495 Mutant Pasture (2/2)
With the NAC food ”production” ramping up, the demand of nutrient supply also took a big hit. With one of its ingredients mutated fruit decreasing in demand, the farm owners all suffered financially.
Right now around the conference table, the eight merchants anxious exchanged eye contact with each other as they were uncertain about what Jiang Chen was going to say.
”I believe all of you should know that I plan to discuss a partnership opportunity.”
”What kind of partnership?” A merchant stood up and questioned somewhat tensely.
”No need to stand up, this is only a casual meeting, just sit.” Jiang Chen signaled him to sit down and then tapped his own shoulder gently. A hologram image appeared on the conference table, ”We are discussing an opportunity in livestock.”
”This is?” Looking at the image on the table, the merchants had a variety of expressions.
Some were shocked, some were intrigued, and some were contempt…
Without bothering with the expression on the merchants' faces, Jiang Chen looked at the creature on the hologram similar to a wild boar and introduced,
”Long Haired Pig, an artificially created mutant designed by my research institute through genetic engineering.”
”Artificially created mutant?” The expressions on the merchants' faces were interesting.
”The fur could be used to produce clothes, and meat is consumable. Most importantly, its brain could form crystals without the consequence of hostility.” Jiang Chen smiled.
To Jiang Chen's surprise, the merchants didn't look interested at all. Instead, they looked troubled.
”Mutant as livestock? We attempted this before, but the higher amount of crystals contained in the mutants, the higher the food they ingested. And right now, crystals are not worth the money. If it is just about producing meat, the doubled-headed cows raised are more than enough.”
”What's the meat quality compared to the mutated cow,” a merchant rushed to ask a more critical question.
The Double-headed Cow's meat texture was terrible and tasted like chewing on sand. But to the typical people that could not afford fresh meat, the meat of the double-head cow was not a bad choice.
Jiang Chen waited for the merchants to bring up their questions and put up three fingers.
”I will summarize your questions with three points.”
”First, the Long Haired Pig is easy to raise. The feed mostly consists of mutated fruits, as well as an appropriate amount of catalyst.
”Second, there is no need to worry about crystal output. A three-month growth cycle with a single pig producing 70-80 crystals.
”Third, although the meat quality is not comparable to the pre-war livestock raised by NAC, compared to the mutated cow, it is much better.”
When Jiang Chen said these four sentences, only fervor was left on the faces of the merchants.
Could be fed with mutated fruits.
To the farm owners on the brink of bankruptcy, the only thing they didn't lack was mutated fruits!