Shen Li's exclamation drew everyone else's attention.
Qin Lin walked over.
Professor Liu immediately asked, "Manager Shen, what's wrong?"
"Look at the duckweed in this bucket." Shen Li pointed to it at once.
"Oh!" Professor Liu looked into the bucket and was just as surprised.
Qin Lin noticed the abnormality too.
Yellow spots had started appearing on the special duckweed in the bucket.
The yellow was just like the color of autumn leaves as they withered.
As time passed, more and more yellow spots appeared, like age spots on a person's face that began to spread uncontrollably once they got older.
Some of the yellow spots joined together, forming larger patches.
Shen Li frowned. "Is it starting to wither? Plants can't survive in water this polluted."
Professor Liu shook his head. "Under normal circumstances, it shouldn't wither this quickly, even in wastewater like this."
Qin Lin furrowed his brow slightly as well.
He had only just taken this special duckweed out of the game. He could only learn about its condition from the item description, so he had no idea what was happening.
"The duckweed in this bucket is doing the same thing." Shen Li suddenly pointed to another bucket.
Qin Lin and Professor Liu looked over. The duckweed in it had indeed developed yellow spots too.
And that wasn't all. The duckweed in the other buckets began showing the same symptoms one after another, with yellow spots appearing across their leaves.
As time went by, larger yellow patches appeared on the duckweed in those buckets as well.
A few hours later, the special duckweed in the first bucket to show symptoms had turned completely yellow. It looked exactly like withered plants.
"It's withering much too quickly." Professor Liu's brow furrowed tightly. "This doesn't follow the normal pattern. Could the