Astral Ant Tribe

It took half a month to build the Zhanlan Reservoir embankment, raising it by 2 meters and increasing the water storage depth by 0.5 meters.

When the time was almost up, Long Bai and Mo Lan packed their bags and set off to Yinbai Mountain in the north to complete the transaction with Shan Shi.

Yamashita also suffered from hidden wounds in his advanced stage of evolution and growth, and the remaining white rice ant king honey worth 1,500 rough stones was arranged for Yamashita.

This year's traveling trade is over.

Return to Pandan Mountain.

Long Bai began to cultivate giant blue soldiers and intelligent blue ants.

Two special ant eggs are placed in two separate nest chambers, and two teams of worker ants are assigned to take care of them full-time.

This winter, Long Bai still stayed in Xianglan Mountain, and through the messenger function of the Throne, he produced a sufficient amount of 7 ant eggs in batches every four days. Enter the ant nest regularly every day, release pheromones, stimulate the differentiation of various ant eggs, and focus on growing the strength of the ant kingdom.

This year, more than 40 kinds of berry ant honey were collected, and more than 60 kinds of dried fruits were collected.

After years of experience in consuming ant honey, Long Bai discovered that the more types of ant honey, the better the taste.

Certain berries and dried fruits will affect the overall aroma and taste, such as durian, mango...

Some flavors and aromas conflict with each other. They taste good when eaten separately, but when they are put together they are awkward or even unpalatable.

Long Bai and Mo Lan turned into food bugs and tried to combine and taste different types of ant honey every day.

There seems to be no pattern, at least Long Bai and Mo Lan didn't find any pattern.

It’s all about intuition and even mixing and matching as you wish.

After countless tests and inspections, Longbai initially set four flavors and fragrances for ant honey: fresh fruit fragrance, fresh fruit strong fragrance, dried fruit mellow fragrance, and mixed mellow fragrance.

And we have set exclusive labels for different fragrances.

Fresh fruity aroma marked by raspberry pattern.

For fresh fruity aroma, use mango pattern.

Use green torreya for dried fruits.

As for blending the aroma... draw a big circle with three smaller circles inside.

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The essence of the Blue Ant's 'refining' ability is to remove all useless impurities and retain only the ingredients that can be absorbed by the Zerg.

A large spider silk bag of force food may not even be able to fill a metal can after refining.

After refining ordinary original food, blend ordinary ant honey with different flavors and fragrances, and dilute it to make "original ant honey" with different flavors and fragrances.

For mass production in the future, wood can be cut into the shape of an oval leaf, polished smooth, punched, tied with a spider silk string, and engraved with icons corresponding to the flavor and fragrance.

Each jar produced is labeled with its fragrance type, which is simple and clear, making it easy to distinguish.

The brand has two sides, and the other side can also depict the enhanced type of Force Ant Honey in the jar.

There are too many types of Force enhancements for inherited memories and they are too complicated.

Long Bai made a summary and simply divided it into four general types: elemental type, comprehensive physique, sensory, and carapace.

Other types are not considered for now.

Among the element types, for the water type, draw a few wavy lines as marks for strengthening; for the earth type, draw a mountain; for the wood type, draw a tree; for the fire type, draw a flame symbol...

To strengthen the crustacean, draw a pair of elytra as a symbol.

For sensory enhancement, draw a pair of dragonfly compound eyes as a symbol.

To strengthen the overall physical fitness, draw a thick and powerful hind leg of a mantis as a symbol.

There is also the pricing of goods.

There are only three grades in the early stage: 1,000 rough stones/jar, 2,000 rough stones/jar, and ant king honey made from God-given seeds.

At present, Dragon Cypress and Mo Lan have 8 divine-given seeds, including Fruity Orchid, Azure Blue, Southern Gorgon, Northern Gorilla, Southern Ziziphus, Scarlet Fruit, Ghost Fan Wood, and White Rice Fruit.

Among them, five gods-given seeds, including Fruity Orchid, Azure Blue, Southern Gorgon, Southern Ziziphus, and Scarlet Fruit, are planned to be sold to the caravan.

Among them, pandan seeds and gorgon seeds require no extra operations and are sold directly as dried fruits.

Blue fruits, southern jujubes, and crimson fruits are fresh fruits, and part of them are pickled with honey to keep the original shape of the fruits and try to be as ‘authentic’ as possible.

However, with the honey-pickled method, the fruits take up too much space and can’t hold too much in one can. Taking the blue fruit as an example, one can can only hold about 300 raw stones.

The flame spider's back armor has limited space, and the cargo it can carry is limited. It's okay when the quantity is small. But once the quantity becomes huge, the total price of the goods reaches tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, and Bai Wei will definitely not be able to transport it.

Not only is honey pickling laborious to transport, but the production process is also cumbersome, and the taste is not as good as ant honey.

Therefore, Long Bai prefers to make the god-given fruit into ‘Ant King Honey’.

The pulp and core are refined and mixed into 'King Ant Honey', and then an appropriate amount of ordinary ant honey with different flavors and fragrances is added for seasoning, and the concentration is also diluted according to needs.

Finally, it is packaged into jars of azure blue ant king honey, southern jujube ant king honey, and crimson ant king honey.

In terms of pricing, it should not be too high for the time being. It is divided into 1,000 rough stones/can and 2,000 rough stones/can.

Each jar has a wooden sign with a clear price tag: 1,000 rough stones are engraved with a groove the size of a rice grain; 2,000 rough stones are engraved with grooves the size of two rice grains.

Bai Wei's calculation ability is not good, so one jar after another, the price is calculated in whole numbers. When the things are sold, count the number of rice grains on the wooden sign, which is thousands of rough stones.

The simplest counting, this can't be wrong, right?

Bai Wei is really not a smart partner.

Long Bai spent a month pondering these issues and finally settled on a highly feasible plan.

Midwinter.

Sunny morning.

Shanbei Restaurant.

Long Bai brought hundreds of special, large, medium and small blue ants, using his brain memory ability to the extreme, and tried the ant-honey combination plan again and again.

"Long Bai, I have lost my sense of smell and taste..."

Mo Lan, who was in charge of the tasting, had lost his initial interest due to trying too many times. Facing thousands of combinations, the whole insect was numb.

"I'll go down the mountain and take a look..."

Mo Lan said something and left the restaurant as if running away. She first went to inspect the territory of the God-given fruit orchid, which was not yet mature.

It flapped its wings and took off again, circling and landing towards Beiqi Reservoir.

"Bei Gorgon, aren't your fruits ripe yet?"

"I don't know...it's coming soon..."

"Then hurry up."

"I know."

“Does it need top dressing?”

"No need. Mo Lan, please leave me alone. Just go and do your business."

The fruit has not matured for a long time, and Mo Lan is chasing and asking questions every day, which makes Bei Qian a little unable to withstand it.

"I am not busy."

Mo Lan flew at a low altitude, circled twice around the God-given Bean Gorilla Seed, checked it once, and confirmed it was correct. She flew away slowly, circled twice around Xianglan Mountain, and stood on the top of the mountain to watch the scenery for a while and breathe fresh air. Fly two more circles.

Near noon, we came to Shanbei Reservoir again.

"Bei Gorgon, your fruit..."

"It's ready. It's ready. It'll be ready soon."

"Is it about to enter the mature stage?"

"Yes. It's ready. Mo Lan, please bring the original stone!"

"Great!"

Mo Lan cheered, flapped her wings and flew into the air, rushing towards the mountain.

"..." Beiqian wanted to cry but had no tears.

Don't you mean twins? Why am I the unlucky one to end up with such a praying mantis?

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Longbai plans to make ant honey into a luxury high-end original food, and strives to improve the taste of ant honey.

There are certain differences in fragrance and taste preferences between insects.

There is a difference between cypress and mochi.

There is a difference between juniper and juniper.

What Longbai needs to do is to try his best to match the ant honey that can satisfy the taste preferences of most insects.

Juniper leads the soldier ants to garrison under the peaks on the west side of the mountain range for a long time.

Giant cypresses guard Beiqi Reservoir.

High-level worker ants are not so afraid of the cold and are still active in winter, leading the juniper trees to dig Shanxi reservoirs.

Mo Lan, the only one without a mission, ran away.

Long Bai moved out the emerald cypress and incense cypress that were still in the larval stage and used them to taste the taste of ant honey.

Larvae can release simple signals through pheromones: hungry, full, tasty, unpleasant, like, dislike

These two guys are natural foodies, able to distinguish between delicious and unpleasant food, and have their own likes and dislikes.

While he was busy, Mo Lan suddenly rushed in.

"Longbai!"

"good news!"

"The fruits of Beichon are finally ripe!"

"Quick! Rough stone! Rough stone!"

Have you finally entered the final stages of maturity?

Long Bai calmly waved his tentacles and signaled the worker ants to move the green cypress and incense cypress back to the ant nest, and then issued an order to arrange for the worker ants to send 400 rough stones.

He took 20 large worker ants with him, controlled the throne, and floated towards the reservoir at the foot of the mountain.

Thanks to Qianxing Xiaoyao, Piao Acri, and Bai Fei for their rewards.