Chapter 086 The Chosen One
Just as they were about to faint from excitement, Lu Xuan poured cold water on them. "Only one mutant plant has appeared in the entire acre. It's unlikely that all the plants will be covered with mutants."
According to the experience of the end of the world, not all seeds of mutant species can be preserved, and perhaps only one-tenth or even less can germinate.
When the Li family heard this data, they immediately calmed down.
"However," Lu Xuan said, "if a few more plants can mutate in one acre of land, even if there are only ten, the harvested seeds should be enough to plant one mu of land."
After the mutant rice planted on this one acre of land matures, at least 150 to 200 kilograms of brown rice can be harvested. The remaining nine acreage of land can yield more than 200 kilograms normally, which adds up to 400 kilograms.
This is just a conservative estimate.
In fact, even the original rice seeds will have a significant increase in yield after being promoted by Lu Xuan.
According to his estimate, the actual harvest should reach about 600 kilograms.
Of course, this is the ideal situation.
In fact, there are many variables involved.
For example, the number of mutants can only be determined by luck;
Even if it mutates, there is no guarantee that the yield of every plant will be the same as the one in front of you. Some may be really poisonous and have to be eradicated.
Only one thing is certain.
As long as the original species can mutate, the yield will definitely increase!
The amount of mutant rice will be small during the first planting, but will inevitably increase greatly during the second harvest.
Even if only one tenth of the one or two hundred kilograms can be planted, it is almost enough to plant one acre. At that time, a harvest of two or three thousand kilograms is not a dream.
After hearing what Lu Xuan said, the Li family became uncontrollably excited again.
The live broadcast room was in complete chaos.
Is this possible?
How can this be!?
Looking at the screen filled with shocked exclamations, Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow. "Why not? Speaking of which, didn't you all say before that you'd never seen any mutant plants other than vampire vines? Well, now you've seen one."
Live broadcast room audience:!!!
We want to see ancient mutant plants, but we mean mutant plants that grow naturally in the wild, not this kind!
[Host, tell the truth! Did you do something to cause the original species to mutate?]
"Is this why you've been staying in the garden lately, trying to stimulate reproduction? Do you have a way to mutate the original species?!"
[But even the Star Alliance's Wood-type psychics can't do it, so how can the host do it? Is the host's psychic power more advanced than the Star Alliance's?]
Lu Xuan said, "I don't know if it's advanced or not, but is it possible that you can't do it because the Star Alliance is already full of mutant plants and there are no original species at all?"
Audience: ...Huh? That seems to be true.
Lu Xuan said: "Besides, I wasn't sure whether I could succeed before."
The mutation of plants and animals in the apocalypse was caused by the zombie virus. There was no virus threat here, and he couldn't be sure how much change the seeds here could be brought about by simply using supernatural powers to stimulate growth.
Is it simply to optimize genes to achieve a 30% to 50% increase in yield, or to successfully mutate so that the yield increases several times, or even produce some other special effects on the crops?
The latter cannot be confirmed for the time being, but the fact that it can mutate has now been confirmed.
Rice can mutate, and other crops can probably do so as well.
Vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, he can get what he wants through human intervention.
The audience in the live broadcast room was shocked.
They had indeed made some random guesses before, but to be honest, no one really thought of mutation.
Official or private research institutes only try to transform mutated poisonous species into non-toxic edible varieties, and the hard-earned original species are also controlled to increase production and prevent mutations.
Who could have imagined that someone could transform a primitive species into a mutant in this way? It's completely against the will of Heaven!
Lu Xuan cut the mutant rice and handed it to the village chief, asking him to take it back and dry it properly for seeds, waiting for the second round of planting.
"We should also monitor other seedlings in the field at all times, including those in other people's fields. If we find any mutant seedlings, we should first determine whether they are poisonous. If they are not poisonous, we should keep them, but if they are poisonous, we should remove them as soon as possible."
In order to facilitate identification, Lu Xuan kept the detector.
Li Tie held the detector carefully and assured, "I will definitely keep an eye on everyone's fields! If there are any mutated rice seedlings, I will find them immediately!"
Lu Xuan nodded, "Then I'll go back first."
On the way back, someone in the livestream asked: "Why don't you let the village chief pull out some of the seedlings in the field and plant the mutant ones? That way, we can harvest a lot of mutant rice this time?"
Lu Xuan said, "Farmers wouldn't be willing to pull out healthy seedlings. Besides, can you guarantee that the pulled out seedlings won't mutate in a few days? If you pull them out, there's nothing left."
Audience: ...That makes sense.
Lu Xuan: "This batch of grain will be mature in about half a month. The villagers can still afford to wait for this time."
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With a good thing to watch, both Lu Xuan himself and the audience became much more positive when it came to promoting the growth of vegetables in the garden.
Lu Xuan also told the audience directly about his plans.
"The several directions you speculated previously were actually all correct. Besides increasing the chances of mutation, I induce fertilization multiple times daily to optimize genes, conduct targeted breeding, and improve individual size, yield, and taste."
Different crops seek different improvement directions.
For example, radish is mainly used to add a variety of tastes, such as white radish, green radish, and heart-shaped radish. As mentioned above, radish has both sweet and spicy tastes.
Cabbage and lettuce should be crisper and sweeter; leeks should grow faster; pumpkins should be fragrant, soft and sweet; peppers, like radishes, should also be spicy and non-spicy, and sweet peppers are indispensable.
The taste of sweet potatoes should be optimized in particular.
White-hearted sweet potatoes with high starch content, red-hearted sweet potatoes with high sweetness, such as smoked sweet potatoes, and purple sweet potatoes also taste very good.
The yield of sweet potatoes themselves is already good enough and does not require too much effort. However, there is nothing much to improve on the taste of potatoes. Although the yield is also high, it is still slightly inferior to sweet potatoes and can be optimized.
As for the size, it can be as big as possible while ensuring the taste. If that is not possible, a small but good size is also fine.
Perhaps the energy required for mutation has a certain range. That night, several mutant species appeared in the Lu family's vegetable garden.
These include a radish, a leek, a cabbage, a pepper and a sweet potato.
Radishes are crispy and sweet fruit radishes;
Leeks have a richer flavor and mature in seven days;
The cabbage doubled in size while retaining its taste;
The taste of the peppers is more like chili peppers, and the yield has also doubled.
Finally, there are sweet potatoes.
Compared to the original dry species, this mutant potato is not only much larger in size, but also much sweeter.
Although it has not yet reached the level of Yanshu No. 25, if we continue to improve on this basis, we will reach the standard sooner or later.
In the evening, Lu Xuan roasted four for his family to try, and they received unanimous praise.
Lu Qing was amazed and said, "Is this the sweet potato that Old Master Zhang said was only eaten during famine? It's so delicious, I could eat it every day!"
Lu Chen ate like a little cat, nodding vigorously in agreement, "That's right! Sweet and sticky, I can eat two in one meal, no! Three!"
Lei Yan certainly wouldn't refuse the sweet and delicious sweet potatoes, but the mutant leeks and mutant cabbages also suit his taste.
Especially the pickled cabbage with modified chili pepper, which is spicy and appetizing!
The audience in the live broadcast room were of course very satisfied with the food that had been improved in taste, but...
Looking at the live broadcast room, I thought that the amazing content of "artificial mutation" had gained a new surge in popularity. Perhaps part of it was due to their help in attracting traffic, but most of it was probably Lu Xuan's own credit.
The audience couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
To be honest, is there really a so-called live streaming bottleneck period for anchors?
The effect of his own performance is much better than theirs. If he does it a few more times, he will probably be able to achieve the next level of achievement soon, get recommended again, and rise rapidly.
What is the Chosen One? This is it!
At this moment, they seemed to have foreseen the scene where Lu Xuan would rise to become the top anchor in the entire live broadcast area.
And they are very clear that this is not just their wishful thinking, but an inevitable result that is almost set in stone. The only difference is the length of time.
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With yesterday's results, Lu Xuan didn't show it on his face the next day, but in fact his interest was obviously much higher than the previous two days, and the amount of energy he consumed each time he induced labor was also doubled.
As expected, several mutant species were harvested.
This time they are cucumber, pumpkin, bok choy, lettuce and the three essential ingredients for cooking: onion, ginger and garlic.
The main focus of the production of onions, ginger and garlic is to increase production. The mutant onions have grown to a diameter of ten centimeters, the mutant ginger weighs three pounds, and the mutant garlic weighs three hundred grams.
Lu Xuan also replanted the seeds of several strains that had mutated yesterday to continue optimizing them, hoping to achieve even better results.
Do leeks mature quickly in seven days?
Too slow! Three days is about right!
Fruit radishes are delicious but they are small. Wouldn’t it be more enjoyable to eat if they were bigger?
There is still a lot of room for improvement, including today's mutated varieties.
In addition to the vegetable garden at home, good news also came from the fields.
First of all, it is their own land.
Lu Qing and Lei Yan discovered three mutant plants as soon as they arrived at the field early in the morning: soybeans, mung beans and corn.
Lu Xuan promoted the crops in the field to increase their yields, so the taste of the three crops did not change much, and he could continue to improve them in the future.
There are also about twenty more mutant plants on the land of other people in the village today.
Most of them are mutant rice, followed by wheat, and there is only one type of cabbage and radish.
Among the more than 20 plants, except for the Wu family who were lucky enough to have two mutated plants, the others were basically one plant per family.
The villagers looked at the bag of mutant radish seeds that Wu Cheng's family had taken out after ripening, and couldn't help but grab a handful and exclaimed: "These seeds are really big!"
It looks like it's almost as big as a raspberry. The mature radish can even compete with the half-meter-long bamboo shoots dug out two days ago. A single one weighs more than 30 kilograms.
Just one big radish like this is enough to make a jar of pickled radish that can be eaten for a month or so.
Not to mention that the Wu family has another mutant species, which is mutant rice. They have both food and vegetables!
The villagers couldn't help but envy him and said, "Wucheng, your family is so lucky!"
Wu Cheng said calmly, "It's just that I was lucky today. Maybe tomorrow it will be your turn to find mutants in your fields."
When others heard it, they also thought it made sense.
Even if half of the families today have not discovered the mutants, who knows if they will catch up with those families who are grinning from ear to ear today in a few days?
Even if the number of mutations in the end is still not as high as that of other families, we can exchange extra seeds from others, so we will not lose too much.
Rather than being jealous of the temporary gap, they are more excited about the future of being able to harvest 1,000 or even 2,000 kilograms of grain per mu.
Oh my God, how can we finish eating so much food? We can’t finish it at all!
The villagers were almost going crazy with excitement, and the young people were the most excited. Many of them wanted to run around the mountain a few times to express their excitement.
At this moment, Lu Xuan suddenly said: "I'm going out alone."
All villagers: "!!"
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