Chapter 692: Chapter 428: Solving Agricultural Pollution_2
Outside of the plan for Tilaimei Plain, they had also accumulated some other advantages, such as new, suitable lands for agricultural development.
In fact, if the farmlands of the Tilaimei Plain had not suddenly been destroyed, the Councilman managing Tilamei would not have been Colin, but a new member from their Family.
Of course, it was also fortunate that Colin had appeared, otherwise it would have been their Family’s new Councilman dealing with the mess of the Tilaimei Plain.
...
Half a month later.
"Junior, come quickly! The Scargo Dissociation Technique seems to have worked!"
Outside Golden Barley City, in the experimental area, Lillian bent over to look at the flowerpot in front of her and excitedly saw the polluted soil change from gray-black to normal brown.
"The Scargo Dissociation Technique, together with the No Flower Plant, worked?" Colin asked, his face also brightened, and he quickly walked over!
Shelley and Atbolde, standing by the same flowerpot, were also surprised and quickly stood up to join them.
"It seems so... at least from the outside, there are no signs of pollution anymore," Lillian nodded and stepped aside to display the flowerpot in front of her.
Colin did not say much and entered a state of deep observation.
A moment later, he excitedly turned his head and looked at the three of them, saying, "The soil in the flowerpot indeed no longer has any Divine pollution!"
That was great. The joy in his heart was like a burst of cool wind suddenly blowing on a sweltering summer evening. Colin felt refreshed, and all his weariness seemed to dissipate.
That day, after observing the No Flower Plant carefully, he suddenly noticed that the Divine pollution did not immediately harm the No Flower Plant after entering its body; instead, it caused it to start blooming.
After that, the Divine pollution seemed to adapt and began to pollute and destroy the No Flower Plant.
In such a process, Colin observed the Divine pollution clearly for the first time—or rather, he saw the Divine pollution in a special state.
Previously, although he could observe the Divine pollution in farmlands deeply, at most he could only see these pollutions as a chaotic, gray-black flow, quite murky and unclear.
While in this state of chaotic gray-black flow, they had also tried countless methods, but no matter the method, these chaotic flows would not budge, and only plants passively attracted their invasion.
It seemed like the Tainted babblings, and the chaotic flow barely reacted to external forces.
However, when the Divine pollution entered the No Flower Plant, in the imperceptible gap between making it bloom and withering, Colin observed the chaotic flow suddenly change into a grayish-yellow material, resembling a spiked ball.
This state only lasted for a moment, but it affected all the Divine pollution in the entire flowerpot.
Instinctively harnessing the power of witchcraft, Colin tried to influence this tiny grayish-yellow spiked ball-like material formed from the chaotic flow.
Then, to his surprise, he discovered that this tiny grayish-yellow spiked ball-like material seemed to lose the chaotic flow’s immunity to various external forces, becoming movable.
Since it was influenced by witchcraft, that naturally meant—the tiny grayish-yellow spiked balls could be eliminated by external forces!
And since the tiny grayish-yellow spiked balls were the chaotic flow, eliminating them also meant eliminating the pollution in the farmlands.
Thus, after that, the four of them began around-the-clock experiments and finally found the first suitable method to resolve the tiny grayish-yellow spiked balls today—the Scargo Dissociation Technique!
"Fantastic!" Even Shelley couldn’t help but get a bit excited after hearing Colin’s affirmative response.
"The farmlands are finally saved!" Lillian cried out in joy!
Atbolde stepped forward and patted Colin on the shoulder, taking a long breath and remarked:
"Divine methods may be mysterious, but they are no match for you."
"It’s also a matter of luck," Colin smiled.
Being able to quickly find this loophole in the Divine pollution in the farmlands couldn’t be said to be without the element of luck.
However, if it had been another wizard, even if they noticed the changes in the No Flower Plant, without being able to further observe, they couldn’t find a solution to the pollution in the farmlands.
So strictly speaking, this wasn’t exactly a loophole, it was just that he was too exceptional.
Talking about it, when he first saw the colorful turbid rivulet turn into tiny gray-yellow thorn balls, he hadn’t reacted and thought his eyes were deceiving him.
Colin smiled to himself.
Ever since he had begun researching the Divine pollution, he had been pondering—
What exactly is the pollution that the Divine spread in the farmlands?
This question remained unanswered even when he could clearly examine the pollution in the fields.
It was only after seeing the transformation of the colorful turbid stream that he roughly had a vague idea.
The pollution in the farmlands likely possesses two characteristics.
One was obvious, similar to the Tainted babbling, which pollutes the hearts of people.
But Tainted babbling only affects conscious beings, clearly incapable of harming plants like wheat.
Thus, the pollution in farmland must possess a second characteristic—that of causing plants to wither.
There are many ways to induce withering in plants—lack of water, nutrients, or sunlight... any of these could lead to a plant’s decay.
However, the Divine pollution in the farmlands clearly did not cause the plants to wither through these methods.
Colin still did not know how exactly the Divine pollution in the farmlands caused the plants to wither, as the colorful turbid stream obscured everything, preventing him from seeing the specifics.
But the changes the colorful turbid stream underwent in the No Flower Plant gave him a faint guess—
The pollution in the fields was like a "universal pesticide" designed by the Divine that varied according to different plants, its exterior akin to the packaging of Tainted babbling...
Such methods of the Divine were still beyond Colin’s current understanding, and this conjecture was clearly not precise enough, at least the two characteristics of the colorful turbid stream should be tightly interconnected without division into inner and outer layers.
However, no matter what, this did not affect his use of the delay exhibited by the colorful turbid stream when encountering the No Flower Plant to resolve it.
"It’s just the end of August now, and there’ssome time until we plant winter wheat in late September. The Scargo Dissociation Technique is still too complicated for now, and dealing with the pollution in a flower pot’s soil is still feasible.
But if we want to solve the pollution in the entire Tilamei Plain’s farmlands... We’d better come up with a method to eradicate the pollution on a large scale during this period, striving to resolve all the farmland pollution in a short time in one go, to avoid potential risks."
Colin studied the flower pot’s soil that had returned to normal, then added.
He certainly didn’t want to resolve half the farmland pollution only to find that the remaining farmland’s pollution had been patched... after all, nobody knows whether the Divine still had more tricks up their sleeve, solving everything at once would be for the best.
...
In the following days, although still not entirely idle, Colin felt a significant alleviation in the pressure, even finding time to play with Nasi and Bobi or to guide the Renee sisters in their knightly training.
About a week passed and they had not yet perfected a method for large-scale eradication of farmland pollution, when a shocking piece of news that stunned the entire Siya Continent suddenly arrived.
"The true incarnation of the Lord of Blood and Thorns has been ambushed and killed by a Wizard team from the Supreme Council, dying on the spot."
Colin sat in his study, reading the newspaper sent by the Council, clicking his tongue in amazement.
This was clearly the Wizards’ retaliation for the previous Divine attack on the farmlands.
Yet a true incarnation of a Divine... that concept is entirely different from the usual projections or common incarnations of the Divine.
Indeed, it could be considered a shocking piece of news.
However, these developments were still somewhat distant from him.
After reading the newspaper, he headed back to the laboratory to continue researching methods with Shelley to tackle the farmland pollution on a large scale.
Meanwhile, Lillian and Atbolde were still trying to determine if there were other witchcrafts like the Scargo Dissociation Technique that could eliminate the tiny, gray-yellow thorn ball form of farmland pollution.
Thus, by late September, they had successfully developed a method to tackle the farmland pollution on a large scale.