In Teyvat, it all begins with rescuing the grass god.

He also ordered a batch of date palms from Dolly.

There are mature trees and saplings.

The mature trees are used to build windbreaks, while the saplings are used to fill the gaps between experimental fields and to reinforce the Caragana fern fence.

The date palm is a tree unique to the Sumeru Desert region.

It is characterized by its resistance to high temperatures, flooding, drought, salinity, and frost. It prefers sunlight and has extremely strong vitality.

Furthermore, this tree has an extremely well-developed root system.

It is a very rare desert plant that has both windproof and water-locking functions.

Another point.

Those are the fruits of the date palm.

Date palms are a type of fruit with a thick rind and thick, sweet flesh, making them an important food source for desert dwellers.

The jar of sugar in Rod's house is made from dates.

The importance of sugar to the human body goes without saying.

Apart from fruits that can be eaten or made into sugar.

Date palm branches can be used to make chairs, beds, and baskets; leaves can be used to weave mats, bundle brooms, make trays, and also as fuel; trunks can be used to make furniture, build farmhouses, bridges, and houses; date pits can be used as fodder; inferior date palms can even be used as fertilizer or fodder.

It can be said that every part of it is a treasure.

You can use it yourself or sell it.

Therefore, in the desert.

If nomadic tribes cannot find an oasis to settle in, they will try to find places where date palms grow in clusters to serve as their settlements.

Date palm trees are also grown in Aru Village.

However, they did not use date palms as windbreaks, planting them sparsely and simply as a cash crop for date production.

"Such a good thing, what a waste."

After digging a hole, Rod muttered something and rolled his eyes at Adbay's house.

After these few days of spying.

He was absolutely certain.

Adbay is a highly accomplished scholar of the biotheory school.

Moreover, the knowledge he possessed was a treasure to the desert.

You should know that Tina is a scholar who can't even come to the desert.

Based solely on the experimental data he obtained from experiments in the Academy using simulated desert environments, Rhodes was already able to systematically manage the new experimental fields.

This is self-evident.

If Adbay is willing to share his knowledge with Aru Village.

Aru Village, and indeed the entire desert, will greatly benefit.

“What an arrogant scholar, he deserves to be exiled.”

Rhodes grew angrier the more he thought about it and couldn't help but spit.

Talk about it.

His method of infuriating people is still very effective; Adebay has been avoiding him whenever he sees him for the past two days.

He also successfully used this method to attract the scholar's attention.

More than once.

Rod discovered that this guy was secretly peeking over the wall at his house.

Rod knew perfectly well what he was aiming at.

It must be those cages or similar things that Candice sent.

No matter how arrogant or how unlikeable Adbay is.

He is also a genuine scholar of the biophilosophy, and a very outstanding one at that.

The main focus of the biophilosophy school was botany and zoology and medicine.

Therefore, Adebay could definitely tell at a glance what the pile of things Rhodes had brought was for.

If this happened when the two were complete strangers...

Even if Adbay discovered that Rhodes was doing something related to the biophilosophical research direction, he would not have the slightest interest in Rhodes, who was a desert dweller.

Even if Rhodes does achieve something.

With his character.

At most, he'd say something like, "It's just a fluke," but he wouldn't actually say a single word to Rhodes.

But now, after being so angry with Rhodes that he was almost fuming, he realized that Rhodes had angered him to the point of having a stroke.

He would definitely care more about Rhodes's achievements than Candice would, and then look for an opportunity to retaliate and humiliate Rhodes.

and this.

This is exactly the effect Rhodes wanted.

"—"

As Rod, carrying a hoe, hummed a little tune, he deliberately raised his chin at Adbay's door and whistled twice like he was teasing a dog.

Such provocative behavior.

This made the veins on Adbay's forehead throb as he sat reading a book by the door.

"Humph--"

Adbay decided not to stoop to the level of this uncouth desert man, so he closed the book and slammed the door shut, seething with anger.

He successfully angered Adbay once again.

Rhodes was in a better mood.

This new house is much bigger than the one he used to live in.

He had plenty of space to display the things he brought back from the rainforest.

Unfortunately.

Rhodes doesn't know how to concoct poisons or anything like that.

All he could do was extract the deadly substances from these poisonous creatures using various methods, according to the records in "Rainforest Biology Guide," and then process them into bottles of venom or powder through methods such as burning, boiling, and drying.

Of course.

He collected not only poisonous items, but also some interesting trinkets.

Like the insect-repelling plants found in rainforests.

He used this stuff to make an insect repellent liquid, similar to the insect repellent essential oils that sell well in the rainforest. However, his purification technique was not skilled, which resulted in his insect repellent liquid having many impurities and not smelling as good as those sold by merchants. But the effect was about the same, so it was still usable.

As for things like soap and perfume that time travelers in novels often make...

Rhodes neither would nor wanted to study it.

Moreover, Teyvat itself has better alternatives to these things, so there's no need to waste time on these useless things.

It took a while.

Rod put the newly prepared snake repellent powder into a transparent bottle, then sealed and stored it together with several other bottles, each labeled with its purpose and usage instructions.

These were prepared by him for the Blazing Beast Hunter, or rather, for Dixia.

It contains insect repellent, wild animal repellent, snake repellent, and even venom that can be used to coat weapons.

There were about a dozen bottles scattered around.

These things are extremely useful for mercenaries who spend all day crawling and rolling in the desert.

"The quality is so-so, it can't compare to what merchants sell."

"It's passable and usable."

Rod stretched and neatly arranged the bottles into a small box.

"pity."

"We don't have purification equipment, otherwise we could try to prepare some simple medicinal solutions."

After putting the things away, Rod said regretfully.

"The Rainforest: A Pictorial Guide to Nature" is truly a great book.

For any herb recorded on it, all its uses and methods of application are clearly written, from the simplest crushing and external application to various combinations of herbs, and even more complex medicinal formulas, everything is included.

The problem is that we don't have the kind of sophisticated purification equipment used by the Order of the Church.

Rhodes simply couldn't make the complex potions recorded in the book, so he wrote down all the effects and uses of these herbs, intending to give them to Dixia and the others when they returned from catching the quicksand eels.

I hope you like these gifts.

Muttering something to himself, Rod left the room and went to his small study.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 41 is over, how do you explain this?

Rod's study has now been completely renovated.

He painstakingly typed out every single item in that small study, including the bookshelves.

It's usable, to say the least.

It has absolutely nothing to do with aesthetics or anything like that.

Moreover, the bookshelf he built himself had the wrong shelf size; some books either couldn't fit inside or there was no place to put them.

The new house is different now.