Webnovel Author In The Apocalypse World-Chapter 397: Nimbus Baa Sheep and Safe Zone Struggles

"Are there many Nimbus Baa Sheep?"

Since they loved eating, wouldn't they be easy to raise?

Kim Haru started calculating in his head.

It didn't matter if they had little meat—what mattered was the enormous amount of wool they produced.

Wool was a valuable resource.

Maybe these Nimbus Baa Sheep had mutated from regular sheep.

Plus, they weren't very intelligent, which was a huge advantage when it came to domestication.

What a perfect creature for breeding.

Kang Hose shook his head. "Not many."

Kim Haru was stunned.

Why not?

They weren't easy to kill, easy to catch, and didn't seem to have any special attack abilities.

Could they be hard to reproduce?

Kang Hose nodded. "People have tried breeding them, but these Nimbus Baa Sheep are too obsessed with food. They especially love plants with the lowest levels of the mutagenic virus, and the lower the mutagenic virus level, the more they like them. Since such plants are already scarce, the Nimbus Baa Sheep have developed an aggressive nature. In any given feeding area, they refuse to allow another Nimbus Baa Sheep nearby—not even a female."

So… they were so focused on eating that they didn't even want a mate?

What a true masters of single life.

Kim Haru was speechless.

But that wasn't really a problem.

With the farming system, he might lack many things, but food wasn't one of them.

Once the Nimbus Baa Sheep were well-fed, they would eventually think about reproducing.

And if they really refused to breed, he could just buy Nimbus Baa Sheep eggs from the system.

After all, he wasn't raising them for meat but for their wool.

"Let's build a pen for it first."

He couldn't just keep holding it like this.

Since the little guy could be useful for farming, he might as well raise it properly.

Hearing this, Go Okrim immediately reached out to take the small Nimbus Baa Sheep from Kim Haru's hands.

He had been wanting to hug it for a while.

"Leave it to me. I'll build a pen next to the pigsty with Little Oakie. Big Snort, that lone pig in the pigsty, has been lonely—it'll be good to give it a companion."

Kim Haru was happy to let someone else handle it. "I already have a sheep pen in the system. Just clear out the space—it should be the same size as the pigsty."

The system had automatically unlocked the sheep pen the moment the Nimbus Baa Sheep was revived.

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Go Okrim happily ran off to work

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Kang Hose hesitated as if he wanted to say something.

Kim Haru noticed and raised an eyebrow questioningly.

Kang Hose hesitated for a moment, then sighed. "Never mind. It's nothing urgent. You'll see for yourself soon enough."

There was actually another reason why Nimbus Baa Sheep were rarely caught and bred.

But after thinking about it, Kang Hose decided it wasn't a big deal and swallowed his words.

Kim Haru continued designing the layout of the plains, leaving Kang Hose as the one running around busily.

One moment he was helping Kim Haru, the next he was being dragged away by Go Okrim, who wanted advice on feeding newborn Nimbus Baa Sheep.

Meanwhile, the owl sat pitifully in its grass nest near the clearing, but even Kang Hose, the only one who might have spoken up for it, was too busy to care.

The owl's round eyes flicked between the Nimbus Baa Sheep being pampered by the humans and the large, unmoving eggs beneath its body.

It sighed with a soft "woo woo."

They had all been bought at the same time, so why hadn't these eggs hatched yet?

Maybe… it should "accidentally" crush another one?

As soon as the thought crossed its mind, it hadn't even moved a single feather before a soft, sweet meow echoed beside its ear.

Turning its head, it saw that the white cat had returned from somewhere and was now perched atop the wooden cabin, leisurely licking its tiny paws.

But its feline eyes were staring right at the owl.

The owl: "…Woo (QwQ)"

Scared.

Intimidated.

Surrendered.

No more bad ideas.

Meanwhile, Kim Haru continued his peaceful life on the small farm.

He watched as the butterfly spirit finished pollinating flowers, which then withered and gave birth to tiny fruit buds.

He played with the chickens and ducks, went fishing, took strolls through the orchard, and occasionally listened to the latest gossip Go Okrim brought back from the trading market.

Of course, Jang Dojang always called through the voice-transmitting snail to report on the negotiation progress with various safe zones.

Kim Haru, however, honestly didn't want to listen.

But since he had already heard it, Kim Haru now knew that the negotiations had reached a deadlock.

Each safe zone had its own considerations.

The Pyeongseong Safe Zone had always been in a lower position, and even though it now appeared stronger, the other safe zones weren't quick to adjust their perspectives.

Naturally, they hesitated to cooperate with the Pyeongseong Safe Zone.

Some of them might even be thinking about "stealing techniques," wondering if they could simply trade for some plants or other suspected raw materials, or perhaps poach talents from the Pyeongseong Safe Zone.

If they could cultivate these normal vegetables themselves, they wouldn't have to deal with the powerful Haneulsae Safe Zone.

They even said things like, "Haneulsae Safe Zone should have some restraint. They wouldn't go after people who don't belong to them."

Unfortunately, the Pyeongseong Safe Zone didn't think so.

People's ambitions always grow.

Th new Safe Zone Commander had only been in power for less than a year.

Of course, he hadn't had the time to extend his reach elsewhere yet, but once he had secured control over all of Haneulsae Safe Zone, would he really hold back from expanding further?

The other safe zones were aware of this too, which was why they hadn't outright refused.

This endless hesitation had dragged on, and now, eight days had already passed out of the ten-day trade conference, yet no decision had been made.