wasteland ranch

Chapter 238
Lin Guiyao looked at the lush fig forest, pondered for a moment, and walked to a fig plant.

【Fig (Red)】After domestication, the fruit of fig is ruby ​​red.

Ripening period: 45 days.

Selling price: 10G/piece

These figs have been planted for 45 days. Logically speaking, they should bear fruit in these few days, but apart from the thick leaves, the branches are smooth and there is no fruit.

Lin Guiyao walked to a wild fig again. Since it had not been domesticated, this fig was still a young seedling, with much thinner leaves and branches, but it could produce latex that can be used to refine rubber.

Domesticated figs are not good. Although the latex is drinkable, has a faint sweet taste, like soy milk, and produces a lot of milk, it has lost the ingredients for refining rubber, so the two kinds of figs are mixed species. host.

"I remember that figs seem to need to be pollinated by wasps to bear fruit, but I haven't seen any flying insects in the wasteland, so how do the wild figs on Qiufeng Mountain bear fruit?" Lin Guiyao pondered.

He discovered a magical phenomenon in this wasteland world, that is, he had not seen many flying animals until now:

Whether it's bees or bats, goshawks or pigeons, I've never seen even buzzing mosquitoes!

As strong as a mutant cockroach, it has to bounce like a flea. The carapace-like wings are just a defensive accessory, and they can't even glide.

There was one exception, however, and that was flies, creatures that were almost everywhere and would show up on the scene within half an hour of a dead body.

But after the flies in the wasteland are irradiated, they are only interested in feces and corpses, and are disdainful of plants. Naturally, they cannot become pollinators.

Even if he could, Lin Guiyao wouldn't dare to use it, he wouldn't know how to use it, it's too disgusting!
As for the reason for the scarcity of flying animals, Lin Guiyao asked Ge Bling and Ye Sangen, but they didn't have a clear explanation either.

One of their guesses is that animals flying in the air are very easy to be found by predators, and in order to fly, the body structure will become very fragile. Once they are found by other animals when they land or return to their nests, they will basically not be able to survive. , and cannot reproduce safely.

But this cannot perfectly explain why flying animals are so rare that there are almost no animals. After all, apart from the flying animals and corpses that everyone hates, there are still some remote and precipitous places that are suitable for them to survive.

Moreover, if the advantage of flying is used well, it can also be a big killer. You can use your better vision and range of activities to hunt or escape.

Even in the concept of most people, flying seems to be a ridiculous skill point. Otherwise, why would nature eliminate all flying animals?
This is also the reason why Gobling added flying devices to the Holy Spirit Armor during the daytime, but was laughed at by everyone.

Extreme energy consumption leads to low sustainability, poor flight stability and prone to flight accidents, extremely demanding requirements for operators, weak armor, and low load capacity resulting in less weapons to carry.
Various shortcomings make this flight characteristic, in addition to unreliable maneuverability, ultra-low combat effectiveness and adaptability, make it a useless one.

Of course, if you have enough martyrdom weapons like [The Last Holy Light], it would be good to use it as a self-detonation attack, but I am afraid that those people will not be able to control the direction of flight. up.

But no matter how the world despises flying, Gobling will continue to study it, especially after receiving Lin Guiyao's encouragement and inspiration, he has become more and more determined on this path.

After all, Lin Guiyao came from modern times, and he is very clear about the meaning of the Air Force.

"But that's a matter of the future. Bicycles can't be made, and airplanes will go farther."

Lin Guiyao shook his head, and waved to Ma Mali who stayed aside.

As the deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, this girl who is five big and three rough manages the farmland area in an orderly manner, and she can be regarded as a very capable assistant, especially when Lin Guiyao is doing nothing for three days.

"Mary, when Tang Dao sent these figs, did he explain anything? For example, how to pollinate, how to manage and so on?"

"Huh? He didn't say anything. I asked him why there were so many insect eggs in the tree species he sent, and he didn't say anything. He just let me plant them. Lord, tell me, can a tree species with insects be planted?" ? But I was too shy to talk about him, so I asked Minister Ye to prepare some insecticide..."

"Wait, you said insecticide?" Lin Guiyao interrupted Ma Mali, who kept complaining, with an unbelievable expression on his face.

"Yes, look how well these figs grow after killing the bugs." Marie brushed a bunch of thick fig leaves with her big hands, proudly.

Lin Guiyao held his forehead,
It was so!
Fortunately, he thought there was something wrong with his own system, and after a long time, it turned out that this was the case.

This result made him dumbfounded like an unscrupulous show.

What is the reason why there is always thunder on the wall in the middle of the night, the result is that the neighbors snore, and a dog who has died in a house is unwilling to enter. If you pull it in, you will howl and even die from limb stiffness. The result is the floor leakage...

Now the figs can't bear fruit, and the reason is that Ma Mali did something bad with good intentions and poisoned the vector...

alright, you win.

"Well, please ask someone to go to Qiufeng Mountain again and bring back some new tree species. Don't get rid of those insect eggs this time. By the way, show me when you come back. The reason is that I will I'll explain it to you."

After seeing off the confused Ma Mary, Lin Guiyao pondered.

The previous crops were pollinated by self-pollination or wind-pollinated, so he didn’t notice this problem, but now he encountered a fig that could only be pollinated by insect vectors, which shows that the previous method of separating animals and plants was wrong of.

In fact, this cannot form a good ecological chain. After all, plants and animals, as producers and consumers of nature, complement each other. Plants provide food to animals, and animal feces can in turn provide food to plants. Provide nutrition.

For example, the white bison in the pasture needs to eat a lot of pasture every day. When they eat the kind of grass called vertical tough grass, the excrement excreted can not only be used as fuel after drying, but also can be directly used as landfill. Solidifies the soil in swamps and provides a better soil environment for growing plants.

After being sterilized, it can even become a natural medium for planting fungi. It can be said that cow dung is a treasure, and everything is indispensable.

"But it's a bit troublesome to get through these two districts..."

Lin Guiyao frowned and looked back.

(End of this chapter)