Chapter 87: Ranch Activation

As soon as he entered the space, Zhao Hai immediately said, "Activate the ranch."

The space prompt sounded again, "To activate the ranch, the farm must reach level ten. The host meets the requirements. Do you want to activate the ranch? Yes or No?"

Zhao Hai immediately replied, "Yes." Then he waited for the space's response, but this time he was disappointed. There was no reaction in the space, only the prompt sound came, "Ranch activation successful."

Zhao Hai turned his head and looked around, but found no changes. He couldn't see any sign of the ranch. Although he had expected this, he was still a bit disappointed.

Zhao Hai's mind flickered, and a white light flashed around him. When the white light disappeared, the scenery before his eyes had completely changed. It had turned into a vast, green meadow.

Just then, the prompt sound came again, "Welcome to the space ranch. The current ranch level is one, and it can support up to one thousand animals."

Zhao Hai was stunned. He hadn't expected that the ranch could support one thousand animals right after activation. This was incredible!

Zhao Hai looked around and found no buildings or structures, only a vast meadow. He felt puzzled. He remembered that even when the space ranch was just activated, there should be a simple fence and a small shelter. Why was there nothing here?

What worried Zhao Hai the most was that in the game, animals had a designated area for giving birth, where they could safely deliver their young. If there was no such area here, it would be a big problem. He wasn't a veterinarian and didn't know how to assist in animal births. If the animals died during childbirth, he would suffer significant losses.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hai immediately said, "Show the animal birthing area."

As soon as he spoke, a place of no less than a hundred square meters appeared in front of him. It was a circular area with a green light flashing in the center, surrounded by a yellow light.

Seeing this, Zhao Hai breathed a sigh of relief. As long as there was a birthing area, he wouldn't have to worry about the animals' birthing problems.

However, Zhao Hai soon noticed another issue. This was just a meadow, and there was no feed grinder like in the game. How would he feed the animals?

Moreover, there was no water source. In the game, animals didn't need to drink water, but would the animals in the space also not need water?

With no other choice, Zhao Hai asked, "How do we solve the feeding and drinking problems for the animals?"

The prompt sound replied, "Due to the large number of animals, the ranch will adopt a free-range model. The feed added by the host will automatically convert into grass on the ground, suitable for various animals to eat. One thousand meters ahead, there is a river for the animals to drink from."

Zhao Hai was taken aback. He hadn't expected the space to solve the problem this way. It converted all the feed into grass on the meadow. However, in the game, most animals were herbivores, so the grass could solve the problem. But if he brought animals from the Ark Continent to the farm, there would certainly be carnivores. How could he make carnivores eat grass?

Zhao Hai quickly asked about this, but the space's response was, "Insufficient data, unable to answer." Zhao Hai was thoroughly confused.

Feeling helpless, Zhao Hai decided to ask, "Open the warehouse. What can be converted into feed?"

The space prompt replied, "Searching... Found items that can be used as feed: radish leaves, corn, wheat, and rice. Radish leaves: one pound can be converted into one point of feed. Corn: one pound can be converted into five points of feed. Wheat: one pound can be converted into four points of feed. Rice: one pound can be converted into six points of feed."

Zhao Hai was surprised. He hadn't expected the space to categorize all food crops as feed. It seemed that anything that could be converted into feed would be transformed, and the more suitable it was for feed, the higher the conversion rate.

Zhao Hai's mind flickered, and he opened the store page. Although there was no display screen, the staff in his hand emitted a white light, forming a projection in front of him, showing the store page, which was directly the ranch store page.

Zhao Hai looked at the page, which was similar to the game's page. The only difference was that the animals he couldn't buy were shown in black and white, while the ones he could buy were in color. Currently, he could only buy two types of animals: chickens and rabbits.

Each chick cost eighty gold coins, and each rabbit cost one hundred and twenty gold coins. In the game, these prices were not expensive, but in the Ark Continent, they were quite high. Long-tailed chickens and blue-eyed rabbits, which were used for meat, were very cheap. A long-tailed chicken cost only one silver coin, and a blue-eyed rabbit cost only three silver coins.

Zhao Hai did some calculations and decided not to buy these animals from the space store. It was too expensive. He only had a little over two hundred gold coins. If he bought from the space, he could get at most two rabbits or three chickens. But if he bought outside, he could get over two thousand long-tailed chickens or about eight hundred blue-eyed rabbits, which would almost fill the ranch.

Although he hadn't solved the problem of how to feed carnivores, the ranch was now activated, which was a good thing.

Zhao Hai took a deep breath and, with a thought, left the ranch. Overall, he was very pleased with the current state of the ranch. It was better than the game. In the game, everything was dead data, but in the ranch, everything was tangible and real. Thinking of this, Zhao Hai felt happy.

This time, when Zhao Hai came out, it was different from the last time. Last time, he used a teleportation point to enter his bedroom directly. This time, he came out from the same place he entered, which was inside the alien's body.

When Zhao Hai appeared, he found that Green and the others were all there. He was surprised and asked, "Grandpa Green, why are you all here? Were you waiting for me?"

Green and the others clearly looked relieved. Green quickly said, "Young master, you've been in the space for almost four hours. Is everything okay?"

Zhao Hai was surprised. He hadn't realized he had been in the space for so long. But then he remembered he had slept for a while, so it made sense.

Zhao Hai smiled and said, "No problem. And this time, the space has upgraded, which is a good thing, a great thing. Let's go into the space and talk about it." With a thought, everyone entered the space.

When Green and the others entered the space, they were stunned. They saw the small villa. Zhao Hai smiled and said, "I bought this house in the space. It only costs one gold coin. I bought it, and we can live in it from now on."

He led them into the villa and let them choose their rooms. The Wood brothers chose two rooms downstairs, Green and Merlin chose a room upstairs, and Meg chose a room upstairs, the one closest to Zhao Hai's bedroom.

Seeing that they had all chosen their rooms, Zhao Hai smiled and said, "The space now has a new function, one that we need the most." With a thought, Green and the others found themselves back outside the space, but they were in a stone house, clearly not in the Rocky Mountains.

Green and the others looked around, and after a while, Meg said uncertainly, "Young master, isn't this your room in Iron Mountain Castle?"

Zhao Hai laughed and said, "Yes, this is my room in Iron Mountain Castle. We are now back in Iron Mountain Castle."

Green and the others were stunned. They all rushed to the window and looked outside, confirming that they were indeed back in Iron Mountain Castle.

Green and the others looked at Zhao Hai in shock. Zhao Hai smiled and said, "The space now has the ability to set two teleportation points, like the front and back doors of a house. I've set one in the Rocky Mountains and one here in the castle. From now on, we can travel between the two places at any time."

Green and the others looked at Zhao Hai with surprise and joy. They hadn't expected such a good thing. A journey that took half a month could now be done instantly. This was truly amazing.

Zhao Hai explained the changes after the space's upgrade while following them out of the house to the inner castle square. They entered the space again here because in the future, if they needed to bring slaves from the space back to Iron Mountain Castle, it would be better to have them appear in the castle square rather than in their rooms.

After entering the space, Zhao Hai took them to the ranch and explained that they could raise magical beasts here. Green and the others were even happier. This would provide them with another source of income.

After Zhao Hai explained all the new abilities of the space to Green and the others, they finally left the space. As soon as they came out, Zhao Hai took out a hundred gold coins and gave them to Green, instructing him to buy three hundred blue-eyed rabbits in Casa City the next day and bring them back to the space. These gold coins were materialized by the space.