Master Craftsman of the Elven World

Chapter 14 "Obtained "soft soil"! "

For the next two days, Guangtai and Dujianshao continued to work on clearing the land and did not go anywhere.

On the morning of the third day, several gophers suddenly came to the cleared wasteland and began to call to the light moss.

Today is June 6th and the weather is sunny.

"Dige, Dige!"

The moles have arrived? Is farming over in the village?
This surprised Guangtai a little, but something even more surprising happened. The ground suddenly bulged up, and three round brown heads gathered together and broke out of the ground.

"Dagu!"

It's three moles!

The three moles are triplets that are good at teamwork. Compared with the previous evolution, they have two more heads that are exactly the same as the moles, but the three heads are different in height. As for the body, there is nothing to say, it is still buried in the soil and has never been seen.

The three moles stared at Guangtai with their six eyes and said something in a loud voice. Guangtai could not understand what it meant, but fortunately there was a sword sheath beside him.

Pokémon's own language, although the calls are different, the meanings are the same. This is so magical that no doctoral student in Pokémon linguistics has yet to produce any results. Light Moss himself can understand the meaning of the words of ghost-attribute Pokémon through his knowledge, but is powerless for Pokémon of other attributes.

"Yo~ Yo~!" Du Jianshao pointed at the hilt of the sword and began to explain to Guangtai.

In fact, it was the old man in the medicine house who told them about you and gave the gophers food, and the gophers felt that it was about time.

Farming has a specific time frame and cannot be delayed too long, especially on this piece of land, where nothing has been planted for a long time, all kinds of weeds are growing, and there are no signs of the soil being turned over, so I came over to help immediately!
Some corresponding knowledge also emerged in Guang Moss's mind:
When tilling the soil, the first tillage is mainly to chop up the weeds and residues on the surface of the land and mix them into the soil, laying a good foundation for subsequent tillage.

For softer soil, the number of tillages can be reduced appropriately; while for harder or compacted soil, the number of tillages needs to be increased to ensure uniform mixing and refinement of the soil.

At the same time, the tillage of the gophers can turn the land into "loose soil", which is suitable for growing fruit trees, but if it is not frequently tilled or fertilizers are used, it will soon turn back into ordinary soil.

This is knowledge from a “grower”!

"Digletts are natural agriculturalists. Few Pokémon can match their understanding of soil." Light Moss muttered to himself, while thanking the three Digletts:

"That's really helpful. It turns out you are all natural farming masters. That's amazing."

"Dago. Daguto!" The three rats all showed proud expressions in response to Guang Moss's praise, and the sounds they made were like "No big deal, we do this every year, don't be shocked!"

The gophers were also very happy. They quickly began to help Light Moss with the first soil plowing. They were very enthusiastic. Three gophers brought over a dozen gophers, singing gopher songs and digging and turning the soil continuously!
And the light moss prepared food for them.

There are some food at home, as well as some tree fruits and Pokémon-specific food.

The original owner brought Pokémon food with him so that when he was treasure hunting in the wild, if he encountered wild Pokémon, he could bribe them with Pokémon food, or throw the food to them and take the opportunity to escape. Of course, in an emergency, humans can also eat this food.

The sword sheath was floating in the air, watching the moles plowing the fields intently. The scene of their work vaguely reminded it of some scenes it had seen in the Kingdom Era, but at that time humans used all kinds of tools to force the "monsters" to work.

The gophers work very quickly, and even soil that has not been turned over for a long time quickly becomes loose under their strength.

As they work, the compact soil layer becomes a loose and fine tillage layer, and the soil porosity gradually increases, which is conducive to receiving and storing rainwater. At the same time, it also promotes the increase of potential nutrients in the soil, improves fertility, and allows the roots of crops to extend.

"Dagu!"

Three gophers came out of the plow layer, and along with its call, it also meant that all the land cleared by the light moss had been plowed!
At this moment, Guangtai's thoughts suddenly came together!

"The three rats and the rats helped you complete a task!"

"Obtained: "Loose soil"! "

"The three hamsters and the hamsters have gained experience and grown! The speed and effort value have increased!"

"Three Digletts have acquired the knowledge: Vigorous Farming - Farming speed +10%. "

"Three Digletts have mastered the move: Power of the Earth!"

"Dagoto?"

The three rats noticed their changes, and all three heads looked around in confusion!

How come I suddenly mastered new skills when I was just plowing the land? And my body became stronger, which was really strange!
Guangtai was also a little surprised when he saw this situation.

"I see. It's really similar to 'Pokémon Help'. You just need to ask Pokémon to help you. After doing a lot of work, they can gain experience and grow. The so-called growth here probably means level increase and effort value increase."

After eating the Pokémon food prepared by Light Moss, Diglett and the other Diggers happily left while digging holes.

In a short period of time, the wasteland was completely renewed. The brown loose soil that had been plowed out occupied the entire field of vision, while Guang Moss and Du Jianshao continued to pick up the stones and branches that had not been cleared away, and used the branches to make simple area divisions.

"The area of medicinal herbs, healing herbs, vitality buds, insecticide and resurrection herbs."

"For the cultivation of fruit trees, fertilizers are purchased online." The seeds have been divided into areas, and all the seeds that should be planted have been sown, including beach radish seeds, rolling bean seeds, royal leaf seeds, and healing grass seeds.
The transplanting part has also been completed. The resurrection grass has been buried back in the soil. The reproduction of this powerful herb mainly relies on strong rhizomes, also known as "vitality roots", so the resurrection grass will be replanted.

This growth characteristic of the plant can be used to achieve rhizome propagation, or division propagation, that is, the horizontal rhizome is divided into several small sections according to a certain length or number of nodes, and 3 to 5 buds are retained in each section for seed propagation, and then planted separately to cultivate independent new plants.

In the process of successive plantings, the knowledge of the Planter continues to come into play, and the seeds will grow rapidly and become stronger and more luxuriant than their counterparts.

While Du Jianshao was scratching the soil and wrapping branches with blue ribbon, he suddenly seemed to think of something and his one eye widened!

“Huh?!”

Didn’t your trainer say that before?

Vitality fragments are made from healing grass and vitality buds?
"Yo!"

Du Jianshao suddenly became excited. Looking at the two areas designated for planting healing herbs and vitality buds, he immediately had an idea!

The strokes are too small! You should draw them a little bigger and plant more of these two herbs so that you will have endless vitality fragments!

"Oh? You want to have endless vitality fragments? Although herbs do grow very fast, they can't grow indefinitely, especially medicinal herbs. If they mature too quickly, they will consume the soil's fertility. If there is not enough high-quality fertilizer to nourish them, the nutrients in the soil will not be restored and replenished. Especially for large-scale, high-density planting, it will lead to land degradation in serious cases."

Guangtai waved his hand, rejecting Du Jianshao's proposal, and Du Jianshao's eyes widened even more.

Soil, soil degradation?
This is a field I have never heard of!

The scabbard began to think, and soon it waved the blue ribbon again and came up with a new idea!

Hey, there it is!

It seems that some grass-type and ground-type Pokémon can increase soil fertility, so you only need to capture the corresponding Pokémon.
"It's too early to say this now. We haven't even planted the first batch of herbs yet. Besides, it's not easy to capture Grass-attribute Pokémon. Some Grass-attribute Pokémon not only cannot enhance the fertility of the land, but may also consume additional soil fertility. How can you be sure whether the other party's ability is beneficial to the land when you don't know them at all?"

That’s right, the grass-attribute Pokémon that makes the land barren is you, Grubhu!
But that guy is a legendary Pokémon, and it is sealed in another land far away, so there is no need to worry about it suddenly refreshing in other areas.

Of course, among the common grass-attribute Pokémon, walking grass will also affect the harvest of crops because they will steal nutrients from the land.

This question frightened Du Jianshao, and he began to reflect.

I see, the Pokémon thing is really profound! It has the grass attribute, but it can also cause the land to become barren, which is completely contrary to its own attribute!

However, Guangtai was indeed thinking about Dujianshao's proposal.

"If you want the grass to grow well, it would be great if the rabbi could come out to help you sometimes. Hey! What am I dreaming about?"

Guang Moss shook his head. In the game, you have to send a letter to get a Pokémon. But in the real Pokémon world, who sends you a letter? Arceus?
As for the grass attribute, the grass attribute Pokémon in the Hoenn region that like warm and humid weather can be directly excluded, and the grass Pokémon that can adapt to the cold, the only choices are those in the Sinnoh Pokédex, which is very narrow. From a personal point of view, I really want a Grass Squirtle.

The shell on the back of the Grass Turtle is made of mud. When the Grass Turtle evolves into a Turtles, it can be directly turned into a mobile plantation, and you can easily grow herbs on the Turtles when traveling.

From the perspective of production and life, the earth turtle is a very good choice.

But there is one thing that is very strange. Although they are four times weaker than ice, they live in the cold Sinnoh region, which symbolizes the strong.

At night, Guangtai started working again.

The cloths placed in the dark corners already gave off some strange feelings. Guang Tai picked up some of the cloths and saw the corresponding material information.

【Rare materials: mysterious cloth. 】

[Description: A piece of rag stained with ghosts can be processed by ghost-type Pokémon to obtain "Old Cloth".]

[Using this kind of cloth to make amulets/clothing/decorations may produce some unique effects. 】

【Get relevant knowledge: 1】

[Spiritual Cloth Processor: The speed of transforming spiritual cloth increases by 10%. ]

"One Sword Sheath, come to work!"

Guang Moss called Du Jian Shao over, and Du Jian Shao was actually waiting for this moment.

Many days have passed, and it is finally time for processing.

It skillfully rolled up some mysterious cloth with a blue ribbon, and then injected its own ghost energy into it, making it gradually closer to its own nature. Then the cloth began to turn blue, as if it was an extension of the blue ribbon that looked like a ghost hand, and this time the blue was obviously darker than the last time.

In the eyes of Guang Moss, the information of the material has changed.

(End of this chapter)