Chapter 41: Zap Me Again And I’ll Really Get Mad!
Leaving the nursery room and walking further ahead, there are individual laboratories one after another. Through the huge glass windows, researchers can be seen busy at various instruments.
“The laboratory ahead is the one I’m in charge of. Recently, I’ve been researching Lightning Grass.” Lu Nan, like a child eager to share his toys, enthusiastically invited Ge Bai to visit his laboratory.
The laboratory was arranged exceptionally simply. In the center, a large carefully arranged simulated ecological environment housed a Lightning Grass quietly growing.
“This one was brought out from a secret realm. We observed that its discharge is extremely powerful.”
“This Mortal Spirit Stage Lightning Grass has a discharge energy value that can actually match the lightning flash of a Transcendence Stage Thunderclap Bald Eagle.”
“Even more difficult is that when bringing it back from the secret realm at the time, it didn’t strongly resist, and the initial cultivation went quite smoothly.”
As he spoke of these things, Lu Nan’s eyes were full of light.
Just now in the nursery room, Lu Nan had introduced to Ge Bai that the spirit plants in the Spirit Plant Research Institute only had a small portion focused on the different evolution types of already tamed spirit plants.
A large portion were wild spirit plants brought out from various space secret realms.
Even bringing spirit plants out from space secret realms, the first step of this research was absolutely not as easy as imagined.
Seeing a plant that looks pleasing and digging it up with a shovel to bring back? That’s simply wishful thinking.
Not to mention that in space secret realms, spirit plants generally possess attack power just like spirit beasts, and their attack power is not weak.
There have been researchers who tried enduring the spirit plant’s attacks and forcibly bringing the spirit plant out of the space secret realm.
The result was that they died after trying it, and within two days the spirit plant rapidly withered. No method worked at all.
Since then, researchers have been especially careful, not only paying attention to the attributes and skills of wild spirit plants to judge their research value.
They also need to carefully try to confirm that the spirit plant is willing to be moved before bringing it back to the Spirit Plant Research Institute.
“After bringing it back, we conducted preliminary measurements on the Lightning Grass. Its preferred environment and favorite food have all been figured out, and it has even grown a bit larger.”
“But the development of its attack skills has been progressing particularly unsuccessfully.”
Lu Nan looked at the Lightning Grass, somewhat helplessly.
“I’ve seen it discharge in the space secret realm, and it’s more powerful than every observation we’ve made after it arrived at the research institute.”
“Now, its discharges are particularly irregular each time. Sometimes the discharge amount is large, sometimes small. Because it’s unstable, its discharge hasn’t reached the standard for rating as a skill.”
“It also refuses to contract with a spirit planter!”
The more he spoke, the more agitated Lu Nan became, even somewhat aggrieved.
The Lightning Grass also slightly shook the tip of its leaves flashing with blue light at the top.
Hearing this, Ge Bai activated the Spirit Plant Communicator skill again, and sure enough, she heard the Lightning Grass’s snarky voice.
“Yo, dummy Lu Nan is here again?”
Ge Bai raised an eyebrow. Was this a conflict or a story?
Thinking this, she casually asked Lu Nan, “So, with the skill being so unstable, what are you doing about it?”
Unexpectedly, Lu Nan suddenly perked up and said to Ge Bai somewhat proudly.
“Let me tell you! I’m pretty smart!”
“Think about it, the Lightning Grass’s discharge is unstable, the biggest possibility is that there’s not enough lightning element in its body! So?”
Lu Nan teased, smiling brightly at Ge Bai.
“So, it needs to replenish the lightning element in its body?”
Ge Bai tried to continue the sentence.
“Right!”
“So, I found a Thunder Flame Patterned Rabbit to charge the Lightning Grass.”
Lu Nan said this proudly, but Ge Bai heard the Lightning Grass cursing profusely on the side.
“Is this guy a dummy?! He has the nerve to say that? %…￥%#￥&…%￥#￥#@…&*&”
“How does it charge?” Ge Bai asked quietly.
Seeing Ge Bai deliberately lowering her voice and appearing cautious, Lu Nan was somewhat puzzled and said bluntly.
“Just have the Thunder Flame Patterned Rabbit use lightning-type skills on the Lightning Grass. That’s how Thunder Flame Patterned Rabbits charge each other.”
Ge Bai heard the Lightning Grass cursing even louder, swallowed, and asked, “So, how’s the effect?”
Speaking of the effect, Lu Nan suddenly wilted again.
“The effect isn’t great. At the beginning, when the Thunder Flame Patterned Rabbit charged the Lightning Grass, it could produce intense discharge fluctuations, but after the explosiveness, it became particularly listless.”
Lu Nan really couldn’t figure out why, and at this moment the Lightning Grass shook even more vigorously.
He pointed at the Lightning Grass and said to Ge Bai, “Look, the Lightning Grass recognizes me. It’s greeting us.”
Ge Bai was speechless. It certainly recognized him; the name “dummy Lu Nan” rolled off that grass’s leaves smoothly.
The Lightning Grass probably hated not having a mouth right now, or it could curse Lu Nan until he doubted his life.
“Hey, little girl! Can you hear me speaking?”
The exasperated Lightning Grass suddenly said this to Ge Bai.
Ge Bai looked at it and blinked. Had she not controlled her expression well?
But she didn’t deny it, lightly coughing.
“I knew you could understand. Help me tell him, if he lets that rabbit shock me again, I’m really going to flip out!”
Having gotten a response from Ge Bai, the Lightning Grass got excited.
Ge Bai’s spiritual sense stirred, and she transmitted, “Don’t be hasty, what’s the situation? Tell me slowly. Is it that you don’t like the Thunder Flame Patterned Rabbit?”
“If it were you, would you like it?”
“That rabbit’s lightning-type skills contain fire element, and its discharge is explosive, not stable at all. How am I supposed to absorb it? Absorb it with my life?!”
“Moreover! I’m a grass! I don’t like rabbits! Not one bit!”
“This old man will eventually be raised to death by him.”
“It was also my poor judgment at the time. He looked like a good person, and his sweet promises sounded nice. If I’d known he was this stupid, I should’ve shocked him dead when he dug me up!”
From the Lightning Grass’s angry rant, Ge Bai heard three parts hysteria, three parts regret, and two parts resentment.
“So, what kind of lightning element do you like?”
The Lightning Grass was stunned but didn’t hesitate much, answering directly.
“Thunder clouds, the thunder clouds before a storm are what I like most. When living in the space secret realm, whenever there was a thunderstorm, the air would be filled with dense lightning attribute.”
Ge Bai keenly noticed that a lot of Lightning Element Ore had been placed around the Lightning Grass, so she asked one more question.
“Doesn’t Lightning Element Ore work? I remember spirit plants can also absorb energy from element ore.”
The Lightning Grass was probably tired from venting its emotions and was lazy now.
“The ore level is too high, the volume too large, it’s uncomfortable to absorb. If he could crush it for me, that would be best, ideally ground into powder.”
???
Ge Bai really wanted to ask it, you delicate old man, how did you survive in the space secret realm?
No wonder Lu Nan could trick you back.
Sorry, dears, taking leave again. Update this afternoon…
