Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 72 Red Fruit!

Upon hearing this, Yao Chengcheng and Yu Shuaikang stood up and said goodbye, walking out of the top-floor conference room.

After the two left, Li Mu slowly walked to the laboratory.

Considering that the population transfer will be carried out tomorrow and the temperature outside is so low, he plans to urgently produce some tomatoes tonight for warmth.

It can be distributed to the transferred personnel tomorrow to ensure that they can stay warm during the transfer.

"Before, my ability was insufficient, and the tomatoes I created could only emit heat for half an hour. Now that my strength has improved so much, it's time to enhance the warmth-retaining ability of the tomatoes."

Li Mu held a tomato that had been induced to grow before in his hand, and couldn't help but think in his heart.

He had two goals for this transformation. One was to increase the warmth-keeping time of tomatoes to more than two hours.

Another way is to reduce the size of tomatoes. It is okay to carry two or three tomatoes the size of a fist, but it will be inconvenient to carry more.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered a kind of magical fruit he had seen in a movie before - the red fruit.

According to legend, this magical fruit is only the size of a thumb. After eating it, one can become an immortal on the spot. Even if one cannot become an immortal, one's power will be greatly increased, or one will be immune to all diseases.

In reality, there is a kind of cherry tomato that looks very similar to the red fruit. It is also the size of a thumb and shaped like a chicken heart, and its color is also red.

With this idea in mind, Li Mu began his experiment.

Of course he has the seeds of cherry tomatoes, but the size of this tomato is too small, so there are not many fruits.

In addition, the taste is just average, not as good as apples or other fruits, and it cannot be used to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, so Li Mu never thought of ripening it before.

With his hands shining with green light, Li Mu slowly injected source energy into the cherry tomato seeds in front of him.

In the blink of an eye, a small tomato tree appeared in front of him. Li Mu continued to inject source energy, while also carrying the mental intention to increase the warming effect.

As the green light slowly seeped into the tomato trees, the trees began to produce red fruits of varying sizes.

The entire transformation process took only ten minutes and consumed about one twentieth of Li Mu's total source energy.

Such a short time was beyond Li Mu's expectation. He originally thought that the entire transformation process would take at least half an hour.

"Maybe we are much stronger now than before, so we can be so fast."

Li Mu thought for a while, put aside his doubts, picked a modified cherry tomato and slowly put it into his mouth.

When you bite through the skin, sweet juice appears in your mouth, but because the fruit is so small, there is only a little juice.

"The taste is much better than the cherry tomatoes I've eaten before. It seems that no matter what kind of fruit it is, as long as it is transformed by me, the taste will be optimized."

After chewing it for a few more bites and swallowing the whole cherry tomato, Li Mu silently felt the effect of the fruit.

After a few seconds, a warm current slowly flowed out from the abdomen and gradually spread throughout the body, feeling like drinking a cup of hot water.

After a few minutes, the warm current gradually strengthened, making people feel as comfortable as having a hot pot in the cold winter.

"With this effect, it's no problem to keep warm, but I don't know how long this warmth can last?"

With such doubts, Li Mu lay down on the rocking chair he specially made to rest.

After about ten minutes, the warm current in the abdomen gradually weakened, until it completely disappeared after two minutes.

"The warm-keeping time is only 12 minutes?" Li Mu was very surprised at first, but then he thought that cherry tomatoes were only the size of a thumb, so it was normal that the warm-keeping time was not as long as that of a fist-sized tomato. He then stood up and prepared to experiment again.

Next, he will make a second transformation on the cherry tomatoes. This time the goal is to extend the warmth-keeping time as much as possible.

With the intention of prolonging the warmth time, Li Mu once again injected source energy into the tomato tree, thinking in his heart that it would be great if he could transform it into a red fruit.

Half an hour later.

"Hey, why is the source energy consumed so much?"

Li Mu muttered to himself, some unexpected situations occurred during the transformation.

This transformation consumed all of Li Mu's remaining source energy. Even so, he could still feel that the tomato tree in front of him wanted more source energy.

However, there was really not a drop of Li Mu's source energy left. As the green light stopped shining, the second transformation was completed.

Full of doubts, Li Mu gently picked another cherry tomato and put it between his lips and teeth.

He tasted the difference carefully and muttered to himself, "Well, the taste has improved again."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a warm current carrying abundant energy emerging from his abdomen, which made him wonder, "What's going on?"

He began to reflect on the entire experimental process, thinking about the differences between the two transformations.

Suddenly, he realized the problem:

Not only did this transformation take a long time, but it also consumed more than three times the source energy of the first time. Moreover, due to insufficient source energy, the transformation was barely completed.

"If I have enough source energy, how much can the tomato tree absorb?"

With doubts in his heart, Li Mu thought about where such changes came from.

After a cup of tea, Li Mu finally understood how this change came about after recalling all the steps.

When he transformed himself for the second time, he not only had the idea of ​​prolonging the warmth-keeping time in his mind, but also had a hint of fantasy about the red fruit.

Perhaps it was this distracting thought that led to unexpected results in the second transformation.

Li Mu had thought about transforming ordinary plants into source plants before, but the experiment failed. For this reason, he conducted research after obtaining Polygonum multiflorum, but did not find the reason.

This unexpected experiment made him realize that he could not transform ordinary plants into source plants, but he could transform them into plants from myths, legends or fantasies!

He suddenly realized that his research direction had been wrong from the very beginning.

He only thought about transforming plants into tree men or tree houses, but these cannot be eaten. The only few edible plants that he had transformed simply enhanced their own characteristics or added some special effects.

Now that his mind is open, as long as he can transform the fruit-bearing plants in myths and legends, he can use these fruits to possess all kinds of incredible abilities!
Looking at the small tree in front of him, Li Mu no longer regarded it as an ordinary tomato tree.

If he guessed correctly, this small tree already possessed a hint of the legendary characteristics of the Vermillion Fruit Tree.

Although the degree of transformation is not yet obvious due to his current limited strength, as long as his strength is improved in the future, he will definitely be able to make this small tree evolve into a real red fruit tree!
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If the results are too bad, I won’t cut it off directly, but I may have to finish it hastily. . .

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