Astral Ant Tribe

Nowadays, in Pandan Mountain, autumn is as busy as spring.

In addition to the force food in the Longcypress and Molan territories that are maturing 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 when fresh and dried fruits are matured, harvested and refined to make ant honey, which is stored in categories.

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

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

When a fruit tree enters the fruit-rich period, it is necessary to examine the tree vigor, fruit yield, and fruit quality. Those that are not ideal will be eliminated.

High-quality fruit trees with good vigor, abundant yields and high-quality fruits are retained. We continue to observe and select particularly outstanding fruit trees as "plant trees". Every year, we collect the best fruits from the branches with the best growth and select the plumpest fruits. Save seeds.

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

Zerg breeding and optimization of planting is a long, cyclic process of selection and elimination.

Pandan Mountain is now gradually entering a virtuous cycle, and aging trees will have to be eliminated in a few years.

This kind of work will not produce results in ten or twenty years; it will definitely yield results in one hundred or two hundred years; if it is placed in those large tribes, after one thousand or two thousand years of optimization, they will definitely be able to cultivate a large number of high-quality cultivation species.

In the autumn of Pandan Mountain, there is a third special task, which is the collection of seeds of plants through hybridization and grafting.

This is the clever method given by Ye Xiang's God-given Seed. It is a way to cultivate high-quality new plants, stimulate the laws of nature to send God's gifts, and obtain God-given seeds.

It seems to be effective, but it seems to have no effect...

The chestnut bean, the green flower cold orchid, and the snow orchid, these three gods-given seeds seem to meet the conditions of the law and are born from the gods of nature.

However, Juniper focuses on the hybridization and grafting of two major types of fruit trees, grapes and kiwis, and has created many new varieties that grow robustly, but it has failed to trigger the divine gift.

…

Autumn is busy.

This year, the first batch of black and yellow fruits from the god-given seeds are about to mature.

Juniper simply placed his working place on a hill with black and yellow roots.

Yinbai will form a soldier ant formation, led by mountain master-level specialized soldier ants, and take large, medium, small, and large soldier ants to the tree to harvest, sort them into categories, and send them to Juniper.

Juniper directs the worker ants and blue ants to perform four tasks at the same time: searching for God-given seeds, refining ant honey, selecting ordinary seeds, and screening hybrid seeds.

Among all the command ants, Juniper is the most similar to Dragon Cypress and has very powerful ability to handle complex affairs.

The giant cypress leads a large group of soldier ants to guard around the black and yellow god-given seeds and guard the fruits on the tree.

"Giant Cypress! My frog!"

Black and Yellow, who had been quiet for a while, suddenly emitted intense mental thoughts.

"oh--"

The juniper, who was busy checking the seeds of the juniper, responded that he had no choice but to run to the pool under the hill to check the situation.

Evolving the mountain master level gives birth to spiritual power, which can communicate with the god-given seed of Longbai Ant King. This is the most painful thing about ant life.

Dealing with Nanqian and Black and Yellow is simply more troublesome for ants than fighting termites.

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

Black and yellow also imitate blue, to raise fish and frogs...

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

Black and yellow command Jubai to help...

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

Frogs kept in ponds always run away...

"It's black and yellow. The autumn is getting colder, and the frogs are looking for a place to dig holes to hibernate."

Jubai commanded the ants, caught the escaped frog, and reasoned with him sincerely.

"I know!"

Heihuang is also a reasonable tree, saying: "Giant cypress, you let them dig holes in my territory to hibernate."

Jubai: "..."

Jubai: "Counting the time, the king will return to the mountain soon. The king must know what to do."

"Yeah?"

Heihuang: "Long Bai is back!"

Jubai: "Huh?"

Heihuang: "Long Bai is back."

"oh--"

Jubai shook his tentacles, ignored it, and immersed himself in helping Jubai. Then he realized something was wrong and looked up at the sky.

The ruling throne flew into the territory of Xianglan Mountain, and fell rapidly from high altitude towards the azure god-given seed at an angle.

——The king has returned to the mountain!

Jucypress and Juniper gave instructions to the ant colony, simply packed up and took stock, and ran in unison towards the Azure Reservoir.

Before he could even run down the hill, he saw the ruler's throne flying low in the sky again, rushing over along the black and yellow main vines.

"Longbai Ant King!"

"Your Majesty!"

Junipers and giant cypresses greet each other.

I haven’t seen him for half a year, and I am very friendly. I am also eager to know the situation in the purple linden country.

"Longbai Ant King, is everything going well? Is the seed given by the God of Bai Qi growing well?"

Juniper asked.

Long Bai said briefly: "Everything went well. The tree is currently more than 30 meters tall."

30 meters? !

Both Juniper and Jucypress shivered in fright: So fast?

Long Bai solemnly said: "The effect of composting the corpses of Force life far exceeds expectations."

A very uncomfortable discovery.

Long Bai issued a stern order: "From now on, the ants that age and die in the kingdom are not allowed to be buried under the destiny plant."

"knew."

"Understood. Your Majesty."

Juniper and Jucypress agreed.

Long Bai skipped the topic, raised his paw and pointed at the vines, and asked: "What kind of frog? What about digging holes to hibernate? What tricks is Black and Yellow doing?"

Jue Bai briefly explained: "Black and yellow are imitating the blue. It also wants to raise small animals, but it cannot command the ant colony and does not know how to build an ecological system."

Jubai pointed to the pond not far away and said: "Over there, I helped it catch a few frogs, but they always ran away."

Long Bai: "Uh..."

Long Bai waved his tentacles and said, "Don't spoil it."

Jubai: "..."

Jubai froze and thought for a while. Said: "The noisy black and yellow ones are quite troublesome."

Long Bai: "Ignore it."

Jubai: "Your Majesty, 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."

Jucypress: "If you ignore them, I'm worried that over time it will affect healthy growth."

"……Right!"

Long Bai thought seriously and said, "Then when I'm not around, Juniper and Giant Cypress, you should go over and communicate with them."

Longbai: "Okay. But, Longbai Ant King, when can I evolve to the Mountain Lord level?"

Longbai: "There are a lot of God-given seeds that need to be harvested this autumn. When I finish my work, the harvesting in Fanglan Mountain should also be over. Jiongbai, please follow me to the purple linden kingdom, where you will sleep and evolve, and then Replace the cedar.”

Yuan Bai said happily: "I understand, Your Majesty!"

Jucypress raised his front legs, pointed to the pool not far away, and asked cautiously: "My lord, do you have a way to keep those frogs for the winter?"

Long Bai: "No."

Long Bai said to Heihuang who had been chattering to him: "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 and look for food. Naturally, frogs will follow. , they just stay in the pool.”

Long Bai refused to refute, and then asked: "Isn't the black, yellow, and blue water energy field good for your growth?"

Black and yellow: "???"

The main black and yellow vine spreads straight towards the blue reservoir, with lush branches and leaves. Without asking, you can see that it has some benefits.

Long Bai ignored it and directed a small soldier ant to climb up the tree and pick a grape fruit to taste.

The seeds are small and fleshy.

Not yet ripe, slightly sour.

Yuan Bai observed Long Bai's reaction and asked at the right time: "How is it, Your Majesty?"

Heihuang also asked: "Longbai, is it delicious?"

Long Bai gently touched his tentacles and said: "The taste is okay, the fragrance is very strong, if it is exposed to the sun for two more times, the fruit will be ripe and the taste will be very good."

"The quality is acceptable, but the seeds are a little small. If sold to the flame spider caravan, they can only sell for 4 rough stones/piece. The pulp can also be sold for 4 rough stones/piece..."

Heihuang hurriedly said: "Then the question is coming... Long Bai, let me test you. One grape seed has 4 rough stones, one grape seed has 4 seeds, and one bunch is 21, so there are 184 bunches in total. So, 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: "77,280 rough stones. The flowering and fruiting cycle lasts for 4 years. After excluding the investment in rough stones during the ripening period, the annual income is about 18,000 rough stones..."

"Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!"

Heihuang: "Wrong! I asked about grape seeds! I didn't ask you about the pulp! Long Bai, are you too stupid?"

Long Bai: "..."

Black and yellow: "???"

Long Bai: "Yes. Yes. Yes. You are the only one who is smart."

Long Bai asked: "Hei Huang, can you communicate with Zhan Lan?"

Black and Yellow: "Yes, it can, but it doesn't like to talk."

wrong!

It's not that Zhan Lan doesn't like to talk.

It's because you are too mean, Zhanlan doesn't like talking to you.

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