Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 81 Four-Leaf Clover

In just a few minutes, Li Mu and his companion reached the ground above the underground city.

In the past, if Li Mu wanted to build a few ventilation channels, he would have to dig another thirty meters from the ground until it connected to the underground floor, but now it is not so troublesome.

He just casually scattered a few seeds on the ground. As the green light surged, the seeds sprouted quickly, and young green bamboos appeared in front of the two people.

Seeing this, Li Mu continued to infuse source energy, and then the tender green bamboo quickly grew thicker, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a thigh-thick nanmu bamboo, and continued to grow underground.

About two or three minutes later, under Li Mu's control, the roots of the nanmu bamboo had penetrated the thick soil layer, reached the underground layer, and stopped growing.

Then Li Mu changed the place to continue to promote the growth of bamboo, and repeated this process. After a while, there were several sturdy bamboos standing on the ground every few dozen meters.

"These bamboos are new plants I transformed. There are no bamboo knots in the middle. They were originally used as water pipes to build the underground city's piping system. I didn't expect that they would also come in handy for ventilation."

Li Mu looked at Yu Shuaikang, who was full of doubts, and explained a few words, and then continued,
"As long as we cut off the upper and lower ends of the bamboo and add an exhaust fan, there will be no problem in using it for ventilation.

You can find someone to build a cover on these bamboos later to prevent them from being blocked by mud and snow. "

"No problem, leave the rest to me!"

After listening to Li Mu's explanation, Yu Shuaikang agreed readily.

"Okay, I'll go back and create a plant that can act as an exhaust fan. You can go do your thing first."

After Li Mu finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the City Lord's Mansion, and arrived at the laboratory in a moment.

When thinking of plants that could act as exhaust fans, Li Mu immediately thought of clover, but the previously modified clover was not only of the right size, but also had an inappropriate function.

But this is not a big problem for Li Mu, he can just rebuild it.

It is still based on the ordinary clover, but in order to distinguish it from the flying clover, Li Mu plans to transform the ordinary clover into a four-leaf clover with four leaves.

The four-leaf clover is a variant of the three-leaf clover. According to legend, the four-leaf clover is a symbol of luck. If someone can find a four-leaf clover, it will bring good luck to himself.

The clover plant is everywhere, especially in green belts, where it grows in large patches.

Li Mu had looked for the rare four-leaf clover before, and he had found it. However, legends are just legends after all, and finding the four-leaf clover did not bring him good luck at the time.

"I hope this transformed four-leaf clover can bring good luck to Wanling City!"

Letting go of the memories, Li Mu poured source energy into the clover seeds in his hand.

At the same time, the image of the four-leaf clover kept flashing in Li Mu's mind, and he secretly thought in his heart: functions such as rotation, exhaust, and ventilation.

With the green light shining, the seeds in Li Mu's hand began to sprout and grow rapidly. In just two minutes, they grew into a plant as big as a washbasin.

The plant has four oval leaves that are slightly curled to allow for more efficient air movement.

In the middle is a round column, divided into two layers, and the four leaves are inserted in the upper layer.

The column is connected to a long rod-like stem, which is as thick as a forearm.

Li Mu held the long stem of the four-leaf clover and input a source of energy, and then the leaves on the top began to rotate. After careful observation, it can rotate more than two circles in about one second. Although the speed is very slow, it is more than enough for breathing.

It seems that the transformation was successful.

Li Mu then used energy to ripen the mother plant in front of him. After it bloomed and bore fruit, he removed the seeds and planted the mother plant in a flowerpot and placed it on a flower stand nearby.

This not-so-big flower stand is already filled with other plants, including the earliest heat-producing tomatoes, the recently transformed rice bamboo and cherry tomatoes, etc., plus the latest four-leaf clover, the flower stand is already full with no empty space left.

These plants are the mother plants of each modified plant. Except for their ability to produce seeds, all other modified plants that leave the laboratory have no reproductive function.

Li Mu looked at the flower stand and sighed, "It's time to build a bigger laboratory."

After expressing his emotion, Li Mu picked up the seeds from the four-leaf clover mother plant, walked out of the laboratory, and came to the outside of the City Lord's Mansion.

After scattering the seeds on the ground, Li Mu began to ripen them. After more than ten minutes, dozens of mature four-leaf clovers appeared on the ground.

Although these seeds cannot reproduce, they can grow on their own, but the growth rate is relatively slow.

Take the four-leaf clover for example. It would take at least a month for it to grow from a seed into a usable mature form simply by absorbing free source energy.

But the current situation does not allow them to grow slowly, so Li Mu can only use his own source energy to ripen them quickly.

Although doing so caused Li Mu a lot of trouble, he understood that Wanling City was just being built and everything had to be built from the foundation up. Once Wanling City grew in size, everything would get better.

After thinking for a while, Li Mu waved his hand and called a few residents. After explaining how to use the four-leaf clovers, he told them to give them to Yu Shuaikang.

Then he returned to the laboratory and thought about how to exchange some of the desired talents from the West Lake Shelter.

In Li Mu's opinion, if he wanted the top management of West Lake Shelter to hand over some talents in management and construction to him, it would be useless to just take out some resources for the public.

Whether it is the evergreen tree or the morning glory, they are only useful for the shelter as a whole, but they are not of much benefit to the senior management themselves.

Only by bringing out something special like fast-growing fruit trees can you impress them.

Cherry tomatoes are also okay, but their effectiveness is somewhat low. Unless you take out a large bunch of them, it is unlikely to work.

Thinking of the Zhu Fruit again, this natural treasure that could accelerate cultivation would definitely impress them, but Li Mu was reluctant to give it up.

After thinking about it, Li Mu suddenly remembered two plants: sunflowers and clover.

The former can provide a comfortable living environment, while the latter can provide life-saving capabilities.

These senior officials have no shortage of food and drink, but they definitely need to enjoy themselves. Most of them were accustomed to a life of luxury and debauchery before the Ice Age. Now that they are asked to use braziers to keep warm every day, they will definitely be dissatisfied with this.

Sunflowers are different from braziers. Although both can be used for heating, using braziers not only produces ashes and requires constant addition of charcoal, but the heating effect is also poor.

Sunflowers are not only pollution-free and have good heating effects, but they can also automatically absorb energy without consuming additional resources.

(End of this chapter)