Chapter 51 Golden Falcon
Early in the morning, before daybreak and before people woke up, the young golden falcon had already woken up. After pacing for a while, the young falcon began to make calls. The young falcon's voice was not as scary as that of an adult falcon, but still a tender bird's cry. After calling a few times without any response, the impatient young falcon simply lowered its head and pecked at the food bowl.
Golden Falcon: Calling the Keeper!
A member of Team Aurora walked in, yawning, and muttered, "Coming, coming! Wait a minute!"
The team member quickly took out the animal food from the cabinet and poured it into the young falcon's food bowl. During this period of time, he has become accustomed to raising young falcons. It is said that the mutant materials used in this mid-level animal food are all excellent. Look, the team member also feels hungry after smelling it, and wonders if he should go have breakfast later?
He was adding food to the young falcon. The young falcon flapped its wings, its eyes sparkling: "It's delicious, come on!"
As soon as the food bowl was full, the young falcon immediately stuck its head into the bowl and began to eat the rice.
There were footsteps behind them. The team members turned around subconsciously and saw the boss and the captain coming over! The team members immediately stood up straight: "Hello, boss!"
Gu Nian nodded. She noticed that the young falcon's room had changed. The iron railings previously connected the ceiling and the floor to strictly isolate the young falcon, but now the iron railings have been shortened to more than one meter high, similar to the fences used to isolate large domestic dogs. Seeing the stranger coming, the young falcon first looked at him warily, then looked at the team member, and when he saw that the team member did not react, he continued to eat.
"How is the training of this young falcon going?" Gu Nian asked the team member.
The team member subconsciously straightened his chest and said, "Now we can touch the young falcon and complete basic instructions."
Gu Nian was quite interested and asked about the growth of his young falcon.
While Gu Nian was talking to the team member, the young falcon had finished eating at lightning speed, poked its head out from the shortened iron bars, and rubbed against the team member like a spoiled child. This intimate behavior proved that it and the team member had begun to develop a tacit understanding.
The young falcon stuck its head out and cunningly used its beak to search the team member's pockets, which made the team member feel itchy, but in front of the boss, he could only pretend to be serious and answer the boss's questions.
After Gu Nian led his men away, the team members breathed a sigh of relief and angrily said to Young Falcon, “Eat, eat, eat! All you know is eating! You don’t even listen to the boss when he comes!”
The young falcon was not afraid of him at all. When it saw the keeper finally looking at it, it immediately raised its head to lift the keeper's hand. It was afraid that the keeper didn't understand, so it flapped its wings to signal him.
The team member was completely helpless. When the young falcon first arrived, it was about the same size as an adult goose. He has raised it personally until now, and the young falcon is now as big as a large dog. When its wings are fully spread, it is nearly three meters long. After long-term feeding, he and the young falcon have already developed a bond, and the young falcon behaves in front of him almost like a dog.
The team member carefully opened the package and muttered, "I had to ask the captain for a little more of this. You better eat it sparingly!"
The team members carefully poured another half basin of animal food.
The young falcon chirped twice happily and immediately dived into the food.
For babies, nothing is better than a good one! Although it is a little bigger, it is still a baby golden falcon!
Gu Nian checked the progress of the training of the young golden falcons and found the results to be encouraging. The hired professional zoologists and animal trainers gave the Aurora team a lot of advice in theory and practice, and the Aurora team members vaguely figured out a plan for raising young falcons. Fortunately, these greedy young falcons could not resist the deliciousness of animal food, and the feeding activity greatly enhanced the tacit understanding between the two sides.
According to Gu Nian's request, Chi Qin selected the best members from the Aurora team to serve as the trainers of the young falcon. After all, for high-level mutants, if a human is too weak, he will not be respected by the mutants. Now these Aurora team members have become completely familiar with the young falcon.
For example, the young falcon that Gu Nian just saw did not resist the Aurora team members' caressing and preening actions at all.
As for the Golden Feathered Falcon, it was given to Chi Qin to tame personally. There was no other way. Apart from Gu Nian, Chi Qin had the highest martial arts value in the entire Aurora. Gu Nian had not yet planned to invest time in taming mutant beasts. Others also understood that they all thought that the Nine-Tailed Beast was a mutant beast tamed by Gu Nian. After seeing the power of the Nine-Tailed Beast with his own eyes, it seemed that the boss would not even look down on the Golden Feathered Falcon.
Gu Nian did not explain this misunderstanding. In her eyes, Nine-Tailed Fox was as intelligent as humans and should be considered an equal intelligent life form. However, considering the contract she had signed with Nine-Tailed Fox, it was not wrong to round it up and count it as her own mutant beast.
Chi Qin trapped Jin Ling Cheng Falcon in a cage, and fought with Jin Ling Cheng Falcon by himself. Although Chi Qin was seriously injured, he finally defeated Jin Ling Cheng Falcon. After several fights, Jin Ling Cheng Falcon finally bowed his noble head to Chi Qin and chose to eat leisurely every day.
However, this cannot be considered a complete domestication success.
According to the hired animal trainer, in order to determine whether these golden-winged falcons are truly tamed or are just cheating humans to eat and drink, they have to be released for testing. If the golden-winged falcons can still fly back after being restrained, then they have been completely tamed.
Gu Nian planned to let the Aurora Team complete this challenge after some time. For now, he would continue to keep the adult and young golden-winged falcons indoors to cultivate their habits and relationships.
Anyway, the progress of taming high-level mutant beasts is quite smooth, which makes Gu Nian quite satisfied. She asked Chi Qin to lead the team again to the wilderness to capture five red-horned cattle.
The red-horned ox is a C-level mutant beast, a mutated wild buffalo, about the size of a small elephant, with two towering horns and amazing combat power. However, the red-horned ox has a docile temperament and rarely attacks humans unless provoked.
Gu Nian was attracted by the red-horned ox's ability to carry loads and walk long distances.
Compared to the golden falcons, these five red-horned cattle were much easier to tame. After being captured and brought back to the taming base, the docile red-horned cattle were soon able to move forward or stop at the command of the Aurora team members, and also successfully served as a load-bearing leg, following the Aurora team into the wilderness and back.
At Gu Nian's request, the trainer designed a load-bearing hut for the red-horned ox based on the past experience of installing huts on the backs of elephants. It is very convenient whether it is used to carry people or goods. In the wilderness where cars cannot drive, the domesticated red-horned ox can be said to be a powerful means of transportation. For the powerful Aurora team, it is not difficult to collect mutant plant materials in the wilderness, but the difficult part is transportation. Originally, the Aurora team could only collect a part of the mutant materials and then carry them back by manpower. Some mutant materials that could not be taken had to be given up reluctantly, but now with the addition of the red-horned ox, they can fill the hut on the back of the ox and return to the camp in one breath.
Since the advent of the red-horned ox, the efficiency of collecting in a single trip has been greatly improved. For the red-horned ox, carrying hundreds of kilograms of weight in a single trip is a piece of cake.
Every time the Aurora team brought the red-horned ox into the wilderness, they would face the envious eyes of the people in the wilderness. They were really jealous of this kind of load-bearing animal power! After all, there were only a few teams that could afford the space folding box, and the space folding box could only hold a volume of two cubic meters, how could it be as strong as the red-horned ox in carrying weight! As a result, the Aurora team, which had a shallow foundation, also made a name for itself among the wilderness hunters in Jiangcheng and became one of the first-class hunter groups in the wilderness.
This is a good thing - in the past, there would be some short-sighted people coming to Aurora to steal the formula from time to time, and sometimes there would be several groups in a day. However, since the Aurora team became famous, these people who were secretly plotting against it have completely disappeared, and thieves are rarely seen in the animal feed factory.
This also made Gu Nian understand the benefits of building a force. Today, Aurora has combined technology, financial resources and military power, and has finally become a force that ranks among the best in the entire Jiangcheng.
As the aurora grew stronger, the temperature in Jiangcheng rose day by day, and the living environment became increasingly harsh.
Finally, on the day when the temperature officially rose to 80 degrees, the authorities announced the opening of the underground city shelter. All Jiangcheng residents, with their local household registration, could move into the underground city for free.
The underground city, built with the efforts of the entire city, is finally open to all Jiangcheng citizens.
In order to accommodate more residents, the underground city adopts a honeycomb design, with capsules stacked one by one to form a residential area. Each capsule is only one meter wide, two meters long, and one meter three high, and can only accommodate one adult sitting or lying down. As for washing, bathing, toilets and kitchens, these are all in the public area.
The living area of such a capsule cabin is very small, but it is much better than the situation during a cold wave when more than a dozen people were crowded in a room of seven or eight square meters and it was difficult to even turn around.
At least the single-person capsule has some privacy. When the curtain of the door is drawn, there is at least some basic privacy inside the capsule.
Thanks to this compact accommodation design, Jiangcheng officials were able to successfully move all residents into the underground level just as the temperature rose to 80 degrees. With construction workers working day and night, two floors of the underground city were built, which barely accommodated all Jiangcheng residents and factory organizations.
According to official regulations, all Jiangcheng residents can stay in a single capsule for free. Children under 22 can live with either parent, and those over 22 can also get a single capsule. Of course, even the capsules in the beehive are divided into different levels, and there are also some two-person capsules, family capsules, or larger luxury capsules, but staying in these types of accommodation requires additional credit points.
The underground facilities used by Jiangcheng during the cold wave, especially some large air-raid shelters and underground cold-proof warehouses, were directly connected to the underground city by excavating passages, becoming the affiliated areas of the underground city. The underground warehouse where Aurora was located was among them.
It is also because of this that Aurora employees do not have to move into the underground city's beehives and can continue to live in Aurora's employee dormitories. After all, compared to the capsule design of the beehive, Aurora's employee dormitories are larger.
Now that everyone has moved into the underground city, Aurora employees can still live in the employee dormitories in the underground warehouse.
Before everyone moved into the underground city, Cheng Wenle finally joined Aurora.
Xiong Liangpeng had originally asked the factory manager Tan Cang if he could recommend a friend to work as an engineer at Jiguang, but Tan Cang had already rejected Xiong Liangpeng because the company had already filled its recruitment quota. Unexpectedly, when he turned around, his boss Gu Nian asked him to build two new production lines specifically for the production of mid-level and high-level animal feed. Wouldn't this create another shortage of staff?
So Tan Cang called Xiong Liangpeng over, explained the recruitment situation first, and then told Xiong Liangpeng: "If your friend can accept this condition, then let him apply for the job."
Xiong Liangpeng told Cheng Wenle all the conditions proposed by Tan Cang.
Now the problem came to Cheng Wenle. He was in trouble and hesitated whether to switch to Aurora.
Seeing her husband's worried face, Cheng's wife asked Cheng Wenle about it. After listening to Cheng Wenle's troubles, Cheng's wife chuckled: "Old Cheng, you are so stubborn. Why can't you change your mind?"
Cheng Wenle was stunned and asked in confusion: "Why am I so stubborn?"
Cheng's wife analyzed the details one by one with Cheng Wenle: "Think about it, the director of Jiguang requires that in order to keep the formula confidential, employees must sign a five-year contract at once. Unless the company dismisses them, employees are not allowed to resign voluntarily. On the bright side, does this mean that as long as the company still exists, it is likely to be willing to hire you for five years? Think about it, what does this mean nowadays? Where can you find a company that is willing to hire you for five years?"
"The second point is that in order to keep the formula secret, family members must move to the Aurora employee dormitory. Does this also mean that they have proactively solved the accommodation problem for our family? The Aurora is in an underground warehouse! It is warmer and more insulated than our bungalow basement. If other people were to move in, they wouldn't be able to!"
"If you say that in the past, I had been staying in the staff dormitory and my personal freedom was indeed restricted, but in this weather and this world, even if I don't stay at home, where can I go? Can I go shopping or go to an amusement park? Can I watch a movie or go to KTV?"
"Old Cheng, hurry up and agree to go for the interview!"
Cheng Wenle suddenly understood what his wife said. His thinking was still stuck in the time before the natural disaster, so he naturally felt that the conditions offered by Aurora were harsh. In order to keep the formula confidential, employees had to sign a five-year employment contract at one time. Unless Aurora voluntarily dismissed them, they were not allowed to resign. Moreover, employees had to move into the dormitory with their families and had to report when they went out.
Before the natural disaster, such working conditions would have been unthinkable, but now the benefits outweigh the disadvantages!
After Cheng Wenle figured it out, he immediately contacted Xiong Liangpeng and went to Tan Cang for an interview. With his extraordinary ability, he won the position of senior engineer and was responsible for the production line of high-end animal feed.
Even after everyone moved into the underground city, Aurora continued to produce. I heard that as soon as the temperature rose from 50 degrees, the boss ordered the factory manager to buy all the raw materials on the market. Even if no more goods were purchased, the raw materials stored in the warehouse could keep the factory running for a month.
Cheng Wenle was concentrating on checking the equipment. Steel was precious now, so the production line had to be carefully maintained. After checking, he ended his day's work and returned to his assigned staff dormitory.
Because Cheng Wenle moved in with his wife and children, he applied for a family dormitory. The room was only ten square meters in size. There was a sleeping bunk against the wall, which was used for sleeping. The rest of the room was a small living room with a folding dining table, washbasin, simple stove, armchair, etc. Although the room was small, it had everything needed.
What makes Cheng Wenle most happy is that, thanks to the generosity of the owner, this room has 26-hour electricity supply and the temperature is controlled at around 30 degrees through central air conditioning.
This is already a very suitable temperature.
Seeing Cheng Wenle coming back, Niu Niu cheered, "Dad is back!" She opened her little body and opened her arms towards Cheng Wenle.
Cheng Wenle felt warm in his heart. He picked up Niuniu and poked her with his beard, making her giggle.
Niu Niu is only four years old. She used to live in the basement of a bungalow, where the temperature was always above 60 degrees. The adults could still barely bear it, but the child often fell ill. Since moving to the Aurora employee dormitory in the underground warehouse, Niu Niu's health has improved a lot.
Cheng's wife and Niuniu live in the staff dormitory, which is much more comfortable than living in the basement of a bungalow in the West District, and their safety is also guaranteed. After all, in the mixed West District, burglary and robbery are commonplace. When Cheng Wenle was working at Baixing, he inevitably worried about the safety of his wife and children, but now he has no more worries. He just needs to concentrate on his work.
Mrs. Cheng looked at the father and daughter making a fuss with a smile and said, "I got a job today."
Cheng Wenle looked at her in confusion. "What kind of work?"
"Go to the cafeteria to help raise mutant golden pheasants." Cheng's wife explained. "Now the government strictly prohibits people from going out, so everyone can only stay underground. It's inconvenient to buy supplies now. The boss simply opened up a small area and plans to recruit employees' families to raise mutant golden pheasants. The pheasants can be used to cook for our factory cafeteria, or they can be sold out for food. I have signed up, and I will do the breeding work tomorrow to earn some credit points."
Cheng's wife has always wanted to work again. She used to live in the West District and had to go to the ground to work. Her physical fitness was not able to support the high temperature work on the ground. Now that she has moved to the underground warehouse, the temperature is suitable, so she can naturally find a job to try. The family is indeed short of credit points. When Cheng Wenle heard that his wife had found a job, he encouraged her and said, "Okay, then go and give it a try."
After thinking for a while, he hesitated again: "But if you go to raise chickens, what about Niuniu?"
"Doesn't Old Zhou live with his parents next door to ours? I discussed it with Grandma Zhou, and I'll leave Niu Niu at their house to look after her when I go to work every day. They didn't mention charging any credit points, so we can just buy something and bring it over to show our appreciation." Mrs. Cheng had already made up her mind.
"That's fine." Cheng Wenle was completely relieved. Seeing his wife's happy smile, Cheng Wenle felt that all the worries in his heart were gone. Since the natural disaster, the burden of supporting the family has been on Cheng Wenle. His wife watched him work hard, his health was getting worse, and she was so worried that she lost her smile all day long. How could Cheng Wenle not see it?
But wasn't the reason why he worked so hard just to support the family? After the natural disaster, the family was in a gloomy mood. Even Niuniu became timid, as if she had become sensible overnight, no longer naughty and no longer picky about food. Cheng Wenle felt heartbroken every time he thought about it.
After arriving in Jiguang, the Cheng family finally regained the warmth and relaxation they had before the disaster. Cheng Wenle only prayed in his heart that this happiness could last a little longer, so that their family could survive the disaster, even if they had to suffer a little, at least the family could always be together.
Cheng Wenle has never hoped so much that the company he works for can continue to operate smoothly.
While the people were still adapting to the life in the underground city, the top leaders of Jiangcheng had already held a meeting to discuss the development plan of the underground city again. The people might still think that they can move back to the ground in a few months, but the top leaders of Jiangcheng must prepare for the rainy day. Natural disasters happen frequently, and it is possible that humans will have to adapt to living in the underground city for a long time.
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