Chapter 246 It’s Amazing, It’s Amazing, It’s Amazing
The petri dish was burnt to pieces, and the residue was scattered on the ground. Jiang Yue's heart was bleeding, and he rushed over tremblingly to collect the residue.
"Spray again."
Qiao Lan gave an order, and Zhao Hui raised her other arm, aimed it at the debris on the ground, and sprayed fire again.
Jiang Yue quickly jumped away to avoid being burned.
Seeing that the scumbag was getting even scumbagier, he was so angry that he glared at Zhao Hui and cursed: "You, you, you...you still know about left-right symmetry, huh? After spraying the left armpit, spray the right armpit again! You are so powerful!"
"Yes, it has to be as symmetrical as possible, otherwise the blood circulation on both sides will be blocked, affecting the flow of energy in the body, and the flames that are sprayed out will be weakened." Zhao Hui explained honestly.
"I don't care whether your flame weakens or not!" Jiang Yue burst into tears.
He didn't dare to get angry with Qiao Lan, so he could only glare at Zhao Hui. But Zhao Hui was just following orders, so she looked innocent. She was just called in to help, so why did she piss him off?
Zhao Hui asked Qiao Lan if she still needed to spray. When she heard that she didn't need to, she put on her coat.
His armpits were flaming, so his clothes couldn't stand up to the damage. He wore a vest when he needed to activate his abilities, and sleeves weren't acceptable, as they would burn holes in the fabric beneath his armpits. It was late winter, early spring, and the weather was still a bit chilly, so he had to wear a warm coat when he didn't need to spit fire.
"Then I'll be leaving first, Miss Qiao. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions."
"OK."
Qiao Lan gave Zhao Hui two pieces of beef jerky to thank her and sent her away.
He came back and told the tearful Jiang Yue, "Don't be sad. This is to ask Doctor Zhao to disinfect the soil. The culture soil you used is not good. In the apocalypse, the soil is basically slightly poisonous. Planting mutant seeds will make the seeds more likely to have mood swings."
Is that so? Jiang Yue said in surprise, "But after disinfection, the seeds were also burned to slag..."
"It's okay, you see the key part is still there."
Qiao Lan squatted on the ground, rummaging through the debris, and found a dozen extremely tiny black and gray particles. He blew off the dust in his hand and handed it to Jiang Yue to see.
Jiang Yue carefully identified it: "Is this the embryo, radicle, and hypocotyl? But there are no cotyledons. Cotyledons are used to provide nutrients for the early stages of seed development. Moreover, the skin has been burned away, and seeds without skin are easily invaded by pests and diseases."
"Think more broadly. This is a mutant seed from the end of the world. Don't be dogmatically limited by your previous breeding experience. Even if there are no cotyledons, we have the crystal core. Even if there is no bark, we have already sterilized it, right?"
Qiao Lan patiently guided them and gathered all the sterilized soil on the spot. She found a box to use as a new incubator and planted the remaining seed residue in it.
For watering, the water is bottled purified water.
Nutrition? The crystal core is buried in the soil, and the energy in the crystal core is directed to the seeds.
The second psychic who was called to help arrived. He was an ice-type warrior and one of the surviving soldiers in the base. He helped cool down the boiler when it had an accident, and he was very skilled in releasing ice cubes.
Qiao Lan had enough crystal cores, so he kept adding ice and wrapping up the incubator, causing the temperature to drop lower and lower.
Qiao Lan focused intently, directing the energy of the crystal core while carefully reminding the ice-type psychic to increase or decrease the amount of ice, thus maintaining a suitable growth environment. If the energy was low, she would quickly add energy; if the temperature dropped, she would quickly adjust the ice. Adjustments had to be made every one or two minutes, subtle and frequent.
Fortunately, Qiao Lan's dual abilities of space and firearms gave him a stronger mental power than other awakened ones, so he could continuously sense the internal state of the seed and make adjustments. If someone with less mental power were to do this, they would have been exhausted after a few adjustments.
This process lasted for more than an hour, and even Qiao Lan could hardly bear it. Seeing the seeds breaking through the soil and small white pointed sprouts appearing in front of everyone, she breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on a stool with a pale face to rest.
The ice-type mutant was also very tired. His injuries from the battle to defend the base had not yet healed. Qiao Lan quickly took out a crystal core from his pocket and gave it to him. Both of them held the crystal core to restore their energy.
Jiang Yue was greatly shocked and stared at the tender bud for a long time without recovering from his shock.
"It's amazing! It's amazing! It's amazing!"
Once he came to his senses, he couldn't stop exclaiming. The seeds had sprouted in such a short time! When he'd previously cultivated these mutant seeds, it would take at least twenty hours to see a small sprout. And now, he was using a defective seed. How could it sprout like this?!
"Isn't it amazing? Let's take a break, and then there will be something even more amazing."
The skills that Qiao Lan secretly learned while working as a laborer in his previous life finally found a place to use. It seemed that all the hard work he had endured was not in vain, and he felt very happy.
After resting, she brought the ice-type mutant with her and began to care for and ripen the tender buds.
The crystal nucleus provides sufficient supply for the seeds, and the temperature is adjusted to the most suitable state for the seeds at any time, and they are cultivated carefully and drastically.
One hour, two hours, until it was dark, more than ten hours passed...
After Ye Qi finished his work, he came to Qiao Lan's place late at night to visit her. He was wondering if Qiao Lan was asleep and whether he should go in to disturb her. But then he found that there was a lot of noise and laughter in Qiao Lan's room, and there were quite a lot of people.
He hesitated whether to go in. Qiao Lan had already heard his footsteps and knew it was him.
He pushed the door open and smiled, "Chief Ye, get ready to fulfill your promise. I've successfully grown the seedlings for you!"
Ye Qi was slightly stunned.
Then he rushed into the room in confusion and saw a group of people, led by Jiang Yue, gathered around the table, shouting and yelling, each one more excited than the other.
On the table, in the incubator, several green rice plants, more than half a person's height, were gently swaying with heavy rice ears hanging on them.
Qiao Lan waved her hand in front of Ye Qi's eyes. "Are you stunned? I'm not kidding. Jiang Yue watched the entire process from beginning to end today. These mutant rice plants grew from seeds to the present day. It's a legitimate growth process, guaranteed to be genuine."
"It will be ripe tomorrow morning, and we can harvest the rice. This is the natural growth time. If you want to see the rice soon, I can work overtime for you overnight. I can take care of it for another hour or two. But this ice-type guy is a little exhausted, so why not wait until tomorrow morning?"
"From a total of eleven seeds, we were able to successfully grow five rice plants, which is a mediocre success rate. This is just preliminary technology, and we'll slowly improve it in the future."
"However, this is the result of a tremendous amount of effort by me and the Ice Element guy, and we even spent more than a dozen Level 3 crystal cores. The conditions are very high, so it can't be widely promoted. This time, I'm trying to prove that I'm really good at breeding and cultivating seedlings. With the large-scale planting of later mutant rice, the maturity period won't be so short. One day is impossible. It will take at least two months before we can eat rice. After all, there aren't that many Ice Element people and I've been taking care of them in the fields."
Qiao Lan's explanation made Ye Qi's heart surge with emotion.
What's so scary about two months? It's not that long at all! Even if it takes six months or even a year, as long as the mutant rice can produce edible rice, we can afford to wait!
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