Chapter 246 Ranch Story
As soon as school was over, Liu Xingquan rushed out of the school gate impatiently.
Cui Mingzhi looked at Liu Xingquan's back as he rushed out of the school gate with a gloomy face. He turned to Xiaozhen and said, "This guy is leaving in such a hurry. Is he rushing to drive a Gundam?"
"Liu Xingquan is not going to drive a Gundam."
"Liu Xingquan is not going to drive a Gundam." Cui Mingzhi repeated Xiaozhen's words sourly, "Your tone is as if you are saying that Liu Xingquan is not riding a bicycle."
Xiao Zhen explained: "That Gundam is a product of an ancient civilization. It can't be opened now even if we want to."
"Anyway, he once drove a super awesome and powerful Gundam, right?!" Cui Mingzhi glared at Xiao Zhen, "I say, he rushed out in such a hurry, right? He's in a hurry to drive your spaceship."
"No, Liu Xingquan went to see his farm."
"farm?"
"He built his own farm on a planet." Xiao Zhen added, "He raised some alien creatures that can be used as food."
"What?"
"I mean, he's an alien farmer."
"..." Cui Mingzhi froze for a moment, and he looked at him in a dead silence. After a minute of silence, he jumped up and said angrily: "Yan Zhen, you are too much!!!"
"Why are you mad at me?"
"You failed me!"
"ah?"
"You two are in the same group!! You secretly do these cool and awesome things behind my back!! Too much!! You are disloyal!! Are you still my friend!!! Are we really as close as a rock?"
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Liu Xingquan stood in front of the door, his hand shaking as he took the key to open the door.
Just half an hour ago, he received the latest message from the slime mold Liu Xingquan that the Tas Ball was produced.
He pushed open the door. The house was empty at this time. His mother was busy in the wonton shop and was not at home.
Liu Xingquan walked into the bedroom, opened the Star Network, and read the communication letter from the slime mold Liu Xingquan again:
【To Mr. Liu Xingquan:】
[The female Tasiqiu Beibei gave birth to three cubs, both mother and cubs are safe. ]
He clenched his fists excitedly, picked up the projection glasses that Yan Zhen gave him from the table, and pressed the projection button.
The world turned into a virtual projection, and he flew towards the sky again. Soon the earth turned into a blue glass ball behind him, and countless stars flew past him. After flying in the dazzling light beams for dozens of minutes, he finally saw a beautiful planet shrouded in a misty atmosphere, his Heart of Asgard.
In fact, he did not travel across the universe and project himself onto the Heart of Asaph. This process was just a simulation created by the manufacturer to prevent users from being too bored when loading the progress.
What Liu Xingquan is seeing now is not the real scene synchronized with the Heart of Asgard. What he is seeing is just the scene recorded by the slime mold Liu Xingquan some time ago.
After landing on the grass, Liu Xingquan felt a slight dizziness. He straightened up and spent a minute to adapt to the automatic adjustment of vision and touch. The surrounding scene became clear and visible. He was standing in his farm. It was very different from the first time he and Yan Zhen saw the scene with the projection. A modern interstellar farm was beside him. On his left was the warehouse and living area, and on the right was the indoor farmhouse of the Tas Sphere. There was also a piece of farmland that had been cultivated and sown in front of him. From Liu Xingquan's perspective, it was already full of greenery.
He saw the slime mold Liu Xingquan. This stand-in who looked exactly like him was sitting in a suspended automatic wheelchair. The slime mold Liu Xingquan still had one leg and half of his arm not fully grown, which was the painful consequence of the attack by Seol not long ago, but because of the automatic wheelchair, he could move freely in the farm .
Liu Xingquan turned around and walked through the door into the farmhouse. On a pile of hay, he saw the female tussock, Beibei, who had just given birth. Beibei's body was visibly smaller. He walked forward with a pounding heart. There were three small pink balls of flesh huddled under Beibei. They were only the size of Liu Xingquan's palm, with fine fur on their pink bodies, a bit like newborn bunnies. Their eyes were not open, and they kept chirping and pressing their bodies close craving for their mother's warmth and milk.
How small, Liu Xingquan thought. Even if the scene in front of him was just a projection of the past, he didn't dare to reach out and touch it, for fear of disturbing the three babies.
Slime mold Liu Xingquan was checking the temperature and humidity in the room. After the inspection, the wheelchair floated to the back of the fence of the mother and child of the Tass Ball, and the slime mold put in a bowl full of feed. Beibei immediately abandoned the three cubs squeezed beside her, rushed to the food bowl at high speed and nibbled happily. The food bowl contained hay, sour barley, benley blue fruit, chopped purple lemon peel, and ground cooked egg yolk powder. This was a nutritious meal specially prepared for Beibei after giving birth. Perhaps because the nutritious meal was too delicious, Beibei completely ignored the three babies who were screaming and chirping because they had lost their mother's warmth.
After squatting beside Beibei and watching the mother of the tasi ball happily eat, Liu Xingquan reluctantly looked at the three cute fleshy babies for a while. At this time, the three cute babies had fallen asleep close together, their small bodies rising and falling slightly. The voice of the slime mold Liu Xingquan came into Liu Xingquan's earphone, "The three cubs have normal signs and are in good health. I will continue to observe them later."
"Thank you, you've worked hard!! Star Platinum!" Star Platinum is the name Liu Xingquan gave to the slime mold Liu Xingquan. The slime mold Liu Xingquan looks exactly like him, so calling him Liu Xingquan seems to be wrong. He is his stand-in, so why not give him a resounding name? After careful logical thinking, Liu Xingquan decided to call the slime mold Liu Xingquan Star Platinum. Of course, the slime mold Liu Xingquan has no objection to this name.
"But there is a problem," said Liu Xingquan, the platinum star slime mold.
"What?"
"All three babies are male."
Liu Xingquan blinked. All three were males, which meant that the first batch of Tasball cubs would face the situation of having no wives, which was not good for future breeding. However, there were still one male and one female adult Tasball alive, so there was still hope for the next generation.
He turned and went to another room, where the other two surviving male tasi balls, Aqiang and female tasi balls, Azhen, were chasing each other and jumping on the haystack. Liu Xingquan thought that he would probably get new pregnancy news soon, but he stood and watched for a while and found that the interaction between the two balls was just Azhen beating Aqiang unilaterally. As long as Aqiang got close to the female tasi ball, he would be hit by the other's body and then beaten up. After Aqiang was beaten away, he would come back shamelessly soon, and then be beaten up by the irritated Azhen again, and this repeated over and over again.
Liu Xingquan: "..." It seems that it is really impossible to assign a wife without emotional foundation. Let's continue to observe for a while.
Leaving the indoor farmhouse, Liu Xingquan strolled to the farmland in front of the farmhouse. This is the sourwood wheat field, which is essential feed for Tassball. The tender green sourwood wheat seedlings are neatly arranged, and an automatic sprinkler truck is spraying water.
I don't know if Earth's plants can grow on this land. Liu Xingquan recalled the atmospheric data of the Heart of Asgard that he had seen. The air composition of this planet is very similar to that of Earth. Judging from the climate, it should be able to grow Earth's crops. Although the breeding guide of the Tas Ball did not mention whether Earth's crops could be used as feed, he could try it himself.
He decided to order some more crop seeds from Earth and send them to the Heart of Asgard, and then open up a few farmlands. The protagonist in The Martian planted potatoes on Mars, and the current environmental conditions on this planet are much better than those on Mars, so he could plant them there. The only problem is that interstellar shipping is too expensive, and it is not cost-effective to just order crop seeds from Earth and send them there. He might consider buying a few more pieces of agricultural equipment.
Thinking about the future of the farm, Liu Xingquan sat by the field. The grass around him was covered with scattered pink and white unknown flowers. The breeze brought the fragrance of wild flowers and the smell of soil. The clouds in the sky floated slowly. In this peaceful field, there was no trace of the beast Saio that had once brought devastating blows to the ranch.
When the ranch is running smoothly, I can come here with Yan Zhen to have fun and eat at the farmhouse. One day in the future, I might be able to tell my mother and give her a surprise. My mother will definitely be very surprised. Thinking of this, Liu Xingquan couldn't help but laugh.
Beep, beep, a communication suddenly cut in, Xiaozhen said: "Cui Mingzhi must come to see your farm."
"Oh well."
A moment later, Xiao Zhen and Cui Mingzhi appeared beside Liu Xingquan, and they entered the real-life projection of the Heart of Asgard together.
"Damn, Liu Xingquan really has a farm!" Cui Mingzhi shouted, looking around with wide eyes.
Liu Xingquan introduced his farm to Cui Mingzhi. He took Cui Mingzhi and Xiaozhen to the farmhouse to visit the tassball. Cui Mingzhi looked at the tassball curiously, and listened to Xiaozhen's praises of its deliciousness with all kinds of flattering words, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva. Then he took Cui Mingzhi and Xiaozhen to visit some facilities on the ranch, and Cui Mingzhi was amazed.
After seeing the Platinum Star Slime Mold Liu Xingquan, Cui Mingzhi was greatly shocked.
“This, this…” Cui Mingzhi shouted nervously, “He looks exactly like you, and he’s disabled!”
"This is Star Platinum."
Cui Mingzhi had an idiotic look on his face, as if to say, "Sure enough, you and I are from completely different worlds."
When Choi Ming-chi's worldview collapsed and was being rebuilt, Xiao Zhen whispered to Liu Xingquan what was going on with the slime mold. Liu Xingquan briefly told him about Seo, and then said that he had asked bounty hunters to drive Seo away from nearby, so he didn't have to worry. Xiao Zhen nodded.
After visiting the farm, Liu Xingquan took Xiaozhen and Cui Mingzhi to his farmland, showed them the sour barley that was currently thriving, and told them about his future plan to plant more crops.
"This is simply an upgraded version of Ranch Story on an alien planet!" Choi Ming-chi shouted with a mixture of envy and sourness, "How big is your ranch?"
"As long as he wants to expand, he can expand all the way to the end of this continent." Xiao Zhen said.
"What's the meaning?"
Xiao Zhen said: "This planet belongs to Liu Xingquan."
"What?"
"This planet belongs to Liu Xingquan."
Cui Mingzhi was silent for a few seconds, then he squatted down, turned his back to Xiaozhen and Liu Xingquan, and curled himself up into a ball.
Liu Xingquan asked Xiao Zhen in a low voice: "What happened to him?"
"Well, that's what happens when you're too excited. Just calm down."
