Ninja World: Insect Princess from Konoha

Chapter 580: Insect Swarm Network
The marching speed of ninjas is different from the high-speed pace of ninjas, and it is the normal marching speed of normal humans.

Except for the baggage and cavalry, other soldiers rely on foot.

Because there is no surprise attack, there is no need for concealment, and the straight road built by the Kingdom of Fire is taken.

In particular, the transportation network is not particularly developed, and the road condition of this kind of dirt road is not very good.

Unlike ninjas marching, they often take hidden paths, dangerous paths, that is, middle paths.

And this kind of road, Ren Feng can't walk, and often needs to travel lightly.

Therefore, after a day and a night of rushing, we only walked more than 100 kilometers.

For the ninja, it was more than an hour's journey.

This is still in the case of good road conditions. In reality, it is not possible to rush for a day and a night with high intensity. It is necessary to camp, rest, light a fire and cook, and it will take at least a week to reach the nearest city.

Traveling three hundred miles in a hurry is already at the end of the crossbow, and it cannot be pierced. This is a big taboo for military strategists.

Just in terms of fast maneuvering and fast interspersing, a comparison between ninjas and ordinary people widened the gap between heaven and earth.

However, this shortcoming can be effectively circumvented.

One is road construction, and the other is a means of transportation that can replace travel.

For example, an underground high-speed tunnel troop carrier.

This kind of plan has been filed for a long time, and the tunnel worm was born for it, but under the more efficient psychic transfer, it has not been fully activated. The tunnel has been repaired, but only a little.

It took Meggie a lot of time just to get through an underground tunnel from Konoha to the border of the Land of Wind.

It is too late to dig a new tunnel now, but it has to be dug.

In order to build a nationwide high-speed transportation network without destroying the surface, Maggie launched the planetary underground logistics tunnel project.

If you look through the deep strata, you can see such a spectacular scene.

Under the giant tree in Muye Village, there are dense and huge root systems, which are deeply embedded in the ground like spider webs, spreading in all directions.

The prototype of the tunnel worm is slime mold, which integrates the characteristics of species such as slug fairy.

It is a mushroom-like amoeba, which is neither an animal nor a plant. It is between animals and fungi. It looks like a slug, white and tender, and very cute.

To be precise, the main body of the tunnel worm is a filamentous network buried deep in the ground, and the part of the giant tree above the ground is a reproductive organ similar to a mushroom.

Needless to say, of course it can be eaten.

As long as you break open the bark that serves as a protective shell, the inside is full of edible fungus flesh, and if she wants, Miki can also secrete toxins.

It is not used as a reproductive organ by itself.

On the contrary, compared to making such huge mushrooms, for Mei Ji, a more suitable solution is to fill the mountains and plains with small mushrooms.

Its main function is to store surplus nutrients, that is, bioenergy, and to refine and store chakra.

It is cheaper and more efficient to use toxins to repel and warn off looters than to protect property with wooden casings.

Red umbrellas and white poles, let's lie down together after eating.

But the current function is mainly to provide shelter for the human beings in the state of symbiosis.

In recent years, Meiji has spent almost all her income on this tunnel worm, and has worked hard to cultivate such a huge community.

It is currently in the process of paying back the capital, and it is estimated that in three years, it will be a pure blood earning.

The veterans of Yanyin Village, the tunnel worm they kindly sponsored is the offspring of the tunnel worm Konoha, and the two are the relationship between mother and daughter.

As for the tunnel worms on Konoha's side, it seems that there are several, but it is actually one.

It's just because the size is too large to support the movement, so it splits apart, just like the slug has to stop the expansion of the body in order to keep only a little mobility and the face of the animal.

Continue to look at the silk screen root system of the tunnel worm.

This is a complex hyphae network, with dense silk threads extending in all directions, connecting to the roots of trees underground in the forest.

After connected, steal, rob, cheat, exploit.
No, it’s called the sharing economy if you eat according to your skills.

In recent years, the farthest place has touched the edge of the Konoha forest, that is to say, the entire Konoha forest is under Miki’s sphere of influence, and the migrant trees absorb sunlight 24 hours a year, transform nutrients, and exchange nutrients. Give Meiji part of the protection fee.

To put it figuratively, it belongs to a vendor selling vegetables in the vegetable market, and it is a symbolic payment of one or two yuan for the stall fee and management fee to Meiji.

Maggie is not doing charity.

In fact, in Meiji's hometown, there is also the world's largest mushroom, which also works like this.

However, she is much more domineering. Within the sphere of influence, no other mushrooms are allowed to have a sip of the soup. Within hundreds of miles, she is the only mushroom. The trees are all her sheep.

Meiji left soup for other mushrooms, so often the root system under a tree is not only entangled with a kind of mycelium.

In this way, the tree can't bear it, but the benefits of sharing come. For poor households, resources can be mobilized through the mycelium network to give appropriate subsidies to allow them to grow healthily and vigorously.

The symbiosis between most mushrooms and trees is an exchange of goods between you and me, and each takes what he needs.

And like harmful pathogenic mycelia, Maggie will also help clean up.

Until one day it was either struck by lightning, or by forest doctors such as woodpeckers.

Only when her part-time job ends, Meiji will break down the surplus value and nutrition with tears, and make room for the future waves to grow.

It will happen for a while, and there will be no obvious benefits in just a few years, but if it continues, it will be a huge asset in 100 years, 1000 years, 1 years.

Don't look at the scenery of eating meat at the top of the food chain, but picking up trash also has unique benefits.

To take a long-term view, Meiji is not uncommon for a moment of happiness.

Therefore, the larger the territory, the greater the income.

Slogans like setting fire to mountains and wearing prisons must not only be erected, but also be enacted and strictly enforced.

Therefore, the mycelial network is divided into upper and lower three layers.

The shallow network close to the surface belongs to the upper-level toll network, which is responsible for the operation and management of the forest surface ecology, and works part-time as a monitoring system.

What you need to know is that plants are not stones. Although they are different from people, they also have signal receiving organs, which can sense external information, transmit information, and respond.

Typically, when a fire breaks out, the tree will notify other trees through the underground mycelium network, and these trees will take countermeasures according to different species. Some species that have no coping means will directly attack, while some species will take advantage of the fire to loot .

For example, Bai Jue's wood escape and ephemera technique can quickly move through the roots of underground trees. Once they enter Maggie's sphere of influence, it is impossible to hide from Maggie's monitoring network.

Even if passing through the surface forest, through the analysis of pheromones, Maggie can quickly distinguish whether it is a bug or a small animal, what kind, and how much.

Compared with the good life of the mother here in Konoha, the daughter in Yanyin Village can be described as a poor life of lack of food and clothing. It will take some time for the development of that place where birds don’t shit. For a long time to come, only It can hide in the underground of Yanyin Village and develop steadily.

The difficulty is that due to the lack of natural resources, development will be very slow.

Predatory exploitation of resources, of course, can speed up this project.

It's cool for a while, and when the time comes to restore natural resources, it will be a crematorium.

Now people in Yanyin Village, even if Meiji doesn’t continue to persecute, they still can’t get out of bed, the lost flesh has to grow back, and the sequelae are still there. It takes a long time to recuperate.

Even if Konoha's tunnel worm has grown to this size, Miki has invested a lot of money, and thus reduced part of the worm swarm's expenses, maintaining a long-term constant troop size to save money.

Due to the existence of the three networks, its size is like an iceberg floating on the sea, far larger than the corner that can be seen protruding from the sea.

Just the mycelium network of the upper layers of the forest that criss-crosses in all directions and connects all the trees, dug out and piled up, its huge tonnage is amazing and unimaginable.

Not only does generation require resources, but daily damage maintenance is also a considerable expense.

This made Maggie have to activate the swarm's war machine during the war to temporarily carry out war output.

(End of this chapter)