Chapter 250 Harold: Because of saving money
"Once the first plants have bloomed and the test results are in, you can then conduct a small number of experiments on the young plants."
Harold said this calmly, then he handed the experiment record book back to Radu, ignored his ecstatic expression, and turned to walk towards the research institute.
In the research institute, Dixia has completed today's pollination, recording, and feeding work. She is sitting at the laboratory table reading her notes, digesting the knowledge that Haroldt taught her a few days ago about the impact of "Jiarang's Blessing" on plants.
"Ms. Dixia, how are the mother plants from the last batch of successful pollinations doing now?" Harold asked.
Dixia quickly clipped a note into her notebook, closed it, turned around, and said helplessly:
"It's still the same. It was slow in the first few days, and the elemental power it absorbed increased. It seemed to be entering the fruit-bearing period, but in the end—"
Dixia tilted her head, rolled her eyes, and spread her hands, indicating that it was all in vain in the end.
Harold exhaled: "Then we should try to start from other aspects, Miss Dixia, from now on, we will not use water heaters and refrigerators."
Dixia said "Huh?" in confusion. She couldn't understand what the water heater and refrigerator had to do with their research.
"I'm going to start by canceling all elemental forces. I think elemental forces should be the variable that has the greatest impact on all elemental creatures.
So I have to make sure that the female parent does not come into contact with elemental forces of other attributes before pollination and before the fruit matures, and the male parent does not come into contact with elemental forces of other attributes before producing pollen. "
Harold explained, "The water heaters, refrigerators, ultraviolet lamps, incubators, and other equipment we use now are all driven by the elemental forces in minerals.
Well... although most of these elements are converted into mechanical energy and thermal energy, some of them are definitely not completely converted.
You can think of it as a water leak, and this leak happens 24 hours a day. The elemental forces are like water flowing out of a pipe and spread everywhere, so the concentration of elemental forces in my institute has increased.
We have tried this before. We only let them absorb your fire elemental power after the female parent is pollinated, and we don't let them absorb the elemental power before collecting the male parent's pollen.
But in fact, they also absorbed elemental forces of different attributes leaked from the air and soil, which might have a certain impact on them.
I'm going to move them out to make room for other equipment that doesn't need to use fossil energy."
Harold thought that Fontaine had actually developed a mechanical device that could achieve a 100% conversion rate of elemental power, but it was too expensive.
The ones I bought are a hundred times cheaper than those anti-scientific machines, so the conversion rate of elemental force is naturally lower.
Replacing all of these devices with more high-tech ones would certainly solve the problem, but it would be far less economical than removing all the old ones.
Water heaters and refrigerators are not necessities, so it doesn't matter whether you use them or not. And as long as there is an anchor point, you can get anything you want from the house in Xumi City. It's just a little troublesome.
"I understand. If you need me to help you move things, just tell me."
After listening to Harold's explanation, Dixia nodded, thinking that her employer's guess was reasonable, and his request was reasonable. As a mercenary, she should help her employer achieve his goal, and she had no reason to object.
"I can do it myself. I will use anchors to temporarily store these things in my house in Xumi City," Harold said with a smile.
“In addition, we have to move the mother plants out to prevent them from being disturbed by the elemental forces of other deceiving flowers. I plan to build a new house a little further away.
Then completely separate the Pianpian Flower Breeding Farm and the Pianpian Flower Research Institute - in fact, this should have been done a long time ago.
As for necessities such as UV lamps and incubators, I will replace them all with those powered by internal combustion engines. Internal combustion engines are antiques, and matching UV lamps and incubators are not available now. I asked someone to modify them last week.
I asked the mechanics to not change their original external structures as much as possible. Your work will not be affected too much, Ms. Dixia. Just remember to refuel the internal combustion engine on time."
Harold sighed in his heart and thought: This is the most convenient option. If I had more anchor points, I would build the mother plant, the father plant, the breeding flower, and the research institute all over Xumi.
But now, in order to ensure the efficiency of the experiment, I have to take measures to remove the instruments.
"Okay, I'll follow your instructions." Dixia didn't care.
Her life motto has always been to enjoy a good working environment if it is good, and not to complain if the conditions are not good. She just tries to make the best use of the surrounding environment to make her life more comfortable. So after a brief regret, she quickly accepted the fact that her quality of life would be greatly reduced.
"Then I'll go say hello to my roommates. If they all agree, I'll move all these things out right away," said Harold.
"Right now?" Dixia was a little surprised.
"Now, everything else is ready. We just need to clear this place and move the master copy to the designated location. So if things go quickly, we can start a new round of research tomorrow." Harold said with a smile.
"You are so efficient. I thought you were just letting me know today so that I could be mentally prepared, but I didn't expect that you came to me after you had prepared everything." Dixia sighed.
Harold shrugged, saying that was the way it was with all scholars, and then he was transported to Elhaisen's study via the anchor point.
"Senior Elhaisen, I need to store some things at home." Harold said to Elhaisen who was reading a book.
"Well, there are a lot of things. We need to occupy a public place, right? I want to know what specifically you want to bring back." Elhaisen said while reading a book.
Harold: "Water heaters, refrigerators, fruit preservation devices, ultraviolet light lamps, energy extraction devices..."
...?
Elhaisen raised his head and stared at Harold with his green eyes.
Harold also looked around Alhaisen's study, estimated the remaining space inside, and then explained under Alhaisen's sharp gaze:
“I want to free up space in the institute for other equipment.”
Moving them outside the institute and building a warehouse for them would also solve the problem, but you still need to find porters, so one-click transport would save time and effort.
It would have been better if I had accepted students who were stronger than me. Harold thought with regret.
"Can I use your study room, Senior? I'll give you a box of new freeze-dried mushrooms as a thank you gift. They're salty and you should like them."
Haroldt glanced at the space in the study, and as he expected, there was enough space to accommodate the things he needed to move out.
"It won't take long, right? If it doesn't take long, no extra storage fee will be charged this time." After listening to Harold's narration, Elhaisen turned his attention to the book in his hand again.
"If the experiment goes well, it will take about three months," said Harold.
El Haisen: "Two boxes of freeze-dried food, I've agreed. If you can give me three boxes, I can help you."
"Two boxes of freeze-dried food. I'll write a letter and have someone send them over." Harold politely declined the latter proposal.
Elhaisen said nothing more. Harold quickly teleported back to the research institute, and then teleported back and forth repeatedly, bringing back a large device each time.
Elhaisen's study quickly became crowded, but Elhaisen seemed to feel nothing and sat between the refrigerator, fruit preservation device and washing machine to read quietly.
After moving all the things, Haroldt went to his room, put a series of devices that had been modified by someone else onto the cart, and then sent it to the research institute to set up together with Dixia.
They completed the project in less than two hours. Almost all the large equipment in the institute was replaced, with only a few energy input tubes being unplugged and left in place.
Then the two began to move the mother plant again. The new location that Harold found was about one kilometer away from the research institute. This distance could eliminate the influence of other deceptive flowers in the research institute on the mother plant.
It took significantly longer to move the mother plants. Although Haroldt had only selected fifty mother plants for this experiment, the two of them did not complete the task until noon the next day.