Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"200 jin...tsk, the soil and water are not good." Xia Lin looked at the two-story-high beehive. With pheromones sprayed on his body, he would not be regarded as an enemy by the guard bees.

To prevent wild animals from stealing it (obviously, sugar is a rare food for animals), these custom-made black bees have specialized soldier bees whose sting venom is not lethal.

However, it causes extremely severe pain, enough to make almost all animals avoid it.

Worker bees, on the other hand, have lost their stingers and concentrate their nutrition and development on their brewing and fermentation organs, allowing them to collect more pollen and nectar and produce honey at a faster and larger rate.

"Wait a minute, is 200 pounds a little more?" Yelena, who was spraying pheromones and helping to remove a large honeycomb cell, looked at Xia Lin with a look of disbelief. Other infected people in the distance who heard Yelena's scream and Talulah, who was stuffing the honeycomb cell back into place, almost bumped into the artificial honeycomb tower.

"You think 200 jin of honey a week isn't enough?" This yield has already brought smiles to the faces of the farm workers who came temporarily to help with the honey harvest.

In a normal beehive, when providing nectar in a dedicated flower field, the honey production will not exceed 30 catties in about 4-5 days. This requires feeding the bees more than 1 catty of sugar water, otherwise your bees can live for a week - they need to eat more than 1 catty of honey every day.

Although this is an artificial honeycomb tower, one honeycomb cell is almost the size of two or three normal beehives. Based on the optimal honey production of local bees, plus the boost from the spring and summer flowering season, a maximum of 60-70 catties of honey per week is considered impressive.

"Yes, normally I also cultivate special green honey lichen burls..." These are used to produce a nutrient-rich, green, blocky honey mass that is not suitable for human consumption. This allows black bees to process the honey into high-quality honey more quickly and prevents them from eating all the honey themselves.

"In that case, the output would be about 150 kilograms per week per unit."

The farm's alfalfa field area can only support the full-capacity production of one artificial honeycomb tower; the other's output is much meager, with only about 120 catties of honey per cell.

However, a two-story-high beehive still produces about 3 to 40 tons of honey. What does it feel like to have nearly 4 tons of honey piled together, which is shiny, golden in color, and as precious as gold?

For the Terrans, especially the Ursus, particularly those on the snowfields, it's more impactful than a mountain of gold. "Don't overthink it, at least a third of these will be processed into special black bee feed to feed them back to the region."

If the honey is not processed into feed, the black bees will consume more than half of it if they simply eat it.

After all, they are numerous and have great endurance, able to fly hundreds of kilometers to collect nectar and travel back and forth, which means they eat a lot and are very picky about their food.

"That's still almost 20 tons of honey?!" Yelena's eyes practically turned into honey. "Old Xia, what about the honey cake you promised?!"

"Um... okay, but I need to keep a significant portion for processing, send some to Schutzburg, and convert the rest into cash."

"Then why don't you get that lichen tumor implanted?"

“If we plant it, this whole piece of land will be ruined…” Xia Lin was both amused and exasperated. It was a Zerg contraption used to plunder the organic matter of planets.

Without full support from the Covenant technology, if we simply continue using it like this, the Ursus snowfield will have to be renamed the Ursus tundra within three years, and in ten years at most it will become the northern desert of Ursus, the kind that is barren except for densely packed fungal tumors.

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In reality, with good bee breeds and if you feed the bees sugar water, a hive can be harvested about every 3-4 days, producing about 4-5 catties of honey.

If it's during the flowering season and you've planted a large flower field, 30-35 jin (15-17.5 catties) shouldn't be a problem—but bees need to consume more than a jin (0.5 kg) of sugar a day.

Chapter 87 Snake

Chapter 87

As the flowering season ends, the black bees basically stop collecting and making honey. As an artificially customized bee colony, at this stage, the colony size will be reduced to 1/10 of its original size, retaining only the soldier bees guarding the nest, a small number of worker bees, and a large number of bee eggs, entering a long period of "dormancy".

Once the artificial hive releases pheromones again, the black bees will quickly enter the hatching state.

Within 6 hours, the bees hatch into a large number of worker bees and young bees. Basically, you only need to activate the hive 1-2 days before the flowering season to start working.

Essentially, this is not a natural insect, but rather a biological production machine used in the industrial manufacture of various amino acids and sugars.

Its prototype is the Zerg's "Carrier Beetle," which consists of a giant, mobile mother body carrying a large number of fist-sized offspring. As it moves, it harvests all the organic matter on the ground. Inside the mother beetle's huge abdominal sac, the organic matter undergoes complex biological enzyme treatment, fermentation, and processing, producing green, sticky honey balls from its tail, which are then collected and transported away by other units.

Because the process is so similar to walking and defecating at the same time, significant process improvements were made during the customization process to avoid this behavior that would severely affect human appetite. The functions of synthesizing proteins and cellulose were also removed, changing the honeyball from a poop-green color to a normal amber color.

After processing dozens of tons of honey into animal feed, a portion is directly mixed with trace amounts of flavoring to create food-grade honey with a rich floral aroma, while another portion is used as a raw material for pharmaceuticals.

Because they are artificial bee colonies, they produce almost no propolis or beeswax, which are used by normal bees to build nests. They rely entirely on the cells of the artificial hive to prevent black bees from escaping and becoming wild. In a normal natural environment, this species would not be able to survive and reproduce.

Approximately 10 tons of honey were processed into pouches similar to milk tea sticks and placed in stores in Schulzburg and Reunion, where the prices were quite high.

Neither the infected nor ordinary people dared to buy it. They would only take out a little when important guests came to their homes and put it in tea or cheap wine.

Adding honey to wine is a secret recipe for improving its quality, invented by the Romans, but the cost was simply too high…

Only Roman nobles could afford such extravagance. As for later European nobles, they would probably need to be of the status of a French king to afford such luxury.

As for the rest, Xia Lin withheld about 2-3 tons of honey to make various other foods, such as the honey cake that Yelena wanted to eat.

There were also honey-glazed cookies distributed to the school children, since their parents came to help harvest honey for free, they should at least receive some compensation.

As for the fact that they licked their gloves so clean after harvesting honey that they didn't need to be washed, let's just pretend we didn't see that.

After all, in such a harsh and cold place, it's rare to find anything sweet, and wild bees are not uncommon.

However, it's hard to say whether there's even a cup of honey in a beehive. If you take it all, there won't be any bees left in that place next year.

At the medical station, the doctor with medium-length white and green hair, "Miss Talulah," picked up the medical record on the table and looked at the silver-haired dragon girl in front of her. "How much do you know about your own physical condition?"

“I…” Talulah glanced to the side. Xia Lin was by the medicine dispensing station, holding a stack of honey cakes and eating them with a spoon. She looked very peaceful, but…

"Click—" Yelena pulled back the bolt, checked the internal Gauss device, ejected the magazine, checked the battery status and lead bullets, pulled it back a few times to ensure that the feeding and electrode contact were normal, and then put the safety on. After doing all this, Yelena placed the "Phoenix" Gauss pistol flat beside her and picked up the cake she had eaten halfway through.

Talulah seemed to be saying, "We're friends, but when it's time to shoot, I won't hold back." This atmosphere made what was supposed to be a routine Oripathy check-up for everyone seem a bit eerie.

"Speak, Doctor, what's her condition..." Patriot wasn't wearing his armor or carrying his shield, but he was leaning on his halberd.

Beside it was a small orca carrying a bag of honey tea, its legs clamped around the blade, inspecting the hilt and the components inside the sword, as if it were about to go to the battlefield and wreak havoc at any moment.

Kal'tsit had informed them to come and be on high alert, so everyone came armed. Patriot probably guessed what was going on, but Skadi seemed completely oblivious. She was simply following orders; who the enemy was or where they were didn't matter—"Just kill them all!"

Siberian orcas never ask how many enemies there are or where they are; they only ask when they can start their attack.

"Nervous system abnormalities caused by Originium infection, not Oripathy, but some kind of Originium Arts using Originium as a medium, which reminds me of something very bad."

"The Terrans possess Originium Arts, which are essentially Originium particle contacts on their nerve endings. Each person's contacts and the polarity of the Originium particles are different, which is what is known as Originium Arts talent. This applies to both Infected and ordinary people. However, because Infected people have too many Originium particles in their bodies, even those with extremely low talent can awaken Originium Arts..."

"Conversely, races like the Sarkaz and Draco have better Originium Arts talent and are also susceptible to Oripathy. Their nerve endings have more developed Originium sympathetic functions, with higher particle density and greater sensitivity, which means..."

"The nervous system can sense and interfere with Originium, which means that, conversely, Originium can also transmit information to you through the nervous system. This is how the spells of the reconnaissance sorcerers work. By releasing Originium pulses, they sense Originium devices within range, creating an interference effect that, in turn, affects their own nervous system, producing a phenomenon similar to a premonition."

Kal'tsit and Xia Lin gave a general introduction to these physiological facts, but no one, including Patriot, understood a single word. Only Skadi showed a look of half-understanding; she could roughly understand the process, but not completely.

"To put it bluntly, anyone who can influence Originium means that Originium can influence them, if someone uses some kind of Originium technique to influence the Originium particles in another person's body."

Especially the Originium particles within the nervous system—what will happen then? I think you, Bozokasty, know best. As I just said, the Sarkaz have the strongest neural sympathetic system of all races, and the Sarkaz king…”

“I understand the king’s court and authority, the king’s retinue and guards.”

"What are they saying, Lao Xia..."

"I don't know, I'm not good at dealing with riddles." Old Xia maintained his normal posture. He knew the medical terms, but he was completely baffled by things like royal court and authority.

"Forces are reciprocal, and so are Originium Arts. Talulah, what is the purpose of this art? Who used this neuro-Originium Arts on you, and through what medium? Or is this art conditionally triggered, or is there something constantly communicating with you through it..."

Kal'tsit displayed brain scans on the backlit panel. "Or rather, is the person in front of us still Talulah? Who are you, really?"

"I...I don't know. I thought I should still be me, but..."

"Wait a minute, can you remove it?"

"Theoretically, it's possible. Since it's possible to influence the nervous system indirectly through Originium Arts, affecting the host's mind, and even completely physically brainwashing and altering the nervous system and hippocampal structure, influencing and reading memories, it's theoretically possible to remove them through some technological means, but..."

As everyone knows, to achieve this, the sorcerer's Originium Arts must be extremely powerful, powerful enough to precisely manipulate the Originium particles within someone's nervous system, powerful enough to indirectly amplify their own brainwaves and spread their thoughts and skills through the Originium Effect Field.

In this world, only a very few beings, who can almost be called "gods" or "demons," can do this.

For example, the Sarkaz Demon Lords are called Demon Lords and Demons because they can read skills and copy minds in this way.

Conversely, it can also provide final solace to fallen soldiers, creating vivid illusions and false memories in their minds, allowing them to pass away peacefully and warmly.

It is called "demon" because this skill can be used to comfort the dead, convey thoughts, and learn skills.

However, it can also be used to tamper with memories and correct personalities, which is why the Sarkaz are hated and have indeed done things that demons do.

However, Borocasti only hoped that the prophecy would never come true, and that the Sarkaz would never have a true new Demon Lord.

Because once the Demon King becomes an infected, then in the current situation of this infected person, her or his hatred will completely burn away the entire Terra.

"So, a new Demon King has been born, and is observing us through Talulah's body?" Patriot raised his halberd. "Sorry, child, don't blame me—"

“Wait, I haven’t finished yet.” Kal’tsit stopped Patriot from destroying the “Vessel of the Demon King.” “I didn’t say that this technique came from the Demon King. It’s different from the techniques of the Sarkaz. Bozo, you know, I’ve seen real Demon Kings. They are fundamentally different.”

"Yes, Lord Kal'tsit, are you... sure this isn't the new Demon Lord?"

"No, the Demon King's skills aren't that crude. Let me guess, this might be someone who has dealt with the Demon King and deliberately imitated this unique Sarkaz Originium Arts or sorcery. Who could it be?"

Kal'tsit looked at Talulah, meeting her panicked eyes, "I don't know if you're still looking at us through those eyes. But it's really awful."

"Getting back to the main point, is it possible to remove it?"

"I'm afraid it will be difficult, because we don't know where this Originium Arts is implanted. The brain is a very mysterious thing. It's easy to put something in it, as long as you have enough human test subjects, you can always experiment to figure out how to safely implant this Originium Arts into the brain's nervous system. But, to safely remove it..."

"It's like the difference between the difficulty of planting a bomb and defusing a bomb..." Xia Lin shrugged. Planting a bomb is easy, but even the simplest bomb can be incredibly stressful to defuse.

"This kind of surgery can probably only be detected by the Queen herself when she is resurrected, so that she can find the real problem and stop it. After all, this is just a poor imitation of the Sarkaz king's sorcery."

"What about technical means? Surgery?"

"I don't have the technology to accurately extract those Originium particles smaller than 10 nanometers from the nerves without damaging her brain."

“Um… a symbiote might work, but I’m not sure if she can accept it.” The best age for symbiote implantation is before the age of one, as the rejection reaction after that can be very severe. Froststar was just trying anything, and Xia Lin wasn’t sure what the consequences would be if Talulah gave her an injection.

"The principle of symbiotes is also neurosympathy. They attach to nerve endings and between various synapses, releasing mimic currents."

While I don't fully understand witchcraft and Originium Arts, altering the nervous system is a very long and complex process, and it's difficult to do it completely. Therefore, it's more about changing skills and personality.

"So, what are you trying to say?"

"Use the symbiote to fill up the input port positions first, so no matter what he wants to do, he won't find an empty space. At that time, the Originium particles that have been added out of thin air should be displayed on the brain imaging."

"Um...you're not suggesting we just cut that part off, are you?"

“That’s true…” The prefrontal cortex therapy is indeed a bit too cruel.

"So, this is the only treatment method we can use?" Yelena meant that the only way was to blow her head off and eliminate any future problems.

"No, there's still a way, Talulah. Are you still Talulah?"

"I... should be..."

"Alright, I hope you will answer my questions truthfully. You know, if you try to pretend in front of me, you're probably overthinking it."

Do you know who planted the Originium Arts?

"It's the Duke, Kosiché, I remember, but I don't remember when it happened, my memory... You might as well kill me!" She would rather die than become a puppet of that old black snake.

Searching through his own memories, he couldn't even recall when he was taken away from Longmen, whether it was daytime or nighttime, whether it was sunny or rainy. These two contradictory perceptions highlight the irrationality and unreliability of his memories.

"No, I'm not even sure if it's him; my memory is unreliable."