweetness was also very strong, and the taste was okay.

, but it’s not the taste he likes.

Then there was another round of tossing and I drank the second cup, called Gencho. This time the taste was much lighter. I drank the Aburame Tetsuwan in three sips.

Finally, there is the third cup, which is called Fengzhan, which means it is over here. This last cup is also filled with deep evil and has a long floral fragrance. Aburame Tetsumaru likes it very much and drinks it all in one gulp.

Then Aburame Tetsumaru bowed and left. After working for an hour and a half, he drank three cups of tea. Aburame Tetsumaru was so hungry that he refused next time.

【The country of tea is indeed a place for retirement.】

In fact, Lansai Jōnin would not invite Tetsumaru again. For such a so-called tea art expert, the ability to observe people's emotions was very good. Aburame Tetsumaru didn't show it on his face, but how could he not see the unhappiness in this person's heart?

What about patience?

That is to say, Aburame Tetsumaru is a special jounin with a great reputation, and is even more important than ordinary jounin. Lansai jounin has the patience to complete the entire tea ceremony. Try it with a chuunin. If you can't finish a cup of tea, you will have to drink it.

Kicked out by the old man.

This is the influence of strength and status. Of course, height also has some influence.

Old man Lansai was actually very angry, but every time he wanted to get angry, he looked up at the guy sitting cross-legged opposite him who was taller than he stood up, and then at the pair of fists that were bigger than his head, and he immediately thought

After seeing this guy's record, he swallowed his saliva, swallowed his anger, and forced himself to continue making tea.

After Aburome Tetsumaru left, he went to the castle town and bought a few local specialties. After tasting them, he found they were terrible. After barely filling his stomach, he left without looking back.

I won't come again next time, just let the shadow clone come over to support me, it's a waste of time.

Shadow clone:..., main body, I beep~~~~, you beep~~~~

…

Aburame Tetsumaru was dumbfounded when she returned to the island. The entire fungus carpet turned into a snow-white color, and was still very wilted. Some of the fungi had even withered, and even the pupae of the mother nest were shaking weakly.

Aburame Tetsumaru hurried up to check. Could it be that the carpet was invaded by another fungus? It can't be so unlucky.

The test results were actually very simple: I was poisoned, sodium chloride poisoning, that is, I ate too much salt.

The thing is very simple. The growth and development of the fungi requires too much water. Aburame Tetsumaru had previously considered that there was fresh water on the island to neutralize the sea water, but he did not expect that the demand was too great and the fresh water was drained in one day. Next.

Only seawater could be extracted, and a large amount of salt was deposited in the fungus carpet. The fungi immediately responded and metabolized the salt.

However, the metabolized salt accumulates on the surface of the fungus blanket. In turn, the osmotic pressure displaces the water in the fungus blanket, and then evaporates quickly, further exacerbating the water shortage problem and forcing the fungus blanket to draw more seawater.

So it becomes a vicious cycle. The matter is not very complicated, but it is difficult to solve, especially after it has been connected to the mother nest, which makes it even more troublesome to deal with.

Aburame Tetsumaru knew that this was caused by his own poor thinking. Now he had no choice but to bite the bullet and launch the marine version of the brood in advance.

The most critical system of the marine version of the brood nest is the salt processing system. This requires the construction of a dedicated bug building, instead of letting the fungus assume the function of processing salt. The fungus only needs to transport the waste.

Just do it. First, rinse the brood nest and bacteria carpet with water, and replenish the water source with fresh water to ensure that the brood nest will not die.

Then he immediately dug a cave at the foot of the mountain, built a laboratory, and took out the half-finished bugs to continue research. In order to speed up the research, Tiewan also divided into ten shadow clones to assist him in working together and started research on different waste treatment methods.

Work.

Now that we have decided to launch the marine version of the mother nest, we naturally need to increase the utilization of the sea. There is no shortage of water in the sea, and there is no shortage of sunlight, so there is naturally no shortage of organic matter.

There are abundant products around the island: fish, shellfish, sea crabs, etc. are all good sources of protein, and predatory organs are definitely available.

The larger and larger organic matter in the ocean all belong to plankton, so there must be no shortage of feeding organs under the sea surface.

The mineral resources on the ocean floor are also incredible, and the drilling and mining equipment must not be ignored.

If you look at it from a game perspective, Aburame Tetsumaru reopened a new base on the island and opened five scientific research progress bars.

At this time, there are still a dozen progress bars advancing at different speeds in the Konoha base.

It has to be said that the Shadow Clone Technique is really a magical skill for scientific research. As long as the amount of chakra is enough, you can create endless assistants. There is no longer the problem of lack of clone skills, and there is no need to worry about the assistant being a fool.

Not to mention, you don’t have to worry about stupid lab dogs operating randomly and blowing up the laboratory you worked so hard to build at any time.

As for the danger of the shadow clone technique, it is not a problem. As long as you don't be lazy and actively pay attention to the progress of the research, you don't have to worry about the mental shock when it is lifted. It's the best of both worlds.

…

The development of the Abyss Pool was soon completed, and after several rounds of testing, it was urgently implanted on the fungus carpet. The Abyss Pool has a large volume and can store dozens of tons of waste liquid. However, the Abyss Pool is not the bladder of the mother's nest, but has

Digestive organ with strong decomposition ability: stomach. The salt transferred from the fungus is processed by decomposing enzymes into hydrochloric acid and free chlorine molecules. The hydrochloric acid is used as the digestive juice of the deep pool. The free chlorine molecules undergo complex reactions to generate toxins. The fungus uses this toxin

It can better capture animals and can also be used to defend against predators.

Yes, rodents on this island have appeared that can eat the fungus carpet, and their evolution and adaptation speed are also very fast.

The digestive juice can process animal carcasses and bones more effectively, decomposing all organic matter into nutrients, which are then absorbed by the inner wall of the abyssal pool.

A few days later, the filter-feeding kelp was successfully grafted onto the bacterial carpet, replacing some of the organs that obtain water from seawater. The filter-feeding kelp has a huge surface area, absorbing seawater while filtering out plankton, small fish and shrimps, and then

The food is compressed into balls and carried by the insects to the abyss for processing.

More than a month later, Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that there was no longer any need for predators. The filter-feeding kelp had absorbed all the nutrients in the seawater, causing a small-scale ecological disaster in the nearby marine ecosystem.

Because the number of plankton is greatly reduced, the small animals that feed on it are so hungry that they have to flee, or simply starve to death. The large animals also migrate with the small animals.

The entire island is surrounded by dense kelp forests, but there are not many animal activities.

What I have to say is that animals in the ninja world adapt very quickly. After the rise of land rodents, animals in the ocean are also adapting quickly. And there are more types of animals in the sea. Omnivores such as conches, sea urchins, shrimps, and crabs are very fast.

They started to chew the filter-feeding kelp, and even if they released toxins, they could only suppress them but not eliminate them.

After adjustment by Aburame Iron Pill, the filter-feeding kelp sacrificed the efficiency of filter-feeding, greatly improved the surface hardness, increased the spikes of silica, and added toxin killing, in the end there was a kind of shrimp that could withstand all means.

, officially became the natural enemy of filter-feeding kelp.

In the end, Aburame Tetsuwan could only breed additional bugs that prey on small shrimps in order to better suppress the natural enemies of this fungus blanket and no longer expect to exterminate these nasty shrimps.

Although there are still some imperfections, the full version of the Brood is completed. In addition to the power of protection, all the needs of the Brood are managed by its own subsystems and are no longer required from the outside.

The next step is to build a purely terrestrial version of the mother nest as soon as possible according to the successful plan.

Then there is the deep-sea version that relies on submarine volcanoes for energy, and the final space version in a gravity-free environment. These two are probably far away.

【Take your time】

Aburame Tetsumaru raised her head, looked up at the stars in the sky, stretched out her hand and gave it a weak shake, seeming to grasp countless stars in her hand.

In this life, I will definitely be able to travel among the stars.

Sorry, that’s all the updates for today. I originally thought I could finish five chapters in two days in a row. But Shanghai suddenly let me go. I quickly took my children back to my hometown for a visit. I haven’t been back for a few years. I will try my best to keep updated during the National Day holiday, but it exploded

It may be even more difficult. I'm making an IOU here: Sheep owes you six chapters to be updated, which will be completed in October. Sorry, sorry.

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