Nine-tiered fairy lotus

Chapter 34 Digestion and Storage Functions

The four of them gathered here because of this big stomach king competition. Now that the competition is over, they will also go away in different directions.Xu Qiuyu continued her business, Chen Guotao continued his pursuit, Wang Pinqiu continued her travels, and Hu Tu continued his nuclear carving production.

The intersection of Hu Tu and Wang Pinqiu is currently only in Xu Qiuyu's body. If there is no accidental fate, it will be difficult for the two of them to get together, or even meet again.Although they added contact information, neither of them took today's dewy relationship too seriously.

After parting, Hu Tu went home and first went to the river to get some water and soil for the lotus space.In just three or four days, there has been a change in the space. The strawberry seedlings planted have doubled in size, and the garlic planted has also grown garlic seedlings ten centimeters high.

"It's such a fast growth rate. Calculated at this rate, you can harvest in less than a month." Hu Tu happily closed his mouth from ear to ear, closed his eyes slightly from time to time, and sank his consciousness into the space, "It's just planting land , and then filling it with water and soil will become troublesome, especially water, it is impossible to spread obliquely on both sides of the space like soil.”

Hu Tu sat by the river, pondered for a long time, and suddenly said to himself: "Why don't I use this month to do some experiments. Didn't the lotus stand eat a lot of wood, metal and plastic before, and I couldn't see it before?" As for where they are going, now there is room for observation, just to experiment and see, where did Hu Xiaolian eat those things?"

Organisms on the earth are divided into three categories: animals, plants, and microorganisms. Among them, plants are all life of the wood attribute, and the roots, stems and leaves left by plants after death are also of the wood attribute.In the river mud that Hu Xiaolian often devours, there are a lot of woody nutrients left by the corrosion of aquatic plants, but those are not obvious, and Hu Tu wants to experiment with obvious wood.

Trees are too big, so they can be swallowed directly with lotus root, and they cannot be swallowed whole like strawberry seedlings, garlic and succulents.Therefore, Hu Tu chose small grasses and dead plants as experimental subjects, so as not to damage the ecology.

First, some small plants. After some experiments, Hu Tu found three different situations.One is the living grass, which is intact like other plants after entering the space; the other is the dead grass with broken roots. After being swallowed by Hu Xiaolian, it did not reach the space, and it seems to have disappeared. Generally speaking; the third type is that he deliberately controlled it to be taken into the space, no matter whether he was alive or not, those grasses would be taken into the space.

What puzzled Hu Tu was the second situation. After repeated confirmation, he said to himself, "What's going on? Could it be that Hu Xiaolian digested it before entering the space?" He nodded, "It's not impossible."

In order to confirm this possibility, Hu Tu found some big tree roots.When the road was built before, the poplar trees on both sides of the road were cut down, leaving a lot of undug roots that could be used.

In order to conceal Hu Xiaolian's existence, he took a shovel and rode a tricycle to a section of the road where few people stayed.Squat down to both sides of the road, put his hands into the soil, hug the roots and devour them.He kept the shovel by his side, planning to say that he was out digging roots if anyone asked.Although it's a bit silly to say that on a hot day, it's better than being seen through the secret.

At first, the wood devoured by Hu Xiaolian seemed to disappear like grass.After a while, Hu Tu found that when he devoured the wood, the white light on the inner wall of the lotus platform space would become a little brighter.That situation was like when he devoured the weeds in the space together, the milky white light of the dots was transmitted to the light wall through the silk thread.

This discovery made Hu Tu very happy. He said: "Sure enough, these woods have been stripped of nutrients by Hu Xiaolian, and after some unknown changes, they have turned into these white lights. I just don't know what the use of these white lights is. energy?"

Hu Xiaolian's speed of eating wood is not fast enough to catch up with the speed of digestion, so there is no need to worry that eating wood will bury the strawberry and garlic planted.At most, there are some residues left by the roots of the devoured trees. Hu Tu just needs to pile them up around the land like soil.

Then there was the experiment of swallowing metal.There are no good things in the waste collection station, but there is a lot of scrap metal, and there is a piece of construction waste guarding it, and there are also a lot of scrap metal in it. The ones that Hu Tu gave to Hu Xiaolian to eat are those.

What surprised Hu Tu was that the metal he devoured was the same as when he devoured the grass, and it was also divided into different situations.One is conscious control, needless to say; the second is to allow Hu Xiaolian to devour. During the devouring process, the metal is digested by it, just like the vegetation, and does not enter the space.

Hu Tu couldn't help complaining: "Hu Xiaolian, I'm surprised. As a plant, how can you even digest metal? You eat iron, copper, and aluminum. Aren't you afraid of indigestion?"

After trying it out for a long time, Hu Tu went through it from the beginning to the end again, and he guessed: "Hu Xiaolian, could it be that you can really digest those metals! When you were still in Liantai, you felt like a piece of metal. I bought you, too. I bought it as scrap iron. The sound of you colliding with steel pipes is the same as the sound of metal colliding, so it is possible for you to digest those metals."

This is just a guess, not a definite answer. In order to get a clear and definite answer, he continued to experiment.

Different from swallowing water, soil, wood, and plants, metal experiments can be carried out incidentally when busy with other things, because Hu Xiaolian swallows metals very slowly, and he only needs to put metals into pockets, shoe soles, etc. that are in contact with the skin place, it can be swallowed with the vellus hair, and it is not necessary to use the lotus whiskers in the palm.

This experiment lasted for seven days, and Hu Tu didn't see any trace of metal in the space, not even a residue.He couldn't help but sighed: "Hu Xiaolian, Hu Xiaolian, you are really a wonderful flower. Maybe to say that you are a strange flower is to belittle you. It should be said that you are a fairy flower. That is hard metal. No matter how it gets to your side, it will become a flower. I have eaten food! And it can be digested completely, amazing, admirable."

However, those metals were not completely digested as Hu Tu imagined, and there were no residues left, because on the tenth day, some residues were sucked into the space.

Hu Tu said pleasantly: "Could it be that you are already full and can't eat any more, that's why some metals are collected into the space."

This is also a speculation, and he quickly overturned this speculation, because these residues are not the metals that Hu Xiaolian swallowed now, not only the shape is different, even the properties are wrong.What he swallowed was obviously iron, but what he spit out was copper, and what he swallowed was copper, but what he spit out turned into aluminum again, as if he spit it out randomly, just like a joke.

This strange phenomenon made Hu Tu study for a long time, and later found that it was not the lotus that changed the properties of the metal, and because the lotus spit into the space was not the metal that was swallowed at that time, but the one that was swallowed ten days ago.Those metals were digested inside the lotus platform for ten days, and then they were continuously spit into the space of the lotus platform.

Hu Tu took out some metals that had been digested by Hu Xiaolian for ten days. They all turned into metal balls the size of sheep feces, and they were purified. The rust marks on them were gone, and different metals were not mixed in Together.

This gave Hu Tu another surprise. He said with a smile: "It is even possible to purify metals. This ability is amazing. If the principle of purification can be researched, it may be able to subvert the current metal industry. In that case, I will be developed. .”

Of course, it is impossible to be developed. Hu Xiaolian's speed of digesting metals is extremely limited. From the current point of view, the refining speed of a small boiler is not fast enough, and it is impossible to use this ability as a source of income.

Not only that, Hu Tu can also reprocess these purified metals through the vertical and horizontal threads in the space, so that they can be bonded together into metal strips, or into other shapes.It's just that the things made with this skill are still very rough, just like catching fish, it needs practice.The silk threads in the space of the lotus platform are much thicker and more powerful than the roots in his palm, but when it comes to controlling them, they are not as handy as the roots in his palm.

During this period, Hu Tu also experimented with items such as plastics, ceramics and glass.

Unlike wood and metal, Hu Xiaolian doesn't like plastic. Even if he doesn't use conscious control, the plastic will be directly collected into the space, piled into the waste soil like garbage, and is always ready to be spit out of the body.

Ceramics and glass are as indigestible as plastic, but they were not directly thrown into the waste soil by Hu Xiaolian, but mixed with ordinary soil.Hu Xiaolian just couldn't digest them and didn't hate them.

Hu Tu took out the plastic and said: "It seems that plants don't like these white garbage, and Hu Xiaolian is also a plant. Although it is a fairy flower, it can't stand white garbage. In the future, I really have to pay attention to it. Plastic products can't be thrown away."

Then, he summed up Hu Xiaolian's digestion ability: "The digestion ability of the lotus platform space is different from the throughput ability, and the two are in different systems. The digestion ability is not controlled by consciousness. When Hu Xiaolian swallows wood, metal and other objects on his own, he will There is an ability. If this ability is used properly, it will be as useful as other abilities.”

While experimenting with the digestive function, Hu Tu accidentally discovered another ability of space, the storage ability.

The lotus space itself can store things, which is nothing special, especially the fruits placed in the lotus space, which can be insured.

The reason why he was able to discover this ability was that Hu Tu mixed some rootless grass with the sand left after Hu Xiaolian digested the soil. As a result, after several days, the grass did not change at all.After he discovered the abnormality, he speculated and experimented, and found this ability that pleased him.

As long as the perishable things are concentrated in a certain place in the space, and the consciousness is specially stipulated that the things there cannot be moved, Hu Xiaolian will not touch them.And if the fruit is placed there, it will not corrode like it is placed outside, as if it has special protection.

For Hutu, storage capacity is more useful than digestion capacity.He specially planned a wasteland, using the metal balls left by Hu Xiaolian after digestion, squeezed out a whole metal plate, and put in many ceramic bowls and regular glass to make a simple storage room.The things placed on it will neither get soiled nor spoil, making it an ideal place for fruit storage.

(End of this chapter)