Chapter 223 Sky Island Development (Updated)
"This is yours, this is yours..."
The young soldier counted the gray-white balls in his mouth. These semi-gel blocks made of leftover scraps of food from the territory, steamed and sterilized, and composed of leftover meat scraps, vegetable roots, and food gel, were the food for the scout spiders.
It was nutritious and easy to make. The main ingredients were the leftover scraps from the canteen after cooking.
The first management problem of Sky Island did not come from the people or the soldiers, but from the thousand spiders. In order to deal with the special situation that might occur on Sky Island, Ji Lin ordered the ranch to produce scout spiders. By the time he ordered the ranch to stop breeding scout spiders, the number of these little things had increased to one thousand.
Their combat effectiveness was not strong, and it was no problem for the light-armored infantry of the first era to kill one by one.
Too many!
The ones that run fast are also very capable.
No wonder the lords in the previous life liked to use this little thing as a scout pioneer.
"Hey! Don't run."
A scout spider that was larger than the other spiders picked up a piece of gel mixture and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The young soldier sighed and wanted to touch the spider that was larger than the other spiders. The chitinous carapaces covered with these scout spiders were covered with fine hairs and felt soft.
They didn't need to count the number of spiders, as long as Ji Lin took a look at the new dead spiders on the recall list.
If they didn't die, they would always return to the camp.
The young soldier, carrying a musket, stood next to the wooden frame filled with gel food balls and continued to distribute food to the remaining spiders that had not eaten yet.
I saw several large scout hunting spiders coming to me for food, looking at me eagerly, and then taking the food and running away, not giving me a chance to touch it.
Why do I feel that there are a lot more large scout hunting spiders here than before?
Taking care of these 1,000 scout hunting spiders is really a very troublesome thing, they need to excrete and eat. Although the residence where the hunting spiders live allows them to collect their excrement in one place, it is also quite troublesome to clean it up.
The excrement of the entire outpost was piled up in this situation. After Chang Heng reported this problem, he immediately received a reply from Ji Lin, who showed Chang Heng the composting yard.
‘Composting yard’
‘Occupancy: 2 mu’
‘Produces organic fertilizer, additional +20% material decomposition speed. ’
‘Compost various organic wastes into organic fertilizers through long-term composting’
‘Well... you can get cheap fertilizers this way... but don’t live near this thing...’
Composting.
Using organic waste as the main raw material, composting and fermenting on the spot can be used to supply fertilizers for the newly built farmland on the floating island.
It is also a cheap and effective fertilizer that we can use.
Because of the rapid increase in population, the territory is also rolling out these large composting plants with an area of up to two acres, about 60 meters long and 20 meters wide. Relying on public toilets for composting takes a long time, and it can be used when there are fewer people, but when there are more people, professional facilities are extremely needed to work.
During the composting process, organic matter is converted into humus, and the high temperature can reach 70℃ continuously, completely killing the bacteria, insect eggs, and weed seeds in it. After the composting is completed, the fertilizer pile will no longer have a smell, but will emit a smell close to the soil.
The composting site of the Sky Island is built on the downwind side of the edge of the Sky Island, away from the residential area.
Outside the wooden wall of the outpost, a large number of plants of different species are planted in a disorderly manner, like a newly built botanical garden that has not been taken care of. Different plants are separated by fences. The agricultural team that came from the territory first complained that the military officers were too rough.
Later, under the guidance of the elf lady and the guy who understood the characteristics of plants among the adventurers, they began to try to plant different magical plants separately.
Although these agricultural teams have only taken care of ordinary plants, their own understanding ability and knowledge of plants are enough to make them competent for the work of taking care of special plants - there is no way if they are not competent, because the territory does not have the profession of druids and botanists.
Let's use farmers first!
In this way, in the midst of the chaos, the territory began the initial cultivation of its first batch of special crops.
The progress bar of special botany research was also slowly advancing in their work.
At this time, Ji Lin had not yet remembered that he could ask Li Yan, the tree lord and true botany expert, for advice on planting methods.
Mine.
Not only floating stones are produced here, but also stone mines and various magical materials with extremely rare production accompanying stone mines.
A stone that is several times harder than other stones was exposed during the continuous mining work of the miners. The sharp iron pickaxe could not do anything to this special dark gray stone. Even with all its strength, it only left a shallow mark. It stubbornly exposed its sharp corners in the stone mine. The miners dug the hard stones on the outside and only saw the lower half that was scattered like a diamond.
It would take quite some time to dig it out of the rock.
The miners communicated with each other and reported the information.
