Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Let’s work together and plant it outside…
Hou Sen discovered that although Ye Ning was young, she could always inadvertently show an extraordinary level of vision and depth.
What is even more admirable is that she has an extremely pure sense of growing plants.
Pure love, pure sharing, without any impurities.
Originally, he might have taken this as a joke, but after hearing Ye Ning's words, he unexpectedly began to look forward to it.
Hou Sen didn't hesitate any longer and turned around to talk to his wife Hou Yu.
When Hou Yu learned that Ye Ning was so selfless, he was very impressed and moved.
The original mother plant seeds were brought from Gaojiang District. Because the pure human talent in Gaojiang District was not high and could not grow S-level plants, Hou Sen had all the S-level seeds brought here.
But those seeds, which were synthesized based on data from decades ago, were far inferior to the ones Ye Ning had just planted, in terms of adaptability and growth potential.
So if other pure humans can plant such high-quality seeds, they will definitely be able to grow more plants.
If only the pure humans in Gaojiang District could grow S-rank plants with such high-quality seeds...
"You should keep an eye on them and don't let them waste such high-quality seeds." Hou Sen thought it was unlikely. Ye Ning was able to grow it because of her high talent. As for those people in Gaojiang District, forget it.
But he did not criticize his wife. He just couldn't help but give her some advice, fearing that they would not know the value of the product and waste Ye Ning's kindness.
Hou Yu nodded. "Don't worry, Chongrong has been doing very well lately. He's already patiently spending an hour in the grow room caring for the plants."
Chongrong is the 8-year-old pure human cub from Gaojiang District.
Ever since Ye Ning said that turning the soil would help the plants grow better, Gao Jiangqu also started turning the soil for the plants every day, using the same shovel as hers. It is hard to say whether it has any effect, but it can make Chongrong stay in the planting room patiently for an hour, which can be considered another kind of effect.
Hou Sen had previously been furious with Chongrong for his lack of ambition, believing that Gaojiang District would have no hope if it relied solely on him. However, it was precisely because of their mediocre talent that they hadn't been poached by other districts.
I don't expect him to see improvement in his performance now, but I do think he will see improvement in his performance. After all, someone who could only stay for 20 minutes before can now stay for an hour, so the improvement is obvious.
Hou Sen nodded and even praised Chongrong for the first time.
Hou Yu looked at Hou Sen and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Hou Sen has changed a lot during this period of time. He has become much kinder and easy-going, and has become more tolerant towards the people around him.
Although they were far apart, she had heard about Ye Ning from many people. All the researchers who had come into contact with Ye Ning praised her highly, and each of them was very passionate.
However, she now has something very important to inform Hou Sen.
Hou Yu's expression turned serious. "I just received news that the pure human in Bei'an District was taken away by the rebels."
"Take him away?!" Hou Sen's face was full of disbelief, and his voice rose several degrees.
"What do you mean by 'taken away'?! Is it the pure human who was almost abducted last time? Didn't Bei'an District increase its security?"
"It's that pure human again." Hou Yu continued, "After the last incident in Bei'an District, they specially dispatched three S-class orcs and ten elite A-class orcs to form a guard team to guard her 24 hours a day. After her injury, she had been receiving treatment in the hospital. Yesterday, she was fully recovered and ready to be discharged, but she suddenly disappeared without a trace while going to the restroom."
"Didn't they immediately seal off the hospital and investigate?!"
"We investigated."
"They discovered a carefully disguised secret passage in the hospital restroom. The passage led in all directions, with eight exits, and each exit had the presence of that pure human."
Hou Yu glanced at the time. "It's been over 24 hours since that pure human disappeared."
24 hours means that the pure human being is most likely no longer in Bei'an District.
This kind of incident shouldn't have happened the first time, but it happened not only the first time, but also the second time. The Bei'an District's strict defenses were rendered useless by the rebels. They had so brazenly abducted a pure human being from such a heavily protected area. The thought of this was shocking and difficult to accept.
"You must be cautious and careful in everything you do, and not be careless in anything."
Hou Sen nodded, "I understand."
After hanging up the phone, he searched online again, and sure enough, there was no news about this matter online.
Once the news of the loss of pure humans in Bei'an District was exposed, Bei'an District would definitely become the target of public criticism. For now, they probably still wanted to find a way to solve the problem themselves.
But in his opinion, this matter should be made public immediately. Even if Bei'an District is likely to lose a pure human, it is better than that pure human falling into the hands of the rebels.
Ye Ning's idea was right. She really needed the ability to protect herself. Even when faced with danger, being able to scream was better than being unable to do anything.
Even the tight security in Bei'an District couldn't prevent the incident from happening, which shows how outrageous the rebels' methods were.
So the next day, Ye Ning started her own exercise plan.
Under Hou Sen's urging, Hou Lin did not sleep all night and set up a training room for Ye Ning.
He also specifically asked Gu Yu, and Gu Yu said that when they first met, Ye Ning was almost torn to pieces by the pollutants.
Logically speaking, if a pure human being encounters pollutants, it is not a big deal. If the pollutants swallow the living creature into the stomach one second later, it is disrespectful to the living creature, let alone a pure human being.
But Ye Ning was able to escape, which proved that she had a certain degree of reaction and speed. I just didn't know the extent of this.
So the next morning, after Ye Ning finished her breakfast, Hou Lin gave her a physical fitness test and reaction check.
Hou Lin directly copied a set of sports competition events for her, including obstacles, balance beams, barrels... Even the jumping obstacles of different heights were brought over one by one. Each one was carefully adjusted to suit her current physical condition while maintaining a challenge.
Moreover, the bottom was padded with thick cushions and the height was low enough to ensure that even if she made a mistake, no harm would be caused, while at the same time being enough to test her skills and reaction.
"These are the daily exercises for the first-year cubs in Xisha District. Would you like to give them a try?"
Ye Ning nodded, and was also eager to try.
She does not just pursue speed, but strives to complete each project well.
So in Hou Lin's eyes, she seemed to be very slow and cautious, but at the same time, she completed every project very well.
Especially when it came to the final jump area, Ye Ning displayed amazing explosive power. She sprinted like a rabbit, then suddenly leaped in front of an obstacle that was almost as tall as her. Her body drew a perfect arc in the air, easily passed it, and landed steadily.
Hou Lin's eyes lit up, and he immediately took out a ball and tied the ball to a long fishing rod, which looked like a giant cat toy.
"Try this, don't let me hit you."
Hou Lin seemed to have just flicked the ball casually, but the ball hit Ye Ning's head with an extremely precise speed.
Ye Ning quickly lowered her head and dodged.
But the next second, the ball seemed to have eyes, and it quickly turned back from behind her and rushed towards her head at lightning speed!
There was only three minutes in total, and in addition to the few times she let the ball hit her on purpose, she was also hit three more times while trying her best to dodge it.
After the speech, Hou Lin clapped his hands. "Not bad, not bad! Your abilities far surpass those of ordinary humans. You're even almost as good as a newly born primate orc!"
None of the pure humans he had seen had the reaction speed and physical strength of Ye Ning. He had never expected that not only was she good at planting, but her speed was also far beyond that of an ordinary pure human.
Ye Ning wiped the sweat off her face and smiled, "I ate a lot of meat and milk, and I feel better."
"And I walked in the desert for a long time, dodging monsters. I might have been pretty powerful before."
Anyway, she has lost her memory, and her current physical fitness is still far behind that of the orcs.
Hou Lin nodded and blurted out, "Maybe you are the first evolved pure human."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that what he said was quite reasonable. "You have an exceptional talent for planting, and your physical fitness is superior to that of ordinary pure humans. Perhaps starting with you, a new era of pure human evolution will begin!"
He looked excited, but Ye Ning didn't want to respond anymore because she hadn't exercised for a long time. Suddenly exercising like this made her breathless and sweaty.
She knew that one really couldn't be lazy. If the body didn't move for a few days, its speed and reaction time would decrease.
Seeing her taking deep breaths to regulate her breathing, Hou Lin quickly checked the time and said, "It's been 20 minutes. Let's stop here for today."
After all, she is a pure human being and a little cub. Although her reaction is excellent, her physical strength is still a little too poor.
For a pure human of her age, 30 minutes of training a day is already the limit.
However, Hou Lin felt that Ye Ning could completely break through this limit directly!
Ye Ning nodded. Today was the first day, so she couldn't act too exaggerated.
Exercising early in the morning was truly refreshing. Especially when her heartbeat reached its limit and then slowed down, the dopamine released made her feel all her fatigue and stress vanish.
Ye Ning drank some nutrient solution to replenish her strength, then went to the planting room in high spirits.
The planting during this period allowed her to level up several times, and she was now level 15. However, although she had touched many new seeds, she had not triggered the title again.
It should be that she didn’t unlock enough new seeds. The first time, she unlocked it with 3 different seeds, the second time, it took 30 to unlock it, and the third time, she didn’t know if it would take 300.
If so, that's a bit too much—
After Ye Ning germinated the new batch of seeds, she went to check on the growth of the mint.
This batch of mint has been completely replaced with mint seeds from the system, and all the soilless seedbeds in the growth room have also been planted with mint.
So at this time, the whole room was filled with a strong mint scent.
When she went in, the central control system inside was changing the water in the mint.
After several days of research and numerous experiments, researchers discovered that allowing mint to soak in water for at least three hours can impart a distinct minty flavor. This is because three hours is enough time for the mint's oil molecules to effectively diffuse and dissolve between water molecules.
40% of this mint water, which is changed every three hours, is given to the Xisha District for use in treating wounded soldiers. The remaining 60% is given to the Gaojiang District for sale and other uses. The fully mature mint leaves also have other uses.
The Xisha District was very satisfied with this allocation. After all, they hadn't contributed much, so they could only give Originium. But there was nothing they could do about it; they were powerless right now.
When Ye Ning was watering the mint, she thought of the little crocodile again.
When Feng Qi came back last night, he said that the little crocodile had regained its human form.
She added a lot of her own special abilities to it, and it seemed to be working very well. After his sister drank the water, she should be able to return to human form quickly.
However, this is only a temporary solution and does not address the root cause. Pollutants remain very concentrated and there are still many children like the little crocodile.
She also gets a cut of the profits from the plants she sells, but she has no use for the money in her account, so she simply bought some mint water and nutrient solution yesterday, so she can give them to them once the products are officially released.
She had specifically asked yesterday if they could provide them with a little more help. But the Xisha District is actually already taking good care of these children, but it's just too poor, so even if they do, it can't go far.
These are all very realistic problems, and she can also think about whether there are other ways to help them.
Ye Ning went to take another look at her special planting area.
Although she really wanted to eat watermelon as soon as possible, she still strictly controlled the growth rate of the vegetable garden.
In fact, even if she controlled herself like this, she was already growing very fast.
The watermelon vine had already produced three small watermelons, each the size of a fingernail. The small watermelons looked round and small, covered with a layer of fine fuzz, but already had dark green watermelon lines.
When the watermelons came out yesterday, the researchers lined up to check in, and everyone took a photo with the little watermelon.
Because they have never seen a plant that bears "fruit".
After Ye Ning finished watering the fruits and vegetables, she thought of the news she saw yesterday.
The empire wants to invest in the Xisha District, and the Xisha District has also introduced a series of policies to attract more people to invest in the Xisha District.
But when she went out to look around yesterday, she also felt that the Xisha District was really backward. All the infrastructure seemed to be decades old. It couldn't be called retro, just tattered and dilapidated everywhere.
The Xisha region is truly too poor, and poverty makes it impossible to provide residents with a better life, especially for orphans like the little crocodile who rely on government assistance.
And such a place seems difficult to attract everyone.
But for the people in this world, the most attractive thing should be plants, right?
plant……
Ye Ning paused watering and suddenly had a new idea!
She put the kettle away and turned to look at Gu Yu: "Gu Yu, shall we go find the teacher?"
Having said that, she didn't wait for Gu Yu's response and directly pulled him to find Hou Sen.
Because Gu Yu would definitely agree, and she wanted Gu Yu to convey her words to the district chief later.
Gu Yu was a little surprised to see her so anxious. Ye Ning had always been very calm, and it was rare to see her so excited.
However, when Gu Yu looked down and saw her holding his hand, a smile appeared on his lips.
She was too small and could only hold two of his fingers. Holding his hand like this, he actually had to lower his left shoulder a little, and for every two or three steps she took, he only had to take one.
Gu Yu bent down and picked her up.
Suddenly his body was suspended in the air, and Ye Ning looked at him in surprise.
"I'll carry you away, quickly."
Ye Ning thought about his long legs. Indeed, even if she ran, she would not be as fast as Gu Yu who just lifted his legs and walked.
Ye Ning simply let him hold her. Gu Yu held her and slowly walked to the laboratory where Hou Sen was.
Hou Sen was slicing plants in the lab for biochemical research. Ye Ning's plants were so good, they wanted to see if they could be used to develop new drugs. If they could be made into a specific medicine, the results would be even better.
He used the paraffin sectioning method, which involved dehydrating, transparentizing, waxing, and embedding the plant tissues, so that the sections could be preserved and observed for a long time.
When Ye Ning went over, he had just finished dealing with it.
After being magnified hundreds of times, the plant tissue was clearly displayed on the wall in front through holographic projection technology.
After careful processing and sectioning, and after magnification hundreds of times, the cell structure and tissue texture appear exceptionally clear. Each cell is of different sizes and arranged in an orderly manner.
Ye Ning looked at the plant tissue in front of her with some amazement. It was the first time she had seen such a microscopic thing.
Seeing that she was interested, Hou Sen began to explain to her.
He pointed to one of the spots and said, "This is a large bubble-like cell on the leaf of the ice platform grass. It stores salt and water, which allows it to grow in arid places."
"These are the chloroplasts inside the leaves. Plants rely on them for photosynthesis. The plants you grow have the perfect number of chloroplasts in each one, neither too many nor too few, the optimal number for the plant's growth."
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"And the purification effect and speed of these plants you planted have been greatly improved."
It was as if the things given by the system suddenly became concrete, and Ye Ning suddenly had a subtle sense of magic.
Moreover, Hou Sen explained things in a simple and easy-to-understand way. The originally boring and difficult-to-understand concepts became vivid and lively under his explanation. After listening to the popular science lecture, Ye Ning once again sincerely admired the researchers here.
It is precisely because everyone is so professional and hardworking that they were able to build a growing room so quickly and quickly find the best way to utilize these plants.
After Hou Sen finished speaking, he took off his gloves, looked at Ye Ning kindly and asked, "Did you come to see me specially?"
Ye Ning nodded quickly.
"Teacher, I want to try growing plants in the wild."
"Grow it in the wild?" Hou Sen was still a little confused. "You mean, out there in the wild with all the wind and sand?"
Ye Ning nodded and continued, "Yesterday Mu Yan said that the district chief is trying to attract investment. This is the only way to develop Xisha District and make more money."
Hou Sen nodded. Whenever he opened his bracelet these days, he was flooded with news about the empire's investment in the Xisha Islands and how much potential the Xisha Islands had and how worthy of investment it was.
It can be seen that the mayor of Xisha District put a lot of effort into it.
"If we plant a plant in the wild and say it's wild, wouldn't that attract a lot of people to come and see it? We could even charge admission!"
Mu Yan had secretly asked her several times before whether she had planted that B-grade Lala grass, and he had been trying to get her to recall more details.
She later found out that he kept asking her because he really wanted to see natural plants growing naturally in the wild.
They seem to be very concerned about the presence of natural plants in the wild.
Later, she searched online and found that there were even organizations dedicated to investigating and discovering whether there were still natural plants in the wild. However, the last time an S-level plant was discovered in the wild was over a hundred years ago.
"If Xisha District can make more money, everyone can live a better life."
If she can complete her mission and help the Xisha District and those children, then she will be killing two birds with one stone.
Moreover, since it is so difficult to grow S-level plants in a growing room, they probably don’t think that anyone can grow S-level plants in the wild.
When the crops are grown, we can say they are wild, broadcast them live, and charge admission fees, which will definitely boost the economy.
"But growing plants outdoors..." Hou Sen thought carefully and came to a conclusion: "Given the current outdoor environment, it's almost impossible to grow them."
The temperature difference between day and night in the Xisha area is extremely large, and sandstorms blow from time to time. Coupled with the extremely high pollution concentration, it is not easy to grow plants outdoors.
Ye Ning nodded, "I know it's not easy, but I think that as long as we keep working hard to plant them outside, the plants will definitely be able to adapt to the outside environment."
"Or we can put a glass cover on the plant first, so that it is protected inside and does not have to worry about the extreme weather and wind and sand outside. People can also look at it through the glass cover."
"Plants can absorb pollutants. If there were more plants outside, the environment wouldn't be so bad."
"If we only grow plants in the grow room, people will still be short of plants. I want everyone to be able to grow plants, and I want plants to be everywhere outside."
Ye Ning's voice was gentle yet powerful.
Hou Sen's mind was shaken, and all the fog seemed to dissipate in an instant. He felt as if he was suddenly struck by a gentle yet firm force.
He suddenly realized that this was Ye Ning's ultimate goal. It was precisely because she had such an extremely pure and grand desire that she had such a pattern and thoughts and said such words.
Hou Sen suddenly thought of his original intention. What was his motivation when he first started doing plant research?
He seemed to have said these words passionately when he was young, but decades later, he had completely forgotten the vows and ambitions he made back then. His mentality, like his age, seemed to have been smoothed by time.
Gu Yu was also nearby. Ye Ning turned and looked at him expectantly. "Do you think my idea is okay? Can it help the district chief?"
Gu Yu's blue eyes looked even warmer.
"Your idea is great. If it works smoothly, it will not only attract tourists and investment, but also explain to the outside world why Gaojiang District wants to build a laboratory here."
There is truly nothing more captivating than discovering a natural plant in the wild.
After just a few days of not seeing her, Ye Ning has become more intelligent and lively.
Ye Ning turned around and looked at Hou Sen expectantly again.
Hou Sen was even a little afraid to look Ye Ning in the eye. He nodded and said, "You are right. The original purpose of our planting and research is to reduce the pollution concentration in this world."
"Our ultimate goal should be to enable everyone to plant and to have plants everywhere in the wild." The more Hou Sen spoke, the more embarrassed and ashamed he felt.
"I'll rearrange the staff, and together we'll work hard to plant outside."
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