"Do you like these pets?" Shi Lei pointed at all the pets with a stinky fart.

"Mm-hmm, they're all cute." The Yu Linglong sisters nodded busily, and they could see that they were sincerely fond of these pets.

"You can come here and play as much as you want, when you're fine, of course. In addition, you can choose a few as you want to be your pets, and the rest will be sold to Yizhou or even Chang'an. Shi Lei also likes this pair of cute little beauties very much, since they like these pets, they naturally want to satisfy them.

"Ah, it's hard to choose." The sisters really love these pets they haven't seen before, and they don't mean to shirk at all, just struggling with what to choose.

"You choose slowly, and tell these guards when you are ready, and let them pay attention to stay and don't sell."

The pets were not fully matured or fully trained, so they were no longer going with the caravan this time.

Waving his hand absently, Shi Lei turned around and walked towards the place where the gold-eating ants' nests gathered.

As for Xiao Jin, it's better to leave it to the sisters to take care of, and by the way, he can also be their personal bodyguard.

Uncle Blacksmith is about to set out with the army, and it is time to harvest a batch of gold, so that he can help smelt it while he is still at home.

With the batch of cowhide bags with the number written on it, Shi Lei soon came to the gold mine.

After this period of continuous production and construction, not only the nests that were previously damaged by the dull hairs have been completely repaired, but the team of copper peas has also grown.

Although there is nothing to see on the ground, in fact, under the ground, it has been dug in all directions by these hard-working miners, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a large-scale dungeon.

And the main body that supports this underground city are the ant alloys that make Shi Lei greedy, that is, the magic gold with excellent performance in the mouth of the blacksmith uncle.

It's just that the main task of the gold-eating ant colony is still mining gold mines, and these magic gold can only be regarded as by-products, Shi Lei doesn't want to waste the labor of the miners, and he is not very urgent in the production of magic gold, so his guards have not yet changed into these magic gold weapons that are comparable to divine weapons.

Of course, Shi Lei also took into account that if such a thing was to equip his subordinates on a large scale now, it would be too eye-catching, and it would easily attract covetous eyes.

Shi Lei is planning to have the opportunity to expand the population of gold-eating ants, and then consider finding a suitable place for the new gold-eating ants to act as a professional steelmaking plant.

After placing the cowhide bags at the corresponding holes in turn, and ordering the small miners to carry out all the gold they had collected with great difficulty, Shi Lei turned around to continue to investigate whether there was a suitable place for the future bio-steelmaking plant, especially to see if there were resources such as iron ore.

In Shi Lei's impression, the reserves of manganese steel in Yazhou should not be low, and the quality is very good. Shi Lei has always suspected that there should be such a place around, otherwise how could these copper peas produce so much magic gold.

Therefore, if there is nothing to do, Shi Lei likes to take his sapper shovel and go around to pinch it, and he looks like a professional inverted bucket, but unfortunately it is not a Luoyang shovel in his hand, which is not professional enough.

Speaking of this Luoyang shovel, Shi Lei is rare and generous to let the blacksmith uncle use magic gold to create a thing, of course, not for his own use, but temporarily lent it to the housekeeper uncle to contact the local master, after all, it is to help himself work, how to do it without the tools at hand.

If Shi Lei is not mistaken, there should not be such a suitable good thing now, it seems that this thing only appeared in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that when the native master saw this thing, he was closer than his wife, and he didn't let go of it.

Well, considering he couldn't even figure out which was his wife, it might not seem enthusiastic enough to say that, but he just liked it anyway.

For a Tufuzi, this thing belongs to the key to opening a new world, and in the future, this Tufuzi can not only find those tombs with obvious signs on the ground, such as sealing the soil and tombstones, but as long as the metal smell in the soil is inserted, the specific location of the tomb can be judged.

Thanks to the many novels he read in his previous life, Shi Lei can learn a lot of professional knowledge across fields, such as the knowledge of these inverted buckets, which he knows by reading tomb robbery novels.

And the reason why he is confident that he can find iron ore is also because he has read a lot of industrial novels, and he has also studied some of the manifestations of iron ore.

There's no way, Shi Lei is this urine, after all, he was born in engineering, and he can't understand what he can't understand, so he has to do everything possible to check the information to understand, and a certain degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder can be said to be a common problem of science and engineering men.

After wandering around this circle, Shi Lei has not gained anything for the time being, but he feels that he should be getting closer and closer to his goal, and there is still a lot of gold, waiting for him to harvest it, and his mood is still very beautiful, and he is not affected by this small setback at all.

Putting away the heavy cowhide bags one by one, the harvest of this trip made Shi Lei can't help but smile again. A few pounds of gold in hand, can you not be happy to sit back and enjoy the harvest that ordinary caravans have worked hard to go on several times.

I was used to checking the situation of the queens one by one every time I came over, and this time Shi Lei naturally did not fall behind. What made Shi Lei not know whether to be happy or not was that the earliest queen ant transformed by Shi Lei was really about to die.

This queen ant is the largest ant kingdom under Shi Lei's hands, and it is also a large gold mine that produces the most gold at present.

The reason why he was able to discover the magic of gold-eating ants in the first place was also thanks to the ant colony under the rule of the queen ant, after a long enough time of accumulation, so much golden sand was collected, and Shi Lei also discovered the existence of gold mines. It can be said that Shi Lei has some feelings for this queen ant.

But knowing that it was about to pass away, Shi Lei also had some joy, because the queen ant who came to the end of her life would produce a batch of eggs with reproductive ability, and then combine them in the form of marriage and flight, and the next generation of queen ants was born.

The last time I broke through the permission of the transformation system, I happened to meet Marriage Fei, so I was able to retrieve a few living ant queens and meet the requirements for elevating permissions.

However, because of the insufficient preparation, most of the queens were still sacrificed in the process of landing and opening their new kingdoms, because of the wrong way to open or the wrong choice of the rioters.

Naturally, this mistake cannot be repeated, Shi Lei plans to cultivate more fungal colonies first, and prepare enough food and energy for the newborn queen ants.

To put it simply, Shi Lei plans to grow mushrooms.