Chapter 293: Universal Planting System (32)

The high-ranking officials of the Military who learned the news dialed Xie Yang's Light Brain one after another:

【Congratulations, Ms. Xie! You have performed another great service for our Interstellar Army! By the way, could you please assess whether there is any chance for a little cub from a distant relative's family to undergo a Secondary Evolution?】

【Ms. Xie, I know this must be a method you spent a lot of time researching, but a child of a relative of mine is nearing the age limit for a Half-Beast Cub. If you are willing to provide some guidance, we would be eternally grateful! We will certainly reward you handsomely!】

【Ms. Xie, …】

Xie Yang: "..."

She was between laughter and tears.

If she knew the method, she wouldn't have been so oblivious.

However, Xie Yang carefully reviewed everything she had fed Xie Ting since she transmigrated, and the things most likely to have purifying and restorative functions were none other than these two:

First, the Children's Nutrient Solution, and second, the natural ingredients harvested from her own vegetable garden.

She had once given the Children's Nutrient Solution to a niece and nephew in a certain plane, and the effect wasn't this heaven-defying.

That left the vegetables and fruits she grew herself.

She thought about how these seeds were provided by the Sub-system.

If planted in the Universal Planting Space, the harvested crops would possess quite heaven-defying efficacy.

Now that she was planting them outside, the miraculous efficacy was gone, but frequent consumption making it possible to cleanse toxins from the body and repair damaged cells was not impossible.

If that were truly the case, then it would be easy to handle!

She was now a "Cooking/Planting Dual Master" officially recognized by the Military; since she was called a Master, wasn't it normal to know some planting techniques that others didn't?

From now on, she could also support her own little cub by growing vegetables!

Thus, Xie Yang entrusted the latest batch of harvested Bitter Vegetable to Xing Lan to pass on to the high-ranking Military officials.

The high-ranking Military official who received a basket of Bitter Vegetable: "..."

What!

This is the secret to giving a Half-Beast Cub a chance at Secondary Evolution?

Is it really that simple?

However, once the test results came out, they knew just how not simple it was.

Compared to ordinary Bitter Vegetable produced on the Agricultural Reclamation Star, this batch of Bitter Vegetable contained some rare trace elements, and it was precisely these rare trace elements that were the fundamental reason for allowing a Half-Beast Cub to purge toxins from their body, repair damaged tissues and cells, and thereby have a chance at Secondary Evolution!

The Military would not give up; they compared it with Bitter Vegetable sent from other Habitable Stars and discovered that only the Bitter Vegetable grown by Xie Yang contained these trace elements.

This result made the Military value Xie Yang even more.

On the surface, the only person protecting her was still Xing Lan, but the secret guards had increased from a ten-person squad to three squads taking turns on duty.

With things this way, it became difficult for Che Yin'an to continue approaching her.

After the Che Family received the intelligence passed out from the Garbage Star, their expressions were extremely ugly.

"She actually cultivated a type of plant that can allow a Half-Beast Cub to eliminate beast-like characteristics, restore a human form, and thereby undergo Secondary Genetic Modification? And the success rate of the Secondary Genetic Modification is as high as eighty or ninety percent? Is this really not a rumor deliberately spread by the Military?"

Che Mingwang was bewildered.

If what the intelligence stated was true, what a massive golden egg the Che Family had lost!

Che Yin'an was equally bewildered: Xie Yang... how did she become so unfamiliar? Is she really Xie Yang?

Although she studied Cooking under a Master back then, how long did she actually study for? And she became so formidable that she could open a gourmet shop on the Star Net and have business explode?

Furthermore, regarding planting, when she was at home, she didn't know how to grow any green plants; she could even kill flowers and plants just by watering them. Her personality was irritable and paranoid, and she would throw things whenever she was displeased. Could a person with this kind of personality become a generation of Planting Master? And be able to cultivate new types of plants with purifying and restorative effects?

How could that be!

Could it be that some treacherous and cunning Star Pirate stole her identity and also had her appearance surgically altered?

It must be said that the saying "the person who knows you best is always your enemy" holds some truth.

If Che Yin'an could freely enter and exit the Garbage Star, he might truly have been able to find a flaw in Xie Yang and thereby cause her some trouble.

Fortunately, he was now a key person blacklisted by the Military; no matter how the Che Family came forward to find a way this time, his applications to head to the Garbage Star were never approved.

Unable to see Xie Yang and Xie Ting, his goal had no chance of being achieved.

And so it dragged on year after year...

During this period, he would occasionally hear some news about Xie Yang and her son:

It was said that her Xingwang-xiaodian had already listed over a hundred varieties of gourmet food and was the only five-star top-tier gourmet shop voted for by Star Citizens across the entire region. It was said that any Star Citizen who had eaten her food would become a repeat customer; it was said that the area around her home had become the most beautiful scenery on the Garbage Star, with beautiful pointed-roof villas, fence walls covered in unknown flowers and plants, vegetable fields and farmland cultivated into squares, and a clear Ice Lake where unmutated Fish could be found. The original Waste Mining Area had even become a forest park famous far and wide under the cover of green plants.

A few more years passed, and it was said that the Evolution Failed·Half-Beast Cub he had once despised in every way not only succeeded in his Secondary Evolution and entered a high-level military academy, but also became a formidable God of War who made the Insectoid retreat step by step, eventually forcing them to sign a peace agreement out of helplessness.

It was also said that Xie Yang, who back then loved him so madly and pestered him so much that she would even drug him to force him to be intimate with her, was now living happily with another man.

Seeing a frame of a photo uploaded to the Star Net by Xie Yang's fans, in which she was being doted on by Xing Lan, holding hands, and walking with a bright smile on the Garbage Star... no, in the forest park surrounded by green plants that had now been renamed "Oxygen Bar Star," Che Yin'an's heart felt a sudden, dull ache.

He suddenly remembered many years ago, when he, Xie Yang, and Cheng Xi were all still in school, he was cornered by Xie Yang in the spring-bright green garden for a confession—

"Yin'an, I like you so much! Can you like me too? As long as you like me, I am willing to do anything for you!"

A few years later, when she discovered his relationship with Cheng Xi, the ferocious expression she had at that time made him feel terrified every time he recalled it:

"Che Yin'an! Unless I die, I will never give up on you!"

The vows of the past were clear and distinct, as if they had happened just yesterday, yet she had already cleanly and decisively severed the past and thrown herself into the arms of another person.

Che Yin'an laughed at himself, thinking that the love she spoke of so often back then was, after all, nothing more than that.

"Xie Ting, your home is actually here?"

"I heard this area belongs to the forest park and residential buildings aren't allowed. Xie Ting, how did your family manage to get a residential permit?"

Xie Ting, who had just come down from the internship battlefield, walked among his teammates, his tall and slender figure standing out from the crowd, his slightly curly brownish-brown hair refracting fine, fragmented light under the rays.

Listening to his teammates' chattering questions, Xie Ting raised the corners of his mouth: "When my mother brought me here to settle down, there was no such thing as a forest park yet!"

"Really? You moved here that early?"

You bet!

Xie Ting relaxed her brows and eyes, glancing toward the direction of home.

There was originally no greenery here; it was Mother who used her own two hands, bit by bit, to arrange this place into a home that every resident of the Habitable Star envied.

The Waste Mining Area from memory had become a Forest Park surrounded by greenery; the Ice Lake, which was like stagnant water in memory, was now full of Fish and Shrimp in the pond; the garbage dump, once filled with radiation in memory, had now been transformed by the authorities into the largest Planting area in the Northern Hemisphere; the territory where she had crawled and tumbled since she was small in memory was all covered by greenery.

And the home she missed the most was right in the center of the greenery-filled view...