Chapter 21 - Pest Problem

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“I say, how can you give such a high-end position to them directly? If they mastered the technology of this plant, it can be considered a breach of confidentiality.”

“Not to mention, this might help them develop the genetic technology. Who knows, it might help them break through their crisis,” Kong Wei said with a puzzled expression.

“Heh, don’t worry. I spent a month, but I didn’t get anything. This group of Japanese won’t be able to figure out any technology from it,” Professor Li Jing said with a disdainful expression.

Regardless of whether it was the top-tier Tomato No. 1 or this super lettuce, the genes contained within them were no different from the genes of plants like them.

There were no genes from other plants.

This top-tier Tomato No. 1 still had the genes of tomatoes.

Professor Li Jing tried multiple hybridization tests but was unable to obtain any conclusive data for these plants.

What was even more shocking to him was that for the top-tier Tomato No. 1, they couldn’t use the seeds to breed the next generation. In other words, this Cosmic Planting flagship store had its exclusive seed cultivation technology.

Not only that, this technology was more advanced than the whole of China, or perhaps the entire world, by hundreds of years.

When Professor Li Jing thought of this, he immediately planned to take a plane to City C, and then head directly to the location of the Cosmic Planting flagship store.

This time, Professor Li Jing’s goal was to see the big boss of this flagship store.

“Teacher, but what kind of plant does it belong to?” Kong Wei asked curiously.

“This is a new product from China’s newly established Cosmic Planting Company, it’s called the super lettuce.”

“Other than that, they also released a product called top-tier Tomato No. 1, this agricultural by-product’s effects are also extremely powerful.”

“Kong Wei, you can pay attention to them and take a look at the current research and product development of their new products.”

Professor Li Jing’s looked extremely emotional when he said this.

“Cosmic Planting? This name is quite profound.”

Then, Kong Wei made up his mind that he will go and take a look at this flagship store later and also pay attention to the accounts of its various social platforms.

If he could buy a few products, that would be the best.

Seeing this group of Japanese returning to their own country in a sorry state, Kong Wei felt elated and was proud and satisfied. He was even more curious about the magical technology behind the Cosmic Planting flagship store.

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At this moment, Ye Heng encountered a big problem.

Their company’s precious top-tier Tomato No. 1 had been selling very well during this period and was able to generate a lot of revenue for them. But now they had expanded the scale of the planting, they were faced with countless problems.

“Ye Heng, currently in the newly opened cultivation greenhouse, more than half of the seedlings have already been affected by pests. Should we use insect repellent?” Zhao Yao looked extremely worried.

After going through the transformation process, both the tomato seedlings and super lettuce seedlings were very good in texture and flavour.

However, compared to normal plants, they tend to attract more pests.

“No, in Cosmic Planting, we do not use pesticides on any of our products,” Ye Heng said with grim determination.

“But Ye Heng, you should know very well that to get rid of these pests, we need to spray pesticide on them, or else there’s no other way.”

Zhao Yao said worriedly.

But she was also very clear about the character of the boy she liked. Therefore, she didn’t think that she could successfully convince Ye Heng.

As she expected, Ye Heng opened his mouth and said, “Let me think about it again. It’s not a must to spray them with pesticide, right?”

“If we want to deal with pests, we can use other methods.”

“But now the plants in our company are gradually being destroyed by these pests. How are we going to deliver the goods to the customers?”

“It’s okay. We can postpone the delivery for three days later.”

“Then if you let my company go bankrupt again, I won’t talk to you anymore,” Zhao Yao said with a smile.

“You don’t have to worry about this problem.”

Ye Heng now had the system. He couldn’t be defeated by these pests.

Nonetheless, it was a fact that he had lost some of his capital because of this.

However, his current income was also very substantial, so it would not affect him too much.

This incident had also enlightened him to enhance the characteristic of insect resistance when developing plants in the future.

Currently, Ye Heng could only add a maximum of four characteristics to the plant.

If he wanted to add another high-quality characteristic, then he would need to delete one of the characteristics.

Otherwise, it would be a passive fusion failure.

“It’s too late to add insect resistance now. We can look for alternatives,” Ye Heng said slowly.

Generally speaking, these pests could be directly treated with pesticides.

If pesticides were used, that would have a certain effect on the plant itself and even contaminate the plant.

This would be irresponsible behaviour towards the consumers.

There was another scenario, which was to rely on the biological chain.

Just like magpies and frogs, they could also rely on beneficial insects.

The last method was to rely on the resistance of the organism itself. Wait a minute, there seemed to be a solution to this.

Ye Heng suddenly had an idea.

“If there is no way to make the plant protect itself, then I can directly use a decoy to lure out these pests and finally catch them all in one go. That will do the trick.”

“After all, there are some plants that specialize in eating pests.”

That’s right. Ye Heng was thinking about the pitcher plant at this moment.

This type of pitcher plant could give off a scent that attracted insects.

The insects that were attracted to it would then become its meal.

This type of pitcher plant would have small white flowers that looked very attractive.

However, it could capture countless insects silently.

Not to mention, its front end had a unique insect-catching organ, which was 3 cm long.

Its leaves had dark red digestive glands, as well as numerous thick cirrus, which could emit the sweet fragrance of flowers and attract the insects to hold its leaves.

After that, it was equivalent to the insects entering a cage.

The more the insects struggled, the more enzymes would be secreted from the leaves. Before long, the insects would be completely digested by the pitcher plant.

However, the current pitcher plant was not very effective because it took a lot of time to digest and capture. This also reduced its efficiency.

Therefore, Ye Heng planned to improve some of its characteristics.

“If that’s the case, I only need to plant about ten pitcher plants in the fields. That’s enough to ensure that there are no pests after that.”

Ye Heng smiled slightly as he thought about it.

In this way, this could solve the difficult problem that he was currently facing..