Chapter 77 Autumn Harvest Trade Season
After more than half a year of development, the number of specialized soldier ants, 200 specialized worker ants, and 130 specialized blue ants in the ant nest has reached 280.
There are also 20 specialized blue soldiers that are of little use.
A large number of specialized ant colonies require corresponding large, medium, small and micro soldier ants, worker ants and blue ants to cooperate.
A certain quantity.
To accommodate such a large ant colony, the ant nest also needs to be expanded.
The proposal of Juniper and Juniper to dig a tunnel through the north and south of the mountains to connect the territories of Juniper and Molan has long been put into action, and now nearly 300 meters have been dug.
Along the tunnel, open an ant nest every 100 meters, send a few worker ants to live in it, and send two soldier ants to garrison it.
As the ant kingdom prospers and grows, the problem of food gradually becomes apparent.
In the Xianglan Mountains, food can no longer keep up with demand, and Longbai and Molan often need to travel far to hunt large animals.
Every time they stock up on food for the ant nest, it takes Long Bai and Mo Lan a day or two.
The ant kingdom continues to develop and grow, and the demand for food is rising sharply. It is impossible to always let the ant king go out to hunt, right? How is this appropriate?
Long Bai has the idea to breed another giant soldier ant and lead a team of soldier ants to hunt.
Follow the mountains to the west and hunt in the area close to the divine barrier. The space there is infinitely vast and the food is endless.
Long Bai now also has the financial resources to cultivate another giant soldier ant.
However,
Giant soldier ants and intelligent worker ants both have independent consciousness and intelligence, and their evolutionary growth needs to be considered.
They have an intermediate level when they are born, and then they shed their shells and evolve time and time again. They also need to be comprehensively strengthened with various kinds of force food, otherwise there is a risk of failure.
Their evolution level can be lower than the ant king, and can be as high as the ant king.
Currently, Long Bai is the 5th-instar intermediate ant king. Juniper molts and evolves once. The 2nd-instar intermediate intelligent worker ant took one year and consumed raw food worth about 500 raw stones.
If you also want to grow and evolve quickly every six months, you need to consume force food worth more than 1,000 raw stones.
It is about half the cost of evolving the Ant King.
A bit expensive.
Currently, there are juniper and juniper. If you cultivate a giant soldier ant, each time the three of them evolve to an age, the cost will be 1,500 to 3,000 rough stones.
To evolve from primary to intermediate, the cost increases slightly as the age increases. A total of 20,000 to 30,000 rough stones are required.
This is barely acceptable.
But how many rough stones does it cost to evolve from the advanced mountain master level?
Massive!
Considering the cost, Long Bai became entangled again and could not make up his mind...
……
Long Bai and Mo Lan spent two days on a hunting trip and stored enough food for the ant nest for two months before starting to pack it up.
Checking the goods before leaving,
300 ghost fans given by God, worth 7,500 rough stones.
There are only 500 ordinary ghost fans left, worth 500 rough stones.
1000 rice seeds, a gift from God, worth 2600 rough stones.
200 pieces of South Suanzizi, a gift from God, are not discounted and are worth 2,000 rough stones.
The categories are thin and the quantity is not large, but they are basically high-quality products.
Set off on the road with a cargo of up to 12,600 rough stones.
The Throne of Control arrived at Mount Molan in a day's flight.
As usual,
They split up to look for the god-given seed to the south of Longbai Mountain and to the north of Molan Mountain.
The search was completed three days later with no results.
After a night's rest, we set out on the road and headed straight to Baifanshan.
The northwest end of the mountain range is the territory of the little ball warrior Wufan.
The red fox was lying under a cypress tree, squinting and taking a nap.
Baifan is clearing a wasteland.
Xiao Wufan followed behind, clamping the weeds with his jaws, trying his best to back up, pull out, and remove the weeds.
“The ant traveling merchant is here!”
Bai Fan suddenly stopped moving.
Red Fox opened his eyes, looked up, and then lay down again. "Ant honey! Ant honey!"
Wufan let go of an unplucked weed and ran toward the red fox.
Red Fox stood up helplessly, buried his head in thought for a while, and said:
"Baifan, I will give you a piece of advice. Don't argue with the Dragon Cypress Ant King again during the transaction."
"First, you were born here, grew up here, and are trapped here. You have seen but know too little, and you can't compete with the Dragon Cypress Ant King; second, you and Wu Fan want to evolve. At the mountain master level, we must rely on them. Arguing will only alienate the relationship.”
Red Fox: "Third, they control the throne and have absolute initiative in transactions. The prices for buying and selling goods are not excessive, and they are not stingy. Instead of arguing about prices, it is better to ask them for more useful gadgets." , or ask them to get more high-quality force food and high-quality seeds suitable for breeding life seeds."
When Bai Fan heard it, he was not convinced at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it made sense.
“I understand. Red Fox.”
“Well——”
Red Fox said no more and walked slowly towards the ridge.
"It's coming! It's coming!" Wufan stood on top of the red fox, shook his tentacles vigorously, and pointed at the sky in the distance.
......
"Red Fox!"
"Xiaowufan!"
"Baifan, are you busy reclaiming wasteland?"
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The ruling throne hovered low in the sky, Long Bai and Mo Lan greeted
Bai Fan said: "Xiao Wufan is in the 8th age. It will evolve into the 9th age next spring. It will have 3 life seeds that need to be sown. I'll help it reclaim the garden first and build a protective fence."
Mo Lan sighed: "It's great to have elders to take care of it. It can evolve and grow quickly, and the territory doesn't need to be taken care of by itself. "Reclamation."
"I clean up the weeds myself!"
Wufan retorted and shouted: "Molan! Ant Honey!"
"Wufan is also working hard. Hard-working ant warrior!"
Mo Lan praised, carrying a gourd filled with ant honey, glided to the ground in front of the red fox, placed the gourd on the ground, and explained Tao:
"This summer was too busy. Long Bai and I only collected fresh fruits in Pandan Mountain and nearby areas. The ant honey brewed this year has a less fragrant flavor than last year."
Not delicious. Already? Wu Fan was stunned, slipped from Red Fox's head to the ground, and quickly stepped forward to check.
Long Bai asked: "Did it rain heavily here in midsummer this year?"
Bai Fan replied: "There are heavy rains, but not very big. It is a good year."
Bai Fan asked: "Long Bai Ant King, what's going on over there?"
Long Bai : "We live in the southeastern part of the mainland. There are violent storms and flash floods, which almost flooded one of my territories."
Mo Lan: "Yes. Yes. Where we live, there are no heavy rains and flash floods every summer. , It’s drought and water shortage. What’s the natural climate like here, red fox? Is it good weather every year?”
The red fox who has lived for hundreds of years has the most say.
Red Fox said: "In my memory, how many droughts have there been? I have never seen floods caused by heavy rains."
Long Bai: "Then your place is very livable!"
Wu Rice holds the gourd and stirs the ant honey inside.
Long Bai, Mo Lan, Red Fox, and Bai Fan talked about the rain climate, territory development, and plant management and cultivation.
Arrived at Baifanshan in the middle of the morning and chatted until noon. Long Bai turned the topic to business and asked:
"Baifan, have your rice tree seeds been planted? I came here mainly to buy a batch of fresh rice tree fruits to brew force ant honey."
Baifan replied: "Longbai Ant Wang, Mo Lan, you are a little early. The rice tree fruit still needs five or six suns to fully ripen."
"Oh——"
Long Bai: "It doesn't matter. , then Mo Lan and I will walk around here and look for any other force points.”
Mo Lan: “We’ll be here on time in six days!”
"Okay..."
Baifan asked: "Longbai Ant King, is there any news about the rice tree seeds you asked to find?"
Longbai: "I have entrusted other insects to Help collect. I will go out for business in the late spring and early summer next year. I will give you an answer next time. I will definitely find it, but I am not sure what varieties I can find."
Bai Fan: "Any kind. Okay!”
“Just don’t be picky.”
"Red Fox, Bai Fan, Xiao Wu Fan, Mo Lan and I will say goodbye first!"
Long Bai said goodbye again and controlled the throne to rise slowly into the sky.
(End of this chapter)