Xue Lai was still surprised, but Colin could no longer hold on and walked towards the small bed beside him.
"I'll tell you the details when I get up."
This one-and-a-half-hour observation had brought Colin's body to the edge, and the fatigue coming from his soul was like a tide, swallowing him up instantly as soon as he touched the pillow, as if he was in a coma.
When I woke up, night had fallen.
Xue Lai was sitting at the experimental table nearby and recording something.
"Snapped."
Colin stood up and subconsciously took out his pocket watch.
"You're awake." Xue Lai raised her head and saw his movements and said, "It's almost ten o'clock in the evening now."
"So late?" Colin was slightly startled and looked at his pocket watch. The time was already 9:53.
Putting away his pocket watch and patting his head, he suddenly said: "I have to go talk to the instructor and senior sister."
After observing farmland pollution for an hour, he usually needs to sleep for about three hours, and then repeat the observation and rest in the afternoon.
But no matter what, at nine o'clock in the evening, he would rush back to the wizard's tower on time to deal with the affairs of the Tilaimei Plain.
Mentor Atbald and Lillian would also wait for him in the wizard tower on time every night.
Xue Lai nodded slightly, paused and then said: "Let me run for you, and you can rest for a while."
Since farmland pollution is of great concern, apart from Colin and Xue Lai, only Atbold's grandparents and grandchildren know about the entire experimental area. However, the latter rarely come here on weekdays. Usually only Colin's elemental shadow and Xue Lai are known.
Stay here.
Colin has no plans to expose his special resistance to divine pollution until he can grow up to the point where he can deal with the filthy whispers.
And if he wants to reach the level of observing dirty words, he still has a long way to go.
At least in the recent test, Colin, who was able to persist in observing and studying farmland pollution, could not persist even for a moment when he deeply observed the dirty nonsense everywhere in the world.
When I first saw those filthy words, I just thought they were black spots like gray, which were very ordinary and nothing to worry about.
But if you look carefully, you can see countless weird-looking disgusting insects and slippery tentacles...
You may still be able to resist and endure this, but if you look further and carefully, everything in front of you will change drastically!
It's as if thousands of pigments are poured into the ocean, densely colored flowers bloom on the sapphire, or the sun and moon collapse, releasing endless light and heat...
With Colin's current ability to resist, he could only feel a wave of dizziness coming over him. In the blink of an eye, the starry gauze was crumbling like a candle in the wind, and then he could only rely on the last trace of clarity to quickly escape from this state.
"No, I'll go over there." Colin hesitated, but still rejected Xue Lai's proposal.
The mentor and Lilian thought they had been waiting for a long time, especially Lilian. He thought it would be best to explain himself in the past.
Xue Lai didn't insist anymore and just asked him to come back early to discuss today's discovery.
Colin walked quickly towards the exit of the laboratory, but met Lilian who happened to come looking for him.
"Senior." After walking out of the sheltering witch formation, Colin said hello to Lilian who was flying over.
"Junior." Lilian sat down and looked behind him, as if she wanted to find another figure through the cover of the witch formation, "Did you encounter any trouble tonight? Why haven't you come here so late?
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"There were some breakthroughs in the experiment today, which caused me to miss the evening." Colin explained.
"In this case," Lillian nodded, then asked, "Can I go in?"
"Of course." Colin said he was right, opened the witch formation, and led Lilian in.
"Is there anything important that needs to be dealt with in the Tireme Plains today?"
"There are no urgent matters, just trivial matters. Well... the serfs in the Merlin Kingdom don't have much food, so they are seeking support from the Loen Kingdom." Lilian said.
"Has the instructor reviewed it? If there is indeed no food, then approve it."
Lilian nodded and looked around curiously.
Colin basically stayed here with Xue Lai on weekdays. She had long wanted to come over and take a look, but Atbold had never allowed it. And she also knew the pros and cons and understood that Colin's time was precious now, so she kept coming over to bother him.
.
But today I have a valid reason, so I can finally come over and take a look.
"If there is nothing important, I will not go to the White Tower tonight. Senior sister will go back and tell the instructor later so that he will not keep waiting," Colin added.
At this moment, they passed through the open farmland area and walked into the deep laboratory.
"Yes." Lilian nodded, looked around, her eyes lingered on the single bed for a moment, and then said hello to Xue Lai, who looked calm, "Long time no see, Xue Lai."
"Long time no see." Xue Lai stood up and took the initiative to come to Lilian's side.
The two of them started chatting in front of Colin.
Colin suddenly remembered that Xue Lai and Lilian seemed to have a pretty good relationship.
But when they came to the Tilaimei Plain, Xue Lai had been busy studying farmland pollution with him, while Lilian helped him deal with the affairs of the plain, so there was not much time to see each other.
"By the way, senior sister..." After the two chatted for a while, Colin interrupted and brought the topic back to the topic: "How is the progress on the magic stone-free steam engine?"
"There hasn't been much progress." Lilian shook her head. "We have searched all the minerals on the market, but we have not found any ore that the junior said has similar properties to charcoal and can be burned."
"And without stable fuel, it is very difficult to create a practical steam engine that does not rely on magic stones..."
Colin nodded, also feeling a little headache.
There is no coal, and I have not heard of oil yet... The significance of fuel for steam engines is self-evident. Using magic stones and some witchcraft runes can provide stable energy.
However, magic stones are something that only wizards can afford, and there are no practical conditions for promoting them to ordinary people.
'But if we really can't find cheaper fuel, we can only use magic stones to produce various large-scale machines first to increase the productivity of the Tireme Plain.'
After all, these things were only minor matters, and Colin had a headache for a while and then put them behind him.
The main reason why he is trying to promote the industrialization process now is not to change the wizarding world, but to first increase the prosperity of the Tilaimei Plain and then feed back his own strength.
After all, no matter how powerful the industrialization process is, even if it allows every civilian to live a good life, with a bumper harvest and abundant supplies, it still cannot solve the biggest problem that wizards face today -
The war with the gods.
The direct cause that determines the final outcome of this war does not lie with them, middle-level wizards, nor with hundreds of millions of ordinary people.
But it only lies between the six supreme councilors at the top and those gods.
This is a desperate fact told by Noins, but it is indeed a reality.
After Colin inquired carefully, Noins did not explain much to him. He only vaguely revealed that the current war is the product of compromise under the mutual restraint of top-level combat forces.
The Supreme Councilors were unable to take action, and those gods could only descend on some clones with limited strength, so it was their turn, ordinary wizards, to fight life and death, barely forming a situation where soldiers faced off against generals.
Think about it, reality is not a game. It has always been about superior horses fighting inferior horses, relying on the strong to attack the weak. Just like Colin is now participating in a mortal war, what can he do even if the enemy country has countless knights?
There is no need to use a single soldier, and the enemy country that can be killed by just one person will be completely defeated.
In reality, if those top-level combat forces were able to fight, the same situation would probably be the same.
As for the improvement of industrialized ideas to produce some witchcraft equipment to strengthen the strength of mid- to low-end wizards on the current battlefield... this is not completely impossible.
It's just not easy to do. After all, although the wizarding world's development in terms of people's livelihood and infrastructure is unsatisfactory, this is not the case in terms of combat.
There are many kinds of witchcraft tools used by wizards in warfare.
Alas...it's a pity that these are not peaceful times.
Otherwise, relying on the ideological wealth he brought from his previous life to complete a complete industrial revolution in the entire wizarding world, I am afraid that it will only take a hundred years to qualitatively improve the strength of the entire wizarding family and increase the number of middle- and lower-level wizards several times.
Not a problem, many top wizards may be born as a result...
After Lilian left, Colin continued to discuss farmland pollution with Xue Lai.
"It's hard to describe the specific appearance of farmland pollution... To put it bluntly, it's like a colorful gray turbidity..."
Xue Lai listened carefully and carefully.
Now that we have figured out the general situation of farmland pollution, the next step is to start studying treatment methods.
"Will those polluting turbid currents actively converge into plants?"
After listening to Colin's description, Xue Lai thought for a moment and asked.
"Yes." Colin nodded.
"Perhaps we can try to take advantage of this characteristic and slowly use it up by growing plants?"
Colin frowned, and after thinking about it carefully, he nodded, "You can try this method."
Although it seems that farmland pollution will not be solved so easily, Xue Lai's proposal is still a way.
"Let's try this method first.
Later, when you discover more about farmland pollution, you can try other methods based on the new characteristics exposed." Xue Lai added.
"Yeah." Colin nodded, "What we plant may not necessarily be plants. We can try anything that can allow those polluting turbid currents to actively enter..."
Another week has passed in a flash.
Colin failed to make further progress in solving farmland pollution. The main reason is that the part consumed by each plant infected by farmland pollution is really insignificant compared with its huge total amount.
In a palm-sized piece of soil, less than 1% of the pollution in the soil is consumed after growing plants for a week.
However, they have not given up trying to grow new plants, because different plants can remove different amounts of pollution, and they may be able to find a plant that is particularly effective in removing pollution from farmland.
However, this plant was not found, but Colin was waiting for a guest from afar.
Wizard's White Tower Drawing Room.
"Sir Leiden, why do you have time to come to my place today?"
Colin and the genius wizard sat opposite each other on the soft sofa, with two steaming cups of white porcelain black tea on the brown coffee table in front of them.
"I didn't come to see you specially, I was just passing by." Raiden's words were very straightforward.
Colin was not annoyed at all. He could feel that the wizard opposite was just speaking bluntly and had no ill intentions.
"Passing by?" Colin took a sip of black tea and followed Leiden's words.
"Yes." Leiden nodded, and did not say why he was passing by. He just asked: "Sir Colin, are you interested in discussing with me?"
Colin put down the tea cup, paused and said: "There is no need to discuss...it is not in the sky duel field. Without the help of the witch formation, it is difficult for us to control the proportion."
Leiden frowned obviously, but he didn't force it. He just said: "If you are interested in discussing with me at any time, you are welcome to come to Meredith City."
After saying this, he stood up and prepared to leave.
Colin stood up and prepared to take a ride.
"By the way, there's one more thing." Raiden took a few steps, seemed to remember something, and then turned back and said:
"Do you still have enough food in the Tilaimei Plain under your control?"
"...I can still hold on for the time being." Colin replied after a pause.
"When I came here, I saw the serfs supported by your Excellency." Leiden paused and did not comment. He just said: "The food reserves in Meredith City can generally only last for one and a half years. I want to come to Tilaimei."
It should be similar in the plains, so please pay attention."
"I will." Colin nodded.
Leiden paused, and suddenly whispered: "The food market in Meredith City has collapsed. Schools and wizards are plundering the grain reserves of the kingdom's nobles, and the nobles are plundering the grain reserves of the lower-class civilians... And as far as I know
, Neuinstadt is not much better.”
"Although the farmland in Your Excellency's Tilaimei Plain has been destroyed, there is quite a lot of food stored here..."
"You mean, someone in Neustadt is working on the idea of storing grain in the Tireme Plain?" Colin asked.
Leiden didn't answer, but just smiled and said: "Actually, it wasn't that smooth when I came here this time."
This talented wizard with a distinguished status from Meredith City obviously did not miss what he said.
Moreover, if the Supreme Council of Neustadt issued a request for food from the Tireme Plain, he really could not stop it.
This is Neuinstadt's golden wheat. According to the regulations of the parliament, Neuinstadt can expropriate Tilaimei's grain reserves at market prices, and the latter cannot refuse.
Moreover, in special circumstances, this kind of expropriation will be mandatory and no compensation will be given.
He came to the laboratory with a slightly irritable mood, but Xue Lai gave him good news.
A plant called figwort behaved strangely during a cultivation experiment in contaminated soil.