Dragon God, immortal

After finishing the report, Su Ju boarded the Initial Dragon God to return to the Palm Island. She was a priestess, and was in charge of the management of the cat people in the entire archipelago. It was a very hard job.

Oh, by the way, she took the boat this time to send the new students to the Watcher School, and just happened to come to report to Shushan... She definitely didn't come here just to act cute with Shushan! Absolutely! Not!

"You're still so impetuous, just like when you were a kid." Shushan watched Suju leave and shook his head.

Why doesn’t this girl accompany me for a meal before leaving?

Or is it that work is really too busy?

Shushan got up from his bed. His bed was actually a fresh grass carpet sunken into the ground. Resting in such a place would greatly speed up the recovery of his magic power.

Entering the experimental field, Shushan saw a group of cat people plowing the field from a distance. The cat people greeted him one after another, and Shushan nodded in response.

Only a small amount of staple crops such as corn, oats, beans, and alfalfa are grown on Togenqiu Island.

The rest of the fields are already planted with various spices.

In addition to the pepper originally cultivated at Shushan.

There are also plants in the ginger family that are being recultivated.

and various species of fennel found in the Fingerball Island chain.

Well, it is clear that the Ball Island was an underwater mountain range decades ago, but now so many spices have grown on it... I can only say that the seabirds really eat everything and poop everything, and the seeds are all brought by them.

At this time, an orange cat man with white gloves ran up to Shushan and greeted him, while asking him why he came.

Shushan did not hide it and said that he just got up and took a walk because he was bored... The cat man in front of him was the new principal of the Watcher School.

For such a cat person, Shushan vaguely remembered that her eyesight was very good and she could see hidden fairies. It was she who discovered the Totoro Jin Xiaoju at that time.

"…But, Lord Shushan, Jin Xiaoju has stolen the fat beans in the field again!" The cat man with white gloves complained casually while chatting with Shushan.

"Well, we obviously feed it food regularly. Could it be that the fat beans grown in the fields taste better?" Shushan analyzed it seriously for a while. He even wanted to run to the fat bean field right now, lower his head and chew on the grass for a while to taste it... Tsk, the earth dragon's instinct broke out.

“I don’t quite understand it either, but Jin Xiaoju prefers to be accidentally caught while eating and then tease the students rather than stealing food.” The cat-man with white gloves stomped his feet. The mischievous fairy is worthy of being a fairy.

"I'll talk to it." Shushan nodded to show that he understood.

Jin Xiaoju is also a resident of the islands.

But it lives in the spirit world.

Tegenqiu Island is just a transit station between it and the material world, and Shushan doesn’t quite understand the ecology of the creatures in the spiritual world.

Today, Jin Xiaoju is responsible for the connection work of the Obsidian Gate. The reward is naturally the food produced by the archipelago and the plateau, as well as... the unique playfulness of the spiritual creatures.

Shushan is very tolerant of this chinchilla, perhaps because the color of the golden chinchilla's fur makes him miss it.

In addition, Jin Xiaoju's settlement can be regarded as a symbol of friendship between the dragon tribe and the fairy tribe. In the future, when dealing with other fairies, well, maybe it will bring some convenience?

Leaving the experimental field, Shushan came to the south of Tegenkyu Island.

That’s where he buries his plastic and carbon emissions.

There are a lot of rust fungi here.

So cat people are not allowed to approach.

So as not to contaminate the corn fields.

"The decomposition rate of the rust fungus is so slow..." Shushan repeatedly confirmed the decomposition rate of the plastic and finally came to the conclusion... The rust fungus alone cannot decompose a large amount of plastic.

Rust fungus can decompose plastic in small amounts because polyvinyl chloride contains a small amount of magic potion ingredients.

If you want to rely solely on the fungus to decompose plastic, you will need at least twice the volume of the plastic in the fungus mycelium.

Polyvinyl Chloride is Shushan's greatest invention.

But it was also his worst invention.

Earthbound Roots, Stormvines, Flameflowers, and Icecrowns are all low-end magic potions that cost a lot of mana. They are easy to grow and have many effects. Different combinations and processing can produce different potions.

Polyethylene plastic is the product of an extreme mixture of four magic potions, and possesses extremely terrifying stability... It is the heat death product of the mixture of the four magic potions. If you want to reversely decompose polyethylene, the amount of magic power required is horrifying.

"Well, it's your turn now." Shushan took a small box from his back. This one-meter square box was indeed ridiculously small for him.

Inside the box, there is a queen worm.

This is the prototype he created using the magic of creation.

That is the primitive swarm of insects, in its most primitive form, a cockroach with a large leather butt.

Mother Worm: Eat something?

Shushan: Yes, eat.

Mother Worm: Will I live here from now on?

Shushan: That’s right.

Worm Queen: OK.

The internal communication method of insect swarms is sensory contact based mainly on the exchange of pheromones.

Their antennae serve as both nose and tongue, capturing scents floating in the air and allowing them to communicate with their peers at a distance.

However, Shushan's [Magic of Commanding the Swarm] can bypass pheromones and directly command the insects to act. The priority of this command is higher than that of the insect queen.

As Shushan gave the order.

The insect queen lay on a small piece of polyvinyl.

It ate in small bites with its mouthparts, making a crunching sound... After eating for a while, it stopped eating and started to chew the cud.

Yes, the Swarm is a ruminant creature, and although it is small, it has two stomachs in its body.

The first stomach is a common stomach, similar to that of bees and ants, which can spit out food after simple digestion to feed larvae or mother insects. The second stomach is a functional stomach that breaks down nutrients throughout the body.

According to Shushan's research during this period, he found that the ecological structure of insect colonies is not like cockroaches and termites, and their diet is similar to that of carnivorous wasps, but their social structure is very similar to that of leaf-cutter ants, so...

The original swarm is just as good at farming as Shushan.

The swarms live in symbiosis with algae and fungi.

It's incredible.

Because these algae and fungi are engraved in the genetic material of the insect mother! In other words, as long as the insect mother needs it, she can "give birth" to these microorganisms!

"Give your genetic material to the Zerg, and reproduce through symbiosis with the Zerg... and now, the Zerg uses magic to pack the genetic material to me, and reproduce through me..." Shushan was amazed at this continuation choice.

The Insect Dragon Masters have not researched this kind of thing, because it is too difficult for a dragon to study microorganisms. In fact, dragons are not even aware of the existence of microorganisms.

In front of the tree mountain, the insect mother chewed and spit, and found a solid place to draw a circle.

It went around the circle, spitting out the sticky substance, and drew six more circles.

The six outer circles squeeze the middle circle into a regular hexagon, a fairly regular hexagon with the beauty of a master architect.

Afterwards, the mother insect laid several eggs in the six circles outside, and then spit out some purple liquid in the regular hexagon in the middle.

This is the kind of algae that Shushan calls "Purple Algae". The insect mother is making the initial nutrient solution.

Porphyridium is rich in nutrients and is the staple food of the insect swarm. Under extreme conditions, Porphyridium does not need sunlight, only magic power is needed to grow.

Mother Worm: Not enough food.

Shushan: Oh, what would you like to order?

Mother Worm: Except these (referring to plastics), anything is fine.

Shushan scratched the dragon's horns and scraped off some of the moss and mud on its body. The insect mother took it all in and devoured it with a crunch.

After a long period of time, the insect queen built several new hexagonal nests, put the excrement into the new nests, and spit out red liquid from her mouth.

This is the kind of fungus that Shushan named "Saprophytic Fungus" because it can quickly decompose biological remains. Its only weakness is that it is completely helpless against purple algae, which is highly toxic to saprophytic fungi.

However, after being digested by the common stomach of the insect swarm, the putrefactive bacteria becomes the optimal nutrient solution for Porphyridium cruentum.

In this way, the queen insect began an endless cycle of building a house, giving birth to babies, planting algae, excreting, planting bacteria, decomposing the putrefactive bacteria to cultivate purple algae, feeding babies, building a house, and giving birth to babies...

This is why ten kilograms of feed can produce eleven kilograms of meat.

The Swarm is a microscopic farming community.

"When there is enough food, algae and fungi will be used to assist in feeding. In fact, due to the existence of purple algae, when there is enough magic power, it can produce more nutrients than the feed..."

"When food is scarce, we can use saprophytic bacteria to decompose excrement and corpses of our own kind, and use them to cultivate purple algae, thereby maintaining the survival and continuation of the population with extremely low losses..."

"However, the final product of this cycle is poisonous. It is the source of the miasma disaster and the final emission of the complete ecology of the insect swarm..."

Shushan wow, amazing on this.

He found a treasure.

The efficiency of the insect colony's putrefactive bacteria in decomposing plastic is more than a hundred times that of rust fungi. In the future, as long as we raise this nest of insects well, they will be able to decompose plastic. As long as we do a good job of recycling, we don't have to worry about plastic polluting the environment!

At the same time, Shushan vaguely sensed something.

He turned his attention away from the Worm Queen.

Looking somewhere to the south.

On another continental plate, there is a continent that is covered with snow near the South Pole and endless sandstorms a little further away.

Only that small desert oasis contains infinite vitality. In the midst of that vitality, a snow-white dragon egg hidden in the spiritual world is so conspicuous.

"Let me see...it will take at least ten years, or at most twenty years, for it to break out of the shell...well, we have to be well prepared this time." Shushan took on the responsibility of the eldest brother.

I have a large piece of land.

There is also trade with neighboring countries.

If you say that this can let your family starve, well, no one will believe it if you tell anyone.

Chapter 68: Cats and Fish and Chips

Shushan has to prepare for the ice sea.

When Guangre just hatched, Shushan himself was just barely not hungry.

If you don't prepare in advance, it will be too late.

"I don't know what the Water Dragon God likes to eat." Shushan looked up at the sky. The water dragon's diet is similar to that of a whale shark. It should also like to eat fish, right?

Now the Fire Dragon God likes to eat fish, and the Water Dragon God also likes to eat fish...hiss, I really have to find a way to do marine farming...

But, but Shushan really has no experience in these things. Perhaps, it would be better to ask the Kingdom of Amon for advice? After all, they are a big country on the sea...

Hmm... a big country near the sea may not necessarily be good at raising fish. Aren't their fishing boats all ocean-going fishing boats? Can ocean-going fishing meet the needs of the icy sea...

Ugh--

Shushan sighed.

There are still nearly twenty years left. We will first spend five to ten years to build a waterway and trade with the Kingdom of Amon.

After all, humans are numerous and powerful. As long as everyone can squeeze out a little bit of productivity, they can definitely support a dragon god... right?

Okay, okay, the idea is nice, but Wang Guo is not the cat-man trained by Shushan. He has no appeal to humans. At most... at most, he can ask Guangre to pack some food and bring it back when he goes to eat.

"There are still ten years left. After a few more experiments, we should be able to find fish suitable for breeding, right?" Shushan was optimistic.

He ordered the insect queen to produce as much as possible and decompose all the existing waste plastics.

The insect mother naturally had no objection, as long as there was food to eat, it was good.

Shushan pondered for a moment and walked towards Zhangqiu Island.

. . . . . .

"Grandpa Heisong, be careful and don't run around!" Bai Xue saw Heisong at the construction site and quickly pulled away this grandfather who drank and ran around every day after retirement.

"Oh, it's just a little vibration, I'm fine..." Heisong was holding a wine jug and a fishing rod that looked delicate but useless.

Such is retirement for the elderly cat person.

Boring and interesting.

After placing Hei Song in the canteen at the construction site, Bai Xue's round ears trembled. She was not in a hurry for the infrastructure work. She sat there and drank with her grandfather while enjoying some snacks... Well, while her grandfather drank, he drank maltose water.

"You kid, when are you going to finish with Hua Dai girl?" Hei Song asked with a kind smile while eating roasted fat beans.

"Hey, what I say doesn't count... You know, a few years ago, Lord Guangre stopped supplying hair crystals for a month, and the fishing boats in their lagoon village were the most affected." Bai Xue said helplessly. Generally speaking, female cat people are anxious to have babies, but this time it's the other way around...

"It's a good thing to be enterprising, but everything should be done in moderation. A career like hers can't be rushed." Heisong knew what Baixue was talking about.