Dragon God, immortal

If Bai Xue loses her ability to command, the three deputy captains will take turns to assume the authority of acting captain.

This position arrangement is based on human ships.

So what is a ship without a co-captain?

. . . . . .

Somarali took a deep breath.

Life saved.

The underwear was also saved.

The base camp may have been saved. At least for now, this huge steel fleet has no interest in the pirate group.

Somarawali has only five trusted ships. Except for his fleet, the rest of the pirate ships are led by captains under his name... The relationship between Somarawali and his captains is a bit like the relationship between the royal family and the nobility.

My vassal is my vassal, but my vassal's vassal may not necessarily listen to me. The Pirates emphasize the survival of the fittest, and as the leader, he can only suppress the three captains under his name...

rustling...

rustling...

Suddenly, a creepy noise was heard from outside the boat. Somarali seemed to have post-traumatic stress syndrome and hid in a wooden box with a "Yeah!"

I saw several large bee workers leading medium-sized workers carrying something over... They threw the things on the deck at random, and walked back without even looking at the pirates.

After Somarali confirmed that all the charm bees had left, he crawled out of the wooden box and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Humans have an instinctive fear of insects.

Especially after witnessing the scene of the slaughter by the charm bees.

The fear hidden deep in the blood was activated and brought to the surface... At least, Somarali was really afraid of these bugs!

The crews of two ships of Somarali's trusted fleet were directly slaughtered and destroyed by the swarm of charm bees, and the two ships were simply and brutally sunk to the bottom of the sea. The cold-blooded and ruthless style of the swarm was enough to make everyone feel afraid.

"Captain, Captain! There's food!" The pirate sailor ran out from somewhere and squatted in front of the pile of 'goods' brought by Charm Bee.

"Don't yell. Who knows if this is inedible..." Somarali also ran to the boatswain's side, squatted in front of the pile of white fruits and translucent grass, picked up some and looked at them left and right, "What if it's poisonous?"

"Captain, we have to eat even if it's poisonous... Look at our sailors, if we don't let them eat something, they will eat us..." The boatswain turned around and met a pair of hungry eyes like tigers and wolves.

"Then let them eat first." Omarali rolled his eyes and generously distributed these things to his men.

The sailors came forward one after another.

There was a chaos and looting.

Now, the Juanhua fleet did not want to execute these pirates for the time being, but instead used ropes to tow their ships and continue moving forward.

However, the supplies, food, artillery, and even the two-meter-long knives used by the sailors for self-defense on the pirate ship were confiscated by the cat-people and stored on the other two Dragon God ships in the rear.

But the cat people don't have the habit of torturing captives. Considering that these pirates still have some value, they cannot let them starve to death before squeezing out the meaning of their existence...so every once in a while, they give them a portion of food to ensure that they will not starve to death.

Well, those foods are the cut feeds from the Charm Bee Hive, which are some food scraps compressed into cans. They are not delicious, but they are edible.

But...from now on...

The food distributed to them...

It turned into these things: grayish-white pear-shaped fruits, grass with translucent dewdrops hanging on it, and a pink meat ball that tasted a bit strange.

“So, so disgusting…”

"What the hell is this?"

"It doesn't taste like shit!"

"Ugh……"

"This is prisoner abuse! This is prisoner abuse!"

The sailors groaned, but there was no food left.

All Somarali could get in the end was a fruit, a dew grass, and a pink ball of meat.

This was the food that the loyal boatswain had helped him snatch from the chaotic crowd... However, the boatswain had hidden at least three of these foods himself...

"Hiss... Could these fruits and grasses be freshly grown on the ship? What kind of magic can do that?" Somarali also felt that these were unpalatable, but at this stage, they should be grateful for the mercy of the goddess Thetis as long as they were not starving to death.

The tasteless fruit has no taste at all. Whether you eat it raw or cooked, you can only taste your saliva when you put it in your mouth.

Dew grass has no taste. In short, it is pure water with a little grass flavor. After you drink the water, it dries up and becomes a flat and thin piece of plant fiber.

Mealworms...haha, that's the pink meat ball. Smart sailors won't touch this kind of food, but dumber sailors know that they have to cook it in boiling water...it's the kind of disgusting food that you don't want to eat just by looking at it.

But actually.

Mealworms are the best tasting food.

Far away in the archipelago, Shushan was watching the pirates' reactions through a wise insect floating in the sky.

These pirates are notorious, and it is perfect for Shushan to use them as experimental subjects... After all, Shushan is reluctant to use cat people for experiments...

The charm bee swarm is mainly composed of queen insects, intelligent insects, soldier insects and worker insects. In fact, under these adult charm bees, there is another level that cannot be ignored.

That's the larvae.

All adult insects go through this stage.

The food in the larval stage determines the division of labor among the charm bees after they pupate. Even for the queen bee, her larval stage is the same as that of the worker bees.

The great dragon Shennong, the breeder of dragon cubs and the culprit behind the out-of-control transformation of charm bees into cockroaches, the Insect Manipulator Dragon Envoy, used special methods to adjust the differentiation of the charm bee swarms in the larval stage.

After the bee larvae pupate, in addition to transforming into four types of adults, they have another choice, which is...

death.

Yes, it means dying.

As a highly introverted race, Charm Bees make almost extreme use of resources.

The death of larvae is quite normal. A 100% survival rate is unexpected. As long as the death rate does not exceed a certain range, the bee workers can properly handle the dead insects.

Just like dealing with dead adult insects, stuff some spores of saprophytic fungi into them to turn the dead insects into Cordyceps sinensis, and then use the fungi to cultivate purple algae... and the cycle returns.

However, the gnathostomes have adjusted the reproduction of the super-large worker insects.

Normally, worker insects do not have full reproductive capacity.

Worker insects that are larger than large can only produce small and extra-small worker insects.

Small-cup and extra-small-cup workers are not placed in hexagonal cells for cultivation, but are directly stuffed onto the bodies of various adult insects, quickly skipping the larval stage and pupating. Therefore, the size of these workers is at most the size of corn kernels, and the smaller ones are only as big as a few purple algae, which is far smaller than the medium-sized workers.

What the dragon manipulator does is to place these small cup and extra-small cup eggs in special nest cells, so that these larvae can be fed by worker insects just like the larvae born by the mother insect.

However, the eggs laid by the worker insects are defective.

The nerve centers of small worker insects are very small.

Unlike the eggs laid by the insect mother, they can not develop nerve centers as they absorb nutrients. No matter how their nerve centers develop, they are only tiny.

"When the larvae pupate into adults, all organs will undergo metamorphosis and development again during the pupation stage, but the nervous system will not undergo many changes... Therefore, the 'mealworms' whose nerves cannot drive the flesh will directly die during the pupation stage." Shushan read the inheritance of the Insect Manipulator Dragon User and began to analyze it based on his own understanding.

This is the raw material for [Dragon Baby Food], [mealworms].

The kind you can eat by pulling off the head.

It's higher in protein than beef.

Shushan's plan is that if the cat people cannot settle in Antarctica or the Antarctic continent, he will use charm bees to build insect nests there and feed the ice sea with mealworms and tasteless fruits.

Well, of course, these things are terrible to eat, so...if possible, Shushan still hopes that the cat man can take on the responsibility of being the dragon god's babysitter...

. . . . . .

"What? The captain was captured?" Si Ai raised his eyebrows in the dock.

This is really surprising. How could the captain be caught with his boat speed? Impossible. The captain's boat speed is the only thing he can do. It is impossible for him to be caught!

Si Ai, who refused to believe in evil, took three trusted ships and headed for the sea area where the captain had lost contact.

Chapter 75: Each of them is a talent

Calculated according to the star chart.

The Ice Sea Nanny Fleet has arrived in the southern frigid zone.

"Ah, the temperature here reminds me of the winter on the plateau..." the first mate said with emotion during dinner.

The nasal passages of the plateau cat-people are longer and narrower than those of the island cat-people, their ears are smaller, the hair on their limbs is thicker and smoother, and they have a large furry tail.

It can be said that coming to the frigid zone is as comfortable as returning home, and the snow leopard cat people are the crew members who adapt to this climate the fastest.

And the other cat-people and humans...

They all wore woolen coats.

"It's the 56th day of summer, why is it so cold..." A catman from the archipelago who was in charge of the cafeteria curled up in a ball in his coat, with even his tail tucked inside his clothes.

"You, you didn't study hard in school." The first mate sighed. She was one of the few cat people on the plateau who had received education from the Watchers. "The archipelago and the plateau are both located in the northern hemisphere. The seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres are opposite at the same time!"

"Eh... I think I've been taught this way. I still remember that class, Captain Snow White shared the latest toys... Look, I still have that tractor model with me." The cafeteria cat man took out a small object from his pocket.

Bai Xue on the side coughed twice.

Tell them not to cue themselves.

The seasons in the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere are opposite. When it is spring in the archipelago and the plateau, it is mostly autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. When it is summer in the north, it is winter in the south... Therefore, the calculation of the seasons in the Dragon God Calendar in the Southern Hemisphere must also be reversed.

The fleet did not feel much of the climate change before because they were still sailing close to the equator. It was only after encountering the pirate ship that they continued to move south.

It’s not that they don’t want to take a shortcut, but it would be more energy-saving to follow the ocean current.

This route was planned by Shushan. The Earth Dragon God could vaguely sense the flow of power, so it would not be too much to point out a clear path for his subordinates.

Taking into account that when the fleet arrives at the southern continent and Antarctica, it will be necessary to establish camps and ports, connect the archipelago and Antarctica, and use ships to transport large quantities of supplies, it is better to explore this route.

Of course, this is the second step...

The first step is to establish a base...

"It's great, eating fish soup while hugging my coat in this environment... Tsk tsk tsk tsk, I guess only by following you can I use pepper and ginger to cook so luxuriously..." exclaimed the second mate from the Kingdom of Amon.

"Yes and no. Even in the archipelago, the ration of spices is relatively small, and cat people can't eat them every day." Bai Xue thought for a moment and responded, "It was Master Shushan who took into consideration that we need some stomach-warming food when working in such a cold environment, so he asked us to bring three years of spices."

"Three years old, wow, wow, what a luxury... Really luxurious. These three years of spices of yours must have emptied the royal treasury of silver coins, right?"

"Well, it's not that the islands are raising the price, but the spices nowadays are all defective varieties. Either the yield is not good, or the characteristics are unstable..."

The seeds and rhizomes of the perennial ginger plant;

What about climbing and photosynthesis of vines?

There is also the sandy maintenance of anise spices...

...and so on. Bai Xue enumerated the difficulties and objections of today's spices, explaining that it's not that the cat people are deliberately raising the price of spices to take advantage of you, it's just that the production of this thing is really average!

Well, as the saying goes, scarcity makes things valuable. The archipelago also needs to gain diplomatic advantages through economic exchanges. The production of spices and potions is the top priority of the archipelago, and its status is equivalent to the kingdom's divine artillery technology.

It’s a national treasure-level technology, so it can’t be too cheap. If the spices are priced low... Lord Shushan won’t be able to eat his fill of French fries!

Until suitable yellow potatoes are grown in the archipelago—which would take about five to ten years—the price of the spice must not fall!

“Alright, alright, I was just expressing my feelings a few times. I really have no intention of bargaining for the royal family.” The second mate waved his hands helplessly and sipped the fragrant fish soup.

It was the royal family of the kingdom that traded with the islands.

It has nothing to do with the surrounding nobles.

The current direction of the nobles is to build good relations with the plateau. You must know that the priests of the Fire Dragon God are all extremely excellent alchemists, and the temptation of "gold" to the nobles is very high.

As for the Pope... well, the Pope's missionary work in the kingdom has been stagnant for a long time, and the Church of Grace is studying how to awaken Lord Amon... After all, the Dragon God is good, but he is someone else's.

Only one's own god loves his own people the most. Forces without gods as their backers are naturally at a disadvantage under the eyes of the true gods...

Lunch is over.

The captains left the mess hall.

After they left, the other cat-people crew members began to pour into the cafeteria and lined up in front of the windows.

Well, even the captain has to eat in the cafeteria, and at most he can eat when there are fewer people... Of course, the captain and vice captain will have more alcohol and potions allocated, which can be regarded as a privilege.

At this moment, a wise insect jumped happily on the deck and handed a letter to the confused captain.