Chapter 161: Chapter 120: Handing Over the Rock-Horned Horses, Setting Out for the Taishan Ruins

In the camp, only Ding Yi and the Divine Dog remained.

The other five went to take delivery of the third electric car ordered by the Mechanical Village.

This vehicle was specifically intended for accommodation and storing weapons and equipment.

Because its function was second only to the path-clearing war vehicle, and accommodation conditions concerned everyone, all five went.

In addition to picking up the vehicle, they also needed to go to the Fifth Village to buy supporting soft mattresses and pillows, bed curtains, or eye masks.

While Lin Feng went to meet Su An in the village chief’s office, two Assistant Priests in the village brought several enhanced cultivators over.

They sought Ding Yi to learn how to expand the poison insect incubator and care for the Rock-Horned Horses.

The underlying logic of this domestication and breeding technology is to use the numbing and hallucinogenic effects of poison insects to reduce the aggression of Rock-Horned Horses, thereby reducing daily stress responses.

As a result, they would obediently eat and drink in the cage, quickly growing to adulthood.

Along with the ample grass feed left in the village canteen, this was enough to support one early-stage male and seven or eight young Rock-Horned Horses, so their growth rate was particularly fast.

To this end, Ding Yi conducted extensive experiments, formulating a comparison chart of toxin injection dosages and frequencies corresponding to different stages and weights.

After handing it over to the Assistant Priests in the village, Ding Yi handed over six of the eight cultivation boxes mounted on both sides of the war vehicle to the Church Cultivators, explaining the cultivation precautions clearly.

The secondary cycle from toxic grass to poison insects is actually not stable, and it’s easy for a system collapse to occur if the reproduction rate of poison insects is too fast while the toxic grass food supply is insufficient.

There are mainly two growth curves for population numbers.

One is the “J” curve under ideal conditions, showing exponential growth.

This almost doesn’t exist in the wild, but as long as there is human intervention to provide a stable environment, a continuous supply of food, and trauma management, the population can double in a short time.

The other is an “S” curve under limited conditions.

This model is more suited to the natural environment in the wild.

The first half is similar to the “J” curve, growing rapidly, but in the later half, as environmental resistance increases, food becomes scarce, and predators appear, the number of newborns and dying members in the population balances out, and the growth curve gradually levels out.

In breeding production, it is often necessary to achieve the “J” curve to ensure the highest production efficiency.

But the endless growth of a certain population can easily lead to a total system collapse.

For instance, if the number of poison insects is too high, they will eat away all toxic grass and even associated grass seeds, leading to the collapse of the cultivation box’s cycle system.

Therefore, among the six cultivation boxes handed over, four are for maintaining balance, and two are for cultivating toxic grass specifically without insects.

Ultimately, toxic grass is the root of everything, and the role of insects is to refine and concentrate toxins because the toxin content of toxic grass is minimal, making direct extraction highly challenging and costly.

Poison insects serve as an intermediate production link.

The space of each cultivation box is about one cubic meter, accommodating up to fifty large poison insects or one small ant colony.

Once every Holy Spring Day, more than half of the insects can be captured, or they can be divided into five batches, with ten percent collected every three days.

In this way, the population size of poison insects can be suppressed in the first half of the “S” curve.

This not only ensures rapid reproduction but also allows for the largest harvest and extraction of venom within a certain time frame.

After explaining the breeding precautions, Ding Yi reminded the Assistant Priests and Cultivators to collect other poison insects or toxic grass more frequently along the path to the Oasis, to increase the variety of samples in the boxes and expand the breeding scale.

With the scale and strength of Holy Spring Village and the backing Church, directly building a large vehicle specifically for breeding poison insects poses no problem.

After explaining these matters, the Assistant Priests and Cultivators then drove to the deepest part of Holy Spring Village with the truck towing two large iron cages along with these cultivation boxes.

These are precautionary measures prepared in advance as a countermeasure against the Li Family, in case of a desperate situation.

If the Li Family sees the situation as unfavorable and destroys the Nongzhuang Village’s breeding industry, these can temporarily fill the gap.

When Lin Feng returned, he happened to see the iron cages departing at a distance, in which the Rock-Horned Horses had grown a bit larger compared to before.

In ample food conditions, the maturation period of Mutated Desolate Beasts can be compressed by more than a third, and with the aid of some maturing hormones and animal medicines, it can be further compressed by another third.

So the Rock-Horned Horses, which originally required more than six months to reach the late-stage strengthening, can be successfully aged in just under two months at a professional breeding farm.

Lin Feng was contemplating whether there was a way to find the migration trail of the Rock-Horned Horse Herd on the vast wasteland.

Since the end of the feast at the Wild Rift, the herd vanished into the wilderness under the lead of a Clan Leader Level Rock-Horned Horse.

Aside from the Wandering Force possibly encountering them by chance, no one knows their specific migration route.

These routes are recorded in the brain of the Clan Leader Level Rock-Horned Horse, as they know the gathering points of global water sources, and the routes connected form the life route of the horse herd.

In the vast wasteland, spanning tens of millions of square kilometers, finding over a hundred scattered Rock-Horned Horse Herds is basically like finding a needle in a haystack.

Lin Feng thought of the Divine Dog; as a Desolate Wolf, a natural enemy of the Rock-Horned Horse, perhaps they could use scent to track the nearby Rock-Horned Horse migration.

But there’s no rush for this matter, there will be time later.

What matters now is to proceed quickly to the Taishan Ruins to complete the Desert Wolf Source Material collection task.

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