While Grete was immersed in the experiment, Archmage Heins was in another experimental area, working with students, students of students, two young necromancers temporarily captured, and two other mages who were willing to work in the institute.
Looking at dozens of caged monkeys looking at each other.
"Why do we have monkeys?"
"Yes, why do we raise monkeys? Isn't this a matter for nature priests? Why do we necromancers do it?"
"That's right, and there are so many monkeys in the jungle...when you need it, can't you just catch a group of them? Why do you need us to raise them?"
Archmage Heins also complained a lot about this. However, when the students were confused and complained, he still had to cough and try to calm down the situation:
"Stop talking!"
He glanced around majestically. Seeing everyone shut up and bowed their heads, he coughed with satisfaction and reprimanded:
"Don't want to raise monkeys? If you don't want to raise monkeys, go next door! You can raise rabbits, dogs, chickens, mice, you can do it all! You don't have to raise monkeys here!"
A very, very quiet wailing. Apart from the monkey area, there are indeed several sections in the animal area - but who is raising them?
They are all indigenous!
All are Aboriginal women and Aboriginal children!
Cutting grass for rabbits, feeding corn to chickens, feeding corn to dogs with pumpkin and occasionally some meat - this is what they are used to doing every day! It is rare to raise mice except for mice, but mice will eat everything!
How could they, the noble mages, do the same work as those indigenous women and children!
"Besides, raising monkeys is also for experiments! Many spells have similar effects on monkeys as on humans, which is different from dogs, pigs, etc. So, try to raise monkeys! It's rare.
There are so many here!”
Well, anyway, this research institute has been reserved as the property of Black Crow Swamp! Raising more monkeys can be used for other research in the future, such as drug experiments or magic experiments, or studying other plagues!
Most of the magicians bowed their heads to show their obedience, and one after another, they dispersed to work. Only the disciple of Archmage Hines, the 15th-level Archmage Wendell Jennings, who was brought here to take up a quota, relied on the teacher's favor.
Muttering quietly:
"Even if this is the case, just capture it. Why raise it..."
"Because Gretel said that [clean] monkeys are needed." Archmage Heins sighed:
"These monkeys are all caught in the jungle. No one knows how many kinds of bacteria they carry. When the time comes, you inject an injection and the monkey has a fever - is it the poisonous blood you injected that caused it to have a fever?
Or is it dirty on its own?"
In fact, Gretel said more than that. When Archmage Heins went to have a meeting with him, he saw Gretel lying on the table, writing and drawing, and muttering sadly:
"The monkeys on the edge of the Eternal River...the crab-eating monkeys...none of these...God knows what species of monkeys in the nearby jungle...and there are no specific pathogens...even if not, at least give me clean-level monkeys...
…”
"Where is the Eternal River?" Archmage Heins suddenly asked:
"Do you want crab-eating monkeys? I'll ask them to set up a mission in the Mage Tower and ask the natives to look for them. If they find crab-eating monkeys, they will be caught for you? Or just feed them crabs and see which kind of monkeys eat them?"
Gretel turned her head and gave him a "I'm about to cry" expression.
What I want is a rhesus monkey...a rhesus monkey and a cynomolgus monkey...not just any monkey...
It doesn't mean that if there are no rhesus monkeys for experiments, you can go to Mount Emei to catch a nest...those rhesus monkeys are not worthy!
Even if you don’t consider that it is a Tibetan emirate, not a rhesus monkey; don’t consider that the Tibetan emirate is also a national second-level protected animal; monkeys growing in the wild have countless germs and viruses...
It doesn’t mean that if you shave their hair and wash them with disinfectant, they will become “clean” monkeys!
It’s not outside the body, but it’s still there inside the body!
The cheapest ordinary-level monkeys are also required to not carry zoonotic pathogens... and not to carry severe animal infectious disease pathogens...
Going up one level, "clean level" monkeys, in addition to the pathogens that ordinary level cannot carry, can also not carry pathogens that are harmful to animals and interfere with research...
And what he wants is a monkey without yellow fever virus, malaria virus, dengue fever virus, Zika virus, and all kinds of strange viruses... he has to go up a level and reach the specific pathogen free level (spf).
class……
SPF grade, sterile (gf) grade, and animals suffering from specific diseases, knocking out specific genes, etc., are higher than the previous level. The price is not a doubling, but a geometric progression.
!
A rhesus monkey is sold for 100,000, do you think it’s a joke?
However, even if it is expensive... you could still buy it in the past... In the past, you only needed to write an experimental design, fill in a report, apply for a budget, and then buy... Unlike in this broken world, there is no ready-made product at all, and you have to start from scratch.
!
In his Oak Forest Research Institute, the necromancers worked diligently for several years, wearing protective clothing in and out of the animal room every day, and finally raised a group of clean-grade mice. As for the monkeys?
Sorry, he is poor and cannot afford to raise a monkey!
"Anyway, let's talk about feeding these monkeys. Once they are fed, they will give birth to cubs, and the cubs will be raised in a clean environment for several generations...probably, they can be used..."
Archmage Haines recalled the operation manual given by Gretel - about cleaning the animal room, entry and exit requirements, operating standards, etc., and continued to order his subordinates:
"Don't be in a daze! Clean these monkeys first! Clean them all! - There's such a big bucket of disinfectant water over there!"
"Ah! This monkey refuses to go into the water!" A young necromancer screamed. He quickly raised his hands to cover his face, and with a "clang", the mage armor on his body burst into flames:
"Still tickling me!"
"Petrification!" Before Archmage Heins could respond to that guy, his disciple's disciple, the little leader of this group, reprimanded:
"Charm! There are so many ready-made spells, don't you know how to use one? - Don't use it yourself! Where is your skeleton? Why don't you use the skeleton to work?"
"I'm not a magician... I have the petrification technique. How can I shave them if I have the petrification technique..."
It was like a chicken and a dog, a chicken and a dog. Finally, all the monkeys were forced to be washed, forced to shave, cut their nails, and even brush their teeth.
After a round of cleaning work, every low-level mage collapsed outside the iron cage, looking at each other with the monkey collapsed in the iron cage, no one wanted to move...
"I said, it seems like there is something unfinished?"
"What else can there be? - I'm hungry, let's go eat first!"
"By the way, we have to feed the monkey first!"
Bang bang bang bang, large barrels of corn, pumpkins, fruits, and chopped chicken were carried into the animal room by the skeletons in groups of two. They picked up spoons and gave each monkey a spoonful in their food bowl. The Necromancer
We then breathed a sigh of relief and went out to eat:
"The tortillas...are still a little burnt..."
"Pumpkin gooey..."
"Cactus fruit..."
"avocado……"
“Grilled chicken meatballs…”
"Cornmeal pancakes, pumpkin, peas and chicken strips...chili sauce on the side, whoever wants to apply as much as he wants..."
"It feels like we eat the same thing as monkeys? At most, we eat cooked food and they eat raw food?"
"No, monkeys can still eat spicy food, but we can't." A necromancer who was not used to spicy food took a bite of the chicken meatballs and was so spicy by the hot pepper fragments inside that he burst into tears:
"Forcing people to eat spicy food is simply heresy...Who is cooking in the kitchen? I really want to whip the cook!"
"Calm down, no one cooks here, it's all Ta Ling who helps with his invisible servants. What you should ask is, who taught Ta Ling how to make these local dishes..."
"..."
"..."
The young mages who were not qualified to decide the menu or even order the dishes looked at each other in confusion. Although there was no mage tower built in the institute, it was just "no tower-shaped building". The entire institute was still under the control of the tower spirit——
The current control authority of the tower spirit is, sorry, in the hands of Archmage Heins.
"Even if his tongue is so dull that it's close to death, and he wants to eat something with strong taste, he still has to leave us some edible dishes...t_t..."
The stung necromancer continued to complain with tears in his eyes. He received a slap on the back of his head, and the team leader waved away the mage's hand without expression:
"Stop complaining. Eat quickly and then go see those monkeys - I feel like these monkeys are going to cause us countless troubles."
It was indeed troublesome. When the necromancers hurriedly finished their lunch and returned to the animal room, they all frowned:
"Ahhhh-why don't these monkeys eat them?"
If Gretel were here, he would tell them: the monkey is stressed.
Not to mention animals, even humans, if they are caught inexplicably, their whole body is frozen for no apparent reason, they are soaked in water with a strange smell, and their hair is shaved, they will bow their heads to the dark wall and tremble for three to five days.
It's still good if he doesn't eat. At least he doesn't scream, slam into the cage walls, scratch himself all over, or vomit blood and die inexplicably.
The way the necromancers deal with it is also very simple and crude:
Not eating, right?
Hunger spell!
I'll make you feel hungry, crazy with hunger, and see if you eat or not!
What, not eating yet?
Dominate the animals!
"Huh, huh... It's really hard to raise monkeys... We have to control what we eat, and we have to control if we don't poop in the future..."
"Can you apply for a nature priest to do this job... raising animals? They are obviously good at it... why should we throw it at the necromancer..."
"Shh!"
That tenth-level nature priest, so-and-so, if he had been willing to raise animals, he would have stopped arresting others! The problem is, he is stuck in the core of the research institute and refuses to come out!
"By the way, who knows the soothing technique? Give the monkeys a soothing technique!"
There were many stumbling blocks and countless difficulties. All in all, the animal breeding team, dominated by necromancers, finally succeeded in keeping the monkeys alive - and then they faced the next difficulty:
"These monkeys, why don't they give birth to little monkeys?"
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