Chapter 382 The Horse Farm Owner Takes Office
Compared to current farms that are only responsible for raising cattle and sheep, horse farms are now larger in scale. There is no other way, not only because of their importance, but also because horses require greater exercise.
Generally, horses that have been basically trained will be placed in a large fence at regular intervals and allowed to move freely as appropriate.
Those wild horses that had just been captured or had not yet been trained were all tied up in the stables for taming.
At first glance, the number of horses in the stable had obviously increased a lot compared to before he left.
Although it's not nice to say this, this is due to the destruction of the elf village.
When the elven village was still there, other forces would be warned by the grassland elves if they entered their territory, so everyone avoided that area.
Over time, it became a refuge for many herbivores.
Earlier, Zhou Xu and his team searched the grassland for wild horses but couldn't find them. Why? It was because the wild horses had escaped into the territory of the grassland elves.
But now, the territory of the grassland elves no longer exists, leaving these herbivores on the grassland with almost nowhere to hide when facing the hunting team of Zhou Xu Grassland Village.
The capture efficiency of wild horses and bison has increased significantly.
After experiencing a wave of tragic losses in early winter, the losses in horses have now not only been fully compensated, but the numbers are even significantly higher than before.
"How many horses do we have now?"
Looking at the person in charge of the horse farm who was running over, Zhou Xu directly asked this question.
"Reporting to the leader, including the horses that have been put into military service and those that have not yet been trained, there are a total of seventy-three horses."
At this point, the horse farm owner quickly explained.
"At the beginning, Lieutenant Li Ce and his team were very efficient in capturing wild horses. Basically, they could capture more than a dozen horses every time they went out."
"Now the wild horses have learned their lesson and are not so easy to find. No new wild horses have been caught for a while."
There was obvious regret in the farm owner's voice at this time. He was used to the crazy harvests before, and suddenly the days of nothing came. He really couldn't adapt to it.
But Zhou Xu was obviously satisfied with this number.
The focus now is on the selection and training of war horses.
"Come, let me introduce you. This is Ma Guotao, the newly summoned Chosen One of God. From today on, he will be the top person in charge of the horse farm."
After Zhou Xu's brief introduction and knowing the other party's identity as 'God's Chosen One', the owner of the horse farm naturally had no objection to this immediate superior who had dropped in from the sky.
During this period, although Ma Guotao couldn't wait to rush up to see the horses, considering that the front-line owner in front of him would most likely serve as his right-hand man and work with him in the future, Ma Guotao resisted the urge and greeted the other party very enthusiastically.
When it comes to socializing, Ma Guotao is considered an old hand and he became familiar with the original owner in no time.
Afterwards, Zhou Xu called Ma Guotao over again, intending to explain the next task to him.
"I have already told you about what is going to happen next on the way here. After the spring, we are likely to encounter an invasion by lizardmen. To this end, I need to train a large number of cavalry to fight against them. Your job is to select and train war horses."
Having said this, Zhou Xu paused.
"Time is limited and the task is heavy. Do you understand?"
"I see."
Hearing this, Ma Guotao's expression quickly became serious.
From the very beginning, he didn't think that primitive times would be peaceful, and war was inevitable.
However, he did not expect at the beginning that this was actually a world with magical elements, with not only elves, centaurs, but also lizard people.
But from Zhou Xu's words, he could probably sense that, although the next battle against the Lizardmen would certainly be a fierce one, it was not impossible to fight.
At this moment, the outcome of this war undoubtedly concerns his own life, so he cannot help but take it seriously.
“I will definitely try my best!”
"Okay! I'll leave this to you. You've also met the original owner of the horse farm. You can ask him about anything in the farm from now on. If there's anything he can't solve, you can go find the village chief Ye Jinghong. I'll arrange everything for you."
Having said that, Zhou Xu glanced at the sky and then thought about their busy schedule over the past few days.
"If you can't hold on any longer, you can officially start working tomorrow."
"No, I can start working now, no problem at all!"
As he spoke, Ma Guotao patted his chest vigorously.
In his eyes, this horse farm is simply a paradise.
Looking at so many wild horses, his dopamine is being continuously secreted. He is so excited that he doesn't feel tired at all!
Seeing him like this, Zhou Xu didn't say anything more. After giving him a few brief instructions, he turned and left.
After all, at this stage, there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.
After leaving the horse farm, Zhou Xu quickly found Ye Jinghong to inquire about the situation.
"Tell me, what's going on on the grassland during this period?"
"In accordance with your wishes, Chief, we have set up several simple outposts near the 'Edge of the World' and arranged soldiers to garrison and patrol."
As Ye Jinghong spoke, he spread out the animal skin map and pointed out several newly marked points.
Apparently, these were the locations of their newly established outposts.
It is called a sentry post, but in fact it is just a few very simple tent camps so that they can monitor the movements over there at all times.
In order to avoid being caught off guard, the Lizardmen might come and kill them without them knowing.
"So far, from what we have discovered, the passage to 'Edge of the World' has been opened twice, but no Lizardmen have come out of it."
"There are two possibilities for this situation. One is that the Lizardmen have no intention of attacking at this stage. The other is that the Lizardmen did not notice the opening of the two passages."
Listening to Ye Jinghong's report, Zhou Xu nodded.
According to the information obtained from the grassland elves, the formation of energy channels is random. The only thing that is certain is that the closer the two world fragments are, the higher the probability of the energy channel appearing.
From this point of view, the second possibility is not impossible.
But Zhou Xu believes that the reason is most likely the former.
There are many ways to solve the second problem. If you really want to call, there is always a way.
Even according to his guess, the Lizardmen might have a way to manually open the energy channel.
At that time, a blizzard swept across the grassland, but they did not find a large number of lizardmen corpses on the grassland. What does this mean? This means that they probably did not die in the blizzard, but left before the blizzard completely swept through.
But energy channels are generated randomly, so it can’t be just luck, right?
Zhou Xu doesn't think so.
How can there be so many coincidences in this world? There are only inevitable causes and effects!
(End of this chapter)
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