Chapter 185 Beetle Warriors Basking in the Sun and Termites Cutting Wood

In the evening, light rain began to fall on the already gloomy sky.

Rain can wash away the odor exhaled from the stomata, greatly reducing the possibility of being discovered and tracked, making it easier to sneak into the jungle in good weather.

As the sky turned dark, Long Bai called Mo Lan on the road.

Long Bai ran ahead.

Mo Lan activated his natural ability to merge with the dark forest and followed behind.

He walked half a circle close to the thin outer circle of the force, came to the southeast, and ran towards the mountainous area.

Before entering the scope of the land of origin and approaching the mountains, Long Bai stopped.

Mo Lan's figure appeared.

Ahead are large tracts of neatly planted pine trees, with a few falling over, obviously caused by insects.

Looking closer, the fractures are neat and fresh, having just been put down in the past day or two.

"Long Bai, there are indeed Zerg warriors living here."

"They're growing pine trees? Looks like lodgepole pine."

"There are saplings that were just planted over there!"

Mo Lan tapped his tentacles and pointed in a direction.

Long Bai glanced at it, tapped his tentacles slightly, and asked: "Mo Lan, have you sensed the original energy fluctuations of the original plant?"

"No."

"There should be no Zerg warriors settling nearby."

Long Bai quickly climbed up a nearby pine tree, stood on the top of the tree and looked out, observing the surrounding terrain through the dark night rain. He turned around and got down from the tree, waving his front feet to signal Mo Lan to follow.

Large areas nearby are covered with neatly planted trees.

Long Bai led Mo Lan around carefully, entered the land of force, and climbed up a hill.

Looking at it from a high place is inexplicably shocking.

Ahead are undulating hills, with neat terraced woodland opening up.

This is the edge of the land of the Force!

The edge areas have been developed into forest land, so the middle areas must have all been developed.

How big is this area? Hundreds of square kilometers!

How many Zerg warriors are needed to manage this?

Long Bai assessed, "The number of Zerg warriors here probably exceeds fifty, maybe as many as hundreds."

"yes--"

Mo Lan agreed and hesitated: "Long Bai, do you think it's an ant king, commanding the worker ants to cultivate and manage the land?"

Long Bai: "Impossible. Not enough food."

Mo Lan: "What about the ants whose main food is fruits and plant seeds?"

Vegetarian ants that eat pine nuts, cypress seeds, birch seeds, and elm nuts?

All you can see are large trees such as pine, cypress, birch, elm, alder, etc., rather than fruit trees such as apples and peaches.

Long Bai didn't believe it at first, but then he thought about it and thought of a possibility: perhaps this area focuses on planting dry fruit trees, and fresh fruit trees are planted in other areas.

"Mo Lan. Take a look over there."

Long Bai led the way, trotting along the ridge under the cover of darkness and rain.

Soon, we stopped at the top of a hill.

In the garden below, a few mature trees were cut down, but no treatment was done.

Without stopping for long, he continued to move forward, running along the hilly ridges towards the depths of the Land of Force.

From time to time, traces of Zerg activities can be seen, but no traces of Zerg warriors have been found, let alone the caves where they live.

A square square of woodland was reclaimed and the trees planted were constantly changing. I ran through it and saw hundreds of kinds of trees, including fruit trees such as persimmon trees and peach trees. However, the number was very small, and they all had high yield and quality. Very poor native species found from wild mountains and forests.

"Long Bai, stop!"

From behind, Mo Lan urgently shouted stop.

Long Bai stopped suddenly and turned around.

Mo Lan raised her front foot and pointed at the mountain peak opposite the col, "The force wave of the force plant!"

The distance was too far, and in the rainy night, I could only vaguely see the dark shadow of a mountain peak.

"Mo Lan, don't worry!"

Long Bai looked left and right, led the way to the hilltop in the distance, and hid under a leafy acacia shrub.

"Long Bai?"

Mo Lan questioned.

Long Bai: "Wait until daybreak and observe in secret."

"Oh——" Mo Lan didn't want to act rashly.

After running for most of the night, wherever I passed, the mountains were filled with neatly cultivated forest land.

Ordinary Zerg warriors don't have this ability. There are definitely vegetarian ants operating here.

Maybe it's a Zerg tribe operating in partnership with the Ant tribe.

Wait with peace of mind.

…

Rain breaks.

Dawn.

The golden sun hangs diagonally in the eastern sky.

On the opposite mountain peak, a beetle with black carapace and gleaming purple light slowly walked to the forest clearing and walked into the sight of Long Bai and Mo Lan.

The beetle warrior climbed up a cypress tree on the slope and lay on the trunk, with his armor facing east, motionless, as if he was enjoying the winter sunshine.

Mo Lan was the first to make a judgment: "About 1 meter in length, he is a high-level warrior from a walking armor tribe!"

Mo Lan: "There are also 18 force plants planted nearby, which is just in line with its degree of evolution."

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, what should we do next?"

Long Bai: "Don't worry. Continue to observe."

Mo Lan: "We are very much like thieves."

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "It only came out of the cave in the middle of the morning. After leaving the cave, it didn't work. It just lay on the tree and basked in the sun. It is not running these forest lands, there are other insects."

Cymbidium:"!!!"

Mo Lan: "Continue to observe!"

At noon when the sun was high in the sky, the beetles on the opposite hill slowly retreated from the cypress trees and disappeared into the dense 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 appearing on the forest road in the mountain col below.

"Ant tribe?" Mo Lan shook his antennae excitedly.

"Not ants! Termites." Long Bai said solemnly.

The number of marching termites is an integer of 50.

The leaders are 10 termite soldier ants whose heads occupy two-thirds of the body, and the proportion of the head to the body is even more exaggerated than the specialized soldier ants among giant-headed ants.

The soldier ants are followed by 40 worker ants whose heads take up half of the body.

There is not much difference in body size between soldier ants and worker ants, and their appearance is also similar. The difference lies in the size of their heads.

It has black scissor-shaped jaws, a white head, a black breastplate, a white bellyplate, slender white legs, and black toes.

Black and white termites.

The body length of soldier ants is about 1.5 meters, and the body length of worker ants is about 1.2 meters. There is no differentiation in size.

There is no command ant in the team!

They lined up neatly, walked to the foot of the mountain, and automatically divided into teams. One soldier ant and four worker ants were divided into 10 logging teams. They dispersed into the forest, selected trees, and bit around the trunks with their jaws.

…

"Long Bai, in the inherited memory, the condition for the establishment of the termite kingdom is that there must be an ant king and an ant queen?"

"Yes. One male and one female, two termites at the life level of the Force, together they form a termite kingdom."

This condition is too difficult to achieve.

There are really more than 10,000 kingdoms in the Ten Thousand Kingdoms Continent established by the three major social insect races of the natural gods. 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 sluggish for a long time, and thought for a long time,

Mo Lan asked: "There are more than three thousand termite races recorded in the inherited memory. Which race is this?"

Long Bai: "It's completely unrecognizable. It should be that their ant king and queen were strengthened with God-given force food, and their body shape and color changed."

Long Bai solemnly said: "The termite kingdom also has a king. But these soldier ants and worker ants at the foot of the mountain came to the forest and worked independently without the command of the king and king. This shows that they are very intelligent."

Mo Lan agreed: "What a big brain! Much smarter than your worker ants and soldier ants!"

Long Bai's breath was stagnant and he said angrily: "It's not a matter of a big head and a small head. No matter how big the head is, it won't be so smart."

Mo Lan: "Their ant king and queen are mountain masters?"

Long Bai: "More than that!"

Is that the lord level?

Mo Lan became serious and a little scared, "Long Bai, retreat first?"

Long Bai: "Withdraw! Come back in the evening."