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Su Mu looked around at the space around the cable car. His cable car wasn't very large, but the wooden platform extending outwards could be further expanded.

As long as enough ground is laid, he can build a super-large "cage" on it. He still has more than nine hundred free building opportunities left today, which is more than enough. Without further ado, he opened the building interface and began to lay the wooden planks one by one, extending the platform around the cable car in all directions.

After the ground was paved, he built a huge square box on it, surrounded it with high walls on all four sides, sealed the top, and left only a controllable door.

Based on this capacity estimate, this box could hold at least three to four thousand bats.

If three or four thousand bats swarmed out at the same time, even a level ten monster would be devoured instantly.

This is his ultimate weapon.

However, Su Mu also knew that this plan currently had some limitations.

Laying the planks requires space, but the cable car currently only has a capacity of 64 cubic meters. To expand the area, the cable car will need to be upgraded further.

Moreover, although his mass production talent partially offset the cost of building the animal enclosure, the timber itself still needed to be replenished. However, these issues could be resolved gradually; at least he had a grasp of the approach now.

Su Mu closed the door of the animal trapping arena, listening to the rustling of bat wings fluttering inside.

The first batch of bats has already flown out to hunt, and the second batch is quietly piling up...wait.

He releases it only when he needs to.

The image that automatically popped into his mind was: a level 10 giant monster rampaging through the streets, with everyone running away.

Then his cable car slowly approached, and he released thousands upon thousands of bats from the cage, which blotted out the sky and swarmed towards the monster.

The monster struggled and roared, but to no avail; it was eventually devoured alive.

"Many ants can kill an elephant"—this saying used to be a metaphor, but now it represented a feasible tactical solution for him. He leaned against the cable car wall, listening to the rustling of bats' wings beating in the air outside, like a farmer in a barn listening to the full granary.

That kind of voice is reassuring. It's the kind of reassurance that says, "You can do nothing, but your wealth will still grow."

Su Mu leaned against the wall and closed his eyes for a while, then checked the number of bats in the cage on the panel... more than three hundred, and still slowly increasing. The number of portals was accumulating rapidly in this enclosed space, with one per second. The gray-black creatures were crammed together, like a living shadow compressed to its limit.

"If only there were no limits," he muttered to himself.

But everything has its limits. His cable car has a limited area, his timber is limited, and the supply of building materials is also limited. Unless he can find blueprints for a larger-scale expansion later, the capacity of this caged animal is fixed.

Su Mu stood up and turned his gaze away from the direction of the caged beasts.

After dealing with the bats, his gaze turned to the intact egg in the corner of the cable car.

The eggs of a large bird.

The dark golden eggshell gleamed warmly under the light, appearing even more serene than when he first received it. He placed it in a recessed area lined with a soft cloth, where it remained untouched for the past three days. He crouched down and reached out to touch the surface of the eggshell. It was warm.

It was a little warmer than when he first got it. It was as if something was awakening inside, as if some kind of pulsating life force was hidden beneath that dark gold layer.

"There's just no data." Su Mu looked at the system panel's detection feedback on the egg... It was all question marks, no level, no attributes, no race, no notes, absolutely no information. It was as if the system itself wasn't sure what it was, or that it hadn't been officially incorporated into the system framework yet.

He had considered using the Box of Contracts.

A purple artifact. It can contain a living creature and establish a master-servant contract. The contained creature will be completely obedient to the holder's will. If the Contract Box is used to contract this unhatched chick, it will be his slave from birth, and will not, and could not, betray him.

But after thinking it over, he decided to postpone it.

This idea stemmed from a very old piece of knowledge... something he learned from watching Tom and Jerry: the baby bird that hatches from its egg will recognize the first creature it sees as its mother. This plot has appeared many times in the cartoon.

Su Mu wasn't sure if reality would follow the logic of the cartoon, but the logic itself was reasonable... Many birds do exhibit imprinting behavior; newly hatched chicks will identify the first moving object they see as their parent. If this adult bird's chick also possessed the same instinct, then he wouldn't need the Contract Box at all.

All he needed to do was make sure the little bird saw him the moment it hatched.

It's that simple.

"Furthermore, if I only use the Contract Box, I'll only have one pet," Su Mu thought to himself. "But if I use direct training, I can leave the Contract Box for other creatures."

A golden bird chick, plus another high-level creature captured with a contract box, two or more combatants, are far more worthwhile than having only one pet restricted by a contract.

The fledglings grew up beside him, and over time, a bond of affection developed that was far stronger than any contract. The contract box, however, was saved for monsters that couldn't be tamed in conventional ways.

"It's settled then."

Su Mu touched the eggshell again; it was still warm and showed no signs of hatching.

He didn't know exactly how long it would take for the eggs to hatch, but he knew that his cable car had the characteristic of being "warm in winter and cool in summer," with a constant temperature between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius, which was the most suitable temperature range for hatching.

He doesn't need to sit on it to keep it warm, nor does he need to find any special incubator. He can just put it in a corner and let it develop naturally.

"But we still need to find a professional incubator later," he thought for a moment.

After finishing that, his gaze fell on the last thing.

Mineral water bottle.

In the clear plastic bottle, there was only a small amount of egg liquid left. It was dark golden, gleaming like amber under the light. It was the diluted egg liquid he had left over; not enough to cause another qualitative change in his golden bloodline, but not enough to be thrown away either.

"This stuff should be suitable for blood ginseng, right?"