Chapter 159: The Gaze from the White Willow
Bai Liu found a good position on the mountain, the best angle, and could clearly see the every move of the worker ants on the hillside.
I'll see how lazy you are, go back and tell Long Bai, Long Bai will clean you up.
Worker ants are not all idle, and they will still work for a while when they go out early in the morning.
Then it's a walk and a sunbath.
Day after day.
Seventy-eighty-ninety days later,
Weeds around the entrance to the temporary nest are cleared.
A special ant named Heiti suddenly changed his normal behavior and led the ant colony to the nest and explored the hillside in a formation.
10 large soldier ants, 5 in a team, divided into two small teams, walk in front, cross the line and march.
Six specialized blue ants walk in the middle.
30 large worker ants followed.
Heiti walked last.
They set off early in the morning and travel through the mountains and forests.
In the afternoon, I climbed the ridge and walked along it.
In the evening, I returned the same way and foraged for food.
Bai Liu looked puzzled, and when he looked at it again the next day, he suddenly realized.
The next morning, early in the morning, Heiti took the ant colony out of the nest, and the leader walked in front, driving lightly, through the mountain forest, climbing the ridge, finding a rock on the mountain, lying on the stone to bask in the sun.
Gathered in twos and threes, facing the woodland and the lake, the tentacles point and point, as if enjoying the scenery below the mountain. Z.br>
It was dusk before going down the mountain and foraging for food along the way.
For a whole day, the colony was completely unworked.
Bai Liu was extremely angry and annoyed, and continued to observe secretly.
For many days, this group of guys really stopped working at all, running to the mountains every day to bask in the sun and see the scenery.
The gods of nature can't stand it anymore.
Heavy rain fell from the sky.
Heavy rain turns to light rain.
Ant colonies are trapped in ant nests and cannot go out.
Bai Liu snickered that these lazy guys had finally been punished.
There are a lot of blue ants left behind, but they only hunt enough food every day.
If you don't have any food in stock, you'll be hungry now.
The light rain turned cloudy and rainy, and it was endless.
It rained for three days in a row.
The colony also starved for three days.
While Bai Liu was happy, he began to worry again: Will he starve to death?
After hesitating for a long time, he took off, soared, caught a rabbit and threw it at the mouth of the ant's nest.
After thinking about it, I couldn't get angry.
These lazy ants should be hungry.
Bai Liu picked up the rabbit and tore it in half, leaving only half of it, so that they could starve, just don't starve to death.
However, I thought about it again.
Is half a rabbit enough to eat? Not even one is enough, right?
The white willow control circled and threw the half-pulled rabbit back.
Stop on the rocks at the top of the mountain in the rain and keep watching.
Two soldier ants came out of the nest and dragged the rabbit carcass into the cave.
After a while, the worker ants threw out the gnawed bones.
It was a gloomy day, and it rained non-stop.
The next day,
White Willow caught a pheasant and threw it at the mouth of the ant's nest.
Day 3,
Bai Liu caught a large herring from the lake, ate half of it himself, and threw the remaining half to the ant colony.
On the fourth day, the rain passed and the sky cleared.
As always, Heiti led the colony out of the nest, but they were obviously not fed these days, hunting all the way up the mountain until noon.
They apparently didn't learn any lessons from the hunger of the previous few days, and still didn't know how to hunt and stock up on food.
As in the past, they lie on the rocks to watch the scenery and enjoy the sun.
- Next time, I'll watch you starve to death!
Bai Liu was lying on the rocks in the distance, holding a metal can, dipping his forefeet in ant honey and licking it, while staring coldly at the ant colony.
Hei Ti keenly noticed the unfriendly gaze in the distance, thought about it, got up slowly, beckoned 5 soldiers to escort him, and walked slowly towards the white willow.
Heiti walked under the rocks, tilted his head, and looked at the white willow.
He tried to climb up the rock, stepped forward, pulled the metal can, and looked inside.
The white willow is inexplicable.
Seeing that the white willow was not blocked, Heiti tried to dip his tentacles into ant honey, held it with his forefeet, and tasted it.
- It tastes good.
Heiti shook his tentacles in praise, turned his head and walked down the rock, and left gracefully.
White willow in situ circled.
- It robs me of the Force food?
- Isn't it a specialty ant?
- Can worker ants eat Force food?
- Can I teach the dragon a lesson?
- If it dares to rob it, I will grab it and throw it into the lake.
Bai Liu thought silently and rested on the boulder at the top of the mountain for the night.
The next day, early in the morning,
Heiti led the colony out of the nest, but instead of going up the mountain, he formed an exploration formation and walked down the hillside.
The colony descended the hillside, crossed the forest, and came to the lakeside.
They found several trees of the white willow and began to hoe the grass and turn the soil.
After brewing all night, Bai Liu, who was secretly determined to teach Hei Ti a lesson, only felt that he was suddenly in the air.
The white willow is not a diligent fly, either.
In other words, because the dragonfly's wings cannot be retracted, it is difficult to move in the forest, and its jaw teeth and six-legged structure are all born for fighting, and it is not good at taking care of it.
Or fishing last winter, Long Bai commanded the worker ants by the way to help clean it up.
After a year, the life plants of white willow on land are simply a mess.
- Will they accidentally pull out my life?
Bai Liu was worried about his life seed, and hovered down to the lakeside, guarding the blood orange life seed that had just been sown this spring.
Heiti stared at Bai Liu for a while, then turned around and continued to work with the worker ants.
At present, there are only 14 species in total, of which 6 are born in water and 8 are trees on land.
2 white willow trees were planted, and they initially grew into a scale. The others are all half-sized trees, 1 maple poplar, 1 chestnut, 1 silver cypress seed, 1 black emperor peach seed, and 2 blood orange species.
There are not many life, and the scale is not large.
In the middle of the afternoon, the weeds were cleaned up and the soil was turned over.
Heiti led the ant colony back to the hillside, lifted the stone slab of the biogas digester, fetched water from the bamboo tube, and sent it down the mountain for watering.
The white willow watched for a while, flapped its wings and took off, hovering over the lake, its body sank suddenly, and swept against the surface of the lake, and a grass carp was caught and thrown under the white willow tree on the shore.
The white willow disappeared in the mountains and forests in a flash, and soon flew back with a two- or three-meter-long python.
"Thank you for your help!"
"This is food for you!"
Shirayu tries to communicate with Heiti.
However, Heiti stared blankly at Bai Liu, did not respond, was stunned for a while, waved his tentacles, commanded the worker ants to divide the food, and led the ant colony to eat happily.
Bai Liu thought for a while, picked up the metal jar containing the ant honey, and shouted, "Heiti! Heti!"
Just a few meters away, the spiritual power called for a while, and Heiti finally noticed it and looked up.
"Heiti, ant honey!"
The white willow tentacles tapped the mouth of the can.
This time, Heiti understood it at once, trotted forward, pulled the metal can, looked at it, and tasted it with its tentacles.
He turned around and walked away.
- Specialized ants cannot evolve.
- But Heti is distinctly different, it eats Force food.
- but it's useless to eat Force food, because it can't evolve.
- Why can the cypress and cedar evolve, while
Worker ants can't evolve?
Bai Liu thought seriously.
The inheritance memory only said that the "Zuo Wang" bred by the ant queen and the queen bee can evolve in the footsteps of the king, and can be on the same level as the king, while the worker ants and professional bees cannot evolve.
But passing on memories doesn't explain why.
Bai Liu thought about it, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration:
- Cypress and Cedar are smart! Heiti is stupid!
- Black lotus seeds strengthen the brain, with the effect of making insects smarter.
There are 3 black lotus species in the white willow, of which the output of 2 is sold to the dragon cypress, and the output of 1 is kept for personal use, and this year's output has not had time to eat.
Bai Liu thought about it, and immediately took off and flew towards the cave where he lived.