Astral Cockroach

Of course, reservoirs had to be built in the mountains. In Banbu's plan, they had to be constructed as soon as possible.

The main consideration was for the expansion of the Bamboo Sea.

South of Lizhu Peak, the soil was generally sandy and had poor water storage capacity. A large reservoir was a necessary facility. Otherwise, without sufficient water reserves, a drought could easily destroy the Bamboo Sea.

Hydroelectric power stations, of course, were a natural addition, built along the way.

… …

Last year, the allied forces of insect tribes, led by Chijian County, had another battle with the northern wilderness beast tribes, resulting in expanded casualties, with neither side gaining an advantage. This spring, negotiations began again, and finally, the Cloud Piercing Eagle warriors who had infiltrated Changsheng County to plunder were handed over, but the issue of compensation was dropped.

The dispute subsided, the trade blockade was lifted, and the beastly scourge ended.

Down the mountain, blood thorn fruits ripened.

This year's Lizhu Peak autumn harvest banquet was exceptionally lively.

Some warriors not only came to freeload, but also brought junior warriors to sponge off the event.

Too much, right? Okay, now that you're here, don't leave.

Do me a favor and dig a reservoir.

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The reservoir was planned to be 1 kilometer long and 100 meters wide, with each meter forming a step. Each step would be 0.5 meters high, with a total of 50 steps designed, forming an overall internal trapezoidal structure.

Bamboo rat warriors would do the digging, and each step would have a drainage outlet. Banbu planned to metalize the openings and install drain valves. This way, they could open the floodgates step by step, as needed, to reduce waste.

A trip to the Mantis Blade Kingdom cost him original stones to invite four county lord-level warriors to help, using their earth and stone abilities to solidify the steps one by one, enhancing the compressive strength of the reservoir dam.

At the same time, he sent bamboo rat warriors to dig a steep drainage channel along the mountain, reinforcing it with earth and stone abilities.

Banbu personally took charge, using his metal ability to embed three turbine generators inside the drainage channel.

This was the design plan given by Baba. Once the reservoir at the top of the mountain was opened to release water, the water pressure would be applied to the turbine generators at the foot of the mountain, maximizing the conversion of potential energy into electrical energy.

In previous years, the bamboo rat warriors had intermittently dug out the rudimentary first step of the reservoir. This year, with the help of more than a hundred red cockroach warriors, they worked for four months and dug down two steps.

At a depth of 1.5 meters, the reservoir initially had water storage capacity. In the future, year by year, they would slowly dig deeper.

Each of the red cockroach tribe warriors who helped was given 400 original stones as remuneration, very cheap labor, totaling just over 60,000 original stones.

The county lord-level warriors of the Mantis Blade tribe were not so easy to deal with. They were doing technical work, and the agreed price was 3,000 original stones per warrior per month, so four months of work cost 12,000 original stones.

After a busy period, more than 100,000 original stones had been spent.

… …

At the end of winter, the work of digging the reservoir ended, and Du Bamboo and Dragon Bamboo fell into slumber one after another.

Twenty days later, Du Bamboo woke up first.

The timing was perfect. At the beginning of Banbu's 26th year, the first batch of Holy Bamboo's God-given seeds were sown.

Dragon Bamboo then woke up, and the Heavy-Eyed Magnolia God-given seed was ready. Banbu immediately brought Baba over.

"Baba, hurry, help me see the specific enhancement effect of this God-given seed."

"Oh, good stuff! You exchanged it with the Thunder Bamboo God-given seed? The quality of this God-given seed is slightly better!" Baba scanned it, somewhat surprised, and said, "And it's an extremely rare visual enhancement!"

"Visual enhancement?" On the contrary, Banbu's fiery heart immediately cooled down upon hearing this, and he asked, "More specifically? Viewing distance or spectral width?"

Baba said, "It's a rare, high-quality, comprehensive enhancement, mainly enhancing the range of light waves recognized by the eyes, with additional viewing distance enhancement. Perhaps, it will undergo a qualitative change when used on you insect warriors. Banbu, this thing is most useful to you! It has an auxiliary effect on your original heart… Uh… provided you enter your starry sky…"

Upon hearing this, Banbu became even more worried.

Baba suddenly realized the problem and said no more.

The normal vision of insect warriors' compound eyes is to recognize visible light during the day and infrared light of some wavelengths at night.

The enhancement effect of the Heavy-Eyed Magnolia God-given seed is mainly to expand the range of light waves accepted by the compound eyes, such as ultraviolet rays with wavelengths lower than visible light, and more wavelengths of infrared rays.

Intuitively speaking, after the field of vision is enhanced, the world will become more "colorful" when viewed with the eyes.

The attached viewing distance enhancement directly means you can see farther and have more acute vision.

Overall, the enhancement effect of the Heavy-Eyed Magnolia God-given seed is that you can see more and see farther.

For the human race, for human warriors, this is a very valuable enhancement effect that can assist in combat.

For the insect tribe warriors on this planet, it seems a bit useless. What's the point of seeing so much? What's the use of seeing far?

In the value system of insect warriors on this planet, the value of God-given seeds is ranked in the following order: extending lifespan, increasing the probability of successful molting and growth, increasing labor efficiency, increasing growth rate, and strengthening elemental abilities.

Improving combat effectiveness? This has to be ranked at the bottom.

It's not that the Heavy-Eyed Magnolia God-given seed is completely useless, but its value ranks at the bottom, which means it can't be sold for a good price, and it's not easy to sell.

"Banbu…" Dragon Bamboo looked at Banbu resentfully: "We've suffered a terrible loss!"

"I didn't plan to exchange it in the first place…" Banbu also felt a pang of pain, and forcibly explained: "It was that little guy Guanli who was making a fuss and insisted that I exchange it. Dragon Bamboo, if you have any problems, you can go to Guanli…"

Dragon Bamboo said: "Guanli told me that you deliberately tricked it."

"…" Banbu sorted out his thoughts and said righteously: "Our Lizhu Peak is not short of original stones now. This Heavy-Eyed Magnolia God-given seed helps with combat. We can use it ourselves to improve everyone's combat effectiveness."

"Especially Big Bear, look at it, its eyesight has never been very good. It will improve after eating this."

"So, the Heavy-Eyed Magnolia God-given seed is still useful."

Banbu forcibly explained, waved his antennae, and said: "Magnolia likes hot weather, and there is not much open space on the mountain. You plant it down the mountain, next to the cattail God-given seed's paddy field, pick a piece of open space to sow it, and remember to keep it far away, so as not to the two God-given seeds fighting in the future."

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In the exchange of God-given seeds with Chiwu Mountain, Lizhu Peak definitely suffered a big loss.

However, after finishing the winter, the spring was even busier, and everyone quickly lost the mind to think too much.

The Holy Bamboo God-given seed sprouted smoothly and grew vigorously. It will bring a huge amount of wealth to Lizhu Peak.

It is currently confirmed that ordinary Holy Bamboo seeds that are bred into Destiny Seeds also have similar strengthening effects as ordinary Longevity Peaches. Holy Bamboo will be listed as the iconic plant of Lizhu Peak. Therefore, Lizhu Peak must expand the planting scale of Holy Sound Bamboo and optimize it through generations of selection.

Ordinary Thunder Bamboo seeds that are bred into Destiny Seeds have the effect of strengthening lightning abilities. Banbu set the single-seed price at 1 original stone, and sales are still particularly good. Therefore, Lizhu Peak plans to focus on cultivating and selling ordinary Thunder Bamboo seeds.

Seeds of bamboo species such as Green Bamboo, Rain Bamboo, Little Fire Bamboo, Mud Bamboo, Steel Bamboo, and Quiet Bamboo have always had stable demand and need to be cultivated appropriately.

The ordinary Destiny Seeds all over the mountains need to be taken care of, and a large number of seedlings produced after sowing unknown tree seeds collected from the Western Regions of the Dragon Bamboo Continent need to be taken care of, and they need to be observed and recorded regularly.

The most important thing is Dragon Bamboo. Dragon Bamboo must be cultivated to form a scale as soon as possible.

The members on the mountain are so busy that their feet don't touch the ground, working all night long. Coincidentally, the wild Chinese Juniper God-given seed ushered in its first transformation and evolution.

An extremely important qualitative change, accompanied by a certain risk of failure.

Banbu had to go out in person and guard under the tree.

Not having a tree spirit is also a trouble, and there is no way to know its status.

Bring Baba along, and Baba will monitor and report the situation at any time.

Banbu placed a large bag of original stones next to him, ready to crush them at any time to replenish the original power for the Chinese Juniper God-given seed.

In addition, there were several clever battle ant soldiers waiting nearby with their ant colonies, ready to irrigate with swamp water at any time.