Chapter 306: 【frog Seedling】 And 【chicken Selling King】
Yuan Zhu drove Nie Yin to the Rain Courtyard, then under Frog Girl’s lead, arrived at the teaching building where the Frog School was located. He then took out the pre-prepared Breeding Permit Document, found the person in charge, and from the Frog School’s laboratory, obtained the first batch of ‘experimental grade’ frog seedlings.
The negotiation work was handled by Nie Yin, who was not good with words. Yuan Zhu followed behind Miss the whole time, cheering her on, looking around left and right, peering about.
Although Nie Yin’s social skills were practically crippled, this was her home ground after all, where she had lived, studied, and worked for many years, seeing the staff in charge frequently and knowing each other well.
Upon learning that Nie Yin, who was always ostracized at the academy, had few friends, behaved strangely and eccentrically, and liked secretly hiding in the lab to torment little frogs, had finally found a garbage job as a Frog Raising Farm technician.
They all sighed that it was indeed the difficulty level matching her. Finally starting her graduation internship. Who knows which blind boss picked such a weirdo.
After smoothly completing a series of certification procedures, in the end, the blind-eyed boss Yuan Zhu harvested the first big ‘bucket’ of frog seedlings in his life. If feeding goes smoothly, he probably won’t come to buy a second bucket.
Peering in, in the blue round bucket, a dense cluster of black tadpoles that had just grown hind legs but not yet front legs floated thickly. Their size was decent, a circle larger than a fingernail, looking pitch black and sticky, with obvious mouths and tiny micro sharp teeth, completely different from Earth tadpoles! Ugly and evil.
They were densely packed, filling a whole bucket, wriggling around in a way that made one feel uncomfortable all over. After the person in charge finished weighing, they continued pouring water into the bucket. Finally, they tossed in a fist-sized thing like an effervescent tablet.
As soon as this item met water, it frantically produced a large amount of bubbles, undergoing a violent reaction.
The experienced person in charge immediately sealed the bucket lid tight and locked it. Then signaled to Yuan Zhu that he could take away this bucket of frog seedlings worth 1000 yuan.
Picking up the not-too-large but heavy round bucket. Even through the thick barrel wall and lid, he could perceive the intense bubbling chemical reaction inside, and even from the sealed lid’s edges came ‘sizzle sizzle’ bubbling gas escape sounds.
After leaving the laboratory and arriving at an empty corridor, Yuan Zhu nudged Nie Yin with his other free arm and asked: “Hey, what was that just now? What was the thing thrown into the bucket that ‘sizzled’ and bubbled? Will this bucket of frog spawn die from excessive internal air pressure?”
Nie Yin replied: “That’s an oxygenation tool, also integrated with some antiseptic medicine and stimulants. Upon contact with water, it reacts to release oxygen, suppress possible pollution in the water, and slowly release medicine and stimulants to stimulate the seedlings’ potential and improve survival rate. Not only will it not suffocate the seedlings, it can also save some fragile near-dead ones.”
Yuan Zhu looked at the lonely fully sealed small bucket, dissatisfied with this trip. He drove such a big truck to pick up goods, but ended up taking back just this one bucket? Doesn’t that make me look dumb!
“We’re taking just this one bucket back on this trip?”
Nie Yin: “Of course not just that. I also need an experimental bench and operating table. Plus, since you plan to intercept a batch of experimental frogs for private experiments to extract Body Tempering Fluid Ingredient, we’ll need corresponding experimental equipment, and a larger Statue of God for the Frog God Ritual.”
Under Nie Yin’s direction, Yuan Zhu ran all over the Frog School, spending a total of 2 hours and buying a large amount of feed rations added with special medicinal herbs, a full 40 sacks.
Then several experimental and surgical benches, a lot of equipment, a small amount of experimental reagents… and finally, a headless skinned frog bronze statue fully 2m tall.
As well as a full 10 large trash cans of free gifted Biological Experiment Waste (Frog-Type Pollution Corpses).
Originally, Yuan Zhu wasn’t qualified to haul away this ‘dangerous biological garbage.’ But after buying so much equipment from the Frog School, plus Nie Yin’s face, the teacher responsible for cleaning experimental garbage treated these 10 buckets of headless frog corpses as gifts and loaded them onto the truck.
“Some profit made!”
After getting back in the car, Candle, somewhat influenced by Nie Yin, thought of the ’10 buckets of experimental biochemical garbage’ obtained for free at the end and immediately became excited!
The additionally loaded Nie Yin rarely nodded in agreement: “Mm!”
These 10 buckets of garbage, after each undergoes the Frog God Ritual, will have their flesh tainted with a small amount of unusable Frog-Type Pollution. For ordinary people, extremely dangerous.
But in Nie Yin and Candle’s view: the former believed these frog’s skin still had huge potential for mining and use; the latter valued the lightly polluted flesh even more, with fresh tender texture, rich nutrition (pollution), and extremely low danger index!
Perfectly suited, ideal for supplementing Frog-Type cultivators!
Yuan Zhu said regretfully: “Too bad, the academy isn’t willing to supply long-term, otherwise I’d pay to handle this experimental garbage for the Frog School.”
Nie Yin: “These dead frogs will be bought at high prices by martial arts halls. We later (Frog Factory) can also stably produce these things.”
Yuan Zhu nodded: “I can’t wait to produce them soon!”
Feeling increasingly short on funds, Candle developed a strong desire for the cheap by-product ‘frog corpses.’ No other reason—his own bred orcs and goblins ate way too much!
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After pulling Nie Yin and a truckload of supplies to the suburban Frog Factory, Yuan Zhu didn’t linger. He directly abandoned the truck along with Nie Yin at No. 1 Farming Facility, arranged for Frog Girl to find workers herself to move the equipment, supplies, and frog seedlings into No. 1 facility, then start feeding work.
As for himself, he switched back to the sports car, bringing one bucket of freebie ‘experimental garbage’ back to Running City, heading straight for the Haunted House.
The current interior of the Haunted House had been gradually emptied by Yuan Zhu. Valuable supplies, even the fully modified Eggplant Essence Sacs, were all sent by him into the Mountain Lord’s Cave Dwelling in the Misty Mountains.
Now, the empty Haunted House interior only had the temporarily lodging brother and sister duo, four eggplant head ghost security guards, five half-blood orc warriors. And a bunch of ‘various goblin’ experimental subjects undergoing modification, and 45 newly bred new eggplant goblins.
When Yuan Zhu arrived in the living room, he saw the little girl and younger brother happily, gratefully, enjoyingly holding the long-cold fried chicken meal set, savoring it delicately bit by bit.
“Hm?! Little Tang, why haven’t you two finished eating? Once this stuff cools, it doesn’t taste good.”
Yuan Zhu clearly remembered this fried chicken fast food was bought yesterday by Nie Yin when she went out, specifically for the siblings.
The brother and sister from Insect City had eaten polluted tree roots, polluted moss, polluted mushrooms, and hard-to-swallow bugs at medium difficulty or below their whole lives. They had never tasted clean vegetables or fruits, let alone big fish and meat.
Last time, when Nie Yin returned alone to the Rain Courtyard to handle faith applications and new identities for the two, she promised to bring Yuan Tang and her brother something delicious, inviting the otherworld siblings to taste main world cuisine.
After some inquiring, besides picking ‘experimental pollution waste (frogs)’ from trash cans to cook hotpot, she also gritted her teeth and spent money on a set of the most popular Rain Courtyard student crowd’s Sell Chicken King Family Bucket Meal Set.
This high-temperature deep-fried, fat-filled greasy food was indeed perfectly suited to the tastes of the siblings accustomed to hard days. They ate it ecstatically, not finding it greasy at all—that was the satisfaction they’d never experienced, simply biting into paradise with one mouthful.
As a result, the two ate while crying, while holding back from eating more, stuffing the gnawed ragged fried chicken with bones to the younger brother (older sister), wanting the other to eat more.
Unable to watch, Yuan Zhu had Nie Yin buy several cheap and hearty buckets of Sell Chicken King. Unexpectedly, the two had hidden them away, and now were still sister-loving brother-respectfully, sacredly sharing the long-cold Sell Chicken King with each other, eating it with relish, happy to the point of flying.
Hearing Yuan Zhu say it wouldn’t taste good once cold, the little girl raised the obviously not-fresh chicken wing in her hand, whose crispy skin had long gone soggy, and retorted: “How could that be? It smells so good and tastes great!”
Yuan Tiao also nodded in agreement: “Yeah, yeah, very delicious!”
“Uh…”
Yuan Zhu originally wanted to say it wasn’t the Sell Chicken King that was good, but their taste system was faulty, so nothing tasted bad. But thinking of the awkward scene where little girl had reluctantly offered her treasured dung beetle to him before, he decided to drop it.
Can’t be too harsh on kids from such an apocalyptic world, so he said: “Since you like it so much, once I pay you wages later, you’ll have endless Sell Chicken King, Fellow Villager Chicken, Strolling Chicken, Chicken Overlord… no need to eat cold ones.”
Light shone in little girl’s eyes, she nodded repeatedly, and raised the few remaining pieces in her hand, inviting: “Big Brother, want some?”
Yuan Zhu shook his head: “No need! How’s the batch of goblins you were assigned to train and raise performing?”
Yuan Tiao looked up: “I signed four Holy Light Goblins into Anti-Law, observing their breathing method patterns and body changes. I have some inspirations, but can’t grasp them fully, always feeling like there’s a membrane blocking, inspirations not very clear.”
One of Yuan Tiao’s missions was to observe and train those six Goblin Paladins, forcing and correcting their breathing patterns, continuously operating Holy Light Knight Breathing Technique, combined with the Holy Flask implanted in the abdomen (dantian), releasing Holy Cough Particles inside the body for reinforcement modification.
This breathing method was completely different from Insect City’s qi refiners, yet both originated from Knight Breathing Technique. Candle both hoped the Holy Light Goblins could achieve breakthroughs and accomplishments; and hoped younger brother could gain inspiration from them to hack and complete the unrepairable Qi Refining Technique.
Under his guidance, little brother selected four outstandingly performing Holy Goblins, signing them into his mastered Anti-Law Group D. Through Anti-Law’s superior-subordinate control relationship, more profoundly and intuitively observing goblin cultivation changes, and already having some inspirations.
Indeed got some talent!
Yuan Zhu comforted: “Don’t rush, it’s only been one day. Continue patiently observing them, and don’t forget to train the other ‘goblin strongmen, orcs’ in martial arts.”
“I have been seriously training them, but their aptitude is really too poor.”
As he spoke, younger brother’s face showed frustration and self-doubt. Though he was extremely diligent and racked his brains, the feedback from those orcs and goblins made him question life once.
Yuan Zhu then looked at little girl: “Little Tang, get ready, I’m taking you out of the Haunted House today first. From now on, follow Nie Yin to manage the Frog Factory work for me; she’ll teach you frog farming techniques. Next to the Frog Factory, there’s a soon-to-operate Greenhouse where you can try Corpse Seed. I’ll arrange a professional ‘botany, herbal medicine expert’ as your mentor; she also has deep research on our native Alchemy.”
Hearing this, Yuan Tang looked at the tightly shut door of the Haunted House and said excitedly: “I can go out? Then can my younger brother also leave to see the outside world, breathe the clean air of the Upper Realm?!”
Candle nodded: “Your identities are already processed, Faith List applied for. Just bind spirit certification, plus Anti-Law concealment. As long as you don’t use true qi in your body and stay low-key, you can move freely. But try to avoid crowded places, and don’t go near Security Bureau areas.”
“I arranged you to Frog Factory because it’s remote, near Misty Mountains for cover, relatively safe. Leaving little Tiao here is because Disease Garden is very valuable, and he has the task of training ‘orcs, goblins,’ can’t leave temporarily. Bear with it a bit longer; once my new Domain is built, you’ll have a new home!”
Little girl excitedly said: “A new Shadow Domain? Like Animal Husbandry Village, with Reverse Birth Garden (Shadow Inner World) Domain?”
This she was very familiar with, very safe feeling. That was the taste of home.
Yuan Zhu nodded: “Just this time without Shadow Dream Hole, not sure what the new Domain will ultimately become?”
