Chapter 0454: The Secret of the Seed (First Update)
"Spit on, little one. ”
Liszt held an anxious rubber worm in his palm, stepped on the muddy water, and came to a vacant rubber park that had been planned for a long time - the rubber plantation will cultivate more than 10,000 acres in the future, so the distribution of the park is determined in advance.
The rubber worm's mouth opened, and a faint green light flew out.
It is a small seed that takes root and sprouts immediately after landing, and then pulls strips, spreads branches, and grows leaves at a speed visible to the naked eye, and gradually grows into a huge Cordyceps tree.
Such a dynamic picture of plant growth made Liszt's heart moved: "Seeds can grow into towering trees, and this is how elf insects are born...... So what is the magic fire in my body, and is there any connection between it and the seeds of the elven cordyceps?"
Elves can be seen as being conceived from seeds.
If his guess is correct, the fire dragon will also be bred from the magic fire.
Then elves and dragons are all bred from seeds, and their seeds are obviously not ordinary seeds, but the seeds condensed by magic - elf cordyceps, and they also have the function of ordinary plant seeds, and it is probably impossible for magic fire to be planted in the ground to germinate.
"I hope it won't sprout in my heart either, and treat me as a nutrient soil to suck my fighting spirit and nurture it into a fire dragon by itself. ”
As the new rubber tree Cordyceps grows, his mind comes alive.
At one moment, he compares the similarities and differences between the elven seed and the magic fire, and at another time, he thinks that human beings are developed from a fertilized egg, which can also be regarded as a seed, and at another time, he concludes that probably all life originates from a seed, and then inexplicably thinks that the Kraken does not seem to develop from a seed.
When she was born, she was in a shell, and all parts of her body were fully developed, except for her legs, which were not below the knee.
"Perhaps, Ake was originally a shell?"
Just as the elven insect does not exist, and ordinary plants suddenly mutate, it gives birth to the elven worm, and the kraken may not exist in the first place, and the shell suddenly mutates, and a kraken is born.
It's a bit weird.
He didn't think that Ake was made of a shell, and the flesh inside the shell was not beautiful: "It's just that how Ake's shell was formed, and where was she born? If I can solve this mystery, maybe I can breed new Krakens in batches." ”
Although Ark is still a minor and is still being trained, her role is obviously huge.
Nami was the one she found, she found the kelp worm, she found the atoll, pearl lake, and black clams, she found the pink conch, Chrissy Truth was rescued by her, she found the green caterpillar and mallard, and she also attracted the six-headed king sea snake.
Basically, the rewards of the ocean-related smoke quests are inseparable from Aker's figure - after all, Liszt is not an aquatic creature.
Knights can conquer the earth, and in the future, they can conquer the sky, but the ocean, I'm afraid even the dragon knights can't conquer - except for the dragon knights who ride water dragons, water dragons can definitely swim the sea at will.
Didn't wander in the ocean of thoughts for long.
Cordyceps has been placed.
Liszt put away the rubber worm that had calmed down and began to look at the new rubber tree cordyceps. He found that this Cordyceps was completely different from the previous two Cordyceps, it grew larger, with thicker trunks and more branches. In particular, its leaves are exaggerated and larger than plantain leaves.
There is no fruit.
Presumably like a normal rubber tree, rubber can be cut from the trunk.
"Probably the biggest variation of this new Cordyceps is its leaves, so I'll pick a leaf and study it first. Liszt carefully tore off a leaf with magical powers.
The magic quickly dissipates and becomes an ordinary leaf.
From the fracture at the root of the leaf, a small amount of rubber can be seen seeping, proving that the new rubber tree can still produce rubber, and this ability has not been lost - in Liszt's view, the value of rubber can be compared to magic potions, and if the ability to produce rubber is lost, it is definitely a failed mutation.
"It's such a big leaf, and it's quite sturdy. He pulled the blade, but it didn't tear it, "You can make a fan, you can make a ...... Wrapping bags, just like wrapping rice dumplings, wrapping food with its leaves, always feels that this function is a bit inconsistent with the value of rubber trees. ”
......
Place the new Cordyceps on the rubber tree.
Liszt's next focus is to complete the new Smoke Quest - to stock up on enough food for 10,000 people to survive the winter.
But he soon discovered a serious problem: "It's not October yet, and the winter is from mid-December to mid-February, so when will I stock up enough food to complete the task?
However, it always has to be done first, and there is no way to stock up on enough food in a hurry.
Under the condition of ensuring basic food and clothing, a young and strong man consumes about 600 catties of grain a year. Subtract the balance consumed by the elderly, weak, women and children, and then calculate the part consumed by the knights, you can get an approximate number - a single subject needs to consume 2 catties of food per day.
10,000 people need 20,000 catties of grain a day, which is 10 tons.
The food needed for 10,000 people for two months is 600 tons.
"From now on, I will have to find a way to buy grain from all over the coral island every day, deposit 3 tons a day, and by December, I can store about 100 tons, and in addition to food consumption, I can also store about 100 tons of self-produced grain in the territory, and add the curing of meat and seafood, and it will not be a problem to store another 100 tons...... There is still a shortfall of 300 tons. ”
The 300 tons had to be purchased from the outer islands.
The price spent is definitely not low.
Now the proceeds of the flower brew have been pledged until next year, and the income from black tulips, flower soap, and rubber is barely enough to maintain the construction of the territory.
To buy more food, you have to reraise gold coins.
"If there's no other way, start selling black pearls and see if the market is rushing to black pearls under the size of a sea bowl. "He sold it to Levi's, a fist-sized one for hundreds of gold coins.
Now with more and more black pearls.
The price will definitely fall with it, of course, no matter how much it falls, it is definitely more valuable than the white pearls produced by the Grand Duke in cultivating pearl oysters in Tranquility Lake - white pearls can only calm the mind, and black pearls can not only calm the mind, but also dispel the magic of the wind attribute.
And it's bigger, and it's more magical.
"Ten times the price, you can definitely sell it! Now there are no large black clams in Pearl Lake, but there are still a lot of small black clams, and you can earn gold coins by catching a batch at will...... I don't need to worry about the finances of the territory at all, I don't have any money but I have a specialty!"
So when he returned to Flower Town, he immediately took a few samples of black pearls and rushed to Tulip Castle to negotiate the black pearl trade with the Levis.
If there is no market for Coral Island, you can let your sister-in-law Loria take it to Golden Island and sell it.
It is believed that the noble lady of the Golden Island will pay a lot of gold coins for the black pearl.