Chapter 656
Chapter 656 - 636: Coconut Dates
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[Mutated Blood Coconut Dates from the Milton Region (Silver Lower Level)]
[This magic plant can produce a certain amount of poisonous fruits and beneficial coconut dates in one growth cycle. Both can be used to make potions, but the specific effects are unknown.]
[The coconut date has a strange aroma, which can bring a sense of joy from within to those who smell it. Those with insufficient strength, please do not sniff too much.]
[PS. This is the honey from the Land without Water; its faint fragrance can easily spread more than ten kilometers, attracting countless hungry people who can’t resist rushing to it, then fighting... The blood of the losers makes the dark red coconut date even sweeter.]
Life Bank, in some sense, is quite powerful; in Lu Ping’an’s view, he gains information by analyzing the rules attached to the taboo items.
It is precisely because of this that the higher the grade, the more information it can get... but if it exceeds its limit, it will naturally be a mess of codes.
This is not unique to Lu Ping’an but is a money-making occupation for "intelligence agents." Those with talent in the Rule System have clear advantages in exploring the unknown.
However, this is still not enough for real professionals...
"Poisonous fruits and normal fruits cannot be distinguished by smell, but their medicinal properties seem to counteract each other and can be used as antidotes. Well, this is a common feature of this type of magic plant."
"How long does it take for one growth cycle? The original owner’s information says it takes fifteen days to produce two to seven fruits, which shouldn’t be the limit; we need to research it."
"The test report for the beneficial fruit has come out. Besides the normal sugar-biased material structure, there are also characteristics of ’satiety,’ ’drowsiness,’ ’hibernation,’ and ’invigoration’... Making a strong sedative magic potion should be very effective."
"The poisonous fruit is more like an ultra-effective sleeping drug. It’s hard to wake up without eating the beneficial fruit with an amplitude effect... Lu Ping’an, try one, as long as you don’t make it into a magic potion, you should have no problem with resistance. Ah, it seems there’s a problem; wait, I’ll get you a pillow."
"There’s something wrong with the leaves. They seem to be sucking blood... Send them for inspection; maybe the effect of these leaves has more potential."
Rule-level analysis usually offers shallow "content summaries." It’s not a problem for simple use, but it’s not sufficient for research and production materials.
A team, with at least several outstanding researchers, needs a complete set of standardized research processes to turn unknown magic plants into reliable materials and aids.
In this regard, Lu Ping’an had been looking forward to it for a long time... but due to time constraints, he had no chance to unfold it.
Before him, gardeners and magic alchemists were cooperating to try to figure out the characteristics of this Decree-level "coconut date" and turn it into regular resource benefits.
This is not something that can be done overnight, but it requires at least several cycles and months of slow research. However, it’s about time to start such work.
This is not "irresponsible." On the contrary, as a professional gardener, this is what Lu Ping’an should do every day... his "grafting" and "planting" professional skills are not solid enough but rather unreliable to the point of breaking apart.
Every now and then, he has a flash of insight and can make reliable suggestions.
But most of the time, his lack of basic knowledge and experimental processes makes others doubt how he made it to the third-tier Gardener, occasionally making suggestions that were too "joking" and "alien," as if they wanted to kick him out directly.
But even so, Lu Ping’an still shamelessly scavenges experience here... He knew long ago that investment couldn’t solve everything and that those academic professional skills and basic processes still needed to be supplemented.
"Look on the bright side, even if I go to an Exotic Realm in the future, I won’t have to stop classes here... uh, is this good news?"
Successfully recruiting Professor Wen also meant that Lu Ping’an now has a personal teacher, so he doesn’t have to worry about missing too many classes.
However, from another perspective, other people’s dissatisfaction with Lu Ping’an, the "alien," may not be simply because of his lack of basic knowledge and various kinds of "ignorance"...
"... I’ve never seen such a rule-level ability that could produce instructions for a Decree-level item. What’s even more outrageous is the information in the form of a mini essay. The top intelligence agent in the city can only analyze one or two sentences or characteristic words."
"With this ’outline,’ research has a direction, and the original observation process that took the most time can be completely saved... I can’t calculate how much time and resources he’s saved with this ability. Using it in gardening is just cheating."
"What is an investment? What is this ability to extract biological modules? How can the gene modules of magic plants still exist separately after they die? This is totally unscientific... not mystic!"
"The most outrageous thing is that he can directly assemble them. Just putting one plus one together creates a new species!"
"Damn, the mentor started hitting the wall again, doubting his life... Don’t tear it, teacher, this is your just-written thesis! Even if some core content has to be rewritten, it’s not that... uh, it seems it can be rewritten."
"Stop talking, I think we can rewrite the textbooks too, what’s the point of learning the basic theory and practical technology of grafting, what’s the point of learning the half-year grafting cycle, just add one plus one and it’s done, and even get the result instantly!"
"...Teacher! Don’t say it anymore, the teacher is foaming at the mouth."
Before the comparison, Lu Ping’an didn’t know how much he cheated, but now he knows how much he cheated in front of the "normal" gardening professionals.
Other gardeners are normal planters who have to plant and harvest laboriously. It takes months or years to get a mostly failed experimental result. But Lu Ping’an is like a cheater who has turned reality into a video game: one-click plant input, instantly seeing the basic characteristics, and getting the experimental results in a flash... The gardeners who know how difficult research is probably can’t accept such a disparity.
Looking at Lu Ping’an’s innocent face, still talking about completely unreliable suggestions one after another, and wasting what they consider to be apocalypse-grade talent in their eyes, the real researchers who do experiments honestly become angry.
By chance, he often asks some common sense questions that can be answered by looking at the basic textbooks... Each time, it challenges the upper limit of the respondent’s anger.
"... If he weren’t our boss right now..." Probably, many researchers are thinking that way.
"Heh, you guys keep busy, I’ll go for a walk."
Finally, when everyone in the lab was looking at Lu Ping’an with the "why haven’t you rolled away yet" gaze, he couldn’t scavenge anymore.
This time, three people signed the agreement, including Professor Wen, his research assistant, and another full-time Professor Du Wei.
With them here, Lu Ping’an’s garden, which was as chaotic as a "weed forest" (Prof. Wen: How did you grow weeds taller than a forest?!), finally had someone to take care of it properly.
And with this research team, Lu Ping’an’s research progress, which was on par with the "lottery," finally became a little more normal. At least there was less mysticism he couldn’t understand...
"Why can impatiens be combined with thorny plants to form explosive spiky fruit... This is illogical! At least half of our grafting science’s 16 basic theories are violated. Can someone save me?!"
Uh, it seems that some team-building work needs to be done first; Lu Ping’an doesn’t want to be inexplicably shot six times.
— End of Chapter 656 —