Elven settlers

Chapter 69 The Thriving Unicorn
According to Rock's knowledge, different from the organizational structure of the Queen Bee and the Three Bees, the population of the Big Needle is more like a Datong society.

They form a colony around the nest in a family unit, and jointly raise the unicorns in the nest.

Although the division of labor between the big needles is different, except for one or a few leaders who participate in decision-making, other big needles are equal.

The foraging big needle will bring back food to the companions guarding the nest, and all the hives are surrounded by unicorns and iron shells in the middle of the nest for protection.

Even the leader of the bee colony is held by the most powerful big needle.

And the higher the position in the hive, the greater the responsibility.

Only the warrior who can lead his companions to get more food, or rush to the forefront in every battle can get the approval of all big tits.

If it weren't for the short lifespan of Big Needle, Rock actually wanted to tame a Pokémon that was very tempered to him.

"It's a pity that I have passed the age where I don't care about anything."

Rock sighed softly, withdrew his thoughts, and placed a large bunch of flowers and young leaves in the arranged worm boxes one by one.

Then he checked around the boxes and saw that every unicorn was eating before returning to camp.

That night, Rock dreamed that he had turned into a Snorlax, swimming in a sea of ​​honey.

The golden sea water hit his face wet, he wiped his face and wanted to taste it, but he smelled it and felt that the taste was not right.

Opening his eyes, Rock was surprised to find a huge black dog's head laying on his face and licking it non-stop.

"Wang Wang!"

Seeing that Rock woke up, De Rubi happily ran around him, shouting.

Rock blocked the glare of the sun with his hands, and the sun had risen very high before he knew it.

"Ha~ I got up late, it seems that I want to eat honey too much."

The drowsiness slowly dissipated, and Rock got up from the sleeping bag while yawning.After stretching, I strolled to the river with the three elves to wash up.

There are not many work tasks today. The fruit trees in the tree orchard are growing very well, and there is no need for him to take care of them now except for regular watering.

Breakfast was fried eggs sandwiched with bacon that had been eaten for three days. After eating, Rock took the tools to the bee farm that was completed last night.

He went over to check every worm box.

The unicorns seem to have adapted to life in their new home. They basically ate all the flowers, branches and leaves in the worm box, and they are curling up to rest inside.

Rock took out his hand ax and chopped off some shrub branches, and made a simple broom to collect fallen flowers under the beech forest.

Then he went to the linden forest not far away to pick some fresh leaves, mixed them and added them to the worm box of the unicorns.

Before putting in the food, Rock poured out the feces in the worm box.

These insect droppings don't need to be treated, they can be decomposed into the soil within a day, and they are good nutrients for this forest.

The trees that make their nests in the wild are usually taller. In addition to their deliberate selection, they also have the effect of these insect droppings to some extent.

After cleaning up the insect droppings for the 45 beehives and adding food, Rock walked up the mountain with his squirrel watering can.

Not far from his bee farm, there is a mountain spring, the spring water is crystal clear, gushing out from the cracks in the rocks, forming a small pool.

The pond water overflowed to form a small stream, which jumped and flowed on the rocks, and finally merged into the big river on the territory.

"This spring water looks good."

Rock took a sip of the spring water, and it tasted mellow and sweet.

So he filled the watering can and mentioned that the apiary sprinkled some spring water in each worm box.

After these unicorns evolve, he won't need to take care of them hand in hand. At that time, the bee colony that has been raised will naturally pass on Rock's pheromone to the next generation.

At that time, the newborn unicorns can eat fallen flowers and grass leaves in the bee farm by themselves without using the worm box, and there are big needles to feed them.

Seeing the 45 worm boxes arranged in a chaotic and orderly manner under the tall tree, Rock sat down on the grass to rest in satisfaction.

In order to maintain the population quality of the bee farm, he does not plan to collect new unicorns.

The most poisonous unicorns near the territory are basically all here. He just needs to take good care of them so that these unicorns can evolve into big needles, and then reproduce naturally.

Excluding some special cases, the average lifespan of a common big needle is only three years.

They are not sexually mature in the first year of evolution, and they will give birth to two to three larvae each year for the next two years, until they reach the limit of resource capacity within the nest.

When the resources near the nest are no longer sufficient to support the continued increase in the population of the big needle, the big needle will control its own fertility and maintain the population in a balanced state.

Of course, this is an ideal environment. There are too many accidents in the wild to change the number of big needles.

Rock lay on the grass looking at the luxuriant canopy, making calculations in his head.

My own bee farm may eventually reach the size of two hundred big needles.

Except for the three months in winter, a big needle can brew an average of one liter of honey every month.

Based on the calculation that only half of the honey is harvested each time, Rock's future bee farm can harvest one hundred liters of honey in a month.

Depending on the quality, the price per liter of honey ranges from [-] to [-] yuan.

If everything goes well, the apiary will be able to provide Rock with an income of more than 5 yuan every month in the future.

The morning passed quickly, and Rockben planned to prepare lunch, but when he walked past a worm box, he saw that the food inside was almost gone.

So I had to postpone my lunch with the elves, and add food to these unicorns first.

"Eat more, don't worry, you will definitely eat and drink well with me. Grow up quickly, and then have more children."

Rock was holding a watering can to sprinkle spring water in the worm box, while whispering.

He found that these unicorns seemed to like a mixture of flowers and linden leaves, and they ate very quickly.

He is naturally happy to see this.

In the next few days, Rock simply stayed in the bee farm all day, constantly repeating the work of collecting flowers and leaves, pouring insect droppings, and fetching spring water.

"Haha, it seems to be a little heavier again. Not bad, little girl, continue to eat well."

A unicorn was hanging on Rock's shoulder, and he was cleaning the worm box of the unicorn.

After a few days of getting along, these unicorns were already familiar with his breath, and became friendly to him.

Every time it was time to feed, the unicorns who sensed Rock's arrival poked their heads out of the worm box one by one, looking at him with small black bean-like eyes, waiting to be fed.

There are also some lively little guys, like the one on Rock's shoulders, crawling along his arms to his shoulders, feeling the feeling of climbing high and looking into the distance.

Although these unicorns come from different populations, after gathering together, through the transmission of some pheromones, a new swarm will gradually be formed.

The performance is that their growth will gradually synchronize, and finally they will evolve into iron-shelled beetles together.

It takes two weeks for a unicorn to evolve for the first time from birth.

Rock carried the heavy little guy on his shoulder back to the clean worm box, feeling that they were about to evolve.

He is going to sleep here tonight.

Before the unicorns evolved, they would eat like crazy, and they wouldn't even rest at night.

Rock needs to add food to them in time to prevent these unicorns from accumulating enough energy before they evolve.

"Bay leaf, you go to the linden forest to cut some fresh and tender branches and leaves later. Dairubi, you and Arbo are patrolling around to prevent other wild Pokémon from approaching."

He also arranged tasks for his three elves, and then carefully inspected the worm boxes.

Hearing the sound of the unicorns gnawing on the leaves, Rock felt a little hopeful.

(End of this chapter)