Kim Haru looked at Do Seungjin, a bit puzzled. "You're just giving it to ?"
For the head of the research institute to personally search for the pigweed core was already strange enough to Kim Haru, but he assud the animal research team wanted to study how to raise mutated pig.
But if that were the case, Do Seungjin would likely plant the pigweed core on their grounds to attract pigs to their research institute. Why hand it over to him?
There must be a catch.
As he wondered about it, he found he was right. Just as he voiced his question, Do Seungjin suddenly seed a bit hesitant.
"Ahem, well…" Do Seungjin cleared his throat, worried he might say sothing wrong again, but his curiosity got the better of him. "I just wanted to know… Mr. Kim, do you keep any animals at ho? The kind you can eat, you know, as food?"
Kim Haru was taken aback.
That's all?
He nodded. "Yes, I do."
With a loud clap, Do Seungjin jumped up. "What? Really?" He was so thrilled he rushed over to Kim, reaching out to shake his hand. "What kind of animals? Pigs? Chickens? How do you raise them? Could you share anything about it? Do you need help with anything? I can do anything! Especially when it cos to pigs—I'm an expert!"
Kim Haru sidestepped him.
He hadn't expected Do Seungjin to get this excited. Looking over, he saw that the Pyeongseong Safe Zone Commander, initially surprised by Do Seungjin's enthusiasm, beca equally excited after Jang Dojang whispered an explanation to him.
Fortunately, the Pyeongseong Safe Zone Commander wasn't as impulsive as Do Seungjin, although he still looked at Kim Haru with hopeful eyes.
As for Jang Dojang, he was clearly emotional; his voice trembled as he explained the situation to the Safe Zone Commander.
Kim Haru was still puzzled. "But I thought there was plenty of at around here?"
Based on the fragnted mories of the original owner and what he'd seen in the safe zone, people's food primarily consisted of animal at—three als a day, all including at. When Kim first arrived, he didn't realize how rare his vegetables were.
Later, he ca to understand the mutagenic virus levels in vegetables but assud that green vegetables were just scarce. As for at, it didn't seem like there was a shortage.
Do Seungjin froze, then let out a bitter laugh.
Jang Dojang took it upon himself to explain the situation to Kim Haru.
It turned out that the reason people in the safe zone ate at for every al wasn't because they were affluent, but because at was all they had. As long as a group could find a mutated animal, they could kill it, process it, and then the entire creature could be consud.
Most of these mutated animals were enormous, like the black pig Kim Haru had seen earlier at the Animal Research Institute. Many creatures were even larger than that. Just one of these mutated animals could feed a lot of people for a long ti.
Compared to mutated plants, which were difficult to find and deal with, mutated animals were easier prey.
Of course, "easier" was relative. Most of the ti, killing a mutated animal ant losing one or more lives in the process. But without hunting, there wouldn't be any food, and more people would die of starvation.
The mutagenic virus levels in at were the sa as those in mutated plants. Eating too much of it could be deadly.
As for breeding these animals?
Do Seungjin had ntioned before that artificial breeding of mutated animals was simply impossible.
That's why, when Kim Haru admitted to keeping animals, Do Seungjin and the others looked so thrilled.
"Mr. Kim, can you tell us what animals you're raising?"
As the head of the Animal Research Institute, Do Seungjin had tried countless tis over the years to raise animals, but every attempt ended in failure. Dosticated animals had beco an obsession for him.
It wasn't a big secret, so Kim Haru answered directly, "I have two chickens and a piglet."
After a mont's thought, he added, "One of the chickens is a wild one—I caught it in a trap. And the piglet is probably a baby of that black pig you killed earlier, Director Do."
Do Seungjin was so stunned he could barely find words to express his excitent.
He eagerly pushed the pigweed core into Kim Haru's hands. "Take it, Mr. Kim, take it! Hahaha, what a coincidence! Make sure to feed that piglet well; let it eat plenty of grass. I don't know if the piglet is male or female, but when it's grown and you're ready to butcher it, you must co to first—I was a butcher before the apocalypse!"
He didn't even know what he was saying, his thoughts all over the place.
Do Seungjin was dying to ask Mr. Kim how he'd managed to get these animals to behave and live quietly under his care. He wanted to test their at to check the mutagenic virus levels. But he knew this wasn't a question he could just casually throw out.
He was bursting with anticipation.
Do Seungjin's words reminded Kim Haru of sothing. "Director Do, do you know how to castrate pigs?"
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Do Seungjin paused. "Castrate pigs?"
"Yeah." Kim Haru sighed. "That piglet needs to be castrated. Only then will the at taste good when it's grown."
"I do! I definitely do!" Do Seungjin was ecstatic. "To be honest, Mr. Kim, nobody does it better than I do. I can make it quick and painless for the piglet with just one clean cut. No pain, and it'll be happily eating in no ti."
Castrating a pig? He could do ten, a hundred pigs if needed!
So, Kim Haru quickly arranged a ti with Do Seungjin to bring the piglet to the Animal Research Institute, where Do Seungjin would castrate it and, in the anti, give it vaccinations, deworm it, and check its at quality.
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