Chapter 681 Opening up the Blue Island
During the attack on Blue Island, Long Bai ordered the plants on the island to be set on fire.
During the capture of Blue Island and the siege of Bafangzhou, an army of 30 million ants and bees with earth-type abilities were launched to harden the land on the island.
Ishikari Blue Ant has no earth talent.
In this way, even if the siege of Happozhou is defeated, Blue Island will not be able to resume farming in a short period of time, which can effectively delay the recovery rate of the Ishikari Blue Ant Kingdom after the war.
After the war was won, this extreme approach became a troublesome problem for our own people.
After the war,
The United Kingdom of Boshuwan organized an army of five million ants and bees who were good at earth-based abilities. From north to south, they gradually lifted the solidification of the land and restored the soil.
The 20,000 square kilometers of land purchased by Chief Long Bai will be given priority.
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In the southern part of the southern hemisphere, in early spring when the ice and snow have not completely melted,
The beast turned into a thousand-meter ice ship, with its bottom fins and tail swinging to propel it through the waves.
Specialized blue soldiers marched in formation, following them to the left and right.
The black winged flying warrior Bai Liu hovered at low altitude to follow.
close to the coast,
The beast ice boat opened its mouth, and a stream of white air spurted out, freezing the sea near the coast.
The ice ship docks.
Heihua and Heiti commanded the specialized blue soldiers, worker ants, mountain ants, and blue ants to disembark from the ship and quickly cross the ice to land.
Gather at the coast, regroup and set off.
Juniper and Hongying lead 20,000 specialized blue soldiers at the forefront.
Heiti commanded a land reclamation team of 10,000 consisting of large and small worker ants, mountain ants, and blue ants to follow closely behind.
Cuibai and Heihua each led 10,000 specialized blue soldiers to accompany them.
The 50,000-strong land reclamation army crossed the mountains and arrived at the high-mountain camp where the Bo Shuwan coalition troops first attacked and landed on Blue Island.
There are ready-made temporary ant nests here.
The team settled in for a rest.
The beast transformed into a thirty-meter-long frost giant ant, carrying Long Bai and a group of princes to patrol the territory.
The northern end of the island is in a smooth U shape.
The 20,000 square kilometers of land purchased by Long Bai spans about 150 kilometers from north to south.
Inspecting the border southward,
To the south of the territory, a wide and straight ant road runs east-west. Every 1,000 meters there is a boundary monument with characters and patterns marking the territory on the north and south sides.
The 10,000 square kilometers of land in the north of the territory of the Hongdao Ant Kingdom was purchased by the Tricky Bearded Ant Clan, which belonged to the Indigo Ant King, one of the five leaders.
The giant ant transformed from the beast carried Long Bai and King Zuo and stood on the top of a snow-covered mountain peak, looking out from above.
Across the border, the treacherous bearded ants have planted a row of alder trees, and the saplings are more than one meter high.
"Heiti, Heihua, go back and plant cypress trees on the border. The boundaries between alder and cypress are clearly defined to prevent stupid worker ants or soldier ants from crossing the border."
Long Bai ordered and warned: "There is no limit to the variety of cypress trees. But please note that silver cypress trees cannot enter the southern hemisphere."
"OK."
"I understand. Your Majesty."
Heiti and Heihua agreed.
Long Bai continued: "On the continent ruled by the ants and bees, the wars between kingdoms are more often about pushing the border forward a hundred or two hundred meters. For a little bit of land, they fight back and forth, and they fight for a long time. For a long time, an endless blood feud formed, and then a war to destroy the country broke out."
"Now, we have too much territory to use up. Juniper, cypress, please be careful and don't cause trouble for me just for a little bit of land."
"No. Your Majesty."
"Your Majesty. No."
Green cypress and juniper agreed.
Juniper said solemnly: "Your Majesty, how are we going to deploy and patrol such a large area of territory? According to my estimate, 300,000 troops are not enough."
Can you still estimate? Long Bai said angrily: "If you don't cause trouble, who will hit you? There is no life seed to take root, and no wild god-given seed to take root. It is just an overseas enclave. If there are insects that intend to be detrimental to our Xianglan Mountain Ant Country, Would you be stupid enough to attack here first?”
"There is no need to guard or patrol. Bailiu occasionally flies up to the sky and uses his sunburn ability to take a look. If you are really attacked by another ant country or bee country, don't think too much and just run away."
"Okay, my lord~!"
The insects agreed.
"I have to run again~"
Juniper asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, what if you can beat me?"
"Use your brain!"
Long Bai was furious, waving his tentacles and lashing, "Why attack Blue Island? You will definitely force Hongdao to send troops to support. Either encircle the point and send reinforcements to weaken Hongdao's power; or attack east and west, aiming at Hongdao; or use both tactics. understand?"
"oh--"
"Understood, Your Majesty."
Juniper suddenly realized.
"In any case, if Blue Island is attacked, Rainbow Island will not provide support. If any of you are running slow and are surrounded, go and die yourself."
Long Bai warned sternly, changed the topic, and continued: "The place where the army is now stationed is named 'Wuyi Mountain', which serves as the main nest of the Blue Island territory. The combat legions are stationed in the main nest. Your main task is to protect and lead the ant colony. Black Ti and Black Birch at work.”
"Also, during the autumn harvest or winter every year, there may be some Zerg warriors who coexist with the ant and bee kingdoms, running around looking for God-given seeds in the mountains and forests. Bailiu can communicate with them and drive away the insects."
"If there are treacherous bearded ants from the south that cross the border, such as cypress, juniper, and rainbow cypress, you can lead your troops over and drive them away. Don't start a fight."
"The land on Blue Island was sold at a low price, and it was all bought by the insects with the strongest connections in the Boshuwan Alliance. To put it bluntly, behind the insects that settled on Blue Island were the leaders, deputy leaders, or the Fifth Army. The members of the elite team are all insects with connections.”
Cuibai: "...I understand."
Juniper retreated behind the giant ant, dodged it first, raised his claws and suggested: "Your Majesty, you train 10,000 specialized air soldiers, station them at the border, and conduct patrols in the air. Patrol once a day and watch for insect activity on the other side. , you won’t cross the line easily.”
This suggestion brings a little thought~
Long Bai clicked his tentacles and said: "Then add 10,000 more air troops."
Long Bai said: "This reclamation work will take about thirty years. Pay attention to sowing trees that are easy to survive and require little management and care. Just replace the old trees with new ones every fifty to eighty years."
"There is nothing to do on weekdays. The most important thing for you is to practice your abilities and condense as many divine patterns as possible."
The five princes agreed.
Hei Hua asked: "Your Majesty, don't we optimize the cultivation of top-level plants?"
Long Bai: "We won't do it on a large scale. If you are bored on weekdays, you can plant it for fun, but don't spend too much time and energy on it."
Long Bai put on a serious tone and said: "After the king level, for the growth and evolution of the mark realm, King Zuo also needs to understand the 'mark'. The three mark realm requires three ability divine patterns, and the nine mark realm requires nine divine patterns. Star. The Mark Realm is the most difficult, as you need to combine the learned ability patterns to build your own ability system."
"Prince Zuo's condensation of divine patterns is not as easy as that of plants with force. Plants have infinite lifespans, but Prince Zuo does not. You must plan early and be careful that one day in the future, your lifespan will be exhausted and you will die."
The five assistant kings and even Bai Liu became serious.
The lecture is over.
Long Bai said no more, waved his claws, and controlled the giant ant beast to set off, "Let's walk around first."
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Long Bai led King Zuo to inspect the border first, and planned to open five garrison nests on the border. In the future, each nest will station 2,000 air soldiers and 3,000 specialized blue soldiers.
Bailiu, who is flying at high altitude, habitually climbs into the sky, activates the sunburn ability to observe, and reports on vertical descent.
"Longbai Ant King, from the north, the Indigo Ant King and Zesheng Queen are coming. They also bring a large army of ants with them, and they also bring many spider silk bags, which look like... seeds?"
"Seeds? Bailiu, lead the way to the nearest border location and connect with them."
"This way——"
Bailiu leads the way.
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Queen Qingdai Ant and Queen Bee Sheng are organizing the land restoration and boundary demarcation work on Blue Island and have been on the island.
…
The two sides met on the border, on an open plain.
"Chief Longbai!"
"I've met the leader Long Bai!"
"I've met the leader of Qingdai."
"I met Chief Zesheng..."
Meet and greet for a while.
The Indigo Ant King turned around and pointed at the young lord-level ant king following behind him and introduced: "The junior ant of the Tricky Bearded Ant Tribe, Mountain Alder."
Mountain Alder immediately said: "Please take care of me, Chief Longbai! King Bailiuting, you princes, please take care of me!"
"Of course."
"Easy to say."
"Little Ant King..."
There was a brief exchange of pleasantries.
The Indigo Ant King said: "Chief Longbai, you used to live on a tropical island, and you must not have the seeds of cold temperate plants in the south. I arranged for Alder to help prepare a batch."
The alder waved its tentacles and gave orders.
A large group of worker ants came forward with medium-sized spider silk bags in their mouths.
There are thousands of bags, neatly stacked in the center of the border line.
The mountain alder ant king said: "There are about 500 kinds of medium and large trees, some of which are cultivated by the United Kingdom of Hashuwan; some are cultivated by Blue Island Ishikari blue ants; and some are high-quality cultivated tree species that we purchased from other kingdoms in the south."
Queen Bee Zesheng: "The territory of the Artificial Bearded Ant extends 70 kilometers to the south, covering about 20,000 square kilometers of land. It is divided to the east and west, and is the territory of the Forest Vespa and Black-ringed Vespa tribes respectively. We also plan to start reclamation this year, and we have prepared a lot of land. Seeds, by the way, I prepared a batch for Chief Long Bai."
After saying that, he swung his tentacles to give instructions, and a large swarm of bees landed on the ground carrying bags of spider silk.
There are three thousand medium-sized spider silk bags.
Queen Bee Zesheng added: "Chief Longbai, the ecology of Blue Island has been completely destroyed by us and turned into a deserted dead island. The natural ecology needs to be restored. I still have more than 7,000 planting seeds here that were preserved when we attacked the island. Each I have packed some of the seeds, mixed them and packed them into 2,000 bags. Chief Longcypress, you can take them over, find a suitable place, and scatter them as you like, no need to worry about it."
"As for the animal ecology of Blue Island and the subsequent plant recovery, we will migrate from nearby islands. It is planned to gradually return to the pre-war state within the next thirty years."
"Okay! Queen Zesheng took the trouble."
Long Bai simply expressed his thanks and asked symbolically: "Qingdai Ant King, Zesheng Queen Bee, how is the work going?"
Queen Bee Zesheng: "The land surveying and boundary demarcation work has been completed. Land restoration is quite troublesome. Only one-fifth of it has been completed, and it is planned to be fully restored in the next 10 years."
Long Bai asked again: "What about the work over there with the Scepter of the God of the Ocean?"
Zesheng Queen Bee: "The transformation was completed the year before last. The White Crystal Butterfly King and the Sickle Leaf Insect King are permanently stationed, and the Blood Vine Queen Bee temporarily leads the troops to garrison."
"Okay! I'll go over and take a look when I have time."
Long Bai changed the topic and asked: "Calculating the time, the next expedition year is not far away. How many insects in our Boshuwan Alliance have left the star realm?"
Zesheng Queen Bee: "I'm afraid not many. Everyone wants to try the Ocean God Scepter again."
The Indigo Ant King echoed: "The Silver Alder Ant King of our Crafty Bearded Ant Kingdom is too old and must leave."
"Where's the life-extending magic product?"
Long Bai asked with concern: "Have you eaten the divine white barberry fruit produced in Hongdao?"
Indigo Ant King: "I've eaten two. There's no need for the third one."
Long Bai: "Then there's nothing we can do..."
Long Bai changed his tone and said: "King Qingdai Ant, then please ask King Silver Ant to let me know and do me a small favor, or in other words, do a small test."
The Indigo Ant King was confused: "Quiz test?"
Long Bai explained: "I will take a god-given seed and put it in a metal box from an alien civilization. Please ask the Silver Alder Ant King to help test whether it can be taken away. If it can be taken away successfully, I will give it to you."
"oh--"
The Indigo Ant King immediately understood what Long Bai meant and readily agreed: "There is no need to ask the Silver Alder Ant King for his opinion. I will help you agree to this! No problem!"
Long Bai: "Okay!"
Turn on the chat mode, chatted for a while, and said goodbye.
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The beast turned into the shape of a centipede, and its back armor turned into an empty warehouse, filled with plant seeds suitable for sowing in the cold temperate zone of the southern hemisphere, and returned to Wuyi Mountain.
A dry warehouse was urgently opened for storage.
Long Bai also brought a large number of seeds into the Phytolacca space on his forehead, but they all came from the purple linden country.
Long Bai carefully observed and selected high-quality plantings that are available in Yunji and Wanglan Continent, totaling 100 species. The varieties are a little less, but the quantity is sufficient.
Have a night's rest,
The next day, Long Bai took Hei Ti and Hei Hua to personally design and direct the transformation and construction of the ant nest.
It took about twenty days,
When the nest chamber suitable for the giant-headed ants was completed, the ice and snow on the mountains and rivers of Landao melted, and the warm spring season entered.
Dragon cypress, black ti, black birch, and rainbow cypress command the worker ants and mountain ants to plow the land and create a nursery of three square kilometers in one go.
Sow seeds.
soon,
After experiencing the devastation of war, a new touch of green life was added to the desolate land that was black, red and yellow.
Planting is too slow.
Strong spring,
When the seedlings grow to a certain height, a group of strong ones are selected and dug out. The beasts turn into ice ships and carry them back to Hongdao and hand them over to Zhan Lan.
Zhanlan then uses 'bud culture technology' to cultivate large-scale seedlings. One batch is 200,000 seedlings. Before summer in the north, three batches of seedlings were urgently cultivated, transported by ice ship, and sent back to Blue Island for planting.
Keep a distance of 5 meters between trees, and 600,000 saplings will cover 15 square kilometers in one go.
This method is fast, but due to the snowfall in Blue Island in winter, the seedlings will be frozen to death if they do not have enough time to grow and develop.
It was late this year and we only had time to cultivate three batches.
If we plan early next year, we should have time to train six batches, but six batches is basically the limit, and there is no way to go more.
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Entering summer,
Heiti, Heihua, and Hongying led the ant colony to continue working, repairing rivers, digging pools and canals, and building reservoirs.
Improve various water conservancy engineering facilities in the territory.
Long Bai travels back and forth between Yue Island and Hong Island, and the beast turns into a thousand-meter ice ship, transporting rough stones one trip after another.
The United Kingdom of Bo Shuwan has gathered together again, and they have gathered a total of 3 billion. It is a huge amount, and they are very busy.
Transport it back to Hongdao and store it first. In the future, the orchid, juniper, and cedar will all eat pokeweed fruits. If there is space for pokeweed, it will not be too late to transfer them to Citi Mountain.
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Silver Cypress 206.
The divine product Yizhaoguo has arrived.
Successfully harvested the God-given seed of a crown cypress tree.
The top life seed of Dragon Cypress at the 5th instar evolved into the 6th instar, the god-given seed.
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Silver cypress 208 years old.
The various trees sown first bear fruit.
In the fall, harvest a large batch of seeds.
The total number of mountain ants and worker ants at work has reached nearly 20,000.
Long Bai, Tiao Juniper, Black Sophora japonica, and Rainbow Tea came to Blue Island to help.
Establish large-scale nurseries, plant seedlings, select seedlings, and transplant them.
Zhanlan uses sprout cultivation technology to help cultivate 1.2 million seedlings every spring.
A two-pronged approach can add 100 square kilometers of forest land every year.
More than 600 preferred plantings, mixed planting in a planned manner.
all land,
50% is cultivated forest land.
50% is reserved as natural ecological woodland.
In the natural ecological woodland, some seeds are collected every summer and autumn, and then sown in the spring. No need to pay more attention.
Centered on the main nest of Wuyi Mountain, green plants are rapidly expanding at a rate of over 200 square kilometers per year.
north,
The territory of the mountain alder ant king is also bustling with activity.
It has the help of four ant kings from the same clan of the Tricky Bearded Ant tribe, 17 assistant kings, and 200,000 worker ants working together.
Their division of labor is clear,
One ant king is in the center, starting in the middle.
The other four ant kings sow seeds from the outside inward, cultivating greenery from the east, south, west and north directions towards the center.
Ants are powerful when they are numerous, and the territory of the alder ant king changes its appearance every year.
In just a few years, the border with Longbai territory has turned into a lush green forest, with no edges visible at a glance.
Longbai had to keep up and greened the border first.
The treacherous bearded ant also introduces various insects, birds, animals and other creatures from nearby islands.
These animals that maintain ecological balance naturally flow into the territory of the dragon cypress.
The lifeless earth began to chirp with insects and birds.
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Silver cypress 212 years old.
The total number of mountain ants, worker ants, and green ants working under Long Bai's command is nearly 30,000.
Seeing that the territory of the treacherous bearded ants next door is almost developed,
Long Bai activated his money power and spent 100 million raw stones to ask the treacherous bearded ants to help cultivate saplings.
Each spring, finished seedlings of various trees are delivered to the border.
Juniper and emerald cypress also moved to take charge of picking up and delivering goods, while other kings directed the ant colony to transplant.
It’s still easy to use raw stone, which is much more powerful than Zhanlan’s ‘bud cultivation technology’.
On the Longcypress side, greening is expanding at a rapid rate, reaching 1,000 square kilometers per year.
At the same time, in other parts of Blue Island, corresponding ant tribes and bee tribes gradually settled in and started reclamation work.
The entire island has entered a state of thriving development.
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Silver cypress 213 years,
Spring is the time when flowers are blooming.
The two kings arrived on time to inspect the work and patrol the territory.
The red electric light shines,
The two kings landed in front of Long Bai, who was leading the ant colony to work.
——Your Majesty, good news! God-given seeds of Cypress macrocarpa!
——The first god-given seed we harvested in the Blue Island territory!
——No more, no less, just enough to pay off the debt of Citigroup Hill. (End of chapter)