Chapter 184: The Sunning Beetle Warrior and the Logging Termites
In the evening, a light rain fell on the already gloomy sky.
Rain washes away the scent of exhalation from the stomata, greatly reducing the likelihood of being spotted and tracked, making it easier to sneak through the jungle.
It was dark, and Long Bai beckoned Mo Lan to go on the road.
Long Bai ran ahead.
Mo Lan unleashed his natural ability to merge with the dark mountain forest and follow behind.
Sticking to the Force's thin outer circle, he came to the southeast and ran towards the hills.
Before entering the range of the Land of the Force, and before approaching the mountains, the dragon cypress stopped.
Mo Lan's figure revealed.
In front of them were large areas of neatly planted pine trees, and a few more were faintly dumped, obviously insects.
Check closely, the break is neat, very fresh, and has just been put down in the last day or two.
"Long Bai, sure enough, there are Zerg warriors living here."
"They're cultivating pine trees? It looks like a black pine."
"There's a freshly planted sapling over there!"
Mo Lan's tentacles tapped and pointed in a direction.
Long Bai glanced at it, nodded his tentacles slightly, and asked, "Mo Lan, have you sensed the fluctuation of the Force plant's original energy?"
"Nope."
"There shouldn't be any Zerg warriors living nearby."
Long Bai quickly climbed up a pine tree next to him, stood on the top of the tree and looked out, observed the surrounding terrain through the dark night rain, turned around and got down the tree, waved his forefoot, and motioned for Mo Lan to follow.
A large area in the vicinity is full of neatly planted trees.
Long Bai led Mo Lan and carefully bypassed, entering the Land of the Force and climbing a hill.
Looking at it from a high position, it was inexplicably shocking.
Ahead, rolling hills open up neatly terraced woodland.
This is the edge of the Force!
The marginal areas have all been developed into woodland, and the middle areas must have been developed entirely.
How big is that? Hundreds of square kilometers!
How many Zerg warriors do you have to manage this?
Long Bai assessed, "I'm afraid the number of Zerg warriors here is more than fifty, maybe as many as hundred."
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Mo Lan echoed, hesitating, "Long Bai, you say, could it be an ant king, commanding the worker ants to operate in the reclamation?"
Cypress: "Impossible. Not enough food."
Mo Lan: "What about the ants that feed on fruits and plant seeds?"
Vegan ants that eat pine seeds, cypress seeds, birch seeds, elm fruits?
As far as the eye can see, pine, cypress, birch, elm, alder, and other large trees, not apples, peaches, and other fruit trees.
Long Bai didn't believe it at first, but after a while, he thought of a possibility: maybe this area focuses on planting dried fruit trees, and fresh fruit trees are planted in other areas.
"Moran. Let's take a look over there."
Long Bai led the way, and under the cover of darkness and rain, trotted down the ridge.
Soon, it stopped at a small hill.
In the garden below, large trees that have grown up have been cut down, but nothing has been done.
He didn't stay long, kept going, ran down the hilly ridge, into the depths of the Force.
From time to time, traces of Zerg activities can be seen, but no Zerg warriors have been found, let alone the caves where they live.
Along the way, I saw hundreds of kinds of trees, including persimmon trees and peach trees, but the number was very small, and they were all native species found from the wild mountains and forests with poor yield and quality.
"Stop!"
In the rear, Mo Lan urgently shouted to stop.
Long Bai stopped abruptly and turned around.
Mo Lan raised her forefoot and pointed to the peak on the other side of the col, "Force fluctuations of the Force plant!"
The distance was too far, and in the rainy night, I could only dimly see the black shadow of a mountain peak.
"Mo Lan, don't worry!"
Looking left and right, the dragon cypress led the way to a small hill in the distance, and hid under a bush of leafy purple locust bushes.
"Dragon cypress?"
Mo Lan asked.
Long Bai: "Wait until dawn and observe in secret."
"Oh-" Mo Lan didn't want to act rashly.
After running for most of the night, the mountains were full of neatly cultivated woodland.
Ordinary Zerg warriors don't have this ability, and there are definitely vegetarian ant tribes operating here.
Maybe it's a Zerg tribe that cooperates with the Ant Clan.
Wait with peace of mind.
Rain break.
Dawn.
The golden sun slanted in the eastern sky.
On the opposite peak, a beetle with a black carapace and a glowing purple light walked slowly to the glade and walked into the field of vision of Long Bai and Mo Lan.
The Beetle Warrior climbed up a cypress tree on the slope and lay on its trunk, its back facing east, motionless, as if enjoying the winter sun.
Mo Lan preemptively made a judgment: "The body length is about 1 meter, a high-level warrior of a certain armor tribe!"
Mo Lan: "There are also 18 Force plants in the vicinity, which is just right for its evolution."
Mo Lan: "Long Bai, what next?"
Long Bai: "No hurry. Keep watching."
Moran: "We're like thieves."
Long Bai: "......"
Cypress: "It took half of the morning before it came out of the cave. After walking out of the cave, he didn't work, but just lay on the tree and bask in the sun. It's not managing these woodlands, there's other insects."
Mo Lan: "!!"
Merlan: "Keep watching!"
At noon when the sun was in the sky, the beetles on the opposite hill slowly retreated from the cypress trees and disappeared into the dense mountain forest.
After waiting for a long time, Long Bai was thinking about whether he should change his observation angle, when he saw a group of black and white figures appear on the forest road in the mountain col below.
"Ant-Clan?" Mo Lan trembled her tentacles excitedly.
"Not ants! termites." The dragon cypress is awe-inspiring.
The marching termites are an integer of 50.
The leader is 10 termite soldier ants whose heads occupy two-thirds of their bodies, and the proportion of their heads occupying their bodies is more exaggerated than that of the specialized soldier ants among the giant ant.
Behind the soldier ants are 40 worker ants whose heads occupy half of their bodies.
There is not much difference between the size of the soldier ant and the worker ant, and the appearance is also similar, the difference is in the size of the head.
It has a black socket with scissor-shaped jaws, a white head, a black breastplate, a white belly, slender white legs, and black toes.
Black and white termites.
The body length of the soldier ant is about 1.5 meters, and the body length of the worker ant is about 1.2 meters, and there is no size differentiation.
There are no command ants in the team!
They lined up neatly, walked to the foot of the mountain, and automatically divided into 10 logging teams, 1 soldier ant and 4 worker ants, scattered into the forest, selected trees, and bit around the trunk and jaws. z.br>
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"Long Bai, in the inheritance memory, the condition for the establishment of the termite kingdom is that there must be an ant king and a queen?"
"Yes. One male and one female, two Force life-level termites, together form a termite kingdom."
It's too hard to meet.
There are literally more than 10,000 kingdoms established by the three major social insect races of the Nature God System on the Continent of Nations. But there are only a few dozen termite kingdoms. The rest are all ant and bee kingdoms.
Long Bai and Mo Lan never expected that it would be a termite kingdom.
I was stunned for a long time, and I thought about it for a long time,
Mo Lan asked, "There are more than 3,000 termite races recorded in the inheritance memory, which race is this?"
Romber: "I don't recognize it at all. It is supposed that their ant queen and queen ants have been strengthened with God-given Force food, and their body shape and color have changed."
Long Bai said solemnly, "Termite King
There is also a king in the country. However, these soldier ants and worker ants at the foot of the mountain came to the woodland on their own and worked independently without the command of the ant king and the king of Zuo, which shows that they are very intelligent."
Mo Lan agreed, "Big head! It's so much smarter than your worker ants and soldier ants!"
Long Bai's breath stagnated, and he said angrily: "It's not a problem of a big head and a small head, no matter how big your head is, you won't be so smart."
Mo Lan: "Their ant queen and queen are mountain lords?"
Cypress: "More than that!"
That's the lord level?
Mo Lan became serious, a little scared, "Long Bai, withdraw first?"
Long Bai: "Withdraw! Come back in the evening."