Astral Cockroach

A busy winter.

The trading square on the southeast side of Lizhu, located on the mountain range, was completed, and two roads were also built, leading to the foot of the mountain range and Lizhu Peak respectively.

The commercial road was only built for about 2 kilometers, and the trestle road has not yet started. The road is long and the task is heavy.

The progress of the reservoir on the top of the mountain is still acceptable. This year, it has been excavated downwards by 4 steps, increasing the depth by 2 meters. The trapezoidal structure means that the volume of mountain rocks to be excavated in each step decreases as it goes down, decreasing layer by layer. At the bottom layer, it is only a water channel with a length of 900 meters, a width of 2 meters, and a depth of 0.5 meters. The excavation speed is faster as it goes down.

… …

The quality of the Holy Bamboo, a God-given seed, is high, and the growth rate becomes slow. Even with a large number of World Tree remnants, it still took two spring seasons for 584 bamboo poles to completely grow.

In the summer of the 27th year of Banbu, the dry season arrived on time, and the Holy Bamboo bloomed. Next, there will be a fruit period of more than a year. Duzhu will do nothing else but guard the bamboo forest.

With the loss of Duzhu, an important labor force, Banbu couldn't be idle and had to go to the fields with Longzhu to work.

Busy, tired, but very happy.

The flowers of the Holy Bamboo, a God-given seed, withered, and the bamboo fruit was initially formed. Baba conducted a test and further provided Banbu with the most concerning data: it can extend life by up to about 58 years, requiring the consumption of 90 bamboo fruits to reach the limit.

Extend life by 58 years? Need 90 fruits?

In that case, it can only be split into 6 portions. Even if the price is increased, if the selling price of each bamboo fruit is set at 600,000 origin stones, it can only sell for 3.6 million origin stones.

Banbu quickly thought of a solution.

The life-extending effect of bamboo fruit diminishes. After consuming more than 30, the effect begins to weaken, and after more than 60, it severely weakens.

It can be divided into 64 bamboo fruits as one portion, which can strengthen about 50 years of life. It can be split into 9 portions, and the selling price is still set at 500,000 origin stones, which can sell for 4.5 million origin stones.

For things that are in short supply, increasing the number of portions can also sell to a few more families and forge a few more good relationships.

… …

The dry season is about to end. Since the bamboo sea has not yet been built, the water stored in the reservoir on the top of the mountain has not been used.

Banbu took Guanli, Xueli (small warriors from the Chijian County who like pear trees), and Baizhu, teaching them how to turn on and off the water valves, while draining the water and converting it into electricity.

Guanli is now an L2 advanced warrior. Xueli is one year younger and is now just an L9 intermediate warrior.

Guanli is Banbu's direct junior and has experience "studying" in Chiwu Mountain. Naturally, Xueli became its little follower.

These past few years have been too busy on the mountain to spare other warriors to guard. Guanli Peak is only 5 kilometers away from Lizhu Peak, so Banbu sent the deputy captain of the combat squad, Baizhu, to protect their safety.

… …

Just busy.

"Banbu, Banbu..." Daxiong ran over, shouting from afar.

Daxiong is usually quite steady, and this was the first time seeing it so flustered and making a fuss.

"What's wrong?" Banbu asked.

"Longzhu..." Daxiong stopped in place, pointed in a direction, and said, "Banbu, didn't you ask me to pull out that patch of Longzhu over there? I didn't have time before, but I'm free today, so I went over... I found that one of them seems to be bearing fruit. Isn't that abnormal?"

"Bearing fruit?!" Banbu was stunned, followed by ecstasy.

The Longzhu bamboo forest that Daxiong was referring to was located at the foot of the mountain, hidden within the Mazhu bamboo forest. It was originally planted with more than 300 withered seeds brought back casually, cultivated in the nursery, germinated into 50 plants, and then transplanted.

It was originally Duzhu's responsibility to take care of them, but the growth was very poor. After observing in the first and second years and confirming that they did not bloom, they were abandoned. Duzhu needed to take care of the Holy Bamboo God-given seed and had no time to manage them, so Banbu casually instructed Daxiong to pull out all the inferior Longzhu when he had time.

Banbu asked, "Daxiong, I remember those Longzhu plants were planted by the pond, right?"

Daxiong said, "Yes."

Growing by the pond, then it definitely wouldn't be due to water shortage during the dry season that caused it to bloom and bear fruit. Then it should be a Longzhu mutant!

His luck was too good, right?

Banbu was a little incredulous, flapping his wings and ascending into the air, instructing, "Baizhu, bring Baba over."

After speaking, he flew towards the bamboo forest not far away.

By the pond, there was already a small pile of freshly pulled bamboo. The branches and leaves could be sent to the biogas pool, while the bamboo poles could be dried and sent to the thermal power plant.

In front of him was a Longzhu plant with extremely poor growth. Nearly three years had passed, and it had only produced a mere 8 bamboo poles in total. The tallest of them was only about 20 meters, and the shortest was only 4 meters high, and it was still a crooked deformity that had just been pulled out.

On this somewhat deformed Longzhu bamboo pole, there were only four or five bamboo fruits hanging.

Daxiong should have seen the bamboo fruit after pulling it down and stopped in time.

Banbu looked at the remaining 7 bamboo poles, each with a few to a dozen green fruits hanging on them, all well-preserved and undamaged.

Daxiong's head wasn't very good, and his eyesight wasn't very good either. Fortunately, he was enlightened once at a critical moment.

Daxiong followed and ran down the mountain.

Guanli and Xueli also landed closely behind, looking at the Longzhu bearing fruit, filled with joy.

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Soon, Baizhu ran over holding Baba.

"Baba, please help check the genes of this Longzhu plant."

Baizhu held Baba forward to scan, and soon there was a conclusion.

Baba said, "This is the 'Longzhu mutant' you defined. However, its condition is extremely poor, with various congenital disabilities. The surrounding bamboo blocks the sunlight and also steals its nutrients. It's a miracle that it can survive. After all, it's a grass family plant. After this flowering and fruiting, it's estimated that it's not far from death."

Longzhu needs heat and plenty of sunlight.

This mutant was already congenitally weak, and the nearby Mazhu bamboo forest and the Longzhu next to it took away too much sunlight and nutrients, making its growth even more difficult.

"Daxiong, start now and clear the Mazhu nearby. Baizhu, dig out the few Longzhu plants next to it."

"Okay." Daxiong immediately started working.

"Understood." Baizhu put Baba on the ground and started working.

The hydropower station was initially put into use, and there was a rainy season in summer, producing a lot of electricity. Baba couldn't help but feel a little elated again, starting the anti-gravity engine, shaking and taking off, and landing on Banbu's forehead.

"Banbu, it's another mutant, why aren't you happy at all?"

Banbu said, "There's no God-given seed, what's there to be happy about?"

Baba said in surprise, "Eh! Your little brain is turning quite fast."

Banbu shook his head and threw Baba off.

Upon hearing the news, he was indeed instinctively happy at first, but then he immediately understood the key and cooled down nine points.

The Longzhu mutant is cultivated into Longzhu-1, which can only be pollinated to Mazhu. In essence, it is still a hybrid of Longzhu and Mazhu. No matter who pollinates whom, what is obtained is "Giant Dragon Bamboo". According to the "star" trigger mechanism in the sky, it is impossible to give birth to a God-given seed.

Since the mother plant is Mazhu, it is not as strong as the seeds cultivated by pollinating Longzhu with Mazhu-1.

What is the use of Longzhu mutant?

The year before last, Xueli conceived an ordinary Giant Dragon Bamboo life seed. It was sown and has not flowered or fruited for two years.

Baba has scanned and calculated that the flowering and fruiting cycle of ordinary Giant Dragon Bamboo life seeds is as long as 4 years. The condensed bamboo fruit has a relatively good effect of strengthening power and comes with the basic abilities of the cockroach tribe, which is the life force strengthening effect.

What Banbu can think of now is to cultivate the Longzhu mutant into the Longzhu-1 original species and cross-breed Mazhu-1 and Longzhu-1 with each other. In this way, the Giant Dragon Bamboo seeds obtained may be able to shorten the flowering and fruiting cycle somewhat. How exactly, a series of experiments are needed to verify.

Otherwise, it seems that nothing else can be done.