Poison Garden 2
My older sister tilted her head at my answer that it was a poisonous plant, so I explained the meaning of the word poisonous plant.
What a great and wonderful name this is.
“Poisonous Dokjak, all things, Dongsan Wonja. It means a place like a backyard where all the poisonous things in the Central Plains are gathered. I will gather all the poisonous things scattered in the Central Plains here. It is a name given with that meaning. What do you think?
“A dreamlike garden where all the animals, no, poisonous creatures, run wild.”
“The place where all poisons gather… All poisons gather….”
My sister’s vague answer.
Sister, you seem to be someone who knows the mood.
What a vague answer at this time.
My older sister smiled as if to say that I gave names like Oil, Oi, and Osam because I was lazy, but that if you put your mind to it, you can do it like this.
Then, my older sister repeated the name of the poisonous plant, as if she liked it too.
“Poisonous water···. Poisonous water···.”
So, rather than going to the breeding facility inside the Mandokjeon with my older sister, I headed to the poison garden in the main building.
The reason I asked for a separate temple was because the conditions inside the cave’s Mandokjeon weren’t very good for raising living things.
Should I use it during the winter?
Other than that, it was an ambiguous place to raise them because it was inside a cave.
Caves have the advantage of being able to maintain a constant temperature, but the problem is that some caves with Mandokjeon have ice caves that freeze even in midsummer, and the environment is too cool and humid in the summer.
The interior of the Mandokjeon has ventilation facilities so the humidity can be controlled, but the biggest problem was that it could not receive direct sunlight.
If you want to raise poisonous creatures, you must include reptiles or amphibians, and vertebrates including reptiles and amphibians synthesize vitamin D by being exposed to ultraviolet rays in sunlight, but they cannot do that inside a cave.
Sunbathing may seem like a big deal, but it is essential for reptiles.
Because vitamin D plays an essential role in the absorption of calcium.
Yes, if you don’t sunbathe, your body won’t be able to absorb calcium, and that can lead to diseases like osteodystrophy.
So, in my previous life, when I raised reptiles, I turned on ultraviolet lights, but I couldn’t do that here, so I couldn’t raise poisonous animals in the cave.
“There are people waiting over there. Little Dragon.”
As I was walking and talking with my older sister, I arrived in front of the pavilion before I knew it.
When I turned my head at my older sister’s words, I saw the warriors lined up in front of the poisonous plant waiting for me.
Perhaps they were the people assigned to the poison den that my older sister had mentioned when she came.
These are the people who said they would assign me additional people to the warriors in charge of the poison battle in Mandokjeon.
But as soon as you arrive in front of the pavilion, the first thing you notice is a familiar face.
I called him, blinking.
As far as I know, he wasn’t assigned here.
“Former Vice-Lord?”
Because the old man in front was standing there with a big smile on his face.
“Yes! Little Dragon! The Poison Corps’ Grand Master’s Nine-Tailed Sword is here!”
The Daegu man answered my question with an excited voice.
When I tilted my head at the word ‘poisonous water’, he patted his chest and explained.
“Poison water?”
“Yes, the poison pod where you can collect and store poison together with Little Dragon. Little Dragon’s poison pod!”
I heard that they would send people to raise poisonous creatures like poisonous insects and snakes, but I thought they would just send people to do the work, so I didn’t know that they would form a separate team of warriors like the Poison Blood Squad or the Poison Destruction Squad.
I looked at my sister and she spoke with a motherly smile.
“Now I have to learn how to lead and command people. It was something my father decided before we left. For some reason, the elders of the family unanimously agreed to it. I don’t know what the hell was going on.
And since it is a poison unit directly under the small dragon, the small dragon can use it like an arm and a leg.”
In the end, I’m talking about my direct subordinates who were assigned to me.
‘Hey, this is really pushing it properly?’
They said they would push for hobbies, but it was a definite push.
Honestly, that was my dream in my past life.
Opening a poison-specific shop.
It’s a good hobby and it’s fun, but there’s a limit to raising them alone, and when they give birth or something, you have to give them away, so that’s hard to do alone.
A paradise where I can just enjoy myself while paying my employees a salary and having them raise the animals for me.
But I had a feeling that was going to happen here.
He vowed that he would fulfill the dream he could not achieve in his previous life in the Central Plains, and looked at the twenty warriors lined up with a moved expression.
Then my older sister gently pushed my back and said.
“Since this is the poisonous dragon’s pond, you should say something.”
‘Huh! A word of instruction!’
My older sister asked me to give her some words of encouragement that I really wanted to say at least once.
With a proud heart, he walked back and forth in front of the warriors and started talking.
Because it was the first day, there was an atmosphere where it felt like I absolutely had to give some kind of speech.
“Ahem! I am Wisolong. I will share life and death with you.
You will be responsible for managing me and this poison den.
There are probably some people here who think like this. Why should I clean up the poop of these little creatures and feed them?”
When they heard that they would share life and death together, the eyes of the unmanned people were slightly encouraged, but when they heard that they had to clean up the poop of the creatures and feed them, some of the unmanned people flinched.
From what I’ve seen while living in the Tang family, the warriors are people who are very proud of learning martial arts in the Tang family.
Of course, they wouldn’t like it if they were dragged in like that and made to do such dirty work, so that’s why I brought up the subject, and as expected, it seemed that a considerable number of warriors had similar thoughts.
“But I want to tell you that what you are doing is very valuable. Didn’t you see this time? How did I defeat the elder of the Blood Cult?
It all came from poison! You have come to do such a valuable thing!
Just think about it!
“For now, we will only be raising small snakes, lizards, and spiders, but with the experience we gain here, we will be able to raise the ten venomous beasts, and then we will be able to defeat not only the Blood Cult but even worse beasts that come running in, right? Our clan will develop even further with venomous beasts, everyone!”
There are already rumors going around that I have defeated the elders of the Blood Cult.
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When he picked it up and told the story, the warriors were excited.
“Wow, wow, wow!”
“Long live the Little Dragon! Long live the Sichuan Tang Dynasty!”
And of course, my older sister and Uncle Gupae were also happy and clapped their hands.
-Clap clap clap!
“Good words, Little Dragon!”
“That’s right, Little Dragon. Developing the Tang family. That’s amazing. Those were heart-pounding words.”
The warriors become even more enthusiastic as the older sister and the old master clap their hands together to liven up the atmosphere.
“Wow!”
“Hey!”
‘This is really difficult.’
With all this enthusiasm, I can’t just say it and leave, can I?
A response like this deserves a reward.
I decided to throw out a comment that would get everyone excited.
‘I’m about to become a platoon leader, so I can at least shoot a prize, right?’
Because I couldn’t finish my first lecture with my mouth open in the face of such cheers.
“Oh, and I will tell the Lord that those who work hard will be the first to eat the wheat from the Golden Bongwang as soon as it is gathered…”
“Wow!”
“Wow!”
A cheer erupts before the words are finished.
As expected, the story that got the best response was the one about rewards.
***
After the training, we decided to go inside the poison den, gather the warriors, and explain what to do next.
Since the warriors who previously worked at Mandokjeon were said to have only done things like slaughtering, transport, and management, it seemed necessary to explain what they would have to do from the beginning.
“So, Little Dragon, what should we do first?”
The most motivated person is the old man who is more stubborn than anyone else.
He said he volunteered for the poison team, so I guess that’s why he was so motivated.
After King Geummobong, the leader of the poisonous blood group would slowly avoid me whenever he saw me.
It seemed like he was worried that he might get involved and have a hard time again.
But the old man who had been left on the side of the road with me looked at me with great respect, as if he was enjoying the abuse. This time, when my father-in-law heard that I was looking for a partner for the poisonous snake, he went and volunteered.
The story goes that either you are awakened to the charm of poison or you enjoy the abuse.
I answered, thinking that I would have to use either one diligently.
“I guess I should go out and catch it first.”
Then, as expected, the great lord was delighted.
“Oh! As expected! Then what are you going to catch first? A lakeside squirrel, as expected? A stone squirrel? Or a landowner?”
“Could it be Hoban Yusa? As my grandfather said, if it’s poisonous, wouldn’t it be Sa? Sa is the most poisonous.”
I smiled and answered as my older sister and I asked with a very happy look on our faces.
Because they had to go after something different from what they both expected.
“First of all, we must go and catch a rat.”
“Yes!? West?”
“Are you talking about the West!?”
Yes, what we are going to catch is not a snake, but a rat.
The Chinese word for rat.
Yeah, we were supposed to go catch rats to start the poison den.
The most essential thing for reptile breeding is, above all, mice.
That’s because it was Pinky, the baby mouse.
‘No matter what you grow, food is the most important.’
***
If someone were to ask why poisonous creatures have poison, the answer would be divided into two main categories.
The first is hunting, the second is defense.
Hunting is usually done for the purpose of quickly subduing the enemy in one breath, and secondly, to cover up one’s own weak body. Therefore, poisons developed for two different purposes also have different eating habits depending on their characteristics.
In general, those that have developed poison for hunting are carnivores.
Those who make poison to defend themselves can be called herbivores.
Well, there are some cases where it’s not like a poison frog, but on average, I would say that’s the case?
Therefore, for some herbivorous poisonous animals that have developed poison for defensive purposes, breeding them does not pose much difficulty.
Because you can grow plants in large quantities and give them as feed.
The problem is that the vast majority of poisonous creatures are those that have evolved their poison for hunting.
These guys must be fed animal food, so raising animal food to feed them was an essential process before raising them.
In Haenam Island, snakes were not raised, so large prey was not needed, so crickets were raised and fed to lizards and spiders, but this is Sacheondangga.
If it’s a poisonous creature, it’s snakes.
Also, since I had to raise the lake snake right away, even if I raised the creatures I wanted later, venomous snakes had to be the main focus for now, so I had to prepare a smooth supply of pinkies unconditionally.
Pinky is a term for a newborn baby mouse. The baby mice are hairless and pink, hence the nickname Pinky.
Of course, let’s grow it out a little more so that it has a little more shaggy hair.
The fully grown fur is called a harper and is used as food for reptiles.
Because it is a very good food that can provide protein and calcium to reptiles.
-Squeak. Squeak!
“What do you think, Little Dragon? Is this correct?”
Musahana grabbed the tail of a large rat he had caught from the ridge of a rice paddy and shook it while asking,
I said no earlier, but how many times is this already?
He shook his head in response to Musa’s question.
“No. Didn’t you say that it wasn’t that big of a rat and that its tail was short and small?”
“This is also small?”
“It’s smaller than that.”
“Hmm… Then I guess I should just throw this away.”
The warrior who threw the rat into the ridge of the rice paddy ran towards the other warriors who were digging the ridge of the rice paddy with a hoe.
“You said no again? It has to be smaller than that.”
“More than me?”
In these times, there might be a plague, so we couldn’t keep rats like that as reptile food.
Of course, any wild-caught rat or animal would be at risk of being infected with bacteria, but I also felt a bit uncomfortable with such a large rat.
Those kids are strangely smart and also somehow creepy.
That’s why we’re looking for something a little smaller and cuter.
In his previous life, he was a Chinese striped hamster, or what is called a Chinese hamster.
There is a record of them being used as experimental animals before common rats were bred for use in laboratories, and they would be less resistant than large rats, making them a good choice for making pinkies.
So we came out to catch rats, but what we were looking for was not rats but Chinese hamsters.
“Little dragon···.”
After sending away the head-scratching Musa, I heard my older sister’s voice.
When I turned my head, my older sister asked with a reluctant expression.
“Do I really have to raise rats? Can’t I have anything else?”
“Yes, if they don’t eat that, all the snakes will get sick and die.”
“okay···.”
He’s the kind of person who can erase a human life with an eraser, but it seems like rats just can’t adapt.
However, when the warriors who had been searching the ridges and houses for a long time finally caught a few Chinese hamsters, the older sister asked with an expression of disbelief.
“You’re feeding these kids to snakes? These don’t look like rats….”
It seemed like that because they were cuter than I thought, but honestly, Chinese hamsters are too pitiful to be called hamsters because they look like rats.
In its previous life, this hamster was clearly an animal that some people said became a hamster because it was bred in China.
Because that’s a place where even if you call a cat a mouse, it becomes a mouse.
Wasn’t it originally a place where you catch a cat, hit it, and then say, “From now on, you are a mouse,” and then it becomes a mouse?
I nodded, thinking that there were even places that classified Chinese hamsters as not being hamsters.
“Yes, they are rats too.”
Now that I had found the mice to make Pinkies with, it seemed time to get into full-scale Pinkie production.
