Webnovel Author In The Apocalypse World-Chapter 355: Solving Space and Pollination Problems
"How about separating them for rearing?" Kim Haru suggested after pondering the issue but failing to come up with a particularly clever solution.
If keeping all the fish together required a large living area, why not separate them into smaller groups or even individually?
This way, each group would need less space.
Given the existence of Gokmul County’s Starlight Armored Bug farm, where materials like glass were no longer scarce, constructing more tanks wouldn’t be a problem...
Kim Haru hadn’t even finished articulating his thoughts when Do Seungjin’s eyes lit up with excitement.
"That’s it! I can assign the fish to others to raise!"
Kim Haru froze.
Assign the fish to others?
The more Do Seungjin thought about it, the better the idea seemed.
Being a man of action, he immediately gathered the researchers in charge of fish farming and briefly explained the plan.
Soon, the decision was made.
The Animal Research Institute officially posted a long-term fish-rearing task in the Ability User Center.
The task described the thorny fish’s habits in detail, outlining their dietary needs and environmental requirements.
Additionally, it offered a one-week supply of fish feed for anyone who accepted the task.
After the first week, however, the fish feed and living space for the fish would be the responsibility of those undertaking the task.
"The institute will retain a portion of the fish for synchronized farming, as we still need to monitor data and track the breeding process," Do Seungjin explained, feeling very pleased with the plan. "Once the fish reach a harvestable stage, the institute will buy them back at a set price. If those raising the fish wish to handle them themselves, we’ll also arrange financial settlements."
Whoever needed to pay would do so accordingly.
Whether the fish-raisers grew attached to the fish and refused to sell or decided to keep them for personal consumption was no longer the institute’s concern.
After all, the Animal Research Institute’s primary goal wasn’t the fish meat itself but determining whether this species could be successfully cultivated under the controlled conditions.
Now that their objective had been met, the ultimate fate of the fish was of little importance.
When Kim Haru left the Pyeongseong Safe Zone, the task had already been posted in the Ability User Center.
Many ability users were eager to try it, and some had already rushed to the Animal Research Institute to request the assignment.
Why was the task given only to ability users and not to ordinary people?
The main consideration was the safety of the first batch of thorny fish.
After all, the venomous spines on their backs were still a potential danger.
Assigning the task to ability users ensured that they had sufficient reflexes and self-defense capabilities to handle any risks.
As for ordinary people interested in raising the fish, they would have to wait until the Animal Research Institute developed a safer method, such as eliminating the venom in the spines or creating a tool to control the fish.
For now, most ordinary people were still focused on farming.
Of course, farming was a source of joy for the residents of the Pyeongseong Safe Zone.
Watching the seeds being planted one by one and imagining how they would gradually sprout, grow, and yield fresh, delicious food brought immense happiness to everyone.
Upon returning to his small farm, Kim Haru’s first task was to select the ducks that would be sent to the Pyeongseong Safe Zone to assist with farm work.
There were over twenty ducks on Kim Haru’s farm, while the Pyeongseong Safe Zone had hatched more than sixty ducks from the eggs they had initially sourced.
They used reliable incubators to ensure a high success rate.
After some thought, Kim Haru decided to send three ducks to the Pyeongseong Safe Zone.
Each duck could manage about twenty others, which was just right.
Selecting the ducks wasn’t that complicated.
Kim Haru simply had Little Nugget to help him pick up the three most active and robust ones.
He tied red strings around their ankles to mark them and, not wanting to make another trip to the Pyeongseong Safe Zone himself, he planned to have Go Okrim handle the transport.
Across the pond, the fields had mostly been tended to, and the seeds had been planted.
Now, only the seedlings in the Greenhouse remained.
The Greenhouse itself had been stored directly in Kim Haru’s system backpack.
The System-generated building were integrated as a whole, making them incredibly convenient to be stored and retrieve.
The doghouses that once used for his Cryo Wolf before they were turn into small dogs, had also long since been stored away.
Standing before the melon seedlings, Kim Haru reached out to touch them.
He wanted to gauge how much longer they needed to mature.
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If they ripened quickly, he would wait to assess their taste before deciding which types to plant more of in the future.
Wait a second.
What did the system mean by the Pollination difficulty were detected?
As soon as Kim Haru noticed an issue with his eagerly anticipated melon seedlings, he immediately became concerned.
He checked every flowering melon vine using the system.
Apart from two plants at the center that were growing normally, the rest all displayed the message: The Pollination Difficulty Were Detected.
Pollination... Pollination... Pollination…
As Kim Haru stared at the flourishing melon blossoms before him, his mind drifted to the books about plant pollination he’d read in his study.
Suddenly, a thought struck him.
Of course!
He had felt that something was missing from the scene before him—and now he realized what it was.
Besides the flowers, there were no bees in sight!
In nature, pollination generally occurs in two ways: either through wind or with the help of animals.
The wind pollination is too inefficient.
Except in cases where a large area of similar plants is grouped together, the chances of success are low.
Relying purely on the wind, who could guarantee that the breeze would carry pollen from one flower to the exact flower that needed it?
