Chapter 613: Chapter 446: 47 Years Later
Seeing the high spirits of the many Insect Soldiers, Lu Yuan laughed: “The number of our brothers and sisters has increased again.”
“However, we must strictly control the population size and forbid cannibalism among our own kind, to avoid creating a miasmic mess! We are the wise Insect Race of the big city!”
“Everybody work hard in managing the small cave, let’s set an initial modest goal: produce two hundred Spirit Essence every year!”
The Worm Kings, despite missing limbs, fervently patted their own butts in full support of the “King’s” wise decision.
“You’re kind-hearted… but it’s pointless.”
“[Insect] as an Anomaly, if it doesn’t fight internally, how can it grow strong?] The Ancient Insect disdainfully said.
Lu Yuan spoke with grand ambition: “Of course, by learning knowledge, boosting production, improving skills, and creating ideals! Do you think our insects here behave the same as yours?”
“Our Insect Clan Army here even keeps a clear account of our daily expenses!”
And the three Worm Kings behind him, along with a Sky Fortress, all howled in unison, their clear eyes filled with passion.
Worm King·Lu Da said: “Senior, in my high school mathematics finals, I scored an excellent 62 points out of 150! Physics 49 points, and biology, I only got 32 points!”
“Very good, you scored 32 points.” The Ancient Insect somewhat doubted if it had heard incorrectly.
“I scored 123 points in maths! Biology 87 points!” King Worm·Lu Er was even more ambitious.
The cultural courses in Green Grass City are actually quite difficult.
Even if its scores were placed among humans, they would be considered above average. After all, Insects naturally have lower Divine Attributes than humans, having wisdom is already remarkable.
Most of the accounts were checked by it.
“And you?” Lu Yuan looked at the last one, “How have you been doing recently?”
“I… I last scored 4 points… You, please don’t blame me…” Worm King·Lu Xiao weakly said, on the verge of tears.
Lu Yuan’s face darkened, did you just guess one multiple-choice question correctly?
“Very good, quite spirited! It seems that even foreign insects have their own path to follow.” The Ancient Insect, pretending to understand, encouraged them, “[That idiot who got 4 points has to work harder, at least to score 32 points.]
“Yes!” Lu Xiao felt really hurt; when it comes to mathematics, if you don’t get it, you just don’t. Why am I such a study fail?
And so, the Sky Fortress slowly ascended, bidding a reluctant farewell to the Ancient Insect.
“Senior, I owe you a favor… if there’s anything you need in the future, just come to me.” This journey had cost Lu Yuan nothing, and he even freeloaded some resources, which satisfied him greatly.
The Ancient Insect stayed silent, originally wanting to maintain its image of a wise figure, but in the end, it warmly accepted this friendship: “[Just remember. If you rise in the future, help out this old body of mine.]
Lu Yuan pondered for a moment: “I will leave a [temple] here for stable future exchanges.”
It naturally understood Lu Yuan’s meaning and contentedly returned to the underground rift.
Meanwhile, Lu Yuan went back to the storeroom, spent a bit of Spirit Essence, and took control of over a thousand Insect Eggs.
It really didn’t cost much, considering these Insect Eggs were still in a very weak state.
He then shared a bit of “Cow Worm Milk” & “Insect King Nectar” with everyone.
The Worm Kings sacrificed their arms and legs, but with the regeneration ability, those limbs would grow back quickly.
Everyone was already discussing whether these new products could be self-produced and self-sold.
Theoretically… it’s actually possible!
“Among these thousand eggs, there are 32 Cow Worms, capable of producing milk!”
“As for Insect King Nectar… after we Devour the bloodline here, we can also think of a way… our Evolution and Devouring Ability hasn’t disappeared!”
But when all is said and done, producing these extraordinary items requires quite a bit of resources.
There will be a Feed to Meat Ratio in terms of input and output.
For example, consuming Ordinary Level Mushroom ingredients can produce a small amount of Rare Level products; while ingesting Rare Level food items can produce a modest amount of Superior Level…
So on and so forth, with a certain loss of Spirit Essence in the process. This loss hasn’t been tested in practice, so it’s not yet calculated.
But regardless, high-level consumables are inevitably useful.
Especially the Legendary “Insect King Nectar”… costly to produce and highly useful, it definitely needs some thought.
Lu Yuan felt a bit feverish thinking about the “Fifty-Year Plan” of humanity. Does the Insect Clan Army also need to undertake a Fifty-Year Plan?
“Now that we’ve acquired the small cave, the Insect Clan Army finally has a proper habitat and no longer needs to hibernate long-term, capable of unleashing almost all of its potential!”
Yes, after careful planning, humans agreed to allocate certain Civilization Points to expand the small cave to 30 square kilometers.
Then they would lease it long-term to the Insect Clan Army for growing mushrooms.
Of course, humans would also use 3-5 square kilometers themselves, the rest would be the Insect Race’s territory.
This is a win-win choice, humans provide food, land, minerals; Insects provide Extraordinary Output, labor, and military power. It sounds like the insects got a slightly worse deal, but as the leader of Human 18th Civilization, Lu Yuan always had to let Green Grass City benefit a little more.
Lu Yuan got so engrossed in his thoughts he even planned for an entire day.
Once the group returned to Green Mountain, he addressed all of the Insect Soldiers and gave an impromptu speech: “Comrades, friends, the future requires the hatching of fifty thousand Big Locust Valley and Valley’s Little Locust cultivators proficient in mushroom cultivation, Black Sky Aphids… producing mushrooms worth over 100 Spirit Essence every year…”