Chapter 86 The Chosen One I'm going out alone for a while. ...
Just as they were getting too excited and about to faint, Lu Xuan poured cold water on their enthusiasm, saying, "Only one mutated species has appeared in the entire acre. It's unlikely that you can plant mutated species all over it."
Based on the experience of the apocalypse, not all seeds of mutant species can be saved; perhaps only one-tenth or even less will germinate.
Upon hearing this data, the Li family immediately calmed down.
“However,” Lu Xuan added, “if a few more plants could mutate in one acre, even just ten, the seeds harvested should be enough to plant one-tenth of an acre.”
The mutant rice planted on this plot of land can yield at least 150 to 200 catties of brown rice when it matures. The remaining nine-tenths of the plot can yield another 200 catties of rice, bringing the total to 400 catties.
This is just a conservative estimate.
In fact, even the original rice varieties would have a significantly increased yield after being stimulated by Lu Xuan.
According to his estimate, the actual harvest should reach around 600 jin (300 kg).
Of course, this is the ideal situation.
In reality, there are many variables involved.
For example, the number of mutant species can only be determined by luck;
Even if it mutates, there's no guarantee that every plant will produce the same yield as the one in front of you. Some might even be poisonous and have to be removed.
Only one thing is certain.
As long as the original species can mutate, the yield will inevitably increase!
The number of mutant rice plants is small during the first planting, but the number will inevitably increase significantly during the second harvest.
Even if only one-tenth of the 100-200 jin can be planted, it's still enough to plant about one mu (0.067 hectares). At that time, a harvest of two to three thousand jin is not a dream.
After hearing Lu Xuan's words, the Li family members couldn't contain their excitement once again.
The live stream chat exploded.
Is this even possible?
How could this be?!
Seeing the screen full of shocked exclamation marks, Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow. "Why not? Come to think of it, didn't you guys say you'd never seen any mutated plants besides the Vampire Vine? Well, here we are."
Viewers in the live stream: !!!
We want to see ancient mutant plants, but we mean mutant plants that grow naturally in the wild, not these kinds!
[Host, please confess! Did you do something to cause the original species to mutate?]
[Is this why you've been holed up in the vegetable garden lately, trying to force growth? Do you have a way of mutating primitive species?!]
[But even the wood-type ability users of the Star Alliance can't do it, so how can the streamer? Is the streamer's ability more advanced than the Star Alliance's?]
Lu Xuan said, "I don't know if it's high-level or not, but is it possible that you can't do it because the Star Alliance is full of mutated plants and there are no original species at all?"
Audience: ...Huh? That makes sense too.
Lu Xuan said, "Besides, I wasn't sure if I could succeed before."
The mutations in plants and animals in the apocalypse were caused by the zombie virus. There was no virus threat here, and he couldn't be sure how much change using superpowers to accelerate growth would bring to the seeds here.
Is it simply about optimizing genes to achieve a 30-50% increase in yield, or does it result in a successful mutation that leads to a several-fold increase in yield, or even some other special effects on the crop?
The latter is still uncertain, but the fact that it can mutate has now been confirmed.
Rice can mutate, and other crops probably can too.
Vegetables, fruits, and mushrooms can all be obtained through artificial intervention to achieve the desired results.
The viewers in the live stream were deeply shocked.
They did make some wild guesses before, but to be honest, no one really thought about mutation.
Official or private research institutes are only trying to convert mutated toxic species into non-toxic, edible varieties. The hard-won original species are also being controlled in terms of increasing production and preventing mutations.
Who would have thought that someone would turn a primitive species into a mutant species in this way! It's utterly upside down!
Lu Xuan cut the mutated rice and handed it to the village chief, instructing him to take it back to dry and preserve it for seed, in preparation for the second round of planting.
"Other seedlings in the field should also be observed at any time, including those in other people's fields. Once a mutated seedling is found, first determine whether it is poisonous. Keep the non-poisonous ones and remove the poisonous ones as soon as possible."
To make identification easier, Lu Xuan left the detector behind.
Li Tie carefully held the detection device and assured everyone, "I will definitely keep a close eye on everyone's land! Any mutated rice seedlings will be detected immediately!"
Lu Xuan nodded, "Then I'll head back now."
On the way back, someone in the live stream asked: "Why didn't you let the village chief pull up some of the seedlings and plant mutated ones? Wouldn't that have resulted in a large harvest of mutated rice this time?"
Lu Xuan said, "Farmers can't bear to pull up perfectly good seedlings. Besides, can you guarantee that the seedlings that are pulled up won't mutate in a few days? If you pull them up, you'll have nothing left."
Audience: ...That makes sense.
Lu Xuan: "This batch of grain will be ready in about half a month. The villagers can wait that long."
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With such a good show to watch, both Lu Xuan himself and the audience were much more enthusiastic when it came to getting the vegetables growing in the garden.
Lu Xuan also directly told the audience about his plans.
"The directions you guessed before were actually all correct. Besides wanting to increase the mutation probability, I induced births multiple times a day to optimize genes, conduct targeted breeding, and improve the size, yield, and taste of the individuals."
Different crops require different directions for improvement.
For example, radishes are mainly used to add a variety of textures, such as white radishes, green radishes, red radishes, and fruit radishes, and there should be both sweet and spicy options.
The cabbage and lettuce should be crisper and sweeter; the chives should grow faster; the pumpkin should be fragrant, soft, and sweet; the chili peppers and radishes should be available in both spicy and non-spicy varieties, and bell peppers are indispensable.
The texture of sweet potatoes needs to be optimized in particular.
White-fleshed sweet potatoes, which are high in starch, and red-fleshed sweet potatoes, such as Japanese sweet potatoes, which are high in sweetness, as well as purple sweet potatoes, all taste very good.
Sweet potatoes already have a high yield and don't require much effort. However, there's not much to improve in terms of the taste of potatoes. Although their yield is also high, it's still slightly inferior to sweet potatoes and could be optimized.
The size should be as large as possible while ensuring the taste, but if that's not possible, small but excellent is also acceptable.
Perhaps the energy required for mutation has a certain range, because several mutated plants appeared in the Lu family's vegetable garden that very night.
This includes a radish, a leek, a cabbage, a chili pepper, and a sweet potato.
The radish is a crisp and sweet fruit radish;
The chives have a richer flavor and mature in seven days;
The cabbage doubled in size while retaining its texture;
The chili peppers have a flavor similar to small red chilies, and the yield has also doubled.
Finally, there's the sweet potato.
Compared to the original, dry and tough seed, this mutated potato is not only much larger, but also much sweeter.
Although it is not yet up to the standard of Yanshu No. 25, it can be improved on this basis and will eventually meet the standard.
That evening, Lu Xuan grilled four skewers for his family to try, and they received unanimous praise.
Lu Qing exclaimed in astonishment, "This is the sweet potato that Grandpa Zhang said was only used to fill stomachs during famines? It's so delicious, I could eat it every day!"
Lu Chen ate like a little kitten, nodding vigorously in agreement, "Exactly! It's sweet and sticky, I can eat two, no! three in one sitting!"
Lei Yan certainly wouldn't refuse the sweet and delicious sweet potato, but the mutated leeks and mutated cabbage were also very much to his liking.
Especially the stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, which is spicy and appetizing, is made with mutated millet peppers!
The viewers in the live stream were certainly satisfied with the even better taste of the food, but...
Seeing the live stream's astonishing content about 'artificial mutation' surge in popularity, it's possible that part of the reason was due to their help in driving traffic, but the majority of the credit probably went to Lu Xuan himself.
The audience couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Honestly, is there really such a thing as a "bottleneck period" in live streaming for streamers?
His casual display of skill was far more effective than theirs. If he did it a few more times, he would probably quickly achieve the next stage of success, receive recommendations again, and rise rapidly to the top.
What does it mean to be the chosen one? This is it!
At this moment, they seemed to have already foreseen the scene of Lu Xuan ascending to the top and becoming the number one streamer in the entire dimension's live streaming area.
And they are well aware that this is not just wishful thinking, but an almost certain outcome, the only difference being the timeframe.
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Having achieved yesterday's results, Lu Xuan didn't show it on his face the next day, but in reality, his interest was much higher than the previous two days, and he consumed twice as much supernatural energy each time he induced a birth.
As expected, several more variants were discovered.
This time, the ingredients are cucumber, pumpkin, bok choy, lettuce, and the three essential ingredients for cooking: scallions, ginger, and garlic.
The focus of scallion, ginger, and garlic production is on increasing yield. The mutated scallion has grown to a diameter of 10 centimeters, the mutated ginger weighs 3 kilograms per piece, and the mutated garlic weighs 300 grams.
Lu Xuan also replanted the seeds of the plants that had mutated yesterday to continue optimizing them, hoping to achieve even better results.
Is it true that chives mature very quickly, in just seven days?
Too slow! Three days would be more like it!
Fruit radishes are delicious, but they're small. Wouldn't it be more enjoyable to eat them if they were bigger?
Even today's mutated varieties have a lot of room for improvement.
Besides the vegetable garden at home, good news also came from the fields.
First of all, it's their own land.
Lu Qing and Lei Yan discovered three mutated plants as soon as they arrived at the field early in the morning: soybeans, mung beans, and corn.
The crops in the field were all induced to grow in a uniform way to increase yield, so the taste of the three crops did not change much. Further improvements can be made in the future.
About twenty more mutant plants have appeared on the land of other villagers today.
Most of them are mutant rice, followed by wheat, while there is only one type of cabbage and radish.
Of the twenty-odd plants, apart from the Wu family who were lucky enough to have two mutated plants, the rest were basically one plant per family.
Looking at the bag of mutated radish seeds that Wu Cheng's family had taken out after the ripening process, the villagers couldn't help but grab a handful and exclaim in amazement: "These radishes are really big!"
It's almost as big as a raspberry, and the mature radish can rival the half-meter-long bamboo shoot we dug up a couple of days ago, with each one weighing over thirty pounds.
One large radish like this is enough to make a jar of pickled radish that will last for a month or two.
Not to mention that the Wu family's other mutated variety is a mutated rice, which means they have both grains and vegetables!
The villagers couldn't help but exclaim with envy, "Wu Cheng, your family is so lucky!"
Wu Cheng said calmly, "We're just lucky today. Maybe tomorrow it will be your turn to find a mutated species on your land."
The others agreed that it made sense.
Even if half of the households don't discover the mutant today, who knows if they might overtake those households who are all smiles today in a few days?
Even if the number of mutations is still less than that of other people, you can still exchange for extra seeds from others, so you won't fall too far behind.
Rather than being envious of the temporary gap, they were more excited about the future of being able to harvest a thousand or even two thousand catties of grain per mu.
Good heavens, how can we possibly finish all this food? There's no way we can eat it all!
The villagers were almost going crazy with excitement, especially the young people, many of whom wanted to run around the mountains a few times to express their excitement.
At this moment, Lu Xuan suddenly said, "I'm planning to go out alone."
All the villagers: !?
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