Chapter 5 - 5 Chapter 5 Spawning_1 (1/2)
5 Chapter 5 Spawning_1
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Soon, Qin Niu had planted over two hundred ears of corn in the freshly-dug earth.
The sky had gradually darkened, and he couldn’t return home to rest yet; instead, he carried a yoke of water and began to water each one.
In the beginning, because his watering skill was only at the beginner level, the efficiency was low.
He simply spent 9.9 labor points to upgrade his watering skill from beginner to proficient.
When he tried watering the planted corn again, the efficiency was obviously more than doubled. Moreover, because he could control the amount of water more precisely, he saved a lot of water, sparing himself the trouble of repeatedly fetching water back and forth.
After watering 210 planted ears of corn, the moon had already climbed into the sky.
He was filled with anticipation, waiting for the corns to sprout and grow strong.
The harvest period for corn is roughly three to five months, depending on the variety and level of cultivation.
If the water and fertilizer management is appropriate, the seedlings grow quickly, and the harvest period can be significantly shortened.
On the other hand, if the planting technique is poor and the seedlings are half-dead after they emerge, a total crop failure is also possible.
Now that he could use labor points to quickly improve his planting skills and greatly enhance his water and fertilizer management level, it would be terrific if the harvest period could be shortened to three months.
By that time, the family’s stored food would have just run out, and the new crops would be ready for harvest.
This way, they wouldn’t have to go hungry.
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Days went by just like this, one after another.
He visited the mountains every day to check on the Female Milky White Ant.
After constructing her nest, she lay dormant inside the cave, motionless; she was preparing to lay eggs.
Her energy would decrease by about two points every day.
Perhaps because she chose a special location to build her nest, she remained untroubled.
In the blink of an eye, seven days had passed.
Qin Niu toiled diligently in the field every day, averaging about three patches of land dug up and around two hundred ears of corn planted daily.
His labor points were steadily increasing as well.
After a busy day, he could earn around 30 labor points.
He saved all of it, not squandering any.
Planting, watering, loosening the soil, weeding—his proficiency in these four planting skills was also continually growing.
By the fourth day, both his loosening soil and weeding skill proficiency levels had almost simultaneously upgraded.
He went from proficient to having some modest accomplishments.
This further significantly improved his soil-turning efficiency.
He could now manage to turn soil on five patches of land within a day, and the turned soil was more scientifically arranged and staggered, maximally maintaining the soil’s looseness and aeration.
While his work efficiency improved, he also gained more insight into conserving energy.
By the seventh day, he had turned and planted corn in the entire acre of land.
In the morning, after getting up, he habitually checked the Female Milky White Ant’s attributes.
Female Milky White Ant (Ant Queen)
Level: Grade Two winged insect, upgrade experience 100/1000
Lifespan: 4.2 years
Energy: 131
Skills: Breeder Ant Onefold 0.05/10, Feign Death Onefold 1/10
Talent: Medium intelligence
After reading, Qin Niu was startled.
Why had so much energy suddenly disappeared?
Its normal energy consumption was 2 points per day, and the morning after it finished constructing the nest, he remembered it still had 168 points left.
Six days had passed, and the normal energy consumption should be around 12 points.
It should have 156 points remaining.
How could it have suddenly lost an additional 25 precious energy points overnight, could something have happened?
Moreover, how did it change from a Breeder Ant to an Ant Queen overnight?
And its level had also risen from a Grade One winged insect to a Grade Two, with the experience for leveling up surging by 25 points.
What on earth was going on?
Having raised two termites before, he had some experience; after a bit of thought, he came up with a possibility: the Female Milky White Ant had laid eggs.
Yet, he remembered that the previous two termites had consumed much more energy when laying eggs!
This one had used only 25 points of energy in total, 5 points per egg, which meant it had laid only five eggs?
Anxious, Qin Niu decided to go to the mountains immediately to check.
He took a small hoe and a firewood knife and headed straight into the mountains.
Since it was early morning, there could be some wild beasts still wandering around without having returned to their nests.
Usually, these were weak small-sized carnivorous beasts, like lone wolves, wild cats, and so on.