Cave Refuge-Chapter 187 - 186: Arranging Livestock Cubs_1

After undergoing two upgrades, the space inside the cave mansion had significantly enlarged, Dong Tianyu hadn’t even fully utilized the area that was expanded during the last upgrade.

Well, it can’t be said that he hasn’t utilized it at all. Even though Dong Tianyu didn’t prepare various fruit tree saplings, he had purchased a variety of seed packs, numerous of which were pasture grass seeds.

After the expansion of the cave mansion, Dong Tianyu, adhering to the principle of ’wasting is also a waste,’ spread the seeds over the unutilizable lands. These were a mix of specially nurtured pasture seeds and ordinary grass seeds.

Dong Tianyu scattered these seeds very casually, but the robust vitality of the seeds, augmented by the Spirit Power contained in the air within the cave mansion, allowed various grass types to quickly occupy the open spaces within the mansion.

In addition to Dong Tianyu’s original living area, the rest of the areas had become grasslands.

At the time, he had sown grass seeds simply because he was too lazy to care for various crops. Otherwise, the seed packs he had purchased before the disaster were incredibly diverse, containing a wide range of common and uncommon seeds.

Dong Tianyu drove the black car directly onto an empty spot in the cave mansion and parked it there. He asked Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson to wait in the car and got out alone.

Even after entering the cave mansion, Dong Tianyu still maintained the wall that separated the front and back spaces in the car’s interior.

As he didn’t remove that wall, it perfectly hid the conditions inside the cave mansion from the two women when they unloaded the car later.

At this point, the cubs in the rear of the vehicle, who were barely fed when they were in Peach Blossom Paradise, had become somewhat languid after being confined in the back of the vehicle for a long time. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

However, when Dong Tianyu opened the rear door of the vehicle, the Spirit Energy inside the cave mansion surged into the rear compartment. When this Spirit Energy passively entered the livestock’s bodies, it provided them with some nourishment, slightly rejuvenating their spirits.

There were no outsiders around, so Dong Tianyu no longer needed to hide his strength.

With a casual tug, he tore off the ropes that bound the livestock. One by one, he took the livestock to the grasslands. After repeated trips, all the livestock cubs from Peach Blossom Paradise were released by Dong Tianyu.

Since most of these animals were herbivores that could not be fully satiated while in Peach Blossom Paradise, there was no panic or stress when Dong Tianyu placed them on the grasslands.

In fact, they unabashedly began to feast on the grass. Whether four-legged livestock or two-legged poultry, they all started to eat heartily right after being released.

Seeing this, Dong Tianyu casually took out building materials from the Shadow Space and marked out several breeding areas on the grassland. After driving different livestock to their respective breeding areas, he didn’t concern himself further.

Since the open space in the cave mansion was large, it didn’t much matter if they were confined in pens or free to roam.

Because it doesn’t rain inside the cave mansion and there are no predators to these livestock, Dong Tianyu just created a water channel running through each breeding area to ensure their hydration, and then let them grow freely.

As for the role of a livestock dung cleaner, Dong Tianyu spent some survival points on activating an automatic feces decomposition ability for the cave mansion. Whether it was poultry or swine, bovine or ovine manure, it would all be automatically decomposed once it hit the ground.

As Dong Tianyu allocated relatively large activity areas for each species of livestock (each species only had one pair at fewest, five individuals at most), he didn’t have to worry about the pasture on the ground being consumed entirely, at least not in the short term.

Once the livestock and poultry were all settled, the remaining fruit tree saplings were even easier to handle. He could plant them anywhere casually and just water them occasionally without many hassles.

Planting inside the cave mansion wasn’t the same as planting outside - there were no pests or birds pecking the fruits, which reduced many troubles.

The remaining fish saplings in the vehicle were even simpler to deal with - just pour them into the original fish pond.

All of this work Dong Tianyu did was to enrich the diversity of species inside the cave mansion, ensuring that he could eat whatever he wanted in the future.

Once he started planning the breeding area, Dong Tianyu also released the Reed Chickens previously kept in the breeding room. He assigned them to a breeding area and didn’t bother with them anymore.

The original problem of collecting eggs was actually very simple to resolve. Birds like chickens, ducks, and geese, if they hatched their eggs instead of having them collected, would not lay eggs daily.

With so many additional types of poultry, the Reed Chickens found themselves in an awkward position at Dong Tianyu’s farm.

In the end, apart from keeping ten as breeders, Dong Tianyu decided to slaughter all of the rest in one go.

The now vacant automatic small-scale breeding room was collected into the Shadow Space by Dong Tianyu, conveniently clearing some space.

As soon as Dong Tianyu put this item into the Shadow Space, he suddenly remembered the process of transforming this device. However, without any spare machines on hand and with no lack of space in the Shadow Space, he decided not to transform it but to take it into the Shadow Space.

Since the automatic small-scale breeding room had been collected by Dong Tianyu into the Shadow Space, it was now time for the automatic planting room to retire.

The automatic cultivation and breeding equipment were bought at a time when the space inside the cave mansion was relatively small, and because Dong Tianyu was quite lazy.

Now that there was plenty of space within the cave mansion, it was time for these two sets of equipment to retire.

Dong Tianyu found a spot near a water source and sowed various vegetables, fruits, and grain seeds. He didn’t sow too many seeds of each type.

Dong Tianyu’s goal for sowing these seeds wasn’t for eating or trading, but for seed saving.

Normally, seeds can maintain a high germination rate within three years. As time passes, the germination rate of seeds decreases incrementally.

If it wasn’t for the fact that seeds stored in the Shadow Space wouldn’t germinate, Dong Tianyu wouldn’t have needed to bother sowing those seeds.

After hastily arranging these things, Dong Tianyu returned to his vehicle. Just as he got in and before he could open his mouth to speak, he heard a growling noise.

The icy beauty, Walker Violet, blushed instantly, and Dong Tianyu was startled by this indescribable expression.

"Do you two know how to cook?"

Upon hearing Dong Tianyu’s question, Walker Violet answered succinctly, "Yes," while Jasmine Anderson just shyly nodded.

After receiving their answer, Dong Tianyu didn’t stay in the cave mansion any longer. He drove the black car to the foot of the mountain, where the Riptide was moored.

Opening the door of the car, he said to them, "Here we are, this will be your place of residence from now on. I’ll show you in."

As Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson just stepped to the car door, they immediately exclaimed in surprise as they took in the scene before them.