Chapter 158 When Heaven bestows a great responsibility upon someone, it first grants them a host of advantages.
Having completely mastered the mutated lilyturf spike, Pandora wanted to try using the newly acquired mutated plant to do some chores for her family, so she set her sights on the planting box.
Ever since she became part of her sister's family, she has always followed her sister's lead. When her sister wanted to grow plants, she naturally wanted to help her.
She tried to direct the sliver of life from the curved stem and inject it into the seeds in the planting box. This tiny bit of life had almost no effect on the ears of grain, but it was like a powerful tonic for the seeds.
Almost visibly, the seeds in the planting box have begun to germinate one after another, with only a very few that take longer to germinate remaining dormant.
Pan Duole was extremely excited to see the seedlings sprouting from the soil with their seed coats on, and he quickly pulled Zuo Shan over to take a look.
Zuo Shan was dumbfounded. These were seeds she had sown just four hours ago, how could they have all sprouted?
"Lele, what did you do to them?"
"It's Sui Sui. After fusing with the wood spirit core of the resurrection grass, it awakened a special ability called Infinite Vitality."
It's only at level one now, and can only promote plant growth. But when it becomes powerful enough in the future, it will be able to revive the dying and rejuvenate the elderly.
"I asked it to allocate a little of its power to the seeds in the planting box, and to my surprise, they sprouted in the blink of an eye," Pandora said excitedly.
"Lele, the power of your contracted plant is too strong! But you'd better not use this power casually, otherwise it may bring unpredictable disasters."
There will always be some people in this world who covet abilities that don't belong to them. We are all too weak right now to fight against the strong, do you understand?
While Zuo Shan was excited, his rationality returned instantly, and he spoke earnestly.
“I understand, sister. I will only use it to help our family grow plants.” Pan Duole nodded obediently. Her sister was indeed her sister. After learning that she had this ability, her first thought was for her safety, not for huge profits.
Seeing that she understood, Zuo Shan didn't say anything more. Instead, he patted the crescent-shaped mark on his wrist and said, "Wanwan, you've been outdone by Sui Sui!"
The next second, two small leaves sprouted from her wrist. Wanwan rubbed her palm with the leaves, conveying her dissatisfaction:
"Hmph! The master likes other people's plants and doesn't like Curved anymore! All it can do is promote growth, right? Curved's special ability is purification—purifying radiation and toxins!"
After conveying this emotion, Wanwan suddenly emitted a transparent halo from the small leaves, instantly enveloping the soil in the planting box.
"Sister, what is Wanwan doing?" Pan Duole asked, puzzled.
"It says its ability is purification. Could it be purifying the soil in the planting box?" Zuo Shan asked, her eyes wide. If Wanwan could reduce the radiation level of the soil, wouldn't that mean they could cultivate low-radiation plants?
Considering the high price of low-radiation plants, Zuo Shan felt that Wanwan's function was practically a money-printing machine!
The curved beam of supernatural light lasted only a few minutes before dissipating as the supernatural power was exhausted. The little leaf on the wrist shriveled up listlessly, indicating that it wanted to go to sleep.
To verify his hypothesis, Zuo Shan took out a testing knife and inserted it into the soil of a planting box that was empty. A voice announcement came on:
"Beep! Moderate level 1 soil detected, suitable for planting. It is recommended to continue testing the soil within an adjacent 0.5 meters, repeating this process until the range of soil with this radiation level is determined, and then excavate and remove it."
The wasteland is classified into three levels of radiation: high, medium, and low. However, each level is further divided into three grades, with the first grade having the lowest radiation level.
However, when scavengers go out to collect plants with moderate radiation, they use them to fill their stomachs, and no one bothers to distinguish whether they are moderate level one or moderate level three.
Only when low-radiation plants are accidentally discovered will they be sent to the exchange hall to be sold for money, because no one will spend a lot of money to buy plants with moderate radiation, even if they are level one.
After venturing into the wasteland, Zuo Shan always tested the mutated plants whenever he went out to collect data, and never tested the radiation levels of the soil.
According to the original owner's memories, after the Great Cataclysm, the authorities had organized more than one large-scale operation to test soil radiation levels.
Initially, some medium-radiation soil and a very small amount of low-radiation soil were indeed found in some areas covered by radiation-resistant minerals. Due to their scarcity, they were all transported to the Inner Tenth District.
Later on, it became almost impossible to find soil with radiation levels below level three. According to agricultural experts, although plants can be grown in soil with radiation levels of level three, the radiation levels of the plants that grow are mostly level three or even high.
If you use this kind of soil to grow fruit, the fruit will be almost indistinguishable from those that grow naturally in the wild. It would be better to send people to collect them in the wild, which would save time and effort.
Over time, when people went out to collect samples, no one bothered to test the soil anymore. After all, time was precious and should be used to collect edible things. Who would want to waste time doing useless work?
But now that Wanwan has used her superpower, the soil she casually dug in the yard has actually dropped to level one of moderate radiation. What if she does it again? Will it drop to low radiation soil?
The thought of this possibility made Zuo Shan tremble with excitement.
She recalled the legends about District 46 that she had heard when she made her contract with Wanwan.
It is said that a high-level earth-type ability user named Fu Ming once emerged from District 46. Her awakened ability was to reduce the radiation level of the soil.
Master Fu never left District 46 in his entire life. He spent decades improving the soil in District 46 to a level of low to medium radiation, which is why District 46 has become the largest planting base on the entire planet.
She suddenly had a bold guess: if this Master Fu herself did not have the ability to reduce soil radiation, but rather she had contracted a mutated plant with this ability, then it would make sense that she had never left District 46 in her entire life.
After all, District 46 is a remote area on the planet, and the level of the superhumans here is very low; there should be no ones above level three.
In this way, the master talisman could keep his secret hidden from being discovered.
Once she leaves District 46 and goes to District 10, her secret will be exposed in no time if she faces a high-level superhuman, and her contracted plant may be forcibly taken away.
After all, she was just an ordinary earth-type ability user, and killing her wouldn't cause much of a stir.
After her death, her contracted plants might be injured by the backlash of the contract, but plants have a strong ability to recover. If they are well cared for for a year or two, they can completely form a contract with a stronger person again.
Mutant plants generally have long lifespans, but after Master Fu died, there were no legends about her leaving behind any contracted plants, which suggests that she deliberately concealed this information.
Perhaps she couldn't bear to see her contracted plant forcibly bound by a high-level superhuman with a wicked heart, so she quietly broke the contract and let it return to nature.
The most lush plant in District 46 is the Little Moonflower, and perhaps the original form of this contracted plant is the Little Moonflower.
Considering that Wanwan is a small moonflower seed and its special ability is also purification, it is highly likely that it is a branch or descendant of the plant that Master Fu contracted back then.
Having figured out the cause and effect, Zuo Shan was both surprised and worried. She was surprised because she had the same opportunity as Master Fu and had contracted a small moon sunflower with purifying abilities. She was worried because how could a nobody like her protect such a treasure?
But thinking about everyone around me, they all seem extraordinary: the encyclopedic mechanical prince, Mao Li; Xiao Bao, who possesses the incredible ability to control metal forms; and Pandora, who has a contract with a mutated lilyturf plant that can promote plant growth.
Even newborn baby Achen possesses the abilities of sensing danger and stealth, not to mention his father, a high-ranking ninth-level expert.
Alright, alright, if Heaven is going to bestow a great responsibility upon someone, then it must first grant them a bunch of cheat codes, right?
Zuo Shan, finding a bit of humor in his predicament, waved his hand and said: "When soldiers come, we'll block them; when water comes, we'll dam it! There's always a way out; things will work themselves out!"
What's there to worry about? Let's just take it one step at a time!
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