The promise of slow wear for the rest of your life

It is not without reason that Thorn Ridge has been impoverished for more than a hundred years.

The most important reason is that the land here is too barren and there are no mineral resources.

Because there are very few crops that can be grown on the land here, the leaders have gradually decreased from tens of millions at the beginning to less than a thousand today.

All the original citizens who were able to leave have left.

Some of them moved to other cities and counties, and some became refugees without a fixed place.

Later, there were only a few old men and young children who could not walk on the huge Thorn Ridge, and a very small number of young men and women who did not have the courage to cross the Thorn Wasteland.

More than a hundred years have passed, and now, the total number of people in Thorn Ridge is only a few hundred people.

The people who have lived here for generations and every head of the Burt family have almost thought of changing the poverty situation in Thorn Ridge and started to implement it.

It's a pity that no matter how hard they try, they can't grow crops in patches on this barren land.

They tried to grow even various trees, but they never managed to grow even a single one.

With more and more disappointments, the leaders have learned not to expect extravagantly.

Now they can grow crops in patches and harvest enough food for them to eat and drink, and they are satisfied.

As a result, they didn't dare to imagine that the trees were shady and the flowers were blooming everywhere.

It is precisely because Arnold has brought them a life of adequate food and clothing that they now take the initiative to help push mountains and plant trees.

Even if it is done, it is a waste of work.

But at least they worked hard for it.

In their opinion, this is the main reason why they came to help.As for taking the family to have a meal or something, it's just by the way.

What the citizens were thinking in their hearts, Arnold had no way of knowing.

As for whether those saplings and branches can be successfully planted into seedlings, it is completely irrelevant here for Arnold.

As early as the day when he first came to this land, Arnold figured out that most of the plants could not grow in the land here.

In his view, all this is because the metal elements contained in the soil here are too high.

Simply put, the soil here is heavy metal polluted soil.

Ordinary plants, most of them cannot survive in this kind of soil.

Even the water quality here contains slight metallic elements.

Because of this, most of the citizens here are not strong in physique, and they can't live long.

The younger brother of the original owner died of a serious illness after only living to middle age.

And if you want to change this status quo, Arnold can do very little.

He couldn't produce a large number of pollutant removers to quickly eliminate the land pollution and water pollution here, nor could he produce a large number of strange and super-accumulative plants that can greatly absorb heavy metals contained in the soil to slowly solve the problem here. pollution problem.

What can be done is to continue to follow the pace of the original owner, cultivate as many saplings as possible with the function of super-accumulating plants, and then transplant them into forests.

In this way, the problems of land pollution and water pollution here can be solved slowly.

Speaking of which, although the original owner didn't see through the problems that Arnold saw, he must have noticed a little superficial.

Just looking at the saplings he cultivated so hard, with the function of super-accumulating plants, Arnold can easily understand, and the original owner must have noticed that the reason why most plants cannot be grown here is because the soil and water quality are out of order. question,

Otherwise, it is impossible for him to just choose the sapling with super-accumulating plant function and cultivate it carefully.

According to the memories left by the original owner, Arnold learned that it was no accident that the original owner chose this sapling to cultivate carefully.

The original owner has a very high affinity for natural elements, and can communicate with plants.

Before carefully cultivating this sapling, the original owner used the soil here to try to plant no less than a hundred kinds of plants.

Those plants, without exception, all tried to grow failed.

Some of them didn't even germinate the seeds directly, and some of them died after they germinated.

Only the sapling he tried to plant later and finally decided to cultivate on a large scale survived a whole year in the hands of the original owner, and sprouted new shoots and green leaves again in the spring of the second year, and even the branches could be cut Cultivate into seedlings.

Arnold learned from the memory of the original owner that this sapling is an extremely rare tree species.

It has a thunderous name, even more famous than the tree of life, it is called "the ancient tree of war".

These tree species are now nearly extinct on the continent.

The reason why the original owner could recognize it was because he had seen the seed form and seedlings of this tree with his own eyes in the elf land where he had lived for nearly a hundred years.

At that time, there was a druid (tree man) who came from afar and begged the Elven King to give him a drop of the spiritual spring of life to soak the tree species of the ancient war tree that he had been looking for for nearly a thousand years. .

The Elven King graciously granted his request.

The druid never failed the elves' trust in him, so he diluted the drop of the life spring into the glass of water on the spot, and put a seed into the water cup where the life spring had been diluted.

In this way, after only one night, the seed germinated.

The next day, the druid thanked the elf king several times, and then he was satisfied holding the young seedling of the ancient tree of life transplanted into a pot, and stayed away from the elf tribe.

The original owner saw it with his own eyes at that time, the seed form and seedling form of the Ancient War Tree.

And the reason why the original owner was able to obtain the species of this nearly extinct ancient tree, and so many, was because of a well-designed scam.

In the first year when he took over as the lord, the original owner often sold slave rings and a small amount of magic potion that he made himself in order to support his family.

And he can't go too far every time, because someone at home is waiting for him to earn money to buy food to save his life.

If he went too far, in case he returned late, he worried that the old butler's family and his cheap nephew would starve to death.

So he can only go in and out frequently, near the business houses and magician unions in the county.

After a long time, he was being watched.

In view of the fact that he would buy some plant seeds to cultivate every time he sold out, those who followed him specially found a way to get a batch of unrecognizable seeds, and deceived the original owner that it was a kind of plant that could be found in any land. A rare plant seed that sprouts and grows.

After seeing the batch of seeds, the original owner bought them without saying a word.

That time, in order to buy the batch of seeds, the original owner almost spent the few silver coins he just got.

The scammers thought they had successfully defrauded him of money, and happily let him go.

The original owner, who recognized the type of the batch of seeds at a glance, returned to the territory full of anxiety about whether the batch of seeds would survive in Thorn Ridge.

There are more than a thousand seeds in total in that batch, and it is unknown how they got into the hands of the wandering human race.

In order to let them all germinate, the original owner almost shed tears.

The spring of life is sealed in his left eye, so the tears that flow out also contain some power of the spring of life.

The tree species of the ancient war tree must be soaked in the water containing the spiritual spring of life to germinate.

The power of the ancient war tree can be glimpsed just by hearing its name.

When the value of this tree was first discovered, the human race also flocked to it.

At that time, almost every kingdom that existed on the ancient continent sent people deep into the forests all over the continent to search for this kind of tree.

However, the ancient tree of war has its own super attack power, and the power of each fruit it bears is comparable to that of an intermediate-level mass-cast magic spell. If it falls into a crowd, it can kill a lot of people when it explodes.

The human race suffered heavy losses because of this, and the human race became angry afterward, thinking of destroying it if they could not get it.

The ancient war tree was destroyed at that time and was almost extinct.

Even if the human race got the tree seed of the ancient war tree by chance, they couldn't germinate it into seedlings because they couldn't get it right.

So far, the human race no longer dreamed of owning the ancient war tree to fight, and the tree species they got by chance were also abandoned by them.

The thousand or so tree species obtained by the original owner must have been left over from that time.

When more than a thousand tree species were cultivated earlier, the original owner accidentally determined whether the method of cuttings could breed another batch of saplings.

This problem was solved by the original owner relying on his talent of communicating with plants.

At first, the original owner thought that he was lucky if he could cultivate more than a thousand saplings of ancient war trees. He never expected that a bigger surprise was yet to come.

The original owner learned from the saplings he had contact with that as long as there is a spring of life to water them, their branches can be cut into seedlings.

After reaching this conclusion, the original owner only felt that he was hit by a huge pie that fell from the sky, and he almost cried with joy.

The tens of thousands of saplings cultivated by the original owner later were cultivated by this method.

Although in order to grow these saplings alive, the original owner almost cried and went blind.

But the original owner always believed that everything he did was worth it.

At that time, the original owner could even imagine that after a few years, when the saplings planted all over the Thorn Ridge grew up and bore fruit, the Thorn Ridge guarded by them would become an impenetrable existence.

The elves living in it will no longer have to worry about it, as they will no longer be able to gain a foothold on this continent.

Of course, such a grand scene will have to wait at least a few years later, when those saplings have grown up and bear fruit, before they can be realized.

They are still saplings now, so they don't have any attack power.

anyway.

For the newly cut branches, Arnold did not intend to make himself cry, but watered them with tears that contained the spring of life.

Because even he himself is not sure whether he, who has not shed tears for many, many years, can still shed so many tears to water the tens of thousands of cuttings.

In order to make up for his own shortcomings, Arnold locked himself in the underground alchemy room and stayed there for nearly half a month before coming out.

At this time, Ke De and the others were already in a hurry because of the withered state of a large area of ​​cuttings. :) :)