The room of the temporary prefabricated house that Qin Xu asked someone to build at that time was very spacious, and the alienated termites had not yet entered the stage of large-scale breeding, so the space did not seem cramped.

Bac Ninh and Lan You, who are mainly responsible for feeding, have always been serious and careful. Those second-generation alienated termite nests, during this time, have already changed their shells once.

Now they have a new form, so they move it to a different room so that they can grow better.

The nest of the first generation of alienated termites cultivated by Qin Xu is still chubby and a national treasure, occupying the largest room in the breeding room.

Qin Xu was the first to come to the breeding house where it was.

Temporary prefabricated house with a sunny and ventilated window.

For alienated termites, the lack of ventilation in the space has no particular effect.

But for those who walk into it, such an environment is indeed more comfortable.

The first time Qin Xu entered the door, he saw a round, black and white giant panda, which was one size bigger than an ordinary adult giant panda, with a naïve face, black plush ears constantly shaking, and a circle of black short hair around its small eyes, which made people want to touch the hair on its head.

The sound of someone coming in did not alarm the nest of alienated termites, it was still planted in the trough with its big head, snoring and eating non-stop.

Purely from the outside, it really makes people feel like.

In the animal feeding base, those real fat national treasures will inevitably have some dirt and dust on their bodies, and the white hair will inevitably have some dirty places, although the alienated termite nest makes the dense phobia scream, but they are a very clean creature.

At a fixed time every day, termite worker ants are sent out in the nest to clean up dust stains outside the nest. According to Master Qin, termite worker ants also secrete a disinfectant liquid to prevent bacterial growth.

This is also the reason why alienated termites dare to swallow anything into the termite nest.

Therefore, the alienated termite nest in front of Qin Xu that looks like a giant panda has a clean coat color, refreshing and smooth fluff, and a first-class feel.

After Kong Wang opened the door of the room, he walked in and walked towards the wall on the left side of the room.

In front of this wall, there is a wooden shelf made of discarded wood, which is very stable and sturdy, although it is not a good workmanship.

On the shelves, there are several paint buckets with lids.

"These are all food prepared for termites, right?" Qin Xu glanced at and asked casually.

"Yes, Brother Beining said that it would be more convenient to get a shelf every time he feeds it. Kong Wang said as he took a bucket of plastic paint from the shelf that looked like it was discarded, and poured the contents of the bucket into a specially prepared trough.

Qin Xu found out a few times ago.

Although his employees are not very old, they have been living in poverty for several years because they left home at a young age, so when they collect food for the alienated termites, they will also pick up some useful materials, modify them themselves, and reuse them.

For example, the trough in front of the big fat panda, judging from the newness and oldness, should have been obtained from the garbage dump.

Qin Xu didn't stop them from doing this.

He thought it was good.

Industrially made products, especially this type of plastic, take a long time to decompose in the natural environment.

And the longer they are in human hands, the less stress they put on the natural environment.

"Uncle Liu, the trough you dealt with a while ago was too small, so we had to replace one, but the trough we replaced, it will also gnaw off, and this is already the fourth one we have replaced. While pouring the contents of the bucket into the trough, he complained to Qin Xu helplessly.

Qin Xu smiled and said, "I'll bring the coating material over next time, so that you don't have to replace it all the time." ”

Kong Wang nodded happily.

Eating and eating, eating their own rice bowls, that is, alienated termites, these meat and vegetarian guys, can do this kind of thing.

The trough left by Qin Xu last time has undergone special treatment on the surface and has a special smell, so that the alienated termites do not regard it as food.

And these troughs prepared by them in Bac Ninh are no different from ordinary degradable materials for alienated termites.

Qin Xu walked to the side of the trough, glanced at the contents of the trough, and asked, "What is this bucket?"

The food that Kong Wang added to the alienated termites was some granular matter less than the size of soybeans.

Because the fight was relatively fine, Qin Xu also saw what it was.

Kong Wang scratched his head and said: "Hehe, it's a durian shell, Brother Lan used to carry it in a high-end durian cake factory, and there is a lot of plastic waste near our garbage dump and less plant garbage. ”

Although alienated termites have been alienated, their diet is similar to that of ordinary termites. The material of plant fibers is one of the main foods they need.

If this type of food is lacking, the reproduction rate of alienated termites will slow down or even stagnate.

Without the reproduction of alienated termites, no matter how strong the inside of the nest is, and no matter how bright and beautiful the fluff on the surface of the nest is, it is an empty shell.

Old Master Qin, who didn't know where he ran just now, floated in through the half-open window and landed on the head of the big fat man, and also heard Kong Wang's words, his little head with his hair in a bun nodded again and again, and praised approvingly: "What a good boy, no wonder Lao Yu looked at this nest of hair balls, and changed his shell faster than Lao Yu expected." ”

The replacement of termite nests is the way for alienated termites to expand their nests when the internal space of the nest is insufficient.

Different from the habit of ordinary termites to expand around, the alienated termites that are completely home-based can only continue to expand by replacing the old shells.

A semi-part-time boss like Qin Xu can usually only consider the general direction of the farm's development plan, and some of the details of management often do not have more energy to consider Zhou Xiang.

In this case, the initiative of the employees themselves is very important.

If the hired employees are rigid and unmotivated, regard the work as a complete task, and leave after receiving a salary, the development and management of the farm are likely to be affected.

What reassures Qin Xu is that although there are only two regular employees at present, Beining and Lanyou have experienced the helplessness and sadness of looking for a job and repeatedly hitting a wall.

Their hard work and dedication can be found in some small places.

Just like this batch of durian shells, they took the initiative to find them.

Because in the process of transporting garbage raw materials, they found defects in the garbage dump in this abandoned area. Due to the long disposal time, some of them lack plants and biological waste that are easy to corrode, which is easy to cause the reproduction of alienated termites to be too slow.

For another example, when Qin Xu was feeding alienated termites before, he usually put the garbage directly near the alienated termite nest and let them digest and decompose it directly.

Alienated termites can digest it very well, so Qin Xu also fed it like this, and also taught Beining and Lanyou feeding methods in this way.

Initially, Beining and Lan You, under Qin Xu's guidance, operated in his way.

However, after a period of breeding, these two attentive young men, in the process of feeding, gradually improved.

They found that if the same material was placed whole in front of the alienated termites, it took nearly one-third more time for them to decompose and digest than it did to cut into small pieces of broken food.

Tell Uncle Liu about the situation, and with Uncle Liu's consent and support, Bac Ninh and Lanyou improved the food form of feeding alienated termites.

Whether it is plastic, wood, metal, Bac Ninh and Lan You will try to process it into small pieces for feeding.

After this improvement, the food consumption of each nest of alienated termite colonies in the farm has increased a lot, and the growth rate of the ant nest is much faster than before.

The plastic buckets in the room contain all kinds of raw materials that have been processed by a shredder.

"In about three or four days, this litter will be coming out of its shells, so you have to pay a little attention. Qin Xu heard Old Master Qin's judgment and relayed the instructions Kong Wang said.

Kong Wang's eyes widened and blinked rapidly, obviously overjoyed to hear the news.

"Wow, then do we have a panda skin!!" Kong Wang couldn't help but ask.

Of course, panda skin is not really panda skin, otherwise it would be illegal.

The camouflage skin of a termite nest is essentially on the same level as a stuffed animal.

Qin Xu was amused by this kid's childishness, and said: "In the future, the number of termite nests will become more and more, these fluffy little guys, you will get tired of looking at them." ”

Kong Wang's face was full of affection, touching the big fat man who had been eating and eating beside him, and said without hesitation: "I won't, how cute they are." Oh oh oh, by the way, Uncle Liu, I'll show you something, Brother Ning just picked it up a few days ago, and I haven't had time to tell you yet!"

Suddenly thinking of something, Kong Wang put the empty bucket on the shelf, shouted, and ran out.

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