Chapter 52: Buff-Type Plant
From Tuesday onwards, the next few days were all professional courses.
Jiang Ning left early and returned late. Every day, she was either blowing up the training room or on her way to blow up the training room. It was rare for her to run into Weisheng Yu and Simon.
The fifth ability room had been patched up many times. In the end, Teacher Fang Li had no choice but to move her and Xia Shi’s basic plant class to the second ability room, a training room specifically for summoning aggressive plants.
The second ability room was specially protected against aggressive plants, so the three of them no longer had to run to the corridor for refuge.
After failing to summon a rose for the 59th time, Jiang Ning did not give up but switched to summoning other plants.
Following the watermelon, Jiang Ning summoned a winter melon, a pumpkin, and a north melon respectively.
As a result, the winter melon grew to be extremely huge and could knock a person unconscious by falling from the sky. The pumpkin, when opened, would spew out scalding hot thick pulp. The north melon was even more powerful; anyone who touched it would be petrified.
After repeated experiments, Jiang Ning finally determined that the petrification duration of the north melon would be automatically released after about five minutes.
She hadn’t learned how to summon ordinary plants, but she had studied the aggressive attributes of a large portion of the plants quite thoroughly.
Zhou Yuanshan and Xia Shi had entered a period of fatigue.
After Jiang Ning had switched to the nth plant type, a half-meter-tall perennial herbaceous plant of the Cyperaceae family appeared in the observation room.
The rhizome was short, the leaves were apical and umbellate, the stem grew upright, and the top had numerous radiating branches. There were also numerous spikelets on the leaves, also distributed in a radiating pattern at the top of the leaves, with small light yellow flowers on the spikes.
The shape looked a bit like a pinwheel, hence the name Pinwheel Grass.
Jiang Ning observed for a long time from outside the observation room through the glass. During this period, she activated the devices in the observation room for testing. The Pinwheel Grass showed no aggression, nor did it have any morphological changes.
Was this… a success?
Jiang Ning looked at the Pinwheel Grass in the observation room uncertainly.
Zhou Yuanshan and Xia Shi walked over at the same time.
“Success?” Zhou Yuanshan asked.
“Probably?”
Too many accidents had forced Jiang Ning to strengthen her guard.
“All kinds of tests have been done. The Pinwheel Grass has not shown any aggression so far,” Jiang Ning said.
Zhou Yuanshan pondered for a moment, opened the door of the testing room, and walked straight to the Pinwheel Grass in the middle.
Zhou Yuanshan’s hand touched the leaves of the Pinwheel Grass.
Nothing happened.
A look of joy appeared on everyone’s faces.
Jiang Ning and Xia Shi then also walked into the observation room.
“Why is it that out of so many summoned plants, only the Pinwheel Grass is fine?” Xia Shi asked.
This was also a question Jiang Ning was curious about.
What was the difference between the aggressive plants she summoned and ordinary plants?
Zhou Yuanshan had taught at Semir Academy for many years. He was the last student of the plant department at Semir Academy and had stayed at Semir ever since he graduated.
However, because the plant department was later abolished, he could only teach ordinary technique classes.
For Jiang Ning’s situation, he really couldn’t find an explanation for a while.
While the few of them were deep in thought, a gentle breeze blew in from outside the window.
The airflow poured in through the open door of the observation room, and Jiang Ning’s hair was gently blown by the breeze.
The next second, the Pinwheel Grass began to rotate slowly, and the flower spikes scattered in the air with the rotating Pinwheel Grass.
A strange fragrance suddenly came from the surroundings.
“Be alert!” Zhou Yuanshan frowned and immediately braced himself, looking at the Pinwheel Grass in front of him.
Some bad memories suddenly flooded Jiang Ning’s mind. The dill before had also not been aggressive, but its danger level was no less than the plants she had summoned today. She remembered that the dill had tormented her and Chang Ming quite a bit.
The three of them quickly retreated outside the observation room and then locked the door of the observation room tightly.
Jiang Ning’s hand was on the cut-off button, ready to press the button at any time if the situation looked wrong, to spray herbicide and destroy it.
Even though they had closed the door of the observation room, the three of them were still stained with a lot of Pinwheel Grass pollen.
The fragrance in the second ability room was still strong.
The three of them waited quietly for a while. There was no feeling of mania or drowsiness in their bodies. Instead, a warm force came from their limbs. This feeling was very comfortable, but it did not make people go crazy.
Zhou Yuanshan suddenly thought of a possibility. He looked up at the two of them and said, “I know what this is.”
“Follow me,” he glanced at the two and then walked out of the second ability room.
Jiang Ning also had a faint guess in her heart. She followed Zhou Yuanshan’s steps.
“Where are we going, Teacher Zhou? Are we just going to leave this here?” Xia Shi looked at the Pinwheel Grass in the observation room with concern and hesitantly followed the two of them.
Zhou Yuanshan did not go far after going out. He gently pushed open the door of the fourth ability room.
“You summon that plant just now here and try again,” Zhou Yuanshan said to Jiang Ning.
“Okay,” Jiang Ning nodded and walked towards the glass partition in front.
She followed the same method, releasing her perception from her palm and concentrating her spirit to ensure that the Pinwheel Grass could be perfectly summoned in the ability testing room.
“And then?” she tilted her head and asked.
Zhou Yuanshan walked over and, on the testing instrument outside the glass room, pressed a button with a wind element symbol on it.
The air vent of the fourth ability testing room was opened. As the wind blew, the stems and leaves of the Pinwheel Grass began to rotate again, and the flower spikes filled the entire testing room.
Zhou Yuanshan’s fingers moved, and he gently typed a command on the screen.
The glass wall began to analyze the data.
Five minutes later, the analysis results came out.
“A buff-type plant,” Zhou Yuanshan looked at the results on the screen and was basically certain. He explained to the two, “The second ability room is specifically for testing aggressive plants. This kind of buff-type plant can only be tested in the fourth ability room.”
Fixed ability testing classrooms had fixed purposes and had been determined at the beginning of their design.
So the Pinwheel Grass would appear extremely normal in the testing room for aggressive plants because its effect was not attack at all, but a buff.
“The data shows that the Pinwheel Grass can increase the inhaler’s movement speed by 20%, and the duration is about ten minutes,” Zhou Yuanshan briefly explained the results of the data analysis to the two of them.
Xia Shi suddenly thought of something. His whole body was pressed against the glass wall. He looked at the Pinwheel Grass inside with surprise. “If we have the buff of this Pinwheel Grass in the first stage of the new student ability competition, won’t we be able to run faster than others?”
“That’s right,” Zhou Yuanshan nodded.
He shifted his gaze to Jiang Ning. Besides not being able to summon ordinary plants, her talent in other plant types could be described as genius.
Perhaps she could really shine in the Federation competition.
In that case, their plant department would have a successor.
Jiang Ning did not know Zhou Yuanshan’s inner thoughts. She pinched her chin and thought carefully about the possibility of selling a buff-type plant like the Pinwheel Grass online.
The Pinwheel Grass seemed to activate as soon as it encountered wind.
The flow rate during delivery was too high, which would cause the Pinwheel Grass to rotate wildly. By the time it reached its destination, the flower spikes might have already been blown away.
So it was difficult to guarantee the final state of the Pinwheel Grass that the buyer received.
Jiang Ning shook her head and had to pass on the Pinwheel Grass in her heart.
Zhou Yuanshan knocked on the glass, successfully drawing the two’s attention back. He said, “In the next lesson, we will directly proceed to the next stage of the teaching objective, the summoning of aggressive plants.”
Because of Jiang Ning’s ability, Zhou Yuanshan had specially added several more basic ability classes. But from the current situation, Jiang Ning was naturally lacking some sensitivity in the summoning of ordinary plants.
In that case, it would be better to directly teach her how to use other types of plants.
He had observed carefully these past two days. Although Jiang Ning could successfully summon plants, the types she summoned were relatively random.
Some were aggressive, and some were like today’s, which belonged to the buff-type.
His goal was to help Jiang Ning distinguish the summoning boundaries between these types of plants.
Having found the right teaching direction, Zhou Yuanshan was no longer as lifeless as before.
“That’s it for today’s class. We’ll have a half-day off in the afternoon,” Zhou Yuanshan ended the class early. He had to go back and reformulate his plan.
Xia Shi leaned against the door frame and looked at Zhou Yuanshan’s back in surprise. “What’s wrong with Old Zhou today? He’s walking so fast.”
“It’s probably the effect of the Pinwheel Grass,” Jiang Ning glanced at him faintly.
He had just said that the Pinwheel Grass increased movement speed.
After class, the two of them went to the cafeteria to eat something.
Having some free time, Xia Shi suddenly mentioned, “Do you want to go to the market at Jinsha Square in the afternoon?”
“Market?” Jiang Ning had been going back and forth between the dormitory, the plant department, and the cafeteria all day. She had not paid any attention to school affairs at all.
“Yes, yes. The school has a flea market every year. The stall owners are all students of Semir. They sell everything there. It lasts for three days, and this afternoon is the first day,” Xia Shi said.
“Can anyone set up a stall?” Jiang Ning thought for a moment and asked.
Xia Shi nodded. “Yes, anyone can be a seller.”
A plan suddenly flashed in Jiang Ning’s mind. She smiled at Xia Shi. “Okay, then I’ll go back and pack up first.”
Xia Shi: “Then you have to be quick. If you go late, the good stuff will be picked by others.”
Many of the things at the market were items that the students themselves didn’t need and were selling. Every year, there were many good things, almost brand new, and much cheaper than outside.
The two of them walked towards the dormitory building together.
Just as the two were about to part ways, Jiang Ning suddenly asked, “What time does the market start?”
“I think it’s two in the afternoon,” Xia Shi was not too sure. He hadn’t been out to socialize these past few days. He had seen this news on the school forum recently.
“Got it,” after saying this, Jiang Ning turned and went back to her room.
The Pinwheel Grass was not convenient to sell online, but it could be sold offline.
External items could not be used in the new student ability competition, but the Pinwheel Grass was summoned by her ability. This couldn’t be considered an external item, right?
Many new students wanted to get a good ranking in the ability competition. The first round was a competition of speed. With the buff of her Pinwheel Grass, they would definitely be able to increase their speed with half the effort.
As she thought about it, she couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
After being friends with Ke Lai for so long, she had learned a thing or two from her. Her thinking on the road to making money was becoming more and more open.
The Pinwheel Grass was not easy to preserve, and there was still some time before the competition.
So Jiang Ning decided to do a pre-sale first.
She only needed a few Pinwheel Grasses to display and attract others’ attention.
Jiang Ning rummaged around and, in a pile of empty flower pots, finally found a few that could be used. She packed them up and prepared to take them to the market later.
But before that, she had to go back to the plant department building, to the fourth ability room, to print out the analysis report of the Pinwheel Grass as a promotion for her plant.