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Chapter 33 Tell me the truth, do you have alchemical feed that can make humans reproduce quickly?

Because Leicester was captured, the entire village has now devoted themselves to training in order to rescue him as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the wheat they had planted before was enough to feed them for a while. Otherwise, with such a small population, having to divide up half of them to farm would have put immense pressure on them, something Thorne couldn't even imagine.

However, there is less work in the village nowadays, and Alex can handle most of it on her own.

Take sugarcane, for example. After we improved the plant, it grows about 3 meters a day. Once we find the highest point and stop it from growing, we cut it down and plant it back in the ground. We repeat this process, and soon a long row of sugarcane is planted along the riverbank.

The growth of this plant can be considered exponential in a sense; it grows very quickly.

Meanwhile, Alex was assigned to raise chickens. Perhaps on the first day, the two chickens had just traveled a long way with Doug and fell asleep after drinking a couple of sips of water.

Alex, who was in charge of taking care of the two chickens, was almost dumbfounded. Had these two chickens eked out a living on the road just to die at her hands and frame her now?

However, she breathed a long sigh of relief when she realized that the two chickens were still breathing. The two chickens only woke up today.

After all, she didn't dare to wake the chicken in advance. As the old saying goes, sleep is useless. What if the two chickens were just going to take a nap, but she gave them a big suffocation bag, woke them up to eat, and then fell asleep again, and then they died again?

Now that the two chickens have fully recovered, Alex finally felt relieved of her burden. She then filled a bowl with water and took two handfuls of wheat seeds to feed the chickens.

Perhaps the two chickens were hungry; after pecking at the water a few times, they began to peck furiously at the seeds that Alex had scattered.

Watching this scene, Alex slowly revealed a strange aunt-like smile. Then she saw that after the two old hens had eaten and drunk their fill, they seemed to know some kind of proverb of humankind.

As the saying goes, when people are well-fed and warm, they think of lustful desires. After eating and drinking their fill, they still have a nest to keep them company. The two old hens also took a liking to each other and couldn't help but rub against each other.

Just as Alex was wondering why hens would do this when they were in heat, for some reason, the two hens gave birth to a chick with a pop.

"…Holy crap?"

Just then, Thorne, who was harvesting sugarcane by the river, suddenly heard Alex's shocked voice. He looked up in surprise and saw Alex running towards him in a panic.

"What I'm about to tell you, don't be afraid."

As soon as Alex finished speaking, Thorne raised an eyebrow with a hint of helplessness: "If you're talking about two chickens giving birth to chicks directly from their own eggs, then you don't need to tell me, that's normal."

"Oh? Is that normal...? Are you from another world? A chicken! The chicken that lays eggs! And it gave birth to chicks right out of the womb? And two hens at that? Is that normal?"

This is different from ordinary alchemy. If you can't understand alchemy yourself, you can just laugh it off. Every profession is like a mountain.

But chickens, I really did raise chickens before.

So Alex's reaction was unusually intense, gesturing wildly with her hands to make Thorne realize how incredible it was.

Thorne silenced her with just one sentence: "In a sense, that machine next to the city wall that keeps producing cotton thread is also abnormal. Just think of the wheat seeds as special feed laced with alchemy and hard work."

"Oh, okay, then it's alright... no, there's still something wrong, they eat too much!" Alex was strangely calm for a moment, because there was nothing she could do about it, and then she suddenly remembered something and continued.

Thorne said helplessly, "After all, they just had a baby. Humans need to replenish their nutrition during postpartum recovery. If the chickens can eat it, just feed them more. We don't lack these seeds."

"..." Alex paused for a moment, then suddenly jumped onto a tree stump block by the river, put her arm around Thorne's shoulder, and whispered, "Tell me the truth, since you have this alchemical feed that can make chickens reproduce quickly, do you have any alchemical feed that can make humans reproduce quickly?"

"I really don't have any," Thorne replied, harvesting the sugarcane in front of him. Alex, who was clinging to his shoulder, unsurprisingly found her feet lifted off the ground as well.

Frustrated, she jumped down from mid-air and then asked one last question: "So, what about the mother hen and the grown chicks...?"

"Uh, they're chickens, so that's fine." Thorne was somewhat surprised by Alex's train of thought, wondering how she could associate such a low-class place, but he still answered anyway.

"Okay..." Alex finally returned to the little corner where she raised chickens and began to ponder whether she might be able to raise chicks with four legs and six wings in the future.

Thorne then planted another round of harvested sugarcane, and then neatly carried the remaining sugarcane back to the workbench.

By placing three bunches of sugarcane horizontally in a row on the workbench, three sheets of sturdy, moderately elastic, and high-quality fiber paper were produced.

After making nearly 60 sheets of paper, Thorne chose to process the remaining 4 sugarcanes directly into white sugar and then put them into a small cloth bag made of wool.

The first wave of output will definitely be used by the village itself, but the next wave will have to contribute to the village's business plan.

Sugar and paper may have a slightly lower profit margin than cloth, but they can be packed into boxes that you make yourself.

Logistics is a major aspect of any business investment, and with boxes, this problem is easily solved.

As for the last aspect, that is the security issue.

Thanks to that unlucky kid Lester, Thorne finally admitted that letting Lester and Doug travel light was partly a gamble, and that he couldn't go all in anymore once he rescued Lester.

Security guards should be arranged for both villages and merchant caravans, so that not only do villages not have to live in constant fear of sudden attacks by mercenaries, but the safety of traveling merchants can also be guaranteed.

So now there's only one problem: the lack of population. But in some ways, this problem is relatively easy to solve.

Most of the answers are in the question stem, and the answer to this question is no exception.

My main plan is to raid the hideout of that ruthless slave trader. I can't just rescue Lester; I'll have to rescue the other slaves as well.

As for how to lure those people to your village after they are rescued, the benefits of providing them with plenty of bread and housing should be enough to tempt them, right?

Nowadays, bread is practically plentiful, and housing can be built on the spot without any problem; all the sweet talk and incentives are ready.

The only remaining question is waiting for news from Doug.