Chapter 103 Shannan Reservoir
The ruling throne produces ant eggs, and the worker ants cultivated are smarter than the worker ants cultivated from the eggs produced by the normal female ant king. They have certain memory and learning abilities and are flexible. Work around.
Over the years, the worker ants have dug nests, biogas pools, pools, tunnels, and Shanbei Reservoir. They have accumulated rich digging experience, and each of them has become a highly skilled digger.
Long Bai also observed that after the newly born worker ants join the digging team, they are a little overwhelmed at first, and then the old workers will come up to teach them their experience.
New worker ants quickly become proficient.
This is an ability that the worker ants raised by the female queen ant do not have at all.
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First dig the steep slope on the north side of the valley floor.
Long Bai is still responsible for controlling the lifting of the throne and commanding the ant colony.
The main command work is handled by Jue Bailai.
Juniper leads the soldier ants and helps carry the stones.
Currently, the efficiency of the Throne of Dominance in producing ant eggs is 6 ant eggs every four days.
This also means that 6 new worker ants join the digging army every four days.
The size of the team participating in the labor continues to grow.
Looking around, up and down the mountain, there are densely packed ants, working in teams and in an orderly manner.
The beautiful days of early summer are passing by in a hurry.
In midsummer,
the scorching sun during the day can roast ants to death.
Long Bai adjusted his work and rest time. Everyone went back to the nest to rest during the day and worked at night.
The dry season when there is not a single cloud in the sky for half a month.
The green torreya, golden pine nut, king fir, Kui chestnut, black emperor peach, and spotted star pear transplanted in the orchard on Fanglan Mountain; the various orchid grasses of Molan; and the various cypress saplings in the nursery at the foot of the mountain, as well as the large-scale transplantation just this spring Silver cypress saplings, etc. need to be irrigated every three to five days.
The cultivation of common plants has just begun to take off on a large scale, and the workload is quite heavy.
The Shannan Reservoir excavation project has been seriously delayed.
Fortunately, the hot and dry weather only lasted for about 20 days and did not turn into a drought.
But the situation is not so good,
After the dry season, the clouds linger in the sky, and it rains continuously, with thunderstorms coming at every turn.
The reservoir project cannot proceed normally.
Long Bai simply gave the worker ants a holiday and a few days of rest.
This autumn, the seeds of the Ghost Fan will mature and require 800 rough stones.
Long Bai and Mo Lan went on the road in the rain. They sent the original stone to Gui Fan first to save themselves from making another trip.
Long Bai added another night shift, controlling the flight of the Throne until late at night before stopping. He rested for half the night and set off again early the next morning.
Travel day and night, fly in a straight line, and reach the place in three days.
It’s also raining here on Ghost Fan Mountain.
The rain is not heavy.
The ghost fan lies at the entrance of the cave where he lives.
Raspberry lay on top of Ghost Fan.
“They are coming!” Gui Fan jumped up in excitement.
The raspberry above the head was caught off guard and hit the roof of the cave solidly.
“Yah~squeak~”
Raspberry screamed.
"Raspberry?"
Ghost Fan panicked and scanned his mental energy for inspection.
Fortunately, no injuries.
The raspberry is already a 'big beetle' with a body length of more than 10 centimeters, so it is not so easy to be injured.
“The ant honey is here.” Ghost Fan comforted him.
"Longbai? Mo Lan! Didn't they say they would come in autumn?"
"It's been raining recently, so there's nothing to do."
"Oh——"
Mu Berry unfolded its elytra, flapped its wings, glided out of the cave, and stood in the rain looking out.
The blue ball passed through the rain curtain and slowly arrived.
"Raspberry!"
Long Bai greeted.
“How old are you?”
Mo Lan asked.
“6th age!”
Raspberry, Long Bai and Mo Lan were not polite at all. They flapped their wings and hovered on the throne, looking curiously at the 'hydrological shield' that blocked the rain.
"Long cypress. Molan."
"Ghost fan."
Hello each other.
Mo Lan jumped up carrying the spider silk bag containing the original stone, flapped her wings, and landed lightly.
Long Bai: "The rough stones were sent in advance. We won't come here in the autumn. The territory is very busy and there are a lot of things that need to be done. Come back in the winter." "Oh... thank you for your hard work! The reservoir hasn't been dug yet, okay?"
Ghost Fan stared straight at Mo Lan.
After Molan landed, the azure carapace changed at a speed visible to the compound eye, blending into the cave entrance environment.
The innate abilities of the Hua Mantang tribe, the Hua Mantang warriors are all born stealth killers.
"Mo Lan, you have been promoted to a senior warrior! Congratulations."
"What an amazing ability!"
Gui Fan was sincerely impressed and envious.
Mo Lan: "Gui Fan, didn't you awaken your metal ability in advance?"
Ghost Fan: "It's not great. You can only extract a little metal gravel from sand and stone, and then manipulate it. Metal grit is used to drill holes in wood, and nothing else is useful.”
Ghost Fan asked again: "Long Bai, do you have water ability?"
Long Bai: "It's useless. It's of no use at all."
Wraspberry climbed on the throne Crawling back and forth, he finally lay down on the gourd filled with ant honey and remained motionless. His head turned around, looking at the dragon cypress, then at Mo Lan, and then at the ghost fan.
Long Bai turned his head and said: "Wraspberry, this jar of ant honey is for you, take it and eat it."
"Oh~woo~"
"Thank you, Long Bai!"
After receiving the promise, Raspberry climbed down from the gourd, grabbed the spider silk rope tied to the neck of the bottle, and pulled hard.
Mo Lan jumped onto the throne and carried the raspberry down with her.
Long Bai: "Ghost Fan, please count the rough stones and see if the number is correct."
Ghost Fan: "No need. I believe you."
Long Bai: "Thank you for your trust."
Long Bai: "Then we won't stay long and say goodbye and go back. There is still endless work waiting for us in Xianglan Mountain."
< br>Ghost Fan: "Wait a moment! Mo Lan..."
Ghost Fan asked a little embarrassedly: "Mo Lan, your god-given seed of Gorgon Fruit... has it bloomed this year?"
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Molan: "It's blooming. There are 93 branches, each bearing one fruit, 5 gordon seeds. The first batch of output, the total output is 465 gorgon seeds. The flower and fruit cycle is not yet certain, the big The probability is that the fruit will ripen next year, or the year after.”
"Oh——"
Ghost Fan: "Is this a high output?"
Mo Lan: "Not high, not low."
Ghost Fan: "Then Okay. Remember to arrange some for me and Raspberry."
Mo Lan: "Of course!"
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The clouds linger.
The rain falls intermittently.
On the way back, Long Bai and Mo Lan stopped by to visit Bailiu and chatted with it for a long time.
Stayed up late on the road and spent another day and a half returning to Fanglan Mountain.
A cool breeze blew from the northwest, and after a heavy rain, the sky was finally clear.
The sky is sunny.
Construction begins.
The sun in late summer is no longer so scorching, and the work and rest schedules are adjusted to normal. I work during the day and rest at night.
A month later,
The steep slope on the north side of the mountain range was cut into a cliff.
The planned reservoir is beginning to take shape, with a length of more than 300 meters from east to west and a maximum width of about 50 meters from north to south.
The valley entrance below is the narrowest, only a dozen meters wide.
Long Bai led a group of worker ants and was responsible for widening the valley mouth.
Juniper cypress led a group of worker ants to dig out the southern slope where the God-given seeds of Southern Gorgon took root, and leveled the slope.
Juniper ants command soldier ants, who are responsible for traveling long distances to hunt for food and assisting in carrying gravel.
Mo Lan is not idle either. The number of worker ants is growing steadily. It also helps the soldier ants travel far to hunt for food.
In autumn, a large number of wild plants and fruits mature in the mountains and forests. Mo Lan also searches for God-given seeds and collects wild fruits.
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Another month later,
Long Bai led the ant colony to widen the mouth of the valley to 20 meters.
In late autumn,
Sleep evolved once, and its body length finally reached 50 centimeters.
The seeds of the six paths of life have been conceived and carefully collected. The place has been selected in advance to fertilize the land, and the seeds will be sown in the soil in the coming spring.
Choose purple-fruited kiwi fruit as the life seed for the 9th-instar intermediate ant king.
Have a day off and then start digging the foundation of the dam.
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(End of this chapter)