Myriad Realms Exchange Machine

Chapter 176 Ant Workshop
In consideration of the ecological diversity of the world in the book, Li Yu bought three different kinds of ants in the three ant workshops.

The first is the most common giant black ant.

"I remember some information about the big black ant." Li Yu thought for a while and said.

The big black ant, scientific name: arched-backed ant, is one of the bent-backed ants. It has a wide range of main branches and is completely black. It has a complex diet and formic acid in its body. Spring is the peak breeding season.

Modern scientists call ants a nutritional treasure house and a natural medicine processing plant. It contains more than 50 kinds of nutrients needed by the human body, 28 kinds of free amino acids, multivitamins, and various trace elements needed by the human body.

Pharmacological tests have proved that it can dispel wind and dampness, strengthen tendons and bones, soothe the nerves and improve intelligence, fill marrow and benefit yang, resist fatigue, resist aging, and improve immune function.

Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty also described in detail: there are effects of strengthening the body, nourishing qi and beauty, nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang, aversion to cold and cold limbs, fatigue, chronic hepatitis, chronic illness and physical weakness, rheumatism, rheumatoid and sequelae of bruises , white hair turns black, etc.

"I just don't know if these big black ants will enhance their medicinal value after being placed in the book world." Li Yu smiled and said: "I vaguely remember that ants have the functions of nourishing the kidneys, strengthening bones, anti-aging, and preventing and treating diseases." Function, containing more than 20 kinds of nutrients needed by the human body, including 16 kinds of trace elements, including 190 mg of zinc.

Black ants have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-rheumatic, detoxification, sedative, anti-asthma, liver-protecting and other pharmacological effects, and are applicable to yin deficiency, yang deficiency, blood deficiency and both qi and blood deficiency. "

"The second type seems to be leaf cutter ants?" Li Yu looked at the second ant workshop.

The leafcutter ant is a farmer-type ant native to the tropical jungles of the Amazon.

They do not eat the leaves directly, but cut the leaves from the tree into small pieces and take them to the ant nest to ferment, and then feed on the fungi that grow on them.This is the leaf cutter ant, also known as the mushroom ant.

Leafcutter ants are the only animals that cut up fresh plants and use them to grow food.They mastered planting technology earlier than humans.

Li Yu looked at the leaf-cutter ants who were busy. These leaf-cutter ants were constantly cutting leaves just like hardworking farmers.

Unlike the big black ants, the leaf-cutter ants still come with instructions.

The instructions say that leaf-cutting ants use antibiotics produced by microorganisms to deal with bacteria in the "farm". They use antibiotics earlier than humans mastered penicillin.

Leafcutter ants are the ultimate herbivores.It consumes 12%-17% of the local leaf production every year.

Efficient waste disposal mechanisms, dedicated waste handlers and professional disposal methods have successfully prevented the spread of harmful germs and diseases in the city below.

At the same time, they also have outstanding architectural talents. The nest of leafcutter ants can be as deep as 8 meters, but the air is circulated from the surface to the center of the nest.

Very many kinds of division of labor.The head width of different worker ants can vary by 8 times, and the dry weight of the body can vary by 200 times.

A large colony of leafcutter ants can reach 800 million members.Large soldier ants are strong enough to cut through leather.Leafcutter ants are a model of efficiency, with different types of ants taking on different jobs.

For leaf-cutter ants, fungi are very important to them, and can be said to be their life-saving grass. Therefore, they pay great attention to caring for and cultivating fungi.

Leafcutter ants grow the fungus with organic matter such as insect carcasses or plant residue.

They hang fungi from the ceiling of their burrows and fertilize them with caterpillar droppings.

The management of the fungus garden is very serious, especially the soldier ants who specialize in guard work. They dare not leave even an inch for fear of foreign ants breaking into the house and stealing.Once they find an uninvited guest, they are all extremely brave and will fight to the death with the intruder.

Because of this feature, they also became good helpers for Guyanese Indian surgeons in suturing operations.

These aboriginal doctors first closed the patient's wound, then manipulated the soldier ants to "suture" with their jaws, and then cut off the ant's body, leaving the ant's head to act as catgut, suturing the wound tightly .

After reading the manual, Li Yu couldn't help feeling the magic of nature.

Unexpectedly, a small ant can be so powerful.I don’t know what changes will happen after it is released into the world of the book.

At this time, Li Yu was already full of expectations for the third Ant Workshop.

The third Ant Workshop is much more dangerous than the first two and is a magical ant called the Red Fire Ant.

Before buying this kind of ant, Li Yu had carefully researched it. This is a very dangerous ant species, completely different from the leaf-cutter ants and the big black ants.

Fire ants are a type of fire ant.

It is an agricultural and medical pest originating from South America.

Once bitten by red fire ants, it will cause a toxic reaction. In mild cases, the skin will itch and blister, and in severe cases, there will be severe allergic reactions, such as dyspnea or even shock.

Most doctors will recommend that if the injury is minor, you can wash it with soap and water in time and take anti-allergic drugs for treatment. If you feel unwell, you should seek medical treatment in time to avoid accidents.

There is also an instruction manual under the Ant Workshop of RIFA, and a red exclamation mark is drawn, which means it is very dangerous.

The instructions read: Red imported fire ants are social insects. There are about 5 to 50 red fire ants in each mature ant nest.

The RIFA body consists of worker ants responsible for work, soldier ants responsible for defense and combat, and reproductive ants responsible for reproduction.

Raw ants include the queen and winged female and male ants in the nest.

An ant nest includes one or several viable queens, and all other worker ants and soldier ants cannot reproduce.

Red Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Imported Fire Ants are similar to ordinary ants, but the individuals are larger, and the body length of soldier ants is 3 to 6 mm.When the anthill is damaged, the invading fire ants will be very angry.It can attack intruders with the tail thorns on its hind abdomen, and usually blisters will appear the next day after being stinged.

Adults have a wide range of feeding habits. They hunt insects, earthworms, frogs, lizards, birds and small mammals, and also collect plant seeds.It attacks relatively large animals, such as birds, and will only attack the prey's eyes and other vital organs.

Li Yu felt that the three types of ants had their own characteristics, and they should be able to reproduce different characteristics in the book world.

Li Yu has almost forgotten his identity as the Son of Heaven, and now he only wants to raise ants.

In the transparent ant nest, you can see dexterous worker ants, mighty soldier ants, and fat queen ants. The three types of ants have a clear division of labor and can be clearly distinguished.

However, Li Yu did not throw the ants into the wordless book immediately, but opened another package of express delivery next to it.

The courier that arrived with Ant Workshop also had a large bag of seeds of various plants.

"If you want to get rich, first plant trees." Li Yu said to himself, touching the stubble on his chin.

Before releasing ants, he must prepare a suitable living environment for these ants.

Therefore, Li Yu randomly scattered the seeds of these plants on the continent of the world in the book, and then used his consciousness to gather clouds to rain on the seeds of these plants.

Within a moment, little bits of green sprouted from the land, covering the originally empty land of the mainland.

"Is that almost enough?"

Estimating that the coverage density of the plants should be able to meet the needs of the ants, Li Yu then placed the three ant workshops on the three corners of the mainland to observe.

After getting familiar with the environment, the ants in the three workshops left the workshop unanimously, followed their instincts and dug underground, and each began to build their own kingdom.

Li Yu was observing the ants with great interest, but suddenly heard another knock on the door downstairs.

"Who?"

He reluctantly withdrew his consciousness from the world in the book, put down the wordless book and walked towards the door.

In the end, he saw a rather ordinary-looking woman standing outside the iron gate, looking at him with a smile.

"Why, don't you remember me?" the woman said with a smile.

"Li Yuan?" Li Yu looked at the woman, and finally found the corresponding name in his memory.

The class beauty in high school?
Li Yu vaguely remembered her current body, pursuing her in high school, and secretly stuffing love letters into her desk.

However, the love letter was finally handed over to the class teacher by Li Yuan, who was also punished by Li Yuan for being read out publicly at the class meeting.

Thinking about it now, Li Yu still feels ashamed when he recalls the scene back then.

"Not long ago, I heard that you were back. I didn't expect it to be true. Why, you don't want to see your old classmates without saying hello when you come back?"

Li Yuan kept smiling, and her tone was neither friendly nor distant, quite businesslike.

Li Yu smiled back, opened the door to let the woman in, and said, "Didn't you just come back? The house hasn't been cleaned yet, and there's no time to move around."

Although Li Yu didn't tell anyone when he came back, the small town is a place where you can meet acquaintances within three steps. Li Yu is not surprised that Li Yuan came to the door so quickly.

Even as to Li Yuan's purpose of coming, he was able to guess quite a bit.

First of all, it is definitely not here to talk about feelings, so it can only be one of the two reasons for old classmates to reconnect.

Sure enough, after the two of them chatted for a while, Li Yuan took out a red invitation from her bag and handed it to Li Yu.

"I'm getting married at the end of this month at the Tiansheng Hotel. I'll invite my old classmates to come and support me." Li Yuan said to Li Yu.

Li Yu smiled, took the invitation, and replied: "Okay, I will definitely join you then."

Having achieved her goal, Li Yuan got up immediately, as if she didn't want to stay in this room for a moment.

She didn't even drink the tea that Li Yu poured for her.

"Then I'll go first, remember the date on the invitation."

Li Yuan walked out of the door and seemed to think of something again. She turned around and said to Li Yu who was seeing him off: "Hey, Li Yu, if you have nothing to do, you should clean up after yourself. Look at your appearance now. How many days have you not showered? Beard?" I don’t even shave, I look like a refugee. I’ll be embarrassed when I see my old classmates!”

Perhaps Li Yuan was out of good intentions, or maybe she just didn't want to see refugees at her wedding.

But after Li Yuan's reminder, Li Yu remembered the fact that he hadn't bathed and changed clothes for three days, and also faintly smelled a bad smell on his body.

"Okay, definitely." Li Yu said with some embarrassment, watching Li Yuan leave.

Looking at Li Yuan's back, she was as proud as a smug rooster... No, it should be a hen.Li Yu couldn't help asking herself: What did I like about this woman when I was in high school?
Shaking his head, Li Yu returned to the second floor and plunged his consciousness into the world of wordless books again.

Just now he spent more than half an hour with Li Yuan, and more than half a year has passed in the world of wordless books.

The ant colony on the mainland developed extremely fast. In just half a year, it had grown from three small groups to a three-party overlord. Ant hills like castles could be seen everywhere on the mainland.

"If you give them more time, what size will the ants develop?"

With such curiosity, Li Yu used the authority of the light group in his brain to speed up the flow of time in the book world again.

The changes of the sun and the moon flashed by rapidly like a constantly overlapping slide. Decades or even hundreds of years were condensed into a blink of an eye in Li Yu's eyes.

In this environment without natural enemies, the ants in the ant nest continue to grow old and die, and then give birth to new ants.

As the number of ants increases, disputes between ants based on living space also increase.

And Li Yu observed that these ants gradually divided into two categories in order to survive better.

"Predator" and "adapter" are the names Li Yu gave to these two types of ants.

Predator ants grew stronger in size and developed rock-crushing jaws and deadly stingers.

This kind of ants are just like the name given to them by Li Yu. The meaning of survival is to plunder resources from other ants and send their opponents to their dining table.

The adaptable ants chose another way of survival.

Gill-like cilia that can collect oxygen in the water grow on both sides of their bodies, and their hind legs have gradually evolved into flippers suitable for paddling.

The adaptable ants gave up the scramble for the land and turned to the embrace of the sea.

But soon, the adaptive ants discovered that the depths of the sea were not peaceful either.

The adapted ants encountered a swarm of shrimp.

This group of shrimps was just a group of ordinary shrimps a long time ago, but after a long evolutionary journey, they have developed a sociality similar to that of ants.

Workers for gathering food, soldiers with huge pincers, and queens for breeding.

This group of shrimp regards the sea as their own territory, and unceremoniously launched an offensive against the adapted ants that invaded the sea.

And when Li Yu set his sights on the prawns, he also discovered something unusual.

I saw the plump Shrimp Queen lying in the depths of her reef palace, worshiping towards the darkness, and a wave of mental power continued to radiate from the body of the Shrimp Queen.

The Shrimp Queen was speaking in her own way, and Li Yu found that she could understand it.

"God! Old God! Do you hear my voice?" said the Shrimp Queen.

"Huh?" Li Yu looked at the octopus that was being worshiped by the Shrimp Queen, and fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)