Chapter 22 - The Seeds of the Synthetic Insect Catcher Tree

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

“Zhao Yao, go to the flower market and buy some pitcher plants back.”

Suddenly, Ye Heng realized that he had forgotten that Zhao Yao was not his assistant.

On the contrary, she was now the general manager who was in charge of the entire company.

“It seems that this time, the company needs to expand again and recruit more employees.”

Even though there were now around 600 employees in their Cosmic Planting flagship company, but the majority of these people were busy with the planting fields.

Their main job every day was to be in charge of planting and maintaining the well-being of the plants.

Some employees were specifically responsible for packing the goods and delivering them to the customers through express delivery.

The people who worked in the office consisted of the finance staff, the front desk clerks and a certain number of customer service staff.

There were also some logistics support staff.

These logistics support staffs were specifically recruited by Ye Heng to carry out research development and maintain the existing official website.

This time, Ye Heng had to trouble Zhao Neng with the recruitment of the technical staff by headhunting some of the high-end technical talents found in big cities.

Together, this group of people could form an extremely powerful team.

If everything went smoothly, they only needed to wait for a month before they could open their official website.

After that, they could put all the products from the Cosmic Planting flagship store for sale on the official website.

This way, they could propose a complete industrial chain.

After thinking about what kind of employees they needed to recruit, Ye Heng immediately stopped making calls and contacted his current head of the Human Resource Department.

He specifically told the latter to find an assistant for him.

He will continue to develop the latest products for Cosmic Planting flagship store.

This also meant that they had to increase enrollment.

After all, the current number of farmlands couldn’t guarantee the food supply for the entire population of China.

It was only now that Ye Heng finally realized the limitations of the current market.

Although his actions at the moment could be considered as helping the development of his hometown, however, due to the geographical location of his hometown, the speed of his company’s development would remain stagnant.

For example, the previous time he wanted to buy more farmland, but the local government raised the price a little higher.

Not to mention, when they were in Xiangtan, the faces of these executives were loathsome.

Ye Heng would not be willing to accept this.

If he wanted to expand the scale of the plantation and continued to rent the farmland, he would probably have to pay a huge price.

Even though this money was only a small fraction of Ye Heng’s current assets.

But he was not willing to give the money to those people just like that.

These people were just trying to raise the price and their actions could also be considered extortion.

“Let’s look at the mundane stuff later. Right now, the main thing is to find some pitcher plants that can be used.”

As he had no assistant, for the time being, Ye Heng had to do things on his own.

He drove the company car and went to several large local flower markets.

The main purpose of his trip was to buy many plants that could catch insects as food.

Ye Heng selected a few plants and ended up with a variety that looked pretty good and had an aesthetic feel.

“If I want to make this plant more attractive to insects, I have to ensure its attractiveness. In addition, I need to strengthen its digestive system.”

“This is the only way to ensure that it will have a higher efficiency of catching insects.”

Thinking of this, Ye Heng immediately began to prepare.

“Congratulations, host, we have found a pitcher plant. Would you like to proceed with the extraction of its characteristic?”

A familiar electronic voice sounded and Ye Heng nodded.

Finally, after a few rounds of extraction and fusion, he heard the system’s mechanical voice again.

“Beep, congratulations, host, fusion was successful. You have obtained an insect catcher tree.”

The insect catcher was a tall tree and had a growth cycle period of ten years.

Once it bloomed, it could attract all the pests around it and devour them.

It could replenish its nutrients by devouring the insects and this could ensure its survival.

“It needs ten years to grow, that’s too long. I will need to give it the characteristic of rapid growth.”

“Beep, congratulations to the host for obtaining the fast-growing insect catcher tree.”

He did not expect that after adding such a characteristic, its growth cycle was shortened to one year.

This way, the rapid growth of the tree could be guaranteed.

Ye Heng did not give up on his research. He continued and did not leave his room for the entire afternoon.

After one full day, he finally settled on the type that he was most satisfied with.

This time, the insect catcher tree had a total of four high-quality characteristics.

They were rapid growth, faster absorption, cold resistance and drought tolerance.

In this way, the seeds he obtained were only slightly inferior to the super lettuce.

Moreover, both seeds were grade 1.

For seeds of all grades, this insect catcher tree could bloom even in

extremely cold winters, thereby attracting pests to prey on.

However, Ye Heng wasn’t very clear about its specific effects.

However, seeing the level displayed above him, he wasn’t very worried.

After duplicating the insect catcher tree that he had researched earlier on, Ye Heng placed it in the furnace provided by the system to cultivate it.

Even if the growth cycle of the tree had been greatly shortened, it would still take a few months for it to fully grow.

Therefore, it was better to put it in the furnace provided by the system.

In this way, it would only take two weeks for it to fully mature.

At the same time, Ye Heng also developed a smaller insect catcher tree.

In this way, it could also be planted in a pot.

However, while Ye Heng was doing his research, many online customers who wanted to buy their products were dissatisfied.

Why was the delivery delayed for no reason?

Why didn’t you delay the delivery to those people before us?

Therefore, Ye Heng could only let the customer service operators explain.

He told these consumers that it was because the Cosmic Planting flagship store was about to open its official website. Therefore, the delivery time was delayed.

But during this period, the netizens all discovered a problem.

They had grown super lettuce at home.

However, some families staying on the ground floor found that there were many pests in their homes.

Although they could spray pesticides on these pests, this kind of pure natural and pollution-free plants would not taste good after that.

For example, vegetables were easily eaten by insects.

But after spraying pesticides, the vegetables tasted much worse.

It was also because of this reason that they did not wish for such delicious lettuce to be harmed this time.

“Then Ye Heng, now that the entire company is in chaos, what should we do?”

Zhao Yao’s voice was very anxious.

She was also a little nervous in the face of this matter..