Chapter 037: Refining
In line with the eggs laid by regular female ant kings, the dragon cypress is promoted to an intermediate ant king, and correspondingly, the ant eggs produced by the throne of domination, and the worker ants and soldier ants cultivated are also at the intermediate level.
Compared with the primary ant queen stage, the intuitive change is the growth of the size of worker ants and soldier ants.
The dragon cypress bred a few worker ants and came out to compare and observe.
The number of microchemical ants has grown from less than 1 cm to about 1 cm.
Small worker ants have grown from about 1.5 centimeters to more than 2 centimeters.
Medium-sized worker ants have grown from about 3 centimeters to about 5 centimeters.
Large worker ants have grown from about 5 centimeters to about 8 centimeters.
Specialized ants are still in the larval stage and can definitely exceed 20 centimeters.
In the kingdom of giant head ants, the size of the specialized ant is even larger than that of the ant king.
According to the law, the changes of soldier ants are similar to those of worker ants.
The increase in size corresponds to a good increase in speed and strength, and the combat power of the soldier ants will be stronger.
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A large blue ant emerges, and the dragon cypress catches it for testing, and after feeding it a certain amount of fruit, he gives it a garland seed.
The mental power scanned back and forth, and continued to observe.
Sure enough, after eating the shilan seeds, the big blue ant was not violently killed by the impact of the Force energy, but digested it smoothly and turned it into a wisp of pure Force substance into its stomach, which was mixed with the fruit it had eaten before and stored.
Keep watching, and the Force won't be lost.
The dragon cypress plucked a leaf and gave instructions to the great blue ants.
The big blue ant buried its head, swallowed slowly, and spit out the food stored in its belly.
Translucent, pale yellow gelatinous, similar to honey, more viscous.
There is a subtle fruity aroma of wild grapes and peaches.
Long Bai buried his head and tasted it, it tasted good and was very sweet.
It's just that a single garnolia seed is mixed in, diluted and then eaten, and it is almost impossible to find the kind of force substance that improves cultivation and strengthens the physique.
Continued observation reveals that when exposed to air, the Force begins to slowly evaporate.
- Do I need to store it in the stomach of the blue ant?
Slightly disappointed, Lombard named the substance 'ant honey'.
Continue testing,
Give the order for the big blue ant to eat all the nectar on the leaves.
Then, feed it another 5 carach seeds.
Stone orchid seeds are to strengthen the digestive ability and compare the effect of chicken ribs.
Long Bai also picked 5 blood-strengthening 'blood rice' and fed it 2 heart-strengthening 'golden cherry blossoms'.
Observations have shown that the Great Blue Ants 'refining' these Force foods consume a lot of energy and at a very slow rate.
However, as expected, the Force substances transformed by the three different Force foods slowly mixed and fused after entering the abdomen of the big blue ant.
It took two whole days.
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"Dragon Cypress!"
"Dragon cypress? What are you busy with? ”
"Your blue ants are born? With such a big belly, do you have any special skills? ”
Mo Lan came to the ant nest with a large bag of freshly picked fruit.
The worker ants came forward to check and found that it was not meat, so they turned around and fled.
Long Bai: "I've figured out the ability of the blue ant, which is 'refining'!" ”
Mo Lan: "Refining? ”
Long Bai: "Refining is the digestion and refining of food, leaving only the nutrients and energy needed, including Force food!" ”
Long Bai shook his tentacles and beckoned the big blue ant to follow him out of the nest.
Mo Lan kind of understood.
Long Bai trotted, picked the first crown vine leaf nearby, and put it in front of the big blue ant.
The big blue ant is also clever, and when he saw the leaves again, he immediately understood what Long Bai meant, and without waiting for the order, he took a step forward and began to spit out.
Long Bai: "The small fruit grapes and hairy peaches you sent two days ago, plus 6 shilan seeds, 5 blood rice, and 2 precious golden cherry seeds. ”
"Mo Lan, can you taste it?"
The dragon cypress pushed the leaf forward and welcomed him warmly.
"You eat first......"
Mo Lan took two steps back.
This kind of food is a bit difficult for insects to accept.
Long Bai buried his head and tasted it, and praised: "It's delicious!" ”
Long Bai looked at Mo Lan.
Mo Lan looked up at the sky.
Long Bai said: "Mo Lan, I call it 'ant honey', something similar to 'honey'. Try? ”
Mo Lan: "No. I don't have a sweet tooth, and the dragon cypress is the king of ants. You eat more. ”
Long Bai: "......"
Long Bai understood why it refused to eat it, and patiently explained, "Mo Lan, do you know how honey is made? ”
Mo Lan: "How is it made?" ”
Long Bai: "Bees have two stomachs, and the pollen and nectar collected are stored in a special stomach, swallowed, spit out, swallowed, and spit out again, over and over again more than 100 times, and finally brewed into honey that everyone loves to eat." ”
"Blue ants are similar to bees in that they have two stomachs, one of which is dedicated to storage. More powerful than bees, blue ants don't need to be swallowed repeatedly. ”
Are bees so disgusting? Mo Lan looked down and tilted her head vigorously.
Long Bai: "Mo Lan, have you ever eaten honey?" ”
Mo Lan: "I haven't eaten it, and I don't plan to eat it in the future." ”
Long Bai: "Among the goods traded by the caravan is the queen bee honey brewed by the Force Life-level bees collecting pollen and nectar from the plants they ordered. It is a luxury commodity, and only those rich and powerful insect kings are willing to buy some to eat. ”
Upon hearing this, Mo Lan was a little shaken.
"Long Bai, you eat two more bites and I'll take a look."
Long Bai buried his head and ate two bites.
Deliberately chirp and make a sound.
Mo Lan hesitated, lowered her head and tasted it.
"Wow!"
"It smells so good!"
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Long Bai waited for Mo Lan to finish eating all the ant nectar on the leaves, and happily proposed:
"Mo Lan, I'll breed a few more large blue ants and specialized blue ants. In the future, our Force food will be refined by blue ants before eating. ”
"Good ......" Mo Lan: "It's so troublesome." ”
"No trouble."
Long Bai said: "In the process of natural evolution, in order to prevent the seeds from being eaten, most of them have evolved to be bitter, unpalatable, and even poisonous. We are Force beings and are not afraid of these toxins, but we also need to consume physical energy and time to detoxify. ”
"For example, orchid seeds and golden cherry seeds, they are slightly toxic, and after eating, it takes a certain amount of time to 'digest', this digestion process, part of which is to absorb the Force substance, and the other part is the body to consume energy to detoxify."
"Let the blue ants take on the process of detoxification, which hurts the body, the benefits needless to say, right?"
"Yes!"
Mo Lan agreed and praised: "Long Bai, your blue ants are too powerful. ”
Mo Lan pointed to the spider silk bag again and said, "Long Bai, I picked some more peaches and brown dates. You make all the blue ants ...... Refined. ”
Mo Lan: "If you use a few more fruits, the taste will definitely be better!" I'll go to the mountains again to see if there are any grapes. ”
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The space for blue ants to operate is too large.
Choose different fruits to brew ant honey with different aromas.
A variety of fruits are mixed to produce ant honey with mixed aromas.
The wine made by eating meat cannot be regarded as 'honey', there is no fruity aroma, there is no meat aroma, but it also gets rid of the unpleasant fishy smell.
You can also add meat to ant honey, which is rich in nutrients and has a silky and soft taste.
At the same time, mixing different types of Force foods with ant honey will give you a comprehensive and balanced fortification when you eat them, which is good for evolutionary growth.
furthermore
Blue ants' ability to store food also has a wide range of uses.
Meat is easy to spoil, in the past, it could only be dried in the jerky, the ant nest was damp, and the jerky was particularly easy to mildew, but now it is good, and there is no need to worry about it.
Moreover, often, Mo Lan hunted goats and wild boars and other large-sized prey and brought them back, and the whole family couldn't finish eating, and the weather was bad and they couldn't dry the dried meat, so they could only bury the trees and compost them.
Now, you can breed more blue ants and refine and store the remaining food.
Another point is that in the event of a war and the soldier ants go out to fight, the blue ants are the mobile logistics supply, and refined food can quickly replenish the physical consumption of the soldier ants.
There are so many uses for blue ants.
Cultivate more!