Astral Cockroach

Are life-seeded plants something you can just mess around with?

It looks like I won't be tasting the White Jade Mulberry fruit this year.

Banbu was very angry.

The Cattail is like a delicate little girl, so of course, I can't punish her.

But the Belly Bamboo is different. This little rascal is very naughty. On his first day at Lizhu Peak, he caused so much trouble. If I don't educate him properly, what will become of him in the future?

However, he's still too young, so I can't hit him.

Banbu wouldn't be as soft-hearted and laissez-faire as Iron Saber Mountain Master and Cliff Cypress were with Black Mulberry. He had the Big Head dispatch a few soldier ants to escort it to the foot of the mountain to cut grass. There was a scale, and it was stipulated that it had to cut three kilograms every day before it could eat and rest. This was called "labor reform." It would only regain its freedom when it had reformed.

If the little soldier ants are naughty, it's a minor matter; just restrain them a little.

Banbu was really having a headache over what to do: whether or not to invest a batch of origin stones to help the Blood Thorn God-given Seed grow.

Now, Lizhu Peak has more and more members, and all kinds of operations are starting up. It can be considered a "large enterprise."

All kinds of expenses are increasing accordingly, so it's very necessary to save a sum of origin stones for unexpected needs.

Currently, there are 16,000 origin stones.

This year, the Emerald Bamboo God-given Seed bamboo fruit will mature, which will probably require an investment of 7,000 origin stones.

Banbu's plan was to keep 9,000 origin stones in savings.

"Save them?"

"Or use them? The origin power abundance of the mountain range is insufficient, and it can't quite supply the growth needs of the Blood Thorn God-given Seed."

"If you're unwilling to part with origin stones, there's another way, which is to use an origin power crystal! The origin power contained in the origin power crystal would explode, supplying the growth of the Blood Thorn God-given Seed, which would definitely be more than enough."

He thought about it and struggled for two days.

Banbu was first unwilling to use the origin power crystal. Using it now would be a waste. There are only 7 of these things in total, and he doesn't have the qualifications to waste them.

Then he would use origin stones.

Banbu hardened his heart and divided the 9,000 origin stones, investing them evenly into the Blood Thorn God-given Seed over 18 days.

There was a relatively obvious effect. Judging by the aura, it reached the upper-middle quality, but it was also stuck here, making it difficult to continue improving.

According to the growth pattern of shrub-type God-given Seeds, when Banbu advances to the Mountain Master level in the future, it will undergo a qualitative change and grow once, reaching the upper quality. However, the highest quality of the Blood Thorn God-given Seed should be the upper quality. Its talent genes determine that this is its growth limit.

The Emerald Bamboo God-given Seed is also similar, only able to reach the upper quality at most, which is even lower than the Blood Thorn God-given Seed.

The Purple Gold God-given Seed may always be of the lower quality, or it may undergo a qualitative change once when Banbu advances to Mountain Master, improving to the middle quality, but it will also stop at the middle quality at most.

… …

Taking advantage of the great spring season, he opened up open spaces, transplanted bamboo, and expanded the bamboo forest.

Time flowed quietly.

Cattail finally successfully advanced to a level 7 elementary warrior.

The Cattail God-given Seed was sown in the paddy fields that had been prepared long ago at the foot of the mountain, quickly taking root, sprouting, and growing.

Unfortunately, it's similar to the Purple Gold God-given Seed. In the first year of sowing, it was only of the lower-lower quality, extremely poor.

The growth mode is clump-forming by tillering. The first time, it only divided into two clumps, and the scale was not very large.

The second time, it divided into 4 clumps, and the third time, it divided into 8 clumps, and so on.

Herbaceous plants grow very quickly. Corresponding to Cattail's strength, it will tiller three times each when it is an elementary warrior, intermediate warrior, and advanced warrior.

In terms of production and income, it should also be similar to the Purple Gold God-given Seed.

His expectations were not high to begin with, so Banbu was not particularly disappointed.

… …

As the cultivated bamboo species gradually grew up, Banbu had a new discovery during the observation process.

The hybrid of the Colorful Bitter Bamboo and the Colorful Red Bamboo produces seedlings that are almost identical to the Colorful Red Bamboo, with no difference visible.

The hybrid of the Gold-Striped Bamboo and the Golden Silk Cloud Bamboo is also like this. The grown seedlings are no different from the Golden Silk Cloud Bamboo seedlings.

After noticing this phenomenon, Banbu immediately made a guess and continued to pay attention until the early summer season when the second bamboo pole of the bamboo seedlings grew.

The second bamboo pole is much thicker than the first, and its shape is basically stable.

Banbu's guess was verified:

The Colorful Bitter Bamboo is a variant of the Colorful Red Bamboo. Strictly speaking, it is a bad mutation, a genetic mutation, missing many gene fragments and producing some new gene fragments.

Overall, the seedlings of the Colorful Bitter Bamboo are weaker than the Colorful Red Bamboo, making it difficult to adapt to climate change. This type of variant is very difficult to survive in nature. Don't think that it blooms and bears seeds every year. If it hadn't been discovered by the bamboo rat warriors, it would definitely have been eliminated in a few years.

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The Gold-Striped Bamboo is also like this. It is a variant of the Golden Silk Cloud Bamboo. The plant grows slowly, and the bamboo pole is slender and weak. At first, there was only one plant, and it was on the verge of death. If it hadn't been discovered by Banbu, it would definitely have been eliminated by nature.

This type of "bad mutant" has produced very valuable gene fragments: flowering and bearing seeds every year.

Banbu understands a lot of human genetic knowledge and knows the preciousness of "mutants." The hybridization of the original species and the mutant has a high probability of obtaining the "restored species": the mutated and missing genes are replenished, and the genes related to flowering and bearing seeds are inherited, a perfect combination.

If successful, the bamboo species obtained by crossing the Colorful Bitter Bamboo and the Colorful Red Bamboo will still be the Colorful Red Bamboo. However, it is not an ordinary Colorful Red Bamboo, but a genetically enhanced version, a high-quality Colorful Red Bamboo that can flower and bear seeds every year.

Similarly, if the Gold-Striped Bamboo and the Golden Silk Cloud Bamboo can be perfectly combined, what is obtained will be the enhanced version of the Golden Silk Cloud Bamboo.

Continuing the deduction: using the enhanced Golden Silk Cloud Bamboo to cross with the Spotted Bamboo will still result in the Emerald Bamboo, but because it carries the complete Golden Silk Cloud Bamboo gene, the genes of the obtained Emerald Bamboo species will also be stronger, thereby obtaining an enhanced version of the Emerald Bamboo species.

The characteristic performance of the enhanced version of the Emerald Bamboo should be a stronger ability to adapt to the environment, thicker and taller bamboo poles, and denser branches and leaves. It will flower and bear fruit every year. The excellent thing is that either the number of fruits will increase, or the size of the fruits will be larger, or both.

If all the ideas go smoothly, the Gold-Striped Bamboo and the Colorful Bitter Bamboo are the "sterile lines" in the three-line hybridization, and the Cloud Silk Golden Bamboo and the Colorful Red Bamboo are the restoration lines. The three-line hybrid bamboo species envisioned by Banbu can be easily realized.

The bamboo species of each line are cultivated and selected generation after generation, and there is a lot of room for improvement in the future.

… …

The mutation probability of rice is about one in 100,000. Through large-scale breeding and selection, it is easy to obtain the required rice species.

In terms of genes, bamboo is a higher-level plant than rice, and the mutation probability is much smaller, probably only one in 500,000.

During the mutation process, there is only a very small probability of obtaining the ideal bamboo species.

The only solution is to sow on a larger scale and obtain the desired bamboo species through a large base number.

Currently, Banbu has confirmed that the bamboo species that need to be cultivated are the Gold-Striped Bamboo, Cloud Silk Golden Bamboo, Spotted Bamboo, Xiang Bamboo, Colorful Bitter Bamboo, Colorful Red Bamboo, Purple Bamboo, Red Bamboo, Black Bamboo, Li Bamboo, Hemp Bamboo, Water Bamboo, etc., nearly twenty bamboo species.

He urgently needs some capable helpers, so he started teaching and cultivating Belly Bamboo early on. This is a rare red ant warrior who likes bamboo species. When it grows into an intermediate warrior, it can help select species. When it grows into an advanced warrior, it can independently complete some important experimental work.

Banbu also urgently needs a rare bamboo species—Colorful Cold Bamboo.

Colorful Cold Bamboo is a small bamboo species similar to Colorful Red Bamboo, which can be used for hybrid breeding.

Just entering summer, taking advantage of the fact that it has not yet entered the busy farming season of midsummer, Banbu set off with seven bamboo rat warriors, sending them into the bamboo sea of ​​the Sheep Hoof Mountains to find Colorful Cold Bamboo.

They will search for a whole summer and bring them back before autumn.

The Sheep Hoof Mountains are planned to build the "Red Firm Tree Sea". Construction should have started last year. Banbu is going to visit it. He also wants to see the big Yellow Fruit Banyan God-given Seed. As a tree, what scale can it reach after two consecutive years of urging growth? Will there be any hidden dangers left?