Chapter 26 Spring flows like a clear spring
Spring returns to the earth.
Mo Lan ate 54 pandan seeds, slept for three days, and successfully evolved into a 2nd age intermediate warrior.
The god-given fruit orchid flowered earlier than Long Bai had expected.
There are many wild cedar trees growing in the upper mountains, showing new buds.
Long Bai knew that the time had come, so he decisively took out the dried cedar and large-fruited hemlock and soaked them in warm water.
Dry cedar seeds are still sown on the hillsides near the ant nests.
The big-fruited hemlock seeds are sown on the ridge, about 50 meters apart from the Molan tree.
Still using thorn branches and stones as a barrier, and sending soldier ants and specialized worker ants to guard it.
During the spring plowing season, other plants in the territory need to be taken care of carefully.
The dragon cypress used its paws to loosen the soil, fertilize them, and cut weeds.
The first sown dragon cypress, juniper cypress, and juniper have all grown to over one meter. The giant cypress is nearly 50 centimeters tall, and the emerald cypress is less than 10 centimeters tall.
Currently, the number of life types that need to be taken care of is not large, and the scale is also very small. It only took less than a day to complete.
Long Bai directed a total of 70 specialized chemical worker ants to continue digging the pool.
It is rainy in spring, so the construction method is slightly changed. First, dig a drainage channel of sufficient depth.
Very busy,
Long Bai is not only responsible for flying the throne and lifting soil, but he also has to keep an eye on the worker ants working below.
Worker ants have no independent consciousness, but they have a certain IQ, can remember simple instructions, and can adapt when encountering trouble.
There are more worker ants working, and some of them have learned to be lazy and passive in their work.
Long Bai is like a cruel slave owner. Whenever he finds out, he will immediately swoop down from the throne, beat him with his tentacles, and teach him a lesson.
Little results were achieved, these guys didn't even remember to hit.
Long Bai also tried to form them into teams, with 10 ants in each team. He promoted a captain and ordered the captain to supervise other worker ants.
The effect is even worse. The captain will lead a whole team of worker ants to be lazy...
In the inherited memory of the giant-headed ants, the worker ants are absolutely obedient to the king. There is no saying that the worker ants will actually Of course, there is no way to prevent worker ants from being lazy.
Long Bai guessed that the problem should be with the throne of control.
The worker ants bred through the Dominion Throne are not perfect.
How was the creator civilization destroyed by human civilization?
Are soldier ants also imperfect?
Conventional giant ant soldier ants, when fighting, if the ant king tells them to charge forward, they will charge without hesitation, and they are not afraid of death.
Will the soldier ants cultivated by the Dominion Throne say that they cannot defeat them and leave the ant king behind and run away?
It's not impossible.
A fatal question.
......
Long Bai was very busy here.
Mo Lan was not idle either.
Long Bai once told it the specific method of optimizing planting: opening a nursery for sowing, eradicating weak seedlings, and retaining strong seedlings for transplantation. After they grow, collect seeds with full grains from the adult plants that grow best and have the largest fruit grains, and continue sowing and propagating.
Generation by generation, selective optimization is carried out, and after generations, high-quality planting can be obtained.
The most important point: high-quality planting, coupled with a rich Force environment, greatly increases the probability of birthing a god-given seed.
Mo Lan decided to put theory into practice and determined to cultivate her own high-quality orchid species.
Two nurseries were opened last spring and seeds were sown. Now we are looking for places to transplant them all over the mountains and fields.
I picked a lot of seeds last fall and plan to expand two nurseries this year.
......
"Longbai!"
Mo Lan flew over with fresh soil on her legs and a dirty sheepskin bag.
"Molan..."
Long Bai suddenly felt bad.
Mo Lan: "Long Bai, let me plant some orchid grass to decorate your territory."
Long Bai: "Thank you, Mo Lan, no need."
Mo Lan was unhappy after hearing this.
“These are the new seedlings of ink orchids that I carefully selected...Longbai, don’t you like ink orchids?”
You even played a pun with me~
Long Bai: "How come... I like it very much..."
Mo Lan: "Then I will plant it for you!"
Long Bai reluctantly agreed: "Okay... Do you want me to send a few worker ants to help you?"
Mo Lan said happily: "Okay!" Long Bai will always be lazy. Eight special chemical ants were brought out. They first gave a warning and gave instructions for them to carry the sheepskin bag, follow behind Mo Lan, and help dig the soil smartly.
Mo Lan led 8 oil bottles and began to be busy in the woodland on the west side of the ant nest.
After a while, he came to complain angrily: Long Bai, there are three worker ants that are not moving!
After a while, he ran over again: Long Bai, it’s bad, one worker ant can’t be found, there are only 7 left...
……
Time flows happily like a mountain spring.
Long Bai tried many times and finally found the reason why the worker ants were lazy: under the high-intensity work, they developed resistance.
Make appropriate adjustments.
Every morning when the sun rises, they go out to work, and when the sun sets, they return to their nests to rest.
Three days of work and one day of rest.
In this way, the cases of indolence at work are greatly reduced, and the work efficiency is actually higher.
The width is 0.4 meters and the length is more than 20 meters. The drainage channel that leads directly to the stream nearby is excavated to a depth of 1 meter.
After a cold spring rain, under the morning light, the dewdrops on the tips of the grass blades reflected colorful light.
Long Bai led the ant colony out of the nest and directed the cleaning of the site. First, he dug out the outline of the pool with a side length of 4 meters.
Mo Lan came galloping over with a small dark blue flower in her mouth.
"Longbai! Look! The flowers are blooming!"
"Oh!"
Longbai responded.
After careful identification, it was a primrose.
The primroses bloom, and all kinds of plants on the mountain and down the mountain will follow.
Long Bai understood what Mo Lan meant. When the flowers bloom, the flame spider caravan will arrive.
Mo Lan has been looking forward to the caravan for a year.
This year, Luo Li will come to Wan Guo Continent, and Long Bai is also looking forward to it.
"Mo Lan, how many fruit orchid seeds do you have left?"
"100!"
"That's good."
Long Bai was worried that Mo Lan couldn't help but eat the orchid seeds prepared for the transaction.
Mo Lan flew around the throne and landed next to the dragon cypress.
"Long Bai, I suddenly had a brilliant idea, but I have a few questions that I need to ask you..."
"What idea?"
Long Bai stopped working and asked: "What's the problem?"
Mo Lan: "If I sell the kettle made of ice and fire to the caravan, will I still be able to buy it back if I have the rough stone in the future?"
Long Bai: "After all, it is an artifact of an extraterrestrial civilization that can be used. It is easy to sell it, but it is difficult to buy it back."
Long Bai understood Mo Lan's so-called 'brilliant idea' as soon as he heard it. 'What is it?' He gave an exact and detailed answer and said:
"If you can buy it back, entrust a caravan to buy it. However, if you are unlucky, you may have to wait several years to buy it."
"Mo Lan, you want to buy back a coated, ice-fire kettle in good condition, right? If you buy it from a caravan, the price may be more than 20,000 rough stones."
"So expensive? !"
Mo Lan was startled and asked: "Long Bai, last time you said that my ice and fire kettle can only be sold for seven or eight thousand rough stones?"
Long Bai: "Yes."
Mo Lan: "Why?"
Long Bai: "Mo Lan, think about it carefully. Those lords and insect kings, do they really care about eating a piece of ice in the summer? Drinking a cup of hot water in the winter? No. What they care about is face. What the insect race cannot create is quantity. The limited creations of extraterrestrial civilizations are the best sign of face. An incomplete kettle made of ice and fire will greatly reduce the face, and the corresponding value will naturally be reduced."
Mo Lan: "Uh... "
Mo Lan: "Long Bai, if you calculate again, seven or eight thousand rough stones can shorten the time for us to advance to high-level warriors by several years. Correspondingly, how much will the income increase? Is this a loss or a loss? "Earn."
"This is a rather complicated arithmetic problem full of uncertainties..."
Long Bai looked up at the sky, calculated silently for a while, and asked. : "Mo Lan, do you want a complete ice and fire kettle? Or do you care more about its practicality? Eat ice cubes in the hot summer and drink hot water in the cold winter."
Is that a loss? Mo Lan understood instantly when he heard this, and was disappointed, and asked: "Long Bai, did you lose much?"
Long Bai: "It's not a loss, but you can't make back the difference in price for making the ice and fire kettle. ”
Molan is not tired of making kettles from ice and fire. On the contrary, she loves making kettles from ice and fire. Every evening after finishing work, he would come over to Longbai, make a pot of hot water, and invite him to drink together.
Long Bai advised: "Mo Lan, I think you like it very much, so keep it for yourself. When you have money in the future, you can consider changing it to one in good condition."
"It's not a loss?" Mo Lan regained her energy instantly and said resolutely: "Then sell it!"
Mo Lan: "Long Bai, you must be promoted to the intermediate ant king as soon as possible!"
(End of this chapter)