Chapter 156: Stimulated by the aroma of meat, he advanced to a higher level?
When the old butler was building the basement, he used magic to move half of the soil piled up and put it in the basement, and then used a spatial button to take the other half away.
For someone who loves planting, the soil will always be useful. Extending this to others, he felt that the soil on the left side would also be useful.
Thinking of the 15 seeds he gave her, Zuo Shan shoveled soil from the basement and put it into the tiered planting boxes. Unlike the old housekeeper, she wasn't careful and only buried one seed in each planting box.
She simply scattered all 15 seeds into the top left planting box, watered them, and waited for them to sprout.
As for the possibility that none of them will sprout, Zuo Shan never considered that possibility. From a probabilistic point of view, unless all 15 seeds are completely dead, it is impossible for none of them to sprout.
The second planting box contains several plants whose branches and leaves were damaged before: one firethorn, two lemon trees, two pagoda plants, plus a sesame ball given by Uncle Wu Qiong.
These plants have really had a lot of bad luck. They just encountered mutated gold-eating ants in District 50, and after finally recovering, they have now encountered a once-in-a-century earthquake.
Fortunately, the houses in the wasteland were sturdy enough, and the houses in District 48 were all single-story, which allowed most people to escape from their rooms and survive.
After planting the 15 seeds of an unknown plant given to her by the old housekeeper, Zuo Shan suddenly remembered some seeds she had collected during her recent outings.
Among them are mutated beets, buckwheat, shepherd's purse, leeks, alfalfa, chicory, soybeans, peanuts, pine nuts, yew, devil's thorn vine, and poppies.
There is also a thick cassava branch.
Upon careful inventory, I discovered that I had actually stored up so many seeds, although only a few were precious and only a few were suitable for planting.
Furthermore, the transitional month is less than half a month away, and the extreme cold weather is only about forty days away. Only a few wild vegetables with relatively short growth cycles are suitable for planting. The rest will freeze to death before they can grow.
In the end, she also chose the seeds of three wild vegetables with the shortest growth cycle: shepherd's purse, chives, and alfalfa. Although she didn't know exactly how long the growth cycle of these mutated plants was, she thought they should grow up more easily.
She casually scattered the selected seeds into the top right planting box, making them neighbors with the old housekeeper's seeds.
Zuo Shan had an idea: let them compete to see which planting box has the most germinated seeds.
Finally, she buried the precious mutated poppy seed in the second planting box on the right. She had a premonition that the mutated poppy seed that Xiaobai brought back to the family might not survive.
After thinking for a moment, she took out the mutated buckwheat seed and buried it next to the poppy seed. She vaguely remembered that winter wheat was planted in the autumn in the northern region, and buckwheat was a relatively cold-resistant plant. It should be able to survive in the cold weather if she moved it into the basement.
This was, after all, the only seed she had found that was close to staple foods like wheat and rice. She hoped it could be successfully cultivated so that she would have staple foods to eat in the future.
It is said that a mutated seven-colored corn is also grown in District 46, but according to Uncle Wu, after the harvest, it is directly packaged and transported to the Inner Ten Districts for the exclusive use of the powerful families. People outside the Inner Ten Districts are not qualified to eat it at all.
Not to mention the scavengers from District 48!
So if she wants to eat staple food, she has no choice but to grow it herself.
The Algae Star People don't seem to be very good at growing new varieties. For example, the agricultural expert Chu Heng didn't manage to grow any of the pagoda vegetables he brought back the first time. The second one he took from her didn't seem to have any further growth either, and it's highly likely that it died again.
However, he didn't ask her for the two remaining fruits again, probably because he was afraid she would kill them again.
Plants will not grow well in ordinary soil; you must add some fertilizer to make the soil fertile.
She couldn't stand composting either. First, she couldn't get a lot of poop, and second, even if she did, she had nowhere to put it.
Finally, she decided to keep it simple and use the ashes left over from the firewood she burned when cooking rice before.
She was very farsighted about this, having stockpiled a large amount of branches from highly radioactive mutant plants as a reserve.
This is a habit ingrained in every wastelander: during extremely hot weather, they stockpile enough firewood to burn during extremely cold weather, otherwise they will have to endure the cold.
The difference is that while wastelanders would find a place to dump the ashes from the firewood they burned while cooking, she would bury them in the ground.
When she moved, she couldn't possibly bring all the soil mixed with wood ash with her. She felt it was a pity, so after moving, she wove large baskets and put all the burnt wood ash into them to store. Before she knew it, she had accumulated several large baskets.
Now that she was going to do some planting, she naturally took out some wood ash and mixed it into the soil in the planting box, and also sprinkled some of Ah Chen's baby urine.
Zuo Shan looked at the homemade nutrient soil and nodded in satisfaction: "Hmm, not bad, not bad, it's nutritious enough!"
After processing the seeds, Zuo Shan naturally got busy cooking again.
She's been too busy lately. Although she steamed egg custard and made double-skin milk pudding, these aren't proper meals. Today, she decided to treat herself to a meal of braised pork with vermicelli.
It would be best to give Lele a little stimulation to speed up the recovery of her superpowers. Seeing her suffering in bed every day is truly heartbreaking for her.
While Zuo Shan went to cook, Xiao Bao wandered over to the planting box and smelled the scent of Ah Chen's baby urine in the soil. It immediately felt resentful.
Who wasn't a baby at first? Who didn't pee as a child?
So, while Zuo Shan was busy cooking and Mao Li was busy taking care of A Chen, Xiao Bao quietly jumped onto the planting boxes and sprinkled a little bit of his urine into each one.
Afraid of being discovered by Zuo Shan, it hurriedly jumped down after doing its mischief and returned to the crib to continue playing with baby Achen.
The braised pork with vermicelli was ready. The left fan was split in two. Half of it was put into the space button, and it was prepared to be sent to Madam Gu and the old housekeeper tomorrow morning. The other half was for her and Xiao Bao's dinner.
For Pandora, neither steamed egg custard nor double-skin milk can compare to the aroma of braised vermicelli with minced meat sauce.
She lay in bed, deeply inhaling the aroma of the meat, her mouth watering.
Just as Zuo Shan had predicted, the fragrance deeply stimulated her, making her more anxious than ever before, eager to regain her powers as soon as possible.
But she knew that rushing wouldn't do any good.
These past few days, every time she hears baby Achen cry, she feels an urge to immediately get up and rush to the crib to pick him up.
Her aunt is so useless; she can't even hold the baby, let alone change his diaper or feed him.
With a jumble of thoughts swirling in her mind, she kept giving herself a pep talk: Don't rush, stay calm!
She closed her eyes and focused intently on sensing the fire-attribute energy in the air. As Sister Mina had said, the most basic training method for those with superpowers is to discard energy that is incompatible with one's own attribute and try to guide energy that is compatible with one's own attribute.
As long as you persist in using this method, you can improve your superpower level.
The energy strands in the air seemed unusually active today. She could even sense that the aroma of her sister's stew contained some energy strands, and most of these energy strands were of the fire attribute.
After careful consideration, she came to a guess: this mutated wild boar cub must be of the fire element, which explains why there were so many fire-elemental energy strands floating in the air when her sister was stewing meat sauce.
Thinking of this, she began to absorb it with all her might. With her will, strands of fire-attribute energy began to swim towards her body.
In just half an hour, she felt that her superpowers had not only been fully restored, but were also so abundant that her body could hardly contain them.
The accumulation of quantity finally led to a qualitative change, and she unexpectedly broke through to the second level during this process.
This was her own special ability, which she could control at will. After mastering the second-tier fire-type ability, she immediately launched an attack on the mutated Ophiopogon japonicus within her body.
Fire overcomes wood; in just over ten seconds, her supernatural fire had burned away all the roots of the mutated ophiopogon japonicus that was embedded in her body.
The mutated Ophiopogon japonicus huddled trembling inside the Wood Spirit Core, desperately trying to convey its will to submit to her. In the end, it took the initiative to reach a master-servant contract with her.
Thus, after breaking through to the second level of superpower, Pandole successfully contracted the first-level mutated plant Ophiopogon japonicus, and from then on became an anomaly among fire-type superpower users.
Throughout the history of the Green Algae Star, no fire-type ability user has ever been able to contract with mutated plants.
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