Ants exploded, I opened a power plant to supply power to the world

Chapter 4 004 Ant Moving
One hundred and fifty yuan a day as a laborer's wage is in line with the market price in the town. Old Lin has always been open and aboveboard in his work, and Lin Zhe is no exception.

In addition to the wages, a pack of cigarettes worth twelve dollars a day was also provided. All the necessary courtesy was shown and the workers worked even harder. The pond was built in a few days and it was straight and flawless.

After the built pool was dried for a few days, all the electromagnetic collection panels from the home warehouse were transported over and laid tightly in the pool one by one.

After finishing all these, Lin Zhe went to find the excavator master in the town. Two hours of driving was enough to dig out enough soil, and then he found a car to transport all the soil to the pool inside the factory.

After some exploration on my own, I found that these ants that can generate electricity are very tough and do not need sterile soil or anything. They are as durable as other ants in nature.

The next work does not require the help of other people, and there is no need to waste time now. The ants will never stop expanding anyway. I just need to prepare everything slowly and steadily.

Except for the time for eating and sleeping, Lin Zhe has been staying in the factory during this period. It is not impossible to ask other people to do these jobs, but the funds on hand are limited, so he has to save as much as possible.

Slowly flatten the soil in these pools, making sure that the soil is not hardened but not too loose, so that the ants can build nests and reproduce here easily.

Next were the equipment that he had purchased at great expense. These equipment had basically emptied Lin Zhe's wallet and the savings book given by his parents. Fortunately, the manufacturers of the most expensive motors had an promotion where they only charged half of the deposit for a three-month trial period, and the remaining half could be transferred after three months. This was a pleasant surprise, otherwise the money would not be enough.

Then there are some power storage equipment. You can simply build a power storage warehouse in the factory. There are also dispatchers, transformers, etc.

Lin Zhe really didn't know how to use these things, so he thought of a candidate in the town, an old electrician who retired from a large power plant in the provincial capital.

As a retired electrician, his skills are naturally needless to say. Even the power plant in the next town is willing to spend money to re-employ this old electrician from the provincial capital, but he doesn't want to go. As a local of Shima Town, he wants to stay in his hometown after retirement and doesn't want to go out again, even if it is only an hour's drive away from here to the next town.

So that day, Lin Zhe made up his mind to invite the man to come out of retirement and brought good cigarettes and good wine to his home.

The old man retired with honor and has a generous pension to support him, so his living standard is naturally much better than other old people in the town. Other old men smoked shredded tobacco, smoked rice crackers, or bought cigarettes that cost ten yuan a pack at most, but he had to buy more than twenty yuan a pack.

Now that he is retired, he makes a pot of hot tea and takes a stool to play cards and chess every day. He feels so comfortable. Originally, he didn't want to return to the business world, but this kid from the Lin family came to his house and was very eloquent. He said that he was invited to be a "consultant" and to help when he needed some advanced and complex electrical problems. He didn't need to deal with other things on weekdays.

The most important thing is that his work location is in the town, so he doesn’t have to leave home, and he is given a stable “tea money” of 1,800 yuan a month.

Although this salary was not much, only a fraction of his pension, the work was indeed easy. In addition, the old man had a good impression of Lin Zhe, so after he persuaded him for a few days, the old man agreed.

With such a "technical expert", things became much easier. We invited a few people who knew about electricity to help, and under the old man's command, the equipment in the factory was set up very smoothly.

Three days later, Lin Zhe's town power plant was fully functional. It used a biological and environmentally friendly power generation method, so many buildings such as "ash storage towers", "chimneys" and "incinerators" were not needed, which saved a lot of trouble. Everything was ready. Now all they had to do was move the ants over to generate electricity. Lin Zhe carefully took out all the ants he had bred before and drove them to the plant.

In two months, the three queen ants laid dozens of ant eggs at the beginning, and slowly grew into three ant colonies with a total of several thousand ants.

This reproduction speed is much faster than that of normal ants. They have been living in this old big fish tank for some time. Now it is time to give them a wider space to develop.

When they got to the factory, Lin Zhe put all the little guys into a cement pool with soil in it and the edge of the pool was also smeared with anti-escape powder.

As for moving them, there is no need to force them, as that will cause certain damage, which is something Lin Zhe cannot accept. Therefore, the best option is to provide them with a more suitable environment and let them move out by themselves.

He directly destroyed one side of the fish tank and put the entire thing into the pond. The fish tank had become very dry because Lin Zhe had not increased the humidity for a while. The suitable environment for ants is very dependent on humidity, so a humidifier was installed under the pond.

After entering, the ants quickly sensed the changes through their antennae and began the moving work in an orderly manner.

After more than two hours, although the new home has not been built yet, the ants have already walked out of the fish tank with the queen ant and ant eggs and went down into the soil in the pond.

Such a large pond with thousands of ants in it would seem very empty, just like a leaf falling into the ocean. However, Lin Zhe believed that with the ants' terrifying reproductive ability, it would not take long before they would turn this place into an ant kingdom.

The thickness of the soil is enough for them to build their homes. When they are fed, they can generate electric current which will be strongly absorbed by the electromagnetic plates and then transferred to the battery storage compartment for distribution to various places for use.

Seeing these little guys start to dig the soil and build nests in an orderly manner under the influence of the pheromones released by the queen ant, Lin Zhe naturally felt relieved.

He had used an image recognition software to roughly come up with a number before. Now he has thousands of "power ants", and the reproduction rate will only increase exponentially, so he is not worried about the number at all.

The license obtained from the county’s industrial and commercial administration department yesterday was also hung up: “Zhetong Electric Power Company”. This is the name registered with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. The legal person of the company is Lin Zhe. Apart from this, there is currently only an unregistered “consultant”.

It’s not that Lin Zhe doesn’t want the old man to be listed as a formal employee in the company, but listing as a formal employee involves paying taxes, social insurances and housing funds, and it would be troublesome to provide proof, etc. His pocket is really tight at the moment, so he would avoid unnecessary expenses within a reasonable range. The old man also expressed his understanding and said he was not in a hurry about this matter...

After finishing all these, Lin Zhe didn't even go back to his home in the town tonight. He simply made a bed in the factory and spent the night there. These ants are his hope for the future, and he can't do without someone watching over them.

(End of this chapter)