Chapter 369

The gra.s.s growing in front of the ranch was a new post-doomsday variety. It was cold-resistant, prolific, and rich in vitamins and trace elements. 

More than a dozen cows have mutated and were slightly larger. The black and white cows, with exceptionally bright fur, are walking leisurely in the ranch. Lowering their heads from time to time, taking a bite of the green gra.s.s, and chewing with a ‘moo moo’ sound.

There were also several milking workers, squatting beside a few of the mutant cows, squeezing with skill—the milky white fresh milk seeping into the wooden barrels prepared below.

As an excellent breed that was highly bred before the doomsday, after the mutation, these dairy cows, which were generally First and Double Awakening strength, still maintain the previous tameness. They just spread comfortably in the ranch every day. The milk production was larger than that of ordinary dairy cows. Also, the milk was more delicious.

In a long-term period, drinking the milk can also subconsciously improve the physique.

Tang Yu spent a considerable amount of money to purchase these dozen mutant cows from Lindong. Most of them were females; there were also a few bulls used for breeding.

A few hunters of the guard corps were stationed at the entrance of the ranch. The captain saw the two of them who came with a solemn face. He tried not to look at them and stayed on his post to guard, but his eyes glanced over there from time to time.

The entire ranch was stationed with a squadron of 25 hunters daily. In addition to preventing outsiders from intruding and also preventing the mutated beasts in the ranch to riot. 

In addition to cows, there weren’t many mutated beasts in a loose state. Their breath doesn’t exceed Triple Awakening, looking fluffy and tolerable. 

Well, there’s one exception…

Tang Yu glanced at the left side of the ranch. A golden beast with a huge body was humming and gnawing on the metal minerals pushed into a small mountain in front of him.

The golden beast emits the terrifying aura of the Ninth Awakening Stage. With his appet.i.te, the strength could grow rapidly, making people envious.

Inside the ranch, the walking cows, horned deer, and other mutated beasts were suppressed by this compelling aura and stayed far away.

Within a hundred-meter open area, the golden beast was just like a ranch king.

“I haven’t seen him for a while now. The Metal Swallowing Beast seems to have fattened up again? Will it be unable to walk one day? Nah, forget it, it’s good to produce ore.” Tang Yu muttered and looked at it a few more times.

Feeling being stared at, the ranch king’s fat body suddenly froze. The big mineral stone gnawed on its mouth slipped away. Until the two figures went away and disappeared, it was shaking violently. After that, it continued to hum and gnaw ores. 

……….

The ranch was divided into the outer layer and inner layer. The outer layer was a loose area for harmless mutated beasts and did not limit their activities.

More alienated beasts, however, were kept in cages.

The ear-piercing screeching sound was accompanied by the crossed sounds of iron and stone collisions.

On the left side, a large hen with beautiful yellow feathers over two meters in height, with a sharp beak pecking wildly at the metal bars with a series of sparks emerging from the clashing sound. But the metal bars were not damaged at all.

The mutant hen was only a Triple Awakening mutant beast, but they didn’t dare to put it outside the free-range area.

Tang Yu was helpless. Aside from the Metal Swallowing Beast, which had high spiritual intelligence and knew how to judge the situation, there were not really many mutant beasts with that ability.

“Can you pacify the hen?”

“No problem.”

Carla fished out some yellow-green granular powder from his pocket somewhere, grabbed it in his hand, walked in step by step, and came to the iron fence where the mutant hens were kept.

Grasping the powder, he handed it out, seemingly wanting to feed this huge hen.

‘He won’t be pecked out into a b.l.o.o.d.y hole, right?’

Tang Yu thought with some concern. Then remembered that Carla also had Sixth Awakening Strength while the hen was only Triple Awakening. Moreover, he was a beast tamer. If he can’t even handle the mutant hen, Tang Yu would be disappointed.

And Carla did not let him down.

When the hen’s sharp beak almost pecked down like lightning, he saw Carla’s hand raised. Tang Yu couldn’t figure out whether the yellow-green powder was sprinkled on the mutant hen or into its mouth. Carla’s eyes widened as if he was staring at the mutant hen. A moment later, he reached out to touch the hen’s soft yellow feathers without any resistance, the yellow hen squatted down and became tame.

Sure enough, he has his own way.

Tang Yu walked closer, “The hen has been completely tamed?”

Carla shook his head, “Now I can only temporarily suppress its wild nature. If left unattended, it won’t be long before it will return to its previous grumpy appearance. I still need a few days to completely tame it.”

“Mr. Carla, what the highest level of mutant beast can you tame?”

“It is impossible to say, there are many factors that affect domestication. The character of the mutated beast, preparation, whether it was originally hostile to humans, etc. Each mutated beast is a different individual, only after seeing and understanding, it is clear whether it can be tamed or not.”

Taming the alienated hen was not important. At best, it will be easier to pick up the eggs later.

Tang Yu would prefer that Carla tame some kind of mutated beast that can act as a mount and charge the battlefield.

…….

The ranch was huge, and the deeper they went, the more terrifying the beasts were. There were more hisses and cries.

Most of the hunter squadron stationed at the ranch stayed in the depths.

The two walked past the iron bars holding the beasts, birds, and aquatic beasts… the cage had varying sizes. There were small ones like a garage and large ones comparable to a basketball court.

In addition to a feeding port for the beast to deliver food, the internal arrangement of the cage was also different according to the living environment of the beast.

There were horrible-looking crocodile beasts held in a watery swamp environment. Its scaly armor on its big tail flipped, splashing mud all over.

In order to arrange such a ranch, Tang Yu took great pains to expand it several times. Put in manpower and material resources back and forth, and customize the building renovation.

If it all counted as spirit stones, it’s estimated to exceed two million…

It wasn’t just to fulfill the food quota. They can try taming the beasts to be used as mounts… the existence of these beasts was a huge specimen library. It has extraordinary significance in terms of research and other uses.

“Mr. Carla, which kind of beast do you think can be tamed as a mount? I’m planning to make a cavalry with the size of more than 300.”

Carla looked around and soon observed the beasts held in the depths of the ranch.

There were fifty-eight species in total, mostly between the Double and Fifth Awakening. There were only three mutant beasts from the Sixth Awakening up.

There were a lot of them, but there were not many beasts that were suitable for the hunter to ride and charge and had similar strength.

Carla locked on to three of them.

A kind of wolf-like beast, its body, was larger than that of a lion. Its hair, corners, and lines outline an explosive beauty of power and show its domineering and unparalleled.

Tang Yu called them seat wolves. It had the power of the peak of the Fifth Awakening. He was very optimistic about this kind of beast before, but the seat wolf appeared extremely arrogant. When it just caught, it showed an ‘even if I die, I will not eat a single bit of human food’ att.i.tude.

In the end, the wolf failed to resist the temptation of delicious food. However, its wild nature was hard to be tamed, and every time it was approached, it turned hostile.

The second was a horse-like beast. With a size larger than ordinary horses with a fire-red mane fluttering like burning flames. It was magnificent. The strength of the Fourth Awakening Stage, he named them the fire horse.

Out of his expectation, the third one was a bird with yellow feathers, slightly larger than the giant yellow hen. It couldn’t fly with its short wings, but it has a striking long slender neck like an ostrich and also appears to be very powerful. 

This avian beast, which had previously failed to attract his attention, had not yet received the opportunity to be named.

“The seated wolf is aggressive and possesses no weak combat power in itself.” Carla paused and continued, “If you want to tame it as a mount, you need the knight and me to work together. Only after taming the seated wolf will it obey the command and work well with the knight.”

“But the seat wolf is wild, and it takes a longer time to tame it.”

He went to the iron bar where the second beast was kept, “The fire horse is relatively weaker, but the horse-like beast is suitable for riding. It’s easier to tame, and it is easier for the knight to work well with the horse.”

“This kind of fowl…” Carla pondered for a moment, “The aggression does not seem to be strong…”

Yellow-feathered avian and mutant hens were somewhat similar, only stronger. But in turn, unlike the mutant hens that peck wildly at the iron fence when humans approach, it emits a ‘gobble gobble’ sound of wariness.

“But observation reveals that this bird should have extraordinary jumping ability, and superior speed, explosive power, and even better endurance, suitable as a mount for long-distance travel.”

Tang Yu was also observing.

He was far less knowledgeable about mutant beast than Carla, but his insight was not bad.

The claw part of the bird without dense hair was gray-black. The claws and connected legs were huge and rigid, and powerful. If this yellow bird was around 2.8 meters tall, then its lower limbs, which occupied at least 1.6 meters in height, were veritable ‘long legs’.

Below its neck was mostly legs.

This appearance ensures the explosive power of the beast, and bouncing power, as Carla said, was suitable for almost any terrain except for flying.

It’s a very excellent mount.

Combining all the characteristics of the yellow bird, Tang Yu decided to name it the Landwalker.

Seat Wolf, Fire Horse, and Landwalker, these were the three beasts that Carla had selected and were suitable to become mounts.

Except for the two Fire Horses, there was only one wolf and one landwalker, which were obviously far from meeting the requirements of forming a cavalry corps.

Tang Yu called the ranch steward, and after a brief inquiry, he soon learned the origin of these three beasts.

The members of the Investigation Corps, who were active in the outside world, captured them by chance. However, the book in the steward’s hand did not record the location of the capture of these three mutated beasts.

Frowning, Tang Yu looked at the hunter of the Guard Corps standing guard not far away and beckoned.

The hunter came running at his heels.

“Help me call in the investigation corps… several squadron leaders.”

…………………

The investigative corps was outside, usually in a squadron of 25 people.

The ranch steward has records of who had found and captured the three kinds of the mutant beast, namely the third squadron, the fifth squadron, and the twelfth squadron.

The third squadron and the twelfth squadron, which were not in the shelter, could not be contacted for the time being.

He scratched his head, apparently couldn’t remember.

Tang Yu expressed his understanding. The post-doomsday terrain was not small; the mountains were intertwined, lush trees hid the roads, and hunters who went out were easily lost in the complex environment of the wilderness if they were far from the shelter.

But the lieutenant said that the Fire Horse was captured only a few days ago, that the area should not have changed much, and he could still recognize it.

“In that case…” Tang Yu pondered for a moment and looked at the middle captain, “Take your team members and take a trip to the area where the fiery horses were found… Carla, you should also come along.”

Among the three kinds of foreign beasts, only the fire horse was found in a pair. Most likely, the fire horse has a herd.

Tang Yu could not hold back and decided to act immediately, not letting go of any opportunity to possibly discover a flaming horse herd.

Although the fire horses were not as strong as the wolves and not as adaptable to the terrain as the landwalker birds, they were horse-like beasts that were easy to tame and suitable for charging with the riders. And they were good enough to bring their combined battle skills into play, which was their greatest advantage.

Its combat power was not important… Any member of the corps could easily kill the peak of the Fifth Awakening mutant beasts.

Instead, Tang Yu was most optimistic about the Fire Horse.

He didn’t intend to give up the other two kinds of beast. Seat wolves shouldn’t live alone, and he can’t say the same with the landwalker. But the third and twelfth squadron hasn’t returned, and he didn’t know their specific location. 

“In the future, any information about the mutant beast must be recorded. Including the location of the discovery, as well as the details of the capture.”

After that, Tang Yu, Carla, and the rest of them left the ranch. 

…………..

In the mountains, at the Airplane parking platform.

Tang Yu brought Carla here, followed by the territory’s armed forces part-time No. 1 bodyguard ‘Nancy’ behind him.

In order to get to the area where the fire horses were found as soon as possible, as well as to facilitate the capture of the flaming horses for transport afterward, he decided to send out a strategic-grade weapon, the airplane.

Ma Liguo led the Voyage, which transported cargo to w.a.n.ghai Shelter two days ago. Due to the need to ship back minerals, herbs, and other materials from the trade, the Voyage has not yet returned. 

At this time, on the empty platform was parked the second airplane, ‘Flying Fish’, and the last one which was being a.s.sembled. 

When the three floating boats were finished, most of the rare materials that had been acc.u.mulated for months in the territory’s warehouse were declared exhausted. And the recent list of transactions between the airplane and Jingcheng City, and w.a.n.ghai and other shelters, focused on the main materials needed for airplane manufacturing.

……

Far away in the Yangtze Delta, Shay and others began to loot the plan but also harvested a lot of mineral materials.

Such as cloud grain stone, black iron wood, star grain steel, and so on.

“The second brigade of the Investigation Corps, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth squadrons are all a.s.sembled, please give your instructions, sir.”

“Follow me.”

Sky nodded and boarded the airplane.

A brigade of a total of ninety-three hunters (those poached by the Air Force Special Warfare Corps had not yet been replaced), fully equipped and dressed, followed and then boarded the airplane.

Tang Yu stood at the bow of the floating boat with his hands in the air. Looking down at the survivors and puppets who were busy like ants.

When he saw that the personnel was complete, he said indifferently, “Set sail.”

The captain took orders.

With a light buzz, the rune array activated, the airplane slowly lifted off, and a moment later, began to accelerate, flying towards the target location.

……

The white clouds were indistinct and receded towards the back.

After flying for about an hour, the Flying Bird airplane arrived at the northern part of Tiannan Province, at the border with the neighboring province.

After lowering their alt.i.tude and circling the area, the two dozen hunters of the fifth squadron lay on the edge of the deck. They carefully identified the area where they had been capturing the horse.