Cave Refuge-Chapter 231 - 229: Raising Some Rare Things_1

Hearing Mrs. Thompson say so, Dong Tianyu thought it better to avoid such misdeeds, even though negative talk about him wouldn’t cause any physical harm. Thus, he immediately started putting his back into the cleaning.

Even though they wouldn’t be living here anymore, since they were already cleaning the living room, they also tidied up the other rooms.

There wasn’t much cleaning needed in the other rooms, the furniture was somewhat damaged but was still relatively sturdy, as the saying goes, dry for a thousand years, wet for ten thousand years, half dry and half wet just for half a year.

The wooden furniture in the room, after being soaked in the flood and baked in high temperatures, had no problems for now.

With four or five people working together, they finished rapidly. Before leaving, Dong Tianyu gave his sister a black bag with hard, air-dried beef in it.

His sister took the bag, opened it, peeked in, then casually passed the bag over to her husband, without the usual polite exchanges.

Just as with his relationship with Mr. Thompson and his brother, among the four cousins, Dong Tianyu had the closest relationship with his second cousin. When they were young, his cousin used to get snacks but would often only eat a little before leaving rest, and Dong Tianyu would often take on the role of a cleanup crew, consuming the leftovers.

After bidding farewell to their relatives, Dong Tianyu walked alongside his parents back to their office building.

As for the bicycles he once gifted, they were not lost, but to save his mother’s face, Dong Tianyu and his father didn’t mention it again.

Once home matters were handled, Dong Tianyu headed straight for his ship, used his Divine Sense to scan the area, confirmed that Walker Violet was doing yoga in the gym, and Jasmine Anderson was cooking in the kitchen.

In order not to disturb mealtime, Dong Tianyu had no choice but to go to the gym to work out alongside Walker Violet.

When it was time for dinner, Dong Tianyu brought the exhausted Walker Violet to the dining room.

Jasmine Anderson looked at Walker Violet with a weary face and a playful look of fear crossed her own.

Seeing this, Dong Tianyu smiled and said directly, "Let’s eat first. We can talk about anything else after dinner."

Because Dong Tianyu had stored plenty of supplies on the second floor of his ship, each day Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson would make various foods, each dish different from the last.

And was only possible because of Dong Tianyu. In other places, without sufficient ingredients, no matter how skilled Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson were, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice.

Jasmine Anderson, who was too playful for her own good, insisted Dong Tianyu feed her halfway through the meal. As a result, she was stuffed to the point of lethargy due to Dong Tianyu continually feeding her.

Seeing Walker Violet still had yet to recover from exhaustion, Dong Tianyu knew he should make a trip to Peach Blossom Paradise.

After tucking the two girls into bed, Dong Tianyu did not stay the night but returned directly to the cave mansion.

Although the Spirit Energy in the cave mansion was abundant, it did not have the ability found in some novels where certain wondrous caves could accelerate the growth of plants and animals.

The many seedlings initially got from Peach Blossom Paradise were very healthy and developing well but had not yet reached maturity.

Looking at leisurely young animals in the enclosure, Dong Tianyu suddenly thought of the black fuzzball he’d left on his ship.

Perhaps the food on his ship was too good, as the little fuzzball, which was not bigger than a basketball when first brought home, had now grown to the size of an Akita dog.

Thinking about how Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson fed it meat every meal on the ship, Dong Tianyu does not blame it for growing so quickly.

Mysteriously, perhaps because it was always fed cooked meat, the little fuzzball had little to no wild instincts. Whether you patted its head, rubbed its back, squeezed its belly, or slapped its butt, it never resisted.

In fact, users even made a pillow out of the little fuzzball to peacefully read a book.

Remember, this fuzzball was actually a young black leopard, but now its personality was much like a golden retriever’s.

When carnivorous animals are raised on cooked meat from a young age, they usually lose their wild instincts.

Just like dogs, whether pitbulls, hunting dogs, or guard dogs, they are usually fed raw meat.

However, pet dogs raised in households, whether they eat dog food, canned food, or leftover meals, are mostly fed cooked food, so they hardly have any wild instincts.

Thinking that he left the black fuzzball for Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson, Dong Tianyu figured he should also raise some entertaining animals. He remembers Mace mentioning that the black and white fuzzballs were about to be born. If they truly are born, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to bring some to raise for fun.

It is unknown whether it was because the black and white fuzzballs fell from the endangered list to the vulnerable, that this creature became a pet for certain people.

According to official data (captive, not wild):

2018: 548 individuals.

2019: 600 individuals.

2020: 633 individuals.

2021: 673 individuals.

2022: 673 individuals.

2023: 548 individuals.

From the official data, one can easily see that there was an issue in 2022. Before that, there was an increase every year, but the number suddenly stopped increasing in 2022, which was very unusual.

But the strange part was in 2023. Not only was there no increase, but there was a sudden decrease of over one hundred. Whether these hundred plus fuzzballs died naturally, were killed in experiments, or disappeared mysteriously due to other reasons, no definitive statement was ever given by the officials. Otherwise, just like humans, black and white fuzzballs usually birth one or two at a time. Therefore, such an unrealistic tally is practically impossible.

However, when Dong Tianyu heard from Mace that they had some, he finally understood why the population of captive black and white fuzzballs decreased instead of increased, despite the existence of mature breeding technology.

Every year, zoos showcase new fuzzball offspring, but when the numbers were announced, there was not only no increase from the previous year, but an abrupt decrease.

Of course, after the disaster, most of the black and white fuzzballs in the wild probably died. It’s uncertain if any seeds were left in the Sichuan-Chongqing area. After thinking about Peach Blossom Paradise’s stock, aside from there, Dong Tianyu believed that there must be various private sanctuaries across other regions of the country where people might raise some.

Having thought this far, Dong Tianyu decided to travel to Peach Blossom Paradise the next day. In addition to buying more canaries, he could consider purchasing some interesting pets as well. After all, there was a lot of unused space in the cave mansion, and having more animals would be good.

It was just that he didn’t know what the people there required. But, anyhow, given that all sorts of things were available in the Shadow Space, it didn’t matter to him what they needed.

However, Dong Tianyu was considering whether he should bring Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson back for a visit. Not to threaten to return them, but rather than blindly selecting someone from the same model, he wondered if they had any suitable friends or relatives who could be persuaded to join them.

However, this notion didn’t stay in his mind for long since such an action seemed rather like asking a chaste official from a brothel to help select a courtesan.