Xiaohong is a 5-ring burrowing army ant and the queen.
Since she is an ant queen, she naturally needs to build a nest to establish her own ant colony, and Beverly Manor is obviously not a suitable place to build a nest.
"Let's put it on...Duke James' farm." Duke finally decided on the location.
"But before Xiaohong builds a nest, I have to carry out necessary training for it so that it will not harm humans and determine its foraging range. Otherwise, it will be the biggest threat to the farm."
After all, Xiaohong is not an individual.
If it is an independent individual, Duke can take it with him and restrain its inappropriate behavior at any time. But as the queen, the ant colony established by Xiao Hong can only be restrained by Xiao Hong and is not controlled by Duke.
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"Fortunately, it will take another year or two for Xiaohong to truly mature and be able to get married and have children." Duke was able to deduce the time when Xiaohong's body matured through his understanding of the burrowing army ants.
"Before that, I have to find an opportunity to learn some Gu control techniques..."
Organize your thoughts.
He just went back to bed to sleep.
In the next two days, Duke went to work normally. Because the office was on the same floor, he could occasionally meet with Kilia Furious Wave.
The two just smiled and said hello to each other, without any further communication.
"How can a mere beauty mess with my heart?" He walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the north of the office and looked at a construction site in the distance.
There is even a telescope specially prepared.
Pick up the telescope and inspect the construction site carefully.
You can see countless puppets, either driven by people or controlled by people, working intensively to build factories.
This is the factory of the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company.
"It's very good. At this speed, by the end of May, the factory will be officially put into operation and mass-produce portable lamps." Money can make all the difference. As long as you are willing to pay the golden dragon and invest in more puppets, the factory can be put into production in two months.
.
Dangdangdang.
Mulali walked in: "Sir, Mr. Shanfeisi is here to visit."
"Is Shanfeis here?" Duke was surprised, "Please come in."
"Hey, Duke, you didn't expect that I'm here to see you." Shanfeis shouted as soon as he walked in, "You are such a lucky boy, you live on the same floor as the beautiful girl of heaven.
Every night I dream, it’s all about her!”
It is normal for Shanfeisi, who has made it his life-long goal to live a soft life, to miss Kiriya Furious Waves.
Duke squinted his eyes. In fact, in the past two days, he had occasionally dreamed of Kylia and participated in some unspeakable scenes.
A graceful lady, a gentleman is a good man.
This is human nature.
"Why are you here? Have you chosen a new mage tower?" Duke asked, putting aside some distracting thoughts in his mind.
"I have no clue. I studied card making for two years and suddenly gave up. I really don't know what new direction to choose." Shanfeisi said, putting the things in his hands on the table, "You asked me to evaluate it for you.
I have already reviewed the portable light."
"Oh, how about it?"
"It is better than the Lingfeng lamp, more convenient to carry, and the lighting effect is better. I also took a walk at night, and it is much better than the Lingfeng lamp in terms of lighting the road. I believe that after producing this, I will definitely not worry about sales.
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"Your evaluation greatly increases my confidence."
"Hey, let's not talk about it anymore, how about Kiriya?" Shanfeis just used the portable lamp as a guide, but his attention was entirely on the beauty.
"How about what?"
"Appearance, personality, figure..."
Seeing the piggy look on Shanfeisi's face, Duke felt a little disgusted for some reason. He didn't feel this way before when he helped Shanfeis arrange a date with Joanna Bobcat.
"Maybe...it's possessiveness." Duke thought in his mind.
On the surface, he said calmly: "Sanfisi, it's useless to ask about this. You can't control a lady like Kylia at all."
"How do you know I can't grasp it!"
"Judgment based on my many years of life experience."
Shanfeisi sneered: "You are only seventeen years old. What life experience do you have? There are endless stories about rich girls and poor boys. How do you know you are not talking about me?"
"Because Kiria has eyes."
"What if she goes blind!"
"Then I have nothing to say." Duke resisted the urge to roll his eyes, feeling that Shanfeis was hopeless.
Shanfisi stared at Duke carefully, and after a while he suddenly realized: "I understand, no wonder you are so rude today. It turns out that you are just like me, and you have intentions for Kiriya... I'm just saying, you
Your ambition is no less than mine."
Duke was noncommittal.
Shanfeis stared at Duke angrily at first, and then withered as if a balloon had been popped. He sighed and said: "Compared to me, except that you are a little younger, you are indeed better than me in every aspect, especially
Your looks have the potential to be a pretty girl."
"Although it's not a nice thing to say, after all, you still have a certain degree of self-awareness." Duke gave Shanfeisi a middle finger.
"Forget it, brother, I won't fight with you anymore, Kiriya is yours!" Shanfeisi made the decision, and he felt relaxed all of a sudden.
Duke said: "Kilia is not anyone's, she is herself. I just miss her a little bit, but not much. At this stage, practicing and making money are more important than falling in love, but we can't
Reverse priorities."
"This is the idea of a genius arcane mage like you. For me, finding a good woman to start a family and start a business is the most important thing."
"Is the spiritual arcana no longer fragrant?"
"Forget it, I'm too lazy to say it. I'm leaving and I will never come to this sad place again." Shanfeisi left lightly.
Come when you want and leave when you want.
At this moment, Duke felt that Shanfeis lived a pretty free and easy life, a bit like him in his previous life, eating and playing whenever he wanted.
But he has had enough fun on Earth, and now Duke just wants to find another way to realize his self-worth in this magnificent extraordinary world.
……
"After you go back, study more about Arcane Shield. This is your wonder. Combined with the structure of the wonder, it will help you make Arcane Shield cards more intuitively."
"Yes, mentor."
After returning from class in Penrose's office, Duke applied for a batch of blank spiritual cards and a batch of special spiritual materials, and returned to his office to study them carefully.
"Xiaoyi, have you summarized everything the instructor said?"
"Yes, Master."
"Then let's get started and try to make the Arcane Shield Spirit Card as soon as possible." Duke began to work, first of all to prepare the spiritual materials.
The spell model of the arcane card cannot be drawn and engraved by psychic energy alone.
The spirituality and spiritual energy of special spiritual materials must be blended to form spiritual power with special attributes to draw energy lines.
The operation is more than ten times more complicated than that of a civilian card.
He and Xiaoyi needed a lot of exploration to sum up the successful experience of making arcane cards. Every spiritual card that is melted after failure will provide a little experience.
"Failure!"
"Come again!"
"Master, I recommend that you use the blackhorn goat's beard solution, mix the spiritual energy at a ratio of 1:3, and extract the goat's beard spiritual power to draw energy lines."
"No problem."
Duke directly used a psychic pen to absorb a little goat's whisker solution, and then poured his own psychic energy into the psychic pen to form a new spiritual power - goat's whisker spiritual power.
Then insert the psychic pen deep into the ring pressure device and draw a new energy line along the trajectory of the previous energy line.
The ring pressing instrument works, pressing the energy line into the card core position and integrating it with the previous energy line.
"It didn't crash. It's beautiful. We have achieved another step." Duke smiled with satisfaction, "Hurry up and analyze the success factors, and then we will move on to the next step."
Fail again and again, succeed little by little.
Duke had forgotten the existence of time until the assistant knocked on the door and came in: "Boss, Malotav Sage Mage Tower, a package sent to you."
"Help me open it." Duke is drawing a new spiritual card.
"Okay." Mulali quickly opened the package. Inside was a sample magazine and a letter, "Sir, the latest issue of "Runwu City Lingka" sample magazine, and a letter addressed to you.
Letter, your paper has been published!"
Pfft.
A wisp of white smoke came out of the spiritual card in the ring pressure device. Duke's expression remained calm, he clapped his hands and took the letter.
The letter is a uniformly formatted thank you letter, in the name of the editorial office, thanking Duke for submitting the paper.
However, looking at the words of thanks above, Duke's frustration at the failure to produce the card suddenly improved: "It took more than a month and it was finally released."
He put down the thank you letter and flipped through the latest sample issue of "Runwu City Lingka".
I found the location of my paper on the contents page. It was in the middle of the Express section, neither very far forward nor very far behind.
"It's not a paper, it's just a report..." Duke felt a little regretful.
Generally speaking, academic journals such as "Runwucheng Lingka" do not publish the full text of every reviewed paper, but only excerpt a part. Such excerpts fall into the category of express papers. Only those that are influential enough
The full text of the paper will be published.
After thinking about it carefully, Duke felt relieved. His paper had nothing new, it just had some practical value for reference.
Follow the table of contents index and turn to the corresponding page.
"Analysis of practical spiritual materials for novel spiritual beasts in Cuihai Valley", correspondence, author - Duke, address - Master Penrose Tower.
There are two pages of content, front and back, excerpting the main content of the paper, as well as the important experimental data on spiritual materials.
At the end of the article, a small note was attached: "This article has been collected in the Faling Tower of Runwu City and the Faling Tower of Shenjiao City. The author is Master Penrose Tower of Shenjiao City - an Austrian law scholar based in the tower, and Master Penrose Tower Newsletter
The address is as follows..."
After reading the content, Duke closed the sample journal and handed it to Mulali: "Put it on my bookshelf and leave it in a separate row."
"I understand, sir, this is the first paper you have published, sir, and it has great commemorative significance."
"It's just a casually written paper, not worth mentioning." Duke said modestly, then suddenly changed the topic and asked, "Did Master Tower subscribe to the journal "Runwu City Lingka"?"
"Subscribed."
"Well, now that this issue has been released, you can go to the Magic Spirit Pagoda to order a few copies and send them to your tutor, assistants, and arcane mages for their review."
"Yeah!" Mulali nodded solemnly.
Even if Duke didn't order such an honorable thing, she would still publicize it widely so that Duke's colleagues would take a good look at it.
Especially give a copy to Kylia Furious Waves.
Let the other party understand that your husband is also a proud man of heaven. He can be promoted quickly in practice, cast arcane spells quickly, learn card making quickly, and publish papers equally quickly.
Do anything quickly!
"Ms. Kiliya and Mr. Kiliya are like a perfect match, but their personal relationship is a bit dull, so I have to help sort it out."
"Ms. Kiliya is so approachable. If she can become Mr.'s wife, I, as Mr.'s lover, should have a very good life... Hehe, I really look forward to that day... But Mr. is really a stickler.
Well, the method my aunt taught me didn’t work!"
Pat.
I got a chestnut on my head.
Duke frowned and looked at the assistant: "What are you thinking? I asked you to put the journal away, why don't you put it away?"
"Oh, I'll go right away." Mulali secretly stuck out her tongue and ran away quickly.
Duke looked at her frizzy look and couldn't help but laugh: "A little girl from a noble family has never experienced hardship, so she is not steady enough in her work... But it is enough to be pleasing to the eye."
A sixteen-year-old girl, her figure has developed very well recently.
The little butt twists and turns, quite attractive.
Withdrawing his gaze, Duke put aside his distracting thoughts and continued to devote himself to the experiment of making arcane shield spirit cards, concentrating on it.
……
"Ms. Kiliya, my husband recently published a paper and asked me to give it to you to taste." Mulali placed the brand new "Runwu City Ling Card" on the table.
Along with it, there is also a printed copy of the entire thesis.
Kiriya smiled gently and said: "Congratulations Duke, you published the paper so quickly. I will definitely read and study it carefully."
"Then I won't disturb you. Goodbye."
After Murali left, Kiriya's assistant, a middle-aged woman, chuckled and said: "Miss, it's really amazing that Duke Duke can publish a paper at such a young age."
"Yeah."
"I have inquired that his exclusive meditation method has nine kinds of visions, and it has been reorganized a long time ago, and he has also understood the vine of protection and mystery."
"Speaking of this, I really admire him for having such a good understanding." Kiriya frowned slightly, "I have been playing in the Union Tower since I was a child. So far, I have not been able to understand the Vine of Guardian Mystery, and the meditation method is only
I realized two visions."
"When Miss, you reorganize your exclusive meditation method, you will have six kinds of visions, which is already very good." The assistant said.
"It's just six kinds. It's better than the best, but it's better than the worst."
"Miss, I have watched you grow up since childhood. The adults in the family say that your talent is most like that of my father, and my father is best at accumulating things. Miss, you will also be able to accumulate things and make things happen." The assistant said with a smile, "The gains and losses of the moment are not counted.
What."
"I'm not discouraged, Aunt Gis." Kiliya responded, "I have always been praised by others since I was a child. Now that I have someone to chase, I am very happy."
"Yes, this Lord Duke, like that Lidman mentor, are true scholars who sincerely study the spiritual arcana, and will definitely achieve something. Unlike other people, who are too eager to follow others, especially those who
A Vikas mentor."
"Assistant Vikas is a little too enthusiastic, but if you can grasp the limits, you can get some convenience in all aspects with him."
"Miss, you are so smart and can understand everything." Assistant Jisi said, "I feel relieved and can concentrate on taking care of your daily life."
Kiriya then looked at the "Runwu City Spirit Card" on the table.
Turning to the middle, I found Duke's paper, and then opened the newly printed full paper with the smell of ink.
A thirteen-page paper is not very long.
After a while, Kiliya finished reading, put down the paper, held her cheek with one hand, and looked at the scenery outside the window, thinking: "The paper is a bit boring, and the words are meticulous, very much like Duke.
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More than a week has passed since she came to Master Penrose Tower to study.
Apart from eating and meeting Duke every day after get off work, I don't see Duke at all, either in the office or in the laboratory.
"I am really obsessed with spiritual arcana."
She was so emotional.
However, Duke, the object of emotion, did not stay in the Mage Tower today to indulge in spiritual arcana. Instead, he went to the Duke-James Farm.
"Boss James, you've been visiting Sheshou Town a lot lately. What's going on there? Are the mercenaries still crowded in the town?"
"Isn't it? The streets are in chaos. If the Black Jade Horseshoe Crab is not hunted for a day, the Cuihai Valley will not be able to recover for a day. All fifteen safe camps have been abandoned. Alas, we will have to reopen safe camps at some point.
."
James sighed a little.
He also plans to use Duke's reputation to flex his muscles in the future Cuihai Town and become a farm tycoon.
Now it seems that the establishment of Cuihai Town seems to be far away.
"Hunting the Black Jade Horseshoe Crab Dragon is not easy, you should focus on this for now."
"That's all."
"How is the growth of Jade Dew?" Duke walked in the farm greenhouse, and Xiaoyi hung up the mobile phone to breathe, and had a clear view of the surrounding situation.
But you still have to ask.
James replied: "The situation is very good. There are already the first batch of Yulu, which have been infected by Ji Yulu and become 0-ring spiritual plants. I plan to use Ji Yulu as the center of the circle and divide it into three areas outwards. The outer layer only needs to evolve to 0-ring.
Just sell it. If the middle layer evolves to level 0 and can sort out the aura, sell it. If the inner layer evolves to level 1, sell it."
He pointed to the greenhouse where Ji Yulu was planted: "As for the Yulu in this greenhouse, I don't plan to sell it. I plan to raise them. If they can be raised to level 2, it will also be of great help to the evolution of Ji Yulu itself."<
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"Well, this is a good plan." Duke agreed.
Then he talked about his purpose: "Look at the western boundary of the farm and plan a piece of land to build a breeding greenhouse. I plan to raise a group of ants here."
"Raising ants?"
"Burrowing Army Ants, I recently contracted a Queen of Burrowing Army Ants to tame the ant colony in the way of controlling Gu."
"Um, sir, can these ants bite people?" James' body shook slightly, "burrowing army ants are very dangerous existences. If they go crazy, all the workers on our farm combined won't have enough to eat.
."
He has experienced the insect invasion in Sheshou Town, and has seen many farmers being swallowed up by the ant colonies, with not even the dregs left.
"I won't take the safety of the workers as a joke. I will tame the queen ants in advance and put them here to breed. Then you can comfort the workers and give them some extra wages." Duke said, "You just have to plan the place.
Yes, I will arrange for someone to build the breeding greenhouse."
Burrowing army ants live underground, and Duke will dig an underground breeding area and then personally come to train the ant colony.
"I understand. I will plan the breeding greenhouse according to your instructions." James responded.
While they were chatting, a group of knights came galloping in the distance.
Duke looked over.
James immediately said: "It's Captain Vivian, training your knight escort, as if practicing some kind of combined attack formation."
"I know."
This was Duke's idea.
After the last insect invasion, Vivian served as the captain of the Knight Guard, but failed to protect Duke, so she asked to go to get off work with Duke every day.
Duke didn't agree. He came to Penrose Wizard Tower to work, not to perform.
However, Vivian insisted strongly and did not want to live in the villa and eat and drink for free. Unable to overcome her stubbornness, Duke asked her to go with him during the day, but the destination was arranged to be Duke James Farm, where knight training would be conducted. Once something happens, you can rush to the mage tower for protection as soon as possible.
"Sir!" Vivian led the team to fly over. She had already seen Duke.
Behind her were five great knights, all of whom she had recently recruited, three men and two women, who had been carefully screened to stay.
Not every great knight has the opportunity to protect an arcane mage.
"Thank you for your hard work. Vivian will follow me, and the others will continue training." Duke motioned to Vivian to stay and inspect the farm with him.
Take a round of inspection.
Duke declined James's dinner invitation, took Vivian with him, and took a shuttle to another of his properties - the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company.
"Mr. Duke, this is the latest concept portable lamp." Vuillard glanced at his daughter standing behind Duke, and then concentrated on explaining the latest product of the company's R&D department, "After incorporating the built-in spirit storage card,
If costs cannot be reduced, we can only take the high-end route."
Duke motioned to his entourage to pick up a few portable lamps, preparing to find an opportunity to give them away to advertise the portable lamps.
Assistant Mulali also got a portable lamp: "It's so beautiful, sir."
Viard glanced at Mulali again. Compared with his daughter, who seemed rigid, this Duke's personal assistant was lively, cute and much more lovable.
This made him feel a little sad.
I can only think on the bright side: "Vivian's down-to-earth personality is more reassuring and her figure is better. Perhaps these are more attractive to Mr. Duke."
Take care.
He continued to listen to Duke's speech. Duke, who had said that he was not involved in the company's operations, had many opinions: "Don't just focus on portable lights. I think that in the early stage, if the company wants to open the market as soon as possible, it must start with big customers, such as Xibidi Ling."
Mining company."
"Do you mean to sell miner's lamps and headlamps to Xibit Ling Mining Company?"
"Yes, the miner's lamps and headlamps we designed have very obvious advantages for underground operations. The buyers in Xibiti are not fools and know how to choose."
"I asked the R&D department to produce different designed lamps as soon as possible, and then arranged for people to sell them to major organizations."
"Send me a few copies of your headlamps and miner's lamps, and I'll sell them directly to Lord Erwin," Duke said.
The chief director of the Erudite Tower and the director of the Xibidi Spirit Mine Company, Master Erwin of the Earth, had recruited him twice.
Although Duke does not intend to change his family, since the other party favors him so much, it is not a friendly response to sell his products to him.
"Although I don't work under you, I am still carrying forward the study of natural history." Duke thought in his mind, "As a senior in natural history, I would like to help the juniors, which is what the title says. To purchase a batch of miner's lamps, how about headlamps?
Not meeting the occasion?"
Upon hearing the name of Erwin, the Archmage of the Earth, Viall immediately exclaimed: "If the lamp can be presented on Lord Erwin's desk, the reputation of the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company will surely rise and become a household name!
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To put it bluntly, if there is a live broadcast with goods here, Erwin will definitely be top-notch.
The public may not have heard of the name Christian Raging Waves, but they definitely know who Erwin of the Erudite Tower is.
If any spiritual weapon is listed as "recommended by Lord Erwin", people will make a mindless choice.
Duke then warned: "If you want to include Lord Erwin in the publicity plan, you must first submit it to me for review and I will give my permission before publicizing it."
"Mr. Duke, please rest assured that this matter involves a great arcane mage, and we will never dare to mess around." Viall said cautiously.
"In short, I will do my part in publicity and help the company get on the right track as soon as possible, but you must ensure the quality of the products and don't embarrass me." What Duke wants is to become bigger and stronger, not to make quick success.
Just one stroke and run away.
Viall solemnly guarantees that product quality will be the first priority.
Duke then left with satisfaction.
On the way back to the mage tower in the shuttle, he said to Vivian: "In the future, the guard knights can make an extra trip to the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company to help guard the place and prevent young people from coming over.
To cause destruction."
Business competition is often plain and simple.
Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory, which has already monopolized the city's spiritual weapon market, may not be willing to see the rise of the giant of light, even if it only produces a single lamp.
It's perfectly normal to send people over to cause some damage.