Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 134 How the Wolves Deal with the Problem

Li Mu waved to the two people behind him and said, "Now that you are done, let's go. Otherwise, these little wolf cubs will freeze to death soon."

After saying this, Li Mu ignored the reactions of the two people behind him and took the lead to return along the footprints he had come from. As he walked, fifty or sixty vine balls tied with mutant wolves also rolled on the snow.

"Captain Fu, this crystal core?"

Ma Yuan looked at the mutant beast crystal core in his hand, and then at Fu Zikui. Although Li Mu asked them to divide it, there were three of them, so how to divide them became a problem.

"Let's go back first."

Fu Zikui didn't care much about how to distribute these crystal cores. In his opinion, this matter was very simple. He just had to exchange them for spirit coins and then distribute them. After saying that, he didn't care to say anything else and followed Li Mu's footsteps.

A quarter of an hour later, the three returned to the location of the grain cart. At this time, the wild boar that was guarding the place was lowering its head and using its long mouth to dig in the snow, looking for rice scattered on the ground. It ate while making comfortable humming sounds. The other grain bags on the grain cart were still safe and sound.

Li Mu couldn't help but chuckle when he saw this. He didn't expect that this mutant wild boar was quite smart and honest. It didn't escape when they were away, nor did it touch other food. Thinking of this, he turned to look at the two people and asked, "Did your hunting team give it a name?"

Fu Zikui bowed and shook his head, "Not yet, but some brothers often jokingly call it a stupid pig. Although I don't know if it can understand, we have never seen it get angry because of this."

Li Mu touched his chin and said, "Don't look down on the intelligence of mutants. A fourth-level mutant like it has the IQ of a ten-year-old child. It should be able to understand some of the simple words you say. It didn't get angry because it might be too lazy to argue with you."

When Ma Yuan and Fu Zikui heard that the wild boar had the IQ of a ten-year-old child, they couldn't help but look at each other in surprise.

"What does it like to do?"

Li Mu continued to ask.

Fu Zikui smiled and replied, "Normally, if there is no task for it to help, it will eat when it wakes up, and then continue to sleep when it is full. It will not move at all all day long."

Li Mu nodded thoughtfully when he heard this. The habits of this mutant wild boar were similar to those of domestic pigs that were previously kept in captivity by humans. They were lazy and greedy. When he thought of this, a name suddenly emerged in his mind, which matched this wild boar very well.

"Since this wild boar is so honest and has contributed to Wanling City, I will give it a name. From now on, it will be considered a member of Wanling City."

After a pause, he coughed twice and cleared his throat, "Let's call it 'Bajie' from now on."

After choosing the name, Li Mu waved his hand and several vines emerged from the air, first tightly binding the front half of the wild boar, and then connecting to the grain cart and the many mutant wolves behind him.

Then he leaped onto the grain cart, looked at Fu Zikui and Ma Yuan who were still in a daze and said, "Get on board and go."

Half an hour later, the three returned to Wanling City with a bunch of trophies. However, at the city gate, Li Mu separated from the two. He had to go back to the laboratory to continue researching and modifying some plant guns with different functions, while Fu Zikui and the other two had to take a bunch of wild wolves to the hunting team's base to discuss how to deal with the adult mutant wolves and wolf cubs.

In Wanling City, under the military building, dozens of hunting team members gathered around a group of mutant wolves.

Fu Zikui in the crowd explained the origin of these mutant wolves, then walked up to Yu Shuaikang and respectfully asked, "City Lord, what do you think we should do with these mutant wolves?" Yu Shuaikang did not answer directly, but glanced at everyone and asked loudly, "What do you think we should do with these mutant wolves? Should we kill them and eat their meat, or try to tame them?"

As soon as he finished speaking, people outside began to talk about it. Some people felt that mutant beasts were wild and difficult to train, let alone wolves, which were typical examples of animals that could not be tamed.

But some people use the example of the wild boar "Bajie" to say that mutant beasts may not be impossible to tame. Moreover, if the mutant wolves can be successfully tamed, the hunting team will have a unique mount, which will make travel much more convenient in this apocalypse without cars.

Yu Shuaikang listened to the discussions of the crowd and began to think about what to do. If it was a mutant horse, he would definitely choose to tame it without hesitation. After all, the animal "horse" has always been the best choice as a mount.

But it is a mutant wolf. As the old saying goes: a white-eyed wolf that can never be tamed. Wolves are very difficult to tame. They are unruly and bloodthirsty by nature.

At this moment, an uncertain questioning voice caught Yu Shuaikang's attention.

"You said, aren't dogs domesticated wolves?"

Yu Shuaikang looked over when he heard the question and found that it was Ren Hong, who usually didn't talk much, who asked the question.

When everyone heard this question, they couldn't help but quiet down and think about the feasibility of it.

After a while, Zhang Tiankuo said uncertainly: "Dogs are indeed obtained by the ancients from domesticating wolves, but it must have taken a long time, right?"

Ren Hong nodded in agreement, "It does take a long time to domesticate wolves into dogs, at least several generations. We don't have that much time and energy to spend on this."

Then, he changed the subject and proposed another conjecture, "But what if we crossbreed ordinary dogs with these mutant wolves? Would the offspring born from the combination of the two be born with dog characteristics?"

Yu Shuaikang's mind was blown when he heard Ren Hong's guess. "That's right! Not only can we use ordinary dogs to crossbreed with these mutant wolves, but we can also raise wolf and dog cubs together. When they grow up together, will these wolves think they are all dogs?"

Thinking of this, Yu Shuaikang made a decision in his heart, "Ren Hong is right. It's a rare opportunity for us to capture so many mutant beasts alive. It would be a pity to kill them for meat. Moreover, if we can successfully tame them, we will have mounts, and the hunting team will have wolf cavalry in the future."

"What do you think?"

When everyone heard what Yu Shuaikang said about the "wolf cavalry", they were very interested and started discussing it among themselves.

In the past, when they went out to carry out missions, they had to rely on walking. If the place was close, it was fine, it would just take a little more time and energy, but if the place was far, relying solely on running would be too time-consuming.

Moreover, even if these mutant wolves cannot be tamed into mounts, it would be great if they could be tamed into dogs. Many survival games start with "one person and one dog", which shows that dogs are quite important for human survival.

After the discussion, everyone no longer hesitated and agreed with Yu Shuaikang's decision.

However, there is still a difficult problem before them: where to find a "dog"?

(End of this chapter)