Chapter 54: Research on the Nectar of the Flower

Chapter 54: Research on the Nectar of the Flower

After dinner, Harold went out to look at the beasts of burden.

The two beasts of burden were now very familiar with him. When they heard his footsteps, they stood up, stretched their necks and came to the small window to beg for food.

Harold simply waved his hand and the rock house turned into dust. He was not worried about the two beasts of burden escaping, because no matter how fast they ran, they could not be faster than his book.

After the rock house disappeared, the two beasts of burden once again basked in the free breeze of the rainforest, but they stood still, not knowing whether they had not reacted or had already recognized their master.

Harold began to enclose a new pack animal pen using the river as a natural fence on one side. He used the elemental power of rock to condense the fences and inserted them into the ground. The part of each railing exposed above the ground was two meters high, and there was a one-meter gap between every two railings.

He did not leave a gap to make a door, but planned to make two or three railings disappear when he wanted to let the beast of burden out. This was very convenient.

When he was building the fence, the two beasts of burden followed him foolishly at first. When they came to an area with grass and water, they stopped and began to eat grass and drink water, allowing Harold to build the fence.

After completing this task, Harold entered the fence through the gap. He walked to the two beasts of burden. When the two beasts of burden saw him coming, they did not stop eating grass, but wagged their tails to express their welcome.

Harold reached out and touched the drooping ears of one of the pack animals - the ears of yak pack animals were very long, almost hanging down to the ground.

He felt the prickly touch; the creature's fur was not as soft as it looked.

Harold measured their length, width, back width and other data, and planned to go to the residential area of ​​the city later to customize reins, buckles, saddles and other tools.

This step was more difficult for him because he couldn't get the beasts of burden to squat on their own, so he simply used rocks as footstools to climb onto their backs.

It was the first time he sat on a creature without a saddle, and the beast's fur was very hard, prickling his calves uncomfortably. But it was also because of the long fur that he was able to find something to cling to on the beast's back to prevent himself from falling off, and he was able to quickly use a tape measure to get the data he wanted.

Then he picked a basket of peaches and interacted with the pack animals.

He took a Dun Dun peach and squatted on the ground. He stretched out his hand, made a "squat" gesture and shouted the command "lie down". The two beasts of burden did not understand what he meant, but in order to eat the Dun Dun peach, they chose to squat and lower their heads.

Harold fed them the peaches, and when they stood up, he took another peach and repeated the process.

After repeating this dozens of times, the two pack animals had become adept at squatting down and eating the peaches in his hand after he took out the Dun Dun peaches, but without the Dun Dun peaches, they would not respond to his gestures or commands at all.

Haroldt guessed that the IQ of the beast of burden should be lower than that of the flower.

But he was not disappointed. He believed that once he put reins on them and conveyed his commands by pulling the reins, the progress of taming the beasts of burden would accelerate rapidly.

In order to communicate with the beasts of burden, Harold collected more Dun Dun peaches, held the peaches in his hands and let the two beasts of burden squat beside him to eat the food in his hands.

Every time they finished eating, they would shake their ears to show that they were happy, and Harold would touch their chins (cats like to be touched like this because they can't lick this place themselves). The beasts of burden seemed to like being treated like this, and they would make a "clip sound" when Harold touched them.

After pacifying the pack animals, Haroldt returned to the laboratory to continue his studies and worked until one o'clock in the afternoon, which was the time he extracted the nectar of the deceitful flowers yesterday. He extracted the nectar of sixteen deceitful flowers again.

He was pleasantly surprised to find that almost every flower produced 220 ml of nectar, and the concentration of elements in the nectar accumulated by the flowers for only one day was very low and could be eaten by ordinary people.

After measurements and calculations, Harold found that the density of nectar is 1.51, which means that one nectar produces about 332.2 grams of nectar a day, and about 240 kilograms of nectar a year.

This output was beyond his expectation. You know, a box of Chinese bees can produce only 10-20 kilograms of honey a year, while Italian bees can produce more, a box of Italian bees can produce 100 kilograms of honey a year. However, honey production by bees is greatly affected by the weather, and most of the time the honey output does not reach that much.

In other words, if the honey bee can produce so much honey every day, the honey production of one honey bee in a year will be twice that of a box of Italian bees.

This output may not seem high, but honey bees are not like bees. Their honey production is not affected by climate or nectar sources, and elemental plant life will not get sick.

In theory, it is easier to manage a tamed Trickster than a box of bees, so the price of Trickster nectar should be lower than honey.

The word "should" is used here because he knows that if he cannot complete the project of breeding Lipschitzen and provide the Ordinance House with more than three generations of artificially bred Lipschitzen, then even if he "tames" the wild Lipschitzens, ordinary civilians will not choose to raise them.

Extracting nectar from the flower is also somewhat dangerous. No one can guarantee that the flower will not suddenly attack and injure people - lions and tigers in zoos sometimes eat keepers, so no one can say for sure.

Therefore, this kind of thing can only be done by specialized personnel, and the labor cost will increase.

However, based on this output, even if he could not complete the task of breeding the nectar of the lily, he could still control the price of the nectar of the lily to six thousand Mora per kilogram just by capturing and taming wild lily.

However, it is still uncertain whether he can capture and tame wild nectar in large quantities to increase the price of wild nectar to the price of refined sugar he wants, which is one-tenth of the current price (that is, one thousand moras per pound).

Harold estimated that it is highly unlikely to be achieved, and the focus of improving the sugar industry should still be on producing sugar from Dun Dun peaches and dates.

However, the worst outcome of his project on the deceptive plant has changed from [only being able to complete a paper on the evolutionary direction of the deceptive plant] to [only being able to find a substitute for refined sugar and add a new sweetness to the tables of middle-class families who can afford refined sugar].

That's great.

Harold was in a good mood. He hoped that he could get the same amount of nectar when he came to extract it again tomorrow.

Rather than selling the nectar as a luxury product, he hopes that his research results can benefit more ordinary people.

He recorded the data and sealed and labeled the nectar extracted today and put it in a glass cabinet.

He did not weigh the height and weight of the flowers because he did not know their age at this stage and these data had no reference value. He just wanted to know the approximate amount of honey produced by the flowers.

When he studies the reproduction of the nectar of the flowers in the next stage, he will carefully record the age, height, and weight of the little nectar flowers from the first day of their birth, plan their daily diet and the elemental power they absorb, and study the effects of these factors on the nectar production of the nectar flowers.