Chapter 1072 Underground Breeding Farm

Roland didn't look back until the Seagull completely disappeared from the sky.

"Sometimes I think about just building a frontline headquarters," he said softly. "Staying in a place where everyone can see it can not only boost morale, but also personally participate in the battle of divine will. Later, historians will record it, It also gives me a little more bragging rights.”

"Do you still care about that?" A low reply also came from the void, "Besides, before being recorded in history, you have to endure the nagging of Wendy and the scroll until you take the initiative to admit your mistake and change your mind - I have experienced it However, that is definitely not something that ordinary people can endure. It is better not to cause them any more trouble."

Roland couldn't help laughing and said, "That's right."

The battle with the devil is likely to last for months, even years, and he will have to work hard to adapt to this new normal.

Thinking of this, he looked at the guards standing in the distance and said, "Call everyone here. Next, I'm going to the Third Border City."

The latter immediately saluted, "Yes, Your Majesty! I will notify the escort team immediately!"

According to Keimo Stryer's report, there has been new progress in the research on rubber bugs.

It's time to test the results.

"Let's go," he nodded to his side and walked towards the airport exit.

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After confirming that the secretions of rubber bugs were of great use value, the Taquila Witch not only opened a series of new caves for them, but also took on the role of breeders in her spare time.

After all, it is not easy to find ordinary people who can face devouring worms calmly and chat and laugh happily in the worm den. In addition, working underground for a long time is more likely to lead to psychological instability. The breeding part has now been fully taken over by Taqila. Workers are only responsible for the shipping and processing of rubber materials.

It can be said that this was another miscalculation by Roland. He underestimated people's tolerance in a claustrophobic environment.

Rubber bugs hate sunlight and love moisture. They also move according to sounds. Even if they are not aggressive, the rustling sounds that ring around them from time to time are enough to make people mentally weak.

He also couldn't provide lighting and communication equipment for each worker, formulate detailed shift rules, and provide a set of psychological comfort guidance - it's not that it can't be done, but the cost-effectiveness is too low, and there are a lot of factories outside that need manpower. It can be used, there is no need to waste time on the form of de-witching. Therefore, he simply transferred ordinary people to easier follow-up processing.

And the chicken and duck knight Pris Disa is not idle either. He spends all his free time writing breeding manuals and guiding production. Related products in Neverwinter City are springing up like mushrooms after a rain. He also has an important role that cannot be ignored. of credit.

The expanded breeding scale provided more samples for glue testing. It was with these basic studies that Roland had the conditions to ask the Minister of Chemical Industry to intervene and make the next plan.

After entering the underground, Pasha came forward and said, "Welcome, Your Majesty. Your people are currently in the gummy laboratory. Do you need me to inform them?"

"No, just take me there," Roland said with a smile, "By the way, I heard that Celine has built a new breeding farm, which is bigger than the previous ones combined?"

"Yes, it is right opposite the laboratory," Pasha nodded. "Not only does it apply the latest research results of the Quest, but it also draws on concepts from the dream world - do you want to take a look?"

"Oh?" He suddenly became interested, "Of course."

"Then please follow me."

Passing through a long passage, Pasha brought Roland to a large cave.

There was an iron fence at the entrance, apparently to prevent bugs from escaping. Walking into the cave from a small door on the side, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned - the environment in the cave was completely designed according to the snow-capped mountain ruins, with luminous plants, water systems and giant mushrooms all available, but the three had obviously been reasonably adjusted. , plants are arranged along the edges of stone walls and running water, becoming new street lights. As the staple food of bugs, mushrooms are obviously the most important species. The huge mushroom umbrellas almost completely cover the ground. Countless bugs are swarming among them. Under the dim fluorescence, only groups of wriggling white bodies can be seen. They happily gnawed on the mushrooms, and the dense clicking sounds reminded Roland of the silkworms he had raised when he was a child.

What surprised him even more was the size of the cave.

Judging from the endless luminous plants as far as the eye can see, this place is probably bigger than the main palace of the Third Border City - he originally thought that the new breeding farm was just a combination of several old caves, but it seems that is not the case now. The orderly blue light spots and the straight tic-shaped water system gave him the feeling of a large factory.

"This place is right on the edge of the Impasse Mountains, which is about the same height as the surface of Neverwinter City." Pasha proactively introduced, "If you open the hole from the south, it will only be one thousand meters away from the Kingdom Avenue."

Doesn't this mean that the new breeding farm and Neverwinter City are only separated by a wall. If he remembered correctly, he estimated the distance he had just moved. It was no more than two kilometers away from the main city. The outside of the rock wall should be the temporary residential area for the relocated people.

Roland thought thoughtfully, "For the convenience of transporting mucus?"

"Exactly." Pasha raised her beard, "Your Majesty, please look at the south end."

He followed the other party's direction and saw a deep horizontal groove faintly exposed under the wall, as if it was an escape route specially reserved for rubber bugs.

"what is that?"

"In the retrieval area," Pasha explained, "Celine used the bugs' sound-seeking characteristics to dig out a narrower and narrower channel in the wall. As long as a specific chirp is emitted from the other end, they will crawl into it. Head in the direction of the source of the sound - but limited by the width of the passage, they can only poke out half of their heads at most, and their bodies will be stuck in the passage."

"Then what?" Nightingale, who had been listening, couldn't help but ask.

"Next we will activate the magic core located at the end of the passage." Pasha continued, "It has been adjusted to blade mode. This cyclone is generally used to defend enemies in narrow passages. The core will emit a magic light, filling the The entire main channel space shreds any obstacles blocking the light. And that horizontal passage is exactly the path that the magic light passes through. "

"The bugs will be split into two, and the mucus in their stomachs will gather together along the drainage channels in the horizontal grooves. In this way, there is no need to kill them one by one, and a large amount of mucus can be obtained at one time." She paused. Dun, "The reason why a kilometer of distance is reserved is for the use of collectors. According to Celine's idea, ordinary workers can enter the collecting area from outside the mountain, but apart from the trenches and pools flowing with mucus Outside, nothing can be seen. This makes collection easier and less likely to cause panic."

"..."

Roland was speechless for a moment.

He had nothing more to add.

This solution is extremely mature under the existing technology. It takes into account the entire process from breeding to harvesting. If a rubber factory is built outside the mountains, it will even cover production and processing. In particular, this modern style streamlined slaughter line is indeed a concept learned from the dream world.

Just using the precious magic core and Celine's lifelong research as a rude butcher's knife, wouldn't it be a bit overkill?

Even if you can't find the Chosen One or activate the Divine Punishment Instrument, you don't have to give up on yourself like this...

No, Roland suddenly discovered a problem.

“How many rubber bugs can this farm hold?”

"It is estimated to be around 100,000, but given their reproduction speed, it will take about a year to fill up this new site."

"What about the body after removing the mucus?" he asked, "Where do you plan to transport it from?"

This is not a small problem. Roland once saw in a documentary that a modern chicken farm produces hundreds of tons of chicken manure every day. If it is not handled carefully, it will cause serious water and soil pollution. Once the scale increases, any small detail may cause huge trouble.

Now the God's Punishment Witch can still carry the corpses, but once the bugs multiply to tens of thousands, it will be easy to kill them, but it will not be so simple to clean them up. If the bodies cannot be disposed of in time, accumulation in the cave will definitely have catastrophic effects.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Pasha chuckled, "Flan and the others are welcome to come. In fact, the consumption of three worm carriers when digging at their full strength is really amazing."

"Gulu——" After understanding the meaning of this sentence, Nightingale made a sound of stomach wall squirming.

Uh...okay.

Now Roland finally understood why there was a small door at the entrance but a large fence was installed unnecessarily.

It was just a dining passage reserved for the three witches.