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After seeing Mike off, Su Chen turned and walked back to the ranch to check on the condition of the 680 cattle.

In Pasture No. 1, 120 cattle are grazing.

Most of them are old cows, and they don't react much to the addition of new calves.

The new calves are distributed in pastoral areas No. 2 and No. 3, and are raised together with some older cattle.

Su Chen entered the No. 2 pastoral area.

The new calves saw him and did not flinch.

Several animals came over and sniffed his hand.

He scanned the area with the Beastmaster Affinity skill.

Energy feedback was stable, and there were no individuals with excessive stress.

Ben walked over from the veterinary station, holding a record board in his hand.

"Today we checked forty new calves. Their body temperature, breathing, and feces were all normal, and their appetite was good."

"These calves are adapting very well, even better than expected."

Su Chen took the record board, looked at it, and then returned the notebook.

"The irrigation project will begin tomorrow. You will check the cattle's stress response daily and address any problems promptly."

Ben nodded and turned back to the veterinary station.

Juan ran over from the direction of the pastoral area, holding a new grazing watch in his hand.

"The cattle have been assigned to their respective pastures according to the new schedule, with 75 to 76 head per pasture and a rotational grazing cycle of 25 days."

Su Chen took the watch from Lunmu, glanced at it, and returned it to Juan.

Louis called out from the hay barn.

"Today's feeding of hay is complete. For every 680 head of cattle, the amount of concentrated feed will be increased by 15%, and the amount of high-quality forage will be increased by 20%."

Su Chen walked over.

I glanced at the fodder warehouse inventory; it's enough for a week.

He turned and walked over to the construction area, following the route marked by the survey markers.

There was withered grass and scattered pebbles along the route.

Dazhuang has already cleaned up most of it; there's not much left.

There are no flammable materials piled up, and no pits, so there will be no accidents when the trenching machine enters the site.

Su Chen walked back to the main house, stood at the door, and said to the people in the courtyard:

"Mike will enter at seven o'clock tomorrow morning."

"Emma prepared confidentiality clauses, and had the workers sign them when they arrived."

"Juan oversees the construction positioning, Old Tom oversees the trench quality, and Louis is in charge of materials."

"Heifeng guards the perimeter of the construction area, Lingfeng monitors from above, and Dazhuang continues to help move things."

"We conduct daily spot checks on the stress response of the cattle herd."

Everyone nodded.

Su Chen turned and walked into the study, sat down at the table, and opened the ranch topographic map.

The map is already covered with markings: spring, main pipeline, branch pipeline, valve, inspection port, sprinkler head.

Every single place is clearly marked.

He closed the map and leaned back in his chair.

Tomorrow, work begins.

.......

At 6:40 a.m., Su Chen stood at the entrance of the ranch.

Mike's convoy appeared on the road on time, consisting of three construction vehicles and two material trucks, with the five vehicles driving into the ranch in sequence.

The workers got off the truck; there were twelve of them in total, all wearing work clothes and safety helmets.

Mike walked up to Su Chen and handed him a list of construction workers.

Su Chen took the list and handed it to Emma.

Emma walked over with the confidentiality agreement, giving one to each person and asking them to read and sign it on the spot.

One of the workers muttered a few words.

Mike glared at them, and no one said anything more; they all signed.

Su Chen stood in front of the workers, his tone indifferent.

"The construction area is marked with a red line. You can walk freely inside the red line, but you are not allowed to enter outside the red line."

"Especially that grove of trees in the eastern part of the ranch, no one is allowed to go near it."

"Anyone who violates the regulations will be immediately removed."

The workers nodded, and no one asked any further questions.

Mike told the workers to get in the truck, and they drove towards Pasture No. 6, carrying pipes and tools.

Su Chen and Old Tom followed behind.

Upon arriving at Pasture No. 9, Mike jumped out of the car.

He took out the survey map and directed the workers to begin laying out the lines.

Two workers, carrying lime powder, scattered a white pipeline along the survey markings.

From Pasture No. 9, extending all the way to Pasture No. 8.

Old Tom squatted down to examine the direction of the lime line.

After confirming that it matched the survey map, he stood up and nodded to Su Chen.

Mike waved, and the trencher started up, beginning to dig along the lime line.

The tracks rolled over the grass, the bucket cut into the soil, and a trench 1.5 meters deep gradually took shape.

The excavated soil was piled up neatly on both sides of the trench to facilitate subsequent backfilling.

Old Tom, with a measuring tape in hand, would jump into the ditch every twenty meters to measure its depth.

If the depth is not deep enough, let the trencher dig another bucket.

It was very deep, so the workers backfilled it with gravel to level it.

Juan stood next to the materials truck.

The workers were directed to unload the main pipeline and lay it along the construction route.

A polyethylene pipe with a diameter of 100 millimeters.

One is six meters long, and there are more than five hundred of them.

The distribution started from pastoral area number nine and continued all the way to pastoral area number one.

Louis pushed a cart and handed out bottled water to each worker.

The tool cart is equipped with a first-aid kit and spare gloves.

Su Chen activated his Earth Treasure Hunt skill and walked along the trench.

The radar image in my mind shows that the underground soil layers are stable.

No new rocks or cavities appeared.

A prompt appeared on the system panel:

[Underground structure stable]

The trench layout matches the marked route.

No construction obstacles

Su Chen turned off the panel and continued walking forward.

The construction team began cutting and connecting the pipes.

Two workers carried a six-meter-long polyethylene pipe into the trench.

Align the interfaces and use a hot melt welding machine to clamp the pipe openings.

Heating, melting, docking, cooling.

The entire process takes three minutes per interface.

Su Chen squatted down and inspected each of the welded joints.

The interface is smooth, without bubbles or misalignment.

Run your hand around it; there are no burrs.

He stood up and nodded to Mike.

Mike shouted, "Pass, next section," and the workers continued laying the paving.

Black Fang led his pack of wolves on patrol along the construction area.

Gray Shadow guarded the east side, Gale guarded the west side, and Snowclaw guarded the north side.

Black Fang led two teams of wolves, pacing back and forth on the south side.

Two wild rabbits darted out of the grass.

He was chased for dozens of meters by the gray shadow and driven out of the construction area.

Lingfeng soared high in the sky, its view covering the entire ranch and the surrounding wilderness for several kilometers.

Ling Feng's signal came through Su Chen's walkie-talkie.

Of course, it's information transformed through a system.

"No abnormalities were found at the boundary, and no strangers approached."

Big Bear was helping out next to the materials truck.

Large-diameter elbows that workers can't move.

Dazhuang used its forelimbs to pick it up and walked to the edge of the ditch to put it down.

The workers were initially afraid.

Later, they discovered that Dazhuang didn't bark or bite; he just kept moving things, and that's when he became bolder.

The veterinarian carried his medicine kit and walked between pastoral areas number one and three.

He used a thermometer to check thirty cows, and all of them were normal.

I listened to the breathing of ten cows with a stethoscope; there was no dry cough or wet rales.

He wrote on the record board, "No stress response, the herd is stable."

Su Chen used the Beast King Affinity skill to soothe the entire herd of cattle on the ranch.

Warm energy emanated from him, covering 680 cattle in nine pastoral areas.

The cow that was grazing raised its head, looked in Su Chen's direction, and then lowered its head to continue eating.

The cow, which was lying down and ruminating, did not get up; it merely twitched its ears.

Juan came over to report.

"The cattle are grazing in a stable manner, and there has been no running around or gathering due to construction noise."

Su Chen nodded and continued walking along the trench.

The first section of the main pipeline was laid from Pasture No. 9 to the edge of Pasture No. 8.

It is 600 meters long and has 30 welded joints.

Mike directed the workers to conduct a water tightness test.