Chapter 566: Chapter 6: A "Wealthy" Guest Delivered to the Door
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Cutting grass is a physical job, especially under the blazing sun when facing rows of cattail that are over a meter tall with coarse and tough texture. If Xiao Xian didn’t have the Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors in hand, it really would be somewhat unbearable.
Unlike the dried cattail Xiao Xian saw outside the material center yesterday, what she is facing today is fresh cattail that has mutated and grown in desert areas. Each cluster is about one and a half meters tall, and Xiao Xian standing next to a cluster has it reaching up to her ear tips.
Considering that Xiao Xian is a newcomer starting her first day and her work capability is in question, the robot assistant Romeo One gave her a relatively simple workload for the first day: ten clusters of cattail. Equivalent to a Heaven-defying Value of 1 per cluster, this is arguably the cheapest labor.
The North Campus is a simulated space, with plants that naturally differ from the outside.
The cattail before the mutation had good drought and moisture resistance, but in the Heaven-defying environment of the North Campus, their growth tendencies not only remain unchecked, but the mutation results in their growth doubling whether in high temperatures or freezing cold.
Generally speaking, a Romeo-grade robot can uproot an average of five clusters of cattail a day. The cut grass will be piled up until it reaches a certain amount, then sent to the Agricultural Science Academy, to be used as experimental fodder for livestock.
Yesterday, Xiao Xian got the dried cattail, with long fibers that are rough and can cut the hands. Only after being infused with Silver Grade Spiritual Energy does it become soft. Before this, no one had ever used cattail to weave mats. However, it’s these types of grass that can have unexpected effects when woven.
While Xiao Xian was cutting grass, the cushion she sat on was not only comfortable to sit on but could also absorb the heat from the sandy ground. Even sitting under the big sun, she wouldn’t feel too hot.
As the rows of cattails fell, some sweat appeared on Xiao Xian’s forehead. After drinking a few sips of mineral water that cost her 2 Heaven-defying Values, Xiao Xian counted her morning’s work.
Fifteen clusters of cattail, each cluster over half a meter thick. She’d take ten back to Romeo to report her work. The remaining five clusters, Xiao Xian planned to dry in the sun, then use them to practice her weaving.
Before she set out for Huake Institute, she didn’t anticipate that the school would have an even more closed and abnormal management style. By the time she saves up enough Heaven-defying Values to leave school, Mao Dazhu would probably be looking out for her eagerly. She plans to weave some new style cattail mats when these are dry and take them out as compensation for Mao Dazhu.
The grass in the North Campus is more complex to weave than any type of bamboo or vine material that Xiao Xian has worked with before.
She has to be extra careful with the Spiritual Energy in the Silver-grade Space, as a slight inattention could cause the grass to burst open. After wasting two clusters of materials, Xiao Xian could gradually ensure that she won’t ruin the mats anymore.
According to her estimate, as long as she weaves a hundred mats, she can try to infuse the Silver Grade Spiritual Energy into other materials.
Xiao Xian today was cutting grass not far from the main entrance of the North Campus. After finishing the cutting, she cleaned up the cattail and placed the excess on the sandy surface for basic drying treatment.
On the other side, the gate opened majestically.
This manganese-chromium steel gate, with a thickness of a meter, emitted a monster-like "whimpering" sound when it opened, and the sandy ground was grinding with a squeaky noise.
"Spending another 500 Heaven-defying Values, it’s really easy to spend but hard to earn," said a female student at the gate, inserting her Heaven Card and wistfully watching the card reader deduct 500 Heaven-defying Values from her card. If it weren’t for a family emergency, she wouldn’t want to give up the excellent training environment within the campus to go out.
It was Xiao Xian’s first time seeing someone enter through the card reader at the gate, and she couldn’t help but look curiously at the incoming female student.
The female student’s skin was several shades darker than that of the local people, her hair tied in small braids, wearing a red and green T-shirt with faded jeans, looking very much like a black person from Cameroon, but her facial features were still distinctly Asian.
What surprised Xiao Xian a bit was that this female student, who looked only in her early twenties, was emanating a faint silver-yellow aura. Judging by her cultivation, she seemed to be almost on par with Xu Lan Ya.
"In the big sun, Romeo One is hiring new students with no money to spend again?" The girl with braids noticed Xiao Xian and then looked at the cattail beside her.