Douluo starts with the Pea Shooter

Industrial development is a systematic process. Industrialization cannot be completed by relying solely on a certain group of people or a certain region. Let’s take the simplest example, for example, steelmaking. If there is no powerful soul guide such as the element separator to help, in order to improve the efficiency of industrialization, the first thing to do is to beneficiate the iron ore.

The difficulty of processing iron ore of different grades is also very different. If you want to find the minerals you need, it is definitely not something that can be done in a small area. You can imagine what the scale of raw materials and manpower required for a complete industrial system will be.

The Xinhuo Camp is said to be the power of industry, but in fact it is just a super workshop of tens of thousands of people. It is still a long way from completing industrialization. It’s just that the existence of the soul guide is a cheat. Yes, there is no industrialization system yet. For the time being, barely qualified industrial products have been produced.

The industrial system of Aolai Country will not be limited to such large workshops in the future, so more industrial population is necessary. The immigrants needed are not only adults, but also more children. Children are the easiest to accept new things and the easiest to accept education. They can understand various advanced concepts more easily than adults.

As these children grow up, Lan Nuo is no longer a lone person promoting the development of science and technology, but these are all later stories. Now the complete industrial system is still far from being established.

Lan Nuo put more of his attention on Dugu Bo's medicine garden. In addition to opening up the route, another important purpose of his return to Douluo this time is to see how the plan to mass-produce fairy grass here is going?

He had made a plan before. If he wanted to mass-produce fairy grass, he would first need to breed soul beasts on a large scale. The soul beast that Lan Nuo was interested in was ants. These soul beasts live in groups, so the breeding speed is extremely fast.

However, in a normal colony, only the queen ant is considered a soul beast. Although other ants can use soul power, they will not have soul rings after being killed, and they can hardly devour soul power using the devouring ability.

But this does not mean that these ants have no possibility of becoming soul beasts. After all, there are powerful diamond ants in the original work. The three 90,000-year-old soul beasts are all in the shape of worker ants or soldier ants, not the shape of queen ants. From this, it can be seen that these ants may become soul beasts independently if they are out of the control of the queen ant.

Experiments have proven that as long as the queen ant is killed and these ants are cultivated independently for a period of time, they will transform into independent soul beasts on their own, and their life image will change from true social animals to become more like other carnivorous insects.

This phenomenon is very similar to bees, which are also true social animals. The worker bees responsible for collecting honey are actually the same as their queen bees, but because they only drink ordinary honey when they are young, while the queen bees drink royal jelly, which causes them to grow into completely different forms.

When the queen bee dies, the eggs that would have grown into worker bees can also be transformed into new queen bees. These ants seem to be the same, but their method of continuing the life of the population is not quite the same as that of bees.

But this means that large-scale breeding and cultivation of soul beasts has become possible. It is difficult to find any soul beast that reacts faster than these ants, and even if they grow to a hundred years old, it is almost impossible for them to have wisdom, which means that breeding them basically does not require too much psychological pressure.

This is like raising cattle and dogs. When you kill and eat the meat yourself, you will feel a certain sense of guilt. But when it comes to raising chickens and fish, even if you raise them yourself, you will not feel too guilty when you eat the meat after they grow up. These things basically have no wisdom. In more popular terms, they are not tamed, so it is difficult for people who raise them to empathize with them.

Lan Nuo cannot always raise these ants himself, so he must consider the psychological endurance of the executor. Fortunately, these ants basically only act according to instinct ten thousand years ago, and the psychological pressure of raising and slaughtering them is not even as great as killing chickens.

At present, the breeding method of these ants is very mature. The first step is to find the queen ant and provide enough feed. Soon a new ant nest will be established. These ant tides are not built on the ground, but in concrete pools with a volume of about 3m3. Someone will put organic feed into the pool regularly.

Generally, it is a mixture of plant straw and a small amount of plant seeds, which is the so-called grass seeds in large-scale agricultural planting. Sometimes the grain in the field does not grow well and is covered by weeds. Farmers can choose to harvest grass seeds to make up for some losses. Compared with pure weeds, these things are more suitable as feed.

Although ants can eat meat, people who have learned a little biology know that the efficiency of energy transfer is greatly reduced when feeding with meat. At each level of the food chain, the efficiency of energy transfer is only 10% to 20%.

After about fifteen days, the number of ants in this nest will reach about 5,000. At this time, it is necessary to prepare to kill the queen ant and transfer the worker ants and soldier ants.

Because if the amount exceeds this, the ants will begin to split into groups. Is this a normal phenomenon in nature? The natural resources in an area are limited. If the ant colony continues to expand, then the surrounding natural resources are rich, but not enough for them to consume.

It is quite painful to encounter this situation when raising ants artificially. These ants cannot leave the 3m3 concrete grid, which means that after they are divided into groups, they can only stay in one box. If the queen ant is not killed in time to transfer the ants, the two waves of ants will start to fight. In this case, these ants will become very aggressive, which is very dangerous for breeders.

Lan Nuo considered that if large-scale breeding is carried out in the future, a large number of ordinary people will be needed to enter the ranch. The ants with quite docile personalities are selected, but no matter how docile they are, they will be very ferocious if they fight. After all, these are soul beasts. Even if they are only ten-year soul beasts, the threat to ordinary people is no less than that of encountering lone wolves in the wild.

In order to avoid ants killing each other in a limited area and protect the safety of breeders. It is very necessary to remove the queen ant regularly.

As for those ants that are transferred, ants with different functions will always be separated and placed in breeding boxes of different specifications for breeding.

Not only worker ants and soldier ants, the division of labor of this type of ants is very detailed. Some ants are responsible for growing mushrooms, some are responsible for raising aphids, some are responsible for distributing food, and some are dedicated to conveying orders. If not. It is difficult for people who have professional research to tell the difference between them.

The different characteristics of these ants determine that they need different specifications of breeding boxes, just like soldier ants, after being out of control, they become individual soul beasts, and their volume expands the fastest.

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Generally, the body length will double within three days and become the size of a thumb. Within a week, it will basically grow to the size of a palm, and within a month, it will reach its maximum size under normal circumstances, with a body length equivalent to a human forearm. The front claws have great destructive power. They must be restrained in a steel cage, otherwise, even if they don't escape, they will hurt the breeder.

These big guys are the most difficult to raise, not only because of their aggressiveness, but also because they eat slowly. Although their front claws are huge and powerful, the structure of that thing is different from that of a human mouth, and it is actually very troublesome when eating.

It's like a big clamp is installed on your mouth. When you open your mouth, the clamp will open, and the monk mouth clamp will bite the enemy. If you have a strong bite force, then this is a brutal weapon, but when you want to eat, you will find that you have to use both hands to bypass this clamp. It takes a lot of effort to pass the food to their mouths.

Therefore, these soldier ants usually spend more than six hours a day eating, not because they can eat. But because they eat too slowly. Artificial feeding is unrealistic. As soldier ants, they are the most aggressive. If you dare to reach out and pass food to their mouths, just wait for your hand to be pinched off.

Eating less means that the cultivation level is improved slowly to a large extent. The speed of soul beasts' cultivation level improvement is not constant. Otherwise, did Di Tian really live for 900,000 years?

If he can really live that long, then he is really lucky and has not been killed by the nature of the earth. If the history is extended to a million years, at this level, we will find that earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are as frequent as menstruation.

Maybe the planet under your feet will give you some trouble, especially the planet with extremely intense geological activities like Douluo Continent. Two continents separated by more than 300 kilometers can collide with each other in 10,000 years. If Di Tian really lived for nearly a million years and did not encounter a mass extinction like the Siberian Traps event, he would be really lucky.

In short, those super soul beasts that lived for hundreds of thousands of years could not have really lived for hundreds of thousands of years. In such a long history, even if they did not encounter any natural disasters, the biggest problem that could cause them to self-destruct is that they are tired of living.

Tired of living sounds very outrageous, but imagine a world without computers, mobile phones, movies, games, novels, potato chips, happy water, and even without friends to play with. What does it mean to live alone for 1 million years? If these soul beasts are not crazy, their thinking structure may be very different from that of humans.

As for how old the soul beasts are, Lan Nuo doesn't have an accurate number yet, because most of these soul beasts don't know how to count when they are young. He tried to ask the Blue Lightning Dragon King how old he is, but he didn't know either. He only knew that he was born a long time ago.

Most soul beasts probably don't have any idea of ​​how old they are. After all, the four seasons in the tropical climate of the Star Dou Great Forest are not very distinct. Maybe many soul beasts don't even have the concept of years. By the time they can remember things, count, and figure out what a year is, they don't know how many years they have experienced. It's impossible to figure out how old they are.

The Blue Lightning Dragon King only roughly calculated that it was about a thousand years from the time he became more conscious to now. As for before that, he felt that he had lived for a very long time, but if he recalled carefully, he couldn't rule out the possibility that he had no concept of time at that time and lived day by day like a year.

Lan Nuo felt that the Douluo people might have made a great misjudgment in the classification of soul beasts.

Perhaps there is nothing wrong with the classification of ten-year soul beasts, hundred-year soul beasts, and thousand-year soul beasts, because these are all observable in human history, but the classification from ten-thousand-year soul beasts onwards may start to become outrageous.

Since the color of the soul ring changes with each additional digit in the previous year, they have developed an inertial thinking that those who can produce black soul rings must have lived for more than 10,000 years, and those who produce red soul rings must have lived for more than 100,000 years.

But this is just a guess, and no one has proven this in practice. After all, no one can live for 10,000 years, and the entire human civilization has not yet reached 10,000 years.

Lan Nuo's own experiments show that the age of soul beasts is affected by the living environment, and the two most significant factors are the concentration of extraordinary power and the richness of food.

The former is easy to understand, and the ice and fire Yin-Yang Eyes can increase the speed of cultivation is the best example.

As for the latter, almost all soul beasts will eat without restraint, and will continue to eat even after they are full, and even cause some soul beasts to eat themselves to death. It can also be regarded as a side proof of the role of food in cultivation. In a relatively rigorous control experiment, two soul beasts of the same size and age and basically the same health status have significantly different speeds of increasing their cultivation years under different dietary conditions.

The speed difference between soul beasts that always guarantee nutrition supply and soul beasts that keep feeding after eating and only ensure that they are not overfed is almost 300%. This is only the data of some soul beasts. For some scavengers with particularly strong digestive ability, this improvement rate can even reach more than 500%.

Therefore, the soldier ants who don't eat well have become negative examples, and the positive representatives are the male ants who only know how to eat and mate. They improve their cultivation very quickly. But they just happen to lack combat power. They are more suitable to be extracted to make experience packs.

After Lan Nuo came to the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire, he subconsciously maintained the form of Dr. Zombie King. Although it was only a shallow transformation and did not have the buggy ability of Gray Wolf, it was relatively easy to understand the entire ant breeding system with greatly improved intelligence.

Then put these ants into a portable breeding box. After breeding, some worker ants will be transferred to another new box with the queen's eggs that have completed the disinfection work, and start a new round of reproduction.

In the entire breeding process, each round needs to go through similar steps. The estimated time for a qualified hundred-year soul beast to be marketed is one year and six months, which is only slightly longer than the pig farming cycle. In addition, the number of qualified products that can be produced from an anthill is almost one thousand, so this production efficiency is already exaggerated.

[To be continued]

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