Chapter 421 New Potato Seeds
"You two planted it? That's impossible. How long have you been here? How could it be so fast?"
Professor Li grabbed another handful and looked at it to make sure it was really new corn.
"We bought it from someone else. They said it was the offspring of some mutant corn and that it could survive in harsh environments."
"We bought it and tried it at home. It actually grew. Here is the photo. Professor Li, please take a look."
Han Ying took out a new mobile phone from her backpack and opened the photo album inside to show Professor Li.
The photo shows a large planting pot with three corn seedlings that have grown to about six or seven centimeters long.
"Good, good, you look really good..."
When Professor Li looked at the seedlings in the photo, his eyes became moist.
This doomsday has overturned all the crop planting techniques he has studied throughout his life.
He and the research institute studied various plants day and night, trying to develop crops that could adapt to extreme weather.
After so much research, we finally developed a new type of potato that can grow in extreme weather by using a mutant potato.
There is another type of tomato that can also grow well in extreme weather, but this tomato was not developed at the Pengcheng base, but by people in Feng Province.
The Pengcheng base exchanged potato seeds for tomato seeds.
And now there is more corn.
The more crops that can be grown, the better the world will become.
"So what's the total here?"
Base commander Ke Qin also saw the photo nearby, which was definitely a good thing.
Although new types of potatoes and tomatoes have been developed, the seeds are limited after all.
The harvest in a short period of time is difficult to satisfy more people.
If these five bags in front of me are all corn, then the future harvest will definitely not be small.
"There are 500 kilograms of corn here. Let's plant them on the farm first. If they are successful, we will try to buy more corn seeds."
Lu Yuan didn't directly tell him and Han Ying about their plans, but if there are a lot of corn seeds at that time, the base will definitely arrange them themselves.
"If these can really be successfully planted, then the more seeds the better. They shouldn't be hard to get, right? What did you exchange them for? We can't let you spend money. Just write a list and we'll make up for it."
As Ke Qin said this, he went to the table to get paper and pen, then handed them to Han Ying and asked her to write.
In his opinion, such precious corn seeds must be expensive.
So he was ready for bloodletting.
"We plan to exchange these corn seeds for other seeds from the base."
Han Ying and Lu Yuan were too embarrassed to say in front of these people that they had exchanged their small umbrellas for the corn seeds.
"Speaking of this, I almost forgot that I brought you a lot of good things this time."
As he spoke, Professor Li pushed out a box from the corner as if he was presenting a treasure.
After opening the box, Han Ying saw several bags inside.
"These two bags are new potatoes and tomatoes. They are for you to try."
"These two packets contain potato seeds and tomato seeds. You can try planting them. I also attached a planting instruction sheet. We can discuss any results after planting them."
Professor Li opened the bags one by one and introduced the contents to the two people.
“Is this potato seed?”
After his rebirth, Lu Yuan became more knowledgeable about planting, and he also planted a lot of potatoes in the space.
So he naturally knew that potatoes are not propagated by seeds, but by tubers.
Now if I suddenly see a bag of potato seeds, I would find it a little strange.
"This is a new type of potato, temporarily named M-potato. M is the name of the owner of the mutant potato."
"M potatoes are a little different from ordinary potatoes. They cannot reproduce through tuber sprouts. Instead, they have to wait until the plant ages and produces fruits to reproduce."
"This type of potato grows very quickly and can be harvested in three months. It has a very high starch content. The longer it grows, the higher the starch content, and the more it can resist hunger."
"But if the growth time is less than three months, the starch content and taste will be no different from ordinary potatoes. You will know if you try them when you go back."
After Professor Li introduced the M potatoes to the two of them, he placed the two packets of seeds directly in Lu Yuan's hands.
"Try planting first, and tell me if you have any needs. I will try to make it convenient for you."
Ke Xin knew that the planting techniques of these two people were not inferior to those of Professor Li.
Moreover, when they were at the Pengcheng base, they both grew things very well that Professor Li could not grow.
It is precisely because of this that Professor Li said that he must give Lu Yuan some seeds.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, and the same goes for these seeds, they can't be planted in just one place.
"Yes, we will."
Lu Yuan promised solemnly.
After talking about seeds, Keqin also talked about some things at the Pengcheng base.
Han Ying and Lu Yuan asked about the meteorite shower in Pengcheng.
Ke Qin said that the situation at Pengcheng base was better than that at Jiangcheng. After all, the news of the meteorite attack in Jiangcheng came from Pengcheng.
So there is more time for the transfer at Pengcheng base.
Similarly, they also moved to the air-raid shelter in Pengcheng.
However, a huge meteorite with a diameter of several meters fell from Pengcheng, causing the air-raid shelter to collapse and killing several people.
When she heard that there was a large meteorite with a diameter of several meters over there, Han Ying's eyes suddenly lit up.
So he pretended to casually ask Kozin where the meteorite fell.
Ke Qin did not hide anything and told Han Ying the place directly.
After getting the news about the big meteorite without making any noise, the two asked about some matters concerning relocation.
Kozin said that most of the healthy people there have already moved here, and the deputy base commander will also be here in a few days.
After chatting for a while, Han Ying and the others said goodbye and left.
After Han Ying and the others left, Professor Li also left. He was anxious to go back and study the mutant corn seeds.
Only Liu Hefeng and Ke Qin were left to continue discussing the matter.
The two were talking about the refugees who were transferred to Jiangcheng on foot.
When those people were about to arrive in Jiangcheng, they were hit by a meteorite shower.
The dense meteorite rain caught them off guard.
Originally, those people had come here on foot in the thousands, and when the dense meteorite rain fell, it was like hell on earth.
Later, Liu Hefeng sent people to take a look, and saw piles of bodies that were burnt, trampled to death, or smashed to death.
The survivors took refuge in a cave in a mountain.
Liu Hefeng was worried that the piles of corpses would rot and plague would break out again, so he simply had people pile them together and burn them all.
It took more than twenty soldiers a whole day and night to burn all the bodies.
Ke Qin only learned about this after arriving in Jiangcheng, but he was also helpless.
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