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Chapter 182 - 178: Cooking Fruit Grass, Chen Qing’s Past

Chapter 182: Chapter 178: Cooking Fruit Grass, Chen Qing’s Past

After leaving the Good Heart Factory, Chen Qing returned to her ship.

She had no plans to leave Rust Island before the factory delivered its goods.

The auction for the Ghost Ship and Eight Thousand Leaving Fire was still ongoing, lasting longer than expected and had yet to conclude.

Chen Qing had finished preparing the potion for Meimei and handed it over to Ming Rang; she planned to spend the upcoming time in the cultivation and breeding areas.

As for the guy who had colluded with Hannah to plot against her, Chen Qing left him and those combat-type machines to be dealt with by Mechanical Heart.

Chen Qing brought materials and blueprints to the cultivation area, which was divided into areas for Transcendent Plants and ordinary plants.

Beneath these two major plant areas, there were various smaller zones.

They were divided into different small areas based on various factors such as quality level, growing environment, plant size...

For now, Transcendent Plants occupied the majority of the cultivation area.

The Extraordinary Soil Chen Qing had traded from the Sky Blue Wood Chamber of Commerce was also in the Transcendent Plant area.

Currently, ordinary plants could only be planted in common soil.

Once Chen Qing had the money, she would definitely cover the entire cultivation area with Extraordinary Soil.

Many Transcendent Plants evolved from ordinary plants through mutation, and Extraordinary Soil naturally played a major role in this process.

Approaching the huge glass enclosure on the deck, Chen Qing’s palm covered the glass, and a silver light appeared where her hand touched.

The light turned into straight silver lines that crawled across the entire glass enclosure.

A door appeared before Chen Qing’s eyes.

The cultivation area had no concept of a door, or rather, doors did not physically exist in the cultivation area.

The entrance to the cultivation area could appear at any place.

Only Chen Qing or those authorized by Mechanical Heart, whether they be creations or lifeforms, could obtain the qualifications to enter the cultivation area and see the door.

Otherwise, the only option would be to force entry.

But this option was not the correct choice, as presumably no one would want to experience what it was like to go up against an A-level Transcendent Ship.

Opening the door, she entered the cultivation area, where vast expanses of greenery came into view, exuding vigorous vitality.

The first thing Chen Qing saw was the neatly planted cereal fields, with a variety of plants growing in the surrounding woods centered around the fields.

The Transcendent Plants were in a different area; Chen Qing had acquired a very interesting cereal seed from the Sky Blue Wood Chamber of Commerce.

This seed was a genetically modified plant that could be classified either as a Transcendent Plant or an ordinary plant.

This artificially induced Transcendent Plant had no other use aside from consumption; the Sky Blue Wood Chamber of Commerce preferred to classify it as an ordinary plant.

[XI-167 Experimental Plant (Light Green)]

It had a more commonly understood name, called Cooking Fruit Grass.

It was a gigantic herbaceous plant, resembling a banana, but much larger and sturdier than a banana.

During its growth period, it would produce flower-like bracts that absorbed a large amount of nutrients, eventually forming a dusty-looking fruit.

Inside the fruit was a fully-cooked dish once opened.

According to people who had consumed Cooking Grass Fruit, the taste of a good fruit was quite pleasant.

However, as an experimental plant, it was unstable.

No one knew exactly what kind of dish would grow inside; whether it would be delicious or disastrous was completely uncontrolled.

It would yield different outcomes based on a variety of events that occurred during its growth in the environment.

Even a bird flying over a particular plant could cause it to change slightly.

Because of its difficulty to manage and its unpredictability, this experimental plant was not particularly popular in this world.

The Sky Blue Wood Chamber of Commerce did not let it out of its own cultivation garden until Chen Qing came along.

For the Sky Blue Wood Chamber of Commerce, this plant wasn’t worth further investment.

Because of its unpredictability and the fact that the consumer group for this plant was likely to be only a part of the civilian population.

The profit margins were not high and the discard rates were particularly elevated.

It was a conundrum; the people who suited this plant couldn’t afford it, and those who could afford it clearly had better options.

Therefore, the plant could only stay as a last resort option in the inventory.

However, such an underwhelming plant, in Chen Qing’s hands... had finally found its place.

Of course, Chen Qing did not have the time or energy to invest heavily in transforming it.