Chapter 164: Cheating the Flower Farmer
"Hmm? Why do you have such an idea? Senior Kavi is not going to cause any damage in my institute. The yellow-haired person I'm talking about is the kind of person who will kick a box or a can on the side of the road and leave nothing behind."
Haroldt opened the door of the disinfection room and turned to Dixia, saying, "After you finish recording the honey production today, come and disinfect and change your clothes, then go to the compartment to inject elemental power into the larvae."
"Okay." Dixia nodded.
Harold quickly disinfected and changed into a pure white lab coat, then carried the cage containing the two floating water mushrooms into the compartment where C18 was. He used the fire-attributed lily as the female parent and the lightning-attributed lily as the male parent, and cultivated a group of offspring numbered at the beginning of C, leaving only C18 as the only seedling.
The other nineteen seeds either did not germinate or the larvae died soon after germination. C18 has survived for thirty-two days, about 775 hours.
Harold entered the cubicle and instinctively glanced at the experimental calendar hanging on the wall. Seeing that the number 12 on the December page of the calendar was circled in red, he slowly walked to the culture dish of C28.
C18 is already an adult, but its height is much lower than the average level of adult gentiana, but it is still over two meters, so Haroldt replaced it with a three-meter-high culture dish with a small door.
The receptacle of this hybrid lily is no different from that of the fire-attributed lily, and its eyes are round. What is more special is its corolla and the part below the receptacle. The part near the receptacle is dark red, and then gradually turns light purple on both sides.
The inner side of the petals and the leaves below the receptacle are also light purple, while the petal veins and leaf veins are a lighter red than the petals and leaves. When C18 makes certain reactions, these lines will emit a faint light.
In terms of appearance, it is better looking than its parents.
Haroldt thought about it, and skillfully took out the elemental force display agent from the medicine cabinet on the wall, diluted it and put it into the spray bottle, then he opened the small door on the transparent petri dish.
Seeing Harold and sensing a familiar presence, C18 jumped to the small door and stood ten centimeters away from Harold, happily speeding up the swing of the blades.
The floating mushroom beast in the cage sensed the dangerous aura of the powerful elemental creature and screamed "Na, na" in fear. Harold opened the cage, caught a floating mushroom beast and threw it into the petri dish.
The floating water mushroom beast floated up the moment Harold let go, and used the water elemental force to extract water from its body, condensing a rhythmic water ball in front of itself and smashing it towards C18.
According to the records of the father and mother, C18 is already a fourth-generation artificially bred flower. It is relatively friendly and has almost no wildness. When it is fed with mice, it always follows the mice like an animal hunting, instead of spitting fire or lightning elements.
This also made him and Dixia suspect that it had lost the ability to use elemental power. However, Harold knew that it was better to trust technology than to trust the perception of the owner of the Eye of God. So he sprayed C18 with diluted elemental power display agent, which caused a red and purple halo to appear around C18.
Unlike C1 which only survives for five minutes, these halos will flow slowly like a river with the ticking of the second hand, which makes C18 appear to be surrounded by brilliance from a distance. This phenomenon shows that the two elemental pathways in C18's body are completely unobstructed and the elemental force is flowing normally. In theory, it can use the two elemental forces without obstacles.
After making this assumption, Haroldt put a sterilized floating water mushroom into the C18 culture dish. This creature was different from the little white mouse. It had a strong water elemental force. This elemental force stimulated C18, and it began to spray fire and lightning elements to attack the poor floating water mushroom without any instruction.
When it attacked, its corolla and all the veins on its body emitted a bright purple-red light, and two spherical objects appeared on its sides. Looking closely, they seemed to be red crystals half-covered by leaves. Harold used a camera to record the entire process of C18 hunting the floating mushroom beast.
Throughout the entire process, C18 was unable to use elemental power very well. This could be due to its domestication or a genetic defect. It launched attacks before it finally knocked the floating water mushroom beast down.
If it was a wild lizard, such poor hunting ability would cause it to be eliminated by nature... No, Teyvat has the power of earth veins, as long as it hides and is not discovered by humans or other elemental creatures, it can just eat and wait to die.
Haroldt has been observing C18's hunting these days, and has also been recording its grasp of elemental forces. If its poor hunting skills really stem from a genetic defect, then it is not suitable as a mother for breeding second-generation hybrid offspring.
Fortunately, after eight days of training, C18's elemental force manipulation skills have greatly improved. Although manipulating elemental force is an instinct that has been engraved in the bones of a liar since birth, C18 is an unnatural product after all, and having two elemental forces also adds a lot of difficulties to its learning.
So the fact that C18 couldn't skillfully use elemental power in eight days doesn't mean there's something wrong with his intelligence - well, this possibility still exists, who's smart enough to fool Hua into thinking it takes more than a week to learn how to throw elemental balls!
Harold held up the cage and looked at the situation in the petri dish. Compared with the floating water mushroom monster that began to condense water elemental power as soon as it sensed danger, C18's reaction was obviously half a beat slower. After being hit in the face by the large water ball, it shook its leaves vigorously and began to fight back.
"Eleven seconds, five shots."
After the charred floating water mushroom beast landed on the ground, Haroldt silently recited two data, and waited for C18 to swallow the mushroom beast into the corolla before he threw the other floating water mushroom beast into the petri dish.
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"Twelve seconds, four shots."
"How is it? Any progress?" After Dixia completed the disinfection, changing clothes, and feeding the larvae, she pushed open the door connecting the two compartments.
Since successfully breeding the Deception Flower artificially for three generations, Harold began to consciously increase the number of Deception Flowers, so he modified several laboratories and breeding rooms. Now in his research institute, the seed culture room, larval observation room and several laboratories are connected to each other.
He also built a new breeding farm for lilies outside the institute for breeding lilies for non-experimental purposes, but the lilies there are currently all wild.
Because after Dolly learned that he had artificially bred the Deceptive Flower to the fourth generation, she offered him a high price of three million Mora per Mora to buy the fourth generation of Deceptive Flower.
Harold rejected the proposal on the grounds that the number of the Lipschitz flowers was too small to meet the needs of the experiment, and instead proposed to Dolly, "Exchange the wild Lipschitz flowers for artificially bred ones, and you have to make up the difference to me at the price of one million Mora per flower."
Dolly carefully calculated the costs and benefits and quickly agreed to Harold's proposal. For Dolly, as long as it was not urgent, she could use her connections to continue purchasing wild lilies from merchants from various countries with whom she had cooperated at low prices ranging from 500,000 to 1 million per piece.
Even if you add a one million yuan price difference, the price of a fourth-generation liar is only two million Mora. However, a liar can produce 240 kilograms of liar nectar a year. Calculated at eight thousand Mora per kilogram of nectar, it can pay back the investment in about a year.
Add to that by-products such as pollen, and she will make a profit even though raising the deceptive flower requires a lot of manpower costs.
Haroldt has no energy to manage the production and sales of the honey of the flower. His current research topic is the hybridization of the flower. For him and Dixia, there is no difference between artificially bred and wild flower of the flower.
Anyway, once they get a wild one, they will beat it up and make it subdue, and if they want to put it on the experimental table, they will give it physical anesthesia in advance, so there is no situation where wild flowers will not cooperate with the experiment.
Both parties feel that it is a good deal, which is why their cooperation can continue. Harold has completed 17 fraud flower swaps with Dolly and earned 17 million Mora.
There are still many artificially bred lilies in his research institute. After all, the reproduction cycle of lilies is not long. However, Dolly has not been able to purchase more wild lilies for the time being.
In order to prevent these pure little flowers from being influenced by the wild lilies and becoming wild, he had to lock up all the lilies in the research institute first.