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Chapter 238 Soul Beast Ant Breeding Industry

The development of industry is a systematic process. It is impossible to complete industrialization solely by relying on a certain group of people or a certain region. To give the simplest example, take steelmaking, without a powerful soul guide like an element separator.

Help, if you want to improve the efficiency of industrialization, the first thing to do is to process iron ore.

Different grades of iron ore have completely different processing difficulties. Finding the minerals you need is definitely not something that can be done in a small area. It is conceivable that the raw materials and manpower required for a complete industrial system will be

What scale.

Xinhuo Camp is said to be an industrial force, but in fact it is just a super large workshop with tens of thousands of people. It is still far away from completing industrialization. However, the existence of cheats such as soul guides, yes, the industrialization system has not been completed yet.

For the time being, industrial products that are barely qualified have been produced.

The industrial system of Aolai Country cannot be limited to such large workshops in the future, so more industrial population is necessary. The immigrants needed are not only adults, but also more children. Children are the easiest to accept new technologies.

They are also the easiest to educate, and they can understand various advanced concepts more easily than adults.

As this group of children grow up, Lan Nuo is no longer just a few people driving the development of science and technology. However, these are all things for later, and a complete industrial system is still far away from being established.

Lan Nuo focused more of his attention on Dugu Bo's medicinal garden. This time he returned to Douluo. In addition to opening up routes, another important purpose was to see the progress of the plan to mass-produce jelly grass tried here.

How's it going?

He had already made plans before. If he wanted to mass-produce fairy grass, he would first need to breed soul beasts on a large scale. The soul beasts Lan Nuo was interested in were ants. These soul beasts lived in groups, so they reproduced very quickly.

However, in a normal colony, only the queen ant is considered a soul beast. Although other ants can use soul power, they will not have soul rings after being killed, and they can hardly swallow soul power if they use their devouring ability.

But this does not mean that these ants have no possibility of becoming soul beasts. After all, there are powerful diamond ants in the original work. The three 90,000-year-old soul beasts are all in the shape of worker ants or soldier ants, not queen ants.

From the shape of the ant, we can see from this that it is possible for these ants to become spirit beasts independently without the control of the queen ant.

Experiments have proven that as long as the queen ants are killed and these ants are cultivated independently for a period of time, they will transform into independent soul beasts, and their life image will change from a true social animal to more like other carnivorous insects.

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This phenomenon is very similar to that of bees, which are also eusocial animals. The worker bees responsible for collecting honey are actually the same as their queens, but because they only drank ordinary honey when they were young, the queen drank royal jelly.

, causing them to eventually grow into completely different forms.

When the queen bee dies, the eggs that would have grown into worker bees can also be transformed into new queen bees. These ants seem to be the same, but their method of continuing the life of the population is different from that of bees.

But this means that large-scale breeding and training of soul beasts has become possible. It is difficult to find any soul beasts that can react faster than these ants. And even if they grow to a hundred years, it is almost impossible to have wisdom. This

This means that breeding them basically does not require too much psychological pressure.

It's like raising cows and dogs. If you kill yourself and eat the meat, you will feel a certain amount of guilt. But if you raise chickens and fish, even if you raise them by yourself, you won't feel too much guilt when you eat meat after you raise them.

Feeling guilty, these things basically have no intelligence. In layman's terms, they are not well-raised, so it will be difficult for the people who raise them to have empathy with them.

It is impossible for Lan Nuo to personally cultivate these ants all the time, so the psychological endurance of the executors must be taken into consideration. Fortunately, these ants basically only followed instinctive actions thousands of years ago. The psychological pressure required to raise and slaughter them is even worse than

Kill the chicken.

At present, the cultivation method of these ants is very mature. The first thing is to find the queen ant and provide enough feed. Soon a new ant nest will be established. These ant tides are not built on the ground, but on the ground.

In each concrete pool with a volume of about 3m3, people would put organic feed in the pool from time to time.

Generally, plant straw is mixed with a small amount of plant seeds, which are the so-called grass seeds in large-scale agricultural planting. Sometimes the grain in the fields does not grow well and is covered by weeds. Farmers can choose to harvest grass seeds to make up for some of the loss.

Loss, these things are more suitable as feed than pure weeds.

Although ants can eat meat, anyone who has learned a little bit about biology knows that the efficiency of energy transfer is greatly reduced if meat is used to raise animals. At each level of the food chain, the energy transfer efficiency is only 10 to 2%.

ten.

In about fifteen days, the number of ants in this nest will reach about 5,000. At this time, it is time to prepare to kill the queen and move the worker ants and soldier ants.

Because if this amount is exceeded, the ants will start to swarm. Is this a normal phenomenon in nature? The natural resources in an area are limited. If the ant colony continues to expand, then the surrounding natural resources will become richer, and the natural resources around it will also increase.

Not enough for them to consume.

It is quite painful to encounter this situation when raising in captivity. These ants cannot leave the 3m3 concrete grid, which means that after they are divided into groups, they can still only stay in a box. If they are not killed in time,

If the dead queen moves the ants, the two separate waves of ants will begin to fight. In this case, these ants will become very aggressive, which is very dangerous for the breeders.

Lan Nuo considered that large-scale breeding in the future would require a large number of ordinary people to enter the pasture. He chose ants with a very docile personality. However, no matter how docile they were, they would be very ferocious if they got into a fight. These are spirit beasts after all, even if they are just ants.

The ten-year soul beast is no less of a threat to ordinary people than meeting a lone wolf in the wild.

In order to prevent ants from killing each other in a limited area and protect the safety of the keepers, it is very necessary to remove the queen ants regularly.

As for the transferred ants, ants with different functions are always separated and placed in breeding boxes of different specifications.

There are not only worker ants and soldier ants. The division of labor of this kind of ants is very detailed. Some ants are responsible for growing mushrooms, some are responsible for raising aphids, some are responsible for distributing food, and some are dedicated to conveying orders. If not, there are people who have professional research on this.

It's hard to tell the difference between them.

The different characteristics of these ants determine that they need breeding boxes of different specifications. Just like soldier ants, after being out of control, they become independent individual soul beasts, and their size expands the fastest.

Grain

Generally, within three days, the body will double in length and become the size of a thumb. Within a week, it will basically grow to be about the same size as the palm of the hand, and within a month, it will reach its maximum size under normal circumstances, and its body length will be as small as that of a human.

The arms are comparable, and the front claws have huge destructive power. They must be restrained in a steel cage, otherwise they will hurt the keepers even if they cannot escape.

These big guys are the hardest to raise, not only because of their aggressiveness, but also because they eat slowly. Although their front claws are huge and powerful, the structure of that thing is different from that of a human mouth. When eating,

It's actually very annoying when I'm carrying stuff.

It's like a big clamp is installed on your mouth. When you open your mouth, the clamp will open, and the monk's mouth clamp will bite the enemy. If you have a strong bite force, then this is a cruel weapon, but

When you want to eat, you will find that you have to wrap your hands around the clamp. It takes a lot of effort to bring the food to your mouth.

Therefore, these soldier ants usually spend more than six hours a day eating, not because they can eat, but because they eat too slowly. Artificial feeding is unrealistic, and they are the most aggressive as soldier ants.

Yes, if you dare to reach out and put food to their mouths, just wait until your hands are pinched off.

And eating less means to a large extent that the cultivation level is slowly improving, and the speed of the soul beast's cultivation level is not constant. Otherwise, could Di Tian really have lived for nine hundred thousand years?

If he can really live for so long, he is really lucky and has not been killed by the earth's nature. If we extend the history to a million years, we will find that earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are as frequent as those of our great aunt.

Same.

Maybe the planet under your feet will give you some trouble, especially a planet like Douluo Continent with extremely violent geological activities. Two continents separated by more than 300 kilometers can collide in 10,000 years.

If Di Tian had really lived for nearly a million years without encountering a mass extinction like the Siberian Traps, that would be a blessing.

All in all, it is impossible for those super soul beasts that are hundreds of thousands of years old to really live for hundreds of thousands of years. In such a long history, even if they do not encounter any natural disasters, the biggest problem may cause them to self-destruct.

That means you are tired of living.

It sounds outrageous to say that you are tired of living, but imagine a world without computers, mobile phones, movies, games, novels, potato chips, happy water, or even friends to play with.

, what is the concept of living alone for a million years? If these soul beasts are not crazy, their thinking structure is probably very different from humans.

As for how old the soul beasts are, Lan Nuo doesn't have an accurate number yet, because most of these soul beasts can't count when they are young. He tried asking Blue Lightning Dragon King how old he was, but he himself

I don’t know, I just know that it has been a long, long time since I was born.

I guess most spirit beasts have no idea how old they are. After all, in the Star Forest with a tropical climate, the four seasons are very unclear. Maybe many spirit beasts there don't even have a concept of age. When I remember, I'll figure it out.

Now that I know what a year is, I no longer know how many years have passed. If I want to figure out how old I am, I simply can’t do it.

The Blue Lightning Dragon King only roughly calculated that it was about a thousand years from when he became more conscious to the present. As for before that, he felt that he had lived an extremely long time, but if he recalled it carefully, he did not rule out that there was no time at that time. Concept, the possibility of living like a year.

Lan Nuo felt that the Douluo people might have greatly misjudged the classification of soul beasts.

Perhaps the classifications of ten-year soul beasts, hundred-year soul beasts, and thousand-year soul beasts are not too wrong, because these are things that can be observed in human history, but the classification from ten thousand-year soul beasts onwards may start to be more outrageous. Already.

Since the color of the soul ring would change with each additional digit in the previous year, they developed inertial thinking, thinking that those who can produce black soul rings must have lived for more than 10,000 years, and those who can produce red soul rings must have lived for 10 years. More than ten thousand years.

But this is just a conjecture. No one has proven this in practice. After all, no one can live for 10,000 years, and the entire human civilization has not yet reached 10,000 years.

Lan Nuo's own experiments showed that the age of a soul beast is affected by its living environment, and the two most significant factors are the concentration of extraordinary power and the abundance of food.

The former is easy to understand. The ability of the Ice and Fire Eyes to increase the speed of cultivation is the best example.

As for the latter, almost all soul beasts will eat uncontrollably, and will continue to eat even after they are full, which may even cause some soul beasts to eat themselves to death. This can be regarded as side proof of the role of food in cultivation. , and in a relatively rigorous controlled experiment, two soul beasts of the same size and age, with basically the same health status, showed significant differences in the rate of improvement in their cultivation years under different dietary conditions.

The difference in the speed of cultivation improvement between a soul beast that always ensures a supply of nutrients and a soul beast that keeps feeding after it is full, just to ensure that it is not exhausted to death, is almost 300%. This is only the data of some soul beasts. For some scavengers with particularly strong digestive abilities, this improvement rate can even reach over 500%.

Therefore, the soldier ants who do not eat well have become negative examples, and as positive representatives, they are also those male ants who only know how to eat and mate. Their cultivation level improves very quickly, but they happen to lack combat power. They are more suitable to be killed. Extract it to make an experience package.

After Lan Nuo came to the Eye of Ice and Fire, he subconsciously maintained the form of Dr. Zombie King. Although it was only a superficial transformation and did not have the same bug ability as Big Big Wolf, but with his greatly improved intelligence, he wanted to understand the entire situation. The ant farming system is relatively easy.

These ants are then put into a portable breeding box. After raising, some of the worker ants will be transferred to another new box with the queen's eggs to start a new round of reproduction.

From the entire breeding process, each round needs to go through similar steps. The estimated time for a qualified century-old soul beast to be released is one year and six months, which is only slightly longer than that of raising pigs. In addition, One ant nest can produce almost a thousand qualified products. This production efficiency is already exaggerated.

[To be continued]

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