"Where did you catch it from?"
Lu Cheng was standing behind the canteen tent in the camp and saw a wild boar sleeping in a cage that could hold a Siberian tiger.
The size of this wild boar is far beyond the scope of wild boars on Earth. It is at least half the height of a person and nearly two and a half meters long... The surface of its body is surrounded by dark green lines.
And this time he caught not just one, but three.
"A group of wild boars were fighting on the edge of the camp. In order to prevent them from rushing into the camp, we used a dose of medicine that paralyzes elephants to knock them down." said a soldier who was in charge of the surrounding security work today.
"A group? These people are really simple and honest. Dr. Ji, are you and your team planning to raise these creatures?"
Lu Cheng looked at a group of researchers in white coats surrounding the wild boars and recording something, so he couldn't help but ask the doctor in the camp who was in charge of the ecology of this area.
This doctor of zoology, whose original name was Ji Chuan, was the youngest person in the research base at only thirty-nine years old.
"Captain Lu, I heard from the indigenous people that this kind of wild boar is called green-striped pig. As long as they are fed with a kind of grass called flowering grass, they will become very docile. However, flowering grass is difficult to find, so the local indigenous people do not raise this kind of wild boar on a large scale."
Dr. Ji was accompanied by a pet walking beast. If Lu Cheng remembered correctly, this walking beast should have been lent to him by General Hubert.
"You want to raise them on a large scale? The risk is a bit high."
Lu Cheng did not think that raising such a large wild boar was a right choice. The demand for feed was definitely several times more than that of an ordinary householder. The key point was that Lu Cheng was not sure whether this cage could hold this thing.
"We don't have any plans to raise them on a large scale for now, but the natives said that this wild boar has the ability to absorb magic from the earth veins. We are very curious about how they absorb this energy, which may be helpful to our magic research." Ji Chuan was holding a data record book in his hand. After taking a look at the contents of the record book, he remembered something.
"And Captain Lu, actually a patterned pig died suddenly during a fight among other pigs," said Ji Chuan.
"Sudden death?" Lu Cheng felt a little suspicious when he heard the reason for death.
"Well, we are thinking about how to deal with the corpse. After we weighed it, it weighed 2.3 tons. It is a valuable specimen. We are already conducting the autopsy research, but there is some excess flesh left." Ji Chuan said this and glanced at Lu Cheng again.
"Just tell me, you want to taste it? Are you sure this pig doesn't carry any disease or is poisonous?"
Lu Cheng walked around the sturdy wild boar in the iron cage. The dark green patterns on its surface looked the same as the bright colors on the back of the poison dart frog.
But these patterns should come from magic. In this world, not only humans have mastered magic, but even animals seem to have the ability to control magic.
Perhaps this is why the pig grew so large, as creatures of this size could only exist in a world with higher oxygen content.
"We have tested the meat quality. We have discovered thirty-seven new microorganisms in this world, but they are all harmless..." Ji Ming told Lu Cheng another thing that seemed incredible in this world.
"Harmless?"
If only one or two microorganisms were harmless, Lu Cheng would think it was normal, but if more than 30 kinds of microorganisms were harmless, it would not be normal at all.
But Lucheng recalled that countless people had died in Skarre due to the invasion of the blood crystal beast, but there was still no terrible plague.
"The reason? Is it related to magic?" Lu Cheng immediately asked the doctor. This was far more important than whether the patterned pork was delicious.
"We don't know yet, but the germs we carry don't seem to have any effect on the indigenous people of this world. Captain Lu, I also understand the value of this, but the equipment in the camp is a bit crude, and we need high-precision instruments to get a result." Ji Chuan said.
"That will have to wait until we establish a cooperative relationship with another country."
Lu Cheng knew that building a high-precision scientific laboratory was not as simple as moving the instruments over; the construction effort was enormous.
"Captain Lu."
At this time, one of Ji Chuan's assistants handed a box of transparent boxes to Lu Cheng, which contained some culture dishes.
"This is the sample of microorganisms in this world that we have collected so far. Captain Lu can send it back to the research base first." Ji Chuan said.
Lu Cheng opened the portal directly on the ground, put it into the research base, and then had a brief communication with the people from the research base.
"So are we going to have that kind of pork for dinner?" Lu Cheng had already smelled the fragrance in the air, and the kitchen staff had already started cooking dinner.
"Food cooked with spotted pigs is only provided to refugees for the time being. The old gentleman named Hubert told me that this kind of pork is a very common dish on the royal table."
The first object of Dr. Ji Chuan's research was Hubert's walking beast, and it seems that he and Hubert are now quite familiar with each other.
"We need to confirm the safety of the food in the Special Zone as soon as possible. Transporting food from the research base consumes too much energy. We also need to find a way to be self-sufficient here."
According to Lu Cheng's statistics, the biggest energy expenditure in the camp is food, and a batch of it has to be transmitted down from the research base almost every once in a while.
"We will give you a reply as soon as possible." Dr. Ji Chuan said
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Derek finished a day's work and returned to the camp in a truck.
As usual, he followed the team to an area called the cafeteria, where there were four tents and more than ten long tables.
When Derek first came to the long table, there was only a pile of steamed buns and white porridge on it, but when he came today... Derek smelled the aroma of meat!
This gave Derek a sudden shock. When he looked towards the long table with meat products, he found a sign next to the table.
The sign said 'Meal Ticket Area'.
But considering that most refugees are illiterate, there is a loudspeaker on the table that keeps repeating things like "Workers with meal tickets can get their meals here."
When Derek heard this, he immediately searched his pockets and found a pink ticket.
This ticket was distributed to him by those people after he finished farming. There was also a dark green ticket inside. Derek heard that it could be exchanged for some daily necessities.
Derek thought about it and immediately walked around the crowd towards the area where the aroma of meat was emitted. Here he happened to hear a group of people complaining about "why they can't get these dishes".
Those who work harder, get more food!
Derek suddenly remembered the words Niu Shan told him before he left. Derek didn't quite understand it when he was sitting in the car, but now he suddenly understood what this sentence meant.