Chapter 113 Lv4 Crops

"Awoo!"

A terrifying roar that made the heart palpitate came from not far away, and the earth began to tremble. The mutated beasts, attracted by the commotion of the previous battle, had finally arrived.

The survivors saw the scales of those mutated beasts reflecting the sunlight hundreds of meters away, and could even smell the strong stench.

*Thwack!*

Lu Chi kicked the head of a European Union evolver out, and it landed in front of the mutated beast horde. Stimulated by the smell of blood, these monsters rushed forward even more frantically.

"These small fries..." Lu Chi gripped his saber tightly, muttering to himself, "So troublesome."

Nearly a hundred mutated beasts appeared from all directions.

Lu Chi stepped into the tide of beasts, saber in hand.

...

Li Tianran stood in the planting area, facing a vast expanse of black soil that stretched as far as the eye could see.

Growing on the black soil were vibrant green plants, as if carved from jade.

Lv4 cherry tomatoes.

Li Tianran had upgraded the 1,000 mu (Chinese unit of area, 1 mu ≈ 667 square meters) area of the planting zone into black soil suitable for growing lv4 crops, but he hadn't fully utilized it yet. Instead, he had only planted on 100 mu, planting nearly 10,000 lv4 cherry tomato plants in one go.

Considering the planting density and survival rate, this was the most suitable planting ratio.

It wasn't that Li Tianran didn't have the ability to expand the black soil and lv4 crop planting area; he had enough points to buy seeds and land upgrade scrolls. However, the survival rate of lv4 crops was really low, and Professor Nan's beast king bone meal also required a certain amount of time to produce on a large scale, so it couldn't meet the needs of 1,000 mu of lv4 crops for the time being.

After the crop seeds reached lv4, the number of options decreased significantly.

For example, lv3 crops had high-yield options like wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes. But after reaching lv4, most became lower-yield varieties like cherry tomatoes, peppers, and strawberries. After Li Tianran's calculations, if it was just to recover points, then the harvest from planting lv4 crops on the same area of land wasn't as high as planting lv3 high-yield crops!

This was probably a method used by the system to control production.

"Lv4 Cherry Tomato

Time until maturity: 88 hours.

Survival rate: 64%

Description: A crop that has absorbed the remains of evolvers as nutrients, greatly increasing its survival rate. Although extracting nutrients from corpses sounds a bit evil, this is the law of plant growth."

After Professor Nan's reminder last time, Li Tianran remembered that if plants couldn't get enough nutrients from the soil during their growth process, their fallen leaves and fruits would fall into the soil, waiting for the second year, when these things would become new nutrients absorbed by the plant itself.

Just like some wild animals, after giving birth, if they couldn't get enough energy, they would eat their own young...

From this perspective, plants and creatures have many things in common. This is the way of survival bestowed by nature.

This wasn't evil.

The fruits of lv4 crops grown from the corpses of evolved creatures weren't evil. On the contrary, their vitality was even stronger.

"The growth cycle of lv4 fruits is seven days. This time, I planted 10,000 trees. Even if we calculate based on a 70% survival rate, 7,000 trees will survive. Each tree can produce about 20 fruits, which means I can harvest 140,000 fruits this time," Li Tianran silently calculated this data.

140,000 fruits!

If this were to spread, it would probably shock the world.

Because this represented 140,000 evolvers!

Even the world's strongest European Union, after investing a lot of money, had only managed to build an evolver force of about 2,000 people. And Li Tianran could completely crush them in terms of numbers in just ten days!

The total number of evolvers in the world might not even be as many as Li Tianran had!

But this was just an idealized data.

In theory, Li Tianran could create so many evolvers, but in practice, this was almost impossible to achieve.

First of all, Li Tianran looked down on ordinary atavistic evolvers because their abilities were too weak and they had no advantages compared to the other three types of evolution. Therefore, Li Tianran demanded that every member of his evolver army must be a three special ability evolver!

And what was the probability of becoming a three special ability evolver after taking lv4 fruits?

Less than 5%!

In other words, under normal circumstances, a person would have to take twenty fruits to become a special ability evolver.

But please note, this was under normal circumstances. Of course, there were some "lucky emperors" and "unlucky wretches." The former were naturally happy, while the latter... well, they were really out of luck.

If you were unlucky, you might still be an atavistic type even after swallowing hundreds of fruits!

Although this probability was small, it wasn't impossible!

So considering this, the number 140,000 must first be divided by twenty.

Seven thousand!

Let's talk about the second point.

Although in terms of probability, 140,000 fruits could create 7,000 special evolvers, how could Li Tianran find so many people in a short period of time?

And even if he could find so many people, how could Li Tianran guarantee that he would have the ability to manage these people well in a short period of time?

Being a leader wasn't that simple, especially the more people you had under you, the more things you had to consider.

When there were only ten people on Raging Tide Island, and when there were 10,000 people on Raging Tide Island, that was a completely earth-shattering difference!

Being a class monitor and being an army commander were completely different management methods.

When you're a class monitor, you only need to manage the ten people in the class. If someone doesn't listen, you scold them. If they still don't listen, you just beat them up. It's simple and direct.

But when you become an army commander, in charge of tens of thousands of people, you can't be so direct and crude. You need to consider the logistics, food, drink, and accommodation of these tens of thousands of people. You need to know the origins and personalities of every small leader under you, and even who has a grudge against whom and who has fought with whom. You need to coordinate the relationship between each small group, and you also need to know the abilities of your subordinates, and know what positions and roles they are suitable for in future development...

If you don't coordinate well, the combat effectiveness of the entire team may be greatly reduced, and big problems will occur.

This is why some generals in ancient times could win battles with 20,000 people, but were beaten so badly that they couldn't even recognize their mothers when they led 100,000 people on an expedition.

The number of soldiers under your command isn't always better the more you have!

Too many soldiers can be a burden.

Generally, a general who can lead 50,000 people is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time.

A general who can lead 100,000 people is a famous general!

A general who can lead 300,000 people is one in a million!

One million...

In history, there is only one person who can ignore the number of people, perfectly manage and coordinate no matter how many soldiers he has, and maximize the abilities of the soldiers.

His name is Han Xin, and his title is "The Immortal of War".

Li Tianran didn't think that his management experience of the past few months was enough to compare with the ancient war god of thousands of years ago. He was also a very self-aware person. Perhaps in future war experiences, he could slowly grow to that point, but he was still far from enough now.

"Nine thousand people!" Li Tianran said silently, and after careful consideration, he spat out a number.

In the future, he would only have 9,000 evolvers under his command!

This was the most closely aligned with the current situation on Raging Tide Island, and it was also the range that he could completely control.

Of course, this was only temporary.

With the changes in the world and the increase in his abilities, Li Tianran was confident that he could turn nine thousand into ninety thousand, nine hundred thousand, or even nine million that surpassed the beast tide group!