Chapter 371 Dream Weaver Spider Ranch

As the first batch of cave spaces officially put into use in the Longji Mountains, Roland also made a special inspection of the agricultural caves.

The committee does not actually have much experience in how to utilize the Longji Cave. The committee is better at surface engineering, and this is the first time the committee has built an indoor project like the Longji Cave.

Although the War Council absorbed dwarves and goblins, the dwarves absorbed by the council were mainly Silver Dwarves, as well as a small number of Donnar dwarves. They either lived in the Silver Gate for a long time or lived on the surface of Donnar.

Under these circumstances, the dwarves had long lost their experience of surviving in the Dragon's Back Cave.

As for the goblins, as a poor and backward race, before absorbing and learning the knowledge of the dwarves, the goblins made random use of the Dragonspine Caves, just making sure they could live in and use them. The buildings they built were generally not very reliable and were quite dangerous. Therefore, their experience is not of much reference value.

Therefore, although the War Council absorbed dwarves and goblins, the construction of Dragon Ridge Cave had to start from scratch.

At present, the Longji Caves constructed and put into use in the Longji Mountains are basically experimental products of the committee, which are used to explore the construction and development prospects of the Longji Caves.

Although the design of the agricultural cave was based on field surveys by the committee spellcasters, it was specially designed based on the habits and requirements of the dwarves and goblins and the cave terrain, and it was built after several reviews and modifications.

However, as a product of experiment, Roland was still not at ease. In addition to the treasure house, another reason for coming to the Dragon Ridge Mountains was that Roland wanted to conduct an on-site inspection of the conditions of these experimental caves.

After inspecting the agricultural cave, Roland was generally satisfied.

As the first batch of experimental products of the committee, the design of agricultural caves tends to be more conservative. Although the utilization rate of cave space is not very high, it is moderate and there are no major problems. The safety is also maximized.

Of course, to be on the safe side, all creatures in the cave left their life marks in the Fountain of Life, so even if something big went wrong, no goblins would actually die.

In addition to checking the design of the agricultural cave, Roland and Hela also took a recorder's badge, disguised as the project's recorders, and consulted the goblin farmers in the agricultural cave.

As for the agricultural caves, the goblin farmers mostly gave rave reviews. The few negative reviews were mainly focused on the supervisors prohibiting them from expanding the mushroom field cultivation area and making use of the land specially vacated in the design. The rest were some scattered minor issues.

After conducting a random survey of agricultural caves and receiving rave reviews, Roland handed the survey report to the design team responsible for the agricultural caves, then left the agricultural caves and headed for the next target.

As a pilot project for the committee to utilize the Longji Caves, the committee naturally would not limit itself to the agricultural cave project. In addition to agricultural caves, the committee also tried livestock caves, residential caves, and casting caves.

Although these caves are still experimental products, only the agricultural and animal husbandry caves have developed well so far.

The reason why the residential caves could not develop was very simple. There was a lack of population. The two dwarven territories of Silver Gate and Gem Land had almost absorbed all the population of the committee active in the Dragonspine Mountains.

Therefore, after the residential caves were opened up, not many dwarves and goblins were willing to live there. Basically, only a few members of the exploration team active in the Dragon's Back Passage would occasionally rest in the residential caves. As for the permanent population, there were only some dwarves and goblins who thought the dwarf territory was too noisy. The population was even less than a thousand.

Although the population problem can be solved by compulsory administrative orders, considering that the dwarf territories also need population to maintain operation, the committee did not choose to issue compulsory administrative orders, but instead recruited population in the two major dwarf territories based on the principle of voluntariness.

Anyway, there will always be people willing to leave the dwarf territory, so just recruit them slowly.

The main reason why the Foundry Caves were not well developed was because the committee's only weird machine industrial zone was built on the surface. Due to the committee's previous policy of centralized development, dwarf craftsmen, dwarf weird machine masters and goblin weird machine masters basically all went to the weird machine industrial zone.

Even if there were a few dwarven craftsmen left in the Dragonspine Mountains, most of them were concentrated in the Silver Gate. They were not even willing to go to the Gem Land, let alone the newly built foundry caves.

Therefore, there were not many craftsmen and magicians in the foundry caves that were built, and they could only transfer a magic team from the magic industrial zone through administrative orders to maintain operations.

In short, neither the living cave nor the casting cave projects made much progress, so the committee later merged the two projects into one to save manpower.

Apart from these two projects that have not made much progress and the agricultural caves, the remaining livestock caves are the best developed among all the cave projects.

Compared to the almost collapsed planting industry, the Silver Dwarves have not fallen far behind in the breeding industry, and have retained many creatures that were domesticated during the period of the Kingdom of Clans.

Although a large number of these tamed creatures died when the Green Tide captured the Silver Gate, a few lucky ones escaped into the Dragon's Back Passage and luckily survived.

They became the first batch of domesticated animals on the ranch. At the same time, after the collapse of the clan states, some wild animals in some abandoned ranches still survived to the present day. After being re-tamed, they were also filled in the livestock caves.

With the help of this initial batch of creatures, the livestock cave soon got on track.

Of course, if there were only these common farmed creatures, the livestock caves could not be said to be the best developed caves.

The main reason is that the livestock caves not only breed ordinary creatures, but also a kind of extraordinary creature: the dream weaving spider.

The dream weaver spider can be said to be the most worthwhile creature to be raised in the Dragon's Back Mountains. Compared with most cave spiders, the dream weaver spider is relatively small, and in the same space, the number of dream weaver spiders that can be raised is relatively large.

Moreover, although the Dream Weaver Spiders are extraordinary creatures, their main abilities are all focused on illusion, and their bodies are very fragile. As long as their illusion abilities are suppressed, the Dream Weaver Spiders will have no power to resist.

At the same time, they are also one of the few cave spiders that have a team concept, will not fight each other, and can be bred in a concentrated manner. In addition, the spider silk spit out by the dream weaver spider can also be used to make dream silk.

The value of Fantasy Silk is very high. First of all, it is soft and shiny, giving people a feeling of high-end luxury and gorgeous beauty. It is a luxury product that is very suitable for exporting to make money.

At the same time, dream silk is also a very excellent extraordinary product. It is one of the best raw materials for inner armor, robes and other extraordinary clothing. In addition, dream silk is also a very excellent raw material and can be widely used in all aspects involving elemental applications.

In short, Dream Silk has a wide range of applications and is of great value in economy, industry and military.

For the current war committee, Fantasy Silk is naturally a key project. High-quality Fantasy Silk can be supplied to the committee for industrial development or to strengthen the army.

Low-quality fantasy silk can be exported to make huge profits.

Although it is only low-quality Dream Silk, no one else has ever seen high-quality Dream Silk. The committee can treat it as a luxury product and a rare extraordinary resource and export it at a high price.

Moreover, Dream Silk is a renewable resource. As long as the livestock farm is not destroyed, it can continuously provide a large amount of Dream Silk. In Roland's memory, Dream Silk is one of the important export products of the Dragon Ridge Mountains. It even sells better than the goblin's strange equipment. The average quality Dream Silk is more valuable than the same weight of gold. The high quality Dream Silk is basically priceless and cannot be bought without connections.

Although the prospects for the livestock cave are bright, it is still in the early stages of development. There are only twenty-four dream weaver spiders and more than thirty dream weaver spider eggs in the entire livestock cave.

Among the twenty-four weaver spiders, only seventeen were hatched from processed dream weaver spider eggs found by the exploration team a few years ago. The illusion ability of these seventeen newborn dream weaver spiders was suppressed, and their silk-spinning ability and the quality of the spider silk were enhanced.

The remaining seven weaving spiders were found by the exploration team from other caves, and then captured and locked up. They were all adult spiders, so they couldn't be beaten with fists, so they had to be locked up and fed aphrodisiac food regularly to make them lay more eggs, and then people were sent to steal all the eggs.

The more than 30 weaver spider eggs in the livestock cave were laid thanks to the efforts of these seven adult weaver spiders.

Although the number of dreamweaver spiders is still relatively small, and they have not yet undergone breeding and screening, and can only produce some low-quality dream silk, overall, there is still hope for the future.

After arriving at the livestock cave, Roland and Hela, under the guidance of the livestock cave staff, passed through ordinary pastures and came to the deep cave, where seven adult dream weaver spiders were kept.

In order to ensure that the adult dream weaver spiders are in a good mood and produce better offspring, a large area was specially cordoned off in the livestock cave for these seven adult dream weaver spiders to move around, and even extraordinary people were sent to the outside world to capture dozens of cave spiders for their entertainment.

Moreover, the food fed every day is carefully prepared. It is not only of high nutritional value, but also suits the appetite of the weaving spiders, making them all fat.

Of course, the daily food is also filled with various aphrodisiacs to ensure that the dream weaving spider always maintains a state of estrus.

In addition, there are people watching them 24 hours a day, and there are even spellcasters waiting by the side. Once they are injured or have a difficult birth, the spellcasters will immediately cast a spell to help.

Otherwise, if they laid more than 30 eggs at a time, they would have been squeezed to death long ago.

In addition, there is an elite team stationed here. Once the Dream Weaver Spiders run out of the detention area, the elite team will attack them with heavy punches, seriously injure them, and then throw them back into the detention area.

After being beaten more than a dozen times, these dream-weaving spiders have learned their lesson and rarely run out of the confinement area.

Roland and Hela came at the wrong time.

Under the guidance of the staff, the two entered the room where the spellcaster monitored the dream-weaving spider. As soon as they entered the room, Roland and Hela heard some strange noises.

Roland looked up at the water mirror in front of the spellcaster in the room and saw the dream weaving spiders having a silver party.

After seeing the situation in the water mirror, Roland himself didn't care much. After all, he had seen the animal world before. It was just sex between animals, which was not surprising.

Meanwhile, Hela, who was standing by, looked at the silver figure on the mirror with some curiosity and surprise in her eyes.

Although Hela had seen blood and killed people when she was twelve years old, her knowledge of sex was still limited to written records.

The sexual knowledge she knew was basically acquired when she left the North and traveled in Sinar. Moreover, since she had always been with Roland, she had never really seen such a thing. The most she had seen before was some adventurers touching each other in the tavern, but she had never seen them having sex directly.

And Roland would not be so bored as to take her to see this kind of world. In fact, because Hela was still young at the time, Roland even took the initiative to avoid such things. Therefore, although Hela was more familiar with these things, she had never seen them.

At the same time, in the room, the spellcaster who was looking at the Dreamweaver Spider Silver with a helpless look on his face also realized Roland and the others. He turned his head, and after seeing Roland and Hela, his eyes lit up. He immediately stood up and saluted Roland and Hela.

Most of the spellcasters on the War Council had met Roland and had accepted Hela's leadership. As the spellcaster second only to Roland, Hela had always been the leader of all spellcasters.

Roland nodded to the spellcaster in front of him and spoke in a casual tone.

"No need to be polite, I just came to take a look."

"This kind of thing is very common."

The spellcaster withdrew his right hand in salute, and after hearing Roland's question, he nodded and said.

"Yes, Chairman, due to the use of aphrodisiac drugs, this happens almost every day."

"Well, hard work."

Roland nodded and looked up at the water mirror on the other side. In the water mirror on the other side, an extraordinary person was carefully sneaking into the nest of the dream weaver spider and stealing the newly laid dream weaver spider eggs in the nest.

Looking at the actions of the extraordinary person, Roland continued.

“How are shifts allocated? Is there any pressure?”

"Five people take turns on duty, divided into three shifts, morning, noon and evening, each shift is eight hours."

The caster paused and continued.

"The pressure isn't that great. Most of the time it's pretty leisurely, except now. But generally the Dream Weavers only do this during the lunch shift, so we only see this on average once every five days."

Hearing his words, Roland was silent for a while and said.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Due to the importance and preciousness of the Dream Weaver Spiders, they have to keep an eye on them all the time, so they always keep an eye on them carefully, even when they are at their silver party.

(End of this chapter)