Beast Control: Starting from raising silkworms and becoming the King of Insects.

Chapter 155 The sample pet beast is released
Russell was not idle during the construction of the No. [-] breeding ground.

Although Lu Yinning is keeping an eye on the construction of the stadium, so he basically doesn't have to worry about it, but just one factory building cannot be put into use immediately.

Before moving the dozens of mulch earthworms he ordered from the breeding box to the breeding field, Russell still has two things to do.

One is to choose the types of plants planted in the soil ecosystem.

The other thing is to prepare some quality soil.

Russell struggled for a while when it came to choosing the types of plants to cultivate.

At first, he wanted to maximize economic returns by planting some popular plant cultivation materials on the fertile soil for cultivating mulch earthworms, and then sell them together.

But Liang Kun raised a rare objection. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that this path probably didn't work.

Russell's talent has nothing to do with the plant system. It is somewhat too naive to just rely on cultivating mulch earthworms to increase some soil fertility and want to grow superior quality plants.

Green Leaf Gym values ​​basic conditions such as fertility, so agreeing to give Yu Chongwu a chance to cooperate does not mean that as long as the land is fertile enough, good things will be grown.

If you want to achieve the effect of specialized leaves, the core is ultimately the study of the plant itself.

Of course, due to the high degree of bonding between plants and insect-type pets, with the guarantee of high-quality insect-type pets, research on plants will become easier.

If it really invests a lot of manpower and material resources, Yuchongwu can also take a share of the mid-to-low-end planting industry, but this is a typical polar opposite.

After all, the market for insect beasts is no smaller than that of the farming industry. As long as they can become a leading company, they will still have endless credits to earn. There is no need to look far away to get involved in the business of plant breeding materials.

In Liang Kun's words, there is no need to just plant some and mix them to sell. Doing such unprofessional things can easily lower the grade and even ruin one's own brand.

After thinking for a while, Russell adopted the opinion of Liang Kun, an insider in the plant cultivation industry.

Therefore, the criteria for selecting ecosystem plants have now become easy to feed, absorb as much fertilizer as possible, grow quickly, and have as little impact on the surrounding environment as possible.

According to this standard, Russell asked Researcher Li Moran to ask some colleagues in the Plant Breeding Department, and quickly identified a low-level cultivation material that perfectly met the requirements - green juice grass.

As the name suggests, this thing is essentially a kind of grass, but there is a small amount of plant energy contained in the grass leaves, so it is designated as a low-level cultivation material.

In terms of planting conditions, the only difference between green juice pasture and ordinary pasture is that it has higher fertility requirements.

Ordinary soil is difficult to support the growth of this kind of plant. If it is planted several times in a row, its fertility will be exhausted and it will easily lead to desertification.

Those pastures and farms that feed their pets with green juice grass usually adopt a rotation method. Several plots of land are rotated in order to ensure the smooth growth of green juice grass.

As for the effect of this low-level plant cultivation material... it is full of nutrients, especially full.

For herbivorous pets, green juice grass is like white rice. It tastes good and is easy to digest. It can make you grow taller, but it has no special effects.

If I have to say there is any difference, it might be that meat animals that have grown up eating green juice grass for a long time will taste better...

As a very simple cultivation material, green juice grass does not emit any energy other than the plant system.

Even if it is not harvested and rots in the ground, it will not cause pollution.

However, there are so many plant-eating beasts in the Insect Control House that the green juice grass will not be completely wasted after being planted.

Crickets can also be regarded as a kind of cave-dwelling insect beasts. Russell plans to move the tile house where stone crickets are cultivated together with him.

The burrowing habits of cricket-like pets are not particularly thorough. They can be regarded as shallow dwellings, which does not conflict with the earthworms that live deep in the soil almost all their lives.

Moreover, stone crickets are not a production pet. The market for this kind of pet is only that big. Russell has taken the high-quality route from the beginning and has no plans to continue to expand the scale of breeding.

If you calculate the growth rate of green juice grass and the food intake of stone crickets, they can almost form a balance.

Therefore, he finally decided to plant a few green juice grass plants every other grid after gridding the soil filling area to ensure the stability of soil fertility.

As for the remaining grids, Russell planned to simply use them to raise seedlings for Liang Kun.

Liang Kun's breeding work also follows a high-quality route. The size is small, so it is suitable to raise seedlings in a breeding farm.

After selecting the types of plants to be planted in the ecosystem, he immediately asked Liang Kun to start preparing for procurement and planting.

However, this kind of ration-type breeding materials is very common. It didn't take much effort for Liang Kun to get back a batch of high-quality seeds from the cultivation materials market in Senluo City.

Having solved the problem of planting plants, the next step to prepare is the soil.

Although various books record that mulch earthworms do not have high environmental requirements, they only refer to the minimum standard for survival.

If you want mulch earthworms to grow quickly and well, you must create an environment suitable for their growth as much as possible.

The soil that is most conducive to the life of mulch earthworms should not be too hard, not too sticky, and not sandy soil that cannot hold water at all.

After thinking about it carefully, Russell asked the newly hired gardeners and workers of Yuchong House to go to Baixi Orchard and transport a lot of soil from there.

There used to be a large number of black cloud flies living in Baixi Orchard. Although they have gradually dispersed as the night orchids were picked, it will take some time for the affected environment to recover.

Nowadays, there are still many scavenging beasts living in the Baixi orchard. Russell guessed that the saprotrophic earthworms, which are also scavengers, would like the soil there very much.

Sure enough, after replacing the loess in the breeding box with the black soil from the orchard, the activity of the sap earthworm pups was greatly increased.

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After completing all the preparation work, all Russell has to do now is to wait for the completion of the drastically renovated No. [-] breeding ground.

Fortunately, this process is not long.

In a world of beast control where all walks of life are closely tied to pet beasts, the construction industry naturally has its own dedicated pet beasts.

Although Ding Jia and his construction team members are not high-level beast masters, the industry of building a house and decorating it is itself a technical job, and proficiency and skills are more important than absolute strength.

For example, Ding Jia's earth-building mole could lay bricks faster than any skilled mason Russell had ever seen in his previous life.

The innate skill of this silver-level soil beast is called "turning soil into stone", which can transform soft soil into a cement-like substance, and the solidification speed is much faster than cement.

When it activates earth energy, it can lay a row of bricks in a blink of an eye.

Several other members of the Dingjia construction team have basically contracted similar pet beasts.

There are ancient wooden deer with retractable horns that serve as living scaffolding, fork-tailed monkey monsters that can use six hands to tie steel bars and twist screws in fancy ways, quicksand elements that stir materials, and even wind-wool cotton specifically responsible for sound insulation.

The division of labor was so fine that Russell couldn't help but lament that the business of Yuchongwu was still too rough...

With the help of these pet beasts, the world of beast control is being constructed much faster than in the current world.In addition, Russell's project requirement this time was not to build a new building, but to renovate the facilities in the factory. In just ten days, Ding Jia worked overtime to complete the order.

Looking at Ding Jia and others who appeared at the door of the Royal Insect House at dawn every day and worked until nightfall, even Russell, who was eager to cultivate a sample pet beast, felt a little embarrassed.

What he didn't expect even more was that Ding Jia actually offered a discount on the project price and an advance payment for the upfront costs, hoping to sign a long-term contract with Yuchongwu.

Russell naturally has no objections to such a hard-working partner who is willing to make concessions.

He understood that the other party was asking for cooperation in such a low profile because of the development momentum of Omushi House, and he even felt a little proud.

After the No. [-] breeding farm was completed, Ding Jia helped Russell fill the soil and move the stone, cricket, and tile houses for free.

Now it can be said that everything is ready, except for cheating.

Since the main value of this kind of pet is its innate skill "soil transformation", the entire cultivation process can be said to be very simple.

Based on the principle that the racial talent itself can advance as the beast's strength grows, Russell doesn't even need to think about the route of cultivation.

If you want to improve the physical quality and level of your pet beasts, you only need to ensure that they eat well and drink well, and then simply nourish them with the "Cocoon of Evolution" talent.

Scavenger beasts are not very picky about their food. Leftover fruits, leaves, vegetables, etc. can be used as food rations.

However, there is no canteen in the Imperial Chongwu House. It is too troublesome to collect the leftover fruits and vegetables eaten by the employees. Russell simply feeds the earthworms with the mulberry leaves that the silkworms can't finish.

Just recently, Liang Kun's breeding work has made some achievements, and some of his newly developed mulberry trees have been planted in the forest.

After some ripening methods unique to the plant breeding department, a small group of mulberry trees have grown to the height of one and a half people, and mulberry leaves can be picked regularly.

Those mulberry leaves containing insect energy are of great benefit to the growth of mulch earthworms.

However, the eating habits of mulch earthworms are still somewhat different from those of black cloud flies. They do not have the ability to accelerate the decay of materials.

The decaying matter fed to them needs to be fermented and decomposed in advance, otherwise the temperature and harmful substances emitted during the decaying process will easily cause the death of the pet animal.

To this end, Russell built an additional decomposition room for Ding Dingjia in the corner of the No. [-] breeding farm.

There is no craftsmanship in simple rotting and fermentation, just pile the broken mulberry leaves there, so the main function of this rotting room is only to block the smell.

Even though he really likes insect beasts, Russell is not crazy enough to like them along with the rancid smell...

After doing this, Yu Chongwu once again entered a period of stable development.

In addition to eating, drinking, and supervising the training of Ayou and Daolang, Russell traveled between the No. [-] and No. [-] breeding grounds every day, acting as a human flesh energy screening machine.

"When can I evolve my cocoon of evolution talent again..."

Every time he was so tired that he lay down on the rocking chair and fell asleep, he would yearn for the ability to filter group energy.

Fortunately, the mulch earthworms themselves grow very quickly, so the tiring days did not last long.

With the strong support of the "Cocoon of Evolution" talent, it only took more than a month for the sample beasts purchased by Russell to reach maturity.

Realizing that the slough earthworms were basically no longer growing in size, Russell knew that their period of rapid growth was over.

After reaching adulthood, the pet beast's growth rate will slow down a lot. If it continues to be cultivated, it will be a long-term job, which will not be of much help in producing samples.

After sprinkling a handful of rotten mulberry leaves into the pit, he squatted down, picked up a mulch earthworm that was attracted to it, and observed it carefully.

"The mulch earthworm

Attribute: Bug

Bloodline Level: Bronze
Life energy level: Level [-]

Skills: mulch transformation, excavation, regeneration

Growth progress: 11%

Among them, insect energy accounts for 10% and earth energy accounts for 1%.
Ability development: None"

With low attributes and weak skills, from the perspective of contracted beasts, slush earthworms are the same as silkworm pets that can only spin silk and release weak toxins, which is very consistent with the "general lack of cultivation of insects" by professional beastmasters. value” stereotype.

If Russell didn't have the talent of "Cocoon of Evolution", no matter how much he liked bugs, he probably wouldn't contract a UFO Hawkmoth as his initial pet.

However, from the perspective of planting industry and insect industry, the value of this mulch earthworm cannot be underestimated.

After all, every time the value of a batch-bred pet increases a little bit, the profit will have to be multiplied by tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, millions.

And this slough earthworm can directly break through the shackles of the black iron level and reach the bronze level energy standard, and its worth will be at least three to five times higher.

Because these sample beasts have to be screened for energy every day, Russell has a very good understanding of their overall situation.

Among the dozens of mulch earthworms purchased in this batch, about a quarter reached the bronze level.

Combined with the fact that the breeding period of earthworm pets is very short, it is not too difficult for him to stably cultivate bronze-level mulch earthworms.

Even though black iron and bronze are both purely weak levels, judging from the one-month cultivation time, this is already a pretty good result.

Being able to produce a batch of mulch earthworms with improved bloodline levels should be able to support what Ye Qingyu said at the time, "the quality is much higher than the market standard."

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Russell selected a few of the strongest mulch earthworms that had reached the bronze level and put them into the incubation box. Russell dialed Ye Qingyu's phone number.

Probably because the other party was also interested in what kind of pet beasts the Insect House could produce, he easily arranged an opportunity to meet.

"Then I will take the sample pet beast to the Greenleaf Gym today at noon?"

In order to win the contract as soon as possible, after Ye Qingyu agreed to meet, Russell hurriedly asked about the specific meeting time.

Although the other party is a busy man, he is involved in the challenge competition and daily training and research, so he basically stays in the gym every day and does not go out much.

If we rush there at this point, we can just catch up with the gym's lunch break.

"No, I'll book a private room and let's talk outside."

Unexpectedly, Ye Qingyu on the other end of the phone mysteriously expressed that he wanted to meet at another place.

(End of this chapter)