When Gao Yaoyao arrived at the artificial spring, she went over to the two Kappa Sacrifice Cucumbers.
She picked one of the ripe cucumbers and squeezed it. Sure enough, it was soft.
She broke it in half. The inside was still sticky, as if it had gone rotten.
"Boss, the cucumbers here have gone rotten too," Gao Yaoyao said at once.
Qin Lin looked at the broken cucumber and thought for a moment. "Yaoyao, this cucumber isn't rotten. This is exactly the effect I wanted. Toss it into the artificial spring and see what happens."
He decided to tell her outright what the cucumber was for.
Given his reputation out in the world, he was practically a plant geneticist by now. What was wrong with cultivating a special kind of cucumber?
After seeing the white sturgeon and Baiji dolphins, he'd started cultivating this kind of cucumber specifically to provide for the viewing area around the floating bridge, where visitors could buy it to feed the fish.
That was perfectly reasonable, wasn't it?
Gao Yaoyao looked puzzled when she heard what her boss said.
Had her boss really cultivated these rotten cucumbers on purpose?
How could anyone eat a cucumber that had gone rotten?
Still, she followed his instructions and tossed half the cucumber into the artificial spring.
Since the cucumber was sticky, as though it had gone rotten, it came apart as soon as it hit the water. The pieces floated on the surface.
A moment later, Gao Yaoyao saw something astonishing.
The ornamental fish in the artificial spring seemed drawn by the delicious food. They all splashed over at once and gathered around the cucumber, nibbling at it.
The cucumber had properties that appealed to aquatic creatures, so the ornamental fish were drawn to it. To them, it was