Chapter 20: Returning Home
Banbu was very cautious, cutting all the muscles of the seven-inch position of the Xia Python, and then he was willing to fly away with confidence and boldness.
Cautiously crouched in the distance and waited for a long time to make sure that it was completely dead, and then stepped forward to continue cutting the corpse.
After cutting the snake meat, moving it back to the chamber to hoard, moving it back and forth twice, realizing that the crisis had not been resolved, put it aside for the time being, and began to busily search for the Toon elephant and rearrange the stink defense circle.
Food is not the primary issue, it is the seeds that are about to be fully matured.
The halo emitted by the Force Fruit as it is about to ripen is particularly intense, releasing a unique and seductive scent.
Madara wasn't sure if the stench of the toon elephant would be able to mask the scent of the Force fruit, and it was better to give it a try than to sit back and wait.
If the stone cat can be attracted, then it is very likely that other large-sized animals will smell the fragrance and move, and next time it may not be so good luck to save the day.
After arranging the defensive circle, Banbu picked the four mature grass seeds produced by Xun Cao's life seed and put them into the warehouse for storage.
In the end, the corpse of the Xia Python was cut and transported back and forth.
The smell of blood attracted the two nearby litters of big-headed harvesting ants, who gave up their work in the fields to harvest grass seeds, and lined up in long formations, tirelessly cutting and carrying meat.
Large-headed harvester ants also like to eat meat, which is rich in protein that can speed up the laying of eggs by queens, accelerate the growth of ant-robin larvae, and newborn worker ants will be stronger.
The spotted cloth didn't drive them away, such a large Xia Ana, with a stone cat hidden in its belly, it was impossible to eat all the food, and the dry storage room could not hold so much.
In addition to cutting meat, carrying, drying and drying, there is another job, which is to dig up rocks and open up dry storage rooms. After being promoted to L4, his size increased slightly, and his food intake increased, and Banbu planned to take this opportunity to store more food for the winter, once and for all, and not have to worry about food for a long time.
After the force fruit is separated from the mother plant, if it is not stored properly, the internal force will slowly overflow, and the Xuncao seeds protected by the shell will be much slower than the raspberry fruit with thin skin and tender flesh, and it is difficult to determine how long it can be preserved.
It was busy until noon, when Zebubu rested, ate and drank to his heart's content, and took out a grass seed to try to swallow.
The Force effect of grass seeds is indeed to enhance cell activity, but it is very different from the raspberry fruit that has been tried. Raspberry fruit strengthens the vitality of cells, and Xuncao seeds also have this effect, on the basis of which there is an additional enhancement effect on the cell proliferation rate.
It seems to have some other effect, too faint for Madara to tell what it is.
It takes about half a day for Zebra to swallow a grass seed, and it must be eaten several times to supplement nutrition and physical fitness.
You can swallow two grass seeds a day, and no matter how much the body can't bear, the effect will be attenuated, and it will cause some damage to the cells.
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On the second day of killing the Xia Worm, the grass seeds condensed by Xun Cao's life seeds matured 11 at once, and looking at the trend, it is estimated that all the seeds will mature in two more days.
The zebra cloth could not eat so much in a short period of time, so he learned to harvest the ants with a large head, and every morning when the sun dried the dew, the harvested mature grass seeds were taken out, placed in a sunny place to dry, and moved into the chamber for storage at dusk in the afternoon.
Dry it repeatedly for two or three days, and you will probably be able to dry it thoroughly.
Dried seeds can be stored for a longer period of time.
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It should be the smell of the Lichun elephant that played a role, and it was smoothly boiled until all the Xuncao seeds were ripe and picked, and dried and dried.
The Banbu and Big-headed Harvesters also managed to cut the carcasses of the Python and the Stone-Striped Cat into two pieces of white bones, and emptied all the edible meat without being harassed by any large predators.
A full warehouse of dried meat, Xuncao seeds, which can greatly enhance the activity of cells, can probably spend this winter happily and comfortably.
The icing on the cake was the ripe raspberry fruit of the mountains, the legacy of the Red Cockroach warrior who had sheltered the Band.
The journey was long and full of dangers, and it was not easy to make a round trip, so Banbu planned to stay in the mountains for a while, eat all the raspberry fruits on the spot, and then return.
To be on the safe side, block the passage with dirt and seal the entrance with stones to prevent it from being discovered by other bugs or burrowing animals such as snakes and rats.
Xun grass life plant in the grass seeds mature harvest after the leaves begin to yellow, spring and summer glory, autumn harvest and winter death, this is the natural growth law of Xun grass, Zebra has no way to do this.
Xuncao life seed absorbs the force to grow, genetically evolved, and is stronger than ordinary Xuncao, and can only hope that its rhizome can survive the cold winter and sprout and grow again in the spring of next year.
The thought of wasting an opportunity to conceive a life seed and harvesting only 32 grass seeds made Banbu's heart ache.
In order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy, Banbu went on a long trip this time with another purpose, which was to collect and store as many plant seeds as possible on the mountains.
Tun and use it when it evolves in the future.
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When he left the mountains, he was just an ordinary cockroach, but now he is an L4 junior warrior, and a sense of pride in his heart inexplicably rises in Banbu's heart.
L4 junior fighters, with not weak combat effectiveness, do not need to fear small snakes, mice, birds and other small animals, Banbu chose to set off in the evening.
They were also worried about attracting predation from large animals, especially birds of prey in the air, so they did not dare to fly openly and trotted close to the ground.
In the wee hours of the morning, the rolling mountains came into view, and problems followed: Zebu's departure had forgotten to carefully identify the terrain, and after more than half a year, he couldn't remember which peak it was.
It's a troublesome thing, the mountains are not high, but they are very long, with ups and downs, and there is no end in sight to the left and right.
"One, two, three, four, five...... The general direction will not be wrong, it must be one of the five peaks, just look for it next to each other. ”
Bambi muttered, climbing up the hill more vigilantly.
In the mountains, the coverage rate of Arborvitae is more than 30%, and each Arborvitae seed is filled with several usable cypress seeds, which is the best choice for breeding life seeds.
In addition to the arborvitae, there are three kinds of edible plants that bear fruit in this season, namely raspberry, prickly pear, and persimmon.
Raspberry and arborvitae are the best choices.
The persimmon seeds are a little exaggerated, and it is impossible for the life bag to accommodate them, and Banbu is very helpless about this.
The seeds of the prickly pear are slightly larger, and it is estimated that in the future, when they are promoted to L7 and L8, the life sac will grow with the growth of the body, and it should be able to hold its seeds at that time. However, prickly pear is a shrub with little future development, and the fruit is sour and astringent, and the taste is very poor, so it is not a good choice, and can only be used as a backup when there is no other choice.
In the inheritance memory, there are more than 10,000 kinds of edible plants on the entire planet, and there are more than 1,000 species in the territory ruled by the Flying Fire Cockroach tribe, however, except for the most common twenty or thirty species, the others are rare and rare varieties, and you need to find them by your own adventure.
Banbu walked along the mountain range to investigate, a little helpless, secretly pondered, found that good tree species are rare and rare, most of the common tree species are not very good, so it decided to collect more Arborvitae seeds, it is really not possible, then breed a few more Arborvitae species.
Among the various plants in the mountain forest, Arborvitae orientalis occupies the largest number, which directly proves that the survival ability of this tree species is strong, and it is easy to survive if it is planted, without spending too much energy and labor to care.
Banbu also found a puzzling problem, after more than half a year, the number of cockroaches that have lost shelter on the mountain does not seem to decrease, and the sky is close to dawn, and large and small cockroaches can be seen crawling everywhere.
In contrast, predators such as snakes and rats are not seen.
"Do you mean ......?"
Banbu suddenly thought of two possibilities.