Webnovel Author In The Apocalypse World-Chapter 213: Raising Piglets and Mutated Territories

As for the less cooperative Sir Peckington? Well, that’s what Little Nugget was there for.

Kim Haru wasn’t sure if this method would work, but he made sure to remind Go Okrim to monitor the temperature in the egg nest regularly. So far, it seems to be working.

Meanwhile, the safe zone had a much easier solution than Kim Haru’s small farm. Somehow, they’d unearthed an egg incubator from the logistics department, and it had been running nearly 24/7. The entire animal research institute’s limited electricity was funneled into keeping this incubator operational.

Kim Haru had originally hoped to get one himself, but after searching thoroughly, they found only this single machine.

Thinking about it, it made sense. In the apocalypse, most energy sources for these machines were depleted, and with animals mostly mutated, who would bother bringing along an incubator? Finding even one was a miracle. Whoever had the foresight to stash it in the logistics department’s storage space deserved praise—it was now proving incredibly useful.

For now, there was no rush with the ducks; whether the eggs would hatch remained uncertain. The bigger headache for the animal research institute was the little piglets.

There were over thirty piglets, both male and female, though most were sows. The researchers had no plans to cull the pigs for now, choosing to keep them as breeding stock. Once their numbers increased and farming capacity expanded, they would consider loosening restrictions and eating them.

All thirty-plus piglets were currently housed in a large communal pigpen. When the animal research institute was first established, it had been designed to study livestock farming, so its basic infrastructure was well-suited for large-scale pig farming. The layout, much like the pig farms Kim Haru remembered, featured individual pens for each pig, complete with standardized feeding and watering troughs. The environment was decent.

However, these piglets were far less docile than Little Snort had been when it first arrived at Kim Haru’s farm. They were naturally aggressive, and even as young as they were, they charged at any human who came close without hesitation. Their strength was surprisingly significant for their size.

Fortunately, the animal research staff had quick reflexes. Apart from one person getting a nasty bruise from an unexpected charge, no major injuries occurred. The pigpen, however, wasn’t as sturdy—it had been constantly battered by the piglets. At this rate, it wouldn’t last more than a few days before collapsing.

So far, the piglets in the animal research institute were all tied up, not with all four hooves bound together, but with the left hooves tied together and the right hooves tied together, with a certain distance between the ropes in the middle. This way, the piglets could slowly move their limbs in unison, but if they tried to charge quickly...

Sorry, they would likely stumble and fall right from the start.

Do Seungjin had previously been worried that these aggressive piglets would never settle down. When they had tried to raise them before, no matter how much time had passed, these animals remained extremely aggressive, and later they stopped eating, making them impossible to domesticate. Find adventures at novelbuddy

Kim Haru had also seen the piglets raised in the animal research institute. He didn’t have any better solutions, only suggesting that at the beginning, they shouldn’t feed them with pigweed that contain mutagenic virus. Instead, they should feed them ordinary potato leaves and soybean leaves, or the husks removed from rice, which is bran.

If possible, it would be best to slightly cook the bran.

Of course, the water they provided had to be clean water without mutagenic viruses. The animal researchers also had water-type abilities, and even Do Seungjin himself was a water-type ability user, so raising these pigs didn’t require Kim Haru to help them purify the water sources.

Kim Haru speculated that as the mutagenic viruses in the piglets’ bodies were gradually purified, they might become as docile as Little Snort.

Although Kim Haru already knew that Little Snort in his own farm, including the latter one, was initially so docile because it was suppressed by the pressure from the surrounding mutated plants.

However, Kim Haru’s method wasn’t wrong. From the time Do Seungjin and his team captured the little piglets and brought them back, it hadn’t been long, and some piglets were no longer so aggressive. Their personalities had become much more docile, and they would approach humans to take food, even proactively waiting beside the feeding troughs. This delighted the responsible researchers immensely.

As for the pigweed, it still needed to be added eventually. Not only does the pigweed contain elements that make the piglets like it and adapt to this post-apocalyptic world, but eating the pigweed also allowed the piglets to grow larger and larger.

After all, it’s all meat. The same pig, of course, having the meat mass of half a house meant that more people could eat from it. If they degenerated to their size before the apocalypse, no one would know how many would need to be raised to be sufficient.

The piglets were being raised slowly, and Kim Haru would occasionally visit the safe zone to check on them. Overall, everything was going smoothly.

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Throughout the journey, the group chatted casually, but the speed of travel was not slowed down at all. All meals were handled on the vehicle; when Gang Yuwon ate, he would switch shifts with Ra Jinho, and the vehicle almost never stopped along the way.

They hurried all the way, and by around eleven o’clock that night, the group arrived near their destination.

"Just a little bit further and we’re in the territory of the mutated animals," Do Seungjin checked the surroundings. The group decided to set up camp here and not proceed further that night.

Mutated animals had extremely sensitive senses, much more sensitive than zombies and mutated plants. If they detected that their territory had been invaded by humans, they wouldn’t care whether it was day or night; they would attack them immediately.