Douluo starts with pea shooter

Chapter 232 Soul Beast Ant Breeding Industry

The development of industry is a systematic process, relying solely on a certain group of people, or a certain region cannot complete industrialization To give a simple example, such as steelmaking, if there is no such powerful soul guide as an element separator Help, if you want to improve the efficiency of industrialization, the first thing you need to do is to beneficiate the iron ore.

The difficulty of processing iron ore of different grades is also very different, and it is definitely not possible to find the minerals you need in a small area. It is conceivable that the raw materials and manpower required for a complete industrial system will be what scale.

Xinhuoying said it was the power of industry, but in fact it was just a super large workshop with tens of thousands of people, and it was still far away from the completion of industrialization. It was just that the existence of soul guides, yes, had not yet completed the industrialization system.For the time being, barely qualified industrial products have been produced.

It is impossible for Aolai country's industrial system to 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 ideas. Things are also the easiest to receive education, they can understand various advanced concepts more easily than adults.

With the growth of this group of children, Lan Nuo is no longer a few lonely people who promote the development of technology, but these are all things to say, and a complete industrial system is still far away from being established.

Lan Nuo put more of his attention on Dugu Bo's medicine garden. When he returned to Douluo this time, besides opening up the route, another important purpose was to see the progress of the mass-produced grass jelly here. How is it?

He had already made a plan before. If he wanted to mass-produce the grass jelly, he needed to breed soul beasts on a large scale. The soul beasts that Lan Nuo liked were ants. These soul beasts lived in groups, so the breeding speed was extremely fast.

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 a soul ring after being killed, and they can hardly devour soul power even 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 Dali King Kong ants in the original book. The three 9-year-old soul beasts are all in the shape of worker ants or soldier ants, not the shape of queen ants. From this, it can be seen that these ants are breaking away from Under the control of the queen ant, it is possible to become a soul beast independently.

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

This phenomenon is very similar to bees, which are also true social animals. The worker bees responsible for collecting honey are actually the same as their queen bees, but because they only drank ordinary honey when they were young, while the queen bee 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 not the same as that of bees.

But this means that large-scale breeding and cultivation of soul beasts has become possible. It is difficult to find any soul beasts that respond faster than these ants, and even if they grow to a hundred years, it is almost impossible for them to have wisdom. It also makes breeding them basically do not need to bear too much psychological pressure.

It's like raising cows and dogs. When you kill yourself and eat meat, you will feel guilty, but if you raise chickens and fish, even if you raise them yourself, you won't feel too much guilt if you eat meat after you grow up. Sense of guilt, these things basically have no wisdom, and in more popular terms, they are not familiar with raising them, so it is difficult for the people who raise them to empathize with them.

It is impossible for Lan Nuo to raise these ants himself all the time, so the psychological endurance of the executor must be taken into consideration. Fortunately, these ants would basically only follow their instincts ten thousand years ago, and the psychological pressure required to raise and slaughter them is not even as good as Kill the chicken.

At present, the breeding methods of these ants are very mature. The first thing is to find the queen and provide enough feed, and soon a new ant nest will be established. These ants are not built on the ground, but on the ground. In each of the concrete pools with a volume of about 3m, there will be people who put organic feed in the pools at regular intervals.

Under normal circumstances, plant stalks are 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 field does not grow well and is covered by weeds. Farmers can choose to harvest grass seeds to make up for some Losses, these things are more suitable as fodder than pure weeds.

Although ants can eat meat, anyone who has studied a little biology knows that the efficiency of energy transfer is greatly reduced when feeding with meat. The efficiency of energy transfer at each level in the food chain is only [-]% to [-]%. ten.

After about fifteen days, the number of ants in this nest will reach about 5000. At this time, it is necessary to prepare to kill the queen and transfer worker and soldier ants.

Because if the amount exceeds this amount, this kind of ants will start to group. Is this quite 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 are abundant. Not enough for what they consume.

Encountering this kind of situation in artificial breeding is quite painful, these ants.It is impossible to leave the 3m concrete grid, that is to say, after they are grouped, they can still only stay in one box, and if the queen is not killed and the ants are transferred in time, the two waves of ants after separation will start to fight. In this case, these ants can become very aggressive, which can be dangerous for breeders.

Lan Nuo considered that if large-scale breeding is needed in the future, a large number of ordinary people will be needed to enter the pasture, and the ants selected are quite docile, but no matter how docile they are, if they fight, they will be very cruel. These are soul beasts after all, even if they are just Ten-year soul beasts are no less a threat to ordinary people than encountering lone wolves in the wild.

In order to avoid ants killing each other in a limited area, and to protect the safety of breeders.It is very necessary to get rid of queen ants regularly.

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

Not only worker ants and soldier ants, this kind of ants have a very detailed division of labor. Some ants are responsible for planting mushrooms, some are responsible for raising aphids, some are responsible for distributing food, and some are full-time to convey orders.If not.It is difficult for someone with professional research to tell the difference between them.

And the different characteristics of these ants determine that they need breeding boxes of different specifications, just like soldier ants, after they are out of control, they become individual soul beasts, and their volume expands the fastest.

Generally, within three days, the body length will double and become the size of a thumb.Within a week, they will basically grow to the size of a palm, and within a month they will reach their maximum size under normal circumstances. Their body length is equivalent to that of a human forearm, and their front claws have huge destructive power.It must be restrained with a steel cage, otherwise it will hurt the breeder even if it will not escape.

These big guys are the worst to keep, not only because of their aggressiveness, but also because they eat slowly. Although their front claws are huge and powerful, their structure is different from that of human mouths. It's actually very annoying when it comes to stuff.

It's like installing a big clip on your mouth, when you open your mouth, the clip will open, and the monk's mouth clip will bite the enemy. If you have a strong bite force, then this is a brutal weapon, but When you want to eat, you will find that you have to use your hands to get around this clip.It took a lot of effort to get the food to my mouth.

So these soldier ants usually spend more than six hours a day eating, not because they can eat.It's because they eat too slowly.Artificial feeding is unrealistic. As soldier ants, they are the most aggressive. If you dare to reach out and hand food to their mouths, just wait for your hand to be pinched off.

And eating less, to a large extent, means that the improvement of the cultivation base is slow, and the speed of the improvement of the cultivation base of the soul beast is not constant. Otherwise, Di Tian really lived for 90 years?

If he can really live for such a long time, he is really lucky. He was not killed by the nature of the earth. If the history is stretched to a million years, this level, we will find that earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are frequent, just like a big aunt Same.

Maybe the planet under your feet will give you some moths, especially the Douluo Continent, a planet with extremely violent geological activities. Two continents separated by more than 300 kilometers can collide with each other in 1 years. If Tian really lived for close to 100 million years without encountering a mass extinction like the Siberian Trample event, then it would be really high-spirited.

All in all, it is impossible for those super soul beasts of tens of thousands of years to really live for tens of thousands of years. In such a long history, even if there are no natural disasters, the biggest problem may cause them to perish by themselves. That is tired of life.

It sounds outrageous to be bored or something, but imagine a world without computers, cell phones, movies, games, novels, potato chips, happy water, or even friends to play with , What is the concept of living alone for 100 million years?If these soul beasts were not crazy, their thinking structure might be very different from that of humans.

As for how old the soul beasts are, Lan Nuo still does not have an accurate figure, because most of these soul beasts could not count when they were young. He tried to ask the Landian Dragon King how old he was, but he himself I don't know, I only know that I have been born for a long time.

It is estimated that most soul beasts have no concept of how old they are. After all, the four seasons of the Star Dou Forest in the tropical climate are very unclear. Maybe many soul beasts in it don’t even have a concept of age. Knowing what a year is, I don't know how many years I have experienced, and it is impossible to figure out how old I am.

The Landian Dragon King only roughly calculated that it was about 1000 years from when he was more conscious to the present. As for before that, he felt that he had lived for an extremely long time, but if he recalled carefully, it could not be ruled out that he had no sense of time at that time. , the possibility of living like a year.

Lan Nuo felt that the Douluo people might have made a huge misjudgment on the classification of soul beasts.

Maybe ten-year soul beasts, century-old soul beasts, and thousand-year soul beasts are not too wrong in their classification, because these are all things that can be observed in human history, but the classification from ten thousand-year soul beasts may start to be outrageous up.

Because the color of the soul ring will change for every one-digit number in the previous year, they have a habit of thinking that those who can produce black soul rings must have lived for more than 1 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 it in practice. After all, no one can live for 1 years, and the entire human civilization has not yet reached 1 years.

Lan Nuo's own experiments showed that the lifespan of the soul beast is affected by the 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, and the best example is that the Ice and Fire Yangyi Eye can increase the speed of cultivation.

As for the latter, almost all soul beasts will eat without restraint, even after they are full, they will continue to eat, and some soul beasts will even eat themselves to death.It can also be regarded as a side proof of the effect of food on cultivation, and in a relatively rigorous controlled experiment, two soul beasts of the same size and age with basically the same health status, in the case of different diets, the improvement speed of the cultivation base appeared to be different. Significant differences.

Between the soul beasts that ensure the supply of nutrition all the time, and the soul beasts that continue to feed after they are full, and only guarantee that they will not be overwhelmed, the difference in the speed of improvement is almost 300%. This is only part of the data of the soul beasts. For some scavengers with particularly strong digestive ability, this increase rate can even reach more than 500%.

Ever since, the soldier ants who don't eat well have become negative models, and the positive representatives are those male ants who only know how to eat and mate, and their cultivation is improving very quickly.But it happens to lack combat effectiveness.More suitable for being extracted to make experience packs.

After Lan Nuo came to the Eye of Ice and Fire, he subconsciously maintained the form of Dr. Zhuang Wang. Although it was only a superficial transformation and did not have the bug ability like Big Big Wolf, but relying on his greatly improved intelligence, he wanted to understand the whole The ant farming system is relatively easy.

Then put these ants into a portable breeding box. After breeding, some worker ants will be transferred together with the queen's eggs to another new box where the disinfecting work has been completed, and a new round of reproduction will start again.

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 slaughtered is one year and six months, which is only slightly longer than that of pigs. There are almost a thousand qualified products that can be produced from one ant nest. This production efficiency is already exaggerated.

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