Chapter 272 The Meticulous, Chuunibyou Teenager
After a thorough examination by Mao Li, it was confirmed once again that Zuo Shan's physical condition had indeed improved significantly.
"Master, according to the interstellar classification, your physical fitness has now reached level C, which is equivalent to the physical fitness of a fourth-tier strength-type ability user."
Currently, there are no problems with your health. However, whether any potential health issues remain is still unknown.
"Fourth tier? Is it really that exaggerated?" Zuo Shan couldn't believe it at all.
"You can try it. Your full-force strike can now reach at least 500 kilograms, which is about five times that of an average strong man."
"Other aspects have certainly seen significant improvements as well, and I'm sure you can feel it yourself," Mao Li said with a smile.
“Indeed, I feel that my speed and jumping ability have improved a lot. Now I am almost the same as those legendary people who have light-body skills.” Zuo Shan nodded.
With her physical fitness improving so much all at once, she felt it was all worth it, even if there were any hidden dangers.
Now that she was physically fine, she turned her attention to the newly acquired seeds.
Although this exploration of the underground seed vault was a private endeavor, considering the significance of the pre-cataclysmic seeds to the entire Green Algae Planet, Xiaobai decided to hand over half of the seeds obtained to the authorities.
He had promised Miss Jian Qiong the seeds before the operation, and upon returning home, he gave them to her directly. The seventh-tier wood elementalist was quite straightforward, taking the seeds and leaving. Whether she could successfully cultivate them remains to be seen.
The following morning, Xiaobai brought all the remaining seeds to the door.
"I'll leave these to you to cultivate. I have high hopes for your planting abilities." He took out more than a dozen metal boxes from his spatial storage and gave them to her.
"How can you be so sure that I can successfully cultivate these seeds?" Zuo Shan asked.
In fact, she herself was not confident, after all, these seeds had not been exposed to a high-radiation environment, and once exposed to the current air, they would most likely die.
Not to mention, these seeds have been dormant for over three hundred years, making them extremely fragile.
"I can't be sure, but at least you managed to grow fresh wild vegetables in extremely cold weather, and in a high-radiation environment."
It is true that some people in the central area grow greenhouse vegetables in winter, but the cost they spend on insulated greenhouses is astonishingly high, and the selling price is naturally astonishingly high as well.
As a result, only a very few wealthy families would occasionally buy some to try. Usually, only pregnant women from wealthy families could enjoy the privilege of eating fresh wild vegetables regularly.
"If you can't even cultivate these seeds, then I imagine no one else can either. So, my decision to entrust them to you is actually a way of taking responsibility for them," Xiaobai said earnestly.
When the man's blue eyes gazed intently at her, she couldn't bear to look away, because they looked so much like her baby's eyes.
Xiao Bai: I didn't expect to benefit from my own kid's success, I'm so annoyed!
"Alright, then I'll accept it for now," Zuo Shan said.
The extreme cold weather is about to pass, and the transitional month is coming.
She felt that the season with the mildest climate and the lowest radiation levels was the best time of year for breeding.
Furthermore, according to the agricultural calendar on Earth, the season when seeds are most likely to germinate is spring.
She had previously noticed a strange phenomenon: garlic she bought would sprout over time in winter because the room was heated.
However, garlic sprouts even faster in the spring. It often sprouts just two days after you buy it, even though the indoor temperature hasn't changed.
While watching Animal World, she also noticed that many animals enter their mating season in the spring, as if all living things become vibrant and full of life in spring.
On the first day of the transitional month, Zuo Shan chose to plant the first batch of seeds.
She planted the seeds in three batches.
The first batch was planted in her plantation, and a ring of mutant poplar seeds was scattered around it to reduce the soil's radiation. There was also a temperature-controlled greenhouse on top to filter solar radiation and maintain the temperature inside.
Although the soil radiation level here has already dropped to around 150 points, reaching the middle value between low and medium radiation, she felt that lowering it further might be more conducive to the germination of these seeds.
She planted the second batch of seeds in a planting box, and every day at noon when the sun's radiation was at its highest, she would move them back to the basement.
At the same time, we will often ask Sui Sui to help inject vitality, and Wan Wan to help purify the soil radiation.
For the third batch of seeds, she chose to plant them in the yard, in a simple natural environment, without giving them any special care.
She planted the fewest seeds in this batch, and she was prepared for the worst. If they were on the verge of death, the experiment would be declared a failure, and she would have to ask Sui Sui to save them.
After all, this was a hard-won treasure, and she couldn't bear to waste it.
While Zuo Shan was busy, Mao Li watched A Chen play with his fathead fish Xing Yi. Both of them were young and didn't know any better, and sometimes they would get annoyed while playing.
Ah Chen punched the fathead fish in the belly with his chubby little paws, then used his mental energy to form a rope to tie around its neck, dragging it as it flapped its wings and flew away.
Starwing then uses its fins, which also function as wings, to pat the baby's back, easily causing him to tumble as he tries to walk while holding onto the bed, and then lifts him up again.
Fortunately, the two little ones are both thick-skinned and tough. Although they get angry when they fight, the anger usually lasts no more than five minutes before they become good buddies again.
Panda's entire attention was focused on Zuo Shan, his new master. In his eyes, Zuo Shan was the person he should pay the most attention to, while everyone else was just an appendage to her.
Seeing him circling around him, Zuo Shan said, "How can you be so ungrateful? Don't you know you should come and help?"
"Help? Me, a highly intelligent artificial intelligence, you want me to help you farm? That's a huge waste of my talent!" Panda said disdainfully.
"It's not farming, it's breeding! Do you understand breeding? Every seed here is incredibly precious; they are all crops from before the Great Cataclysm."
Some are starchy grains, some are protein-rich beans, and others are high-yield and delicious vegetables.
If I can successfully cultivate it and promote its cultivation on a large scale, then no one on this planet will go hungry anymore!
"What a magnificent feat! How can it seem so meaningless in your eyes?" Zuo Shan glared at him and said.
"But they are all the most ordinary plant seeds. That old madman kept them to cover up his true purpose. His real purpose was to use this seed bank to conduct illegal genetic fusion research."
"Modifying the genes that make humans fragile and short-lived is the greatest undertaking in the world!" panda declared confidently.
“I think you’ve been brainwashed by him. You call him a madman on one hand, but treat his decrees as gospel on the other. Don’t you think you’re contradicting yourself?” Zuo Shan said.
Panda was speechless. He was stunned for a moment, and then sparks of electricity started to appear on his body from time to time.
After spending more than ten days together, Zuo Shan understood that the electric sparks on his body were a way for him to express his emotions, and he was no longer surprised by them.
However, she repeatedly told Panda not to get close to Ah Chen when he was emotionally unstable. The baby was too small, what if he shocked her brain?
After about fifteen minutes of internal struggle, Panda seemed to have finally figured it out.
“What you said seems to make a lot of sense. I’ve decided that from now on I will gradually reject the old madman’s worldview and slowly learn to use your way of thinking to consider problems,” he said seriously.
Left Fan: There's no need for that. Now that you have the ability to think independently, you should use your own way of thinking.
But she didn't dare say that. Her child was going through a rebellious phase, and what if he listened to her and went to a new extreme?
As it turns out, it was good for Panda to follow her way of thinking, because he stopped hovering around her and started participating in her actions.
"Isn't it just breeding? The old madman is very good at this. I still have a lot of information about breeding in my database."
"Also, I have a ready-made formula for what kind of nutrient solution these seeds need, and I'll mix it for you right away," Panda said cheerfully.
Zuo Shan thought he was joking, but he quickly took out a bunch of bottles and jars from his storage space, filled with strangely colored chemical reagents.
Let alone their effects, just looking at their names gave her a headache, because she didn't do well in high school chemistry and couldn't remember any of the molecular formulas or the names of organic and inorganic substances.
Panda was exceptionally meticulous in preparing nutrient solutions. He would mix different nutrient solutions for each variety of seeds, and he would weigh all the powders using a balance scale.
When he did these things, he was just like those bespectacled men in the lab, meticulous in every detail.
The prepared nutrient solutions are then packaged in different bottles and labeled accordingly.
Zuo Shan couldn't help but feel ashamed. Although she had also put her heart into cultivating these seeds, she was far inferior to Panda's meticulous attitude.
She couldn't help but sigh: the attitude of an AI student trained by a double PhD is worlds apart from that of her, a sports student!
Given Panda's meticulous attitude, Zuo Shan had a certain degree of trust in the nutrient solution he prepared. Of course, she didn't dare to water all the seeds with the nutrient solution directly, but instead chose the batch that grew naturally outdoors.
Anyway, they all belong to the least delicate group. It doesn't seem to matter if there are a few more others. At worst, they'll just die!
The seeds we obtained this time numbered in the hundreds for each variety, but each variety is not actually the same.
For example, wheat is divided into more than a dozen different varieties, but the specific differences between them are no longer verifiable.
Because the computer that recorded these things had its hard drive damaged, there was no way to recover them.
While Panda has the information, it hasn't matched it all up. After all, that old madman didn't care much about these seeds back then. The most detailed record in Panda's database is the formula for the gene modification fluid, as well as the subsequent adjustments and additions.
Before all the seeds were buried in the soil, Sui Sui would give them a little bit of life every day; otherwise, with their current weak vitality, it would be difficult for them to germinate.
On the third day of the transitional month, a mung bean seed sprouted, and Zuo Shan was so excited that she wanted to cry.
These are unmutated plant seeds from before the Great Cataclysm!
If all these seeds can germinate, will people be able to eat unmutated food?
Although she wasn't sure whether mutated or unmutated food was better for humans, her intuition told her that unmutated food must contain some beneficial elements, and it shouldn't just disappear from the stage of human history.
To her surprise, the first mung bean to sprout actually sprouted in a completely natural outdoor environment.
This at least proves that unmutated seeds can take root and sprout in the current environment.
The reason they can no longer be found in the wild is simply because the environment changed abruptly during the cataclysm, with high temperatures and strong radiation occurring simultaneously.
Such a drastic change was too much for them to adapt to, which is why they all went extinct in just a few days.
But things are different now. Humans have built radiation shields that filter out super-strong radiation, and she chose to plant her seed during a transitional month with a mild climate.
In this situation, the ordinary seeds germinated, and she believed that as they gradually adapted to the relatively high radiation and then to the high temperature, they might produce some seeds that had adapted to the new environment.
During the time that Zuo Shan was breeding, Xiao Bai took his men out hunting again. He knew nothing about planting, and neither did his men.
They're not as useful as ordinary robots if they stay on the plantation, so Little White decided to make the most of them and take them hunting.
In the evening, Xiaobai returned with fresh prey.
Today he brought a mutated roe deer; the meat of the other prey was too coarse, so he left it to Matt to process.
Lele was very perceptive. When she saw Xiaobai bringing over the meat, she offered, "Perfect for me to practice peeling!"
She took her prey to the basement and went off to do her own thing, leaving Zuo Shan and Xiao Bai alone... That's impossible.
There's also a panda eyeing us menacingly in the middle.
Zuo Shan did not deliberately hide anything about panda, only saying that it was a lifelike robot she found in an underground laboratory.
However, she chose to keep the genetic modification fluid a secret.
She was worried that if word got out, the authorities would order Panda to produce large quantities of that genetically modified fluid.
But she didn't know that not everyone who used the gene-modification fluid would be as normal as her. If one of them turned into a mindless monster, it would be too late to regret it!
It's like an organization developing a new drug, but there are only two people in the clinical trials. One failed, and the other seems to have succeeded for now. It's unknown whether there are any hidden dangers in the future. How can they dare to release such a new drug to people?
But if she encounters someone who is eager for quick success and uses living people for experiments, she becomes the culprit.
Rather than doing that, it would be better to conceal the existence of this gene-modifying fluid for now.
The gene serums currently used on the market have a success rate of only 30% in awakening superpowers, and the mortality rate for failed awakenings is said to be quite high. However, the authorities have concealed this mortality rate, but still mass-produce and sell them.
Ordinary people are willing to risk death and financial ruin to buy a bottle of gene serum in order to gain superpowers.
She didn't want such tragedies to happen more often; she preferred to cultivate edible crops to solve the food and clothing problems of more ordinary people.
Let them live first, then we can consider the issue of awakening their superpowers.
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