Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"For your so-called Originium Arts, look, it took me three days to make this miniature Originium implant! As for whether your brain nerves can adapt to it, I don't know. Theoretically, I used PNIS's intuitive system interface and Yelena's neural pulse signal encoding, so it should be possible."

Patriot had most of his organs and some of his bones and muscles replaced, but since his lower body was not badly injured, Xia Lin didn't touch it. Instead, he replaced the two large kidneys with artificial kidneys, which also enhanced the filtration of Originium components.

To permanently prevent the recurrence of Originium disease due to excessive intake of Originium—the excess portion is placed in an implant container that automatically mixes into artificial blood upon detection of a specific nerve impulse.

The neural impulses from Originium Arts were sampled from Yelena. As for whether Patriot could adapt to and use them, that was none of his business; after all, he was just a veterinarian.

After Patriot's treatment was completed, with the mindset that treating one is still a form of treatment, Xia Lin had Shield Guard and Little Rabbit undergo examinations and treatments. The others only had some of their surface crystals removed and underwent repair and filling treatments. They were then fitted with monitoring rings to control their intake of Originium, which could alleviate the onset of Oripathy.

Yelena underwent another surgery, which completely resolved her osteoma problem. It was caused by the abscess formation in her bone marrow, which was exacerbated by a biopsy. The procedure was completed in just a few minutes using specialized equipment, without even requiring surgery.

Incidentally, Xia Lin also gave her a built-in implant, so Yelena could better control the farm's equipment instead of constantly carrying around a terminal and inefficiently clicking around.

"I feel like nothing has changed." Yelena curiously stretched out her five fingers, feeling that her strength, perception, and agility had not changed. So what exactly was the implant that Xia Lin mentioned for?

"Nothing has changed. The implant I gave you is the most basic one, which also causes the least harm and damage to your body. It mainly works on your Originium Arts. Give it a try." Xia Lin handed over a water glass, which Yelena froze and cracked as soon as she touched it.

"This was originally an implant used by the crew and pilots of spacecraft in the very early days. In a weightless environment, bone calcium would be lost more quickly."

Even with advanced modern symbiotic technology that can form complex networks to minimize calcium loss, high blood calcium levels can still cause spasms.

So the function of this implant is to filter calcium and repair and strengthen the bones when necessary through micromechanics. Now Xia Lin has modified its settings to monitor and filter Originium particles and automatically inject them when the White Rabbit uses Originium Arts to enhance her Originium Arts.

It took three days to modify it, and a lot of things were ruined in the process. Fortunately, there are plenty of these kinds of things in the medical equipment boxes in the warehouse, so it wasn't too difficult to modify them.

"Also, let me know if you experience any immune or rejection reactions, and I'll remove the implant." "Okay!"

The white rabbit curiously and casually used her Originium Arts. This time, the watch didn't alarm because all the excess Originium particles were filtered out and stored, waiting to be refilled when she needed them. If it remained full, it would begin the discharge process.

This implant, located near the kidneys, will begin to pulverize Originium particles and then quickly drain them through a urinary catheter to maintain a balanced and stable concentration of Originium in Terra's body—in other words, her Originium Arts will have no cooling-off period or physical strain for a time.

Frost Star;

Attack: 545, Defense: 115, Magic Resistance: 0, Health: 1840, Range: 3x6 (width x length), Attack Speed: Slow, Cost: 34;

Special Feature: Each instance of damage inflicts 1 stack of Freeze; 3 stacks of Freeze will freeze the target for 3 seconds.

一技能：爆发射击：使用霰弹在接下来6（13/19）秒内每次攻击对范围内所有敌人造成40%（75%/100%）攻击力伤害，并且击退普通敌人一格（/后面是专3效果）；

Second skill: Frost Bombardment: Instantly freezes all enemies within range. For 15 seconds, damage dealt to frozen targets is increased by 130% (200%/250%).

Third skill: Originium Stabilizer, Passive: Every three attacks, it deals 130% (200%/290%) attack power as magic damage;

主动：立刻重置攻击，接下来12（25）秒内每次攻击造成攻击力100%（135%/170%）法术伤害，攻击速度增加40%（75%）；

Seiichi:

Falcon Heavy Shot: Shatters the target's armor, reducing the target's physical defense by 20% for 3 seconds;

Sniper Hunter: Reduces attack speed by 40%, increases attack power by 40%;

Fine two:

Falcon Heavy Shot: Shatters the target's armor, reducing the target's physical defense by 40% for 3.5 seconds;

Sniper Hunter: Reduces attack speed by 30%, increases attack power by 60% after killing an enemy, lasting 1.5 seconds;

Snowfield Reaper: Ignores 50% of the defense and spell resistance of frozen targets. [It feels like the issue with Lost Ship isn't whether it's overpowered or not, but rather the extent to which the developers were drinking fake alcohol and the mother was freely roaming the heavens.]

Chapter 43 Cyborg Warrior Bozogasti

Chapter 43

Patriot's surgery was performed intermittently for several days, mainly because some procedures had to wait for the wounds to heal before the next step could begin. After the entire surgery was completed, Patriot's right hand was completely covered with black electronic muscles, and there were also large areas of light black electronic muscle traces on his chest and abdomen. An artificial spine extended from his skull to near his tailbone.

This horrifying scene was quickly covered by a nano-bionic sterile membrane used to create the fake skin. Xia Lin inoculated some Patriot epithelial cell samples onto it. Under the action of cell regeneration agents, new skin would soon grow along this sterile membrane and metabolize and replace the membrane that served as the skin.

The liquid medications in the treatment chamber can be changed from expensive, potent regenerative fluids to ordinary culture media, which replenish the body with necessary nutrients and substances needed for tissue growth through a sterile, semi-permeable membrane that replaces the skin.

"He should wake up in about a week..." Xia Lin checked Patriot's physical data, which looked very good. Now he had to get down to business, which was to clear a patch of wild land around the farm before planting the cold-resistant wheat in the greenhouse.

Over the past two months, the White Rabbit and the infected have cleared away most of the wooden stakes, leaving the remaining wood roots to be dealt with by heavy plows and tractors.

With the help of the mechanical arm of the strongman, Xia Lin finally completed the assembly of the agricultural chassis and possessed a real helper for alien farmers, the core productivity of the agricultural colony - the "Bull-type multi-functional agricultural vehicle" - commonly known as: interstellar tractor.

Once fully assembled, it is almost equivalent to a mobile agricultural processing station, capable of automatically harvesting agricultural products and processing them into various finished products, except for some that involve drying and fermentation processes and still need to be sent back to the workshop.

The workstation can be equipped with various auxiliary machinery, such as excavator arms, robotic arms for pruning and harvesting fruit trees, and log cutters for clearing large areas of shrubs and woodlands.

However, it is currently just a large chassis parked outside the garage. The modular equipment that Xia Lin prepared only includes the basic parts. The working machinery is already prepared in the colony warehouse, so he doesn't need to bring it over.

However, at least for now, it can pull plows and shred wood. Once the breeding is complete, the automatic seeding module will be ready by hand.

Otherwise, relying on just two people to sow and transplant rice seedlings on several hectares of land would likely result in fatalities.

"Yelena, get in the car and see what this new vehicle is like..." The Bull-type vehicle's cockpit is much larger than the Hercules', a spacious double-row cockpit, and the back seat can even be used to make a bed for resting.

Besides, even if it were the cockpit of the Hercules, Yelena could still squeeze in if she were small enough.

"Is this the one that the warehouse has been unable to assemble?"

"Yes, powered by a 75-megawatt micro fusion reactor, with a 100,000-horsepower output, a densely layered graphene shell and a carbon nanotube honeycomb panel lining, and double-layer protective buffer gel, it won't be damaged even if it crashes into a mountain at full speed. It's a great helper for farmers. With this, we won't need infected people to farm the land."

"But what are they doing?"

"I'll protect the forest. After that, I plan to plant some hardy fruit trees and shrubs, because those things can't be harvested automatically..."

The main problem is that berries and many cold-resistant fruits have quite thin skins, making them easy to damage during automatic harvesting, unless Xia Lin is planning to make jam.

Tropical fruits that can be harvested automatically are prepared to be planted in greenhouses by drones. Xia Lin obviously doesn't have enough drones to manage several hectares or even tens of hectares of fruit trees planted all over the hillside.

“Oh, right, they still need to cultivate some of their own land. I will provide them with land and seeds so that we don’t have to provide them with food.”

The main problem is that food is bulky but lightweight. As the number of infected people increases, it becomes less cost-effective to continue hiring people with food. The key issue is that it would waste a lot of time running back and forth to deliver the food.

Moreover, as an agricultural technology station, it is normal for it to disseminate advanced agricultural production methods and seeds.

However, Xia Lin plans to pay the wages in the local currency, because the farm's output will soon be more than these people can consume. Using it to trade for Ursus silver coins and other raw materials and products is the most appropriate way.

It's manageable now that there are few people, but as the population grows, we can't rely on the farm's production line for all our food, clothing, housing, and transportation needs. Nano-honeycombs also have a lifespan. Instead of producing these low-tech daily necessities that locals can provide, it would be better to focus on more important manufacturing projects.

Xia Lin had an additional purpose in absorbing these people: in case the Ursus Empire or something similar attacked, these people would also take up arms to resist in order to protect their land and villages. This would prevent him from resisting a country's regular army with just a few machine gun turrets and a farm.

The Windrunner is a civilian cargo ship. It may be carrying some strange things, but it certainly doesn't have the combat drones and drone CNC command towers of seven or eight army groups on board. Therefore, engaging in positional warfare with a country's regular army would be extremely unwise.

"By the way, Yelena, when I have time, I'll make a batch of firearms. You can teach those people how to fire and shoot. I don't think those guys in the south will let this go. Also, I'll alter a protective suit for you to be smaller, so you'll be safer when you go out."

It can effectively prevent being shot in the back. Although it is an industrial protective suit and an assistive exoskeleton, it is easy to block ballistic attacks from conventional gunpowder weapons after welding on alloy plates.

"Alright, sit tight, let's go!" Xia Lin tapped the touchpad, pushing up the power output, just like when he was taking his tractor driving test. The behemoth started smoothly and steadily, roaring out of the farm gate with a slightly noisy sound compared to other vehicles.

"Look, this button is for lowering the plow blade. I've already set the spacing, depth, and other parameters, so don't mess with these numbers."

Xia Lin demonstrated the operation to Yelena, showing how the heavy plow on the bull's back repeatedly rose and fell before driving the bull to the westernmost end of the farmland.

"During the first tillage, don't drive too fast or too slow, just a moderate speed..."

Imagine the scene of a 100,000-horsepower tractor paired with a heavy plow made of interstellar alloy: even frozen permafrost and stubborn tree roots beneath it would be shredded into dust, turning into flying waves of earth as a vehicle, and completing one round of plowing would take less than ten minutes.

"Basically, after repeating this process three to five times, you can enter the deep tillage phase, turning over the bottommost weeds and their roots. Then, press this button to release the seeding drone to spray artificial enzymes around the area, and then switch to the automatic mulching mode..."

The sterile polymer coating prevents the soil from freezing again or evaporating and turning into sand. The sealed environment, combined with artificial reagents, accelerates the rapid decomposition and fermentation of chopped tree roots and similar materials, turning them into humus.

"Once the mulching is completed, in another ten days to two weeks, we can plant cold-resistant corn and millet..."

Millet and corn are both cold-resistant and tolerant of poor soil, making them the best choice for growing raw materials. However, corn has low nutritional value, and millet is difficult to harvest and has a very low yield.

However, now that there are automatic harvesting modules, Xia Lin can naturally plant millet, an extremely troublesome crop. Its biggest advantage is that it is extremely suitable for arid, barren, and cold regions.

Although Ursus is not arid, the most suitable place is actually the northernmost wasteland or ice desert.

[Only the green hills wither and the bamboo dies, but the millet on the ground dries up from drought. (Ancient agricultural proverb)]

The rumbling of the tractors lasted for less than an hour before stopping. It must be said that, given the severe shortage of land, using mechanized and modern industrial farming is a waste of resources.

This thing is designed for working on farmland in colonies that can easily cover hundreds or thousands of hectares, or even tens of square kilometers. It can handle everything from initial tillage, shallow tillage, deep tillage, mulching, soil protection, pesticide application, and agents that accelerate humus production all at once. It took only one hour to clear all the arable land around Xia Lin Farm.

The truck bed is filled with a lot of miscellaneous items to be thrown into the recycling pool to become synthetic soil. This is for use in desert areas. Theoretically, even if there is only a single layer of limestone ground, it can cover it with a thick layer of plantable soil if there is sufficient raw material for synthetic soil.

Synthetic humus artificial soil technology is hailed as one of the three major agricultural achievements in the history of the Covenant, which has effectively solved the problem that alien soil conditions are unsuitable for planting.

Although they have more sophisticated and higher-yield hydroponic and aeroponic techniques, and even the ability to directly synthesize edible organic matter—

However, due to considerations of cost, market demand, and practical feasibility, these are usually used in emergency situations and when conditions are unavailable.

Just as forcing farmers to grow only staple crops and using chemical fertilizers and genetically modified crops on a large scale does not indicate advanced agricultural technology, it only indicates the opposite conclusion—that agricultural productivity is extremely backward, to the point that it cannot guarantee the normal agricultural products and food needs of civilization.

For civilizations with modern industrial agriculture, green and organic crops are, in a sense, a luxury and a surplus of highly developed productivity.

As for using fusion reactors to produce atoms and resynthesize them into food, setting aside the issues of cost and output, this phenomenon alone demonstrates that this civilization's food production needs are so urgent that they need to squeeze out the needs of industrial production to forcibly satisfy them.

[This is a strange cycle in human civilization: the more industrialized and mass-produced a product is, the more advanced and convenient the technology, the less likely it is to be accepted or liked by people. It is often seen as a low-end product, and people tend to flock to handcrafted products that require extremely primitive technology.]

In the time that followed, Xia Lin could only wait for the humus to form under the mulch, and then plant the corn and millet.

The next step was to use bulls to dig irrigation ditches and install automatic irrigation and drainage equipment in preparation for rice cultivation in paddy fields.

In addition, the area of ​​the fishpond will be expanded, and the two horses and two cows, which are already six months old, will be released from the artificial womb and put into the cowshed and stable for raising. As for the work of training the horses and cows, Xia Lin will teach Yelena to do it later.

Although there are tractors now, heavy draft horses and cattle used for both meat and plowing are still useful. At least the latter can be bred for food, right? Thinking of food, Xia Lin decided to clear another area across the stream to plant alfalfa and other pasture grasses, and use livestock embryos to breed a batch of meat goats and wool sheep. Adding four dairy cows would be enough to start a ranch.

As for feed, organic sauce is torture for humans, but it's great mixed into green fodder for livestock.

In fact, many of the organic sauces on the warships were used by the crew to feed the fish, to the point that a warship could lack everything else, but it would definitely have a fish tank.

It is nutritious and easily absorbed, and it is excellent for mixing with green fodder for cattle and horses. With the addition of extracts rich in cellulose and starch and animal feed additives produced at the recycling pond, it can be processed into very good cattle and horse feed, which is also good for feeding chickens, sheep, and even dogs.

Xia Lin has no plans to breed hunting dogs or guard dogs yet, but it will be necessary once the fruit trees and shrubs are planted.

Especially after the ranch is established, well-trained sheepdogs will be needed to help, and having some cats and dogs on the farm will make it feel more like a real place, rather than a large construction site.

In addition, a batch of riding horses also needs to be bred for use in future trade with other towns. We can't expect the infected to carry them on their shoulders or have tractors driven by them, can we?

These heavy draft horses and riding horses can compensate for the lack of transportation and means of transport for infected individuals.

Whether they would dress these horses in armor and turn them into warhorses with full human and horse armor is none of Xia Lin's business; theoretically, these genetically modified animals are entirely feasible.

Fortunately, the 14th colony that Xia Lin was going to was a proper agricultural and pastoral colony, not a place for frivolous tourism-related amusement projects like Mount & Blade.

Otherwise, he would have a genetically modified, not-at-all-retro warhorse on hand—a 1.5-ton, 2-meter-tall, four-legged tank with combat insect genes that came from ancient times!

While Xia Lin was making arrangements for the next phase of the farm's main operations, Patriot finally recovered from his post-surgery state, "Gurgle—"

I felt completely powerless in my limbs, and every part of my body was throbbing with pain, but the pain was better than the numbness that had caused me to lose all sensation.

Bozokasti (Patriot) looked around. It seemed to be a farmhouse. The walls, made of double-layered logs and mud-filled interlayers, looked quite insulated. A layer of frost had formed on the windows, which made him wonder how long he had been unconscious.