Chapter 619: Chapter 31: Dragon Rain & Heartless Man
Xiao Xian, using the helicopter modified by Xuerou, conducted several seeding experiments, and the results were a mix of joy and concerns.
The good news was that the agricultural seeder, modified and fitted with a camera, under Xuerou’s repeated operation, could cover most of the C area within a day without leaving home, and it performed seeding even better than manual seeding.
The bad news, however, was that although large-scale seeding was no longer a problem, it gave rise to another issue - the problem of water scarcity.
C area is a desert lacking water; besides Farmer Spring, the water in the park is divided into two pathways for transport, one is via the groundwater of the South Campus and the other is the seasonal water diversion from B area, which are used to supply the daily water needs of C area students.
Although this water supply ensures that the C area’s daily water needs are met, it is just that - for daily usage only. Large-scale planting is clearly impossible.
Otherwise, with the 24/7 working hard-working robots of the North Campus, C area would have been green by now.
Xuerou checked the data bank of the North Campus, and Xiao Xian also asked Romeo One.
When the North Campus was "established," C area was as lush as B area, but afterwards, the water sources began to dry up gradually, soil desertification became severe, and in the end, the only water source left in C area was Farmer Spring, and the surface vegetation was largely replaced by cattail and cacti.
This situation continued for more than a decade, and even if a Natural Cultivator with great talent came along, there would be no way to green the park.
Therefore, in a situation of utter helplessness, the two administrators of C area, Romeo One and Juliet One, published the astonishing reward of 100,000 Heaven-defying Value.
Without water, there can be no plants that will survive - this is a natural principle.
To complete this task, Xiao Xian must solve this big problem. After all, for small-scale planting, Xiao Xian can still use manual watering to ensure plant survival, but in front of a vast desert, human efforts seem quite insufficient.
"As long as the early seedlings survive, later trees can rely on their own tenacious vitality to live on," Xiao Xian concluded in an earlier experiment.
"But for the large-scale survival of the seedlings, unless there is widespread rainfall; but according to the data I have on hand, C area typically gets rain only once every three months. A month ago, there was a rain, which means, normal rainfall would still need to be waited for two more months," they had only two months left.
"We can’t wait for natural rainfall; we can always resort to artificial rain," Xiao Xian blurted out such a sentence, startling both Xuerou and Zhang Yiyi.
"Don’t be too shocked, you’ll know when the time comes," Xiao Xian wanted to keep Little White Jiao as a final show. After revealing her plan to Little White Jiao, he showed some difficulties.
It turned out that Little White Jiao’s previous "rainfalls" were all on a small scale, for example, drizzling some rain over White Dragon Lake, or sprinkling some Silver Space Water on a farm. As long as the scope was not large, he could achieve "perfect weather and rainfall."
But Xiao Xian’s request was to rain over the C area of the North Campus, which was not a small scope. Little White Jiao agreed to Xiao Xian’s request, but to succeed in a one-off raindrop, there were certain prerequisites.
First, the best time for "Dragon Rain" must be at night, as Little White Jiao can only perform Cloud Formation and Rainfall in his original dragon form.
Although Xuerou and Xiao Xian had already spread the message that the sky anomalies were just for experiments, in broad daylight, even a UFO as big as a flying disc would be spotted, let alone a Jiao Long twisting and turning in the sky - that would cause chaos.
This is at the Huake Institute, where geniuses and prodigies from the whole country are concentrated. Not to mention that the Campus is filled with numerous robots - who knows if they are equipped with radar systems. If by any chance, a missile gets shot from some corner of the school, neither Little White Jiao nor Xiao Xian would want to take that risk.
Second, since it’s called Cloud Formation and Rainfall, it must be under cloudy conditions that moist vapor conducive to rainfall can be produced.
Generally, the thicker and closer the cloud layer is to the ground, the more favorable the weather is for rainfall.
The temperature difference between night and day in C area is huge, and the strong temperature convection is more likely to produce rainfall. That is why C area’s rain always occurs at night - after a day of extreme heat, the sudden coolness at night easily leads to the sinking of the rain clouds.