Chapter 159 It is impossible to work for free
"Harold, save him! Can he be saved?! Elemental power... Oh, do we need to inject elemental power quickly?!" Kavi looked at Harold for help.
Harold: .
Harold stared at the little liar who was lying on the ground, thought for a moment, and asked seriously: "How are you going to compensate me, senior?"
Kavi was shocked: "Huh?!"
"This is very precious research material for me." Harold stared at Kavi without blinking.
Kavi was about to cry: "...How much compensation do you want?"
"Hey, does it have anything to do with your senior? The flow of elemental force in its body was not very stable at the beginning." Dixia said.
"It's just a joke, senior. It's not your fault." Harold said with a smile. Then he bent down, picked up the dead little liar and squeezed it. "Dissect it right away."
Kavi:?
"...Is it, is it really dead? No way?" Kavi made a somewhat difficult sound from his throat. It was clear that it had just separated from the seed coat not long ago. The newborn flower was still enjoying the sunshine and raindrops a minute ago. How could...
"Well, although there is still some elemental force remaining around it, there is no sign of elemental force flowing in its body." Harold pinched the leaves of the little liar with one hand and explained.
"Because it is a hybrid, there are some problems with the embryo's development. In addition, it carries two elements in its body at birth, so its element reflux is more likely to have problems than a single-element flower, just like two tricycles on a roundabout road are more likely to collide.
In fact, my original idea was to take advantage of this point. The blockage of the element circuit will cause the hybrid flowers to have two elemental powers but be unable to use these two powers correctly, then they will be completely harmless flowers.
In theory, this is true, but the flower itself may not be able to withstand the impact of this elemental force collision, so it is not so easy to succeed..."
"...If it fails, what will happen to the next few as well?" An inexplicable sadness rose in Kavi's heart.
"It's very likely. To be honest, I'm satisfied if the ratio of seeds to larvae can reach 3:1. In fact, this round of our experiment was very successful, and the fruit setting was quite good. Later, we got six more mature fruits. This is just the first attempt, and this data is quite good."
Harold said as he placed the little flower on the glass plate, took out a sterilized knife, and before making the first cut, he turned his head and asked, "Senior, do you want to continue watching?"
"Huh? Um... cut it." Kavi came back to his senses and said quickly.
Dixia patted his shoulder. As a participant in the hybridization experiment of the Prank Flower, she also felt sorry for the death of the Little Prank Flower.
But she quickly seemed to have thought of something, and stood next to Harold and said in a low voice: "You are not planning to cook the lizard flower today, are you? Let me make it clear first, I will never eat the one you dissected!"
"I might specimen this one. This is the first hybrid we have, and even though it didn't survive more than five minutes, it's still very scientifically valuable.
——I have recently spent a lot of money and am currently short of funds, so I will cheat on the main course tonight and cut a few pieces from the ones that are not scheduled for the experiment. "
As Harold spoke, he carefully cut open the receptacle of the little liar. He had previously dissected some liar larvae that died prematurely for various reasons.
The internal structures of the larvae with incomplete embryonic development were particularly similar. He was already familiar with the anatomy of the deceptive flower, but this time the hybrid offspring was smaller than the others, with the receptacle part only two centimeters in diameter, about two-thirds of the other larvae.
Harold used a smaller pair of tweezers to pick up the receptacle, and then dripped the elemental force display agent into it. Generally, the receptacle is the part of the flower with the highest concentration of elemental force, and it is also the place where they temporarily store elemental energy before launching an attack.
These energies will be transmitted to the corolla through tiny ducts in the wall of the receptacle and then ejected like bullets... In short, this is where the elemental forces are most active and most likely to collide.
After the elemental force indicator took effect, Harold found the place where the two elements collided, and carefully tore open that part of the skin with tweezers.
"Here, all the pipes inside are destroyed." Harold checked with a magnifying glass and then made room for Dixia.
"So it's not just a problem of embryo development, there's also the problem of element reflux and collision. My guess is really accurate..." Harold muttered to himself.
"What should we do? How should we adjust to increase the success rate of the experiment?" Dixia asked after looking at the damaged part.
"The experience of researchers back home has taught me that the best approach is to increase the number of experiments," says Haroldt.
This answer made Dixia a little stunned: "Is this also a joke?"
"No, it's the truth. Another method is to reselect the male or female parent, but because the individual differences between flowers of the same attribute are very small, this method can be ignored." Harold said, "But Miss Dixia can try to attach as little fire elemental power as possible in the next round of experiments.
After all, if two cars are driving on the same road, as long as one of them is small enough, the possibility of a collision will be reduced. "
"Turn it down further?" Dixia could already foresee how difficult the next experiment would be. Thinking about the difficulty of the next experiment, she thought to herself, I didn't expect that my first attempt to break through my own limits would be in your laboratory.
Then Harold made the dead, first dual-attribute flower in Teyvat into a specimen. After finishing the research institute's affairs, he took Kavi back to Elhaisen's study.
In the evening, the two of them found the person in charge of the driver's license test together. Kavi introduced Harold to him, and the person in charge also showed kindness to Harold.
When he learned that the two wanted to observe the driving test, he immediately agreed: "Do you two want to be the test site inspectors? During the first test, the inspectors can freely enter and exit the test sites. During the second test, they can sit in the three-wheeled vehicle and score the test takers' operation."
Kavi was somewhat tempted to observe the test-taking status of the candidates up close.
"Are there any wages?" asked Harold.
This question made the person in charge stunned. After thinking quickly, he said, "...No, the staff in the examination room are all civilian staff of the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education organizes the examination on weekdays. In theory, completing the tasks assigned by the Ministry of Education is their job.
But if you need, I can arrange your work as a substitute, and I will ask other staff if anyone wants to use that half-day salary in exchange for rest time. "
"Thank you for your help." Harold nodded.