Astral Ants

Chapter 189 The Birth of Silver Cypress
Mo Lan was in no mood to continue searching for the Land of Force.

Long Bai controls the ruling throne, flies in a straight line, and returns to Xianglan Mountain.

This year's output of ordinary species has been harvested and put into storage in time.

This year, only one Nanqian god-given seed has produced and is about to mature.

The scale of the ant country continues to expand, and more food needs to be hoarded for the coming spring. The fishing activity in Heilian Lake has been extended to 20 days and started earlier.

……

The ruling throne, carrying Cui Bai and Lan Bing, slowly entered Heilian Lake and climbed over the mountains.

In the woodland at the foot of the mountain, Hei Ti is directing a large number of worker ants to cut trees and reclaim wasteland.

Bai Liu followed to watch the fun, circling and flying around, perhaps wanting to help, but it is really not suitable for working.

"Longcypress Ant King! Mo Lan!"

"Cuibo!"

Seeing the ruling throne, Bai Liu galloped forward to greet him.

After a brief greeting.

Long Bai controlled the throne to land and dock at the entrance of the ant nest on the hillside, and put down the plank.

Cuibai led the blue soldiers and landed first to rest.

The size of Hei Ti has shrunk again, the fourth moulting evolution, its body length has shrunk to less than 50 centimeters, accompanied by a drop in strength and speed, and under the protection of the soldier ants, it ran to come.

"Your Majesty!"

The eyes of Long Bai and Mo Lan were immediately attracted by Heiti.

"Hei Ti, when did it evolve?"

Long Bai asked.

Heiti answered in detail: "6 days ago. I ate one black lotus seed every day according to your majesty's instructions. After eating 53, I successfully completed the evolution. I fell into a deep sleep in the evening when it was dark, and woke up the next morning. It's almost like a normal sleep, without any obvious weakness."

On Heiti's body, the commanding ant's temperament is already very obvious, and the shaking antennae use the unique method of the ant tribe to transmit information more smoothly and clearly.

On the side, Bai Liu was also using his mental strength to tell Long Bai and Mo Lan about Hei Ti's changes.

"I've done a test for Hei Ti. Now it eats the force food other than black lotus seeds, and its original energy utilization efficiency has reached 50%, which means it will only dissipate about half of it."

"Really? Try again!"

Mo Lan jumped onto the throne, picked up a small spider silk bag, and handed it to Heiti.

It contains 5 god-given gorgon seeds, 10 god-given fruit pandan seeds and 42 black lotus seeds produced by my own black lotus seed.

Hei Ti opened it, understood it, and picked up a piece of pandan seeds, a fruit bestowed by the gods, to try.

Long Bai and Mo Lan immediately covered it with mental power and continued to observe.

As Bai Liu said, about half of the original energy is absorbed, and half of the original energy is dissipated.

At this point, the rules are also figured out.

In the next molting evolution, the black grape will shrink to a body length of 35 to 40 centimeters, and the utilization efficiency of force food will increase to about 65%.

In the next molting evolution, the black cat will shrink to a body length of 20 to 30 centimeters, and the utilization efficiency of force food should be in the early 80s.

After undergoing six times of moulting evolution, it completes the class jump and becomes a 1st instar intermediate commander ant.

Long Bai simply instructed: "Heiti, first eat the middle-level black lotus seeds from the Bailiu territory. After eating, then eat the high-level black lotus seeds from the Molan territory. Don't rush, eat one every two days. Control the interval time of molt evolution."

Heiti: "Understood, Your Majesty."

Long Bai: "Don't be in a hurry to open up wasteland, go and help Cui Bai fish."

……

As in previous years, Long Bai went back and forth twice to transport the blue soldiers and blue ants to the Black Lotus Lake.

He stopped running around in the cold winter, and stayed at Xianglan Mountain to rest with peace of mind. He also started to use force food to pave the way for the sleeping evolution in the coming year.

Every five days, a batch of empty-bellied blue ants was sent to Heilian Lake, and a batch of full-bellied blue ants was shipped back.

In the Pandan Mountain Ant Nest, all the blue ants' bellies are filled with ant honey, which is enough food for the entire kingdom to survive the rest of the winter and the next spring.

The annual fishing event is over.

Rest for ten days, set off to Feiguang Mountain, send 1000 rough stones, collect nectar to brew ant royal jelly, and pick golden fruit.

When the work is over, this year's winter is drawing to a close.

……

Pandan Mountain.

The ruling throne descended slowly, approaching the entrance of the ant nest in Shannan.

A commander ant with a body length of nearly 30 centimeters and a blue ring pattern on its abdomen came out of the restaurant next to it, raised its head, and looked at Longbai and Molan on the throne.

"what!"

"Silver cypress?"

"Yinbai has finally emerged into the world!"

Mo Lan flapped her wings and slapped Long Bai vigorously, cheering happily.

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai waved his tentacles and asked, "Yinbai, when were you born?"

Yin Bai: "Two days ago."

Long Bai asked: "Has Xiangbai familiarized you with the territory?"

Yinbai tilted his head to think, and replied: "Xiangbai introduced me to life plants. Cuibai introduced me to reservoirs. Originally, Juniper wanted to take me out for hunting, but was stopped by the giant cypress, saying that he would wait for the king to come back. .”

"Forehead--"

"I am the king!"

"Spring is coming, everyone is busy, follow me."

Long Bai put down the board, arranged for the accompanying worker ants and blue ants to return to their nests, jumped off the throne, pointed to Mo Lan and asked:

"This is Molan, do you remember it?"

Yin Bai: "Remember!"

Long Bai waved his tentacles and said:
"Come on, let's go to the mountains."

"Mo Lan, let's go to the Shanbei Persimmon Garden together."

……

The job that Longbai assigned to Cedar was to manage the logistics of the ant nest. There was not a lot of work. Sometimes it would accompany the juniper to direct the ant colony to dig biogas digesters, build water storage tanks, dig canals, and cultivate orchards.

Under the management of cedar and juniper, the orchards planned to be built on the south side of the mountain range have been reclaimed.

Orchards in the northern part of the range are also mostly complete.

Key cultivated plants: big fruit hemlock, green torreya, rough torreya, golden pine nut, king fir, chestnut, black emperor peach, star pear, sky green persimmon, purple kiwi fruit, silver cypress

For pest control and disease prevention, plants between orchards are intermixed: various cypress trees headed by cypress; various peach trees headed by yellow peach; various orange trees headed by blood orange; rice tree headed by rice; grapes headed by black grapes Trees, and other various berry plants for making ant honey, there are more than two hundred varieties.

There are also various spice plants for cooking soup that cedar explored.

There are also various familiar bluegrasses planted under the forest, as well as hybrid bluegrasses that neither Cypress nor Molan know.

Reclaiming wasteland has destroyed the original ecology of nature, but Cypress has established another ecology, and there are still many types of plants.

Leading Yinbai, Longbai wandered up and down the mountain, first teaching him about each plant, explaining cultivation and management techniques.

Take it with you, first taught the basic knowledge of animals and plants, and then taught the hunting and fighting knowledge of the giant ant tribe.

A new commander ant was born, and Mo Lan happily followed her for two days. After the novelty wore off, she felt bored. She went back to the cave by herself, concentrated on eating food from the original force, rested and brewed for evolution.

The early spring when the orchids bloom.

In the evening, waves of force suddenly came from the north of the mountain.

"Molan has evolved."

Long Bai led Yin Bai through the mountain tunnel and ran to the north of the mountain.

(End of this chapter)