Before dawn the next day, serfs were busy fishing out manure from the manure cellars of the settlements. The manure was carried by the serfs in the direction of the dairy farms.
The disbanded logging team also regrouped. Escorted by the Knight squad, they arrived at the bushes where the thorns worm's worm stalk was located. Markus, with a falcon feather arrow on his back, scouted the bushes to make sure that there was no World of Warcraft lurking in the surroundings, then turned to Gort and nodded.
"Sir, the surroundings are safe."
"That's good." Gort turned around and yelled at the serfs, "Get your spirits up and start working. After taking Sir Lord's copper coins, whoever dares to slack off will definitely be whipped to death by me! Remember, do not touch the thorns. Cut down all the other trees. Do not leave a single one behind. "
The serfs complied one after another.
Then they started cutting down trees.
They did not know why they came here to cut down trees, but the town official had ordered them to do so. Moreover, they could get paid two copper coins a day.
After a short while, the manure team arrived. Gort hurriedly directed the serfs to fertilize the thorns.
The treasurer, Isaiah, followed them. He calculated the remuneration of each serf. After counting the number of workers, he recorded the data on thick bast paper. He stretched and chatted with Gort, "What do you think Sir Baron is thinking? Why does he take care of the thorns worm?"
"I don't know either, but Milord always has a motive for doing this."
"Gort, you are getting more and more involved in the Flower Town."
"Why not? The development here is full of vitality. I will probably spend the rest of my life here. Therefore, it is a good thing to develop it, isn't it? I am not used to living in the barren countryside, but there are still many interesting things to look for in the rich countryside. "
"Of course, no one likes poverty."
"For Sir and for ourselves, Isaiah, we have to work hard." Gort glanced at his old friend. Recently, the other party was also a bit tempted to follow Liszt.
"I think … yes."
The town's officials, Gort, Blair, Carl, and Markus, all became Liszt's followers. As the only official who had yet to follow him, Isaiah naturally felt the pressure.
Gort didn't say much. The final decision still depended on Isaiah. "Isaiah, let's go check the thorns shrubs to see if there are any special thorns. Sir has said that the thorns sprout worms have been a little restless recently. Perhaps there has been a change in the thorns bushes. "
"Then what am I waiting for? I have to search carefully. If I find a Magic Ingredient Thorn, tsk tsk … That's right, the Shiitake settlement's Flame Mushroom, haven't you figured out the ingredients yet?"
Gort spread his hands. "It's not that easy. We tried to plant Flame Mushrooms with all kinds of ingredients, but all of them failed. If it weren't for the Flame Mushrooms still growing in Crooked Bob's shiitake shed, we might have screwed up the Flame Mushrooms. Master values the Flame Mushrooms so much that I don't even know how to report it. "
The cultivation of the Flame Mushrooms was in a difficult situation.
Gort had already mobilized all the shiitake farmers to distribute the Flame Mushroom seeds for them to cultivate.
Unfortunately, all of them ended in failure. It was said that Crooked Bob had a demonic disease. He stayed in his shed without rest and watched the Flame Mushrooms grow. However, he couldn't understand why his shed could grow Flame Mushrooms. After rearranging the ingredients, the Flame Mushrooms would always wither and die.
"Maybe we should tell Sir Baron. Sir Baron will have a good suggestion."
"Why do you say that?"
"Gort, don't you think that Sir Baron is very knowledgeable? He knows a lot and his vision is broader than all of us. He can see the vast world that we can't."
"Oh, is that how you see Sir?"
"In fact, it was Markus who said it. This retainer Knight, who wants to be a noble, admires Sir Baron very much."
Gort pondered for a moment. "Maybe I should report to Sir Baron. The Flame Mushrooms is not something that I can show off."
He wanted to show himself to win the position of advisor.
But he knew that if he messed up the Flame Mushrooms, Liszt would probably kill him. Anyone could estimate the importance of magic ingredients to a lord.
… …
At noon, Liszt came to the thorns worm's worm stalk bush to inspect the progress. He also asked if there were any unusual species of thorns.
The officials didn't find anything. Liszt himself used Magic Eyes and didn't see any unusual thorns.
Now he had confirmed that the smoke mission couldn't create rewards out of thin air. The rewards really existed in this world. As long as he was willing to dig, even if he didn't pass the mission, he could still get the reward.
This gave him a lot of choices.
He could choose to complete the mission and let the smoke mission send the reward to him. It was easy and pleasant.
He could also choose to avoid the mission and directly get the reward to "refresh" the new mission.
He even thought that maybe the mission would fail, but he didn't know what kind of "punishment" there would be after the mission failed. Would it be the punishment to keep the reward away from him or some other additional punishment? Or, if the mission failed, would there be a new mission?
"Maybe one day I can try the consequences of failing the mission. However, if I can complete the mission, I should try my best to not create bad consequences."
Liszt shook his head.
Liszt was no longer confused. Since he couldn't find any abnormalities with the thorns, he could only wait for the mission to be completed to get a new species of thorns.
Gort came over: "Sir, there may be a problem with the cultivation of the Flame Mushrooms."
"What problem?" Liszt suddenly became nervous.
"We arranged for all the serfs who grow the shiitake to get the Flame Mushroom seeds, but no one succeeded in making the Flame Mushroom seeds grow. It seems that the Flame Mushrooms can only grow in Crooked Bob's shiitake shed. But we can't find any difference between his shiitake shed and other shiitake sheds. "
Almost a month had passed.
The Flame Mushrooms still hadn't been cultivated.
Liszt felt that there must be a big problem. In fact, he had been paying attention to it, but he was willing to give the serfs time to solve it. The lord didn't have to work himself every day.
He didn't expect to wait for a month.
The distributed Flame Mushroom seeds didn't show the slightest sign of survival.
It stood to reason that the cultivation of mushrooms was very fast. After the spores germinated, it basically took a few days for the mycelium to grow into a fruiting body, and it could be picked in less than two months. But the Flame Mushroom seeds (mycelium) couldn't survive at all. The serfs had already changed various ingredients and environments, but it still didn't work.
Without professional scientific research personnel, Liszt could only let Gort lead the way to the shiitake settlement to do on-site research.
Liszt wanted to see if he could deduce some reasons with his own knowledge.
He arrived at the shiitake settlement.
Looking at the haggard crooked-neck Bob whose eyes were bloodshot, he immediately knelt on the ground, his whole body trembling, "Sir Lord, Bob is a good-for-nothing. He couldn't even cultivate the Flame Mushrooms for a month."
Liszt didn't blame Bob.
He just asked Bob about the process of cultivating the Flame Mushrooms in detail.
After listening, he swept his gaze over the Flame Mushrooms and released Magic Eyes, trying to find the root of the problem. He looked at the sporadic Flame Mushrooms growing on the shiitake ingredients, and then looked at the Flame Mushroom seeds among the new ingredients. He found something that was a little puzzling.
For a normal Flame Mushroom, magic power was a condensation process.
Including the Flame Mushroom seeds it produced, it was also constantly condensing magic power.
But after inoculation, the Flame Mushroom seeds in the new ingredients could not condense magic power, and would slowly lose magic power.
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