"You mean by using the cracked secrets, we can achieve an even higher growth rate?"
Wu Tian nodded immediately, and said with a hint of pride, "That's right, that's exactly it. As long as we crack the genetic code, these things are no problem. Now we have cracked the genetic code. Give us some more time, and we will be able to successfully develop plant seeds with a faster growth rate!"
Upon hearing Wu Tian's words, Lu Yuan's newly revived spirits were dampened once again. A while? He couldn't wait that long. What he needed now was to get the seeds out immediately and plant them. He only had half a month left, and he couldn't afford to delay any longer.
"So how long do you expect it will take to complete this research?" Lu Yuan didn't waste any words and directly announced this question.
Wu Tian scratched his head, held up three fingers, then shook his head and held up five fingers.
"It will take at least another five months!"
Wu Tian's words immediately elicited a helpless sigh from everyone in the tent. Five months? They didn't have that much time. Let alone five months, they couldn't even wait fifty days. They only had about half a month left.
Standing to the side, Chen Bin shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Our food reserves are running low, and do you know what? The entire experimental field we planted has now fallen into the rift valley!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Tian was immediately shocked. He quickly glanced at Lu Yuan, who could only nod.
"Yes, all our desserts have fallen into the Rift Valley, which means we can only live off our reserves now! And our food supplies are running low; we only have enough for everyone to eat for half a month! I will announce this to everyone tomorrow, so you can't wait five months!"
Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, Wu Tian slumped into a chair, staring blankly at his hands.
"How could this be? Five months isn't enough? Can you give me a little more time? One month, just hold on for one month and I guarantee I'll solve the food problem!"
When Wu Tian finished speaking, he stared at Lu Yuan with a hopeful look in his eyes.
Those sitting next to Lu Yuan were taken aback when they heard Wu Tian say that.
"One month? You guarantee you can resolve the food issue in one month?" Lu Yuan stared intently at Wu Tian.
Wu Tian gritted his teeth and nodded, saying, "Yes, I guarantee I'll resolve the grain issue within a month!"
After a moment of contemplation, Lu Yuan said, "Alright, I'll give you a month. If you can't solve the food problem by then, I'll ask around for you!"
Wu Tian immediately stood up from his chair and said with a serious expression, "I guarantee to complete the mission. If the food problem is not solved within a month, then you can push me into the rift valley!"
Lu Yuan shook his head, both amused and exasperated, and said, "What's the point of pushing you into the rift valley then? I might as well cut you up and stew you into a pot of porridge for everyone to eat!"
Hearing Lu Yuan's words, everyone felt a chill, even though Lu Yuan himself didn't find his words funny.
After dinner, while everyone was asleep, Lu Yuan secretly sneaked into his dimensional space. What he needed to do now was to see how much food he could still take out from his dimensional space, since there were thousands of mouths waiting for him.
During this period, Lu Yuan found many dimensional crystal plots in the vicinity, which have expanded to 500 square meters. However, the plots are still level three and have not been upgraded. Although the growth rate has increased, Lu Yuan knows that it is still not enough.
So Lu Yuan harvested all the wheat in the dimensional space, then pulled up piles of potatoes and sweet potatoes, roots and stems, from the ground, grabbed a kitchen knife, and cut all the roots and stems into cubes and stuffed them back into the ground.
Lu Yuan spent several hours working on the 500-square-meter area, and now he has planted potatoes and sweet potatoes all of them. These two crops grow extremely fast and do not require much attention.
More importantly, the biggest advantage of these two crops is that after they grow to a certain size, they will split off other rhizomes to continue growing. In this way, as long as these potatoes and sweet potatoes are buried in the ground, they can grow continuously.
The next morning, Lu Yuan emerged exhausted from the dimensional space. He had been busy all night and was covered in dirt. When he appeared in the tent, Xiao Shan was quite surprised to see him covered in dirt.
"Where...where have you been? You're covered in sweat and so dirty!"
Lu Yuan waved his hand and said, "Go get some potatoes and sweet potatoes. These crops may become our main food in the future. I planted quite a lot in that open space behind the mountain. I hope they will grow enough potatoes and sweet potatoes!"
Xiao Shan looked at Lu Yuan in surprise: "Why didn't you tell me about this?!"
Lu Yuan said with a slight smile, "It's alright, we didn't plant many. We might go and replant them in a few days to see how they're growing!"
Xiao Shan helped Lu Yuan change out of his heavily soiled clothes and found him a new set to wear. Looking at Lu Yuan's exhausted face, Xiao Shan felt a pang of heartache.
"I'll go with you in a bit, but I'm sure everyone won't make things too difficult for you!"
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