Ark Journey

However, even though he was very efficient, all this work was not completed until the afternoon. After all, 9 square meters is a huge area.

After finishing the big one, Xue Zhi built a smaller one on the side, which was 400 square meters. He planned to raise chickens here. According to the scenes seen in some rural areas, he also built a shed on one side of the wall for the chickens to sleep at night.

W came to see Xue Zhi at noon, but after waiting for a while, she saw that he was still working, so she didn't disturb him. She put the lunch box next to the first fence and left. She was very curious about how Xue Zhi could fly in the sky. He had never demonstrated this ability before, so she could ask him when he returned in the evening.

The area that had just been completed could only be considered a pasture. After finishing this, Xue Zhi went on to find someone in the village who knew how to raise livestock, and then began to build a place for the livestock to live according to their requirements.

This time, there were quite a few people watching him while he was working. It was as if the power of God made some people suddenly understand how the wide canal that appeared overnight came about.

When Xue Zhi landed in front of some people, a few of them almost knelt down, leaving him speechless.

It is quite easy to build a place for livestock to live. Just stack a few blocks and put a switchable redstone lamp on it for lighting. A sturdy and reliable shed that can shelter from wind and rain is built next to the pasture. The two are connected by several fence gates.

Finally, there was a warehouse for storing feed. Xue Zhi directly exchanged a considerable amount of livestock feed and put it in. Eating only grass was not enough for some livestock that would be used for work.

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Thinking this way, Xue Zhi asked the villagers who came to guide the construction of various things:

"Is this okay?"

A younger villager nodded respectfully. His family raised livestock and had some savings, otherwise they would have been buried in some corner long ago. He also had great respect for Xue Zhi, who had shown great strength and kindness.

"Hmm."

"Wait a minute then. I'll be back soon."

The sun was setting, and although the night had no effect on Xue Zhi, his long-standing habit still made him feel that it would be better to finish his work before dark.

Floating high in the sky, quickly catching up with the drone that was tracking these creatures, Xue Zhi looked down at the animals that were slowly grazing below.

"How should I bring them back? If I grab them directly with telekinesis, I'm afraid some of them will be scared to death by stress, and I can't control the intensity of the anesthetic..."

Various measures flashed through Xue Zhi's mind, and he quickly thought of a feasible method.

Xue Zhi raised her hand, and magic power began to quietly seep into the earth. The animals with huge tumors on their necks did not notice anything.

[These should be tumor beasts, right? I remember that these things are positioned as cows in Terra]

Thinking of the name of the animal in his mind, Xue Zhi slowly clenched his fists. As he moved, a large piece of thick soil was quickly lifted and reinforced, and then quickly folded into a small open-air box to trap the tumorous beasts.

The sudden change in the environment made the tumor beasts panic. These creatures, which were taller than half a person, ran around in the box, desperately hitting the walls that suddenly appeared around them.

Throw down a bottle of inhalation anesthetic. Although it is difficult to control the degree of complete anesthesia, it is still okay to use less to keep them quiet.

The glass bottle shattered and the anesthetic dissipated into the air. The tumor beasts were moving so hard that the anesthetic took effect much faster. Xue Zhi didn't have to wait long before these big guys calmed down.

"Okay, next one, next one."

Humming a little tune, Xue Zhi flew towards the location of the next group of creatures. She used the same trick again and caught all the wild animals that W and his team had discovered before.

Moreover, the temperaments of those pack animals and horned beasts were much gentler than those of the tumor beasts. Xue Zhi didn't even use anesthetics. After throwing down a lot of carrots, these wild animals that were originally panicking and banging their heads against the wall began to eat obediently.

Chapter 71: Taming (3/5)

Flying in the air with a few boxes, they soon reached the ranch.

Xue Zhi slowly fell down, then opened the box and drove all the wild animals out, and threw down a lot of carrots to appease them.

Even-toed ungulates can't resist this stuff, so when you don't know what to feed them, this is the right thing to do.

Looking at the animals that seemed a little cautious on the new grass, Xue Zhi cleaned up the box and observed them for a while. After noticing any unusual movements from them, she left.

"Done. I think I'll be able to watch the beast taming tomorrow, and I'll be able to taste Terra milk soon."

It was almost nine o'clock when Xue Zhi returned to the tent. It was still early and many mercenaries were still outside doing various jobs. Even W's tent was brightly lit.

Lifting the curtain, Xue Zhi saw W, who was only wearing a black short-sleeved shirt, writing something.

"I am back."

"It's quite early today."

Sitting behind W, Xue Zhi found that she was drawing lines on the town map he gave her.

"This is?"

"Patrol route. Something just happened today, so I'm going to get this out quickly. Although there are drones, some roles played by humans are irreplaceable."

The drone that had completed mapping the surrounding terrain patrolled over the entire area throughout the day, identifying dangerous targets while forming a communication network. Now they could make contact using the communicator that Xue Zhi had taken out.

"You're right, so what exactly happened?"

"The mine was attacked. Even though those people are extremely weak, we still have to be vigilant."

At this point, W showed a sneer. Although Theresa's assassination had a huge impact on her, causing some changes in her temperament and becoming a little softer, she recovered quickly and that familiar smile reappeared on her face.

But it doesn’t matter, Xue Zhi and the other one both like to lick their teeth!

Xue Zhi also laughed when she heard W's words.

"I can imagine what happened."

Although the mercenary group has now turned over a new leaf, the mercenaries who have been on the front line for a few days still maintain strong combat effectiveness, and the level of this mercenary group is already good, which can be seen from the value of the head of the leader Hedley.

After finishing the last stroke, W stretched and lay down on Xue Zhi behind him.

"I saw you were enclosing the land today. Are you preparing to raise those livestock?"

"Well, I just finished it. I can go and see how the villagers tame them tomorrow."

W nodded with satisfaction at the further development of the town, and then turned the topic to something that interested her more.

"Yes, by the way, how do you fly in the sky? I have never seen you display this ability before."

Xue Zhi explained to W while letting the girl lying on him slowly fly up.

"What I just learned is not actually flying, but telekinesis. My ability to fly is actually the result of applying power to myself."

Because the force acts on the whole body, W did not feel any particularly obvious signs of force in any particular place. She could even use the force in the air to turn her body, as if an invisible big hand was helping her.

"Interesting, I only saw you using this to plant trees that day, I didn't expect you could use it this way."

"Yes."

The next morning, after completing a patrol, W found Xue Zhi waiting at the ranch. With almost nothing else to do, everyone came here to see what it was like to tame those wild animals.

Sitting on the fence, the two leaned against each other and stared at the tumor beasts grazing peacefully in the distance. After a night of adaptation, these big guys were already familiar with this place, or perhaps the effect of the anesthetic had not worn off yet, their brains were dull, and they did not react to what was happening.

Not far from them, the young man who had communicated with Xue Zhi yesterday was rubbing his hands together, ready to take action. There were also many people standing by, holding ropes and various tools, ready to take action at any time.

Because of their development, Xue Zhi and W spent much less time together than when they were in the mercenary group. Today they spent the day together for the first time in a long time.

W, who was holding Xue Zhi's arm, asked curiously:

"Xue Zhi, how do you think he will tame these tumor beasts?"

"I don't know much about this. My idea is to catch enough, kill the disobedient ones, keep the obedient ones, and then slowly reproduce and repeat the process."

"It sounds like an orthodox method of animal taming."

Just as the two were chatting, the young man moved. His target was the largest one in the group of tumor beasts. This one was the leader. After dealing with it, the rest would be easy.

Seeing someone rushing towards them quickly, the herd of tumor beasts subconsciously fled in all directions, and these were the targets of the people around them.

The largest tumor beast was moving in the opposite direction of the group, and in order to fulfill its duty to protect the group, it rushed towards the young man without hesitation.

Xue Zhi watched intently. This kind of human challenging the beast with a relatively weak body was definitely worth seeing, but he forgot that this was Terra.

The young man easily grabbed the horn of the tumor beast leader, and exerted force with his feet to stop the movement of the giant monster. The kinetic energy carried by the explosion of both sides instantly turned into force and was transmitted to each other's bodies. Even some dust was stirred up on the grass, but they all seemed to be fine.

On Earth, humans can stop an angry bull with their explosive strength, so there is no reason why the stronger Terran cannot do it.

After Xue Zhi figured this out, she put away the look of surprise she had just revealed and continued to watch his performance.

A small pit was stepped on the soil, and the young man exerted force and easily threw the tumor beast leader to the side. Then he stood there, quietly waiting for it to get up, and then knocked it down again.

After several rounds, the leader of the tumor beast was thrown to the ground and lost his temper. He lay on the ground and didn't want to get up, sticking out his tongue and gasping for breath.

Seeing that it was almost done, the young man stood beside it and lifted it up. Xue Zhi also noticed that he was on guard against the tumor beast's tail made of thick gelatinous material.

However, it was obvious that the tumor beast leader had exhausted his strength and surrendered. After it stood up, it did not make any other movements. When the young man put water and radish next to its mouth, it just opened its mouth and ignored everything else.

The whole process took about 30 minutes, during which the big guy fell down more than a dozen times. Later, due to severe physical exhaustion, he got up slower and slower, and even wanted to run, but the young man saw through him one by one and pulled him back to continue wrestling.

With a set of ropes, the taming process is almost over. At most, when these things get angry again in the future, the taming effect can be strengthened. Others also gathered together with other tumor beasts, planning to go to the animal shed together.

W was eager to try it out. This method was simple enough, but there were no tumor beasts that were still disobedient.

"That's interesting. Can we just beat him into submission?"

"Indeed. Let's go to the animal shed and take a look. I remember there are mother animals with cubs in there. Let's see if we can get some tumor milk to drink."

"Ah."

Chapter 72: Drink some milk (4/5)

In the animal shed, the young man named Mark, who learned the purpose of Xue Zhi and the others' visit, immediately started to squeeze out a large can of tumor milk. During the process, he also gave a few carrots to the female animal who was unhappy about being milked to comfort her.

Hedley was here too, and he came over to have a rest and some fun when he had nothing to do.

This ranch is considered the town's property. After all, it was built entirely by Xue Zhi. He just had a chat with a few people here and plans to hire them to do the work. As for the output, they can be used for free first, and the villagers can buy it when they have some money.

As for the future favors and grudges, let's put it aside for now. Anyway, Hedley, who holds most of the violent power, doesn't care, and Xue Zhi doesn't care either. He and W are currently tasting the can of tumor milk in the corner.

“It doesn’t taste good raw.”

This is what Mark said, and Xue Zhi felt the same way. Having rarely drunk raw milk, he really couldn't accept the taste. Even W, who was not a picky eater, couldn't resist it.

"Let me heat it up."

Controlling the large ball of milk to fly out of the can, Xue Zhi recalled the contents of the pasteurization method, heated the milk ball to around 85 degrees Celsius, and put it back into the can after keeping it warm for about 15 seconds.

Now the smell finally returned to normal, and the unique mellow aroma of milk drifted throughout the animal shed, which still smelled normal.

W licked her lips. Seeing her little action, Xue Zhi smiled and changed out a pack of paper cups. She scooped a cup for her first and then distributed one to everyone present, especially the children.

The two layers of paper cups isolated the heat and allowed people to hold it securely. Xue Zhi put the empty can back in its place, and then tasted it without being afraid of the heat at all.

Under normal circumstances, Xue Zhi's perception of various environmental data is normal, but once these data exceed the threshold, his perception will change, such as now.

The aroma of fat, which was stronger than the milk on Earth, spread in her mouth. Xue Zhi's eyes lit up after taking a sip: "It tastes good."

Hedley, who also got a cup but was scalded, said: "You are really not afraid of heat."

Xue Zhi laughed: "The strong can do whatever they want."

After drinking milk, Xue Zhi pulled Mark to the corner of the animal shed. He waved his hand and placed an ordinary wooden box there, then said to the young man:

"Here is some wheat, a lot of it. Watch and feed the animals. Take good care of them. We will need them to work and make money in the future."

After opening the box, Mark became puzzled by the "some" Xue Zhi mentioned. There was clearly a large pile of things inside, and they were tied very tightly. After they were spread out, the number was probably more than it looked.

After closing the box, Mark solemnly performed an incomprehensible courtesy to Xue Zhi.

"I won't let you down, Deputy Mayor. I will use my family's skills to raise these livestock well."

"Deputy mayor?"

"Oh, that's what Mayor Hedley said just now."

"Okay, let him arrange it."

Xue Zhi didn't feel much about the promotion of his administrative rank. After all, this was just a small town that had not yet been built, and he was not half better than Qi Tongwei who was thinking about joining the ministry every day.

While they were chatting, other wild animals were also caught and some villagers brought their own livestock to plan joint breeding.

Some unruly animals that were walking around everywhere suddenly made the animal shed a bit crowded, and the people who came to watch the fun had to leave first.

Before they left, Xue Zhi stopped them, and then in full view of everyone, threw half a group of chicken spawn eggs into the chicken coop to summon 32 chickens.

The villagers who saw Xue Zhi's entire operation felt that their worldview had been overturned.

"Can a chicken come out of an egg?"

Xue Zhi, too lazy to hide, waved her hand:

"They are just some special species. Don't worry about it, old man."

"...Okay, since you, the deputy mayor, said so."

After asking a few people around, several people who knew how to feed the feathered beasts soon stood up, and Xue Zhi also gave them the task of taking care of these little guys.

32 chickens is not too many, but not too few either. Xue Zhi put more than a dozen bags of chicken feed in the warehouse next to her. These are enough to feed them for a long time.