Chapter 31 Pressure on Harold
[Because I found that an NPC I created in the previous article has the same name as the game event NPC, I changed "Henieye" to "Selema". Because the article cannot be changed during the recommendation, I can only leave it like that for now (sad)]
"Actually, you can't think of the answer, right?" Kavi felt very pleased with himself as he finally won a game against Elhaisen.
Elhaisen held the book in his hands and said without raising his head: "What about you? As the questioner, can you give a perfect answer yourself? Obviously, you can't, because this question has no meaning. Answering meaningless questions will only waste our time."
"How can there be no answer? It's just that you don't know," Kavi raised his eyebrows and challenged, "Do you dare to make a bet? Let's bet..."
With the bet, Elhaisen finally became interested. He put down the book and looked at Kawi, saying, "Let's learn the right to decide the ranking of the subjects."
"Okay, if you win, you can arrange it any way you want, but it's only yours and mine," said Kavey.
The authorship of a society's research project is something that almost every scholar at the Council of Faith values. In order to prevent some scholars from doing nothing in collaborative projects, the Council of Faith has set a rule that in the project report, the scholar with the greater contribution will be named earlier.
If there are too many people in a society, scholars whose names are later will not receive project rewards from the Council of Ministers even if they complete the project.
But Kavi didn't care about this. Their society would only have five people, which was far less than the upper limit of the number of members stipulated by the Council of the Decrees. The order of signatures only determined how much reward they could get.
Moreover, he had originally intended to put the names of Elhaisen and Haroldt before his own.
Kavi plans to open a studio after graduation and work as a freelance architectural designer. The achievements of this research project are dispensable to him now, but if Harold and Elhaisen plan to stay in the House of Religious Orders after graduation, this project report can add a lot of points to their resumes.
Anyway, no matter how you look at it, his two junior classmates need a front-page signature more than he does.
Haroldt felt something was not right. He pulled on Kawi's sleeve and said, "Senior, I think——"
“It’s a deal,” Elhaisen said.
Harold: ...
The corners of Elhaisen's mouth rose two pixels! He must have done it on purpose!
I didn’t expect you to be such a person, Ai Hai!
Harold wanted to find an excuse to escape now to avoid being caught in a Shura situation.
He should have acted more naturally just now. It would have been fine if he had just kept a straight face and pretended to know nothing. Elhaisen never thought that this rubbish interview question came from him.
Hey.
...
But it was hilarious to hear Carvey use rubbish interview questions on Elhaeson! You can’t blame him for not being able to hold back his laughter.
"What if I win?" Kawi asked, "I'm already the president of the society, so asking for ranking rights is useless."
"This is something you should have considered before you made the bet, but it's not too late for you to start thinking about it now," said Elhaisen while reading a book.
Kavi stared at Elhaisen's movements and immediately came up with an idea: "Then I want the book in your hand!"
Kavi put one hand on the table and smiled maliciously: "You haven't finished reading that book yet, right? Once it's in my hands, you'll have to buy me wine for half a year if you want it back."
"Senior Kavi, you'd better stop drinking. You can't drink much," Harold couldn't help but interrupt after hearing this.
"I told you I wasn't drunk today!" Kavi retorted loudly.
Harold: No, no, no, you look like you've drunk two pounds of liquor.
Not drunk? Can you bet with El Haisen if you are not drunk?
Look at him, he’s smiling so happily, almost 3.5 pixels... Senior Kavi, don’t you know what kind of person he is?
You can't do this without drinking two pounds...
Haroldt wanted to hold up a sign in front of Kavi right now: Run!
"Okay, if you win I'll treat you to half a year's worth of drinking," said Elhaisen.
"It's 'Give me the book in your hand'," Kavi muttered and corrected, "Don't jump to the next step casually, Elhaisen, you are a guy who has no sense of ritual at all - Harold, tell him, how many legs do ten sheep have?"
Elhaisen also looked at Harold calmly.
Harold: Abba Abba Abba Abba.
"Hmm? Harold?" Kavi didn't get a response for a long time, and tilted his head in confusion. Harold felt guilty when he saw his confused look.
"...Four," Haroldt finally said after thinking for a long time.
"Oh? Why, could you please explain it to us," said Elhaisen.
"Because nine out of ten sheep are made of wood, so nine out of ten sheep are made of wood, and there is actually only one sheep, which means it has four legs," Harold said stiffly.
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The atmosphere was a little awkward.
Even a BK like Elhaisen froze when he heard this answer.
Kavi hadn't even recovered yet. His mind, which was not clear enough due to alcohol, was now full of the saying "Nine out of ten sheep have a shepherd".
So what does it mean when ten sheep and nine shepherds are shepherded?
Why is there only one sheep among ten sheep?
Wait…I won?
I won!
Kavi shook his head, getting rid of all the sheep and wood, and shouted happily: "I win! El Haisen, give me your book!"
"So you really think this is the correct answer?" asked Elhaison.
"What? You're not going to default on your debt?" Kavi put his hands on his hips.
Elhaisen made a "tsk" sound and handed the book in his hand over. Kavi happily took the book and held it in his arms.
"Why didn't I realize before that you have a talent for telling jokes?" Elhaisen said to Harold.
"...I just discovered this today as well," Harold said with a stiff smile.
He also chilled himself.
Why didn’t he think of this “Nine out of ten sheep are shepherds (wood)” during the interview?
If he had thought of it at that time, perhaps those interviewers would not have had to go through that at his hands.
Then, they sat for a while, and Harold called the waiter Doha:
“Please help me pack.”
"Yes, pack up all the rest."
"Fruit, of course."
"Yes, yes, yes. I want soup too."
"Hmm? Ice cream?"
"Wait until it melts and put it in the milk bottle for me, please?"
...
Soon, all the plates on the table were empty, and Haroldt had a pile of large and small bags at hand. Haroldt happily counted today's harvest.
That’s great, at least I can save two days’ worth of food money.
"Senior Elhaisen, would you like some too?" Harold asked, picking up a bag of barbecue.
El Haisen: "...No need."
After packing up, Harold carried the bags and Elhaisen's books, and Elhaisen carried Kavi out of the hotel.
Although Kavi kept shouting "I'm not drunk", Elhaisen ignored his struggle and carried him on his shoulders.
After being carried up, Kavi behaved like a drunk person, quietly and obediently, allowing himself to collapse on Elhaisen's shoulders like a sack.
"Senior Kavi's way of getting drunk is really unique," Harold couldn't help but sigh after he and Elhaisen sent Kavi home and tucked him into bed.
His face and ears weren't red, and he could occasionally communicate with them normally, which made him confused about whether Kavi was really drunk.
Is this what indirect drunkenness means?
"Hey, where's my book?" Kavi suddenly threw back the quilt and jumped out of bed, groping around on the sheets.
"Here," Harold hurriedly handed over Elhaisen's book.
"...Well, my trophy, I can't lose it," Kavi touched the book, touched the spine, murmured, hugged it in his arms, and lay back with peace of mind.
Very good, it seems that El Haisen will not be able to read this book today.
Harold looked at Elhaisen somewhat guiltily. After all, Elhaisen only admitted that "Nine out of ten sheep are shepherds" was the correct answer because Kavi was drunk.
In fact, Elhaisen was just too lazy to argue with the drunkard. He didn't know how they would argue when Kavi sobered up tomorrow.
After saying goodbye to Elhaisen, Harold returned to his own home from Kavi's house. He first put the bags into the refrigerator, then poured himself a cup of tea and began to learn about farm construction.
Originally, he planned to hire the residents of Huacheng to help him build a farm, but now that he has the Eye of the Rock Elemental God, he can build it himself, and he can save a lot of research funds.
His research content includes the domestication and mass breeding of the Pianpian Flower. The first thing is [domestication]. Obedient Pianpian Flowers are good Pianpian Flowers. After observing the four Pianpian Flowers, "Ada", "Aer", "Asan" and "Awu", it can be judged that Pianpian Flowers have intelligence, understand fear, and have become much more obedient after being controlled by Euler.
It is preliminarily judged that the Pianpianhua can be tamed through the method of Ouladon.
When his laboratory is built, the discipline officer and the thirty-man team will send "A Liu", "A Qi", "A Ba"... and "Xiao Shi Yi" there, and he will conduct the experiment again, dividing them into three batches and conducting Euler in batches.
If the performance of several small batches of Psoralea corylifolia is consistent with that of the first batch, then the first step of the [domestication] goal [taming wild Psoralea corylifolia] will be achieved. Then he will let them reproduce and let their offspring live in an artificial breeding environment from an early age, erasing their wildness and turning them into human playthings.
After this step is successful, he will study the related factors of the nectar production of the deceitful flower. Using the method of controlled variables, he will use [sunlight], [water], [presence of food], [food type], and [elemental force] as variables to compare the changes in the nectar production of the deceitful flower under different conditions.
Therefore, in addition to establishing a laboratory and a base for breeding the lilies, he also needs to build an animal farm. If he feeds the lilies himself, he can save some research funds.
Of course, during the first experimental cycle, the feed here is limited to some rodents with short breeding cycles, high production and a varied diet. Animals with long growth cycles such as mushroom pigs, chickens, ducks, and fish are actually contrary to his research purpose. He raises the flower to use its nectar instead of sugar. How could the price of its nectar be cheap if the flower eats so well?
But if the production of the nectar of the deceitful flower is really too low, and he needs to package the nectar of the deceitful flower as a luxury product for sale, he can feed them something good, and when promoting it, he can say that these are deceitful flowers that are raised on dragon lizard meat.
Harold opened his notebook and drew a laboratory for himself based on the laboratory floor plan. He copied it basically, only changing the size of some parts.
His first batch of lilies will definitely be frequent visitors to the laboratory. He needs to study the self-reproduction of lilies in it. Those ten lilies will be sliced repeatedly by him, so he added a laboratory bed in the laboratory that can fix the lilies. Unlike the laboratory bed for fixing human bodies, the fixture of this laboratory bed customized for lilies is in the middle of the bed and can be tied around the waist of the lilies.
The fixer needs to be made of fireproof material. When the fire-attributed Lieberman is nervous and afraid, he will spray flames uncontrollably. This conditioned reflex cannot be changed by training, so the fixer can only be reinforced.
Or he could try physical anesthesia while slicing them.
After physical anesthesia, will Pianpianhua wake up early because of the pain?
Experimentation is needed.
As expected, the specific approach will have to wait until the flowers are brought back to the laboratory before we can make plans.
Then, he referred to the floor plan of the mushroom pig breeding base in the book to design a flower breeding base. If it was a flower breeding base, the roof needed to be raised a little and made retractable, so that the roof could be opened on sunny days to let the flowers bask in the sun.
There is no need to install sewage disposal equipment or water tanks in the farm, but soil is needed.
Use flower pots or dirt?
You need to try it, but the lilies will burrow into the ground. If you use mud soil, you need to install element inhibitors in the area. The cost will increase, but the advantage is that the lilies can absorb nutrients and water directly from the soil.
If you use flower pots, you can save the money on installing element inhibitors, but you need to water and fertilize them on time, so you need to install several automatic sprinklers in the farm. The price of a single automatic sprinkler is lower than that of an element inhibitor, but it is not cost-effective if the number is large. There is also the cost of fertilizers, which accumulates over time and is a large amount of money.
Maybe he could make his own fertilizer to save money, but when recording the cost, he still had to calculate it according to the price of fertilizer circulating on the market, otherwise he might set the price of the nectar too low.
Harold checked the blueprints of the organic fertilizer composting research site. Anyway, with the Rock Element God's Eye, he could build a rough house in less than a minute as long as there was enough space. The composting process was not complicated, but if he really wanted to make high-quality fertilizer, he had to hire people to carry manure. The labor cost involved...
Well... this is another math problem, so you have to calculate the cost carefully.
Harold was writing furiously in his notebook, drawing pictures and doing calculations. Soon it was past three in the morning and Harold felt a little sleepy.
He poured out the cold tea water in the cup, made another half cup of tea and placed it on the desk, ready to drink it tomorrow morning. After finishing his preparations before going to bed, Harold lay on the bed and closed his eyes.
At eight o'clock the next morning, Harold woke up, washed up, added hot water to the half cup of tea he had poured last night, drank it all, and then continued drawing.
He was busy until 12:20 noon. Harold washed his face and put on the scholar's hat representing the scholar of the Shenglun School of the Institute of the Church. "Sumeru Ancient Characters" felt his call and "whoosh" stood up from the desk and floated to his side.
It's almost time to go to the Ordinance House to deal with the remaining garbage people.