Dragon God, immortal

"Lady Miko! You are here indeed! Come, take a look at this!" Bai Lan spread out the thing in her hand and showed it in front of Juan Hua.

"This, this is..." Juan Hua's pupils constricted and he stared at the corn.

This corn looks like it's rusted.

It exudes a strange musky smell.

. . . . . .

A Brief History of the Cat's Paw Islands:

Between the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh years of the Dragon God calendar, rust and jade disease were rampant and there was a great famine. The Dragon God sighed upon hearing this.

In addition, the book also includes an appendix on the prevention and treatment of corn rust, as well as first aid measures for accidentally eating corn rust-infected corn.

Chapter 17: Run, Shaolong

This was a disaster that came without warning.

No, should we say it is a natural disaster that is within reason?

Juan Hua wiped the sweat from his neck and operated the extraction table in front of him...

Not far behind her was a group of sick cat-people with abdominal pain and fever. Their symptoms were very similar, and the cause of their illness was roughly the same - they had eaten corn products with "rust jade disease"!

"Heat the juice of the nightshade flower at high temperature, distill out the detoxifying ingredients, and then add it into the herb ointment..." After Juan Hua completed the processing, he poured it into several crystal bottles before he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

As early as when she first set foot on Tegenkyu Island, Master Shushan had told her about the possible harm that crops might suffer.

Pest birds, pest animals, pests, weeds, diseases...

The first three are visible to the naked eye.

The daily task of the watcher is to deal with the three things mentioned above. Pest birds can be hunted with bows and arrows, pest animals such as mice can be driven away with spears, and pests can be killed with specific plant extracts...

Weeds are troublesome, but they can be removed regularly. The most difficult thing to prevent is plant diseases.

"The diseased plants will give me direct feedback. I just need to remove the pathogens before an outbreak occurs, but..."

One day, Master Shushan looked a little worried. He scratched the moss on his face and sighed:

"In this way, all subsequent corns will be disease-free and have very weak disease resistance. Moreover, there is only one variety of corn, No. 3. If a highly contagious disease appears, it will be disastrous..."

At that time, Birch tilted his head, and his furry ears trembled up and down, and both pairs of ears were listening attentively. After Shushan finished speaking, he asked in return: Can't we make corn resistant in advance?

"No, you can't get up if you haven't fallen before. Even if we improve resistance in all aspects, we will eventually be exploited if we are not specialized. Moreover, increasing resistance consumes a lot of nutrients, which has a great impact on yields... In addition, diseases and crops evolve together. When crops develop, diseases will follow... It would be foolish to put all our hopes on one crop. We need crops with completely different characteristics..."

Lord Shushan muttered to himself at the time.

Later, oats came into being.

"Bai Lan, feed this to the patient." Juan Hua dragged his tired body and handed all the crystal bottles to the graduated watchman Bai Lan.

"Yes, sir." Bai Lan nodded, took the medicine, turned around and helped up a pale cat-man, and slowly poured the liquid in the bottle into his mouth.

After a while, the patient's complexion improved slightly and he fell into a coma.

"How many patients are there here?" Juan Hua looked at the beds in the big house, feeling very solemn.

"Thirty-seven, no, thirty-nine." Bai Lan felt upset. Most of the patients here were young children, including her child.

"This medicine can relieve the pain, but whether it can get better depends on the patient's resistance." Juan Hua took out a comb and combed the hair beside her ears... Perhaps because of staying up late for consecutive nights, the severe tinnitus made her irritable.

"I understand... Then, Miko-sama, should we go to Dragon Island for this matter..."

"Even if we wanted to go, we couldn't. We don't have a boat."

Juan Hua shook his head and sighed.

They have no boat.

The original transport ship had broken into pieces and sunk to the bottom, and the Watchers had to be carried across the sea by Lord Shushan himself when they traveled between Zhangqiu Island and Shougenqiu Island.

"Lord Shushan had anticipated this kind of thing, and I have also studied the corresponding measures...but now it seems that the situation may be worse than I imagined..." Juan Hua sat down helplessly, shaking the liquid in the crystal bottle in his hand.

The flame flowers and frost flowers allowed her, who had no magic power, to master high and low temperatures, so that she could extract the specific ingredients needed in the potion.

The patients' conditions were that their stomachs and intestines were damaged and poisoned. Some of the poisons were similar to those of the broken intestines. They urgently needed to repair their injuries and remove the poisons, and they also needed analgesia to relieve their pain...

Therefore, using the herb ointment extracted at low temperature and adding the nightshade flower juice extracted at high temperature can just meet the above needs, but...

The stock of potions is totally insufficient!

Nightshade and Springweed are both difficult potions to grow!

Even if you use up all the stocks, you will only get 50 bottles of healing potions!

"Has someone been sent to notify them?" Juan Hua asked, raising his tired eyes.

"Well, the patients in other big houses have been transferred one after another." Bai Lan said as she looked after the patients, "The total number is expected to be over 100..."

“Has the poisonous corn been destroyed?”

"Not yet. Some stubborn guys don't want to burn the crops they worked so hard to grow. They say the corn still looks healthy... How stupid." Bai Lan said helplessly.

"'Looks' healthy. Haha, Lord Shushan said modestly that he couldn't see through everything at a glance... Do they think they have the judgment of a god?" Juan Hua laughed sarcastically.

In the Sanhua tribe, 70% of the cat people trust the Dragon God Shushan, and 50% of them therefore trust the wisdom of the witch.

There are still 30% of the cat people. Well, according to Shushan, they are a mob and difficult to command.

The cruel rationality in Juan Hua's heart told her that it would be best if such people died...

Even if they don't die, they will be obedient after suffering. Don't worry about them...

"Burn the cornfield by force." Juan Hua raised his eyes and said firmly, "No need to explain to them, just burn it. If there is resistance... use the authority of the Watcher to restrain them."

"As you wish, Lady Priestess." Bai Lan nodded slightly, and after settling the patients in the big house, she went out.

Juan Hua dragged his tired body.

I just found a bed and fell asleep.

. . . . . .

Shushan woke up from his doze.

He scratched his cheek subconsciously.

However, the sound of nails colliding with scales told him that he was clean and there was no need to scratch.

"Aha~~" Shushan yawned, walked to the lake, looked at his reflection in the lake, and once again felt impressed by Kumquat's serious attitude.

In the past few years, Jinju would give him a bath every month, and each time he would wash him clean and every scale would be brushed until it was shiny.

Of course, this also includes the scales on the face and horns.

It reflects light just like it has been waxed!

Due to the physiological structure of Shushan, there is often silt hidden on the back and in the scales of the Shushan, and various weeds will grow in the silt.

Even his head was no exception. Because he couldn't see his own face, Shushan couldn't wash his cheeks and dragon horns clean even if he took a shower on a rainy day.

Even if he carefully scratched the moss off his face with his claws, it would grow back after a while without him noticing... Well, neither the moss nor the weeds would hurt Shushan, but as long as he moved, he would still feel something blocking his body...

Especially when making expressions, the dragon horns always feel itchy and I can't help scratching them...

Now it’s clean. If you scratch it with your claws, it will scratch the kumquat’s hard-polished reflective scales. You must resist this action!

"But this is just like people who are used to wearing glasses. Even if they wear contact lenses, they will always hold up the bridge of their nose unconsciously..." Shushan stood on the lake and shook his head vigorously to shake off the dust on the dragon horn tree.

Kumquat gave him a bath...

It's really like washing a car...

This feeling is like a nobleman having a maid at home to help him take a bath. I have never experienced this in my previous life as a human being!

Just like that, [Shushan Polished and Reflective Limited Edition] walked out of its nest and inspected its own fields as usual... But, it seems to be polished too brightly, is the light pollution a bit too serious?

Arriving at the cornfield, Shushan saw more than a dozen watchmen stationed on several watchtowers, overlooking the entire cornfield from all directions. He believed that they could react quickly to anything they saw.

Several watchmen, seeing Shushan from afar, saluted and greeted him, and Shushan returned the salutes one by one, almost saying "comrades, thank you for your hard work"...

Um, what kind of ideology is my current social form?

Shushan looked up at the sky and thought for a moment.

Well, I don’t know.

I don’t want to think about that anymore.

He found an open space, turned around a few times to flatten the ground, then crawled on the ground and stared at the cornfield.

[Plant Command Magic] is a very simple ability. Its principle is to communicate with plants and urge them to grow.

Shushan also tried to order the plants not to grow, but this request was somewhat contrary to the plants' instincts. The plants could do it, but they were definitely not willing to do so. This command would be automatically lifted after Shushan moved away.

On the other hand, if we follow the instincts of plants and convince them that doing so is good for them, it will only take one or two generations for these commands to be engraved into the instincts of plants, so that they will have similar characteristics from generation to generation.

As for how plants feel about the fact that they will be eaten by humans when they grow up...well, plants don't have that much time to think about this.

All they know is to grow, reproduce, grow, and reproduce. When people domesticated crops, weren't they also domesticated by the crops and helped them spread?

Just as Shushan was dozing off in the sun, he heard a few subtle sounds. They were not the voices of the cat-eared watchers, but the unconscious echoes of the plants:

'it hurts!'

'It's going to be eaten!'

"Seeds, seeds..."

'The seeds are going to be contaminated!'

'Help!'

Shushan reacted immediately and looked in the direction of the signal. There were a few corns in the cornfield. From a distance, they looked no different from other corns, but the color was a bit strange.

"Kumquat? Are you here?" Shushan called out in a low voice not far away. He smelled the scent of kumquat, "Come out for a moment and help me with something."

After a rustling sound, a ginger cat emerged from the cornfield. Jinju was still holding her longbow. She was only thirty-five years old, but her figure was still agile. "Master Shushan, I'm here."

"Help me pick the corn over there, quickly!" Shushan pointed at the groaning cornfield and said. His intuition told him that something bad had happened...

"Yes, sir!" Jinju nodded, went into the cornfield, and quickly and accurately cut off a whole corn plant. He quickly returned to Shushan and presented it with both hands raised above his head.

The operation was smooth and the attitude was very positive.

But now is not the time to praise her.

Shushan lowered his head, picked up the corn, and examined it carefully with his emerald green eyes.

There are several rust-like filaments winding up the stalks of the corn plants, and on the back of the newly grown corn, there is a piece of rust-colored material the size of the pad of a cat-man's palm.

When you touch it, it still feels like corn, but if you gently pinch it, you can feel the softness inside... Peel off the outer husk of the corn, and the corn kernels inside are distinct, some are golden yellow, some are rusty, and the softness comes from those discolored corn kernels...

Shushan's face was solemn. He put the whole corn into his mouth and chewed it, savoring its flavor.

Well, it is poisonous. Its toxicity partially overlaps with that of the moss of broken intestines. It mainly targets the intestines and liver. If ordinary cattle and sheep eat it, it is estimated that at least one stomach will be perforated...

Faintly, Shushan felt something wriggling in his mouth, but because the Dragon God had a strong immunity, those things were digested before they could cause any trouble.

"The taste is similar to fermentation..." Shushan frowned. The silage corn he usually eats also has a fermented taste. That is caused by the yeast in the corn itself. It is within the normal and palatable range.

But this corn gave him a bad feeling.

Toxic and fermenting at the same time?

Uncontrolled fermentation means spoilage!

In order to confirm his guess, Shushan walked into the cornfield where the problem occurred, and stepped on a big hole in the cornfield with his huge front legs.

This action shocked all the watchers. You know, Master Shushan is a dragon who cherishes crops the most, why would he do something like this to deliberately destroy the fields? !

"Mycelium... and it has magical powers... Is it some kind of fungus that has suddenly mutated?" Shushan dug up the cornfield in front of him and saw something hidden underground.

It was a kind of fungus with an intricate network of hyphae underground. Some tiny mushrooms emerged from the ground. The same mushrooms also grew on the back of infected corn...

It's not surprising that mushrooms grow in corn fields. The fields reclaimed by Shushan are all absolutely fertile black soil with extremely rich humus. It's more normal to say that mushrooms grow in the corn fields...

The watchers have probably seen this kind of mushroom before, but probably didn't pay much attention to it... This thing looks very bright, with a bright red cap and a black handle. It's the kind of mushroom that can't be eaten or kept... If they saw it, they would probably use magic to crush it to death?

But mushrooms are not the essence of fungi.

The mushrooms that pop out of the ground are just reproductive organs.

The main body of the fungus is the hyphae, which is as complex as a network, and the thing underground is its main body!