Chapter 14 Sowing the Seed of Life
The big-headed harvest ants have a certain ability to remember, think and distinguish. They remember Banbu’s appearance and Banbu’s residence.
The act of robbing seeds immediately aroused the excitement of the crowd. A large number of soldiers and ants set out from the ants and rushed towards Banbu's squad.
"Stingy guy."
"I picked the fruits of yesterday for you."
Banbu stood at the entrance of the cave, shaking his antennae to release the threatening pheromone. Under the threat of the Force creature's unique aura, the big-headed harvest ants that came to cause trouble suddenly stumbled and did not dare to move forward.
The two sides were in a stalemate for a moment, and the ant colony roared and stopped the troops.
"Just holding grudges and not calculating grace cannot be considered as intelligent life, and lower wisdom cannot be considered as low-level wisdom."
Banbu shook his tentacles helplessly.
Of course, he could not be petty with these little guys who were only one-tenth of his body.
After spending time together for a long time, I still appreciate the survival wisdom of ants: busy and hardworking work day and night; elderly people are responsible for dangerous reconnaissance and watch-keeping work, and sacrifice; without a commander, they can cooperate perfectly, complete tedious work through division of labor and cooperation, and unite...
They have various excellent qualities advocated by human society.
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Survival in the jungle is not easy.
The ripe grass seeds of Xuncao Field attracted a group of birds. The birds are the real robbers. They unscrupulously plunder the big heads to harvest the fruits of hard farming of ants, and even sneered at them.
There is only one of the little snakes wandering in Xuncao Field now, and their body length is more than 200. It has a good reputation and is secretly lurking in the grass and successfully capturing a flying bird.
Similar predation and predation occur all the time in the jungle.
The birds came abruptly and went quickly. The Xuncao field that could not be harvested in time was ruined by them, leaving only a small number of seeds scattered on the ground.
The big-headed harvest ants are still so hard-working, searching carefully, collecting grass seeds one by one, drying them and storing them. At the same time, more big-headed ants joined the weeding team, biting the grass leaves with their jaws and cutting them into small pieces.
After a heavy rain, the grass leaves slowly rot and deposit, becoming organic fertilizers in Xuncaotian, maintaining the fertility of the field in this primitive way.
Banbu silently paid attention to everything in front of him and observed an incredible phenomenon: Xuncao, which was almost cut off from the ground, actually pulled out new green buds after the heavy rain.
Banbu thought of a possibility: Xuncao can be harvested for two seasons a year!
The more I think about it, the more I feel that it is possible. With the management of the big-headed harvest ants, sow seeds in early spring, harvest the first season in midsummer, and harvest the second season in late autumn.
"Xuncao is also very tenacious! If you are cut off, you can still grow new buds." Banbu first thought of another question: "If I can survive the winter, can I survive?"
Born in spring, flourishing in summer, withering in autumn, and dying in winter, and short lifespan are the fatal weaknesses of herbs, so in the inheritance memory, it is not recommended to use grass seeds to nurture life seeds.
Banbu then observed all day and found that the tender buds of Xuncao were not afraid of the scorching sun. On the contrary, they grew rapidly under sufficient light.
After careful consideration, we concluded that Xuncao is not afraid of heat, and the mature root system buried in the soil can provide enough water for the buds, so that they can grow well.
Since that's the case, you can consider sowing your first life seed!
And it is very necessary to sow.
When the banner was L1, the rate of the carapace absorbing the cosmic force was more than enough to maintain growth. Now, the cosmic force required for growth in L2 has increased, but the absorption rate of the carapace does not increase. According to this trend, it can be predicted that after L4, the rate of the carapace absorbing the cosmic force will not keep up with demand and delay growth.
There are two ways to do it. The best thing is to eat the Force fruit, which not only can gain Force but also strengthen the genetic ability. Under normal circumstances, if the elders of the tribe are taken care of, junior warriors will survive the weak period in this way.
However, Banbu's situation was abnormal. The elders of the tribe were dead. There was nowhere to go to find other elders for help from the vast jungle, and they could only rely on themselves. Then there was only another way, sow the life seeds as soon as possible, and use the help of the life seeds to absorb the force needed for growth.
A thunderstorm strengthened Banbu's idea.
The species of life is placed under a pine tree closest to the santhemum chamber, facing the east side of the sun.
The location is very particular. In the morning, the tilted sunlight can shine; at noon, the scorching sun is blocked by the dense branches and leaves of the tree; in the afternoon, the afterglow of the sunset can shine again.
Two days after sowing, fresh new buds broke out, and the two established a very faint wonderful feeling of "closely connected, life and life are connected".
The strip cloth brought stones and arranged a fence around the seedlings of life, guarding them all the time, to beware of being eaten by herbivorous insects such as sword-horned green locusts.
I was lucky and encountered another heavy rain. With enough rain, the buds successfully developed into three leaves.
According to the precipitation rules of jungle summer, we will face a "drought period" for several days, and the moisture in the shallow soil on the surface will be quickly dried by the scorching sun.
Banbu prepared in advance, found a hollow plant branch, and collected dew from the leaves in the early morning every day to water it to maintain the humidity of the soil near the seeds.
As expected, the species of life has been growing vigorously, and can increase by 5 almost every day, and grow faster and smoothly through the most fragile stage. As the grass grows, the wonderful feeling of "closely connected and life connected" becomes clearer little by little.
After a thunderstorm, Banbu carefully dug it out and transplanted the hole in the pendant chamber.
In the soil at the entrance of the cave, Banbu specially searched for some birds, beasts, and ginseng to get in to improve his fertility.
The transplant was also very successful, and the plants grew faster, faster than the second batch of ordinary Xuncao with mature roots.
The leaves are slightly different from ordinary Xuncao. The leaf veins and meridians are purple-black and thicker and tougher. Part of the force absorbed by the plant is used for its own growth, and what is endless is stored in the leaf veins.
Fate species have common characteristics with the Force plants born in nature: when the Force reserves in the leaf veins are saturated, a hazy deep purple halo will be emitted at night, which is where they are releasing excess Force.
It is very dangerous, and various phototaxis are attracted. Then, small nocturnal predators are attracted, and then, they are likely to provoke large predators and fight. The fragile and small plants are likely to be affected by accident.
After close observation, Banbu speculated that the probability of the birth of Force plants in nature is not as low as expected, but because of this characteristic, it leads to premature death.
The characteristics of the Force plants glow at night are reasonable. The corpses of dead animals will become good growth nutrients after they rot.
Banbu can't use the Force of the Fate, but this problem is easy to solve. Every evening, he starts to shake his tentacles and constantly releases pheromones representing anger. The breath of the Force creatures lingers, which can shock and drive out all kinds of flying insects.
Chapter completed!