The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 46 - Harvest

Chapter 46: Chapter 46 Harvest

Chapter 46 -46 Harvest

After eating a giant banyan tree fruit as a pre-dinner snack, Bai Yi went outside to join Zhan Yi and the others for a meal.

The meal wasn’t Bai Yi’s main objective.

*Ahem, of course, the food made by Nong Yi was quite delicious, so it would be a waste not to eat it.*

After the meal, Bai Yi took out the Transfer Certificate for the Enchanted Blacksmith, letting the three who hadn’t yet had the chance to change professions discuss it among themselves.

The result of the discussion was that Nong Er took the Transfer Certificate, becoming the fourth Hero Unit under Bai Yi’s command, with the profession of Rune Blacksmith.

His core talent offered a large boost to his magic power. Besides that, he had only one purple-level hammer strike skill, with granted abilities much less compared to a combat profession.

However, as compensation, Nong Er was directly infused with a wealth of knowledge in forging and rune studies.

After the meal, he was dragged away by Nong Si to study magic in a mysterious manner.

Bai Yi didn’t stop Nong Si, who was motivated, only reminding them to let her know if they needed anything, before turning to the remaining four to plan the afternoon’s work.

The rice fields within the territory had matured today, the area behind the tree hole was all golden, but the harvesting was delayed due to a challenge at noon.

Now everything was ready, and nothing could stop their harvest.

“Zhan Yi, how much intelligence do your skeletons currently have? Can they take care of the farmland?”

“For routine maintenance, there’s no problem. But when it comes to planting and harvesting, I need to be present myself.

Moreover, the skeletons are only at 1st Rank, so their combat power is insufficient to protect the farmland.”

“The insect swarm can handle the protection aspect.

*I’m just thinking, recently we’ve had to prepare for the refreshing monsters at noon, and in the coming days, the monster difficulty might reach a level that even we need to seriously consider.*

*Being alone out there is too dangerous, but if we have to retreat to the territory every noon and then return to the new field on the back mountain in the afternoon, it’s way too troublesome.*

So, I plan to have the Skeleton Soldiers handle it. Losing skeleton soldiers wouldn’t be a big deal.”

Zhan Yi thought for a moment, then agreed.

“Master, I’ll set that up, crafting some bone hoes and send the Skeleton Soldiers over promptly.”

Zhan Yi accepted the task and left, while Bai Yi, smiling, turned to the remaining three:

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“Well, you should know what the work for today is, right?”

“Of course, Master, we’ve been waiting a long time for this moment!”

“Yes, yes, we saw the rice ripen yesterday and have just been waiting for your command, Master!”

The three of them unconsciously looked toward the sea of golden rice, with heavy, fragrant ears, revealing the joy of an imminent harvest.

“Then let’s not delay, and start now!”

The three of them eagerly agreed, quickly picking up their tools, and plunged into the waist-high rice field.

Seeing the smiles on their faces, *if Bai Yi weren’t aware that she wasn’t made for this kind of work, she might have wanted to join in.*

After standing and appreciating for a moment, Bai Yi began her own work.

She opened the building interface on the panel, preparing to construct the newly acquired glass greenhouse and mushroom breeding box.

The former required glass and iron, with variable amounts, but a minimum of 200 units of glass and 100 units of iron,

neither of which Bai Yi had, but the leaderboard rewards had given Bai Yi a quite a few Basic Resources Self-selection.

Although these Basic Resources Self-selected Packages seemed to be divided into 1st Rank and 2nd Rank, in reality, there was no such distinction for basic resources.

They covered basic resources like wood, stone, copper, iron, and even gold and silver.

Exchanging them for basic resources like stone and wood would be a loss. Bai Yi was lacking steel-type materials at the moment, which was just perfect to make use of them.

For the latter, it only consumed 500 units of wood and 50 units of stone, which was much simpler.

Exchanging for the materials for a glass greenhouse, Bai Yi began construction.

[Construction of the glass greenhouse initiated, consuming Glass*200, Iron*100, estimated construction time: 1 hour, remaining: 59 minutes 59 seconds]

[Construction of the mushroom breeding box initiated, consuming Wood*500, Stone*50, estimated construction time: 1 hour, remaining: 59 minutes 59 seconds]

The glass greenhouse was a rectangular glass house about 40 square meters, while the breeding box was much smaller, only 20 square meters in size.

Bai Yi arranged them on the eastern edge of the territory, lining up along the edge of the rice field.

Bai Yi planned to first observe the outputs of these two buildings before deciding whether to continue investing.

Otherwise, if she enthusiastically built a whole bunch of greenhouses with several thousand self-selections, only to find out they were useless, wouldn’t that be a massive loss?

The construction time for both buildings was not short, so Bai Yi turned her attention to the real main task this time.

“Where should I place the Clear Spring Altar…”

Currently, the rice fields in the territory had the highest demand for a water source.

But because there hadn’t been a stable water source before, they could only let the rice rely on luck. Now with the altar, it needed to be prioritized for supply.

Bai Yi initially exchanged for a well with this intention, but now with the Clear Spring Altar, there was no need for a manpower-dependent well.

“Maybe I could put the well on the mountain rice fields?

Moreover, the quarry might need to find a spot up there as well, Karis’s cave seems good.”

Bai Yi circled around the territory, finally deciding to place the altar right behind the giant banyan, near the direction of the rice fields.

A small circle close to the giant banyan, which hadn’t been cultivated due to the tree roots, was just right for placing the altar.

[Construction of the Clear Spring Altar initiated, consuming Magic Crystal*20, Stone*500, Steel*100, Water*100, estimated construction time: 1 hour, remaining: 59 minutes 59 seconds]

Another 200 self-selection packages down, Bai Yi felt a little heartache.

But at present, Bai Yi didn’t have enough containers at hand, and the river was not reachable in the short term.

Rather than being scammed for money in the market to buy, it was better to use resource self-selection to replace the water part.

*No matter how she thought about it, Bai Yi still felt it was a big loss.*

After arranging the buildings, Bai Yi found Zhan Yi, who was still preparing farm tools.

With five skeletons invested, the efficiency of the Bone Artifact Workshop was quite high, having already produced 10 bone hoes in this short time.

“Zhan Yi, are you ready here? I’m…”

Bai Yi explained her plan to Zhan Yi, and the latter naturally couldn’t disagree.

However, for safety’s sake, Bai Yi brought along 100 of 2nd Rank Poison Blood Beetles and 50 Giant Bees.

The beetles were for her protection, while the bees were left as a defensive force.

Returning to this once battlefield, now covered in fresh green seedlings swaying gently with the mountain breeze.

This was the farmland Nong Si and the others had cleared last time. Although Nong Si had watered it once before, a day had passed, and it had already dried up.

Leaving a well on the edge of the farmland, as Zhan Yi arranged the skeletons to work here, Bai Yi took her and the insect swarm back to Karis’s cave.

This was Bai Yi’s first time coming here in person. Unlike the perspective of the insect swarm before, Bai Yi could clearly feel a lingering trace of death energy this time.

*Perhaps due to her superpower, Bai Yi felt a sense of disgust toward this place, wanting to quickly build the quarry and leave.*

Using resource self-selection, Bai Yi exchanged for some iron and placed the quarry inside the cave.

The construction of the quarry was faster than the well, which required a full half hour, but the quarry only took 10 minutes to complete.

So Bai Yi decided to wait here for the quarry to be completed.

Of course, standing near the cave was somewhat torturous for Bai Yi.

She could only take the insect swarm for a stroll nearby, collecting some local information along the way.

This area was relatively gentle in terms of slope; the elevation difference was not significant. Most of the midsection down the hill was banyan trees, while the upper part had eucalyptus trees.

After making a round, Bai Yi collected over 500 units of wood, mostly straight-trunked eucalyptus.

*This led Bai Yi to suspect that this area was originally a eucalyptus forest, gradually overtaken by giant banyans.*

To verify this theory, Bai Yi specifically walked up the mountain and used her superpower to scan the genetic makeup of those eucalyptus trees.

The result was indeed as Bai Yi had suspected. They weren’t even 1st Rank, just the most ordinary, uh, original eucalyptus trees?

They didn’t even have the ability to absorb magic power for accelerated growth, which explained why they were gradually overtaken by banyan trees.

The root network possessed by the banyan forest, likely spawned by the giant banyan, was not something other plants could challenge.

Returning to the edge of the cave, the quarry was already fully constructed.

[Quarry (1st Rank/White): Can accommodate up to 5 units working simultaneously, each unit can produce 2 units of stone per hour]

The quarry came equipped with iron tools, explaining why it required the consumption of iron.

Waiting for Zhan Yi to organize the skeletons to work here, Bai Yi quickly departed, returning to the territory.

Just stepping into the territory’s range, Bai Yi could already smell the distinct aroma of the harvest wafting through the forest.

During Bai Yi’s absence, the rice fields within the territory had already been harvested, and preliminary processing had begun.

…

Mutated banyan forest: A woodland located on the southern side of White Poplar Mountain near the edge of the Red River. Since the mutation occurred, only two Superpower Users have ventured into White Poplar Mountain and left relevant records. The expansion speed is extremely fast, covering an extensive area, inhabited by numerous mutant creatures…