Natural God's Gift

Winter came to the Flame Spider Kingdom, and the temperature plummeted, covering nature with a layer of silence. This winter was particularly cold, and even though the Flame Spider Kingdom was close to subtropical regions, the grasses were no longer lush at this time of year, and the leaves were falling one after another. The earth seemed to have entered a dormant period, presenting a scene of withered yellow and gray-white.

The trees had shed their summer greenery, leaving only bare branches swaying in the cold wind, like tranquil ink paintings.

On the grasslands, the former lush green had been replaced by a expanse of withered yellow, occasionally covered with a thin layer of frost, adding a bit more of winter's coolness.

The surfaces of lakes and rivers in winter also became unusually calm after being swept by the night frost, and the water surface solidified at low temperatures, forming a layer of thin ice.

This year's kingdom was particularly deserted compared to previous years. First of all, many lords were not in the kingdom.

Everyone knew that many veteran lords, led by Lord Plantain, had gone to the Myriad World Continent.

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However, what everyone didn't know was that Lord Qingfeng had taken several other lords to capture the insects that had robbed the Flame Spider traveling merchants.

This year, all the lord-level Flame Spiders in the kingdom were absent. Ten mountain master-level Flame Spiders followed the lords to the Myriad World Continent and had not yet returned, and five followed Lord Qingfeng to retrieve the looted supplies.

With the loss of these main trading forces, and the fact that mid- and high-level Flame Spiders did not leave the kingdom this year, the kingdom's gatherings were naturally not very lively this year. Only Mountain Master Hujzhang showed his face and announced that the kingdom would still be sealed for another year next year.

This made the small Flame Spider warriors of the Five Divisions worried. If the sealing lasted too long, they would all be dragged to their deaths. At the same time, the scale of the spiders' gatherings this year was much smaller than in previous years, and even gatherings of Flame Spiders above the level of advanced warriors were rare.

However, these things did not affect the little spiders below the level of advanced warriors, because they originally had nothing to sell. Even if the Five Divisions did not purchase their small output of life seeds, they could still hand them over to the kingdom, so naturally there would be no such thing as losses.

On the other hand, Siyue still had several hundred grains of God-given rapeseed and several dozen grains of God-given mangrove seeds in its claws. It originally wanted to sell these to the Ziyun Merchant Troupe, but this year, Danggui ran several times to the territory of the Watase Flame Spider tribe, but did not see them.

However, if they weren't seen, they weren't seen. They were all mountain master-level Flame Spiders, and if the kingdom had any arrangements for them, it wouldn't tell Siyue.

In any case, there was no need to worry about selling God-given origin power food. It sold all the origin power food it couldn't use to another mountain master-level Flame Spider.

In Twin Peaks, as the end of the year approached, everyone earned origin stones, received bonuses, and reported their work and achievements for the year to Siyue.

Danggui was the first to report its work. It was very clever and found other Flame Spiders to weave blank spider silk cloth, and then used charcoal burned during land reclamation to write the words of the Flame Spider Kingdom on it, so that there could be a clear account, and the spider silk cloth was much lighter than stone or wooden boards, making it very convenient to carry, even hundreds of sheets at a time.

Danggui looked at a piece of spider silk cloth and reported: "This year, we cleared two fish ponds, each with two thousand fish. Most of the time, I manage them, and occasionally Shuicong and Shuixian also work part-time managing the fish ponds. The main job is feeding the fish.

At a rate of three fish per insect per day, we consume more than twenty fish every day. As our age evolves, our consumption will greatly increase. It is estimated that when we are promoted to advanced warriors, the fish in the fish ponds will not be enough for us to eat."

"In addition to the fish ponds, we also raised a total of thirty pigs before. We learned from the postpartum care technology guide for sows and castrated these pigs.

After castration, two of these pigs died and two escaped.

Later, when other spiders occasionally came to Twin Peaks to visit, we slaughtered a total of five pigs to entertain guests. There are currently twenty-one pigs in the pigsty."

"As for the shellfish pond, because we don't have time to manage it at the moment, its scale is still maintained at the size of previous years. We have tested that the growth of origin power pearls in the shellfish is not very obvious."

Siyue was quite satisfied with the opening of the ponds and the raising of pigs. Although it seemed like a waste of an insect to manage these things, they had a fixed source of food in Twin Peaks, which saved them the time of searching for prey everywhere.

See if there are any large ponds near Twin Peaks. If there are, you can take Shuixian and Shuicong to clear them out when you have time. If there are not, then perhaps we will have to make a few more ponds for the insects."

"I've looked, there are no particularly large ponds, and there is a stream nearby that floods every summer. If we raise fish near the stream, I'm afraid the fish will escape when the water rises."

"This is not urgent, we'll talk about it in two years." After it becomes an advanced warrior, it may be able to ask the Ziyun Merchant Troupe to build a large reservoir for it to raise fish.

As for the shellfish pond, it reserved its opinion and continued to let Danggui and Baizhi toss about.

After Danggui finished reporting, Shoku and Dongkui immediately stepped forward to report their work for the year: "Since March this year, Dongkui and I have reclaimed 25,800 square meters of land. The reason why we reclaimed so little is mainly because many tall trees hindered our reclamation time. We often have to spend a lot of time uprooting these trees."

"But fortunately, we have already dealt with most of the tall trees this year. When we reclaim land again next spring,

the efficiency and speed will be greatly increased."

"Not bad, Shoku, Dongkui, I have seen your work," Although the area of woodland they reclaimed was a bit small, Siyue didn't mind.

In the kingdom, they carefully removed the trees little by little.

Next, Shaoyao stepped forward to report its work: "Among the territories reclaimed by Shoku and the others, I have cultivated about 3,200 square meters of land and planted high-quality trees."

"Hmm," Reclaiming wasteland does not mean burning the trees on it. The most troublesome thing is the roots underneath. If the roots are not damaged, then the trees will grow back again next year, which means that most of the year's work will be in vain again.

When Shoku and Dongkui were reclaiming land, they would dig out the roots of some medium and large trees.

As for the roots of various shrubs and weeds, Peony would need to clear them away bit by bit when cultivating the land.

Narcissus and Water Onion followed up, "This year, we have cultivated a total of five thousand banana seeds and one thousand durian seeds. Among the banana seeds, four hundred and ninety-three withered or simply failed to germinate.

Among the durian seeds, twenty-nine failed to germinate, and one hundred and fifteen were damaged by passing birds and beasts after being planted. A total of eight hundred and fifty-six durian seeds survived."

Four-Leaf rolled its eight eyes incessantly, "Are there too many animals around Twin Peaks? How could so many seeds be damaged?"

Narcissus: "It might be because there haven't been insects living here for too long. There are a few too many animals in the surrounding mountains and forests, and sometimes animals even wander over from other peaks.

Water Onion and I have been trying our best to clear them away. Perhaps we can join forces with the spiders on the surrounding peaks next spring to clean up the area together."

"Let's talk about that next year. We can't just ignore the trees that have already been planted. Remember to water and fertilize them in time, and also try to prevent them from being pecked at by birds and beasts."

"Four-Leaf, please rest assured, we now patrol the area around the newly planted seeds every day, and we drive away all the birds and beasts in the vicinity."

Seeing how diligent they were, Four-Leaf was very happy. Planting top-tier plant seeds was crucial to the future development of their insect race. Don't underestimate the number of original stones it was spending now, and even the original stones it would continue to spend cultivating seeds for the next few decades or even centuries.

But as long as a God-Given Seed was born in its forest sea in the future, all the efforts would be rewarded.

Although it was possible for a God-Given Seed to be born in the current Twin Peaks, the probability was too small,

It was simply negligible.

Moreover, because the trees in the forest were too chaotic and mixed, the types and functions of the God-Given Seeds that were born were also uncertain. Many times, the God-Given Seeds that were painstakingly found were not very valuable, and their effect on the Flame Spiders was not very great.

But it was different with their large-scale cultivation of seeds. In the large-scale tree sea cultivated by the insects,

Although the probability of a God-Given Seed appearing was also extremely small, if a God-Given Seed did appear, it would definitely be a God-Given Seed of excellent quality or higher.

Even for top-tier tribes like the Flame Spider Kingdom, as long as a God-Given Seed appeared in the tree sea they opened up, it would basically belong to the ranks of top-tier God-Given Seeds, which were extremely precious!

Four-Leaf had also grown up a bit now and knew which seeds were good and which seeds were not. God-Given Seeds like Venus Flytraps and Morning Glories belonged to the low-level herbaceous God-Given Seeds. These types were not very valuable, and even at the King level, the annual output would only be around a few cubic meters of original stones.

If God-Given Seeds like Durian and Banana were born, the value of the original force food produced annually would be more than ten times that of Venus Flytraps.

Opening up a tree sea also had another advantage. The types of plants in the tree sea opened up by the insects were generally relatively simple, and the insect warriors knew the flowering period of these seeds. If they wanted to search for God-Given Seeds, they could directly check each tree one by one during the flowering period.

Otherwise, if the mountains and fields were full of different kinds of plants and flowers, you wouldn't even know where to start looking.

This year, with Peony, Hollyhock, Winter Hollyhock, Water Onion, and Narcissus helping in the territory, Four-Leaf saved a lot of time.

This made Four-Leaf very satisfied. After thinking for a while, Four-Leaf said, "Next year, each of you spiders will get an extra original stone per day in wages."

"Yay!" Hearing Four-Leaf say that wages would be increased, the spiders were overjoyed. Who wouldn't want a promotion and a raise?

Four-Leaf had considered the matter of raising wages. Although the kingdom said that hiring Fifth Tribe Flame Spiders would only require a minimum daily wage of one original stone.

But it was important to see clearly that this was the minimum daily wage of one original stone. This was the kingdom's consideration based on the fact that the number of life seeds produced in the territory of intermediate warriors was not large, so that the original Flame Spiders themselves would not lose money when hiring.

Letting them hire at this price did not mean that the value of an intermediate warrior's daily labor was only worth one original stone.

It could be said that for spiders like Peony, working for one original stone a day was completely working at a loss.

It was just that for safety reasons, they could not leave the kingdom at the moment and could not find other jobs, so they could only work here temporarily.

Fortunately, the kingdom would provide free original force food to those below high-level warriors to help them grow, so they did not have to worry too much about original stones.

Afterward, the kingdom assigned the task of hunting medium and large wild beasts to the high-level warriors. This was also to subsidize them, so that they would honestly stay in the kingdom and not venture out to take risks. Otherwise, how could a wild beast be worth a hundred original stones?

It raised the daily wage to two original stones, not only because its life seed had indeed had a good harvest, but also because it recognized the work of Peony and the others.

There was also another aspect. After a year, their respective age periods had evolved one or two times. With a higher age period, the amount of work they did each day was also greater. This was the reward they deserved.

In fact, a wage of two original stones a day was not much. The annual wage of a Fifth Tribe Flame Spider was only seven hundred and twenty original stones. The wages of all five added up to only three thousand six hundred original stones, which was less than a quarter of the value of the original force food produced by its life seed.

If it wasn't afraid that the other spiders would have opinions, it would have liked to give Peony and the others two and a half or three original stones.

But thinking about it, three original stones was still a bit too much. How much did an intermediate insect warrior produce annually? For the poorer ones, the combined income of several life seeds was only a few hundred to a thousand original stones.

Although the salary could not be increased, it could compensate them in other ways, otherwise, how would they work hard next year?

Thinking of this, Four-Leaf took out five silk scrolls with a face value of one hundred from its carapace and waved its front legs and said, "Angelica, here are five hundred original stones. Purchase a batch of original force food for the New Year's party."

Angelica's big eyes lit up. It took the silk scroll and shouted, "Long live Four-Leaf!"

"Long live Four-Leaf!" Seeing how generous Four-Leaf was, the other spiders also shouted. They didn't expect that in addition to bonuses and raises, they would also have a banquet to celebrate.

Four-Leaf chuckled and said, "I'll go to the neighboring territory to invite Bai Zhi, Ai Hao, and Mudan to join in the fun too."

Hearing Four-Leaf say this, Peony and the others actively said, "Four-Leaf, you just arrange the venue here. Leave the errand running to us. We guarantee to invite them over."

The spiders who did not receive a task also took the initiative to say, "I'll go catch fish."

Four-Leaf: "The pigs have been raised for so long, we can also catch one and kill it."

"Okay." Thinking of pork, they began to drool.

As Four-Leaf said that it would hold a New Year's party, the Twin Peaks, which were originally a bit bleak and quiet in winter, suddenly became lively.

Before long, Bai Zhi and the others also came to Twin Peaks with various original force foods, and everyone held a lively New Year's party.