Chapter 268 Work Planning and the Logic of the Population Number Life Tree...
The flower fairies' diligence is undeniable. However, the number of insects in the Round Fruit Forest has reached a level that can be described as a disaster. Their numbers are enormous, numbering in the hundreds of millions. Even if the flower fairies did nothing else and diligently smashed the insects every day, it would still take them about a month to clean up all the dead insects in the entire Round Fruit Forest.
After making her way around, Shu Xin returned to her Yuanguo House, sat down in her small study, took out reed paper and a quill pen from her spatial stone, and began to write and draw on the table.
First, we need to clean up the insect corpses in the city. Using fruit insects as fertilizer is a good idea. We can take some time to study the fertility of this fertilizer. If the fertility is high and the nutrients are abundant, we can consider whether this fertilizer production method can be replicated in the Land of Sin and other territories.
Secondly, we need to arrange replanting. There are only three months left until the harvest month, and it is a bit late to plant golden wheat now. We are considering planting clover and green cassava. The former can provide fresh leafy greens and can also be used as green manure after the harvest month. The latter is a perennial crop, and the magical tide of the harvest month can accelerate its ripening to a certain extent. Even if the yield is low, it can make up for the food shortage to a certain extent and can become a long-term and stable food source afterward.
The city layout will also need to be adjusted. There should be more open space around the Tree of Life, like in the Land of Sin, to build a plaza with some entertainment and recreational facilities. Also, commercial and livestock areas need to be designated. There are wild boars in the nearby forest, so we should consider raising and domesticating them as a source of meat. Perhaps we could also consider pheasants and rabbits...
While writing her work plan, Shu Xin asked the Tree of Life for various data, paying particular attention to the population of the flower fairies.
Bobomo City is a well-known city in the Kingdom of Ganar, but the number of flower fairies in the city is not as many as Shu Xin imagined. The total number of flower fairies in the Land of Sin is already more than 30,000, almost 40,000, while the number of flower fairies in Bobomo City is just over 100,000.
The Garnar Plain is home to over 100 million flower fairies, including commoners, warriors, and nobles, but not slaves—the Tree of Life still cannot detect the existence of flower fairy slaves.
Apart from King Garnar, each royal family has its own territory. That is to say, the Kingdom of Garnar has a total of ten territories, or eleven if you include the Land of Sin. Before Shu Xin came to the Land of Sin, there were very few flower fairies living there, so they can be disregarded. If we average it out, then each royal family's territory has ten million flower fairies living in it.
However, the reality is definitely different from the theoretical data. The population of each territory is obviously not distributed so evenly. In fact, the more souther the territory, the more flower fairies live there, and the more norther the territory, the fewer there are. Apart from the Land of Sin, the Popomore Territory is the northernmost territory in the Kingdom of Garnar.
Therefore, although Bobomo Territory has the largest land area, it has the smallest population of flower fairies, totaling only over three million, which can be described as quite sparsely populated.
If a settlement has a population exceeding 10,000, the flower fairies will consider it a city. If the population exceeds 50,000, whether it's just over 50,000, 5 million, or even tens of millions, it will be considered a large city.
Shu Xin once thought that the Land of Sin would be the largest city in the Kingdom of Ganar, but it turned out that the largest city was actually the Royal City, with a population of more than 20 million Flower Fairies, which could be described as a super-large city.
Within the territory of Popomo, there is only Popomo City as a major city, and only three other settlements that can be considered cities. Of these, Lotte City has already disappeared. The other two cities have populations of over 20,000 and over 10,000 respectively. This means that the more than three million flower fairies within the territory of Popomo are scattered throughout countless villages and towns.
However, whether it is a small village with a population of one or two hundred or a large city with a population of tens of millions, a Tree of Life grows there. As long as Shu Xin thinks that each Tree of Life will condense a Key of Life, and that this Key of Life is essentially a fragment of a divine essence, she feels that she was worrying unnecessarily before—she could never collect all the divine essence fragments that were broken to this extent!
She was even worried that she would die if she collected too many Life Keys, which was like licking a drop of water from the rim of a glass and then worrying about drinking too much water and getting water intoxication...
Thinking of water, Shu Xin suddenly realized that there was no Sun Spring under the Tree of Life in Bobomo City!
Shu Xin immediately inquired with the Tree of Life and was somewhat taken aback to be told that the Sun Spring only existed where the Flower Fairy appeared.
Shu Xin asked carefully before she was able to understand the logic of the Tree of Life.
The Sun Spring exists to welcome the young elves that fall from the branches of the Tree of Life. The true river elves are neither gendered nor fertile. The Tree of Life, responsible for reproduction, will maintain the Sun Spring for a long time. Whenever a river elf wants to have offspring, it can begin to conceive.
After suffering a severe blow, the Tree of Life found it difficult to nurture new life. However, for the Tree of Life, which is formed from fragments of divinity and can exist almost eternally, this "inability to nurture" is temporary. Therefore, in order to welcome the emergence of new life, the Sun Spring must be prepared.
Although flower fairies and flower elves possess reproductive abilities and are divided into two genders, and are not born from the Tree of Life, in the Tree of Life's view, flower fairies and flower elves, who share the same origin as the true riverside spirits, are naturally also riverside spirits and His children;
The flower fairies' magic is insufficient to nurture little elves on the branches, but the flower goddesses' magic is sufficient to nurture little elves. Even if none of the flower fairies have the desire or emotion to reproduce, and the Tree of Life is temporarily unable to nurture new life, it will still prepare the Sun Spring for the flower fairies in advance, just as it once prepared the Sun Spring for the riverside elves.
So before Shushuxin was expelled from the royal city, the Sun Spring only existed under the Tree of Life in the royal city on the entire Garnar Plain; it didn't exist anywhere else.
When Shu Xin arrived at the Land of Sin, the Sun Spring also appeared there.
Shu Xin had always thought that the drinking water source in the Land of Sin was the Sun Spring. In fact, before Shu Xin came, the flower fairies in the Land of Sin relied on the cook Mei Meilin, who had water magic, to make water balls by hand.
Even if Shu Xin doesn't remember about the Sun Spring now, a magical spring will appear under the Tree of Life in a few days.
The reason why the Sun Spring didn't appear on the day Shu Xin arrived in Bobomo City was because Shu Xin's extensive use of stacking magic and her major renovations of the Life Tree Flower Castle consumed too much free magic.
After all, there aren't many flower fairies in the Land of Sin, so the Tree of Life can only collect a large amount of free magic and store it in the Sun Spring. However, there are more than 100,000 flower fairies living in Popomore City. In order not to affect the survival of the flower fairies, the Tree of Life can only wait until the free magic has recovered a bit before collecting it.
Shu Xin held the quill pen in silence. According to the Tree of Life, once He has recovered, will He be able to hang a child on the tree whenever she wants one?
The Tree of Life affirmed Shuxin's idea.
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