Astral Ants

Today's Xianglan Mountain is as busy in autumn as in spring.

In addition to the fact that the force food in the Longbai and Molan domains are ripening one after another and need to be harvested and dried in time, the task of harvesting ordinary plant fruits is even more arduous.

Common plant harvesting work is divided into three major items.

The first major item is that the fresh and dried fruits are ripe, harvested and refined to make ant honey, and stored in different categories.

The second major item is the selection and breeding of high-quality seeds.

All kinds of ordinary fruit trees planted in Xianglan Mountain are all over 20 years old. The slowest growing Chinese torreya, thick torreya, and Chinese torreya have also entered the fruitful period a few years ago, and now they have also entered the iterative optimization period .

When a fruit tree enters the fruitful period, it is necessary to inspect the tree vigor, fruit yield, and fruit quality, and the unsatisfactory ones will be eliminated.

The high-quality fruit trees with good tree potential, high yield, and high-quality fruit are preserved. Continue to observe and select particularly excellent fruit trees as "planting trees". Every year, the best fruits are collected from the best-growing branches, and the most plump fruits are selected. The seeds are reserved for planting.

The selected seeds are used to cultivate new seedlings. After several rounds of elimination, the best seedlings are selected to replace the pits of those eliminated fruit trees.

Zerg breeding and optimizing planting is a long cycle of optimization and elimination.

Xianglan Mountain is now gradually entering a virtuous cycle, and the old trees will be eliminated in a few years.

This kind of work will not be effective in ten or 20 years; it will definitely be effective in 100 or 200 years; if it is placed in those large tribes, after 1000 or 2000 years of optimization, it will definitely be able to cultivate a large number of high-quality cultivated tree species.

In the autumn of Mount Pandan, there is a third special work, which is to collect seeds of hybridized and grafted plants.

This is the tricky method given by Yexiang's God-given Seed, to cultivate high-quality brand-new plantings, to stimulate the natural law to descend the God-given, and to obtain the God-given seed.

It seems to work, but it doesn't seem to work...

Lidou, Cuihua Hanlan, and Xuelan, these three god-given seeds seem to meet the conditions of the law, and they were born as a gift of nature.

However, Juniper focused on the hybridization and grafting of grapes and kiwi fruit trees, and produced many new varieties that grew robustly, but failed to trigger the godsend.

……

Autumn is busy.

This year, the first batch of black grapes from the seed of the black and yellow gods are about to ripen.

Juniper simply placed the work site on a hill with black and yellow roots.

Silver cypress forms a formation of soldier ants, led by mountain master-level specialized soldier ants, and brings large, medium, small, and small soldier ants to the tree to harvest them, sort them into categories, and send them to Juniper.

The juniper commanded the worker ants and the blue ants to carry out four tasks at the same time: searching for god-given seeds, refining ant honey, selecting common seeds, and screening hybrid seeds.

Among all the commander ants, juniper is the most similar to cypress, and has a very powerful ability to handle complex affairs.

The giant cypress led a large group of soldier ants, guarding around the black and yellow god-given seeds and guarding the fruits on the trees.

"Giant cypress! My frog!"

Heihuang, who had been quiet for a while, suddenly sent out a strong mental power idea.

"Oh--"

Giant cypress, who was busy helping juniper to check the seeds, responded, but had no choice but to go to the pool under the hill to check the situation.

The spiritual power was born at the main level of the evolution mountain, and being able to communicate with the god-given seed of the dragon cypress ant king is the most painful thing for ant students.

Dealing with Nanqian and Heihuang is more troublesome than fighting termites.

The black and yellow main vines intersect with the blue original energy field of the water system.

Black and yellow also imitate azure blue, fish and frogs are to be raised...

But it doesn't understand these at all, and it can't direct the ant colony to work.

Heihuang directs Jubai to help...

Giant cypresses can eat fish and frogs, but raising fish and frogs will not work.

The frogs raised in the pond are always running away...

"Black and yellow. It's cool in autumn, and the frogs are looking for a place to dig holes to hibernate."

Jubai commanded the soldier ants to catch the fleeing frog and tried to reason with him.

"I know!"

Heihuang is also a reasonable tree, saying: "Giant cypresses, let them hibernate in holes in my territory."

Jubai: "..."

Jubai: "Calculate the time. Your Majesty will be returning to the mountain soon. Your Majesty must know what to do."

"is it?"

Heihuang: "Long Bai is back!"

Jubai: "Huh?"

Hei Huang: "Long Bai is back."

"Oh--"

The giant cypress shook its tentacles, paid no attention to it, and buried itself in helping the juniper, but felt something was wrong again, and looked up at the sky.

The reigning throne flew into the territory of Xianglan Mountain, and quickly fell towards the blue god-given seed from a high altitude at an oblique angle.

——The king has returned to the mountain!

The giant cypresses and junipers gave instructions to the ant colony, simply cleaned up and counted them, and ran towards the Zhanlan Reservoir in unison.

Before he ran down the hill, he saw the ruling throne flying low in the sky, rushing over along the black and yellow main vine.

"Longcypress Ant King!"

"Your Majesty!"

Juniper and giant cypress greet each other.

I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and I am very kind, and I am eager to know the situation in the Tilia worm country.

"Longbai Ant King, is everything going well? Is the growth of the Baibo God-given seed also going well?"

Juniper asked.

Long Bai said briefly: "Everything is going well, the tree is now more than 30 meters tall."

30 meters? !

Both juniper and giant cypress trembled in fright: so fast?

Long Bai said solemnly: "The composting of the corpses of the original force life has far exceeded expectations."

An uncomfortable discovery.

Long Bai issued a strict order: "From now on, ants that are old and dead in the kingdom are not allowed to be buried under the life-planting plants."

"understood."

"Understood. Your Majesty."

Juniper and Giant Cypress agreed.

Long Bai skipped the topic, pointed at the vines with his claws, and asked, "What frog? What hibernates? What is the black and yellow up to?"

Junbai briefly explained: "The black and yellow are imitating the blue, and it also wants to raise small animals, but it can't command the ant colony, and it doesn't know how to build an ecological system."

Jubai pointed to the pond not far away, and said, "Over there, I caught a few frogs for it, and they kept running away."

Long Bai: "Ah..."

Long Bai waved his tentacles and said, "Don't get used to it."

Jubai: "..."

The giant cypress froze and thought for a while.Said: "Black and yellow are noisy and troublesome."

Long Bai: "Don't bother with it."

Jubai: "My lord, the god-given seeds have their own consciousness. They are rooted in the soil and cannot move. They are quite boring. Black and yellow and Nanqian always like to attract our attention in strange ways."

Giant cypress: "If you ignore them, I worry that it will affect the healthy growth after a long time."

"……Right!"

Long Bai thought seriously, and said: "Then when I'm not around, junipers and giant cypresses, you should go to them more often to communicate with them."

Juniper: "Okay. But, Cypress Ant King, when can I evolve into a mountain master?"

Long Cypress: "There are a lot of god-given seeds that need to be harvested this autumn. When I finish my work, the harvesting of Xianglan Mountain should also be over. Juniper, follow me to the Tilia Kingdom, where you will sleep and evolve. Replace the cedars."

Junbai happily said: "Understood, Your Majesty!"

The giant cypress raised its front foot, pointed lightly at the pool not far away, and asked cautiously: "My lord, can you have a way to keep those few frogs for the winter?"

Long Bai: "No."

Long Bai said to Hei Huang, who had been chattering with him all the time: "In the coming year, sprinkle duckweed and other aquatic plants in the pool, and plant various weeds around the pool to attract insects to come for food, and naturally there will be frogs to come for food." , and they stayed in the pool."

Long Bai couldn't bear to refute, and asked immediately: "Is the black, yellow, and azure water original energy field good for your growth?"

Black and yellow: "???"

The black and yellow main vines spread straight towards the Zhanlan Reservoir, with luxuriant branches and leaves. No need to ask, it can be seen that it is somewhat beneficial.

Long Bai ignored it, directed a soldier ant to climb a tree, picked a grape fruit and tasted it.

Seeds are small and fleshy.

Not yet ripe, slightly sour.

Junbai watched Longbai's reaction, and asked at the right time: "My lord, how is it?"

Hei Huang also asked: "Long Bai, is it delicious?"

Long Bai touched the tentacles lightly, and said: "The taste is not bad, the fragrance is very strong. After two more sun exposures, the fruit will be ripe and the taste will be very good."

"The quality is acceptable, the seeds are a bit small, and sold to the flame spider caravan, they can only be sold for 4 rough stones per grain. The pulp can also be sold for 4 rough stones per grain..."

Hei Huang hurriedly said: "Then here comes the question... Long Bai, let me test you. One grape seed has 4 rough stones, one grape seed has 4 seeds, and there are 21 in a bunch. There are 184 bunches in total. Then, How many rough stones can be sold in total?"

Long Bai: "..."

You are really boring~
Can such a low-level question stump me?

Long Bai: "77280 rough stones. The flower and fruit cycle is 4 years, and the input of rough stones during the ripening period is removed. Calculated, the annual income is about 18000 rough stones..."

"Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!"

Heihuang: "Wrong! I asked about grape seeds! I didn't ask about your pulp! Are you too stupid, Longbai?"

Long Bai: "..."

Black and yellow: "???"

Long Bai: "Yes. Yes. Yes. You are smart."

Long Bai asked: "Heihuang, can you communicate with Zhanlan?"

Black and yellow: "It can be capable, but it doesn't like to talk."

wrong!
It's not that Zhanlan doesn't like to talk.

It's because you are too cheap, Zhanlan doesn't like to talk to you.

Long Bai thought for a while, and said: "Next spring, I will arrange Yinbai to evolve into the main level of the mountain, black and yellow, and I will let Yinbai play with you." (End of this chapter)