"Did you bring the Luoyang Shovel?"
Master Fuli stepped out of the navigator and looked at Wang Qiqi as he began to inquire.
"Brought it."
Wang Qiqi stepped on the electric pedal, leaned over the roof of the car, and retrieved a rectangular metal box.
"That's good..."
Master Fuli nodded slightly, leading Wang Qiqi and Leopard Head into the fields, walking all the way forward, arriving at the field with warning lines and the forest rangers stationed.
"Master Fuli, Wang Worker, Leopard Sis..." The forest rangers in the field saw the arrival of the expert group members, saluted them, and reported: "Everything is normal, there are no signs of migration from the Red Fire Ants in the nest."
From the incident to the arrival of the forest rangers, a total of forty-three minutes passed, and after the students' classes ended, Master Fuli came and went, spending a total of three hours.
During this period, the Red Fire Ants showed no unusual behavior, and the forest rangers did not detonate the Black Gold explosives in the ground. Both parties spent a peaceful three hours together.
Speaking of these three hours of experience, the rangers themselves felt unbelievable.
The Spirit Beasts are all very clever; even if they seem to submit temporarily, it's just for a better escape.
During the half hour when Master Fuli was absent, according to the life detection device's records, that Ant Queen remained in the nest, only occasionally rubbing her own cheek, without doing anything else.
She didn't even inform the other Ant Queens and just stayed in her nest inert.
Sometimes, the rangers truly admire Master Fuli's ability to educate the Spirit Beasts.
"There's no need to worry about the Ant Queen escaping; I've already reached an agreement with her before you arrived...."
Master Fuli smiled and came to the entrance of the Red Fire Ants' nest, calling into the nest:
"Hey! Come out, I have something to ask you!"
Master Fuli's loud call echoed down through the gaps in the ant nest road, deep into the earth.
Moments later.
Still covering her face with her forepaws, the Ant Queen cautiously came to the hole entrance, looking at the fox standing at the door with arms on hips and wagging his tail.
"Zizi—"
Big Brother, what else do you need? Didn't you just beat me up?
"Indeed, I just beat you up, but how do you plan to account for building houses on my land?"
Master Fuli looked at the Ant Queen, gesturing upwards at the field. Although no plants had sprouted yet, the fields had been planted with turnips, winter spinach, as well as some tomatoes and strawberries inside the greenhouse.
These were experiments planted in the fields by students from Xinxing Agricultural Science College before the holidays.
Master Fuli said, while it's not wrong for the Red Fire Ants to build nests on his land given that the College has a land lease agreement.
"Zizi...."
The Ant Queen looked at Master Fuli, issuing a heartweak "zizi" sound, like trying to negotiate something.
"I didn't say you have to move immediately, but you must give an explanation for this matter, right?"
"Call your mom and ask her to come out!" Master Fuli said to the Ant Queen.
The Red Fire Ant nests in the fields weren't just one place; the Ant Queen who was struck by Master Fuli was among the most arrogant in the township, brazenly building a nest in the College's farmland.
"Zizi..."
The Ant Queen shook her head, rejecting Master Fuli's suggestion.
Although Red Fire Ants belong to a multi-Queen society with no clear subordinate relationship between Queens, there is still disparity in power among them, and she dared not enter another Ant Queen's nest.
"It's alright, just point out a location for me." Master Fuli smiled, saying.
During the negotiation, Master Fuli did not forget to glance at Wang Qiqi, indicating for her to assemble the Luoyang Shovel.
The initial purpose of this Luoyang Shovel was actually because Master Fuli worried that the Ant Queen wouldn't dare to come out, so he specifically asked the professors to tell the Security Bureau to bring him a handy tool.
Even if the Ant Queen didn't come out, Master Fuli could still use a stick to knock on the Ant Queen's head through seven or eight meters of earth.
"Zi..."
Upon hearing this, the Ant Queen thought for a moment, crawled out of her nest, climbed two hundred meters towards the southwest, and raised her forepaw to draw a circle on the ground, then placed a dot in the center.
"Zizi!"
The Ant Queen raised her head, looking at Master Fuli with a screech, indicating the dot on the ground.
Master Fuli, dig here; my elder sister lives underground here.
"Alright!"
Master Fuli picked up the Luoyang Shovel, inserted it into the ground, connected a steel pipe to the tail end of the shovel, and poked it slowly into the farmland.
"Clang—"
As soon as the Luoyang Shovel penetrated five meters underground, something seemed to kick the shovel's front end hard.
A strong shock transmitted upwards, causing the steel pipe at the end of the shovel to continually tremble.
"Buzz—"
A purple-red, extremely angry-looking Ant Queen surfaced along the steel pipe of the Luoyang Shovel, flaring her wings and emitting a fierce warning sound.
"Bang—"
Master Fuli, holding the steel pipe, seeing this, raised it and whacked the new Ant Queen's head.
"Zi—"
The newly emerged Ant Queen did not even have a chance to trade insults with Master Fuli before being hit with the iron pole, stiffening her entire body and falling sideways to the ground.
In Master Fuli's mind, suddenly a golden flash appeared.
"Building houses on my land with no justification?" Master Fuli glanced at the new Ant Queen, cursed, temporarily ignoring the flash in his mind, and said to the stunned and shocked-looking Ant Queen:
"Next one!"
"Zi..." The Ant Queen asked, with a tangled look on her face.
"Master has no interest in exterminating ants, just wants to invite you out for some questions. If you are interested, I can offer you free food, accommodation, and work. How about that?"
Master Fuli waved his hand, and Leopard Head also looked at the Ant Queen and said:
"Although in your understanding, this kind of favorable opportunity may seem bizarre, but Master Fuli is correct...."
"As long as you are willing, we are capable of providing free food and lodging along with an establishment position!"
In the Spirit Beast Hazard Assessment, actually, the most dangerous Spirit Beasts are not carnivorous animals but fungi, followed by plants and insects.
Although solitary wolf-type large Spirit Beasts may have particularly strong combat power, they are there, visible, and trackable.
Whereas spiritualized fungi are hard to observe, plant-type Spirit Beasts are elusive in their movements; they are often only noticed when they cause certain disasters.
Insect-type species specialization varies widely, and ones that mutate into peculiar forms are hard to predict.
If, by just managing meals and salaries, these entities can be stabilized, every Spirit Particle Research Institute is more than willing to invest in this expenditure.
Taking the Red Fire Ants as an example, although they appear not to have specialized, the toxins they carry have clearly undergone spiritualization.
The institutes can research the toxin or their bizarre fertility abilities, yielding outcomes or papers for insider sharing.
Experiment outputs ≈ Research capabilities ≈ Funding allocations.
It's a simple economic calculation. Golden Leopard doesn't even need to ask Wang Qiqi but can promise instantly.
"Zizi..."
Once the Ant Queen received promises from everyone, she leisurely drew another circle on the ground, looking at Master Fuli with a joyful sound.
Apparently.
There is also animosity between Ant Queens.
The Ant Queen's enthusiasm for work has clearly increased.