Chapter 599: The Side Door of Spiritual Beast Breeding

. Pushing his luggage off the train, Mu Feng saw a desolate scene.

Looking into the distance through the train platform, there was no trace of green in sight, and the wind blew up the dust.

Mu Feng had learned about this area in the database before coming here.

It used to be a plain with lush green plants, but since the Tianxuan Clan came with the domain field, this area has become what it is now.

After eight years of war, the Tianxuan domain field was dispersed, and the territory returned to the hands of humans, but the destroyed landforms could not be restored.

But the appearance of the Tianxuan Clan was not all bad.

After the Tianxuan domain field was dispersed, the resources brought in were also covered and integrated into the land under his feet. There are now three underground spiritual mines here, which contain rich low- and medium-level spiritual mines. Every year, a group of serious criminals are sent here to mine, and the excavated spiritual ore resources will be sent back to Star City, which has also brought a lot of value to the development of Star City over the years.

After leaving the temporary train platform, Mu Feng pushed his luggage and headed towards the A-32 breeding farm according to the map given by the spirit beast management department.

There were no buildings along the way, only a main road that meandered into the distance.

As night fell, Mu Feng saw the sign of the breeding farm standing next to the main road.

An hour later, Mu Feng saw the building of the breeding farm.

This is an arched steel building. There is no defense at the entrance gate. Walking into it is the first floor lobby, and above is the enclosure area on each floor.

The venue environment on each floor is completely different.

For example, some venues are planted with a large number of green plants, while others are all pitch-black stones. This is specially built to adapt to the habits of different spirit beasts. It is an artificial ecosystem under a semi-open management state, and the purpose is to allow spirit beasts of different species to adapt to the growth environment.

Mu Feng is completely unfamiliar with this breeding farm.

He doesn't even know how many people are responsible for managing this breeding farm.

The spirit beast management department only gave him the job address, but did not explain the relevant situation in the breeding farm in detail.

Standing on the first floor and looking up at the various spiritual beast breeding floors for a long time, Mu Feng took out a piece of paper from his pocket and dialed the number of the contact person on it.

After a long time, the phone was connected, and a strong voice sounded in his ears:

"Who are you looking for?"

"I am a graduate of this year's Wisdom Academy. According to the arrangement of the spiritual beast management department, I came to report."

"Finally someone has come to take over. Please wait on the first floor. I will be there soon."

After a long time, Mu Feng saw a figure walking out of the elevator.

To Mu Feng's surprise, the person who came to meet him was actually an old man. His hair and beard were all white, but his spirit was very good.

"Are you Mu Feng, my successor?" When he came to Mu Feng, the old man smiled very happily.

"Hello, senior. I'm Mu Feng."

"Come on, I'll take you to visit the farm. I'll retire in about three years, and then you'll be in charge of the management."

Hearing this, Mu Feng was stunned:

"Senior, how many people are there in this farm? Why do I have full management after you retire?"

"Stupid, I said so, of course there are only two of us, and when I retire, you'll be in charge of the management."

"Ah? I'm the only one managing such a large farm?" Hearing the old man's answer, Mu Feng was stunned.

"It sounds difficult, but it's not difficult to do. The work intensity here is not high, and the feeding of food is also done by an automated assembly line feeding machine. Your task is to supervise and observe the situation of the spirit beasts. You must get along with the spirit beasts under monitoring every day and cultivate the spirit beasts' trust in humans... In short, the work intensity is not high, and you can do it alone. I've been here for so many years."

Looking at the white-haired old man, Mu Feng was stunned.

He hoped that the work would be a little harder, but at least there would be someone to accompany him.

Surrounded by a desolate land with no birds or shits, and no entertainment facilities at all, he felt that he might go crazy if he stayed here alone.

After all, he would not be here for a few years, but for decades, until retirement.

But at this time, he had no choice at all. With sadness, he followed the old man to the second floor and was arranged in an empty room.

The room was fully equipped with an area of ​​more than 150 square meters.

The living environment may be good, but Mu Feng was not happy at all. He felt that he would probably spend the rest of his life here.

After putting down his luggage and packing up simply, Mu Feng followed the old man to the sofa in the lobby on the first floor and sat down.

Through the old man's introduction, Mu Feng had a preliminary understanding of this farm.

The old man's name was "Xie She". Like him, he graduated from the Wisdom Academy and was one of the first batch of spiritual beast breeding technicians trained in Xingcheng.

The farm under his feet mainly breeds 18 kinds of spiritual beasts, but they are all medium and low-quality spiritual beasts. There are no high-quality spiritual beasts that need to be raised here.

Their usual tasks are simple. Every day, they have to go to different floors to check the status of the spirit beasts, and then they can leave after spending some time with the spirit beasts.

According to the old man, although the area nearby is barren, it has all the facilities here.

Xingcheng has taken into account the boring work of the farms outside the city, so it has equipped them with many entertainment facilities, such as game rooms, cinemas, and other facilities.

There are no holidays when working here, but family members can take the train out of the city to visit at any time.

If you have a partner in the future, and the partner is not a graduate of the school and has not been assigned a job, you can also live here with him.

When Mu Feng asked the old man where his partner was, an awkward smile appeared on the old man's face:

"I had one in the past, but later I divorced because of incompatibility in all aspects, and I didn't leave any children. I don't plan to get married again in the future. It is likely that I will be a bachelor for the rest of my life."

In the old man, Mu Feng seemed to see his future self.

As for why there is no vacation in the farm work, he can fully understand.

At this stage, the development of spirit beast studies has only been a few decades, and it is in a stage of vigorous development. New spirit beast species are introduced every year, and new farms are constantly being built. There is a large gap in breeding technicians, which is one of the reasons why low-level schools such as Wisdom School can also have this major.

What Mu Feng didn't expect was that the shortage of breeding technicians was much larger than he thought.

But after thinking about it carefully, he could understand the reason.

At this stage of Star City, the top project must be the construction task of Dawn City. There

is a huge gap in manpower for the construction of Dawn City, which is one of the main reasons why the then leader of Star City, Ji He, promoted family planning.

The priority of the spirit beast breeding project is far lower than the construction of Dawn City. A large number of manpower has been withdrawn from Dawn City, which has restricted the development of the spirit beast breeding profession.

After initially understanding his tasks in the breeding farm, although Mu Feng felt helpless, he could only accept it. After all, he had no choice.

...

One month later.

From the initial sadness to now, one month later, Mu Feng gradually accepted his work here.

Although it is surrounded by barren land with no birds or shit, the facilities in the breeding farm are very complete, and there is no need to worry about life problems.

Every month, a special resource transportation team will come to bring the materials needed for breeding spirit beasts, and then they will be asked to make a list on which they can write what they need.

For example, the food they want to eat or the technological products they need can also be listed on the purchase list.

The treatment was better than he had imagined, but it was obtained at the cost of his youth.

The old man Xie She was his guide, and he was about to retire. His current task was to familiarize him with the work process here and the matters that needed attention. He would return to Xingcheng in a few years, and he would be the only one here.

According to the old man, the profession of spiritual beast breeding was still in the development stage, so he didn't have to be too pessimistic.

Perhaps when the manpower gap was filled, he would soon be able to welcome new people, and then the work in the breeding farm would be more leisurely.

Mu Feng listened to the old man's comfort.

The old man had lived here alone for decades, but his life was very romantic. He reclaimed a piece of land for himself in the breeding area on the third floor, planted various fruits and vegetables, and raised some fish in the pond on the sixth floor for his own entertainment or consumption.

In addition to these life styles, Mu Feng found that the old man was very enthusiastic about breeding spiritual beasts.

He had turned his work into a hobby and devoted himself to it. There was even a cabinet in his room that recorded notebooks related to the living habits of spiritual beasts.

According to the old man himself, he has no children in his life, his parents have long passed away, and he is usually accompanied by the spirit beasts in the breeding farm. The spirit beasts have become an indispensable part of his life.

If it weren't for the fact that Xingcheng stipulates that people are prone to make mistakes at work when they reach retirement age and must leave, he really has no idea of ​​leaving.

The old man's optimistic attitude also changed Mu Feng's mentality.

During this month, in addition to working hours, Mu Feng would play games with the old man or cook food together.

Occasionally, the two would sit on the top-floor balcony, watch the yellow sand outside through the transparent glass, and then sit together to taste a cup of tea that the old man planted and picked himself.

Or have a hot pot in the artificial snow breeding farm on the fourth floor.

This kind of life is very leisurely and does not make Mu Feng feel boring.

The old man's decades of breeding experience have already figured out his own set of knowledge in spirit beast breeding.

In the process of learning from the old man, Mu Feng learned a lot of spirit beast knowledge that has never been taught in the academy.

On this day, the spirit beast breeding farm where they were located received a new task, and a batch of new spirit beast cubs would be sent for breeding.

The leisurely life ushered in a short busy period.

In the next few days, Mu Feng followed the old man to arrange the environment in the vacant breeding area on the fifth floor.

According to the requirements of the management department, they first cleaned up all the green plants in the breeding area on the fifth floor, and then began to adjust through the environmental monitoring device in the breeding area on the fifth floor. For example, in order to increase the spiritual energy content in the room, they placed purified spiritual stones, and then took out other resources in the inventory to gradually adjust the environment.

After five busy days, the environment finally reached the standard.

Fifteen days later, the spiritual beast cubs were sent to the breeding farm, a total of 28 pups of the wind wolf.

This is a kind of riding beast that is more commonly used on the front line. It is gray-black in color, with slender limbs and wavy stripes on both sides of the abdomen. It is very good at running, with pointed and upright ears, and abnormally developed sense of smell and hearing. When it grows up, its height can reach about three meters. It is generally used in the reconnaissance team on the front line.

After the young wind wolf was placed in the breeding area on the fifth floor, the old man began to prepare the food for the wind wolf.

Young Fengxing wolves do not need to be fed with milk and can already eat meat, but they have high requirements for meat quality.

The old man is very particular about the process of preparing meat. He first breaks up the meat of Lingluo pigs, then takes out three purple spiritual plants from the warehouse, blends them with the meat, and then passes them through instruments for multiple tests before feeding them to the Fengxing wolf cubs.

Although he is usually unserious, the old man is very serious in his work attitude and dares not be careless.

Working with the old man is also a process of learning and growth for Mu Feng. He watches every step carefully and remembers it in his heart.

When the old man leaves, he will be responsible for everything in the future.

It was the third month that Mu Feng came to the farm, during which time he discovered a quirk of the old man.

The old man is very enthusiastic about raising spiritual beasts, but occasionally there are some behaviors that he cannot understand. For example, when raising young Fengxing wolves, the old man would use a purple spiritual grass to wipe the body of the Fengxing wolf, or mash it and feed it to the Fengxing wolf.

He looked up the information and found that this herb was poisonous and was not in the Fengxing wolf's diet.

This discovery made Mu Feng alert immediately.

In his opinion, the old man's behavior was simply courting death. If there was a problem in the breeding process of this batch of wind wolves, he would be jointly responsible.

But Mu Feng did not report it, but directly asked the old man why he did this.

As a result, the old man's answer surprised Mu Feng.

The old man said that this was a strange thing he found when he was feeding the wind wolves for many years. If the wind wolves eat or wipe this poisonous spiritual herb, they will grow stronger and have much stronger combat effectiveness. He also said that feeding this poisonous spiritual herb will not cause harm to the wind wolves, otherwise he would have been imprisoned long ago.

This answer made Mu Feng immediately think of some spiritual animal knowledge he learned when he visited and studied at the Dawn Academy.

Among them, the spiritual beast Digger Worm will have a small chance of blood changes when it comes into contact with the Guiyuan Stone. Even if there is no physical change, the blood potential value can be improved to a certain extent.

But it is obvious that the old man did not realize how important his discovery is to the study of spiritual beasts.

This made Mu Feng excited.

He suddenly realized that the old man's decades of breeding experience is a treasure, and he may play a vital role in promoting the development of spiritual beasts.

So Mu Feng began to ask the old man if he had any other discoveries during the breeding of spiritual beasts.

The result was very pleasantly surprised. The old man's discoveries were far more than he imagined, and many of them were recorded in his notebook in the room.

In the future, in his spare time, Mu Feng would stay in the old man's room to read the experience notes that filled a bookcase, or directly ask the old man for breeding experience.

Over the past decades, the old man has discovered a total of six spiritual materials that can slightly help the growth of spiritual beasts. Although these spiritual materials do not significantly improve the spiritual beasts, they are real improvements.

In the days to come, Mu Feng also began to take notes and summarize the old man's decades of experience records.

Time blurred as he devoted himself to study.

Three years passed in a flash.

One month before the old man retired, Mu Feng gradually figured out some unconventional ways to raise spirit beasts, and also had his own guesses about the potential of the spirit beasts' bloodline.