Evans gazed at the dozen or so Purifying Grass plants grown through division and grafting, his face lighting up as he stepped forward and asked Sun Qi, "Sun, it looks like you succeeded with the division and grafting. When can we get seeds?"
Sun Qi's expression, however, was rather grim. "Mr. Evans, I'm afraid it isn't that simple. My research over this period has revealed that the three Purifying Grass plants were tampered with. They simply can't be pollinated to produce seeds."
The news wiped the smile from Evans's face. He hurriedly asked, "What about division and grafting? Can we use that method to cultivate and grow them on a large scale?"
Sun Qi's brow furrowed even more deeply. "Mr. Evans, I'm afraid division and grafting won't work either."
Evans hurriedly asked, "But haven't you grown more than a dozen plants?"
Sun Qi sighed. "Mr. Evans, you have more than a dozen plants here. Haven't you noticed that the air quality hasn't improved much?"
Evans froze. The air quality really was quite poor, about the same as Beijing's normal air quality.
That shouldn't be right.
With more than a dozen Purifying Grass plants, the air quality should have dropped to single digits.
Unconvinced, Evans hurried off to fetch an AQI monitor. After testing, the air quality reading was 78.
Faced with the result, Evans immediately demanded, "How could this happen?"
Sun Qi explained, "I'm not sure exactly why, either. After these three potted Purifying Grass plants were propagated through division and grafting, they somehow lost their ability to purify the air."
It was clear that the Quality 2 seeds produced by the game became Quality 1 once planted in the real world. Propagating them through division and grafting amounted to growing them all over again. And if they were grafted