Astral Ants

Chapter 119 Gourmet ants, keep improving
It took half a month to build the dam of Zhanlan Reservoir, raising it by 2 meters and increasing the water storage depth by 0.5 meters.

It was about the same time, Long Bai and Mo Lan packed their bags and set off for Yinbai Mountain in the north to complete the deal with Shanshi.

The mountain persimmon also left dark wounds during the evolutionary growth of the advanced stage, and the remaining white rice ant king honey worth 1500 rough stones was arranged for the mountain persimmon.

This year's mercantile trade is over.

Return to Pandan Hill.

Longbai started to cultivate giant blue soldiers and intelligent blue ants.

The special two ant eggs are placed in two separate nest rooms, and two teams of worker ants are assigned to take care of them full-time.

This winter, Longbai still stayed in Xianglan Mountain, and through the messenger function of the ruling throne, it produced a sufficient amount of 7 ant eggs in batches every four days.Enter the ant nest regularly every day, release pheromones, stimulate the differentiation of various ant eggs, and focus on strengthening the strength of the ant country.

This year, more than 60 kinds of berry ant honey were collected, and more than [-] kinds of dried fruits were collected.

After many years of eating experience, Longbai discovered that the taste of ant honey is not absolutely the more varieties, the better the taste.

Certain berries and dried fruits can affect the overall aroma and taste, such as durian, mango...

Some tastes and aromas will conflict. It tastes good when eaten separately, but it is awkward or even unpalatable when combined.

Long Bai and Mo Lan turned into food bugs, trying to combine and taste different kinds of ant honey every day.

There seems to be no pattern, at least Long Bai and Mo Lan didn't find a pattern.

It's all about intuition, and even match it as you like.

After numerous tests and inspections, Longbai has preliminarily determined four flavor types for Ant Honey: fresh fruit fragrance, fresh fruit fragrance, dried fruit fragrance, and mixed fragrance.

And set exclusive marks for different fragrances.

The fresh fruit fragrance is marked by raspberry motifs.

The mango pattern is used for the fresh fruit fragrance.

Torreya torreya is used for dried fruit.

As for mixing mellow... draw a big circle with three smaller circles inside.

……

The essence of the blue ant's 'refining' ability is to remove all useless impurities and only keep the ingredients that can be absorbed by the Zerg.

A large spider silk bag of force food, after refining, it may not even be able to fill a metal can.

After the ordinary force food is refined, it is blended with ordinary ant honey with different tastes and aromas, and then diluted to make "Original Force Ant Honey" with different tastes and aromas.

For mass production in the future, wood can be cut into elliptical leaf shapes, polished smooth, punched, tied with spider silk strings, and icons corresponding to flavors and aromas can be carved.

Each can will be labeled according to the fragrance type, which is simple and clear, and easy to distinguish.

The brand is divided into two sides, and the other side can also describe the enhancement type of the original force ant honey in the tank.

There are too many and complicated types of force enhancement for inheriting memory.

Longbai made a summary and simply divided it into four general types: elemental, comprehensive, sensory, and carapace.

Other types are not considered.

Among them, for the element type, draw a few wavy lines as marks for the enhancement of the water system; draw a mountain for the soil system; draw a tree for the wood system; draw a flame symbol for the fire system...

To strengthen the crustaceans, draw a pair of elytra as a symbol.

For sensory enhancement, draw a pair of dragonfly compound eyes as a symbol.

To comprehensively strengthen the physique, draw a thick and powerful hind leg of a praying mantis as a symbol.

There is also the pricing of goods.

In the early stage, there are only three grades: 1000 rough stones/can, 2000 rough stones/can, and ant king honey made from the seed bestowed by God.

At present, Longbai and Molan have Guopanlan, Zhanlan, Nanqian, Beiqian, Nanzizao, Higuangguo, Guishanmu, and Baifanguo, a total of 8 god-given seeds.

Among them, the five god-given seeds of Guoxianglan, Zhanlan, Nanqian, Nansuanzao, and Higuangguo are all planning to sell to caravans.

Among them, there is no need to perform redundant operations on Guopanlan seeds and Southern Gorgon seeds, and they are directly sold in the form of dried fruits.

Zhanlan fruit, Southern jujube, and Hiuguang fruit are fresh fruits, some of which are marinated in honey to keep the original shape of the fruit and try to achieve 'authentic flavor'.

However, with the method of honey pickling, the fruit takes up too much space and cannot fit too much in one can. Taking Zhanlan fruit as an example, a can can only hold about 300 rough stones.

The carapace of the flame spider has limited space, and the goods that can be carried are limited. It is okay when the quantity is small. Once the quantity is large, the total price of the goods will be tens of thousands, 10,000+, and Bai Wei will definitely not be able to transport it.

Honey pickling is not only laborious to transport, but also troublesome to make, and the taste is not as good as ant honey.

Therefore, Longbai is more inclined to make the god-given fruit into 'ant king honey'.

Both the pulp and the core are refined and mixed into 'ant king honey', and then an appropriate amount of ordinary ant honey with different flavors and flavors is added for seasoning, and the concentration is also diluted according to the needs.

Finally, it is packaged into cans of azure blue ant king honey, southern jujube ant king honey, and scarlet light ant king honey.

In terms of pricing, it should not be too high for the time being, divided into 1000 rough stones/can and 2000 rough stones/can.

Each can is hung with a wooden sign, and the price is clearly marked: 1000 rough stones are engraved with a groove the size of a rice grain; 2000 rough stones are carved with two grooves the size of a rice grain.

Bai Wei's calculation skills are not good enough, such a can is priced in integers, and when things are sold, count the number of rice grains on the wooden sign, which is a few 'thousands' of rough stones.

The simplest counting, can't go wrong, right?
Bai Wei is really not a smart partner.

Long Bai spent a month pondering over these issues, and finally settled on a more feasible plan.

mid-winter.

Sunny morning.

Mountain North Restaurant.

Long Bai brought hundreds of blue ants in special, large, medium and small sizes, and used his brain memory ability to the extreme, trying the combination of ants and honey time and time again.

"Long Bai, I have lost my sense of smell and taste..."

Mo Lan, who was in charge of the tasting work, had lost her initial interest due to too many attempts. Faced with thousands of combinations, the whole worm was numb.

"I'll go down the mountain to have a look..."

Mo Lan said something, and left the restaurant as if fleeing, first went to the territory of Guoxianglan's God-bestowed Seed to inspect and inspect it, it was not yet mature.

It flapped its wings and lifted into the sky, hovering and landing towards Beiqian Reservoir.

"Beiqian, aren't your fruits ripe yet?"

"I don't know... Soon..."

"Then hurry up."

"I know."

"Do you need top dressing?"

"No need. Mo Lan, leave me alone. Go ahead."

The fruit hasn't matured for a long time, and being chased and questioned by Mo Lan every day, Bei Qian can't stand it.

"I am not busy."

Molan flew at low altitude, circled twice around the God-given Seed of Beiqian, checked it once, confirmed it was correct, flew away slowly, circled Xianglan Mountain twice, stood on the top of the mountain to watch the scenery for a while, and breathed in the fresh air. Fly two more laps.

Near noon, we came to Shanbei Reservoir again.

"Beiqian, your fruit..."

"It's ready. It's ready. It's ready."

"Are you going to mature?"

"Yes. It's ready. Mo Lan, quickly bring the rough stone!"

"Great!"

Mo Lan cheered, fluttered her wings into the air, and rushed towards the mountain.

"..." Beiqian wanted to cry but had no tears.

Didn't you mean twins?Why is it that I am unlucky to have such a praying mantis.

……

Longbai intends to make ant honey a luxury high-end force food, and strives for perfection in the taste of ant honey.

From worm to worm, there are certain differences in the preference for aroma and taste.

There is a difference between Longbai and Molan.

There is a difference between juniper and juniper.

What Longbai needs to do is to match as much ant honey as possible that can satisfy the taste preferences of most insects.

Juniper led the soldier ants and stationed under the peak on the west side of the mountain range for a long time.

The giant cypress guards the North Gorgon Reservoir.

The high-level worker ants are not so afraid of the cold, and they are still active in winter. The junipers are leading the excavation of the Shanxi reservoir.

Mo Lan, the only one who didn't have a mission, still ran away.

Long Cypress moved out the cypresses and cedars that were still in the larval stage, and used them to try the taste of ant honey.

Larvae can release simple signals through pheromone: hungry, full, delicious, unpalatable, like, hate

These two guys are natural foodies, able to distinguish between delicious and bad, and have their own likes and dislikes.

While busy, Mo Lan suddenly rushed in.

"Long Bai!"

"good news!"

"The fruit of the North Gorgon is finally ripening!"

"Quick! Rough stone! Rough stone!"

Finally entering the final stages of maturity?
Long Bai calmly waved his tentacles, signaling the worker ants to move the cypress and cedar back to the ant nest, and then gave instructions to arrange for the worker ants to bring 400 rough stones.

Take 20 big worker ants, control the throne, and float towards the reservoir at the foot of the mountain.

　Thanks to Qianxing Xiaoyao, Piao acridine, and Bai Fei for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)