"By the way, what were you going to tell me just now?" Nora asked curiously after finishing her analysis report. She remembered that Lawrence seemed to be saying something to herself before she asked the question. "I remember what you just said.
Have you discovered anything by studying those insect specimens?"
"Of course, of course there are some discoveries." Lawrence said, pointing to the dozen or so samples he had put together, "I just observed these insects carefully, and then unexpectedly discovered that although these insects look similar to
Ordinary insects are very similar, but they are actually different."
As he spoke, he pointed to the two insect samples packed in small boxes in Nola's hand and said, "For example, although the two samples you are holding now look like just ordinary cotton pests, I just said
I used a knife to scrape some scales from their bodies and when I observed them under a large-magnification microscope, I unexpectedly found that the powder was not fresh."
"The powder is not new, what does this mean?" The little doll's red and green eyes were full of confusion. She knew that many insects have small scales or powder to protect themselves.
These things are often poisonous. "Are you saying that the toxicity on these scales is less?"
In Nora's opinion, this kind of thing should be regarded as a biological toxin. So if the powder produced by the bugs is not fresh as Lawrence said, it means that the lethality of these bugs at certain angles should be higher than ordinary ones.
The bugs are much smaller, which sounds like it should be a good thing.
"Well - the toxicity of this batch of bugs is indeed less than that of normal varieties." Lawrence was stunned for a moment after hearing the little doll's answer, and then replied. "But that's not what I want to say.
What I want to say is that these bugs are alive, and only the powder on dead bugs will be stale."
"But now the problem has been clarified." Lawrence shrugged slightly. "As discovered just now, it would be normal if there are gods or divine power here. After all, there is enough power belonging to the gods.
Power blurs the line between life and death."
"But what's the point of doing this?" Nora asked in confusion. "What I want to say is, what's the point of these bugs being between life and death? You must know that these bugs cannot have the power of faith.
, no matter how much control there is, it is just a simple expenditure for the manipulator behind the scenes, and there is no point in it."
When Lawrence and Nora confirmed that there was some kind of divine power behind the scenes that they didn't know was controlling everything, they understood that it was not caused by some of Viscount Doropia's competitors or enemies.
Things. After all, although Viscount Doropia can own close to 1/10 of the textile market share of the entire empire, it is impossible to use the power of the gods to deal with him, so the current situation always seems a bit unreasonable.
"I think this is because we haven't seen any significance for the time being." Lawrence raised his right hand to Nora and gently shook his index finger and said. "Any god, even a fallen god, we will not care about."
It cannot be underestimated. For example, I almost got caught in that adventure before you were born, but fortunately, because of my special characteristics and a little bit of luck, I was able to escape smoothly."
"Understood. I will always be vigilant and will not slack off." Nora looked at Lawrence's serious expression and became serious. The little doll knew that whenever Lawrence said something to him with this expression, it must be something.
Very important things must be remembered firmly and must not be taken lightly.
Although it only took them about half an hour to check out the problem, in order to show their efforts, they did not just go out, but took out various information about magic and studied until the sun started
After falling and the sky gradually darkened, he put away the documents and walked out of the room with a tired look on his face.
"It's really hard on you." After watching Lawrence and the others walk out with tired expressions on their faces, a male servant who had been waiting not far outside the door bowed to Lawrence and at the same time extended an invitation to them.
"His Excellency the Viscount has prepared dinner for you. They hope to invite you to have dinner with them."
"Of course, I'm honored." Lawrence bowed slightly and motioned to the servant in front of him to lead the way. The inspection and study just now made him feel a little hungry. After all, studying this matter meant sitting there reading and thinking.
, but the consumption of physical energy is not small.
At noon, because the other party considered that Lawrence was studying in the room and was not allowed to enter, they simply put two bowls of cream soup and a large piece of beef pie on a silver plate at the door and knocked on the door.
Then moved in at Yunala. However, since this was just a simple meal, by now around 6:00 pm, Lawrence felt that he had completely digested what he had eaten for lunch, and now he was very hungry.
Although there is no hunting today, the dinner is still a standard hunting manor dinner. For example, the main course is roasted grouse and roasted venison. At the same time, everyone can chat easily during the meal without having to
Follow a set of etiquette like a formal banquet.
At this moment, Lawrence vaguely told the results of today's inspection. The reason why they were vague was to hide Nora's use of the power of faith. Fortunately, it was just a live bug with dead bugs on it.
The fact that its nature is still alive and kicking is enough for Lawrence to come up with the theory that divine power may be involved.
"But before that, we also asked the priests of the Agricultural Church to go to the farm to check these problems, but they found nothing at that time. Why?" Aunt Mia asked. In fact, this kind of question is not suitable for the nobles.
It is extremely rude to say that this also shows how much damage the inexorable pests in the cotton fields have done to this family.
But in any case, this kind of question should not be asked at a noble banquet. Fortunately, Aunt Mia, as Lawrence's elder, can be regarded as barely in line with etiquette to ask such a question at this time. For Lawrence,
It would be a good opportunity to inform them of some important points.
"Because the person you are looking for did not expect the power of gods to be involved, the priests probably did not conduct targeted investigation." Lawrence explained. "We only found something wrong with the insect specimens and hypothesized that there might be something wrong.
We conducted targeted inspections on the influence of divine power, and finally after gathering all the cotton plants and specimens together, we found that there was an extremely weak divine reaction."
"And this kind of power related to divine power was not discovered by me in the end." Nora said, pointing to the little doll next to her who was eating roasted venison.
If I am sensitive, I think even if there is a greenhouse of cotton, I may not be able to find the problem here. I think the range of detection by the spells of those priests you invited before coming should not exceed the size of a greenhouse."
"Indeed not." After the Viscount and his family looked at each other, Aunt Mia said to Lawrence, "Because we have not discovered that these bugs have extraordinary powers before, the people from the Agricultural Church invited are all local ones.
The priests in the church and the professional team sent by the church here. There are indeed many of them, but when it comes to the extraordinary level, they are not high at all."
"So, I think you can inform the Agricultural Church about this matter." Lawrence finally concluded. "After all, our inspection is just a single example. It would be better to find professionals to confirm."