Chapter 308: Green-Light Yellow Soybeans

Qiang-element-susceptible plants refer to plant varieties that have no resistance to the Qiang element; when exposed to an atmosphere containing the Qiang element, the Qiang-element content in the plant rises, and the plant becomes a red-light or Qiang-evolved variety.

After the Great Biological Evolution of Blue Star, vegetables such as carrots, cabbages, and lilies all evolved into Qiang-element-susceptible plants and voluntarily left the human dining table.

What Xia Qing wanted to find was a successfully evolved, non-susceptible carrot variety. "I was still thinking that the lords might discover non-susceptible evolved carrots within their territories."

Assistant Xiao Liu was an excellent customer-service agent, his voice full of warmth and empathy, very pleasant to listen to. "I share Miss Xia's hope of discovering this kind of evolved carrot, but reality keeps disappointing us. The reason our territory spends so many points building a laboratory is also to breed as quickly as possible carrots that can be grown in a normal atmosphere."

Getting no response from Xia Qing, Xiao Liu went straight to the trade price. "Miss Xia, according to statistics, the green-light egg hatch rate is 70%, and the survival rate of the hatched chicks is also about 70%, so on balance it takes two eggs to raise one chick. Would you accept one jin of carrots in exchange for two eggs?"

Xia Qing had Yi stones that could create a Qiang-element-free environment suitable for growing susceptible carrots, but she did not yet have enough Yi stones to use them that way.

"Assistant Liu, I want to trade for carrot varieties that can be planted in the territory. Your carrots cannot meet my needs."

Assistant Xiao Liu replied politely, "Miss Xia, if it were carrots that could be planted directly in the territory, the price would not be this."

Xia Qing also replied politely, "I understand. But at 500 points per jin, trading for green-light food that can only be eaten as a vegetable is still too extravagant for me. I'm sorry."

Seeing the deal about to fall through, Assistant Xiao Liu switched to buying with points. "Could we use points to buy two green-light eggs from you at 750 points per egg?"

Xia Qing had just refused Tang Huai, so of course she would not agree to trade with Territory Nine now. "I'm sorry, I only want to trade for green-light and yellow-light green-light carrot seeds, and I want to inspect the quality of the green-light and yellow-light ones myself."

Xia Qing had no desire to trade for a pile of iron-yellow soybeans that could not be steamed soft, boiled tender, pounded flat, or popped open.

Seeing that Xia Qing was determined, Assistant Xiao Liu could only produce the supplies she needed. "Our green-light soybeans will take half a month to arrive. At the trade price of 20 points per green-light seed, would 70 green-light soybeans for two eggs work?"

Not everyone was as generous as her idol Zhang San, willing to trade high-quality seeds by the jin. Green-light seeds were already priced like this, so Xia Qing agreed. "In half a month I should have a dozen or so eggs. Could I trade for a few more green-light soybeans?"

"I need to ask for instructions. Please wait a moment, Miss Xia."

While Assistant Liu did not know whom to ask for instructions, not a single person spoke in the lord channel; everyone was waiting for the outcome of this trade.

Three minutes later, Assistant Xiao Liu finally replied, "Green-light seeds don't have a high germination rate either, and they suffer losses in Qiang rain. I fully understand Miss Xia's wish to trade for more seeds, but our seeds are also limited, so at most we can trade you 350."

350 already exceeded Xia Qing's expectations, and she thanked him sincerely.

After the trade was set, before Xia Qing had even managed to get up off the ground, she received a call from Zhang San. "Xia Qing, the day before the trade date, I'll trade you ten eggs. You use those eggs to trade with Territory Nine for seeds."

Xia Qing's heart skipped a beat at that. "Third Brother, is there something wrong with the eggs laid by my chickens?"

After the chicken laid its first egg, Xia Qing had tested it with the home Yi-element detector and confirmed the Yi-element content was only 0.02%, finding nothing amiss.

Zhang San replied lazily, "The chickens you feed grow well. The four trace elements beneficial to humans in the eggs are higher than mine, and the taste is also better."

The only factor that could make hers better than Zhang San's was the pollution-free spring water. It seemed that, before the secret of the spring water was revealed, besides crops watered with the spring water, even animals in the territory that drank the spring water, or the eggs and offspring they produced, could not be openly traded.

Zhang San did not ask why Xia Qing's eggs were of such good quality, and Xia Qing said nothing either, only sincerely thanking her idol for his chivalrous help. "Alright, thank you very much, Third Brother."

In a good mood, Zhang San proposed a trade. "Just in case, from now on whenever you trade eggs with anyone, take them from me."

"Understood, thank you, Third Brother." With this arrangement, her idol could eat better-tasting eggs, and Xia Qing could keep the secret that her territory's animals were of better quality than those of other territories—a win-win. After finishing the egg discussion, Xia Qing brought up cameras again. "Third Brother, could you spare me one more camera? I found that four cameras aren't enough."

Xia Qing's territory currently had four cameras installed in total: one on the big toon tree on Gao Po, one at each of the east and west ends of the cultivated land south of the reservoir, and one at home.

After Daya left, Xia Qing checked the surveillance on her phone and discovered that the camera on the big toon tree was installed too far north to cover the low-slope planting greenhouse completely. If the camera on the big toon tree were moved to the south side of the high-slope planting greenhouse, it would no longer be able to monitor the green-light orchard and the northern isolation belt.

So Xia Qing wanted to trade Zhang San for one more camera and install it by the low-slope greenhouse. The low-slope greenhouse contained her pollution-free spring eye—the most important asset in the territory and a key area that needed protection.

Zhang San's territory already had surveillance and dedicated guards, so he paid little attention to this batch of new-material cameras and agreed right away. "Sure, I'll have Ji Li bring it over in a bit."

"Thank you, Third Brother." After hanging up, Xia Qing turned to look at Sheep Boss lying beside her and couldn't help drooling. Sheep Boss, who had been drinking spring water all along, must surely have tastier meat than ordinary green-light sheep…

Sheep Boss, lying nearby, keenly sensed something off in Xia Qing's gaze, narrowed his eyes, jumped up, and prepared to keep fighting.

Having already confirmed that the muscles in both shoulders were indeed in better shape than before the bath, Xia Qing didn't want to fight anymore. She stood up, about to head home, when she heard some movement on the high slope to the north of the territory. Xia Qing took out her phone and opened the high-slope camera.

The high-slope camera was installed on a green-light big toon tree 250 meters from the northern isolation belt, at a height of five meters. Because the location was very well hidden and the camera had protective coloring, a non-visual evolver standing on the isolation belt would not be able to spot the camera without searching carefully with binoculars.

Xia Qing rotated the camera with her phone and quickly spotted Tang Huai standing on the isolation belt with his hands in his pockets, kicking the tree again and again with his foot.

It seemed Tang Huai really did have something to discuss with her.