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Chapter 291 The Great Leaf Ants Awaken

As the sun rose higher, the leaf ants became more active, waving their antennae to greet Josh who was guarding the box.

She could gradually hear their drowsy sounds and their dissatisfaction with hunger; they wanted to eat.

Josh was prepared for this.

Yesterday, when I passed by the soybean field of the bigleaf ants, I took the opportunity to prune their branches and leaves. Josh quickly and decisively picked all the small, crooked soybean pods.

Leaving it would be a waste of nutrients; it's better for the leaf ants to eat it first.

Josh took out the bean stalks and small bean pods he had collected yesterday from his spatial backpack and gently tossed them down from above the box.

Contrary to Josh's expectations, they didn't seem interested in these large-leaved ant beans.

What's going on? Josh was a little confused. Weren't these guys supposed to only eat bigleaf ant beans and die if they didn't? Why did they seem to dislike them?

It's a pity Josh didn't say it. If he had, the leaf ants would have definitely had a good talk with him.

Yes, they must eat broad beans to survive, but who says they have to like broad beans? What's so delicious about these beans that don't taste as sweet as peas or broad beans?

I really don't know how our ancestors evolved to have to eat this stuff.

The leaf ants raised their antennae in resistance.

Besides, those leaf ants just can't eat other foods for long periods of time, they're not completely unable to eat anything. I can eat a mouthful of unpalatable leaf ant beans and a mouthful of sweet magic fruit, what can they do to me!

Josh said she knew nothing about this; all she knew was that the little ones in front of her looked even more listless than when they had just woken up, in the face of the food she had specially prepared.

Is it because I'm not used to the taste of the food?

Josh came up with an idea. No little insect could resist the temptation of delicious honey. If she poured the honey onto the leaves and pods of these big-leaf ant beans, wouldn't it be sweet and delicious?

Without hesitation, Josh quickly brought over a piece of honey that had been harvested this year and gently poured it over the large-leaf ant beans in a few circles.

Sure enough, the little ants reacted immediately.

Josh watched as the leaf ants began to try and eat the honey-covered leaf ant beans, but something looked strange.

Josh stared at them for a while, thinking that this might be their special feeding process.

In reality, the leaf ants find it both fragrant and unpalatable; it's so sweet that they can't bear to spit it out and can only eat it while gagging.

Josh couldn't see it, but the big-tailed yak next to him did.

Telling Josh would only add to her worries. If they don't eat these things, what else can these ants eat? They have to eat them even if they taste bad.

After eating the spiked ant beans, the leaf ants no longer complained of being hungry; instead, their antennae darted around aimlessly as they tried to explore.

Since Josh wanted to come out, he decided to explain things to them first.

"Hello, leaf ants! I'm Josh, the farmer who just fed you leaf ant beans. Those leaf ant beans were delicious, weren't they? As long as you work hard on my farm, you'll have plenty of leaf ant beans to eat in the future..." After Josh rattled off a bunch of things, he suddenly realized that the leaf ants were acting like they were in a daze, without any reaction.

"Big Leaf Ant Beans, did you hear that? Work hard and you'll get lots of Big Leaf Ant Beans," she blurted out.

Suddenly, one ant collapsed and froze, then one, two... and so on... all of them collapsed and remained motionless. "What happened?" Josh was bewildered.

Big-tailed yak couldn't stand it anymore and, barely suppressing a laugh, reminded Josh.

"Moo~" They don't like eating large-leaf ant beans. Josh, stop emphasizing this stuff. Look, they're almost dizzy with anger.

Huh? Josh turned to look at the group of little guys who were pretending to be dead, speechless. So you guys didn't actually like it after all!
I was wondering why she looked like she was eating with such difficulty.

"Alright, alright, I won't say anymore. Look, there's a small piece of honey here." Josh took the opportunity to place a piece of platinum honeycomb on the table, from which golden honey flowed, filling the air with a sweet aroma.

Honey! The radar on the leaf ant's head quickly activated, locked onto the target, and charged!
Josh opened the lid, and soon the leaf ants swayed their antennae and crawled out of the freezer through the passage.

At the very back was the queen ant, who had just woken up and was still a little dizzy. Her body was much larger than that of her kind, and she was now emaciated from hunger. She staggered behind the big leaf ant, also wanting to eat honey.

Unfortunately, it couldn't get over the frozen box and rolled down several times.

Josh stared at the first few large leaf ants that had arrived, finding them rather novel and interesting.

Looking back, they noticed the queen ant, who was dazed and disoriented from the fall.

Sorry, sorry, I neglected you, Josh thought to himself, his mind reeling.

She then decided to create a mini stove for the queen ant, breaking off a small piece of honeycomb and placing it separately next to her.

She's the queen ant, after all. We need to bribe her first so she can command more leaf ants to work for her later.

The honeycomb on the table wasn't small, but it was quickly destroyed by a swarm of leaf ants.

But they soon discovered that Josh was secretly giving the queen ant special treatment. The queen ant dared not be angry or speak out, but they dared not speak out against Josh. Their wildly waving antennae showed how rich their inner thoughts were.

"What are you looking at? They were ignoring me just now, and now that they've eaten the honey I gave them, they want to curse me?" Josh took the initiative.

Huh? The leaf ants paused for a moment, their antennae swaying. Oh, is this a bit inappropriate?

"Do you know you were wrong? If you do, I'll share with you next time if there's something good to eat. But if you still want to cricket me, then forget it." Josh started to manipulate the ants.

Delicious? We know we were wrong, we know we were wrong, we all know we were wrong. The leaf ants began to bow their heads to Josh in unison.

Josh's lips twitched at that speed. He only heard "delicious, right?" and probably didn't even understand what I was saying.

Well, Lord Josh is forgiving of you little ants, so I'll forgive you all.

“Okay, you’ve done alright for now. Next, you have a tough task ahead of you. Are you confident you can complete it?” Josh asked seriously.

Task? Difficult? What does that mean? The leaf ants whispered among themselves for a moment, then looked at Josh with some confusion.

Strangely enough, she actually saw confusion in the body language of a group of ants.

"Ahem, well, you've just been released from quarantine today, so you should take advantage of the good weather and start building your ant nest. You don't want to stay huddled in this little box all the time, do you?"

"No, of course we don't want to," the leaf ants shook their antennae.