Astral Ants

Chapter 185 The Beetle Warrior Basking in the Sun and the Logging Termite
In the evening, there was a light rain in the already gloomy sky.

Rainwater can wash away the smell emitted by the air hole, greatly reducing the possibility of being discovered and tracked, and it is convenient for the good weather for jungle sneaking.

It was getting dark, Long Bai greeted Mo Lan to go on the road.

Long Bai ran ahead.

Mo Lan activated her innate ability to merge with the dark forest and followed behind.

Make a half-circle around the thin outer circle, come to the southeast, and run towards the mountain area.

Before entering the area of ​​the original force, before approaching the mountain mausoleum, Long Bai stopped.

Mo Lan's figure appeared.

In front of them was a large area of ​​neatly planted pine trees, and there were still a few fallen trees, which were obviously caused by insects.

Closer inspection, the fracture is neat and fresh, and it has just been laid down in the last day or two.

"Long Bai, there are indeed Zerg warriors living here."

"They're growing pines? Looks like black pines."

"There are still saplings that have just been planted over there!"

Mo Lan tapped her tentacles and pointed in a direction.

Long Bai glanced at it, tapped his tentacles slightly, and asked, "Mo Lan, have you sensed the original energy fluctuations of the original force plants?"

"No."

"There should be no Zerg warriors living nearby."

Long Bai quickly climbed up a nearby pine tree, stood on the top of the tree and looked out, through the dark night rain, observed the surrounding terrain, turned around and descended from the tree, waved his front foot, motioning for Mo Lan to follow.

In the large area nearby, there are neatly planted trees.

Long Bai led Mo Lan, circumvented carefully, entered the land of force, and climbed up a hill.

Looking from a height, it is inexplicably shocking.

In front of you are rolling hills and neat terraced fields and woodlands.

This is the edge of the land of force!
The edge locations have all been developed into woodlands, and the middle locations must have all been developed.

How big is this?Hundreds of square kilometers!

How many Zerg warriors would it take to manage this?
Long Bai evaluated, "The number of Zerg warriors here is probably more than fifty, maybe as many as a hundred."

"Yes--"

Mo Lan agreed, and hesitated: "Long Bai, tell me, could it be an ant king who directs the worker ants to cultivate and manage?"

Long Bai: "Impossible. There is not enough food."

Mo Lan: "What about the ants that feed on fruits and plant seeds?"

Vegetarian ants eating pine nuts, cypress seeds, birch seeds, elm nuts?

As far as the eyes can see, they are all large trees such as pine, cypress, birch, elm, alder, etc., not fruit trees such as apples and peaches.

Long Bai didn't believe it at first, but after a second thought, he thought of a possibility: maybe this area focuses on planting dried fruit trees, while fresh fruit trees are planted in other areas.

"Molan. Take a look over there."

Long Bai led the way, trotting along the ridge under the cover of night and rain.

Soon, it stopped at a small hill again.

In the garden below, the sparsely grown trees were felled, but no treatment was done.

He didn't stay long, and continued to move forward, running along the hills and ridges to the depths of the land of force.

From time to time, traces of Zerg activities could be seen, but no Zerg fighters' lives were found, let alone the caves where they lived.

A neat square of woodland has been reclaimed, and the trees planted are constantly changing. I ran all the way and saw hundreds of trees, including fruit trees such as persimmon trees and peach trees, but the number is very small, and all of them are yield and quality Poor native species found in wild forests.

"Long Bai, stop!"

From behind, Mo Lan urgently called to stop.

Long Bai stopped abruptly and turned around.

Mo Lan raised her forefoot and pointed to the mountain peak opposite the depression, "The original force of the original force plants fluctuates!"

The distance is too far, and in the rainy night, only the black shadow of a mountain peak can be seen dimly.

"Mo Lan, don't worry!"

Long Bai looked left and right, led the way and ran to the hilltop in the distance, and hid under a bush of Amorpha fringae with luxuriant branches and leaves.

"Long Bai?"

Mo Lan asked.

Long Bai: "Wait for dawn and observe in secret."

"Oh—" Mo Lan didn't want to act rashly.

After running for most of the night, the mountains were covered with neatly reclaimed woodland wherever they passed.

Ordinary Zerg warriors don't have this ability, and there are definitely vegetarian ant tribes operating here.

Probably a Zerg tribe working in partnership with the Ants.

Peace of mind to wait.

……

rain break.

dawn.

The golden sun hangs obliquely on the eastern horizon.

On the opposite mountain peak, a beetle with a black carapace and shining purple light slowly walked to the open space in the forest, and entered the field of vision of Long Bai and Mo Lan.

The beetle warrior climbed up a cypress tree on a slope and lay down on the trunk with his carapace facing east, motionless, as if enjoying the winter sun comfortably.

Mo Lan preemptively made a judgment: "About 1 meter in length, a high-ranking warrior of a certain armored tribe!"

Mo Lan: "There are also 18 force plants planted nearby, just right for its evolutionary level."

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, what should I do next?"

Long Bai: "No hurry. Continue to observe."

Mo Lan: "We seem to be thieves."

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "It didn't come out of the cave until mid-morning. After leaving the cave, it didn't do any work. It just lay on the trees and basked in the sun. It's not managing these woodlands, there are other insects."

Cymbidium:"!!!"

Mo Lan: "Continue to observe!"

At noon when the sun was in the sky, the beetle on the opposite hill slowly retreated from the cypress tree, disappeared into the dense forest.

After waiting for a long time for no one to appear, Long Bai was thinking about whether he should change his observation angle, when he saw a group of black and white figures appearing on the forest road in the valley below.

"Ants?" Mo Lan shook her tentacles excitedly.

"Not ants! Termites." Long Bai said solemnly.

The number of termites marching is an integer of 50.

The leading ones are 10 termite soldier ants whose heads occupy two-thirds of their bodies, and the ratio of their heads to their bodies is even more exaggerated than that of the specialized soldiers in the giant cephalic ants.

Behind the soldier ants are 40 worker ants whose heads occupy half of their body weight.

There is not much difference in body size between soldier ants and worker ants, and the shape is also similar, the difference lies in the size of the head.

Black scissor-shaped jaws, white head, black breastplate, white plastron, slender white legs, and black toes.

Termites in black and white.

The body length of soldier ants is about 1.5 meters, and that of worker ants is about 1.2 meters. There is no size differentiation.

There are no commander ants in the team!

They lined up neatly, walked to the foot of the mountain, and automatically divided into teams. One soldier ant led four worker ants, and they were divided into 1 logging teams. They dispersed into the forest, picked trees, and gnawed around the trunk.

……

"Long Bai, according to the inheritance memory, the condition for the establishment of the termite kingdom is that there must be an ant king and an ant queen?"

"Yes. One male and one female, two termites at the life level of the original force, together form a termite kingdom."

This condition is too difficult to achieve.

There are indeed more than 1 kingdoms established by the three social insect races of the natural pantheon in the continent of ten thousand countries.But there are only a few dozen termite kingdoms.The rest are all kingdoms of ants and bees.

Long Bai and Mo Lan never expected that it would be a termite kingdom.

I was dazed for a long time, and I thought for a long time,

Mo Lan asked: "There are more than 3000 termite races recorded in the inheritance memory. Which race is this?"

Long Bai: "I can't recognize them at all. It should be that their ant kings and queens have been strengthened with food from the gods, and their body shape and color have changed."

Long Bai said solemnly: "The termite kingdom also has Zuo Wang. But these soldier ants and worker ants down the mountain came to the woodland and worked independently without the command of the ant king and Zuo Wang. This shows that they are very intelligent."

Mo Lan agreed: "Big head! It's much smarter than your worker and soldier ants!"

Long Bai's breath stagnated, and he said unhappily: "It's not because of the small size of the head, no matter how big the head is, it won't be so smart."

Mo Lan: "Their ant kings and queens are mountain masters?"

Long Bai: "More than that!"

That is the lord class?

Mo Lan became serious, a little scared, "Long Bai, retreat first?"

Long Bai: "Withdraw! Come back at night."

(End of this chapter)