Su Buyan smiled and shook his head, explaining carefully, "It only looks like a flower. It isn't actually a flower, but a kind of... Exotic Metal ore."
Now it was Xia Chujian's turn to widen her eyes as she looked over the Dreamfall Flower and Wind Spirit Flower beside her again and again.
"How... how could these be ore?!"
"They're clearly flowers! This texture... could even my sense of touch be deceiving me?"
Su Buyan said with a smile, "Exotic Metals have physical properties that differ greatly from ordinary metals. Many of them can alter their texture according to their surroundings."
"Look at these figures... These physical readings show that they are metal, Exotic Metal, not plants..."
Xia Chujian found it utterly absurd.
She blinked and said, "But I planted them in the ground, and they grew very well..."
She remembered that when San Zong had first planted them, they had occupied only one corner of those fields. Yet within a few days, they seemed to have spread across the entire garden.
Su Buyan said at that moment, "When you found them, they were blooming."
"When you planted them in the ground, were they still blooming? Did they look exactly the same as before?"
Xia Chujian thought hard and said somewhat reluctantly, "I think so... I never measured them with a ruler..."
"I thought they were plants, and that they were growing very well..."
"Maybe... their blooming period was just a little long?"
Though Xia Chujian was still being stubborn, she had more or less accepted Su Buyan's explanation.
Only now did she understand why Seven Lù had said those "flowers" had been "growing" for hundreds of thousands of years!
If those "flowers" were not actually flowers but mineral deposits, then everything made sense.
As long as they were mineral