"...Then what is considered dirty?" Xia Chujian was curious.
She had originally speculated on the degree of Blood Qilin's mysophobia from a human perspective, but now she found that it might not be the case.
San Zong smiled innocently, digging at the humus on the ground with his hands, and said, "Apart from the humus it grows in, the clean air and rainwater, anything else would probably be considered pollution, like blood, urine, ashes... hmm..."
Xia Chujian understood immediately.
She twitched her lips.
San Zong skillfully dug a hole beneath the blood qilin and dug out all the roots. He held the root in his hands and brought it to Xia Chumian, saying, "My lady! Look! This is the freshest blood qilin San Zong has ever seen!"
This blood unicorn really looks like a small green animal, and even the two horns on its head look lifelike.
Unfortunately, it is not an animal, but a plant.
Xia Chujian's gaze was not on the blood unicorn.
Her eyes were wandering, and she kept patrolling around the blood qilin, trying to find the blood qilin's companion plant - "Kongsang".
According to the records of Academician Tan Tai Sinian, Kongsang is a herbaceous plant that looks so fragile that it seems to be blown away by a gust of wind. The plant is slender and its leaves are like orchids, but half as short as those of orchids.
The petals are moon white with a hint of light pink, and the leaves are a hazy mist green.
This plant is said to grow around the green blood unicorn.
But when she looked at it, there was nothing next to the small pit where the bloody unicorn was dug out.
Not to mention the misty green orchid-like plants, there wasn't even a single withered blade of grass.
Apart from black humus, there is still black humus.
San Zong held the blood qilin for a long time, but Xia Chujian didn't reach out to take it. He looked at her suspiciously and asked in a low voice, "Doesn't the lady like this blood qilin?"
Xia Chujian's mind raced, but his expression remained calm. He said calmly, "It's just a mission. It's not a matter of whether I like it or not. But, one blood qilin is not enough..."
San Zong exclaimed, "Oh!" and quickly said, "San Zong heard from the plantation director that the Exotic Beast Forest can produce ten Blood Qilins a year. This is one, there should be nine more!"
He looked at Xia Chujian eagerly, waiting for her to speak, and he would help her find it!
Xia Chujian thought that according to the article by Academician Tan Tai Sinian, the Kongsang tree was found in a nest of blood unicorns a million years ago.
Is the quantifier "一巢" also the key point?
At this moment, she only saw one blood unicorn here, which obviously did not conform to the concept of "one nest".
Xia Chujian rolled his eyes, but still asked calmly, "Sanzong, do all blood unicorns grow one by one like this? Are there any that grow in a clutch?"
San Zong's eyes widened immediately. After thinking for a moment, he said, "San Zong hasn't heard of it, but it should be possible... However, it requires the humus soil to be extremely fertile, even more fertile than ordinary humus soil!"
"How do you say that?"
"...Look over here, young lady! There's a blood qilin plant here, and there aren't any other plants around. Because blood qilins are particularly fertile, there's about an acre of humus soil here, but it's only enough to support the growth of one blood qilin plant."
"If several blood qilins are to grow together, forming a nest, the humus soil they need to grow in must not only be very large, but also extremely fertile. It's not just ordinary fertile soil, it must be soil that hasn't grown anything else for many, many years to accumulate sufficient fertility."
Xia Chujian frowned: "...many, many years, how many years?"
San Zong scratched his pig face in embarrassment. "Well, San Zong heard from the director that it would take at least hundreds of thousands of years..."
So it’s probably at least hundreds of thousands of years since anything else has grown in this humus soil!
The area of humus soil must be particularly large.
San Zong, who knows how to farm, has no idea how big it is, and Xia Chujian has even less idea.
Xia Chujian frowned barely perceptibly.
How can I find this?
Even if we spend several months here from now until March next year, it's impossible to explore every inch of land here...
If Kongsang cannot be found before March next year, my aunt will have to wait another year.
But according to Doctor Shen Junyi, it's unlikely that my aunt can wait until next year...
When Xia Chujian thought about her aunt who raised her and depended on her since she was a child, leaving her like this, she felt as sad as if the sky had fallen!
No, we must not wait until next year!
Xia Chujian became furious. He looked at Sanzong with a malicious look and asked in a low voice, "Is there any way to find the location of the other blood qilin as soon as possible?"
Sanmang scratched his head and said, "Sanmang can smell it, but this place is too big, it will probably take a long time..."
"How long until you can smell everywhere?"
"...Everywhere?!" Three-Mane's piggy face almost fell. "Three-Mane will never be able to smell all the smells! This place is too big!"
Xia Chujian was in a state of confusion. She paced back and forth in the grove, muttering, "Is there really no way out? Is there really no way out?"
Her voice was not loud, but her tone was filled with despair and sadness.
Not only did the pig-headed humanoid Sanzhu feel sympathy involuntarily, but even the little dog felt it.
It looked up at Xia Chujian, its small black bean-like eyes seemed to be filled with tears that were about to fall.
It didn't take long, ten minutes were up.
Ye Shijie's voice came from Xia Chujian's bone sensor headset: "Xia Chujian, do you want to come back on your own, or should I ask Li Fu and Song Ming to come and capture you?"
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