Chapter 200

Chapter 200 Germplasm Bank

Locke said to Witch Sophia, “Teacher, I’m going to the germplasm bank.”

Witch Sophia was slightly surprised. “A germplasm bank? Oh, you go there to buy seeds. The public germplasm bank at Lilith’s Cottage is indeed quite good and very impressive.”

“There are a large number of seeds used for experiments stored there,” said Witch Sophia. “I still have several exchange privileges for the seed bank. I’ll grant you one second-level seed exchange privilege and one third-level seed exchange privilege.”

“These permissions are useless if they remain in my hands. You can use them to exchange for some magic plant seeds for free and use them to conduct some experiments.”

Witch Sophia took out two application forms from her office drawer, both of which were stamped with the seal of Lilith Cottage Academy.

Locke was slightly surprised.

He had heard that the germplasm bank was a shared repository for all breeders in Lilith’s Cottage, and that its redemption rights could only be redeemed with contribution points.

The right to redeem third-level seeds alone is very expensive.

Not to mention, the secondary seed exchange authority.

It seems that in addition to exchanging with contribution points, you can only complete some special college tasks or obtain special college title rewards, which will bring you some rights to exchange germplasm resources for free.

Therefore, the free redemption rights to the germplasm bank at Lilith’s Cottage are definitely worth getting.

Generally, wizard instructors have many students under them. Even if they give students some benefits, it is impossible for one student to get too many such exchange privileges.

But because Witch Sophia currently only has herself as a first-class wizard apprentice student, and she is about to leave, she is actually more generous than before.

After thanking Witch Sophia, Locke took the two stamped application forms, rode on the Engel’s spinning snail, and headed to the location of the germplasm bank in the port city.

The germplasm bank of Lilith’s Hut is located five hundred meters underground.

Here, we invited a [Architect] from the School of Shaping who specializes in earth magic. He used earth element magic to build an underground palace building to store a large number of seeds for the breeders.

There are many alchemy huts inside the underground palace building.

The entrance is guarded by special second-class wizard apprentices or even first-class wizard apprentices.

After all, genebanks are very important.

Many standard models of magical plants still need to be preserved in germplasm banks.

Once a large number of magic fields in Lilith’s cottage are destroyed and a large number of magic plants are destroyed, a germplasm bank may be needed to restore these destroyed magic plants.

Locke walked to the entrance and after passing the inspection, he walked up a steel and wood mine ladder.

After a “bang”, the steel rope on the mine ladder began to rotate slowly, lowering the mine ladder platform.

Accompanying Locke was a female wood elf second-class wizard apprentice. She had green hair and a pair of sparkling eyes under her bangs.

At this time, the wood elf apprentice named Ruby was looking at Locke with admiration, as well as the excellent apprentice badge and official breeder badge on Locke’s chest.

For the wood elves who love nature, becoming a breeder is simply their lifelong dream.

Ruby said to Locke in a respectful tone, “Senior Augustine, welcome to our germplasm bank.”

“The germplasm bank contains many seeds of demonic plants. Some demonic plants no longer exist outside due to environmental changes.”

“The temperature and humidity in the seed bank are maintained at certain values. The most important factors for preserving magic plant seeds are the temperature and humidity of the air.”

“Different magical plant seeds need to maintain specific temperatures and humidity, so there’s a large weather controller down here that’s used to maintain a constant temperature in this seed bank, as well as the specific temperatures in each room.”

Ruby obviously wanted to show off her expertise to Locke, so she talked incessantly.

Ruby said with reverence, “So, we’ll have you go to the drying room later to dry your clothes to prevent the moisture you carry from changing the humidity in the air.”

“Oh, I failed the Breeder’s Assistant exam again this year. The theory exam was so difficult. I really want to be a breeder like you. I’ve failed the Breeder’s Assistant exam three times, and I performed very poorly on the theory exam every time.”

At this time, the mine ladder had already gone down to about 400 meters underground. Looking up, I saw that the mine ladder passage above was pitch black, with only some magic mining lamps still on.

Locke frowned slightly when he heard this. He didn’t want to talk too much and interfere in her life, but when he heard that she had failed the exam three times, he finally couldn’t help but say, “Your basic theory has too many loopholes.”

“It’s perfectly normal that you couldn’t pass the theoretical exam for the Breeder’s Assistant. I want to correct you on two points. First, maintaining a constant temperature and humidity within the germplasm room is indeed very important, but even more important is maintaining a constant magical tidal gradient.”

“Secondly, the reason I need to go to the drying room isn’t just because of the moisture in my body. That’s just one reason. The humidity of the air where the magic plant seeds are stored must be within a certain range. If the humidity is too high, the seeds will germinate. If the humidity is too low, the moisture inside the seeds will continue to dehydrate, destroying the structural water in the seeds and causing them to die.”

“But the main reason I go to the drying room is to keep my body temperature consistent with the temperature inside the germplasm room, because a temperature difference of more than 2 degrees Celsius will reduce the life of the seeds by at least 50%.”

“So, everyone who enters the germplasm room needs to go into the drying room again, because it’s to balance the temperature and the moisture.”

Ruby blushed, she hadn’t expected that she had made so many mistakes in just a few simple words when she just wanted to show off her professionalism in front of the official breeder.

Locke’s insightful guidance, with just a few words, cleared up all the errors within the knowledge system she had mentioned earlier, allowing her to have a clearer understanding of her work in the gene bank.

Ruby said to Locke gratefully, “Thank you, Breeder Augustine. You’re right. It seems that there are indeed too many loopholes in my theoretical system.”

“The theoretical part of the Breeder’s Assistant Exam is not very difficult, so I will work harder on this aspect.”

“Thank you for your advice. Your words today are very helpful to me.”

At this moment, the mine shaft made a huge “bang” sound as it fell to the ground. It was obvious that they were already 500 meters underground.

In this underground place, all the rocks seemed to have been blessed by earth magic and were very hard. In addition, a lot of special magic materials developed by alchemists should have been used to further reinforce this underground building.

I’m afraid that ordinary wizard wars will not be able to threaten this impenetrable germplasm bank.

Locke walked out of the mine ladder and saw that there were many rooms and tunnels in this underground space. Each room was blocked by magic alloy doors and magic locks of the protection school.

There are magic mining lamps lighting up the passage.

Locke also looked down and saw that about a hundred meters below the hollow iron platform under his feet, there was a huge, super-large weather control device that had been activated.

This weather controller is controlling the temperature and humidity inside the germplasm bank, and even the concentration gradient of the magic energy tides.

Therefore, the storage of agricultural products is extremely troublesome and the cost is very high.

Locke suddenly remembered that Zack had wanted him to maintain the 100-acre magic field of Crystal Palm Fire Lotus without any orders.

This is complete bullshit.

When Locke walked out of the mine ladder, he saw that in this underground building, there were some rooms without doors, where some second-class wizard apprentices were screening and processing seeds.

There are also some more common seeds placed on the iron shelves in the public room.

The shelves were filled with boxes of translucent petri dishes, and inside the dishes were seeds of different sizes and colors, but all of them looked very beautiful, like magical seeds of various colored gems.

Locke asked, “Where is the exchange area for level 2 and level 3 permissions? Take me there.”

“I need to exchange.”

(End of this chapter)