Chapter 251 The Idea of Farming
Ice marrow is a treasure that can only be condensed by an Ice Mage through the "Ice Extraction" method, using the Ice Blood to coordinate his own mana.
The condensation of every drop of ice marrow requires a lot of time and energy from an ice-born mage.
Similarly, for an ice mage, the more ice marrow the better, it can improve one's own ice bloodline. If it is not enough for one's own use, how can one easily give it to others?
Only under the premise that Duo'erbian has such a life-saving grace and the Shimo clan chief has a pure nature, Gothe can obtain three drops of precious ice marrow from his hand.
Henceforth, Gaode has no idea if he wants to obtain ice marrow again.
Need a "core product"!
Gaode couldn't help but think about it in his heart.
There are indeed many precious resources in the Northern Territory, but how to obtain them is also a problem.
I must be able to offer something good that the people in the north cannot refuse, in order to have a way to exchange for these precious resources.
It has been two months since we entered the Northern Territory. After these days of experience, Gothe thinks he has some understanding of the people in the Northern Territory.
On the permafrost tundra, there are actually only two real necessities: clothing and food.
Because these two are related to survival.
clothing.food.
When he really started to think seriously, something that Gao De valued but had neglected for a long time because of planting trees naturally emerged from the depths of his mind:
A mutated cold-resistant barley species discovered together with the fourth-level magic plant Mandora's Tears.
Barley seeds, barley seeds, after sowing, isn’t it just barley that is harvested?
And barley, isn’t it food?
Cold-resistant barley species, according to Flora's perception, need an environment of minus sixty degrees or lower to germinate and grow.
In other places, such conditions are too harsh.
But in the north, places of minus 60 degrees can be seen everywhere.
When he thought about it like this, Gaode couldn't help but feel excited.
In a place like the North, if food can be grown, the significance of this goes without saying.
However...there is another point that is also very important. How can we maintain our exclusive competitiveness?
After all, once the grain is sold, other people can use it as seed and grow it themselves without having to buy it from him.
Wouldn’t that be a one-and-done deal?
This seemed to be a difficult problem, but after Gaode thought about it for a while, he immediately came up with an idea.
Hybrid seeds.
Use cold-resistant barley species as one of the parents and conduct cross-breeding with other parents to obtain cold-resistant and high-yielding first-generation hybrid seeds.
The hybrid seeds of this generation will be planted again, and only the grain grown in this batch will be sold.
Due to the genetic characteristics of seeds, seeds that have been cross-bred can only show excellent characteristics when they are planted in the first generation.
And when they are saved as seeds and planted again, the offspring will have character segregation and will no longer be able to stably possess the excellent traits of the first generation seeds.
This ensures that even if others purchase grain and then save the seeds for second-generation planting, it will often be a waste of time.
At this moment, Gothe immediately exchanged his thoughts with the "tree planting expert" Flora.
"This is very simple, Lady Flora can do it." Upon hearing Gothe's idea, Flora immediately patted her chest and assured.
For her, when it comes to planting, no matter what she grows or how she grows it, there is no difficulty.
Because this is her natural ability and she doesn’t need to learn it at all.
"Then I'm afraid I'll have to rely on Lady Flora." Gothe said hello to Flora in advance.
"Okay!"
Flora answered in a straightforward tone at first, and then she realized it later and became confused.
"What's the use of this?"
"This can make a lot of money."
"Money? A lot?!"
The little man's eyes were bright, as if he had suddenly found the value of life.
"Then let's go grow food now!"
"I'm afraid it's not possible yet, we have to wait a little longer, Lady Flora."
"Why, Master, don't you want to make money?"
"Of course I do, but now I'm not controlled by others."
Hand said helplessly as he spread his hands.
"Oh, Mage, you were caught!" The little man then thought about it, and then frowned.
"They are obviously not bad people."
In her perception, Loic and Kathleen have no ill intentions towards Gothe, but if they are not bad people, why do they want to arrest the mage?
It’s so complicated!
Flora suddenly felt that the human world was too strange.
Here, Loic and Kathleen’s practice finally came to an end.
As usual, the two of them should start to rest.
But today it is different.
Then Kathleen looked at Gothe for a while, then touched it from her arms, then took out a finger-sized bottle and threw it to Gothe.
Gaode quickly caught it and took a closer look. The bottle contained two drops of crystal clear, blue and clear water drop-shaped gel.
"Is this?" He didn't understand what Kathleen meant.
"As I said before, I will compensate you after the matter is over. This is part of the compensation advanced to you," Kathleen said lightly: "I just noticed that you have awakened the Mandora Magic Eye. You should need these two drops of third-level ice marrow."
Duwei is not the only one who is knowledgeable.
Mandora's Tears, as a fourth-level magic plant that can only appear in the snowy area, Kathleen happens to have some understanding of it, or should be said to have a deep understanding of it.
She will naturally be able to recognize Mandora's magic eye, which has a small chance of awakening.
Hearing what Kathleen said, Gothe was not polite and accepted the two drops of third-level ice marrow with peace of mind.
This is what he deserves.
Humily sent a message to Baruch, but ended up in the current situation.
The Snowfield Guardian owes him a lot, so what does two drops of third-level ice marrow mean?
After this small episode, the two of them went back to resting as usual.
As soon as the two of them fell asleep, Gaode collected the ice marrow and quickly seized the time to use his magic power to trigger the forbidden ice needle and start today's adaptation.
The next few days, he was led by Kathleen and Loic and rushed to the Zhenbing Tribe.
Because of the detailed map guidance and the fact that both of them were strong, there were no accidents along the way.
Gothe maintains the rhythm of [adaptive] at night and resting during the day, constantly changing quietly.
his body's cold tolerance, pain tolerance and recovery ability are growing every day. Every day, Gothe feels as if he is being reborn:
Withstand the extreme cold, your cold resistance increases by 157% - 162% - 173% - 184% - 189% - 194% - 198% -
Withstand the pain of extreme cold, your pain tolerance increases by 86.2% - 87.3% - 88.9% - 93.5% - 94.6%.
Suffering from extreme cold injuries, your body's ability to recover from injuries increases by 39.3% - 45.6% - 51.2% - 56.9% - 57.3%.
The more the body's ability to recover from injuries is improved, the shorter the intermission period required for Gaode's recovery.
The shorter the recovery period, the longer his body can withstand the extreme cold.
Withstanding the extreme cold for a longer period of time, his body's cold resistance will increase faster.
The more the cold resistance is improved, the less frostbite he will suffer, and the interval will be further shortened.
Under such a virtuous cycle, Gaode's adaptability, especially its cold resistance, has improved rapidly, and is already infinitely close to the critical value of 200%.
It's just that, at this point, the improvement of cold resistance has finally become slow.
This is not because Zhen Bing's chill is not strong enough.
It is purely because the Forbidden Ice Needles contain too little Perfect Ice, and there are only five Forbidden Ice Needles in his body. If the number is not increased, the strength is naturally not enough.
Fortunately, it is only slowing down rather than stagnating.
However, the pain tolerance and physical recovery ability have indeed reached the upper limit.
The pain these five forbidden ice needles can bring now is like scratching an itch for Gothe.
Similarly, with his cold resistance improved to 198%, this level of Zhenbing is not enough to cause him injuries of sufficient intensity.
At this time, they still had about five days to travel before reaching the Zhenbing Tribe.
This month is a bit special. The updates will be few and unstable. I can only code a little if I have time. However, normal and stable updates will be restored in November. I kneel down to my good brothers!
(End of this chapter)