Chapter 59 Chapter 59 300 Jin Rock Grass
At twelve o'clock midnight, sirens blared throughout the sky.
The alarm lasted for a full minute, waking up the people who were sleeping.
Ye Ning's heartbeat quickened as she was suddenly jolted out of her sleep.
The shrill high-decibel alarm sound was still ringing in her ears. Ye Ning looked around and found that there was an alarm installed in the corner of the room.
She immediately looked at the model of the Sea Dust Star.
The restricted area has turned completely black.
Feng Qi woke up at the same time as her. When she heard the alarm, she instinctively hugged Ye Ning, "Sister, it's the alarm of the pollution surge."
Feeling Ye Ning's heartbeat quicken considerably, Feng Qi thought she was scared, so he patted her back gently again, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. We're safe in the house."
Ye Ning shook her hand and said, "It's okay."
At the same time, there was a knock on their door.
Feng Qi hurried over to open the door, and it was Hou Lin standing outside.
Feng Qi looked at him, "Brother Hou Lin."
Hou Lin nodded, examining the two men carefully. "Are you all right? The alarm means another wave of pollution is imminent in the Xisha Islands."
Feng Qi nodded. "I'm used to it, but my sister seems a little scared."
Ye Ning's heartbeat had calmed down considerably. She grabbed her coat and put it on as she walked over. "It's okay. I just heard the alarm while I was dreaming, so my heartbeat was a little fast."
Hou Lin looked at Ye Ning and said, "The pollution wave will completely erupt in about three hours."
Three hours is enough.
Ye Ning: "Let's go find Long Qi now!"
After returning with Hou Sen a few days ago, I worked overtime with the professors from the Xisha District to develop an advanced version of the effective toxin.
They directly used the pollutant bees they had captured previously for the experiment, and the results were very good. Not only could they quickly paralyze the nerves of the pollutants, but they could also significantly purify the pollutants on their bodies and reduce their aggressiveness.
Afterwards, they further applied it to the S-level pollution queen bee and found that it could also achieve significant slowing down and reducing aggressiveness.
He Yang was the happiest one and he immediately opened a special production line to produce such effective toxins on a large scale.
Ye Ning has not been idle these days. She has planted batches of rock grass.
She also specifically instructed the researchers that when harvesting, they couldn't mow the weeds, but had to pull them up by the roots. So, in just these few days, she had spent thousands of gold coins.
However, the plants in her private waters were already very lush, changing almost every day, but she threw them all out to feed the surrounding marine life.
She had considered selling some to the system, but then she realized it was a bit of a waste. The gold reward from increasing the pollution absorption rate was more cost-effective than selling plants.
If rock grass were grown at a normal rate in the growing room, the yield would be about 1 kilogram per square meter per day. However, Ye Ning used her supernatural power to increase the planting speed fivefold. Therefore, under continuous cultivation, she could harvest 5 kilograms of fresh grass per square meter per day.
Ye Ning spent three days growing 300 kilograms of fresh grass. Assuming each blade of grass weighs 0.1 grams, then 300 kilograms of fresh grass contains approximately 3 million rock grass strands.
The researchers had calculated this 3 million, and when they figured it out, everyone gasped.
They knew rockgrass grew quickly, but they hadn't expected it to grow this fast. No wonder Ye Ning initially said she wanted to promote rockgrass. This number was terrifying! It could even give one-third of the world's orcs one piece each!
When Ye Ning arrived at the planting room, the researchers also came out one after another.
In this case, they couldn't sleep alone in the room, so they might as well go to the grow room together.
Ye Ning directed Hou Lin to take out the big bucket she had prepared in advance.
She has been worried these days about when a large-scale wave of pollutants might break out, so she prepared pesticides in advance.
This 10L bucket was filled with water from her watering can, which had already been mixed with a large amount of intermediate-grade insecticide. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye Ning directly threw an armful of rock grass into it.
The researchers around her looked at her operation in shock. "What is this?"
They hadn't previously told the researchers why they were planting so much rock grass, but now they can.
Hou Lin crossed his arms and said, "This will be used to feed the pollutants."
Researcher: ???
"Feeding pollutants?!"
Hou Lin nodded and began to explain to them.
When everyone knew that it was Ye Ning who came up with this idea, they looked at her with even more admiration and respect.
Oh my god, no wonder Master Ye Ning has been so frantically planting rock grass these past few days. It's true, come to think of it. Such a thin blade of grass, let alone the tentacles of pollutants, even some large animals would have a hard time grasping it. If you eat it directly with your mouth, eating it one by one, not only will you get a mouthful of yellow sand, but it will also greatly slow down their attack speed.
Bai Qing pushed his glasses and his eyes lit up slightly when he looked at Ye Ning.
Ye Ning threw a few handfuls, reducing the volume of the haystack by 1/5 before stopping.
She thought for two seconds, and the next moment, she directly bought 1,000 gold coins worth of desert plant seeds and 1,000 gold coins worth of tooth-ribbed red moss spores, and then mixed them all in.
Worried that they wouldn't germinate in the restricted area, Ye Ning poured some of her supernatural powers into them to ensure they were in a relatively full state. This way, as soon as they came into contact with the sand, they should be able to start germinating.
Pesticides can protect plants, and they can certainly protect seeds. She was also curious whether seeds protected by pesticides could grow in a restricted area.
Even if it can't, it can still purify them if eaten by pollutants, so it won't be wasted anyway.
Thinking of this, Ye Ning bought 20 plant care guides in one go and placed them all on the tooth-ribbed Erythromyces.
【Erythroderma spp.：
Health: 100% (perfect)
Hydration status: 150% (abnormally sufficient)
Nutritional status: 40% (severe lack of fertilizer)
Pest control: 0% (no pests)
Light satisfaction: 0% (extreme lack of light)
Temperature suitability: 100% (within the optimal growth temperature range)]
All the data was perfect, except for the lack of fertilizer. Ye Ning bought a few more fertilizers and threw them in until she saw the nutrient status reached 100%.
Nutritional status: 100% (adequate nutrition)
Very good, very good. That way there won’t be any problem.
Finally, Ye Ning threw another ball of supernatural power into the water.
Time was running out, but Ye Ning calmly reviewed everything from beginning to end. After making sure she hadn't missed anything and didn't have any new ideas, she looked at Hou Lin and said, "Okay."
Hou Lin nodded and picked up the rock grass and the big bucket of water.
Feng Qi quickly applauded him, "Brother Hou Lin, you are so awesome!"
Hou Lin knew that she was simply flattering him, but he still felt comfortable.
He looked at Ye Ning and Feng Qi and said, "I'll go, you guys just stay inside."
Ye Ning shook her head. "I'll go with you. I'll be right next to you. It's okay."
Feng Qi quickly raised his hand, "I'll come too. I'll protect my sister."
Bai Qing also looked over and said, "If you're worried, I can go out with you. I'm from the Eagle tribe and can fly away immediately if there's an emergency."
They had never seen Bai Qing flying.
But now is not the time to be curious about this. Among so many people, except him, they are all researchers with very average spiritual level. To be honest, Feng Qi's strength and speed are really the best among them.
Hou Lin: "Okay, hurry up, let's go and come back quickly."
Several people quickly changed their clothes and then walked out of the planting room.
In fact, they are very fast. It only took them ten minutes from getting up to going out.
So now there are still two hours and fifty minutes before the expected pollutant wave officially arrives.
As soon as they went out, they found Long Qi standing at the door.
Ye Ning ran over quickly, "Are you going over now?"
Long Qi nodded slightly, his face was extremely cold and hard, and the cold aura on his body returned to its original level.
Ye Ning took out two more strawberries from her pocket and gave them to him.
"for you."
Ye Ning had a hunch that he must like strawberries very much, so she picked two when she came out.
She kept a distance of several people from him, but that distance was nothing to Long Qi. He only needed to stretch out his hand to take the things away.
Long Qi looked at the strawberries in front of him and paused for two seconds.
"If you are injured, I will treat you, but I still hope you won't be injured that badly again."
Ye Ning tiptoed and pushed the strawberry towards him again.
I don't want him to get hurt——
Long Qi lowered his eyes, took the strawberry and put it directly into his pocket.
Ye Ning stepped back again and motioned Hou Lin to hand the thing to him.
"It's full of rockweed. Sprinkle the rockweed first, then sprinkle this water and the effective toxin together."
Not knowing whether he would meet other people, Ye Ning specially asked someone to replace the rock grass with an odor-isolating bag. Once Long Qi reached the restricted area, no one should see him spreading the grass.
Long Qi took the things and left quickly.
A sharp and piercing roar seemed to come from the distant sky, and several people could even vaguely feel the ground shaking slightly.
Ye Ning squatted down and touched the yellow sand with his hand.
The nighttime temperature had plummeted to below 0 degrees Celsius, and even when talking, one could breathe out hot air. Therefore, the yellow sand that could burn people during the day was now very cold to the touch.
She really felt it, the ground seemed to be shaking.
Ye Ning looked at everyone and asked, "Does the feeling always feel this strong every time a wave of pollutants breaks out?"
A blood-red moon hung high in the sky, immersing the earth in an eerie crimson. The outlines of the craters on the moon also became much clearer.
Ye Ning looked up again and observed the red moon carefully. "The moon seems to be even redder."
Feng Qi looked up and observed, then nodded, "It's really become redder."
This was also Feng Qi's first time out during a pollution wave. Every time there was a pollution wave before, she would hide at home alone. Because her parents had to go to the battlefield, if it weren't for Ye Ning, she would still stay home alone this time and not dare to come out.
Hou Lin stood behind them and said, "Go back, go back. Don't look around. It's creepy outside."
Although the red moon can be seen in every district, the atmosphere in the Xisha District, coupled with the fact that they are in the wilderness, always feels very weird.
Bai Qing swiped her bracelet and said, "I happen to be free now. Can I go and see those 2,000 square meters of plants?"
Hou Lin: "Now? It's so late, you should go back first. You can check it tomorrow."
Ye Ning has been there every day these days, but apart from taking time to study various things related to planting, she has to be busy with other things. In addition, she cannot go out casually, so it has been several days and she has not been able to see it with her own eyes.
Ye Ning thought for a moment, "How about we go together? Actually, I think it's okay. The pollution wave didn't start just now, and we're in the city, so the pollution won't come here."
"That's not necessarily true," Hou Lin bared his teeth and began to threaten. "Long Qi lives right on the edge of the restricted area. It's said that pollutants have previously broken through the defenses and entered the city in the Xisha area."
Feng Qi nodded. "It was really scary at the time. We all hid underground. Later, the teacher even brought students whose parents weren't around to school to take care of them."
The schools in Xisha District are really good.
Bai Qing pushed his glasses and said, "Forget it, let's go back. I'll go with you guys tomorrow morning."
The four of them turned and went back to the planting room.
The researchers gathered together for a rare occasion and were all discussing this matter.
"It seems like it wasn't that long ago that the last wave of pollutants in the Xisha Islands broke out again. How come it broke out again so soon?"
"About a month."
"So soon, no, this really doesn't make sense. Is it really going to be once a month?"
"Every region has had a difficult time in recent years. Otherwise, why do you think everyone is reluctant to send troops to aid the Xisha region?"
"But it was over in one day last time, so it should be even faster this time, right?"
Lord Ye Ning sent so many rock herbs over, and the purification is so direct and generous, the effect must be very good.
There has also been new progress in the development of effective toxins. It is said that Gaojiang District, like Xisha District, has opened a special production line to produce this.
In fact, if Gaojiang District experienced frequent pollution surges, it was hard to say whether it could hold out. The vast majority of Gaojiang District's inhabitants were primates, and in terms of combat power alone, they were significantly weaker than other districts, relying entirely on equipment and weapons to make up for the shortfall.
Hou Lin looked at Ye Ning and Feng Qi, "It's already half past twelve, do you two want to go to bed first?"
He just looked at Feng Qi and seemed to be starting to feel sleepy.
"I'll be guarding you at the door today. If you need anything, just call me."
Ye Ning looked at him, "Aren't you going to rest today?"
Hou Lin: "This is such a mess. I can't sleep well. Xisha District will send Shao Yu over tomorrow. I'll go back to rest after he arrives."
Ye Ning nodded. She was indeed a little sleepy, and the two went back to the room together.
Hou Lin carefully checked the surroundings again, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with the room, he stood guard at their door.
He moved his nose, and after making sure he could smell the two people, he swiped his bracelet.
He wanted to see if there was any new news on the Internet.
The Xisha District did not release any information, but the traffic of the Baisuilan live broadcast suddenly skyrocketed again.
The Welwitschia plant has been outside for a month.
This month, from the heavy rain to the current extreme temperature difference of scorching sun, it not only did not suffer to death, but it grew better and better.
The two leaves had turned from light green to dark green, and the edges of the leaves were slightly curled. A layer of waxy substance had grown on the leaves, making them look thicker. The stems had also become thicker.
There was still a group of people below begging the Xisha District to quickly take back the plants, but the streets were empty, with no one around.
This Welwitschia is the first plant planted outdoors and has a special meaning to everyone.
If they found out that Ye Ning had planted more than 2,000 square meters of outdoor plants, including dozens of Welwitschias and various other plants, they would probably be extremely excited.
Hou Lin also unexpectedly saw a piece of news from the empire that someone had colluded with the rebels to assassinate His Majesty Xilos. Now the case has been investigated and the person has been executed by the empire.
This execution... Generally speaking, orcs are rarely sentenced to death directly, because there are not many of them. So those orcs who have committed serious crimes will be sent to do things like mining, which is much more torturous than being killed directly.
Hou Lin reported his safety to Hou Sen and Hou Yu who was far away in Gaojiang District, and then he heard the sound of steady breathing coming from the room.
Hou Lin glanced at the time. It was already 1 a.m. He fell asleep pretty quickly. The Xisha area should be almost done by tomorrow, right?
*
Xisha District restricted area.
In the marginal areas, the pollution concentration soared again to the sixth level.
Pollutants, several times more numerous than last time, swarmed out from the yellow sand. They spread across the entire restricted area at an incredible speed, covering almost every area within sight.
Densely packed with red eyes, they practically covered the entire desert. Looking down from the sky, one could see a strange, bright red light swirling wildly across the desert, accompanied by the mad tumbling of muscle textures. It looked both disgusting and terrifying.
The Xisha District detected unusual movements a few days ago, so they made arrangements early.
By this time, all the soldiers had already assembled. A variety of heavy weaponry had already been deployed in the dozens of kilometers of buffer zone. Besides purifying energy, they also began spraying a newly developed, effective toxin in all directions, without blind spots.
Long Qi took the rock grass given by Ye Ning and the insecticide produced by the system and went to the core area of the pollutant in advance.
This time, Ye Ning slept until dawn.
The first thing she did when she woke up was to check the condition of her erythritis.
All 20 marked samples of Erythromyces dentata survived!
【Erythroderma spp.：
Health: 100% (perfect)
Hydration status: 150% (abnormally sufficient)
Nutritional status: 100% (adequate nutrition)
Pest control: 0% (no pests)
Light satisfaction: 100% (sufficient light)
Temperature suitability: 100% (within the optimal growth temperature range)]
But something seems wrong?
Ye Ning asked the little mushroom, "Looking at their location, they've already reached the restricted area, but why is the pest level 0%?"
[Because they haven't harmed the Erythromyces dentata you marked.]
Ye Ning thought about it and agreed. The Erythromyces dentata is in spore form, which is invisible to the naked eye. Even if the pollutants wanted to eat it, they would not be able to eat it.
From this perspective, the degree of pest damage can be understood as the degree of damage to the plant caused by pests. The higher the pest damage, the more damage the plant has suffered from external living things.
Moreover, those pollutants seemed to be less able to sense plants in their seed state, otherwise she would not have had the chance to fish out the seeds in the mud in the beginning.
But Ye Ning soon discovered another problem. The black color above the restricted area did not seem to have lightened or dissipated much.
Pollution doesn't appear during the day, and Long Qi should have spread all that stuff last night, so why is it still so dark now?
Ye Ning immediately got up and went to find Hou Lin to find out what happened.
Hou Lin didn't sleep all night, but his mental state was still okay.
He had also received messages from Hou Sen and Shao Yu earlier in the morning, so he explained, "Your method is excellent. The plants and water you provided have already allowed them to block and eliminate a large amount of pollutants over a large area. However, those pollutants continue to emerge from the yellow sand."
"The scale and intensity of this wave of pollutants are the strongest ever recorded. If it weren't for the solutions you've come up with these past few days, the Xisha Islands might have held out for a few days before being overwhelmed by the pollution."
Hou Lin wasn't kidding. He had just obtained detailed data on the pollution. They weren't worried about not being able to eliminate the pollutants, but rather about their continued influx. If it were the Xisha Islands as it was before, they would likely soon face a shortage of manpower and material resources.
"Then I'll hurry and plant some more rock grass."
Ye Ning didn't hesitate at all. She didn't even bother to eat breakfast and ran straight to the planting room.
This time she didn't hesitate and directly divided several large areas to plant rock grass.
While planting, he quickly poured the intermediate-grade pesticide into several large buckets.
What should have been completed in a day was compressed into fifteen minutes. However, this time, Ye Ning specially piled up a lot of green singing stones around.
Fifteen minutes later, hundreds of square meters of rock grass were planted again.
The researchers were infected by Ye Ning's condition, and each of them was more nervous than shocked.
As soon as Ye Ning finished, the robots and researchers worked together to dig out the rock grass.
Hou Lin scratched his head and said, "I'll quickly ask the people from Xisha District to come and get it."
Hou Lin called Shao Yu over.
But it would take some time for him to come, so Ye Ning simply planted another large area.
Shao Yu took his things and left.
Hou Lin didn't sleep all night, and Ye Ning asked him if he wanted to rest. Hou Lin shook his head, and Ye Ning threw a small ball of supernatural power at him.
Hou Lin instantly became energetic.
I planted so much, and I don’t know if it’s enough, but this is more than twice as much as yesterday, so it should be enough for the morning at least.
Ye Ning simply didn't go out in the morning and continued to plant rock grass here.
On the other hand, in a place where no one was paying attention, a group of people sneaked into the Xisha area openly.
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