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Chapter 944: Chapter 544: Star Realm Ship, Function Options 2

Upon hearing Azik’s inquiry, the chief experimental officer, botanist Helmer, explained:

"We have now selected several species for the grafting experiments.

"The first is the Starlight Vine. The experiment has been ongoing for over ten days, and the growth of the Starlight Vine is currently quite good."

As Helmer answered, he led a few people to observe the cultivation room for the Starlight Vine grafted onto the Golden Tree.

Each Golden Tree cultivation room is independent.

Upon entering the cultivation room, Lu Heng saw a Golden Tree about half the height of a person, with a type of fluorescent vine wrapped around it.

According to Helmer’s introduction, this vine is the Starlight Vine.

The glow of the Starlight Vine is not strong, with only a faint fluorescence on its leaves.

However, the Starlight Vine can produce a kind of fruit known as the Starlight Fruit, which Azik had mentioned before.

This fruit has a very high concentration of fluorescent substances.

Currently, this Starlight Vine has yet to bear fruit, so the fluorescent properties are not apparent.

Lu Heng moved in closer to observe and noticed a problem.

The Starlight Vine is growing well indeed, but the Golden Tree’s growth is not as good.

Moreover, this Golden Tree is only half the height of a person, clearly shorter than the Golden Trees in other cultivation rooms.

"This Golden Tree doesn’t seem to be growing well."

Helmer nodded and replied, "Yes, its growth rate is very slow because the fluorescent substances are absorbed by the Starlight Vine."

Lu Heng noticed another issue.

Though it was supposed to be grafting, upon closer inspection, you would see that at the grafting point, the Starlight Vine had grown stalks that penetrated the bark of the Golden Tree.

"This doesn’t quite look like grafting."

Helmer nodded and replied, "Yes, this experiment is currently not very successful. Because the Starlight Vine itself is a parasitic vine, we originally thought the Starlight Vine’s life force was quite strong and wanted to try its effect."

Normally, grafting requires compatibility in taxonomy between the plants; not just any two plants can be grafted together.

Theoretically, the closer in taxonomy two plants are, the more likely the grafting will succeed.

However, this theory doesn’t hold true in the experiment with the Golden Tree and the fluorescent plants.

Because the Golden Tree is a plant from the Elf World, while the fluorescent plants are from the Star Realm Merchant Civilization.

Between plants from these two worlds, there’s not even the slightest connection, let alone similar taxonomy.

Therefore, the experiment must proceed one type at a time.

Since it’s an experiment, there is no guarantee of complete success.

Based on the current situation, the "grafting" experiment between the Starlight Vine and the Golden Tree is not heading as expected.

However, the experiment is not entirely fruitless.

The grafting experiment might have failed, but the parasitic experiment succeeded.

The Starlight Vine successfully parasitized the Golden Tree and is growing pretty well.

If the Starlight Vine can maintain its fluorescent properties by parasitizing the Golden Tree, even in other worlds, then the experiment is actually successful.

The term "parasitic" may sound derogatory.

But in nature, parasitism is a very normal survival strategy for plants.

In the native world of the Star Realm Merchant Civilization, the Starlight Vine is originally a parasitic plant, usually found on the branches of other tall fluorescent plants.

There are also many similar parasitic vines on Blue Star.

In nature, there are instances where parasitic plants and their hosts coexist in a mutual dependency.

Therefore, if the experiment of the Starlight Vine parasitizing the Golden Tree can maintain the fluorescent properties of the Starlight Vine, then this experiment is deemed successful.

Helmer continued to explain: "This experiment will proceed for a while and then be sent to environments in other worlds for subsequent experiments. Hopefully, we will receive good news."

After viewing the Starlight Vine’s cultivation room, they went to see the other cultivation rooms of the fluorescent plants for grafting.

This time, the Star Realm Merchants brought back thirty-six Golden Trees in total, and twenty-two of them have already undergone grafting experiments, all with plants currently cultivated in the No.1 Ecological Ball.

Among them, seventeen grafting experiments have already failed.

The failure reason is basically the same; the grafted fluorescent plants could not absorb nutrients from the Golden Tree, leading to withered leaves.

This means only five grafting experiments are still ongoing, with one of them being the Starlight Vine.

After viewing all the cultivation rooms, Helmer sighed: "The current experimental situation isn’t very optimistic, with most of the grafting not successful.

"It could be that the grafting methods and techniques are not mature enough, so we will continue to try, hoping to gain some achievements."

Lu Heng remembered Azik saying that there were originally over three thousand types of fluorescent plants.

But now, only about twenty species are growing in the Ecological Ball, with most fluorescent plant varieties gone.

However, for high-level civilizations, a lack of living plants doesn’t necessarily equate to ’extinction.’

"Apart from the current twenty or so fluorescent plant species, are there no other experimental samples?"

Helmer answered, "Yes, there are. While there are only about twenty species of fluorescent plants surviving in the No.1 Ecological Ball, we have stored seeds and tissue samples for over a thousand types of fluorescent plants.

"We are considering which plants to cultivate for experimentation, and the experimental team is discussing the types of plants to be developed."

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