Chapter 21: Creation handed down from generation to generation: Kettle made of ice and fire
Mo Lan is not at home, living in a cave, and her spider silk bag is not there either. She must have been searching for the god-given seeds in the mountains and forests.
Three specialized soldier ants, together with 2 large soldier ants and 10 small soldier ants, guard the garden where the fruit orchid has taken root.
As soon as Long Bai approached, he immediately felt violent, angry, threatening and warning mental fluctuations.
This guy was born with an independent consciousness, and plants have a stronger sense of territory than any animal. It is also very smart, knowing that soldier ants are not independent individuals, and is indifferent to the existence of soldier ants. It recognizes Long Bai as the ant king, and constantly releases warning and intimidating mental power to Long Bai.
The throne of control was suspended in the sky, and Long Bai controlled it and retreated a little distance to observe carefully.
The capsule has grown to the size of a longan. Under the warm sunshine in early winter, it is swaying slightly in the breeze. It is green and shiny, full of vitality.
The fruits have begun to grow, but there is still a long way to go before they mature.
This is the case with life-planting plants. As the Zerg warriors grow, they also evolve simultaneously. The quality and quantity of the force food they produce increase, but the flowering and fruiting cycle will be lengthened accordingly.
The change in the God-given seed is particularly obvious.
After careful observation, Long Bai made a rough judgment: the maturity period of the fruit orchid seeds may have been extended to the severe winter.
The mental force glanced underground to check the nearest branch. After one year of growth, the length and diameter of the oval underground bulb exceeded 10 centimeters.
“It’s growing well!”
“According to the rules, the flowering period in the coming year should move forward and become spring blooming. If the management is not good, the fruit period will be postponed. If the management is good, the fruit maturity period will be postponed. It's still the middle of winter..."
Long Bai thought and noticed signs of recent watering under the plants.
The throne of rulership rises, looking from above.
There is little rain in winter, and the stream in the distance has stopped flowing.
Long Bai controlled the throne and came to the biogas pool under the cliff. The moso bamboo tube poured on the stone cover still had fresh water stains.
The bug is not at home early in the morning.
Before leaving, I watered the garden and even hunted food and brought it to the ant nest.
That guy Mo Lan got up to work before dawn again.
“If it is searching for the God-given seed, it must have followed the divine power barrier and gone far south or north.”
“Alas! It seems like we have a rest today. It won’t work..."
Long Bai originally planned to chat with Mo Lan for a while and go for a walk in the mountains and forests together to relax.
Since it is no longer there, it can only go back to work in its own territory.
However, don’t rush to dig digesters and pools. Instead, direct the ant colony to develop the ant nest first.
There are currently 46 specialized worker ants, and there are 24 large and small larvae in the incubation room, as well as 4 ant eggs waiting to hatch.
Intermittently, the ant nest has been expanded several times. It has changed from parallel forward to vertical downward. It has been dug to a depth of three meters and has a three-dimensional tree shape. The diameter of the channel has expanded to 8 cm, and the width of the nest has expanded to 30 cm. about.
In the cold winter, dig two meters deeper to keep warm and ensure the hatching of ant eggs and the growth of larvae.
Looking back, the Dominion Throne can produce 3 ant eggs each time. The number of ant colonies is increasing rapidly, and a wider ant nest is needed to accommodate it. Expansion work should be done in advance.
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Day after night and day after day.
Grey sky, cold drizzle.
Affected by the temperature, the worker ants became weak one by one.
I called it a day and went back home early.
Long Bai was resting when familiar mental fluctuations came over him.
Mo Lan, who had not been seen for two days, was standing at the entrance of the cave carrying a bulging bag of spider silk, quietly scanning the situation inside the ant nest.
On the ruling throne, Long Bai moved his body.
"Longbai?"
"Longbai! Don't sleep! Get up!"
Molan called out in her mind.
Emotions are high and excitement is hard to control.
Long Bai flapped his wings slightly, landed lightly, and trotted to the entrance of the cave.
"Mo Lan, where have you gone?"
Without waiting for an answer, Long Bai had an idea and twitched his antennae, saying: "You won't find the god-given seed again. Right? ”
"No!"
Mo Lan first denied Long Bai's unrealistic guess, raised his left front foot and pointed lightly, saying: "I'm going to the south..."
" Did you find a new orchid?"
Long Bai felt strange and raised his paw to pull the spider silk bag.
“No!”
Mo Lan rushed to open the bag and said:
"But I found something good!" "Created by an alien civilization!"
"Long Bai, you are knowledgeable. Please help."
Long Bai: "?"
Mo Lan took out a cylindrical metal object from the bag that was six to seven centimeters in diameter and just over twenty centimeters wide.
"Long Bai, what is this? Do you recognize it?"
"Ice and fire make a kettle!"
Long Bai recognized it at a glance.
Due to being too old and improperly stored, the surface coating peeled off, exposing the metal bottom layer.
There are still coating residues on the mouth of the pot, which should have been clean and beautiful white with blue water waves and light blue cloud patterns.
Seeing that Long Bai knew him, Mo Lan was even more happy, and followed Xiji and asked: "What's the use? And how to use it?"
"There are two uses, one is The first one is to make water; the second one is to make pure hot water or ice cubes."
"The usage is also very simple...Mo Lan, please put it right and see if it can still be used."
Mo Lan did as he was told.
The pot is more than twenty centimeters high.
The dragon cypress is only a little over ten centimeters tall. I tried to climb up, but the metal was slippery and I couldn’t climb up.
"Mo Lan, please wait a moment."
Long Bai turned around and ran back to the nest, and ran out with the throne of control.
Standing on the throne, he controlled the lid of the 'Ice and Fire Kettle' to be flush with it. He reached out with both claws at the same time and pressed on the inside of the buckle.
Click!
There was a crisp sound of a metal mechanism, and the lid of the pot flicked upward.
“The raw metals made by human civilization will never decay! The raw metal creations of human civilization can be passed down from generation to generation. There is such a ‘kettle made of ice and fire’ in Luoli. According to it, when it is passed down Last time, it was already the eighth generation of insects."
Long Bai admired, flapped his wings and took off, grabbed the buckle and opened the pot lid, and looked into the pot.
Empty but clean.
Long Bai put the lid back on the pot again.
"Mo Lan, push the lid down."
"Oh——"
Mo Lan raised his front foot, gently, and tried to move it down Pressed.
Crack!
There was another crisp sound of a metal mechanism.
“Okay!”
“Press these two buttons at the same time to open the lid.”
“Press down lightly to close the lid. ."
Long Bai explained, grabbing the buckle, flapping his wings and pulling it to make sure it was locked.
Long Bai pointed at the body of the pot and said: "Mo Lan, put your claws on it and try to inject the original power."
"Okay!"
Mo Lan did as he said.
At the mouth of the pot, a little blue light lights up, spreads along the mouth of the pot, quickly forms a blue halo, and then goes out.
"Mo Lan, stop! That's it!"
Long Bai reminded, standing on the throne, raised his paws, and with a click, the pot lid jumped up and the mechanism loosened.
Flapping his wings, he opened the lid by the buckle and looked into the pot.
A pot full of water!
Long Bai said happily: "The water-generating function is not broken! It can be used!"
"Wow!"
Mo Lan jumped up with joy.
“Try the hot water function again!”
Long Bai put the lid back.
"Mo Lan, press down the lid."
"Okay!"
Mo Lan did as he was told.
Long Bai stood on the throne and clicked the button with a red pattern on the side of the pot lid. He explained: "This button is for hot water. After pressing it, and then injecting the original force, it will turn the water Heating. It will rebound automatically after completion. "Mo Lan, try it."
Mo Lan raised his front foot and put it on the pot, and soon, with a beep, the button with the red pattern rebounded.
Long Bai opened the lid again, steam rising.
(End of this chapter)